GINOLJC, to all my brothers and sisters of God who may be in Christ or not. but stilled blessed of God as all people who are his childeren.
what's the basic pronlem with many people, Jews as well as Gentiles, is not knowing the differentiation of,
A. God who is the H433 אֱלוֹהַּ 'elowahh (el-o'-ah), the ONE TRUE and LIVING God, that is,
B. God, the H430 אֱלֹהִים 'elohiym (el-o-heem') in ordinal manifestation of First and Last, in TIME, PLACE, ORDER, and RANK.
this plurality in the ECHAD have blinded Jew well as Gentiles, this time of blindness is over, God is a ECHAD of himself in Flesh.
First in Natural Flesh, and he is to redeem us from the NATURAL, to the spiritual, like him, NOT him, but LIKE him, for eternity.
and the root of this blindness is found in Deuteronomy 6:4 "Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God is one LORD:" this blindness has affected both Jews and Gentiles, in believing the wrong definition, for "ONE".
H259 אֶחָד 'echad (ech-awd') adj.
1. (properly) united, i.e. one.
2. (as an ordinal) first.
[a numeral from H258]
KJV: a, alike, alone, altogether, and, any(-thing), apiece, a certain, (dai-)ly, each (one), + eleven, every, few, first, + highway, a man, once, one, only, other, some, together.
Root(s): H258
the Satan and his angels has decieved many by the First definition, both Jews and Gentiles. but this blindness is no more because the TRUTH is shining for all to see.
Definition #2. is the correct answer to the "ECHAD". "FIRST", and in the fulness of time, God came in Flesh as the Lord, the Ordinal Last, the "Son".
this is clearly seen in scriptures, God as the FIRST, and the LAST.
Isaiah 41:4 "Who hath wrought and done it, calling the generations from the beginning? I the LORD, the first, and with the last; I am he."
here the LORD, of Deuteronomy 6:4 is clearly the FIRST as the ECHAD says.... but the question is .... is he also the LAST? we say yes, and the scriptures also, lets see it, Isaiah 48:12 "Hearken unto me, O Jacob and Israel, my called; I am he; I am the first, I also am the last."
HOLD IT, is not the LORD .... according Deuteronomy 6:4 is the First? yes, and he the LORD said that he is "ALSO" the Last. that the Tanakh speaking.
NOW, the New Testament,
A. Revelation 1:10 "I was in the Spirit on the Lord's day, and heard behind me a great voice, as of a trumpet,"
Revelation 1:11 "Saying, I am Alpha and Omega, the first and the last: and, What thou seest, write in a book, and send it unto the seven churches which are in Asia; unto Ephesus, and unto Smyrna, and unto Pergamos, and unto Thyatira, and unto Sardis, and unto Philadelphia, and unto Laodicea."
B. Revelation 1:17 "And when I saw him, I fell at his feet as dead. And he laid his right hand upon me, saying unto me, Fear not; I am the first and the last:"
C. Revelation 2:8 "And unto the angel of the church in Smyrna write; These things saith the first and the last, which was dead, and is alive;"
D. Revelation 22:13 "I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end, the first and the last."
YES, this is the LORD JESUS/YESHUA, in glorification.
now a revelation Isaiah 41:4 "Who hath wrought and done it, calling the generations from the beginning? I the LORD, the first, and with the last; I am he."
see that term "WITH" in the First is "WITH" the Last, now John 1:1 "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God."
the Word, the Lord Jesus, the Ordinal LAST is God shared in flesh. just as Phil 2:6 states.was with God, his OWN Spirit per Isaiah 63:5.
all this blindness stem from the misunderstanding of "ONE" in Deuteronomy 6:4.
PICJAG, 101G.