God spoke to Moses in Exodus 6:2, 3 and explained to him two names,
2 God spoke to Moses and said to him, I am the Lord [literally, “Yahweh”];
3 and I appeared to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, as God Almighty [literally,
“El Shaddai”], but by My name, Lord [Yahweh] I did not make Myself known
to them.
This is a most important revelation of truth. The name of Yahweh was
revealed first to Moses many centuries after Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.
Since Moses was the writer of the first five books of the Bible (the Torah),
we see that he often inserted the name of Yahweh throughout the book
of Genesis. Yet this was not to imply that the name of Yahweh had been
revealed in those days, but rather to show that Yahweh was active during
that time. The first occurrence of the name of Yahweh appears in Gen. 2:4,
4 This is the account of the heavens and the earth when they
were created, in the day that the Lord God [Yahweh Elohim]
made earth and heaven.
Hence, we know that Yahweh was the Creator of heaven and earth, even
though He did not reveal Himself by this name for the first 2,500 years
of Adamic history. Then in Gen. 17:1 we find a very unique verse,
1 Now when Abram was ninety-nine years old, the Lord [Yahweh]
appeared to Abram and said to him, I am God Almighty [El Shaddai];
Walk before Me and be blameless.
Note that Yahweh told Abram, “I am El Shaddai.” This tells us that
El Shaddai is also Yahweh. They are the same God, but God uses
both names, depending upon the occasion. Let no one think that
there are two Gods. There is only one God, but He uses more than
one name and has more than one manifestation.
El Shaddai is the name God uses to manifest the divine character
of motherhood. The Hebrew word shad means “the breast of a
woman or animal,” according to Strong's Concordance, word #7699.
Thus, the name shows the feminine, or mothering, side of God's
character.
After about 2,500 years, however, God called Moses and revealed
Himself under a new name, Yahweh. God had “changed hats,” so
to speak. He was now revealing Himself as Father, rather than as
Mother, because this “child” had grown to the place where he
needed the firm hand of discipline from his Father. And so we find
that Yahweh is the Lawgiver.
These two names, El Shaddai and Yahweh, reveal to us that God
is both our Mother and our Father. One God is both Mother and
Father to us. He is complete and self-sufficient, needing no other
god, male or female, to meet His needs.
The point is...His Son was His Word that was made manifest by
becoming a man. The same Word that spoke everything into
existence became a man. So, in Hebrews 1:3,
3 And He is the radiance of His glory and the exact representation
of His nature, and upholds all things by the word of His power.
When He had made purification of sins, He sat down at the right
hand of the Majesty on high,
He was the very "bosom" of the Spirit, which was the secret hiding
place, and the ultimate center of the "LOVE of God", that was made
manifest in the face of Jesus the Christ. Hence, when you have seen
Him, you have seen the Father. You have seen the hidden and
invisible God through the Love and Mercy that Jesus shed upon
us at the Golgotha Hill.
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