FINDING THE OLD TESTAMENT JESUS

 

Jesus was not “born” in a biological sense. Jesus always existed. Adam was made in the Image of God in the beginning. The “Image” of God is Jesus. Jesus would not look like He did during his life here on earth, but a glorious image which he assumed upon His death and resurrection (John 7:39). His glorification would be the exchange of His mortal flesh for incorruptible flesh in the Image of His Father as with the first man (Adam; 1 Cor 15:45). Albeit Jesus came to Earth in flesh like ours, He left this world in glorious flesh whose Substance remains unknown.

The so-called “Godhead” is not material based: silver, gold, engravings, or man’s arts (Acts 17:29) but of divine material. The substance of the Godhead, called “The Holy Trinity” is Power (El), a phantom image (gimmel), and its covering (bet). Hence, the first three letters of the Hebrew aleph-bet adequately describe The Holy Trinity.

The Godhead is the three substances of God in “homeostasis” — never changing like substances. “Stasis” is a substance whose state is set. The State of God has always been the same regardless of time. John indicated that with the genealogy of Jesus (John 1:1-14).

God said, “I am the Lord, I change not…” (Mal 3:6). God is immutable, meaning that He is uncapable of change. That was the point John was making. God was, is, and always will be the same, hence Jesus pre-existed His incarnation. Incarnation is simply the Deity embodied.

God was Jesus before He appeared to mankind. If so, where was “Jesus” in The Old Testament? He was there but unseen. Like Paul wrote to the Romans, Jesus was revealed by the things that He does. What does Jesus do? Jesus saves; He is “salvation.” Jesus was hidden in ancient scripture, but He was there all the time.

Just as with gravity (from my last commentary), because it cannot be seen does not mean it is not real. Salvation is the action of Jesus that reveals His Presence, and when the Hebrew saints of old were in God, they were in Christ Jesus.

Jesus’s name appears exactly fifty times in The Old Testament. One of those times is in the following passage; Moses sang praises to Jesus:

The Lord is my strength and song, and He is become my salvation: He is my God, and I will prepare Him an habitation; my father's God, and I will exalt Him. (Exod 15:2)

Let’s focus on the word “salvation.” That is “The Word” (Jesus) from John 1:1-2. Moses was singing, The Lord is my God had become his “Jesus,” using English. Moses had seen Jesus as God. How so?

That verse pronounces only Ya in Yahweh, translated as “Lord”. Moses saw Ya as Yesu’a, translated to the English is "salvation." The Name, Jesus, in the abbreviated version of Adonai (Lord) — Yeshua (ישוע). "Salvation” is Yesu'a (יְשׁוּעָה). Whereas Jesus is ישוע, His Virtue of salvation, His quickening state is ישוע. The latter is His Divine Name and the former is the Dynamic of Yeshua, or Ya Saves. Moses was singing “Ya Saves,” the meaning of the Name, Yeshua (Jesus).

The difference between “Ya is My Salvation” and the Name, Yeshua, is the ending letter “hey” in Yesu’a. Hey represents the Divine Breath of God. Yesu’a had the Power and Yeshua the Name. Jesus was hidden in the words “Ya” and “salvation,” thus exposing the Godhead in that passage.

The Word, “Salvation,” appears fifty times in the Hebrew scripture. That was Yeshua acting, and according to Paul (Rom 1:20), “The invisible things of Him (The Lord God) from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even His eternal Power and Godhead…”

Paul was essentially saying that “salvation” in times past revealed the Person of God, Jesus.