Who is “God”?

Who has gone up to heaven and come down?
Who has cupped the wind in the palms of his hands?
Who has wrapped up the waters in his cloak?
Who established all the ends of the earth?
What is his name, and what is his son’s name?
Surely you know!

Proverbs 30:4 (CJB)

There are many gods in the world, and people use the title “God” to describe their deity. Often, people from different religions, sects, or cults do not distinguish one god from another, so everyone can be in harmony pretending they are talking about the same god. The United States dollar bill is a good example of this. (I promise I will not talk about the Illuminati.)

The Latin phrases on the top and bottom of the pyramid say, “He favors our undertakings” and “a new world order.” Maybe that’s why people are talking so much today about a “new world order,” meaning it’s replacing the old “new world order.” Regardless, the god on the dollar bill does not appear to have anything to do with the Creator God in the Hebrew Bible or Christian Bible.

The only place we find the word “God” describing a god in the Hebrew scriptures is the Hebrew word spelled Gimmel Dalet, or GD. The vowel is an “ah” sound. Gimmel Dalet is also used for the tribe of Gad, which should not be confused with it.

Isaiah 65:11 (CJB): ¹¹  “But as for you who abandon Adonai, who forget my holy mountain, who prepare a table for Gad, a god of luck, and fill bowls of mixed wine for Meni, a god of destiny—

Gad, or GD, is the god of fortune and luck. Perhaps this is the god of the dollar bill. The Elohim of Abraham and Creator of the universe defines Himself to His prophets who wrote it all down so we could understand the nature of the Creator God. As soon as a “god” deviates from any attribute of the Creator God (Elohim), then it is a different god. Elohim achrim, means “god of others”.

Deuteronomy 13:1–4 (LEB): “If a prophet stands up in your midst or a dreamer of dreams and he gives to you a sign or wonder, ² and the sign or the wonder comes about that he spoke to you, saying, ‘Let us go after other gods (those whom you have not known), and let us serve them,’ ³ you must not listen to the words of that prophet or to that dreamer, for Yahweh your God is testing you to know whether you love Yahweh your God with all of your heart and with all of your inner self. ⁴ You shall go after Yahweh your God, and him you shall revere, and his commandment you shall keep, and to his voice you shall listen, and him you shall serve, and to him you shall hold fast.

The Hebrew word for the Creator is “Elohim.” His name is YHWH, meaning, “he exists.” This is different from the title “God” that Christians use. Are they talking about the same god? Not really. Elohim is very adamant about the importance of His people keeping the Sabbath, but Christians do not keep the Sabbath and, in many cases, are vehemently opposed to the Sabbath. This is one example.

Christians will say Jesus did away with the Sabbath, even though we have no scripture either from the prophets of old or in the New Testament that the Sabbath is irrelevant after the cross. It is quite the opposite. This makes us ask, is Jesus God? Can Jesus eliminate one of Elohim’s commands from creation like the Sabbath command?

The short answer is no, Jesus, his name being Yeshua in Hebrew, the Son of God and Messiah, would never do such a thing. Yeshua said he and the Father were one, in agreement, alignment, and the same. Many take this to mean Yeshua was the Father, but there are many scriptures that make that very unlikely.

John 4:24–26 (LEB): ²⁴ God is spirit, and the ones who worship him must worship in spirit and truth.” ²⁵ The woman said to him, “I know that Messiah is coming” (the one called Christ); “whenever that one comes, he will proclaim all things to us.” ²⁶ Jesus said to her, “I, the one speaking to you, am he.

Yeshua tells the woman God is spirit and he is the Messiah. We know that the Father is a spirit and has no form. He specifically told us not to worship any form of a man or woman or fish or animal.

Deuteronomy 4:12–18 (LEB): ¹² And Yahweh spoke to you from the midst of the fire; you heard a sound of words, but you did not see a form—only a voice. ¹³ And he declared to you his covenant, the Ten Commandments, which he charged you to observe, and he wrote them on the two tablets of stone. ¹⁴ And Yahweh charged me at that time to teach you rules and regulations for your observation of them in the land that you are about to cross into to take possession of it. ¹⁵ “So you must be very careful for yourselves, because you did not see any form on the day Yahweh spoke to you at Horeb from the midst of the fire, ¹⁶ so that you do not ruin yourselves and make for yourselves a divine image in a form of any image, a replica of male or female, ¹⁷ a replica of any animal that is upon the earth, a replica of any winged bird that flies in the air, ¹⁸ a replica of any creeping thing on the ground, a replica of any fish that is in the water below the earth.

Yeshua said he was “one with the Father”. From these few verses, Christians have derived the eternal security doctrine and trinity doctrine, but they rely on English words when it was written in Greek using Hebrew thought.

John 10:27–30 (LEB): ²⁷ My sheep listen to my voice, and I know them, and they follow me. ²⁸ And I give them eternal life, and they will never perish forever, and no one will seize them out of my hand. ²⁹ My Father, who has given them to me, is greater than all, and no one can seize them from the Father’s hand. ³⁰ The Father and I are one.”

The word “one” here is describing unity and agreement. We can see this in other places where Yeshua talks about only doing what he sees his Father doing and only saying what he hears his Father saying. The point is that Yeshua is not going to do something different, such as deleting the Sabbath, whether one believes Yeshua is the Messiah or some how the Father and the Messiah at the same time in some trinity configuration. Yeshua, speaking of his Father, said, “He is greater than all” in the above passage of scripture. Does “all” include Yeshua?

The Complete Jewish Bible renders Yeshua’s two greatest commandments in such a way to understand the word “one” in a Hebrew sense (echad). Yeshua us quoting Deuteronomy chapter 6 and Leviticus chapter 19.

Mark 12:29–31 (CJB)

²⁹ Yeshua answered, “The most important is,

‘Sh’ma Yisra’el, Adonai Eloheinu, Adonai echad [Hear, O Isra’el, the Lord our God, the Lord is one], ³⁰ and you are to love Adonai your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your understanding and with all your strength.’

³¹ The second is this:

‘You are to love your neighbor as yourself.’

There is no other mitzvah greater than these.”

It is important to understand who God and Yeshua are and the nuances between them. Being “one” does not have to mean they are the exact same entity. Yeshua was sent by Elohim for a specific purpose. That is to take on the sins of His people as a final high priest figure. The Levitical priest system was fashioned after what Elohim showed Moses. There is an ark of the covenant in heaven that will be revealed at the end. The earthly copy may be destroyed or missing, but the original still exists.

Revelation 11:19 (LEB): ¹⁹ And the temple of God in heaven was opened, and the ark of his covenant appeared in his temple, and there were lightnings and sounds and thunders and an earthquake and large hail.

Do you think the Ark of the Covenant described here is empty, or are the Ten Commandments inside, meaning they are still relevant at the second coming of Yeshua? This is why it is important to know Elohim, who He is and who His Son is.