Who and What Is Yehovah God?

Who and What Is Yehovah God? By Stand On Scripture Ministries Taylor Stewart

In this video, we will break down a few points to show who and what Yehovah God is:

• Is Yehovah God a singular person or plural persons? And who is or are Yehovah God?

• What is Yehovah God according to scripture?

Singular or Plural Nature of Yehovah God

Let’s start with the question: Is Yehovah God a singular person or plural persons?

I will not dwell on riddles and similarities, as I have future videos coming that will refute the verses comparing Yeshua the Messiah and Yehovah God, and the Angel of Yehovah and Yehovah God. I want to focus on one argument that some self-proclaimed Christians, called “Trinitarians,” use to relate to plural persons.

The verse they bring up is Genesis 1:26, where they say God is speaking as an "us" pronoun, implying plurality. However, if Yehovah God was an “us” plural pronoun, why is it said 20,000 times that it is singular, and why are there verses that negate the plurality of persons? To answer why there is an "us" in Genesis 1:26 saying “Let us make man in our image,” we must look at the same verse, which indicates that God is speaking to Adam about humanity. It says, “let them rule over the fish of the sea…” and other creatures. Notice, Adam is not plural unless it refers to humanity as a whole, as the Bible talks of Yeshua’s body as the congregation, and also the Bride as a she, but it is multiple persons spoken of as one she, or the body of Christ.

I believe Genesis 1:26-27 speaks about how God created humanity as a whole through Adam. Genesis 2:5-7 then goes back to before man was on earth to till the soil and speaks of God forming a body from the earth and breathing life into it, making it a living person or nephesh in Hebrew, meaning a living soul, being, life, self, person, and other words. The Bible goes back to Adam’s creation in Genesis 2:7 but then talks of humanity as plural, whom God makes man as an “us.” Notice God is a "he" in Genesis 1:27, and "he" made man in his image and likeness, so God is singular. There must have been another person with him, but it doesn’t explicitly say who the other person is or if that other person was part of God or not.

Yehovah is a singular person as a Father who formed man, as seen in Isaiah 64:8: “But now, O Yehovah, you are our Father; we are the clay, and you are our potter; we are all the work of your hand.” The speaker states that Yehovah is a singular person; the pronoun "you" is singular, the noun "Father" is singular, and the name Yehovah is singular, as seen in the Strong's breakdown of the verse.

The plural word “our” refers to the people, so Yehovah is a singular person, a "you," a Father, who formed the “our” people being spoken of as their potter, and we are works of his hand. This alone shows Yehovah is explicitly one person relating to the forming of Adam as humanity through Adam the man. This is where the symbolic aspects come into play: the Body of Adam, being a physical man, makes that man up as one body. Adam was a literal man, and then all humanity comes from him and Eve, making that one body in a symbolic form.

Adam and Eve are symbolic of the future Yeshua and the Bride of Christ, and we are the body of Christ, as seen in 1 Corinthians 12:1-27, where we are the body, playing different roles. Yehovah’s hand forms us, but Yehovah is Spirit, as we will see in future verses. Adam would be the action of Yehovah God on earth. God made Adam and then made all humanity through him and Eve. This is indicated in Exodus 7:17-25, where it says Yehovah will strike the Nile by the rod in his hand, but then tells Moses to instruct Aaron to strike the Nile with the rod in his hand. Aaron’s hand is the Hand of Yehovah.

Yeshua is indicated as his right hand throughout the Bible, and God will create the spiritual man through the spiritual Adam, Yeshua, as seen in 1 Corinthians 15:45. We also see how we are conformed to the image of his Son in Romans 8:29: “For those whom he foreknew…” This means God foreknew people before they existed, as seen in Jeremiah 1:5 about Jeremiah: “Before I formed you in the womb, I knew you, and before you were born, I consecrated you; I appointed you a prophet to the nations.” Romans 8:29 continues: “For those whom he foreknew he predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son.” This event of conformity was already set up by God, as Jeremiah’s prophethood was before he was born.

So, we have seen Adam and the rest of humanity, also called Adam or in English, typically mankind or humanity. In Hebrew, this is Adam. So, the physical humanity or man Adam we are like, Seth was in the image and likeness of his Father Adam. Now, when we take this into consideration, we are now to be conformed to the Messiah and are part of his body. We are now being made into what he is, now a spiritual man, after the image of his Son.

While that was a long answer, the context we have seen, and I will summarize: Genesis 1:26 says there is an "us" playing a part in the creation. It doesn’t directly in the immediate say who the "us" is, just that there is an "us." Yet the entire Bible, as we have seen, shows about how God is one "he" in Genesis 1:27, Genesis 2:7 forming the body, Isaiah 64:8 a Father, a pronoun "you," which is Attah in Hebrew here is a singular "you," the Father, who is the singular Yehovah who formed us as a potter to us. Now the context of his right hand is his action, how God does things through Adam and Yeshua in the prophetic sense. But ultimately, Yehovah is one God by himself, but he works through his representatives, people who are to work to his glory on his behalf. He made Physical Adam perfect, but Adam fell, which is why this flesh has us fall. But the Spiritual man, we being spiritual, we rise. In Adam, we had death, in Messiah, we have life as seen in Romans 5:12.

While I have shown it is explicit to me that Yehovah is a Father, a "you," a potter, all singular self who created, for others, maybe they need to be shown there is no one else than that Yehovah, which is the Father. Then we could move on to the next point. So please go to Isaiah 45:5-11. I will bring it up in the ESV.

Isaiah 45:5-11: “I am the Lord, and there is no other; besides me, there is no God; I equip you, though you do not know me, 6 that people may know, from the rising of the sun and from the west, that there is none besides me; I am the Lord, and there is no other. 7 I form light and create darkness; I make well-being and create calamity; I am the Lord, who does all these things. 8 ‘Shower, O heavens, from above, and let the clouds rain down righteousness; let the earth open, that salvation and righteousness may bear fruit; let the earth cause them both to sprout; I the Lord have created it. 9 Woe to him who strives with him who formed him, a pot among earthen pots! Does the clay say to him who forms it, “What are you making?” or “Your work has no handles”? 10 Woe to him who says to a father, “What are you begetting?” or to a woman, “With what are you in labor?”’ 11 Thus says the Lord, the Holy One of Israel, and the one who formed him: ‘Ask me of things to come; will you command me concerning my children and the work of my hands?’”

Yehovah is a pronoun "I," which in Hebrew is Ani, and he is saying, “I am Yehovah and there is no other; besides me, there is no God.” This statement negates other persons since the "I" and "me" is the Yehovah God, and no other is God. For some, this still wouldn’t be enough since, biblically speaking, pronouns could be used for personification. For example, the Bride of Christ is a "she," but it is the personification of the believers, or wisdom is also personified. So it could be multiple persons as Yehovah according to some people. However, if I can show this is the same Yehovah, a Father, then it would be clearly one person since, biblically speaking, we only have one Father in heaven according to Matthew 23:9. We have already read the chapter, but notice Isaiah 45:9 says this one that is Yehovah (the Lord) is the potter, and the clay responds to this one who makes it. Then in Isaiah 45:11, this Yehovah (The Lord) is a Father figure, and people ask him concerning his children or sons, depending on the translation. It is quite clear Yehovah is a Father figure, an "I" and "me" who speaks in the first person, and others speak of him as a singular "you," a singular potter, and "no other besides" clearly negates Yehovah being multiple persons. I could go on about Deuteronomy 6:2-5 in relation to Mark 12:28-34, but for time’s sake, I will leave that for other sermons as we have already established clearly the Father here is Yehovah and no other besides him.

What is Yehovah God?

Now, since we have established the Father is Yehovah God as a singular person and no other besides him, as the potter who creates through his representatives or agents, what is Yehovah God?

This is going to be straightforward:

We must start with Deuteronomy 18:18-19: “I will raise up for them a prophet like you from among their brothers. And I will put my words in his mouth, and he shall speak to them all that I command him. And whoever will not listen to my words that he shall speak in my name, I myself will require it of him.” We see this Prophet is Yeshua, as Acts 3:19-22 quotes this relating to Yeshua. So, if we must listen to Yeshua, otherwise we will be held accountable by Yehovah God, what did Yeshua say Yehovah God is and who he is? John 4:23-24 says: “But the hour is coming, and is now here, when the true worshippers will worship the Father in Spirit and truth, for the Father is seeking such people to worship him. God is Spirit, and those who worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth.” Yeshua has told us the Father is whom the true worshippers worship as God and that he is Spirit. So Yehovah is the Father who is God, and no other besides him, and he is spirit.

Now, I want to establish more so that he is Spirit, or even more so explicitly the Holy Spirit because he is Holy. The Bible says we are the temple of God as his spirit resides in us, as we see in 1 Corinthians 6:19 and 1 Corinthians 3:16.

To finalize this point, look at Luke 12:11-12. We see when you are before the synagogues and rulers, the Holy Spirit will teach you what to say. In Matthew 10:19-20, it says the Spirit of your Father speaks through you. So logically speaking, the Holy Spirit teaches you what to say, and the Spirit of your Father speaks through you. These verses are speaking of the same thing. Therefore, the Spirit of the Father is the Holy Spirit. One last verse to show the Father who is God is Spirit is 1 Corinthians 2:11: “For who knows a person’s thoughts except the spirit of that person, which is in him? So also, no one comprehends the thoughts of God except the Spirit of God.” Notice how the spirit of a person is clearly that person; it isn’t a separate person. Some people think the Holy Spirit is a separate person from the Father, but that wouldn’t work since the person’s spirit knows the things of that person because it is his. The same goes for the Spirit of God because it is his spirit.

Summary

So we have established so far: Yehovah is the Father, who is God, no one else beside him, who is a singular person, an "I," "me," "you" pronoun, and that he is a Holy Spirit.