Part 3

Unveiling the Revelation of “LORD”

“(There) does-not-stand a man before-you [lit. to-your-face] all (the) days of-your-life.  As-how I-was [häyiytiy] with Moses, I-AM [eh’yeh] with-you.”                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              Joshua 1:5                                                  .       (Word order & brckt insert – frm Heb. text)

    Hebrews 1:3 tells us that Jesus is the exact representation of God’s nature, that Jesus is the radiance of God’s glory.  John 1:1 says that Jesus is the Word of God and thus “God”, who then came to be that “God-Word” in the flesh.  John also, in vs.14, declares Jesus to be the glory which radiates as a singular glow of grace and truth.  In this image of the glory of God is the demonstration of that singular grace-and-truth through Jesus pouring out of Himself YHVH Himself – in words and deeds – before the sons of Israel in His day (as seen in the gospels).  Jesus clearly stated that He did nothing that He did not see the Father doing (Jh.. 5:19), as well, that He spoke as He heard from of His Father (Jhn. 12:49-50; 14:24b).  In doing and speaking only from all that He saw and heard from His Father was He thus manifesting the Father’s Name, YHVH, which the Father had placed upon His Son – showing those words and deeds to accordingly be the expression of YHVH, the Name His Father set into Him.

“Now in the sixth month  the angel Gabriel was sent from God … to a virgin engaged to a man whose name was Joseph, … and the virgin’s name was Mary.  And the angel said to her, “ … you will conceive in your womb and bear a son, and you shall name Him Jesus.  He will be great, and will be called the Son of the Most High;””                                                                                                                                                           Luke 1:26-27, 30a, 31-32a (NASB)

   “… An angel of the Lord appeared to him in a dream, saying, “Joseph, son of David, do not  be afraid to take Mary as your wife; for that which has been conceived in her is of the Holy Spirit.  And she will bear a Son; and you shall call His name Jesus, for it is He who will save His people from their sins.”

   Now all this took place that what was spoken by the Lord through the prophet might be fulfilled, saying, “Behold, the Virgin shall be with child, and shall bear a Son, and they shall call His name Immanuel,” which translated means, “God with us.”                                                                                                                                                                                      Matthew 1:20-23 (NASB)

   The revelation of “God-with-us” in the person of Christ Jesus is in the name given to both Mary and Joseph for this Child they were to raise – Jesus – seen in this name’s Hebrew roots.  But before we look at “Jesus” by definition, you need to see first the direct tie to the Name YHVH, revealed to Moses first in Exodus 3:14 and 6:2-3, and then in the glory encounter of Exodus 34.  The Greek of the New Testament does not distinguish between “Lord” and “LORD”.  However, the New Testament is full of Old Testament quotes in order to show the prophetic fulfillments.  And in some of these Old Testament quotes are found the distinction as to which name is being used when we look back to see the Hebrew text.  In one particular New Testament quote of the Old Testament is where we find the direct link of Jesus to “YHVH”.

“The beginning of the gospel (good-news) of Jesus Christ, the Son of God.         As it is written in Isaiah the prophet,  “The voice of one crying in the wilderness, ‘Make ready the way of the Lord,  Make His paths straight.’ ” ”                                                                                                          Mark 1:1-2a, 3 (NASB)

The passage quoted by Mark is from Isaiah 40:3

“The voice of him that crieth in the wilderness,                                                                 “Prepare ye the way of the LORD,                                                                                         make straight in the desert a highway for our God.” ”                                                                                                                                                                         (KJV)

   It is from Isaiah’s prophetic word that we see that Mark’s reference to “Lord” is actually from the Hebrew Name, “LORD – YHVH”.  John’s gospel testifies to the singleness of the full revelation of YHVH, both the “I-AM-who-I-AM”, (given by God to Moses in Exodus 3,) as well as to the “The Hand, Look!  The Nail, Look!” in the sacrifice that brings about all the blessings of grace; these “Blessings of Grace” carrying from of the whole revelation of “I will make ALL My goodness pass before you, and I will proclaim the name of (lit) YHVH before you, …” (Ex. 33:19.  See previous Kairos) to reveal that “all His goodness” is blatant view of the substitionary sacrifice by Father God – YHVH – the One who loves justice and hates lawlessness AND jointly loves the peoples, in providing a way of escape of His wrath-because-of-our-sin.  This is entirely by His grace and mercy, so as for the peoples to be wholly forgiven, freed from wrath by the Law, freed from Sin through “beholding the hand and the nail”, and freed into the abundance, the Liberty, of what all “I-AM” provides because of that sacrifice!

   “The following-morning John_sees Jesus (making-Himself-to)-coming towards him, and he-talks, “Behold, the Lamb of-God, the One taking-away the sin of-the world.  This-One is concerning of-whom I said, ‘After me is-coming a man, who, precedence over-me He-has-come-to-be, because before-me He-was.’””                                                                                                                                                                                                                      John 1:29-30                                                                                      (Lit. From Grk. text wrd. ordr.)                                                                          (Bold is from emphasis in Grk. Text)

  “Says to-Him the woman, “I-know that Messiah is-coming, the One called, ‘Christ’; when He-might-come, that One, He-will-announce to-us all(-things).”
Says to-her Jesus, “I AM, the One speaking to-you.””                                                                                                                                                                     John 4:24-25                                                                                      (Lit. From Grk. Text wrd. ordr.)                                                                      (Bold “I” is from emphasis in Grk. Text)

“ … His disciples … after getting into a boat, they started to cross the sea…  And it had already become dark …  And the sea began to be stirred up because a strong wind was blowing.  When therefore they had rowed about three or four miles, they beheld Jesus walking on the sea and drawing near to the boat; and they were frightened.”

   “But He-talks to-them, “I AM, fear not.“”.                                                                                                 (lit. also, “I AM don’t be-afraid).                                                                                                                                  Excerpts frm. John 6:16-19 (NASB)                                                                    & v. 20 (Lit. From Grk. Text wrd. Ordr.)               {As to Jesus’ exhortation/encouragement not to fear because                            “I AM” is present – See the LORD’s words to Joshua (1:9)}

“Said to-them Jesus,                                                                                                                     “Amen, Amen, I-tell you, before Abraham was,  I AM””                                                                                                                                                                     John 8:58                                                                                      (Lit. From Grk. Text wrd. ordr.)                                                                     (Bold “I” is from emphasis in Grk. Text)

 “Said therefore again to-them Jesus,                                                                        “Amen, Amen, I-tell you, that, I AM the door of-the sheep””

“I AM the good_shepherd.” ”                                                                                                                                                                                                                     John 10:7, 11                                                                                     (Lit. From Grk. Text wrd. ordr.)                                                                     (Bold “I” is from emphasis in Grk. Text)

“Said to her Jesus,                                                                                                                                 “I AM the resurrection and the life;…” ”                                                                                                                                                                                        John 11:25a                                                                                      (Lit. From Grk. Text wrd. ordr.)                                                                    (Bold “I” is from emphasis in Grk. Text)

“Not concerning all of-you I-talk.  I-know whom I-chose.  However, in-order-that the scripture might-be-fulfilled, ‘The (one) eating with Me bread, lifted-up against Me his_heal.’  From now I-tell to-you before it-comes-to-be, in-order-that when it-might-come-to-be (when it happens/when it takes place), you-might-believe that I AM.”                                                                                                                                                                       John 13:18-19                                                                                     (Lit. From Grk. Text wrd. ordr.)                                                                    (Bold “I” is from emphasis in Grk. Text)

“Says to-him Jesus,                                                                                                                              “I AM the way and the truth and the life.”  ”                                                                                                                John 14:6a                                                                                            (Lit. From Grk. Text wrd. ordr.)                                                                         (Bold “I” is from emphasis in Grk. Text)

The revelation of Jesus on earth as I AM Who AM (“Ehyeh asher Ehyeh”) tabernacling among men as YHVH is the revelation of the One-ness of Jesus and His Father – the very revelation to us in the Person of Jesus of the exact character, the very Person of Almighty God and Father, exactly as the writer of Hebrews (1:3) stated, as Jesus Himself also made so clear:

“Believe Me that I in the Father, and the Father in Me.”                                                                                                                                                               John 14:11a                                                                                     (Lit. From Grk. Text wrd. ordr.)                                                                     (Bold “I” is from emphasis in Grk. Text)

   The revelation of YHVH in Jesus is the unveiling of the whole aspect of Almighty God being our Father.  You cannot see who God is as “Father”, as our Father, apart from this unveiling of who Jesus is in this one-ness with His Father, in all that He accomplished for us as the revelation of “the hand of grace nailed in grace” to make available all that “I-AM who I-AM” is to us in and for this life.  There is often an attempt to explain “God” from the Bible without the revelation of the finished work of the cross … and such effort proves often times to bear little, if any, eternal fruit.  You cannot know the Father apart from the Son, from the revelation of this Son in His resurrection glory!  It is impossible!  I know this statement is emphatic, nevertheless, the raw truth.  There is so much to say, to be taught, as to this Biblical truth, and it desperately needs to take place on a global scale in the church.  There is way too often the proclamation of “God” in Bible teaching, including teaching from the New Testament without the revelation unveiling of Jesus in His resurrection Glory; and it leaves the hearers with more head knowlwdge OF God instead of a True and intimate knowing Him because of Jesus.  The revelation of Jesus unveiled in His resurrection glory will be an unveiling of the tip of the magnitude of the love of the Father for peoples, such as we seem to know theologically, but not, on a broad, general scope, factually in our hearts as a grace-truth reality between Monday to Saturday.  The Name YHVH, hidden in the name of Jesus, is to be manifested, unveiled, to believers as the revelation of “Father”.

“For a child will be born to us, a son will be given to us;                                         And the government will rest on His shoulders                                                          And His name will be called,                                                                                                             Wonderful Counselor,                                                                                                              Mighty God,                                                                                                                                         Eternal Father,                                                                                                                                     Prince of Peace.”                                                                                                                                                                        Isaiah 9:6a  (NASB)

   Our Savior, this Wonderful Counselor whom we have known as our Mighty God and our Prince of Peace, we have not comprehended as our Eternal Father.  YHVH’s intention in sending His Son was to wholly unveil the radiance of Himself, of Father God’s glory, so as to unveil and make known TO us and IN us the exact representation of His nature.

   Yet we have known our LORD more as “Lord” (Adonai) instead of “LORD” (YHVH), even seeing Jesus in this manner.  Is it not so that all of us have heard, “If He is not Lord of all, He is not Lord at all!” ?  And “You need to make Jesus, not just your Savior, but your Lord!”?  And because we have heard this again and again and again, our perception of our LORD Jesus is as “Lord”, and consequently so  our Father God … all with the witting or unwitting connotation of “distance” in that relationship.  A lot of this perception, I believe, is wholly rooted in the mixture of covenants proclamation and belief, of Old Covenant into New Covenant faith, that which regards grace yet also holds up the standard of the Law … the remembrance of sin, as was under the Old Covenant (Heb. 10:1-2).  I stumbled upon this kind of perception from David in the Psalms, yet saw also, in the same Psalm, where such perception by him was corrected because he came to a revelation of New Covenant Grace.

 “Out of the depths I have cried to You, O LORD.                                                              If You, LORD, should mark iniquities,                                                                                      O Lord, who could stand?                                                                                                            But there is forgiveness with You,                                                                                       That You may be feared.                                                

I wait for the LORD, my soul does wait,                                                                            And in His word do I hope.                                                                                                             O Israel, hope in the LORD;                                                                                                          For with the LORD there is lovingkindness,                                                                      And with Him is abundant redemption.                                                                               And He will redeem (by severing) Israel                                                                                From all his iniquities.                                                                                                                                                Psalm 130:1a, 3-5, 7-8 (NASB)

   In his thinking of YHVH taking an accounting of his iniquities, he seems to come to the horrific reality that no one could stand – and thus views YHVH suddenly as Adonai.  But he then comes back to the grace-truth of YHVH’s Name, His very person, seeing that with YHVH is forgiveness.  The “Word” he hopes for is the living word rooted in YHVH’s name – His lovingkindness (“chesed” in Hebrew – one of definition revelations given to Moses in Exodus 34:6 [Beloved, look at the last statement by the LORD of His Name in Ex. 34:6 … it is the virtual word for word description in the Hebrew New Testament of Jesus in John 1:14]).  David’s last statement is the prophetic realization that Israel will have, by the LORD, cut off from him all his sins … The frightening “distance” perception between sinner and Holy God is an improper view of YHVH – LORD, an incomplete view of “the Hand of Grace Nailed in Grace”; that is, not seeing as wholly “finished“ the finished work of Jesus’s cross in having wholly dealt with our sins in the totality of the wrath, of the divine judgment borne by Him for us AND as us in His body on Golgatha’s hill, which action of Jesus provided completeness of our entire forgiveness, completeness of our righteous judicial stand (as holy and blameless in the face of God the Father – Eph. 1:3-8) in the proof of Jesus being raised by Holy God from the dead (- Rom. 4:25).

   Dear One,  look again at verse 4 in the above Psalm of David.  So many believers want to see a true “fear of the LORD” come to this land.  Yet so often our perception has rather been “a Fear of the “Lord”; and this is what this land has –  a fear that has distance.  And such distance keeps the sinner out of view of true, ripped veil forgiveness – a release of sins, a sending away of sins, a complete severing of sins by the sacrificed blood now upon the true, accessible-to-all Mercy Seat.  The true Biblical, New Covenant “fear of the LORD” is the revelation of forgiveness, because of what means Father God, Almighty Holy God, sending – for the purpose of being nailed to a cross to receive total judgment – His only begotten Son whom He loves with an inconceivable love … in order to die for us.  The fear of the LORD this land and the nations need is the revelation of who Jesus is – POST CROSS – because of the sacrifice of Jesus upon the cross!  To know what means the raw truth of the New Covenant, the raw brutal reality of the reason behind the ripped veil to the Holy of Holies in the face of all of mankind, every single nation, every single pagan, every man, every woman, every boy and every girl, Jewish and non-Jewish, to see what means the testimony of the HOLY Spirit …

“But  bears-witness to-us also the Holy Spirit;                                                            ‘And of-the sins of-them and of-the lawlessnesses of-them                                        NO-NEVER might-I-{let-Myself}-remember/recall still.’”                                                                                                                                        Hebrews 10:15a, 17                                                                                   (Lit. From Grk. Text wrd. Ordr.)                             (Bold reveals the double negative in Greek text,  which                                  emphasizes the intensity of the negation of the action)

This, Beloved, is the “Beholding His Face” revelation of the eternal, unfading glory Name – LORD – YHVH – into which Moses did not get to behold.

   This is that at which (at Whom) you and I get to gaze daily, as a reality of the ripped veil access into the Holy of Holies.  Access through Jesus is access to behold Him, our LORD Jesus, in the intensity of the Love of the Father, with absolutely NO condemnation, no remembrance of sin.   We get to gaze at “eh’yeh asher eh’yeh” as Moses did not … with the result that this glory will not fade in our ongoing ripped veil abiding viewing of YHVH-shua!

    We get to behold the face of our LORD – of our Heavenly Father –  in the face of our LORD Jesus  …                                                                                                                …  and we see an “Abba” we never knew.                                                                                                                     (Ref. John 14:9b; Rom. 8:15-16)

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Part 4 – Unveiling “YHVH-shua/Joshua” – Revealing the Details of Jesus’ Name