Supernatural Worldview Godhead in the OT - Michael Heiser

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GODHEAD IN THEOLD TESTAMENT

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DEUT 6:4

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JOHN 1:18

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Translating the Shema

1. “The LORD is our God; the LORD is one.”

2. “The LORD our God, the LORD is one.”

3. “The Lord our God is one Lord.”

4. “The LORD is our God, the LORD alone.”

5. “Our one God is the LORD, the LORD.”


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ODD PASSAGES


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GENESIS 19:24

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Tanakh: The Holy Scriptures: A New Translation of the Holy Scriptures According to the Traditional Hebrew

Text. Philadelphia: Jewish Publication Society (1997)


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GENESIS 19:24S0P0 %&'()* +,-( .-*-/ &(* 0-/-%%&12+34+%-+2 5%) 4%-/ S0P0 -+6 -4 1)&7)(8

Tanakh: The Holy Scriptures: A New Translation of the Holy Scriptures According to the Traditional Hebrew

Text. Philadelphia: Jewish Publication Society (1997)


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Points of Potential Confusion•

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THE TWO POWERS


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EXODUS 15:3

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DANIEL 7:9-13

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ISRAEL’S TWO

YAHWEHS


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THE ANGEL

& THE NAME


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Deuteronomy 12

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THE ANGEL =

THE NAME =THE PRESENCE OF YHWH =

YHWH

The Angel and Yahweh are at times co-identified

and yet distinguished by passages …

BUT do they ever appear together?


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Judges 6

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19 So Gideon . . . brought them to him under the

terebinth and presented them.20

And the angel of Godsaid to him, “Take the meat and the unleavened cakes, and

put them on this rock, and pour the broth over them.” And

he did so. 21 Then the angel of YHWH reached out the tip

of the staff that was in his hand and touched the meat and

the unleavened cakes. And fire sprang up from the rock andconsumed the flesh and the unleavened cakes. And the

angel of YHWH vanished from his sight. 22 Then Gideon

perceived that he was the angel of YHWH. And Gideon said,

“Alas, O Lord God! For now I have seen the angel of theLord face to face.” 23 But YHWH said to him, “Peace be to

you. Do not fear; you shall not die.”


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THE WORD


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GENESIS 15

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1 SAMUEL 3

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JEREMIAH 1

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THE “CLOUD-RIDER”


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“He Who Rides the Clouds”


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Deuteronomy 33

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Psalm 68

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Psalm 104

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Isaiah 19

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JESUS AGAINST

THIS BACKDROP


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The Word

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The Angel

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The Name

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TRINITY IN THE OT?


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Psalm 7840 How often they

rebelled against him in

the wilderness and

grieved him in the

desert!

41 They tested God again

and again and provoked

the Holy One of Israel.


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