October 17, 2002 -- May 23, 2005

The Pharisees of yesteryears were so concerned about religious rituals that they missed the whole purpose of the temple which is to bring people to God. Comparing Himself to the temple that Herod remodeled, Yeshua our Lord said, "Yet I say to you that in this place there is One greater than the temple" (Matthew 12:6 NKJV). When He said those words, He was not saying that He is the object of the temple. Rather He is showing Himself to be a better temple. To be precise, the perfect temple since He was always about His Father's business--to do His will and not His own. That is, He possessed the Father's Will/Commandment/Spirit continually in His heart so much so that it was said of Him, "in Christ all the fullness of the Deity lives in bodily form" (Colossians 2:9).

Indeed that is what we acknowledge when we say our Lord Yeshua is Christ, Messiah or the Anointed One--in Him dwells the fullness of God. In other words, He is the perfect Live-Temple of the living God. He is a temple greater than Solomon's temple by which many people are brought to God. However we have to remember that God is far more important than the created instruments of worship. If we become more concerned with the means of worship than with the One we worship, we will miss God even as we think we are worshiping Him.

When we are baptized into Yeshua the Anointed One, we too become the temple of God and the Spirit of God dwells in us (Romans 6:3; 1 Corinthians 3:16). We had been impaled with Yeshua the Anointed One and it is no longer we who live but the Anointed One who lives in us (Galatians 2:20). And indeed we take our identity from the Anointed One and we are called Christians, which means "little messiahs" for we have been resurrected (born-again).

Even as we grow from that point of being born-again, we have a model of a perfect temple in Yeshua, as a standard to go by, to build on top of that foundation of our soul. We have to be about our Father's business and not our own. It is my guess that Max Lucado has just this to say in his book: "It is not about me." We are to model after Yeshua who is the model of human godliness to gravitate all men to Yahweh--the Self-Existing One--who lives in us--the corporate Church--as the nervous system lives in the body.

We have to note here however that in Yeshua's time, He was the only Anointed One. Beginning with the Day of Pentecost, Christ the Anointed One is not localized in one person--He is today, a distributed corporate entity.

Since there was then no human found to be a perfect sacrifice to redeem man there is a danger to now assume and think that the Anointed One (Yeshua) is not like one of us.

The position our Lord took when He walked the earth, of who He is, is explained in Philippians 2:5-10 as in the New American Standard Bible, paraphrased here:

If, as it is written in the KJV Bible (v. 2:6), our Lord "⁶Who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God," it means that Paul is saying here that our Lord DID regard Himself equal with God. But if you notice the very next verse (⁷But made himself of no reputation, and took upon him the form of a servant, and was made in the likeness of men) or v.9 (⁹Wherefore God also hath highly exalted him, and given him a name which is above every name). Verse 6 contradicts verses 7 and 9 because He cannot think of Himself as being equal with God and at the same time make Himself of no reputation. And then there is God exalting someone who considered himself equal with God. The "robbery theory" of the KJV’s verse 6 is nonsense. It is a verse that has led to untold misconceptions. Rather, "He did not regard equality with God, a thing to be grasped" (NASB). Paul was indeed throwing light on, for instance John 1:49-51:

Nathaniel answered Him, "Rabbi, You are the Son of God, You are the King of Israel." Yeshua answered and said to him, "Because I said to you that I saw you under the fig tree, do you believe? You shall see greater things than these." And He said to him, "Truly, truly, I say to you, you shall see the heavens opened, and the angels of God ascending and descending on the Son of Man."

Here, Nathaniel referred to Him as the Son of God, which was rightly the true description of our Lord, as it appeared that the Lord Himself exhibited omniscience when in fact it was God in Him who did, by virtue of Him being the perfect temple. So our Lord corrected him and said that He was a son of man and on this mere man will he see angels ascending and descending. "Although He existed in the form of God, did not regard equality with God." Why should these great things, such as the angels of God ascend and descend on this son of man? Is He merely humbling Himself or is there more to it? Is He speaking something great about this particular son of man? If so, what makes this son of man so special? To get an answer to this, we should not consult any human vessel but look to God Himself. God the Father Himself testified about His Son more than once saying, "This is my beloved Son in whom I am well pleased" (Matthew 3:17 NASB) and in Matthew 17:5 NASB He adds, "Listen to Him!"

Firstly, God called Him His Son. There are two other reasons why He was declared the Son of God:

1. Because of His birth (Luke 1:35). But Adam too was referred as a Son of God (Luke 3:38).
2. Another reason why Yeshua is declared the Son of God is because he rose from the dead by virtue of keeping Himself clean according to the Law of the Spirit (Romans 1:4ff). But we too will rise from the dead by virtue of our holiness and indeed we are called the children of God as soon as we let our Lord wash us.

That He can be both divine and human is an impossibility because being one, negates being the other, even though man in His perfect state is in the image of God he is never God. For God is omnipotent, omnipresent and can be omniscient. We can only conclude Yeshua was made a perfect man (Philippians 2:7; Hebrews 5:9) and so He became the perfect temple. He does want to distinguish Himself from all those other supernatural ones and go down in the records as a Son of Man. Is He merely appropriating the title mentioned in the book of Daniel? Or is there more to the title, "Son of Man" that distinguishes Him? When Prophet Daniel used it in chapter 7 verse 13, why did he choose Son of Man and not any other title? To be more direct, why did God choose that specific title to describe our Lord Yeshua? Was God interested in merely the appearance of a son of man in Yeshua? Did God want Him to perform a feat, which no man could and thus deceive every human being into thinking that a man did it? To be more direct again, was Yeshua lying even by virtue of humility, when He said that He is a son of man? If God purposed in His heart that Yeshua should be born wholly as a man only, what or rather why was that purposed? The answer is found in Galatians 4:4,5 NKJV:

"But when the fullness of the time had come, God sent forth His Son, born of a woman, born under the law, to redeem those who were under the law, that we might receive the adoption as sons."

Is the law that is mentioned here speaking of only the Law of Moses? Then how is it applicable to the Gentiles also who are being adopted as sons? Rather, scripture uses a qualifier—"born of a woman." So this law is inclusive of the law of nature, which dictates the birth of a human to a woman. (However i am in no way saying that the conception was not supernatural.)

Secondly, there is something about Yeshua that pleased the Father. And it is this that made Him special. Indeed He pleased the Father by keeping the Law of God. But whom did the Father compare Him with? Did the Father compare a deity with man? As we have seen earlier Yeshua was born under the law of nature, which means that He has to be one hundred percent man only. It is only as man He can be subject to the laws governing nature including death. When the Father said, He was pleased with Him, He was comparing Him with other humans who were also subject to similar laws. If there has to be a just comparison, both parties should have equal privileges. The moment you add deity attributes to Yeshua before He became the Anointed or received the Holy Ghost at the time of His water baptism, you tilt the balance on the side of Yeshua and it is no longer just. Now Yeshua, before He even received the Holy Spirit, was baptized into the Church (man’s spirit) through John’s baptism, which is from below when it was administered to Yeshua. He received the Holy Ghost as well as the habit of sinning. It was only with the help of the Holy Ghost that Yeshua not only stayed holy after being baptized but also performed the miracles. Or rather it was the Father who performed the miracles for Him at Yeshua’s request. We too have access to the Holy Ghost and the Father too has the same love for us as He has for Yeshua. We are assured of this love because our Lord prayed for it (John 17:26). He also said we would do greater things than these.

Thirdly, we have to "listen to Him," (Matthew 17:5) which implies that we have to consider what He has to say and follow Him. To know what it really means to follow Yeshua the Anointed, we have to go a chapter back in Matthew. Matthew 16:13-28 NKJV reads:

¹³When Yeshua came into the region of Caesarea Philippi, He asked His disciples, saying, "Who do men say that I, the Son of Man, am?" ¹⁴So they said, "Some say John the Baptist, some Elijah, and others Jeremiah or one of the prophets." ¹⁵He said to them, "But who do you say that I am?" ¹⁶Simon Peter answered and said, "You are the Anointed, the Son of the living God." ¹⁷Yeshua answered and said to him, "Blessed are you, Simon Bar-Jonah, for flesh and blood has not revealed this to you, but My Father who is in heaven. ¹⁸"And I also say to you that you are Peter, and on this rock I will build My church, and the gates of Hades shall not prevail against it. ¹⁹"And I will give you the keys of the kingdom of heaven, and whatever you bind on earth will be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth will be loosed in heaven." ²⁰Then He commanded His disciples that they should tell no one that He was Yeshua the Anointed. ²¹From that time Yeshua began to show to His disciples that He must go to Jerusalem, and suffer many things from the elders and chief priests and scribes, and be killed, and be raised the third day. ²²Then Peter took Him aside and began to rebuke Him, saying, "Far be it from You, Lord; this shall not happen to You!" ²³But He turned and said to Peter, "Get behind Me, Satan! You are an offense to Me, for you are not mindful of the things of God, but the things of men." ²⁴Then Yeshua said to His disciples, "If anyone desires to come after Me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow Me. ²⁵"For whoever desires to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for My sake will find it. ²⁶"For what profit is it to a man if he gains the whole world, and loses his own soul? Or what will a man give in exchange for his soul? ²⁷"For the Son of Man will come in the glory of His Father with His angels, and then He will reward each according to his works. ²⁸"Assuredly, I say to you, there are some standing here who shall not taste death till they see the Son of Man coming in His kingdom."

Peter the Apostle was the first to recognize Yeshua, for who He was—the Anointed, Son of the Living God. No doubt he was seeing Yeshua in greater light and with greater regard than others but was he putting Him on par with the Father? Here again is a qualifier to "the Son of the Living God"—"the Anointed" or the Man anointed by the Holy Spirit. In other words he was saying He was the Temple of the living God. To his statement, our Lord said, "flesh and blood has not revealed this to you, but My Father who is in heaven." Peter recognized Him to be in every way like himself except for His anointing of the Holy Spirit and His holiness. When the Anointed later said that He would have to suffer many things and then be killed, Peter was not for it, not only because he cared for Yeshua but also because he loved his own life or life in general. To this, Yeshua not only rebukes Peter but also tells all His disciples that they should deny themselves, take up their stake and follow Him. "For what profit is it to a man if he gains the whole world, and loses his own soul?" Here again, for Yeshua to tell them to follow Him to their deaths can only be justifiable if they enjoy the same privileges He does. It is too burdensome for His sheep to jump a hurdle that He alone can jump. But if Yeshua jumped a hurdle as a man, God will definitely require us to jump that hurdle too. And indeed all will cross the fiery Jordan. Therefore Yeshua has to be man only, for God to have a model and standard to go by and judge other men.

I do believe that God has given us a higher standard in the Anointed Yeshua that we may follow in His footsteps. He is our model of human godliness. No doubt, we are in the image of God, so to have this godly higher standard is for us to grow into. However, the moment i know that this godly man has some other powers that i myself do not enjoy, then that very moment He ceases to be my standard. At the most i can imitate Him, just like a dog does a man, but i can never be like Him. However, the Bible does not say we are only to be like the chickens that only tend to fly but we are to be like those that actually fly. Meaning to say, we are not only to imitate our Lord Yeshua the Anointed but we are to be like Him in every respect--to follow Him wholeheartedly to the n^th degree. Indeed we will be found to be like Him when He returns even as we purify ourselves (1 John 3:2,3). Since He was a man only, the cost of discipleship--even though great--is reasonable. On the other hand, if He has powers that i do not have, it would be presumptuous to follow him.

Let us put it this way: There is a threefold reason why i trust and follow the Anointed Yeshua wholeheartedly like a sheep, his shepherd:

1. Firstly, i recognize that if at all there is a way to heaven it has to be only through a sinless mediator who would die for me
2. Secondly, because this mediator is not an angel, an extra-terrestrial or an automaton---He is a man like me with the same limitations and able to feel the same pain like me
3. Thirdly, because i also enjoy the same power of the Holy Spirit (i.e. the anointing) to jump the hurdles of life and lead a holy and miraculous life and thereby finally rise from the dead like Yeshua as a result of my own righteousness imparted to me by the Holy Spirit. All this in keeping with the Judgments of God as He gave to His servant Moses by which a man, by doing them may live. We lean not on Yeshua after our preliminary birth, but on the tangible Holy Spirit, who becomes the Word-in-expression (John 6:63; cf. John 16:13) to them that believe.

In short, i can trust and follow a man who died for me; not an angel or an automaton, yet not just a man but a man who is filled by the Holy Ghost like hypothetical me (as much as i have allowed Him to control me.) Remember what Peter did in the Sea of Galilee -- He made sure that he too had the same powers as Yeshua, to walk on water. And that was okay with our Lord. Indeed, Yeshua Himself says, "...as the Father has sent Me, I also send you" and breathing the Holy Spirit on them said, "if you forgive the sins of any, they are forgiven..." (Jn. 20:21). And forgiveness will precede healing (2 Chronicles 7:14); even the healing of the soul.

You might say, "was He not holy before He received the Holy Spirit at the time of baptism?" Or to put it in other words, did He not have the Holy Spirit before He was baptized by John—was He not very God of very God?

To this i answer, He was born clean only and maintained it and therefore Satan could not do anything to Him. In other words, Satan did not have a hold on Him—Satan cannot touch holy people because God has a hedge around them. Yeshua was born just like Adam was born—in the very image of God. But nevertheless, like Adam, He was born a man. However unlike Adam, He never sinned. When Yeshua was baptized from below (John’s baptism), He was baptized (or mixed) into man’s spirit as He was made part of the same Body. Just as we received the gift of salvation upon ourselves with the baptism from above (believer’s baptism in the name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit), Yeshua received the burden of our salvation with John’s baptism of Him from below. It was fitting because the spirit of Yeshua had to be baptized or merged with both the Holy Spirit and that of the spirit of man. This is in order that our sins may be transferred to Him and His righteousness may be transferred to us. After He was baptized into man’s spirit, the hedge was removed and He became as one who possessed the habit of sin (though without sin). However, when the moment of temptation came, He still kept Himself from sinning by exercising His free will through the strength He drew from the counsel of the Holy Spirit. Thus He kept the whole Law till death. Just as sin entered the world through one man, likewise, sin was dealt with by one man.

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I believe that God the Most High, His Son Yeshua the Anointed our Lord and the Holy Spirit are distinct members of same Godbody but there is a hierarchy among the three. Neither the H2O nor the body-soul-spirit metaphors, as applicable to the three persons, is biblical. And the three-faced-head or the abstract Godhead metaphor is not only unbiblical, it is pagan.

The savior to be fully man only, is a requirement that must be satisfied, without which the sacrifice has little value. Neither an angel nor an archangel can redeem us. He has to be our kinsman (mankind/relation) as Boaz was to Ruth's husband, to redeem mankind. For, it can be argued by those who do not know God that God does not feel pain and death. "Since then the children share in flesh and blood, He Himself likewise also partook of the same, that through death He might render powerless him who had the power of death, that is the devil" (Hebrews 2:14 NASB). Those who humble themselves in "view" of the sacrifice for them and become like little children in the waters of baptism (i.e. by believing the truth and having their sins cleansed), would then be marked for eternal life by the Holy Spirit (Ephesians 1:13).

Isaiah prophesies in chapter 59, that at a particular time, transgression was on the high. There was no one found to intercede. "Then His own Arm brought salvation to Him." God saw there was life in His arm by itself (John 5:26), power therein, and as in the times of Moses the prophet, He sent It (Him) down to earth in His omnipresence. The Arm grew up before Him like a tender shoot (Isaiah 53:2) in the form of man able to experience pain and death yet remaining sinless. Since the Arm was an Offspring or Offshoot of God, He was rightly called with the title "Son of God" who came down from heaven. But as the Offshoot (Word) took root in the womb of Mary (perhaps the Holy Spirit /Word-in-expression synthesized a purified gene through Recombinant DNA technique) and it became flesh (John 1:14)--a perfect man like Adam. Indeed Adam too is regarded as a Son of God. To become flesh (i.e. incarnate) means to shed the attributes of deity and become man. He emptied Himself here literally and when the Holy Spirit descended upon Him like a dove and rested on Him giving Him the powers of God, He also emptied Himself humbly.

Now you may ask why did the Father Himself not come and lay down His life? He does not have to. We have to have it clear first of all that God was not responsible for our sins. Man beguiled by Satan was responsible for our sins. So God did not have to take responsibility and leave His throne in heaven and come down to earth to save man. He probably could not come because, becoming man means shedding the infinite responsibility in heaven and taking on a finite responsibility on earth. But for His namesake, He wanted to save man whom He had created. When the question arose, "Whom shall I send?" Yeshua, God’s Right-hand (Psalm 98:1, Isaiah 53:1) was right there with: "Send me!" God, who is omnipresent, had no problem in sending His Right-arm into the world in the form of man. As Brother Burty Dutt put it, 'indeed He severed It and forsook It on Calvary’s tree when the sins of mankind were heaped on It, in keeping with the teachings of our Lord Yeshua the Anointed who said, "If your hand or foot causes you to sin, cut it off and cast it from you" (Matthew 18:8)'. And we know this to be a fact since our Lord cried out on the tree: "Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani?" that is, "My God, My God, why have You forsaken Me?" Three days and three nights He was in the belly of the earth conquering death by taking the punishment for all. God rewarded Him with the Lordship over all the earth for the costly prize He paid for man. God called Him back to sit at His right hand (Psalms 110:1), which Stephen the martyr observes in the heavens before he was killed (Acts 7:56). Note that Yeshua died for our sins (that is, He paid the penalty for our sins and we will be treated just as though we have not sinned) but He does not give His righteousness to us so that the Father regards us as righteous. No! Rather we are born-again with a minimum balance to our account because belief in Lord Yeshua is a work (John 6:29) and since all judgments are made only according to our works (Revelation 22:12; Matthew 16:27). All our past righteous deeds are filthy except for this trust we placed in Yeshua. We are justified when we humble ourselves and receive Yeshua as our savior. But just as we eat food, not all at one time for the rest of our lives, we need to eat the true bread "as often" as we can to live on. Now this true bread is now inclusive of the saints who constitute the body. No doubt Yeshua washed our individual whole bodies when we humbled ourselves and obeyed in the Waters of Baptism but we need now foot-washings and therefore more sacrifices (in the form of living sacrifices) from the saints who are now part of His body, to wash the sin that accumulated since our last washing. This is because Lord Yeshua is no longer in a capacity to sacrifice except through the sacrifices of His members who are present in this world in the form of living-sacrifices, who are sufficient to cleanse our feet. For, Yeshua the Anointed One who is in the order of Melchizedek will not die again and again because He sacrificed His eternal life once and for all but only for our past sins (Romans 3:21-25-31). If He did sacrifice again and again even by the death of His members He would subject Himself to public disgrace and the Father's name to ill-repute. When washing our feet, we have to make sure that the washing is from above and not from below as was the case with John's baptism of our Lord Yeshua when the grain of wheat was broken and it produced both the shoot and the root.

So when Yeshua says, "Before Abraham was (born or made), I am," He means to say He existed before him because the arm was part of the Self Existing ONE (LORD Yahweh our Father) then.

Attributing the place of the Father to Him just because He rose from the dead will undermine the perfect life that He led as man, because God can come to the earth, die and rise again a thousand times if necessary. Calling Him a deity defeats the very purpose for which He came down to earth. On the contrary because He is the Right-arm of God, so to speak, came forth from God and grew like a tender shoot (Isaiah 53:2), He is therefore the Son of God, born to a virgin, and later in whom the fullness of God dwelt (i.e. the Anointed One, Messiah, Christ). It is only because He kept the Law perfectly, which no man could, that He rose from the dead according to the spirit of holiness (Romans 1:4 NASB) and piety (Hebrews 5:7 NASB). In other words, He rose from the dead because He kept the rules through the Law of the Spirit, keeping of which one may live (Leviticus 18:5; Ezekiel 20:11; Proverbs 7:2; Nehemiah 9:29; Matthew 19:16,17; Luke 10:25-28). So He became the way to eternal life not only through His sacrificial death for our justification but also through His life even to us who have the indwelling power of the Holy Spirit in our access during our sanctification (that is, for our continual justification).

In John 1:1 we read, "the Word was God" and when we read "the Word became flesh" in v.14, it means the flesh has no more the attributes of God. It is only by virtue of the indwelling of the Holy Spirit when He kept Himself holy, that Yeshua is said to have had the attributes of God. That God is one (Isaiah 45:5,6) is true and Yeshua the Anointed had had been one substance with Him is also true but the Arm is in the capacity as a Servant (Isaiah 42:1) which even Peter confirms in Acts 3:26. No doubt our Lord is sitting at the right hand of God now (Matthew 26:64, Acts 7:56) but attributing the headship of God to either our Lord Yeshua or the Holy Spirit, is not seeing scripture in the right perspective. Without controversy our Lord told His disciples that the Father is greater (John 14:28). Our Lord never lies even by virtue of humility. This "greater" is not only in office but in nature as well because the nature of the Son is human now as we saw earlier.

There was good reason why the Father gave Yeshua the miracle making power and had people call Him God and even worship Him as God. Firstly, God saw the great need for the salvation of the nations. Secondly, He saw that man harbored many false gods and that the Son, His own Right-arm was in competition with them. So true to prophecy He was made in such a way that the people would call Him God. Yeshua was not only fulfilling the Law but the Prophets as well, including Isaiah 9:6 where it is written that He will be called God. Yeshua, the Anointed permitted others to worship Him until they were truly sanctified in Him. What does it actually mean to be truly sanctified? Indeed it is to love the LORD with all our heart, with all our soul, with all our mind, with all our strength and to love our neighbor as ourselves in the way Yeshua taught us through His example. Of all the people that Yeshua the Anointed touched while He walked on this earth, one person seems to have been truly and entirely sanctified. It was Mary Magdalene. Notice how she reciprocates her love in contrast to the disciples. She prepared spices two days ahead to anoint the body of the Lord. She rested on the Sabbath in keeping with the Commandments (Luke 23:56). She went to the grave early in the morning to anoint the Lord while it was still dark (John 20:1). (The disciples must have been sleeping then.) She ran to the disciples’ house in the dark to tell them that the tomb is empty. When the disciples came and found the tomb to be empty they simply left while she stayed back and kept on weeping longing for the body of the Lord. As she expressed her love in her tears the Lord was coming closer and closer to her. First the angels appeared who asked her why she was weeping. She replied that they had taken her Lord (Previously she referred to Him as the Lord). Then the Lord Himself appeared. Supposing Him to be the gardener she asked Him where He laid the Lord so that she, a woman, could carry Him away.

The point here is: How can you love a God whom you have not seen if you cannot love a God like person or a loving brother whom you have seen! (Cf. 1 John 4:20). Therefore our Lord summarized the Law further and said, "…Just as I have loved you, so you too should love one another" (John 13:34 Amplified Bible). But once Mary attained to this level, our Lord is taking her to the next level saying, "…go to My Brethren and say to them, I ascend to My Father and your Father, and My God and Your God." Yeshua is asking her to love not only him but also His brethren, which will prove that she truly loved him and therefore God.

For all purposes it would suffice that we regard our Lord as God until we reach a level of maturity. But once we reach that maturity as the Bride is today, we have to remember our Father’s number one Commandment that we have to have no other Gods before Him (Exodus 20:3). This includes our Lord Yeshua the Anointed or any one of us for that matter. It is only out of lack of humility of being at the bottom of the chain that we tend to elevate our Lord to that of God our heavenly Father. It all sounds nice and dandy to exalt our Lord to the level of the Father but it is far from the truth. Note how Uriah called Joab, his lord, yet acknowledging David as Joab's lord (2 Samuel 11:11). We have to regard our Lord Yeshua the Anointed as a wife regards her husband, still keeping God at number one in her heart. That is why I say my friends, the enemy’s major attack on the Lordship of Yeshua the Anointed is coming from the feminist movement we see these days. What goes on in our families is really a microcosm of the relationship the Bride has with Yeshua the Anointed. As Dr. Woodrow Kroll puts it, "we must make our homes to be a foretaste of the heavenly home that the Anointed is preparing for us." Can your wife call you "lord" from the bottom of her heart; and do you love her to the degree that you would even die for her? The answer to this in most "Christian" homes is a resounding, "No!" Therefore my friends do not harp about "trinity" or "godhead" which profits nobody, but rather in all sobriety let us be good witnesses. The trinity/godhead concept appears to be a pagan or occult concept, by which we have alienated ourselves from the true Yehudah. Not only is there a unity among the three but on the Day of the Lord there will be a unity among the saints and the three (John 14:16-21). But the Bible speaks of a hierarchy among them (John 14:28; 1 Corinthians 11:3; 1 Corinthians 15:27,28) of which Abraham, Isaac, Eliezer and Rebecca are types. The trinity proponents are unable to digest the fact that the four are distinct and separate and yet share a singleness of purpose. They judge God’s nature by the standards of their own selfish predisposition in their own inability to cooperate with others.

The root cause for misconceptions, is the mistaken concept of Salvation, Justification and Sanctification. When one thinks he has already attained everything that there is to be attained at New Birth (preliminary justification), he forgets the glory that will be revealed in us when we will see Yeshua the Anointed face to face, for we will be sanctified (purified) into His likeness by then, shedding our sinful predisposition and attaining to His image (1 John 3:2). Note that this purification is done by ourselves even as we keep in step with the Word-in-expression. Indeed Paul’s prayer was that we be "filled to the measure of all the fullness of God" (Ephesians 3:19) which is being like the Anointed Himself and thus become a perfect temple. Our Lord’s prayer too is that just as the Father is in Him, He Himself be in us that we may be perfected into a unit (John 17:23). The unity in the Body as we know it, is not that the members loose their identity through a matrix structure and that we are glued to one another physically. We could be in a public transportation vehicle and be miles apart in our thinking from the one sitting next to us. But rather, when God is composing us into one body with Lord Yeshua the Anointed as the Head, He wants our spirits and minds to be united through a loving/subjection relationship to one another according to the grace given each. So we can be almighty in Yeshua because the Father is in the Anointed and the Anointed Himself will be in us--who too are anointed--when we are truly abiding in Him (John 15:4) by keeping His Commands or doing His will so much so we appear as being controlled by the Word-in-expression (Holy Spirit). "I can do all things through Him who strengthens me!" (Philippians 4:13). And the Anointed Himself is strengthened because He sits in the bosom of the Father (John 1:18).

In conclusion we can think of Elohim (God) as having many members as in a man’s body where the Right-arm is our Lord Yeshua the Anointed, and the Left-arm is the Holy Spirit (Psalm 98:1). Our salvation is a concerted effort (cooperation) by the Head who authored our salvation, with the power of His Right Hand who overcame Satan and Death on Calvary’s tree, with the help of the Left Hand (Holy Spirit) who is today cleansing us daily with the Holy Word (which is partly expressed in the written letter but being fully expressed in the anointed ministers even as the Word is written on their hearts), to reconcile a co-operating man with his in-turn co-operating wife and in-turn co-operating children. Today our Lord Yeshua the Anointed is sitting at God’s right hand with a life of His own and interceding for us as Man Almighty! Tomorrow He will come as Man Almighty and rule the whole earth with His willing subjects.

Mere Man? Our final judgment is based on our reaction to this mere man. But to be even more precise, our final judgment is based on our reaction to the least of His brethren! (Matthew 25:40)  

Recombinant DNA techniques allow an investigator to biologically purify (clone) a gene from one species by inserting it into the DNA of another species, where it is replicated along with the host DNA. (Encyclopedia Britanica)