Is God a Spirit?
God is a Spirit! A Spirit has no way to audibly communicate with the physical. God needed a way to express His plan and to communicate. Therefore, the first thing God created was Logos. [John 1:1] Logos is defined as something said, divine expression, word, or speech, etc.
What does LOGOS mean?
Logos is the means God used to express Himself. “And God said”, appears 9 times in the first chapter of Genesis. Just as we talk, scream, whisper, yell or speak, Logos is God’s form of expression. Using Logos God spoke this world and all that is into existence. Now we can read this scripture as “In the beginning was Logos and the Logos was with God and the Logos was God”. [John 1:1] The Logos or the Word is not separate from God. God created Logos, the capacity for words and language first and then He created everything else.
Genesis 1:3 (KJV) And God said, Let there be light: and there was light.
Genesis 1:6 (KJV) And God said, Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters.
Genesis 1:9 (KJV) And God said, Let the waters under the heaven be gathered together unto one place, and let the dry land appear: and it was so.
Genesis 1:11 (KJV) And God said, Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind, whose seed is in itself, upon the earth: and it was so.
Genesis 1:14 (KJV) And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and years:
Genesis 1:20 (KJV) And God said, Let the waters bring forth abundantly the moving creature that hath life, and fowl that may fly above the earth in the open firmament of heaven.
Genesis 1:24 (KJV) And God said, Let the earth bring forth the living creature after his kind, cattle, and creeping thing, and beast of the earth after his kind: and it was so.
Genesis 1:26 (KJV) And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.
Genesis 1:29 (KJV) And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in the which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed; to you it shall be for meat.
What is the first prophecy in the Bible?
According to Jeremy Lang, Doctor of Divinity, the first prophecy of the coming Messiah can be found in the first seven words of Genesis 1:1, when it is read in the Hebrew language. The First Testament was originally written in Hebrew and Aramaic. We miss out on a lot of the meanings of the original text if we only read it in English.
Notice this scripture contains 7 words. Hebrew is read from right to left. In Hebrew to English, this should read “In the beginning created Elohim {et} the heavens and the earth”. The middle word is not translated into English, or Spanish, or French, or any other language that we found because this word is not translatable. The letters “ET” are Alef and Tav, the first and last letters of the Hebrew alphabet.
What does the first and the last mean?
Without a doubt the Almighty God was the first, the infinite one, He was the “I AM” God before anything else existed. Since He is infinite, He will also be the last, of everything and anything measured or named. God defines Himself as the first and last in Isaiah and the Alpha and Omega, the beginning and ending in Revelations 1:8.
In Revelations, Jesus defines Himself as the first and the last, the beginning and ending, the Alpha and Omega which are the first and last letters of the Greek alphabet. So, what does the first and the last mean? God was first and God will be last. There is only room for one to be first and one to be last. Therefore, Jesus and God are one and the same. Jesus is the visual representation that walks and speaks, for the invisible, infinite, Spirit God. The same.
Isaiah 41:4 (KJV)
Who hath wrought and done it,
calling the generations from the beginning?
I the LORD, the first,
and with the last; I am he.
Isaiah 44:6 (KJV) 6 Thus saith the LORD the King of Israel,
and his redeemer the LORD of hosts;
I am the first, and I am the last;
and beside me there is no God.
Isaiah 48:12-13 (KJV) 12 Hearken unto me, O Jacob and Israel, my called;
I am he; I am the first, I also am the last.
13 Mine hand also hath laid the foundation of the earth, and my right hand hath spanned the heavens: when I call unto them, they stand up together.
Revelation 1:8 (KJV)
I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the ending, saith the Lord, which is, and which was, and which is to come, the Almighty.
Revelation 2:8 (KJV) 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;
Revelation 1:11a (KJV) 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;
Revelation 1:17-18 (KJV) 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: 18 — I am he that liveth, and was dead; and, behold, I am alive for evermore, Amen; and have the keys of hell and of death.
Revelation 22:13 (KJV) 13 I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end, the first and the last.
What does ET mean?
The Hebrew word “ET” is found several times throughout the Bible and is never translated. In Hebrew when these letters are put together it is symbolically a representation of “THE WORD”, because Alef and Tav are considered the bookends of the Hebrew alphabet.
“ET” cannot be translated into a word however, if you made it into a symbol, it would be a double-sided arrow pointing at what came before it and connecting it to what came after it. As used in Genesis 1:1 it would be God coming from the heavens to the earth. Indicating the dual nature of the Messiah as the part that came from the heavenly and the part that came from the earth. When you add in John 1:14 and the Word was made flesh and dwelt among us, I don’t think anyone can deny this is the first Messianic prophecy.
How do you interpret the Bible?
In the rules for interpreting the Bible the law of first mention states; the first time something is mentioned it is to be used to define all future uses.
Now we can read these scriptures as:
- “In the beginning created Elohim LOGOS, the heavens and the earth”. [Genesis 1:1]
- “In the beginning was Logos and the Logos was with God and the Logos was God”. [John 1:1]
- “And the Logos became flesh and dwelt among us”. [John 1:14]
Genesis 1:1 (KJV)
In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.
John 1:1 (KJV)
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
John 1:14 (KJV)
And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth.
What is the difference between Rhema and Logos?
The Logos is the written word of God. Logos is what God became so He could create everything. The infinite God cannot be restricted or relate to the finite humans. The only part of God that can is Logos. What is written down, that we call the Bible is the Logos of God, the forever settled Word of God.
Logos can’t contain everything each of us needs to know from God. Rhema is a personal revelation from God that applies the Logos to my life and what I need.
John 21:25 (KJV) 25 And there are also many other things which Jesus did, the which, if they should be written every one, I suppose that even the world itself could not contain the books that should be written. Amen.
Romans 10:17 (KJV) 17 So then faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.
Rhema is a direct WORD from God. God will use Rhema to bring scripture to life for you, in your situation. God will use Rhema to speak into your spirit to direct you in the way He wants you to go. Rhema is the revelation of the will of God for my life.
God communicates with us through Logos and Rhema. We can’t have a relationship with God if we can’t talk to Him and He can’t talk to us. A relationship without communication is one-sided and limited. I can’t have faith in a God who can’t talk to me.
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