"Go and make disciples of all nations, immersing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Ruach HaKodesh" Mattityahu 28:19 · KWS
The Same Elohim Revealed Three Ways
Not three gods. Not one mask with three faces. One Being, three Persons.
The Father is unseen, except in the Son: no one has seen Elohim at any time — the only born one has declared Him Yochanan 1:18. To know the Father, you must know the Son: "He who has seen me has seen the Father" Yochanan 14:9 The Son sends the Ruach; the Ruach reveals the Son; the Son reveals the Father. They never act apart.
Scripture is unwavering on the oneness: "Shema Yisrael, YHWH Eloheinu, YHWH echad (Hear, Israel: YHWH is our Elohim, YHWH is one.)" Devarim 6:4 and the same Scripture testifies that the Son is Elohim Yochanan 1:1, 14 and that the Ruach is Elohim — Ivrim opens a quotation of YHWH's own words in Tehillim 95 with "even as the Ruach HaKodesh says" Ivrim 3:7, and calls Him "the eternal Ruach" Ivrim 9:14. What YHWH said, the Ruach says. Three Persons, one undivided Being. The mystery is real; the doctrine is plain.
This page splits into three. Walk through whichever doorway the Father is drawing you to first — you will end up at the same place.
"Where could I go from your Ruach? Or where could I flee from your presence? If I ascend up into heaven, you are there. If I make my bed in Sheol, behold, you are there!" Tehillim 139:7–8 · KWS
Closer Than You Think
Not a distant Elohim watching from heaven. With you, within you, feeling what you feel.
Many picture Elohim far away — He made the world, set it running, and now watches from heaven while His children fend for themselves. Scripture will not let that picture stand. YHWH asks it Himself: Am I an Elohim at hand … and not an Elohim afar off? Yirmeyahu 23:23 and answers it: Don’t I fill heaven and earth? Yirmeyahu 23:24
The Son’s own name says it. He is Immanuel — Elohim with us Mattityahu 1:23. The Word became flesh and lived amongst His people Yochanan 1:14, and before He went up He left a promise with no end date: "Behold, I am with you always, even to the end of the age" Mattityahu 28:20
He is not only beside His people. He is within them. "I will not leave you orphans. I will come to you" Yochanan 14:18 The Ruach of truth, He said, lives with you and will be in you Yochanan 14:17 — and the Father and the Son with Him: we will come to him and make our home with him Yochanan 14:23. Elohim does not visit from a distance. He makes His home in the heart of the one who loves Yeshua.
And He feels what His children feel. Of Israel in the wilderness it is written: In all their affliction he was afflicted Yeshayahu 63:9. At His friend’s tomb, knowing He was about to call him out, Yeshua wept Yochanan 11:35. And now, on the throne, He is the High Priest who is not one who can’t be touched with the feeling of our infirmities Ivrim 4:15. The grief, the fear, the loneliness, the joy — nothing passes through one of His that does not pass through Him.
He has said it plainly: I will in no way leave you, neither will I in any way forsake you Ivrim 13:5. Not watching from afar. Here. Now. Within. YHWH is near to those who have a broken heart Tehillim 34:18.