The Divine Trinity
What exactly are these three divine spirits of God that are all one, yet separate and individual, it makes no sense right, or does it?
It seems like a paradox without any answer, and the bible gives plenty of scripture to make it even more complicated
For example In the Beggining, God created the heavens and the earth.
Not 2 or three or 10 but one God
Moses re declares this in Dueteronomy 6:4
“Hear,O Israel: The Lord our God
the Lord is one! You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your strength.
As if that wasn’t definitive enough for there being only one God with one name he even adds later in verse 15 (for the Lord your God is a jealous God among you)
Wouldn’t there be a conflict if there are three distinct persons that represent God? Wouldn’t this cause confusion and be a cause for jealousy between one and the other?.
Amazingly, the answer is no, but you will have to bear with me in order to fully understand how this is possible.
First off, these are just my humble opinions.
I am by no means claiming to know anything that is beyond error, and this will be more of an advanced aproach to these questions that will involve at least a basic understanding of scripture and terminology used in the bible.
But from my studies I have come to several revelations that I would like to share and maybe it will help others understand this complex yet very important to us relationship of the Father The Son and the Holy Spirit.
I will try to be as short and to the point as I can, but this will take some background to explain fully, I promise it will be worth it.
Let’s start at the beginning again when God created the heavens and the earth. The hebrew for God is Elohim. The “im” In Hebrew is always plural as in at least more than one
Confusing, right? well, no, not if you can momentarily put yourself back in the times of Moses and look at the world through their eyes.
This might seem complicated, but it’s not because just like In today’s culture the rock stars and TV and movie personalities seem like they are larger then life beings and not normal humans like us because they are better then us.
To the israelites this is what the many pantheons of gods from Egypt to Canaan and Mesopotamia represented.
Even a conservative estimate would put somewhere around 50 gods that were very well known to the Hebrews of Moses day.
These gods like ra and isis, baal and inanna where the rock stars of that day because even though they didn’t exist in bodily form, the people that gave life to them continually had new gods and new stories to go along with them.
This probably seems absurd to modern minds, but really, it was no different to them than the latest Marvel movie, and actually, it was more like a cross between a Marvel movie and a football league.
Why a football league? well because not only were these gods and their stories important to each nation and race but their powers
(or lack of) where fully imbodied and represented in how strong a nation or race was or appeared to be.
In other words, if I come up with a good god story and then go to war with my neighbor and defeat them, then it means my god is real and more powerful than theirs.
This football game of gods goes all the way back to Nimrod and the tower of babel, when men abandoned seeking out the one God and began to proclaim themselves as gods and built cities and a tower in an attempt to dominate and control others.
This caused the LORD to confuse their language and leave them to their own devices. Over the next 500 years civilization exploded over the land and with it came the study observation and then worship of the heavens and nature as representing gods and their back stories along with their anger passion and complex personalities.
One of the most common myths being the story of a god dying and then coming back to life each year as the cause for summer and winter. This was known as the baals or baal cycles, (the dying gods)
So why is any of that important to understanding this trinity problem?
Well, because the Hebrews grew up in slavery under the Egyptians and the pantheon of gods that they claimed to represent. The idea of multiple gods infused into one wasn’t even a new concept to them because the Egyptians had already combined amun and ra.
So what was Moses telling them when he said that God created the heavens and the earth, yet Elohim is plural?
By using Elohim, In one word he is illustrating that when the heavens and earth were created, God was more than one being in one and had not yet separated.
This means that God during the creation was all three, the father Son and Holy Spirit in one form but afterward divided into three separate and distinct beings.
The evidence of this separation, or as I prefer to call it the divine division, is evident in verse Genesis 1:26 when
“God said let US make man in OUR own image”
As well as in 11:7 “Come, let US go down and there confuse their language, that they may not understand one another’s speech.”
And After Adam eats the fruit in chapter 2:22 The LORD God said “behold the man has become like one of US, to know good and evil.”
Why would one God become three?
This question is at the real heart of understanding this trinity thing of 3 being one but different and yet the same.
Without understanding the why, the how will never make sense, just like someone that can only think in a sense of time can not understand how God could have existed before time, even though God created time.
If God is a being beyond time and space, then he can move forward and backward into the past, present, and future and have full knowledge of everything that has and will transpire.
This means that he knew every possible outcome even before he began creating.
So he created the universe as one being.
In this way, the saying is true. Only one God created the universe, but knowing the eventual and inevitable outcome of sin because of free will, he also created a plan for our salvation. This plan had to involve having a separation from sin because God is perfect and sin is death and destruction and only corrupts all things.
The entire book of Genesis is a repetition of this creative attribute of God in that he divides everything in order to test and separate, such as the light from the dark, the seed of the serpent from the seed of the woman and the good from the evil.
By becoming three, it allowed for himself to be among us despite our destiny with sin, yet he remained still separated from sin.
In this way the statement is true no one at any time has seen God because God in his singular form was only ever seen by the Father Son and Holy Spirit when he divinely divided himself into three.
In this way as a divided into three, yet still one being he could be among us, his beloved creations.
This is hard to understand, but we could not see God in his singular form and live. Because we have sin in us and the light of God removes all darkness, we would be torn apart like a house in a nuclear explosion.
Man can only see God in his divided form as the Father the Son and the Holy Spirit
So if Moses was describing a multi personified God to a people that already knew or thought that there were many gods, then you have to ask yourself did he ever even try to explain this to them in the scripture?
The answer is yes and no.
No, because there wasn’t a need to directly explain it to them, somehow, they already understood it.
And yes, because he did directly address the difference by using a new name for God in Genesis 2:5 the YHWH God, which is translated as LORD into English.
Now, why would God need a name other than God?
And why would Moses make the following statement unless he was declaring that The LORD is also God.
Why would he even need to?
Let’s go back over what Moses said
“Hear, O Israel: The Lord is our God, the Lord is one!
In order to understand this, We will have to take a short trip into when the this first name, YHWH, was revealed to Moses in Exodus 3:15
God said to Moses, “Thus you shall say to the children of Israel: ‘The LORD God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, has sent me to you. This is my name forever, and this is My memorial to all generations.
So what does this mean exactly?
Well, I don’t know about your definition of forever but forever means never ending to me.
If YHWH is the name of God forever, then this raises two questions
Why does it not say in Genesis 1:1
In the Beggining YHWH God created the heavens and the earth, when God just commanded Moses to only use his YHWH or LORD name forever.
Jesus raised the second question when he said this
in John 8:56-58
“Your father Abraham rejoiced to see My day, and he saw it and was glad.”
Then the Jews said to Him, “You are not yet fifty years old, and have You seen Abraham?”
Jesus said to them, “Most assuredly, I say to you, before Abraham was, I AM.”
Keep in mind that Abraham was before Moses
So if Jesus was there and spoke to Abraham as is referenced in Exodus 6:2
And God spoke to Moses and said to him: “I am the Lord. I appeared to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, as God Almighty, but by My name Lord I was not known to them.
How is it possible for Jesus to get a new name in the Book of Revelation if his name is YHWH forever?
Revelation 3:12 He who overcomes, I will make him a pillar in the temple of My God, and he shall go out no more. I will write on him the name of My God and the name of the city of My God, the New Jerusalem, which comes down out of heaven from My God. And I will write on him My new name.
This may seem confusing or contradictory to some but I promise they are all clues to the simple fact of and showing us how to recognize that both the father and the son are refered to by different names but where present together in all of the old testament.
Because Jesus gave us a few more contradictions that are actually clues
in John 14:20
At that day you will know that I am in My Father, and you in Me, and I in you.
Mark 13:32
“But of that day and hour no one knows, not even the angels in heaven, nor the Son, but only the Father.
John 5:20
For the father loves the son and shows Him all things that he himself does and he will show him greater works than these that you may marvel
John 3:13
No one has ascended to heaven but he who came down from heaven, that is the son of man who is in heaven
John 6:44-46
No one can come to me unless the father who sent me draws him, and I will raise him up at the last day
It is written in the prophets they shall all be taught by God
Not that anyone has seen the father except he who is from God He has seen the father
Luke 3:22
And the Holy Spirit descended in bodily form like a dove upon Him, and a voice came from heaven which said, “You are My beloved Son; in You I am well pleased.”
It is my belief that all of these contradictions or paradoxes are actually clues to those who are truly seeking an understanding of these things
The nature of the Father Son and Holy Spirit is both hidden and self revealing throughout the Old and New Testament, but you have to be continuously looking for them.
This is why, in my opinion, there is a continuous switching back and forth between the names LORD and God and occasionally Angel of the LORD in the Book of Genesis.
So if you are inspired and truly want to find the divine trinity and understand it, then stay with me, and I will try to show you the clues and hints that I believe are hidden for a reason
Just as Peter said, “the Holy Spirit sent from heaven-things which angels desire to look into “(1 Peter 1:12)
This first part will be a review of important moments in the book of Genesis and what they might reveal to us
By Genesis chapter 2:4 the Lord or YHWH gets introduced into the narrative, but again, why wouldn’t it just remain Elohim or God?
This is the question that needs to be kept in mind when reading because there appears to be a method and meaning behind its different uses or lack of that is only observed by taking note of the continual switch back and forth between YHWH or LORD and the word God or Elohim. I will list some of them for you.
Throughout the rest of chapter two and all of three, he is referred to as only the LORD God
Except in 3:1-5 when the serpent in the garden speaks to Eve about what God said about the tree and eating of the fruit
This could be a clue that the serpent does not know of or understand the existence of the LORD God and only knows of God or at least does not acknowledge the LORD God
After Adam eats the fruit in chapter 2:22 The LORD God said “behold the man has become like one of us, to know good and evil.” Again a plural reference to the LORD God
The entire narrative of Cain and Abel in chapter 4 he is only referred to as the LORD until Eve names Seth in 4:25 “for God has appointed another seed for me”
Yet after Seths son Enosh is born men begin to call on the name of the LORD
This could be a hint that men begin to recognize the YHWH of the God head as separate and individual because obviously men already knew of and were aware of God.
Chapter 6 really starts to get interesting because not only do you have the angels or sons of God procreating with women and creating giants
But the assessment and eventual judgment of the situation appears to be done by two separate eyes and two separate descriptions
6:5 Then the LORD saw that the wickedness of man was great
6:6 and the LORD was sorry that he had made man on the earth
6:7 SO THE LORD said ” I will destroy man whom I have created from the face of the earth”
6:12 so God looked upon the earth and indeed it was corrupt
6:13 and God said to Noah “the end of all flesh has come before me.
This almost reads as though the LORD saw the wickedness of man, and it grieved him that he had created them
So God came to confirm it and to pass judgment on it
The rest of the flood narrative switches back and forth between what the LORD said and what God said until you get to the covenant in chapter 9, where only God is referred to
Once we get to chapter 11 at the tower of babel, they again refer to themself in plural form
11:7 “Come, Let us go down and confuse their language”
But only the LORD is referred to in the confusion of languages
The common rabbinical explanation is that God often confers with his angelic hosts as if they are equals
This theory does not make sense and only raises other questions. If God doesn’t need a Son why would he need to have conference with angels?
These are merely observations I am presenting to anyone that may not have been aware of them.
Other then the reference to the spirit of God in genesis 1:2 , the scripture so far has only referred to two of the divine names.
I find it interesting that the trinity doesn’t seem to come into focus until after Adam’s death and after the flood
The symbolism of the number three and the parallels between the three first fathers Abraham Isaac and Jacob is uncanny and can not be ignored.
There are three separate appearances of the LORD to Abraham where he only speaks with him and tells him about his blessings, but a covenant is not made.
The first is in Genesis 12:2
I will make you a great nation
I will bless you and make your name great, and you shall be a blessing
The second is 12:7
To your descendants, I will give this land
The third happens only after Abraham tricks pharoh into thinking Sarah is his sister because he fears for his life but instead leaves Egypt a wealthy man because of it.
This same exchange of deception Over a wife happens three times, twice with Abraham and once with Isaac all three times they leave with wealth or land
A simular parallel happens with Jacob but instead of the Godly man doing the deceiving it is Laban deceiving Jacob over marrying Leah instead of Rachel first and deceiving Jacob by changing his wages 10 times
Jacob decieves Isaac by saying “I Am” three times when he is asked if he is Esau
The third visit from the LORD happens immediately after Abraham and Lot divide and separate ways in
Genesis 13:14-17
After Lot had departed, the Lord said to Abram, “Look from the place where you stand to the north, south, east, and west. I will give all the land that you see to you and your descendants forever. And I will make your descendants like the dust of the earth, so that if anyone is able to count the dust of the earth, then your descendants also can be counted. Get up and walk throughout the land, for I will give it to you.”
At first these only appear as steps and stages of the soon to be covenants but I believe they are three separate individual encounters so that Abraham will be familiar with the three he is about to enter a covenant with.
We have to remember that man has abandoned God at the tower of babel and has proclaimed themselves as gods and created many idols and false gods. This is why God only slowly reveals himself back to man through Abraham in order to bring us back to God and redeem us through his son.
The full trinity takes shape when we get to Abraham and the three men standing by the tree in Genesis 18:1-6
They are treated as divine and not angels and it is my belief that it is the trinity present in seperate individuals because Abraham makes his own form of a covenant with them by offering them bread and meat which is referenced as a form of a covenant later between Jacob and Laban in Genesis 31:44
The LORD said to Abraham “I will go down and see this outcry that has come to me” but only the two men go down to sodom. The three men refer to themselves individually as being judges over Sodom and even saying to Lot leave this place we will destroy it yet later it says the Lord destroyed Sodom with Fire from the LORD.
The question must be asked why didn’t all three go down to sodom? Why does the LORD appear to Abraham Isaac and Jacob in dreams and visions while the others he appears in person? Some people claim that this is because one of them is the preincarnate christ who for symbolic reasons does not take on the form of a human body until he is born as Jesus. One more point worth mentioning here that many people get hung up on is the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah and Lot offering the mob his two virgin daughters to appease the mob. If we can imagine that these two men were actually part of the trinity it puts even more into perspective that the evil men of Sodom wanted to rape them and Lot offering his daughters to them instead is not a condoning of such an act but an illustration that the men of Sodom where not just interested in or desired sex but where rather blinded with rage and an evil desire to publicly rape and humiliate the LORD that they could not be convinced otherwise until their blind animalistic rage was returned with actual blindness. Lot did not escape punishment for his part in that for all intents and purposes he was raped by his two daughters.
There are three separate covenants made with Abraham
They are for the exact same things that were previously announced, land and descendants like stars.
The only new revelation is that a child will be born from Sarah who is well advanced in years and barren.
This appears to be evidence that the revealing of the divine seed that will lead to the messiah will only be revealed gradually in order to prevent the enemy from planning or having the capability of corruption such as in as his previous attempts in the fall of adam and eve , The giants from angel offspring and the tower of babel have displayed his tactics and desperation.
I believe this is also the reason why Sarah and Rebecca who are part of the first tree of the divine seed are barren
In order to discourage any attempt to corrupt them, as well as to impression on the enemy that in like manor the son of God would be born to an elderly or barron women
Of coarse the opposite happened it was a young virgin instead.
The first covenant with Abraham happens in Genesis 15:1-21
The LORD is described as the word of the LORD who came to Abram in a vision and refers to himself as I Am your shield and great reward in the covenant of land and the warning that his decendants would be enslaved for 400 years
but that after he judges that nation they would come out with great possessions and return to the land that was promised.
I find it interesting that the term shield is used here because the star of David is also known as the shield of David, which is a double triangle that represents the trinity of God. Father, Son and Holy Spirit. And the trinity of man. Body, Soul, and Spirit
It should also be noted that Abram is told to offer three sets of three year old livestock but only one and one of the birds.
The second covenant is in Genesis 17:2
God reveals himself to Abram as “I am Almighty God”
Abram falls on his face in this encounter in the covenant of circumcision and God changes his name to Abraham
This seems to be a reference both that God has changed or set Abraham’s fate and future as well as that the Almighty God is the one who can change a man’s name
This is a clue and confirmation of the Almighty God in Jesus when he renames Simon as Peter “Rock” There is one more noteworthy occurrence in this covenant, and it happens in verse 22 Then he finished talking with him, and God went up from Abraham. This wording (went up) is only used two times in the bible in reference to a visit from God the other is in 35:13 after Jacob built another Altar in bethel and God Almighty appeared again to re confirm the covenant and Jacob’s new name. 13: Then God “went up” from him in the place where he talked with him. This may not sound important by itself but when we get to Judges 13:16. We read a description about what this went up phrase might mean. 13 Then Manoah said to the Angel of the Lord, “What is Your name, that when Your words come to pass we may honor You?”
And the Angel of the Lord said to him, “Why do you ask My name, seeing it is wonderful?”
So Manoah took the young goat with the grain offering, and offered it upon the rock to the Lord. And He did a wondrous thing while Manoah and his wife looked on— it happened as the flame “went up” toward heaven from the altar—the Angel of the Lord ascended in the flame of the altar! When Manoah and his wife saw this, they fell on their faces to the ground. When the Angel of the Lord appeared no more to Manoah and his wife, then Manoah knew that He was the Angel of the Lord.
And Manoah said to his wife, “We shall surely die, because we have seen God!”
I believe that all of this is a reference and clue to when Jacob wrestled with the Angel and asked him his name in 32:29. But how is the Angel of the Lord capable of renaming Jacob to Israel if he is not divine?
The third covenant of Abraham is in Genesis 22:16 when Abraham is asked to sacrifice Isaac
God is the one that speaks to him and tells him what to do and where to go but it is the the Angel of the Lord that stops him and declares “by myself I have sworn says the LORD”
This appears to say that the Angel of the LORD is in fact YHWH the LORD
There are many other symbolic things about this event that I could write an entire page about but in short
It’s on the third day of Abraham traveling north that he comes to the place that God told him to sacrifice Isaac
This is the very same place where 1700 years later they would sacrifice Jesus
Abraham lays the wood for the fire on Isaac’s shoulders to carry up the hill just as Jesus would carry the wood of his cross up the very same hill to be sacrificed of his own free will. Abraham’s faith was never even rattled by this strange request from God, which is proven when he responded to Isaac’s question father where is the Lamb? Abraham’s answer that God will provide the Lamb was not a deception or avoiding the truth but his deep understanding of the righteousness of God to the extent that Abraham already knew the Lamb would be provided and his part in this moment was to simply not question the why or the how but to do as he was asked.
This is a huge stumbling block for most people because of this test in God asking Abraham to sacrifice his son but when you put it in context, then it removes all bitterness that comes from misunderstanding its purpose.
For one, this is the same place that Solomon only 500 years later would build altars and allow his wives and the people to sacrifice their children to Molech.
Because God knew this and brought Abraham and Isaac here anyway it makes this a declaration of prophecy that this is what the enemy would eventually cause to be done, the murder and sacrifice of the innocent in defiance and rebellion of God and his Son.
But what the enemy didn’t fully understand is that because God had divided himself into three and one of those was Jesus the son of God but also God. They sacrificed God on that cross and it was allowed to happen for many reasons, most importantly for our redemption from sin and the eternal death that is required from it.
But also as proof of the depth and extent of their evil hearts and wickedness that they would sacrifice and murder even God in their blind hatred and anger towards his son.
By asking Abraham to sacrifice Isaac and allowing this drama to play out till the Angel of the Lord commanded him to stop it was not only a test or rather a demonstration to the enemy of Abraham’s faith but also ensured that this act would be told to their children and eventually written down and documented that God does not allow or desire Human sacrifice so that there could be no misunderstanding or confusion or excuse when the people of all nations and even worldwide would actually sacrifice their children to demons.
Isaac is also visited twice for two covenants, but why not three times
The answer is because he was part of the third covenant with the LORD and Abraham when he was to be sacrificed
Jacob also has 3 individual covenants
The first in Genesis 28:13-15 is a visit from the LORD yhwh
In a dream or vision just as with abraham in 15:1 and Isaac in 26:24. The angel of God is referred to speaking in a vision to Jacob and then saying I am the God of Bethel in 31:11-13
He is blessed with the land on where he lies, which was the same spot where Abraham met the three angels
He is also blessed with descendants like the dust of the earth
As well as protection wherever he goes simular to shield
Jacob names the place bethel “house of God”
The second time is when he is returning to his brother esau and he fears for his life so he divides his goods and wives to protect them from being destroyed and prays to God to deliver him from his brother
After he sends them in front of him in three separate companies, he spends the night alone and is visited by a man who wrestles with him all night until he blesses him and renames him Israel.
Why would Jacob desire to be blessed when the LORD had already blessed him in 28:14
Jacob names the place peniel because he saw God face to face and lived.
The third covenant happens when God tells Jacob to return to bethel and make an altar
Jacob tells his family to put away their foreign gods and purify themselves
Jacob burries the idols and jewelry beneath the oak tree in shechem
Jacob built another altar in bethel and God appeared to him as God Almighty and renames him again Israel and promises him the land which he promised Abraham and Isaac
Jacob then sets up a pillar and pours a drink offering and oil on it
Only Jacob and abraham get renamed, and they are both renamed by the Almighty God, but Jacob is renamed twice once by the Angel that he wrestled with
Why is this? Why would he be renamed twice and why would all three of the patriarchs each have three covenants where the blessings are repeated 3 times?
In all three people Abraham Isaac and Jacob, there are three divine covenants and 1 covenant of man
Jacob builds three altars and three pillars
At the end of Genesis in chapter 48:16 when Jacob blesses Joseph’s two sons he makes a verbal hint at the three fold person of God by saying “God, before whom my fathers Abraham and Isaac walked,
The God who has fed me all my life long to this day,
The Angel who has redeemed me from all evil,
Bless the lads;
The last reference is in chapter 49 but I will let you find it for yourself.
In wrapping up the Divine Trinity In Genesis
I would again like to say I am merely providing my observations for those who have not noticed them in order to aid them or spark them into doing their own study.
I am not claiming this to be definitive of anything, so please don’t be offended at my observations and opinions.
I would also like to point out to anyone who has not heard the theory or come to their own conclusions on this
That the devil, Satan, whatever his name may be, attempted to destroy God’s plan for saving man and bringing his son into the world through Adam. This is why the earth was corrupted at the time of Noah and this is why everything had to be destroyed because the redemption of man could only be allowed if only man was present not these angel halfbreed giants that had corrupted the earth.
But after the flood when the earth was reset
Man, instead of spreading over the face of the earth, as God commanded Noah and his Son to do, began to build cities and develop civilization that corrupted the personal relationship that man had with God
Instead, they focused on themselves and developing technology until they thought themselves to be gods
This of course could not be allowed to proceed at such a fast pace, so the LORD confused their language so that they would have to spread out and populate the earth. This repeated itself again in Egypt when the money failed because of the famine, what happened? The pharoh traded bread for the peoples livestock, land and everything they owned and then moved them all into his city to make them build pyramids and have complete control over every aspect of their lives. Genesis 47:21
What is significant about this is that we seem to be returning to this tower of babel.
Think about It civilization progressing to fast to the point of thinking themselves to be gods was halted and slowed down for 2000 years until Jesus was born and now 2000 years later after he died we are right back at the tower again, only this time it is a worldwide civilization and worldwide thinking they are gods all building a massive tower.
The time is here and now to wake up and seek your maker and discover Jesus because this tower they are building is about to fall.
I just hope more people wake up soon enough to get out of the way
The Tree To The Cross 