THE DYNAMICS OF LOVE

 

 

LOVE IS LOVE NOT LUST

 

Most people say, “I love you,” vainly or at least with shallowness. Love is operationalized and it does not exist without some sort of action. The ultimate love is from God, and He does expect something in return, as it is written:

And God spoke all these words, saying, “I Am the Lord your God… shewing mercy unto thousands of them that love Me, and keep My commandments.” (Exod 20:1-2,6)

Somebody else said that much later, Jesus said, “If you love Me, keep My commandments” (John 14:15). It was the same Entity who said those words thousands of years apart. That saying is “The Word” that we call, “Jesus” in English.

“Love” in the Hebrew is ‘ahab and it means “to have affection for” (Strong 2006). In contrast, apostasy is defection (Heb 6:6). Hence, those who once loved God can lose that love. However, since God is love, to wit: “He that does not love does not know God for God is love” (1 John 4:8), God can never lose love.

Love would be conveyed as the Image of God, “selem,” in the Hebrew; meaning simply a shadow or phantom existence (ibid). Love is therefore the shadow of God; and when He manifests Himself, the action is love. Thus, The Book of Acts is a book of love.

Again, Paul’s saying demonstrates that: 

The invisible things of Him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even His eternal Power and Godhead. (Rom 1:20) 

The “Invisible Thing” is the love of God and divine love reveals the “Godhead,” or the Holy Trinity. Love is the Power of The Triune God. It is not just coincidence that Hebrew love is spelled with three letters because those three represent the three substances of God, as you shall see?

People think of love as an emotion, but it is a super-power that God shared with the original man. When Adam was made in the Image of God, that Image was supreme Power that was meant to be shared with Adam’s kind.

That was God’s device for multiplication (Gen 1:20). If that is true, and it is, then God first shared love with the male of the species, then the male shared it with the female; and it was totally non-sexual activity. Yes, love is an activity — a dynamic — that in the time of Jesus was called “virtue.” When Jesus sensed the loss of virtue that made the woman with the blood issue whole, Jesus shared the love of God with her (Mark 5:30).

Love constrains us (2 Cor 5:14), not in the sense of restriction but motivation. If we have love, God provides a sense of power to those who know His love, and they are also to love in the same manner as God. The Great Commission stresses love must be shared to be love (Mat 22:36-40).

It seems that the evidence of Adam’s “dominion” was that he shared the love of God with his mate. Since the Hebrew word translated “dominion” (Gen 1:26) means “crumble” (Strong 2006), then mankind would be a particle of love from the whole love of God. If God is the divine “cookie,” then Adam was a crumb from the “Cookie.”  The crumbling would therefore be sharing the love of God with other beings. Multiplication would be the spreading of divine love.

Does the Hebrew word for love —‘ahab — provide any clues to support that idea? Of course, affection is an invisible attribute, but it can be measured. Love is measured by the tenets of The Law, meaning that adherence to The Law is evidence of love; hence they are the measure of love, just as God said when He issued its metrics with The Ten Commandments. The Hebrew word ‘ahab, translated “love” is triune, consisting of three letters: aleph, hey, and bet.

Aleph is the fundamental Power of God for God is “Aleph” (or El). Albeit El is invisible, in agreement with Paul (Rom 1:20), El can be seen by the things that God does. El is the emanation of love, so God is seen by His dynamics, or works.

People who are in Christ and with God sense the love of God. Love is there all the time but there is a scotoma — a dark cloud of sin — that interferes with its reception. The things of the world get in the way of God’s love, and in a way, the things of the world block true love from ever being sensed. How can anyone sense divine love if love of the world and things stand in the way? Hence, the things of the flesh are a barrier that blocks the enduring love of God from being sensed.

If you want to block out God, what do you do? Focus on the things of the world. Most people are caught up in success, homes, cars, friends, and such. Albeit they are not necessarily bad things, even the love of Christians can fade away; albeit the enduring love of God remains. Christians do fail to pass along that kind of love. Love must be dynamic (works) to be true love.

For instance, how would your mate know love if it is not demonstrated? Saying “I love you,” although reinforcing, is not true love; whereas demonstrating it is how love is passed along. The Commandments are ways of demonstrating love although they are misinterpreted as things you must do to gain favor with God. You have God’s favor regardless — it is by grace. If He favors you, He expects you to favor Him.

Love begins with dynamics — ways to reveal the invisible power of it. That is the aleph in ‘ahab. The letter hey, characterized by a window invokes a sense of a breeze. The letter hey reveals the Presence of God. The breeze cannot be seen but it can be felt. The same applies to the power of love. Hence, the letter hey, following the aleph, transmits the idea of a Spirit flowing. Love might very well be the flowing of the Spirit from the Power of God, but the ruler of the Air, Satan, interferes with love a flowing (Ephes 2:2); when people confuse eroticism with love.

Whereas the love of God is affection, the love of Satan is indulgence. Oftentimes even Christians indulge their every whim. “Indulgence” is succumbing to your own desires and that blocks the window of God. So many people are so distracted by indulgence that the window of love is closed to them. In other words, self- indulgence blocks the Spirit of God from flowing. It still flows, but self-indulgent people fail to sense it.

Lastly comes the letter bet in ‘ahab. The bet represents the “House of God” Jesus. Jesus is the vessel of love. He referred to Himself as “Bet” in the English “Vessel” or “Cup” when in agony: “O my Father, if it be possible, let this cup pass from Me: nevertheless not as I will, but as You will” (Mat 26:39).

The idea of hey takes on new meaning as something is in the “cup” that will pass from Him. That is the “ah” in ‘ahab — the Power of God that passes through the window of opportunity; to where? Unto the Cup, or Bet, called “Jesus.”

The letter bet represents containment. God’s love (Power of El; El Shaday) passed through the window (hey) into the vessel (Bet), Jesus. And what was Jesus to do? To pass that cup to all mankind.  In the end, it was finished and Jesus lost virtue enough to cover the sins of the entire world.

Jesus did not die as we think of it; His love (virtue) was depleted to the degree that His Power (El) was gone. His aleph was vacated by Him losing virtue to save the world. Hence, death is not immobility but the loss of love — depletion, or in the case of some Christians, defection.

Once defected, always defected (Heb 6:6). Love is the directional flow in the sense once it is given, it cannot be given back, and to do so, restricts the flow of love from God to man.

Adam was glorified as the Image of God is Glory. Glory is full of love. When Jesus was glorified (John 7:39) what happened? At the Resurrection, He got His flow of love going again, and the advent of the Holy Ghost (Acts 2) was an act of the love of God. How so?

Christians in Jerusalem were of “one accord” (Acts 2:1). They were the Church — the House of God that He built by His Power. No longer was Jesus alone the Bet but it had been passed along. Accordance is the evidence of love.

Recalling ‘ahab, “suddenly there came a sound from heaven as of a rushing mighty wind, and it filled all the house where they were sitting” (Acts 2:2). Somebody left the window open in that house and God passed through as if a gust of fresh air. Then as the Spirit of God passed through the window, as He had the doors of the exodus, “They (3000) were all filled with the Holy Ghost” (Acts 2:4). They were each a part of God’s house. That action (Act of God) was ‘ahab. God was transmitting His love to others, “whosoever” as John 3:16 points out. Not just whomever, but those that “believed in Him.”

That belief is the window open, so the breath of God passes through (the hey in ‘ahab.) For love to pass the window must be open. The open window on the day of Pentecost was that they were of one accord in love. If there had been discord, then the window of opportunity would have been closed to the demise of the Church.

What may have happened on the day of Pentecost at that time? Ahab — love was passing through the crowd as if it was one person without discretion on the part of God. It was there for all, but for those who received the love of God, they had to be open to it.

Three-thousand of all those there received the love of God without doing anything, and the evidence was that they spoke the same language. Whereas, when in discord with God, they babbled, when they were in one accord, God decrypted the babble into something understandable. Three thousand spoke the language of love. (My personal belief is that they spoke ancient Hebrew and everyone in love with Jesus, spoke “The Word.” Yes, I believe primitive Hebrew was The Word of God.)

God (El) was entangled with Jesus (Bet), and it was done by love (hey). Then at Pentecost on His Way out, Jesus left behind the divine love that He had been passed along. Jesus said, “It is finished,” and He bowed His head, and gave up the Ghost” (John 19:30).

There is much hidden in that passage. He passed along love, meaning that the passing of ‘ahab was complete; His virtue had healed the nations (Rev 22:2), not everyone, but those who had the window of belief still open. Most others had shut the window so hard that it was stuck closed. God had elected all mankind to partake of His love, but most had the windows of their minds nailed shut.

When Jesus gave up the Ghost, it would have been the Spirit (El) in His House (Bet) to flow freely to anyone who believed.

In science, that action is called “quantum uncertainty.”

 

Figure 1: Quantum Entanglement (NASA)

Quantum uncertainty pertains to the particles that are entangled with some other “particle.” The uncertainty is a wave function (think cloud by day or a fire by night) that describes the probability of both their location and momentum (self-movement).  

Hence, love can be described by both quantum entanglement and uncertainty, and its availability without regard to the place or the passing of time. When they were all of one accord, they were all in Christ — entangled with Him. God “so loved the world;” that is uncertainty without regard to individuality. That love was directed at everyone — the “uncertainty” — but to be open to the love of God, as individuals, they must believe. That belief directs the love of God to those who trust in Him.

Since God is not a respecter of persons (Acts 10:34), then His love is open to all who would be open to it. To be open to God is trusting that His Power is love as John 3:16 proposes.

Those who want love; it is available to them if they are open to it. So, the process of “election” is subject to whom is open to His love.

Love is not a condition to be forced on anyone (irresistible) but a wave that us beings are open for its reception.

In Acts 2 those who loved each other were open to the love of God. If they were closed to one another, they would be closed to the love of God.

Hence, the election of a few is not by either natural or supernatural selection, but love is available to all by grace if we are open to God’s breathing love unto us.

 

 

 

 

 

SANCTIFICATION, HOLINESS, AND THE EYE OF THE NEEDLE

 

My method of analyzing both English and Hebrew words is to look at the ancient Hebrew translated into English. For instance, regardless of time, setting apart in God should be the same process. With that understanding, I will now attempt to analyze what sanctification literally means using the ancient Hebrew pictographs.

God told Moses to sanctify the things about the altar and Aaron was one of them to be sanctified, “He (Moses) poured of the anointing oil upon Aaron's head, and anointed him, to sanctify him” (Lev 8:12). Like the furniture of the tabernacle, Aaron was sanctified to be made holy (Exod 30:29).

Hence, there is commonality between sanctification and made holy. Note that nothing was holy, but God made them holy, and that included Aaron.  Like the things of the tabernacle, Aaron was just “furniture” until God sanctified him in holiness.

Now let’s take a critical look at sanctification. To “sanctify” is “qadas” in the Hebrew. Likewise, “holy is “qadas.” Hence, “sanctification” is a state of holiness after once being merely common.

Qadas itself is spelled qof – dalet – shin. The letter dalet represents the pathway, or “The Way” (Yeshua) to salvation (Yesua; יְשׁוּעָה).

The spelling of Yeshua is יֵשׁוּעַ Note that Yesua is Yeshua with the added “h” (hey) at the end. Hence, Yeshua is The Way to salvation whereas the dalet is the famous “door” which Jesus knocks for salvation (Rev 3:20).

The “door” on which Yeshua knocks to Yesua is literally a window (hey) through which the saving Breath of God provides the pathway through the door. Hence, hey is verbal; it represents the opening of the dalet (or “door”) for God to pass through and for those who are sanctified to pass through as well. That takes care of the dalet in qadas. It is essentially going from one spiritual state to another.

(I explained quantum tunneling in an earlier commentary; it is just going through a firmament from an unholy state to a holy state. Hence, “quantum tunneling” very well describes sanctification with the quantum coming from the Power of the Almighty God.)

Entering the tunnel is the Hebrew letter qof. Its pictograph is a circle with a line through it. Qof implies separation from the pictograph, The biblical Hebrew version of the letter qof follows:

 

 

It is the eye of God (ayin) with the letter vav passing through it. Qof can be represented by ayin, divine vision and vav, the connection between heaven and Earth; thusly the needle that knits together in love (Col 2:2).

 

That was the metaphor of Jesus when He said, “It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God” (Mat 19:24).

The vav can pass easily through the ayin for it is just a needle (some manner of connection.) However, a camel is the metaphor for the letter gimmel, shown next:

 

 

Note that the vav (in the box) is a gimmel without the legs. The legs in the gimmel represent a man walking. The “needle” is without legs and, its closed version represented which is often written without the top (the letter yod). Hence, the closed vav is the “thread” and the ayin the eye of the needle.

However, Jesus said that it was possible, for the gimmel to go through the ayin. Remembering that vav represents both mankind and the Messiah as well; the letter vav is a firm thing. On the other hand, the letter gimmel is just the footprint of a camel, with the camel revealing its passage through by its effects on things that are seen (Rom 1:20). A rich man (vav) cannot get through but a Holy Ghost which the gimmel symbolizes can because it is not a material Thing.

First off, mankind (Adam) had the phantom Image (Strong 2006) of God breathed unto him (Gen 1:27). That Image could be characterized by the gimmel, a picture of a camel no longer there — a “ghost.” Adam was sanctified at his creation because the Holy Ghost was in him. That explains the letter qof at the door (dalet) in qadas, leaving only the letter shin at the end.

If qof represents the beginning of separation, as it does, the letter shin would represent completion of separation — “entire sanctification,” or glorification.

The letter shin represents release, indubitably to freedom from the things of the world by the consuming power of God. The letter shin also represents completeness consisting of three parts. Shin perhaps reveals the three substances of the divine Man, Jesus: Father, Son, and Holy Ghost as members of the whole.

Shin also represents fire, or holocaust. Luke wrote in the Acts of the Holy Ghost, “There appeared unto them cloven tongues like as of fire, and it sat upon each of them” (Acts 2:3) revealing the Power of the Holy Ghost of the Man, Jesus. Hence, the letter shin may also be the wholeness of God and the sinner made whole again (Mat 9:22).

So, if qadas (holiness, sanctification) is examined literally (and critically), the qof represents potentiality, the dalet The Way or passage, and the shin his three substances as in the beginning with Adam. Shin is holiness (set apartness) and qof includes the “whosoever” in John 3:16 and the means of setting whosoever apart via the gateway:

 

Enter in at the strait gate: for wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leads to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat; because strait is the gate, and narrow is The Way (dalet), which leads unto life, and few there be that find it... Strive to enter in at the strait gate for many, I say unto you, “Will seek to enter in, and shall not be able.” (Mat 7:13-14, 24)

 

With that said, shin is holiness in the manner of God, Be you holy because God is holy (1 Pet 1:16). When the Holy Ghost came, the Christians there were set apart as holy. In other words, they were sanctified by the Holy Ghost taking them through the eye of the needle.

Peter was telling them to be sanctified, or set apart, from the whosoever’s.

Note that you can’t be holy without God. That gateway is where The Way of God comes in. You can get through the eye of the needle only in phantom, or as Peter wrote about, “Receiving the end of your faith, even the salvation (Yesua) of your souls (phantoms)” (1 Pet 1:9).

It is not just anybody that is set apart, albeit anybody has potential. (Is it just coincidence that the qof,  the Greek letter phi represents gravitational potential?)

Qadas seems to represent the process of becoming holy wherein it is Jesus who sets apart as the letter shin suggests, for He is the “godhead” Father, Son, and Holy Ghost.

Perhaps now you understand the process of sanctification better, or it could confuse you even more.

 

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THE LAW A HURDLE TO OVERCOME

Commandments and The Law have been problematic for too many people beginning with Adam and his wife. The Law and The Ten Commandments remain obstacles even to modern Christians. Now let’s examine why.

The translations of the Bible are good, but I believe that both the Hebrew and the Greek are the very words of God and that “The Law” (Torah) was written in ancient Hebrew pictographs. Hence, let’s look at theological words through the lenses of ancient Hebrew.

Commandments are things that either must be done or ought not to be done. In the Hebrew, what is termed in English “commandment” is מִצְוָה in the Hebrew. Analyzing each letter at a time, let the meaning of “misva” be investigated going from right to left: mem, tsade, vav, hey.

The letter mem, in this case, is either dynamic or plurality. Mem is actions characterized by the waveform of either blood or water.

Tsade is a hook from which something hangs. It represents the righteousness of God. Misva is to be righteous as God is righteous. It is a countenance, not an obligation.

The letter vav (waw) is some sort of connection between the seen and unseen, or even God and man. It is entanglement; when Christians say “in Christ” which is the love of God from whom any other creature cannot separate us (Rom 8:39).

“Christ” in the Hebrew is the Messiah. Hence, the vav represents the Messiah, Jesus (Yeshua). “In Christ” is entanglement, having the same countenance as Christ Jesus. Noting that the Messiah is Jesus, commandments still pointed toward Jesus because of the letter vav connecting the present to the future. Thus, Jesus is The Law and thus, Jesus came to fulfil The Law (Mat 5:17). The vav in misra points toward The Law not being complete but would be sometime in the future.

Jesus said about The Law of love, “these two commandments hang all The Law and the prophets” (Mat 22:40). The two commandments are the love of God and the love of fellow men. Love is the connector (vav) in misva. Connect what to what?

(It is to be noted that “love” is not emotional but an attitude of respect.)

The letter hey is revelation from God, obviously from God “breathing” on His people from scripture, or according to Paul: 

…the holy scriptures, which are able to make you wise unto salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus. All scripture (The Word) is given by inspiration (hey) of God, and is profitable for doctrine (lamed), for reproof, for correction (zayin), for instruction in righteousness (tsade) that the man of God may be perfect (tav), thoroughly furnished unto all good works (yod). (1 Tim 3:15-17) 

Inspiration is “God-breathed,” represented by the Hebrew letter hey. Hence God breaths wisdom via Holy Scripture, so it is wise, not obligation, to follow The Law. Inspiration is God breathing truth into your minds, and then it is up to us to either adhere to it or to ignore it. That action is by the conscience.

Adam found that out very quicky by not following The Law and choosing, not the Wisdom Tree, but the Tree of Knowledge.

Knowledge is associated with wisdom simply by this; “Prove all things and hold onto what is good” (1 Thes 5:1). The Law is basically a test for wisdom; for example, it is not wise to have other gods nor to offend your fellow men.

Holding is how The Law hangs on love. Paul was simply acknowledging the Hebrew letter tsade — to hang. That Jesus was hanged on a tree (Acts 5:30) points toward the crucifixion; that Jesus loved us so much that He died for us. The letter tsade may very well imply the Cross as the ultimate act of love. The Cross was the fulfillment of the Law for Jesus said, “It is finished” (John 19:30). The crucifixion of Jesus was the completion of the Law by ultimate love from God Himself.

Tsade also validates that The Law hangs on love (Mat 22:40), and that love is revealed by God’s sacrifice of Himself in which Jesus was the perfect sacrifice (Heb 10:1).

Hence “commandments” are not so much as actions but “ten gratitude’s” (good attitudes) for God’s sacrifice of Himself rather than us.

The commandments were The Law (Torah). However, what was The Lord’s Law (Exod 13:9; tora), spelled תּוֹרָה.

First comes the letter tav — the cross, the mark of God and either the Covenant of Grace and/or completion. “It is finished,” and by that Jesus meant that the Cross and His death were the fulfillment of The Law (tora).

Secondly comes the letter vav. That connects the past with the present, thus connecting the old covenant with the new — the two testaments as one legal document. It also identifies the Messiah who was to come.

Thirdly comes the letter resh. It represents both the beginning and the Head of the Godhead. As a pictograph of a man, it identifies that the Head of the Godhead — The Holy Trinity — is a man. The tora pointed toward God as “The Son of Man” (Mat 8:2). Jesus is not the offspring of God (son) but the gens of Yahweh. He is the “vessel” in which the Virtue of God resides and has the authority of the Father just as the letter resh indicates.

Lastly comes the letter hey at the end. At the end, it signifies completion — the Presence of God. Pointed toward by the letter resh indicates that the “Son of Man,” even in The Old Testament prophecies, points to The Presence of God in the form of a Divine Man.

Tora is not just the beginning Law but points to Jesus as the fulfillment of the Law. 

The Hebrew Torah is the foundational text of Judaism, referring to the first five books of the Hebrew Bible: Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy. In a broader sense, it can also refer to the entire Hebrew Bible or the whole tradition of Judaism, including both written and oral law. These five books, also known as the Pentateuch or Five Books of Moses, contain narratives and laws, with the laws outlining how God wants Jews to live.  (AI Overview) 

With that explanation, Jesus (Yeshua) is the fulfillment of the whole Law of the Hebrews.

Jews put much emphasis on the laws of both God and Moses, but fail to understand that the fulfillment of The Law is love. Indeed the “Ten Misra’s” are four ways to love God and six ways to love others. In other words, The Ten Misra’s are “The Greatest Commandment” of which Jesus spoke, or ways to love. The Ten Misra’s was always the Way to “salvation” (Yesua), but the Jews never understood that. It is not that them fulfilling The Ten Commandments was so bad, but that Jesus was the only one who could fulfill them as hard as the Pharisees made them try.

Nobody, not even the Chief Pharisee Priest, could fulfill the Law, but Jesus did just that. It is not that they were mean-spirited, but that they failed to breath in any inspiration that God had breathed out.

The Jewish problem was that they would fulfill the Law despite Jesus there for that very purpose. The solution to the Jewish problem is never holocaust but Yesua.