Malak YHWH

Aug 9 2020

Our Maker and Divine Husband III: The Son as The Angel/Messenger of The Covenant

But you, Bethlehem Ephrathah, being small among the clans of Judah, out of you one will come out to me that is to be ruler in Israel; whose goings out are from of old, from ancient times.

(Micah 5:2)

“Behold, I send my messenger, and he will prepare the way before me. And the Lord whom you seek will suddenly come to his temple; and THE MESSENGER OF THE COVENANT in whom you delight, behold, he is coming, says the LORD of hosts.

(Malachi 3:1)

Having discussed the use of the appellation “Arm of the LORD” for the figure who intervened on behalf of humanity when there was no one else to do so – the figure, based on scriptural exegesis, could be identified as the figure who will later become the Messiah. As it had been proven in the previous article, the Arm of the LORD is the figure that all nations wait for, the One who was identified as the Suffering Servant, the very One who will rule for YHWH and judge all people from all nations. Most important to this discussion is the fact that Isaiah identified the Glorious Arm of the LORD with the Angel of the LORD’s presence (Isaiah 63:9-12) – a particular point buttressed by the fact that YHWH on numerous occasions claimed that He brought Israel of out Egypt by His outstretched Arm – the very Arm through whom He used to create the world.

Now, to strengthen our case, namely that the phrase “Arm of the LORD” is not always used in a more pedestrian sense but also used for a personified figure, we move on to the apparitions of this particular figure whom Isaiah said accompanied Moses as the Angel of the LORD’s presence and also identified by Isaiah as the Suffering Servant.

By now, the readers must have been familiar with the contention that the figure known as the Angel of YHWH (Malak YHWH) is a divine figure who at a later point in time incarnated as our Lord Jesus Christ. For the sake of those who aren’t very familiar with this argument, it ought to be re-iterated that the identification of the pre-incarnate Christ with this mysterious figure in the OT, does not in any way mean that Jesus is a created spirit – which is outright Arianism. This is because the majority of the occurrences Hebrew word “malak” refers to figures (humans as well as God) other than created spirits.[1]More

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who was to be sacrificed by abraham?

Aug 3 2020

Question For Islamic Tradition on the Feast of Sacrifice- A Response to Online Islamic Apologist

The debate about who among Abraham’s wards he took along for a sacrifice when God asked him to sacrifice his son to him has been one of the most hotly debated issue among Christians and Muslims, and for periods spanning well over a century. Having looked closely at both side of the argument, I consider it important to assess the concern for it is worth, and present a more reliable defense for the best possible coherent account of the two. Put in mind that the essence of such an examination is to ascertain the historical reliability of both the Islamic and Christian source over the event. Essentially, the question of the article would be, who among the two witnesses can we trust its trustworthiness?

More importantly, I have got asked the philosophical question of how rational it is, for the Supremely benevolent God to demand for human sacrifice. Would God have done the same thing, like, demand such sacrifice today? If he wouldn’t, then it is doubt-able that there is consistency on the part of God. More so, such a demand appear bizarre than cool. This sort of question, as difficult as it may appear has relevant answers to it.

I will be dealing with the Islamic narrative viz a viz the biblical story on the one hand, and answering the relevant philosophical question that such a demand by a good and kind God would bring to a skeptical mind. Much as I hope to give constructive answers to these varying questions, it will be far reaching to think of the article as an all encompassing solution to all the raging questions in the human mind about the said event.
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Arm of the LORD

Jul 7 2020

Our Maker and Husband II: The Son as the Arm of YHWH

Who has believed what he has heard from us? And to whom has the arm of the LORD been revealed?

(Isaiah 53:1)

Continuing from our previous discussion concerning YHWH and His Bride, this article begins the evaluation of the evidences for the pre-incarnate Son being the Divine Bridegroom in the Old Testament – the very one before whom the Sinai Covenant was instituted. While the Old Testament prophets never identified the Messiah by the name Jesus – which shouldn’t be surprising since that was the name acquired at His incarnation – there are clear references to His nature, mission and works that puts to rest all the doubt that the Old Testament prophets knew more than what skeptics (including the Unitarians) give them credit for.

The Old Testament is filled with appellations and titles that corresponds to the works and deeds of the Messiah, which if casted in the revealing light of the other scriptures without importing unnecessary presumptions, no doubt will point us to the identity of the Jesus Christ in the NT. In other words, it is our conviction that The Son before His incarnation had been active throughout the history and texts of the Old Testament. Most especially, the Church for almost twenty centuries had identified the pre-incarnate Son as the Divine Malak YHWH (the angel of the LORD) whom the inspired authors of the Old Testament repeatedly identified as YHWH though distinct from another figure known as YHWH – which points to the brute fact that the OT authors (who doesn’t have the linguistic tools to articulate their conviction within the context of a philosophical nomenclature) have always been proto-Trinitarians.More

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bride of christ

Jul 3 2020

Our Maker and Husband: Who is the Divine Bridegroom?

“And in that day, declares the LORD, you will call me ‘My Husband,’ and no longer will you call me ‘My Baal.’ For I will remove the names of the Baals from her mouth, and they shall be remembered by name no more. And I will make for them a covenant on that day with the beasts of the field, the birds of the heavens, and the creeping things of the ground. And I will abolish the bow, the sword, and war from the land, and I will make you lie down in safety. And I will betroth you to me forever. I will betroth you to me in righteousness and in justice, in steadfast love and in mercy. I will betroth you to me in faithfulness. And you shall know the LORD.

(Hosea 2:16-20)

In their desperate acts to evade the sheer weight of the testimony of the scriptures to the cultic veneration and devotion rendered to Christ coupled with the essential divine attributes predicated to Him, many Unitarians (and their strange bedfellows) will reply that such do not necessarily prove the deity of Christ since the Father had made Him Lord. One of such passages they are eager to bring forth is:

Let all the house of Israel therefore know for certain that God has made him both Lord and Christ, this Jesus whom you crucified.”

(Acts 2:36)

While this text is consistent with the deity of Christ given the Trinitarian metaphysics, Unitarians, ad nauseam, had employed verses like this into their service to explain away the loftiest terminologies (the ones exclusive to a deity) rendered to Christ in the NT. To lend credence to their interpretation, they’ve managed to find solace in tapping from the memoirs of Biblical heroes who are antitypes of Christ. A very striking parallel had been found in the life of Joseph.
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