AGENCY COURSE
KEY TO PAPERS:
1) Shaliah
2) Suzerainty
3) Theophanies
4) Malak
5) According to UK Agency.
6) Devine Agency
7) Jewish Encyclopedia: Law Of Agency By Lewis N Dembitz
8) Trinitarians Academics and Scholars Who Agreed With Unitarian Form Of Agency
9) Verses That Point To Agency In The Bible (Part 1)
10) Verses That Point To Agency In The Bible (Part 2)
11) Verses That Point To Agency In The Bible (Part 3)
12) Verses That Point To Agency In The Bible (Part 4)
13) Verses That Point To Agency In The Bible (Part 5)
14) Verses That Point To Agency In The Bible (Part 6)
15) Verses That Point To Agency In The Bible (Part 7)
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1) Shaliah
1) The first Shaliah in the bible is the servant in Genesis 24 who was sent by Abraham to find a wife for Isaac according to the rabbis this servant was named Eliezer. - from source Chadbad on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shaliach_(Chabad)
2) In Jewish law, a shaliaḥ (Hebrew: שָלִיחַ, [ʃaˈliaק]; pl. שְלִיחִים, sheliḥim [ʃliˈקim] or sheliah, literally "emissary" or "messenger") is a legal agent. In practice, "the shaliaḥ for a person is as this person himself."[1] Accordingly, a shaliaḥ performs an act of legal significance for the benefit of the sender, as opposed to him or herself. The Greek word ἀנףפןכןע (apostolos, whence the English "apostle") is comparable to it. according to - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shaliah
List of things a Shaliah can do and likely was picked to do:
- Many of the halakhic Jewish legal affairs that may be performed through a shaliah:
1) A man may appoint a shaliah to betroth a woman on his behalf. A woman may choose to accept betrothal through a shaliah.
2) A husband may appoint a shaliah to deliver a get to his wife. A wife may choose to appoint a shaliah to receive it.
3)A salesman may appoint a shaliah to purchase or sell merchandise on his or her behalf. Similarly, any act of legal acquisition or transfer of ownership may be effected by a shaliah, such as giving a gift or acquiring a found object.
4) A person may appoint a shaliah to separate terumot and maaserot on his behalf.
5) One who assists in the performance of the rite of Jewish circumcision by holding the child upon his knees is called a shaliah or godfather.[7]
6) One who in a measure takes the place of the father, interesting himself in the child's welfare is called a shaliah.[7]
Additional statements regarding [7] source.
"The godfather became known in medieval times by many names in addition to the ancient designation of "sandek." He is called "ba'al berit" (master of the covenant), "ba'al berit ha-milah" (master of the covenant of circumcision), "ṭofes ha-yeled" (holder of the child), "ab sheni" (second father), and also "shaliaḥ" (messenger) (..) Primarily, one who assists in the performance of the rite of circumcision by holding the child upon his knees; secondarily, one who in a measure takes the place of the father, interesting himself in the lad's welfare." "GODFATHER". JewishEncyclopedia.com. Retrieved 1 May 2012. - https://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/6730-godfather
The Jewish Law Of Agency (Book) by Israel Herbert Levinthal
(The Jewish Quarterly Review - New Series, Vol. 13, No. 2 (Oct., 1922), pp. 117-191 (75 pages)
- https://www.jstor.org/stable/1451278?seq=12#metadata_info_tab_contents
Additional Notes which will be added to Devine Agency notes also: Exodus 23:21 speaks of Yehovah saying "my name is in him" - Shaliah can buy, sell and do actions on behalf of the person who sends because the authority of the name of the one who sends is in the one who is sent. We listen to the Agent of Yehovah the Malach Yehovah (Angel of Yehovah) because he has put his name in the one who is sent (Shaliach = One Who Is Sent) the Shaliah as we seen before is as if the one who sent him, however he is not literally the one who sent him but has the authority of that one who sent him which would be God the principle, the one who is Yehovah almighty and Yehovah's name is in the representative the Malach (see Malach notes). This also could be why in these verses Genesis 18:1-3 and even in Genesis 19:1-2 the Angels the three men in chapter 18 and the two that go down to Sodom to see Lot are respected and sent by Yehovah God washing of feet as servants and we also wash each others feet as brothers and sisters as we see Yehovah God in our Brothers, Yeshua himself washed the feet of his disciples, it could be that we treat our brothers and those sent by God in such away because the name of Yehovah is upon them to act as agents of the Father to bring people to the truth. We also see in Acts 9:3-5 that by persecuting the disciples and holy ones who follow Yeshua you are persecuting him, notice how his servants are considered Yeshua, as he said "why are you persecuting me" to Paul and Paul responds "Who are you Lord?" Yeshua responds "I am Yeshua who you are persecuting." So Paul was wishing to Kill the followers and yet Yeshua said Paul was persecuting Yeshua as a pronoun (ME) so if Yeshua says you are persecuting ME by persecuting his followers then his followers in agency are considered as Yeshua himself, Trinitarians would have you believe an agent cant claim to be the one who sent them however we see Yeshua claims they are him because Paul is persecuting HIM (JESUS) not that they are literally Yeshua but they are considered as Yeshua. The same goes with when it was said that Yeshua was baptising in John 4:1-2 while Jesus was baptising it was not he himself but it was his disciples baptising in his name, or authority so Jesus is baptising by his disciples they are considered as Yeshua himself.
See this Link: http://lhim.org/blog/2010/01/21/divine-agency-in-the-scriptures/
for these notes: A “shaliach” or agent/emissary represented someone and was treated as that individual because legally they were. In our modern society, the closest we get to that is to appoint “Power of Attorney” to someone. They can make legally binding decisions for us because we have designated them to serve in that capacity for us. But in ancient Hebrew culture, the shaliach (or sheliah) wasn’t just that person in a legal sense only. They were also respected, treated, and thought of AS THE ONE THEY REPRESENTED.
2) Suzerainty Notes.
When you have an ultimate power for example God Yehovah he would be Suzerain the main authority figure that gives people authorities in which they can act on, for example Moses is a vassal of this Suzerain Yehovah by a covenant agreement.
Similar you have empires with nations inside the empire you have the Emperor as the Suzerain but many Vassals over the nations with in that empire for example Israel would have a vasal ruler or authority under the Emperor of Babylon for example or any other rulership that has given authority to them to rule over places with agreements or covenants signed.
(additional side note: A Suzerain would be called a Suzerain father and the Vassal would be a Vassal son. https://www.ancient-hebrew.org/culture/suzerain-vassal-covenants.htm )
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suzerainty
We see this with in John 19:14-15 - 14It was the day of Preparation for the Passover, about the sixth hour. And Pilate said to the Jews, “Here is your King!” 15At this, they shouted, “Away with Him! Away with Him! Crucify Him!” “Shall I crucify your King?” Pilate asked. “We have no king but Caesar,” replied the chief priests. /// We see that the Jews accepted their ruler as Caeser while they had other rulers like Pontius pilate or Herod at a time over them, the ultimate power was Caeser setting up these others as his Vassals or in other forms patronages. You can also see this in relation to Satan trying to give power to Yeshua, Luke 4:6-7 - 6“I will give You authority over all these kingdoms and all their glory,” he said. “For it has been relinquished to me, and I can give it to anyone I wish. 7So if You worship me, it will all be Yours.” // Satan is saying he will give him all power that he has is he was to acknowledge Satan by worshipping him as ultimate power, and Yeshua replied Yehovah or THE LORD is who he worships and serves. Yeshua is Yehovah's Vassal, his shaliah, his agent and Yehovah the principle or suzerain.. Additionally you can see that Satan is the God of this world which is Ho Theos 2 Corinthians 4:4 - The god of this age has blinded the minds of unbelievers so they cannot see the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God. /// Which correlates to a higher authority of the world being able to hand rulership over to others so we have Suzerainty the ultimate god of the word of this age, and this god of the world as Satan has abilities to give authority to a vassal, Yeshua overcome but the anti-Christ will be the vassal for Satan on earth ruling all things.
3) Theophanie Notes:
Theophany (from Ancient Greek (ἡ) θεοφάνεια theophaneia,[1] meaning "appearance of a deity") is a personal encounter with a deity, that is an event where the manifestation of a deity occurs in an observable way.[2][3] Specifically, it "refers to the temporal and spatial manifestation of God in some tangible form."[4] Where the deity does not take tangible form (outward manifestation), the broader term used for inward manifestation is divine revelation or divine inspiration.[5] Where the spirit of god is manifest in a person the term used is divine incarnation, avatar or personification of the deity.
( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theophany#cite_note-6 )
1. The word theophany is a combination of two Greek words, meaning God and appearance.
2. Theophanies reveal God using created media.
(God shows who he is using visual displays like fire, clouds, and sometimes a human shape (Ezek. 1:26-27). The display may be accompanied by sounds (thunder, the voice of God, etc.) and other effects (Exodus 19:18)
3. God the Creator in his divine nature is distinct from the created media that he uses in theophany.
(At the same time, he shows himself in the created media and is present in and through them. Since God is distinct from the world, he is not captured by the world, and is not directly visible to us without created media. At the same time, he makes himself genuinely known when he appears. His appearance reflects who he is.)
4. God does things through theophanies.
(Typically, theophanies function as founding events that establish continuing relations between God and his people.)
- These were taken from a Trinitarian website which obviously had some trinitarian statements in trying to promote the trinity saying that Jesus Christ is God as a man which we know biblically is not the case and that it points to God on earth which I agree with but not that Jesus is that God but that Jesus is the theophany of God also how God shows himself [John 14:10] God in Jesus doing the works as we explicitly see in these points. So no one can say I am being bias I state outright it has trinitarian points saying Jesus is God and some points about duration and one point states Trinity but clearly this is from a bias Trinitarians perspective which is why those points were left out of this statement there are other points I left out as pretty much just reiterates or speaks of duration which isn't really what I want to point out here, the point is that a Theophany simply shows aspects of God but they are not God themselves which Trinitarians say a theophany such as THE ANGEL OF YEHOVAH is himself YEHOVAH, no The Malak is is a representative which God works through, God is not his Theophany. (SEE ALSO SHALIAH REPRESENTATIVES.)
- https://www.crossway.org/articles/10-things-you-should-know-about-theophanies/
4) Malak - Angels/Messengers.
Original Word: מֲלְאָךְ
Part of Speech: Noun Masculine
Transliteration: malak
Phonetic Spelling: (mal-awk')
Definition: a messenger
1 messenger, 2 angel, as messenger of God,
(Source: Biblehub)
5) According to UK Agency.
The Agent facilitates contracts between the principal and a party (the customer) by introducing the third party, soliciting orders from the third party or by concluding contracts with the third part on behalf of the principal.
(Meaning that Jesus can not be the principal himself but can do works on behalf of the Principal he is the agent doing the works on behalf of the principal which is the Father and I will show that in verses below.)
6) Devine Agency
The Bible shows us in some cases the agent of Yehovah the "MALAK YEHOVAH" the Messenger/Angel of Yehovah is said to be indicated to as being Yehovah in Genesis 18:1-2, and then following in Genesis 18:22 while two of the Malak (Messengers/Angels) head off to Sodom to where Lot was, one of the men remained with Abraham and it is said that Abraham was left standing before Yehovah indicating that the Angel/Messenger (Malak) himself was Yehovah, however we see explicitly no one has seen Yehovah God in these verses John 1:18 - "18 No one has ever seen God; the only God,[a] who is at the Father's side,[b] he has made him known."; 1 John 4:12 - "12 No one has ever seen God; if we love one another, God abides in us and his love is perfected in us."; and in 1 Tim. 6:16 - "16 who alone has immortality, who dwells in unapproachable light, whom no one has ever seen or can see. To him be honor and eternal dominion. Amen." / it is quite clear then that Yehovah God has not and can not be seen by man, so the Angel that remained could not logically be Yehovah himself but an agent who represnets God's presence on earth yet Yehovah is not physically here he is here dwelling in us by his Spirit. While there are verses when people say that they have seen God and lived this would be a contradiction if no one can see Yehovah and live but they have, unless they knew it wasn't literally Yehovah God but it was someone who is his agent, someone who is Yehovah's presence on earth acting as Yehovah, and we see this in a similar way that Yeshua (Jesus) was like God on Earth, Yehovah's Shaliah, Agent, messenger and also Moshe (Moses) was also made God (elohim) to Pharaoh but he is not litterally Yehovah, and Moshe (Moses) was God to Aaron and Aaron was his prophet, this is how God shows us an example of how he himself works. No one can and no one has seen Yehovah but we have had him made known by Yeshua because Yehovah God did works through him, when you see me, you see the Father and that the father is in him doing the works, as he said in John 14:9-10. So this is why Yeshua made GOD known, not that he is God being seen himself but is a man who shows by his actions God who dwells in him, the works of miracles are God doing them by the man Yeshua attesting to who he is the messiah, the son of God, the one who was promised of as we see in Acts 2:22 God did the miracles through him, we seen John 14:9-10 The Father did the works through Yeshua (Jesus) it is clear therefore since no one has seen God and no one can according to Exodus 33:20 the only way logical for us to see anything of Yehovah would be by those who are sent by him, no one has or can see Yehovah God so when they say they have in the bible, we can logically say it is simply the Angel of his presence which we see in Isaiah 63:9, it is God's presence on the Earth in the Angel, he is essentially Yehovah on Earth representing Yehovah in a physical form. So this is what is called devine agency it is a different form to your typical agency where a person may not directly claim to be the person that sent them but still has authority like the one who sent them, devine agency we see clearly people talk of the agents as if they are Yehovah God on earth that have been seen.
7) Jewish Encyclopedia: Law Of Agency By Lewis N Dembitz (relating see also: Shaliah)
according to: https://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/894-agency-law-of -
It is said that the law of agency is dealing with the status of a person known as an agent and this person known as the agent is acting on behalf of another person which is called the Principal, therefore the agent is acting in a legally binding way on behalf of the one who sent him which is the principal when it comes to the third party. The one who is the agent of the principal in the Jewish law of agency is known as "The Shaliah" which is meaning: One who is sent. the other form known as agency is shelihut, the general statement relating the principal's agent is as if "The mans agent is as if himself".
It is therefore funny to say that this Shaliah (agent) can act in such away without any real written evidence of witnesses only in the case of depute would a shaliah need to then provide evidence that such authority had been given to the extent of in which was claimed by the agent. The standard authorities draw this conclusion from the remark found in Ḳiddushin, 65b, that witnesses are needed only to meet any denials see also: https://www.sefaria.org/Kiddushin.65b?lang=bi for more information relating to denials and such.
We see that if an agent surpasses the authority giving to him then his actions are void, therefore it is logical to say if Yehovah God is to say to an angel that he can act as though God on earth on his behalf to speak his words directly to the one hearing the message, then he could say for example "I am the God of bethel" not that he is literally God but he is saying these things by the authority having been give to him to do so. However if Yehovah God was to say to an Angel you can heal 3 people and then gives the Angel the name of the three persons but he tries to heal more or different persons that authority would then be void because he acted outside of his authority given, hence John 17:1-3 Yeshua speaks of authority being given to him, he himself could not do anything unless Yehovah God himself gave him authority to do so, which is why John 5:30 has Yeshua (Jesus) say "I can do nothing by Myself; I judge only as I hear. And My judgment is just, because I do not seek My own will, but the will of Him who sent Me." So Yeshua being a man can do nothing on his own account because he is an agent acting on behalf of God and is given authority by the one who is Yehovah to do these things on Yehovah's behalf, which is why it is Yehovah doing the works through Yeshua accreding Yeshua (Jesus) to who he is John 14:9-10 and Acts 2:22.
8) Trinitarians Academics and Scholars Who Agreed With Unitarian Form Of Agency
1 - G.B. Caird
The Language and Imagery of the Bible, 1988, p. 181
“So completely is the ideal Davidic king identified with the purposes of God that he can be dignified with the titles of God himself… This practice of treating the agent as though he were the principal is of the greatest importance for New Testament Christology.”
Link Wikipedia on G.B. Caird: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G._B._Caird
2 - Peder Borgen
Link Wikipedia on Peder Borgen: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peder_Borgen
9) Verses That Point To Agency In The Bible. (Part 1) / [Bonus Video coming] "with verse 38 and 46"
Genesis 41:38-40 - 38 And Pharaoh said to his servants, “Can we find a man like this, in whom is the Spirit of God?”[a] 39 Then Pharaoh said to Joseph, “Since God has shown you all this, there is none so discerning and wise as you are. 40 You shall be over my house, and all my people shall order themselves as you command.[b] Only as regards the throne will I be greater than you.”
(Firstly take into account that we see Joseph like Yehoshua (Jesus) he had the Spirit of God does this make him God? God showed him things as we see in the entire chapter of [Genesis 41] because of the Spirit of God is on him, this is the same argument for Yehoshua (Jesus) God dwelled in Yehoshua (Jesus) [John 14:10, Acts 2:22] and did the works through him. We see essentially Suzerainty and Shaliah agency here The Pharaoh is the true King here over Egypt but Joseph is equal in power except only one thing and that is in relation to who is the true ruler sitting on the Throne... This also mirrors how Yehovah God is over Yeshua but Yeshua is over all creation except he himself is under God, notice the perfect parallel to Joseph and Pharaoh and Yeshua and Yehovah God.)
Genesis 41:42-43 - 42 Then Pharaoh took his signet ring from his hand and put it on Joseph's hand, and clothed him in garments of fine linen and put a gold chain about his neck. 43 And he made him ride in his second chariot. And they called out before him, “Bow the knee!”[e] Thus he set him over all the land of Egypt.
(Could this passage be another perfect alinement to how Yeshua is clothed by God with light or with the robe and a name of the Word and more in [Revelation 19:13] and other passages in [Daniel 7:13-14] him coming with the clouds which would simbolise the chariots of Pharaoh and rulership being given to Yehoshua (Jesus) is pretty similar if not identical in meaning.)
We see agency of Joseph by his house servant in this passage:
Genesis 44:4-10 - 4 They had just left the city, and were not far away, when Joseph said to his house steward, “Up, follow the men; and when you overtake them, say to them, ‘Why have you repaid evil for good? 5 Is this not that from which my lord drinks, and which he indeed uses for divination? You have done wrong in doing this!’” 6 So [x]he overtook them and spoke these words to them. 7 And they said to him, “Why does my lord say such words as these? Far be it from your servants to do such a thing! 8 Behold, the money which we found in the opening of our sacks we have brought back to you from the land of Canaan. How then could we steal silver or gold from your lord’s house? 9 With whomever of your servants it is found, he shall die, and we also shall be my lord’s slaves.” 10 So he said, “Now let it indeed be according to your words; he with whom it is found shall be my slave, but the rest of you shall be considered innocent.
Which shows the house steward speak as if he is Joseph saying firstly my lords slaves because that is what they said but in verse 10 the House Steward says you will be my slave, they are Josephs slave not the house stewards but he speaks on behalf of Joseph his master as we see later in the same chapter it says. Trinitarian James Tomas claims people can not talk as if they are the one who sent them but as we see in Genesis 44:10 it clearly had the house steward say the person who stole the item would be "his slave" even though later in the chapter it was Joseph saying the person would be his slave, not his house servants slave, so clearly the agent of Joseph being the House Steward was saying this as if Joseph was saying acting as if Joseph himself, there for this shows Biblical Unitarian Torah Observer form of Agency is biblical and Trinitarians will try to say it is not only because it rips the trinity apart and they will lie to do this, as shown here we see evidence of the Agent speaking as if he is the Principle who sent the Agent who works on the Principles behalf.
Genesis 44:15-17 - 15 Joseph said to them, “What is this thing that you have done? Do you not know that a man who is like me can indeed practice divination?” 16 So Judah said, “What can we say to my lord? What words can we speak? And how can we justify ourselves? God has found out the guilt of your servants; behold, we are my lord’s slaves, both we and the one in whose [y]possession the cup has been found.” 17 But he said, “Far be it from me to do this. The man in whose [z]possession the cup has been found, he shall be my slave; but as for you, go up in peace to your father.”
Notice how Joseph says you will be my slave, but the servant said you shall be my slave, why? Because the servant spoke on behalf of Joseph as an agent but we see in the next verse the brother call Joseph equal to Pharaoh but he is not so much equal but has equal authority which is given to him.
Genesis 44:18 - 18 Then Judah approached him and said, “Oh my lord, may your servant please speak a word in my lord’s ears, and [aa]do not be angry with your servant; for you are equal to Pharaoh
And we see this in relation to Yeshua in [John 17:1-3] that the Father granted Yeshua authority and that all things are under Yeshua in here and [1 Corinthians 15:27-28] but Jesus is under God but is over all things so he is equal in the same sense Joseph is equal to Pharaoh, Jesus is equal in the same sense not that he is God himself and neither is Joseph Pharaoh himself.
9) Verses That Point To Agency In The Bible (Part 2)
John 14:9-12 - 9Jesus replied, “Philip, I have been with you all this time, and still you do not know Me? Anyone who has seen Me has seen the Father. How can you say, ‘Show us the Father’? 10 Do you not believe that I am in the Father and the Father is in Me? The words I say to you, I do not speak on My own. Instead, it is the Father dwelling in Me, performing His works. 11Believe Me that I am in the Father and the Father is in Me—or at least believe on account of the works themselves 12Truly, truly, I tell you, whoever believes in Me will also do the works that I am doing. He will do even greater things than these, because I am going to the Father.(We see the Father when we see Yeshua because of the works that he does, because it is the Father who does the works through Yeshua this is the Agent-principal relationship, and we have a similar relationship to Father as we do the same works that he had done, and we are also in like manner agents of Yeshua in the next verse.)
John 17:18-22 - 18As You sent Me into the world, I have also sent them into the world. 19 For them I sanctify Myself, so that they too may be sanctified by the truth. 20I am not asking on behalf of them alone, but also on behalf of those who will believe in Me through their message 21that all of them may be one, as You, Father, are in Me, and I am in You. May they also be in Us, so that the world may believe that You sent Me. 22 I have given them the glory You gave Me, so that they may be one as We are one.
(We are sent by Yeshua into the world in the same manner that the Father sent Yeshua into the world with a message. We are one with them and having the Father and the Son in us because we are all one in spirit and in truth one in purpose doing what the Father sent Yeshua to do, he like wise by the Messiah sends us to do the same works as the son did there for being conformed to the sons image being like him. Messengers which are agents with a purpose or message to relay and a work to do. We see the same form of agency doing Good to others is doing good to Yeshua. )
Matthew 25:35-40 - 35 For I was hungry and you gave me something to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me something to drink, I was a stranger and you invited me in, 36 I needed clothes and you clothed me, I was sick and you looked after me, I was in prison and you came to visit me.’ 37 “Then the righteous will answer him, ‘Lord, when did we see you hungry and feed you, or thirsty and give you something to drink? 38 When did we see you a stranger and invite you in, or needing clothes and clothe you? 39 When did we see you sick or in prison and go to visit you?’ 40 “The King will reply, ‘Truly I tell you, whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers and sisters of mine, you did for me.’
(As we do good to each other we do to the Messiah, we see like wise and in a lighter form as Yeshua spoke of the Samaritan who took the Jew and put him in a room and said to charge him, this Jew who was being looked after was essentially as if the Samaritan was living in the room in a lighter form of agency he was charged for the Jew staying in that room, again if we do good to each other we are doing good to the Messiah, the Samaritan in the same way has done good to the King Yeshua the Messiah by doing good to the Jew who was injured.)
Matthew 5:16 - 16In the same way, let your light shine before men, that they may see your good deeds and glorify your Father in heaven.
(This is a perfect example of agency because let us assume you the reader were living in a house and you had a leak in your bathroom and you messaged myself and said "Taylor, I am sorry to bother you but I have a leak and its damaging my house and I am short of money can you please help me just for a little time with some money so I can fix the issue." And I reply to you "Yes, don't worry about paying me back I will pay some workers to go to your house and fix the issue." Okay so if I am the principal sending workers to do the job on my behalf and I am paying them, you would thank me because of what they did on my behalf, now as a human I would say no need to thank me, thank GOD for all money is his, so by what good I do it is not me, but it is God in me doing it so I am an agent of Yehovah God he is the principle, the workers are agents of me which in a sense is I am an principle of them, but even I am an agent and the ultimate principal is the Father Yehovah God, who works through myself to these workers to help you, so by what good we do it should be thanks given to the principal Yehovah praise him for our light.)
10) Verses That Point To Agency In The Bible (Part 3)
This passage needs the context to be seen in relation to who gave birth to sons of Jacob his 12 sons the 12 tribes.
Genesis 29:31-33 - 31When the LORD saw that Leah was unloved, He opened her womb; but Rachel was barren. 32And Leah conceived and gave birth to a son, and she named him Reuben, for she said, “The LORD has seen my affliction. Surely my husband will love me now.” 33Again she conceived and gave birth to a son, and she said, “Because the LORD has heard that I am unloved, He has given me this son as well.” So she named him Simeon.
(Lea bore Reuben and Simeon as children to Jacob here.)
Genesis 30:9-13 - 9When Leah saw that she had stopped bearing [children], she took her maidservant Zilpah, and gave her to Jacob for a wife. 10And Zilpah, Leah's maidservant, bore Jacob a son. 11And Leah said, "Luck has come"; so she named him Gad. 12And Zilpah, Leah's maidservant, bore Jacob a second son. 13And Leah said, "Because of my good fortune, for women have declared me fortunate"; so she named him Asher.
So far we have seen 2 children literally born from Leah's body which are Reuben and Simeon, we have at this point two children from Zilpah her maide which are Gad and Asher.
Genesis 30:15-20 - 15And she said to her, "Is it a small matter that you have taken my husband, that [you wish] also to take my son's dudaim?" So Rachel said, "Therefore, he shall sleep with you tonight as payment for your son's dudaim." 16When Jacob came from the field in the evening, and Leah came forth toward him, and she said, "You shall come to me, because I have hired you with my son's dudaim," and he slept with her on that night. 17 And God hearkened to Leah, and she conceived and bore Jacob a fifth son. 18And Leah said, "God has given [me] my reward for I have given my maidservant to my husband"; so she named him Issachar. 19And Leah conceived again, and she bore Jacob a sixth son 20 Then Leah said, “God has endowed me with a good gift; finally my husband [b]will acknowledge me as his wife, because I have borne him six sons.” So she named him Zebulun. .
In verse 16 to 18 we see Leah herself gets pregnant having a child but yet at this point it would be the 3rd child from her own body, yet the verse says God hearkened to Leah and SHE bore Jacob a 5th son, but this was her 3rd SON not 5th WHY? Because he maide servant is considered as if her agent having children on her behalf. So by the time of verse 19 we see Leah conceived herself but yet the Bible says she bore Jacob 6 sons but 3 are Zilpahs and 3 are her own this is clearly perfect signs of Agency. Zilaph being her maideservant is being considered as if she is Leah and Leah therefore had 6 sons, now if this was to consider any son of Jacob being Leahs also then it should be adding Rachel's sons and Bilah's sons by this point which was 2 sons from Bilah and Rachel at this time had no children verse wise, so shouldn't Leah have had 8 children by this point if it included all children of Jacob? Clearly this is explicitly Zilpah and Leah's born children were Leah's thats why she had 6 children at this point that are Leahs. After these verses Jacob had a daughter and two sons by the end of the chapter by Jacob. So essentially Zilpah was considered to be giving birth for Leah as her agent on her behalf.
11) Verses That Point To Agency In The Bible (Part 4)
1 John 3:1-2 - 3 See how great a love the Father has given us, that we would be called children of God; and in fact we are. For this reason the world does not know us: because it did not know Him. 2 Beloved, now we are children of God, and it has not appeared as yet what we will be. We know that when He appears, we will be like Him, because we will see Him just as He is.
(we see we are not known because The Father was not known to the world, and Yeshua was not known because he is a Son of Yehovah God the Father who was not known but Yeshua made the Father known in John 1:18 the son made the Father known and how? By the actions he did because God was in him doing the works John 10:38 and John 14:10, )
12) Verses That Point To Agency In The Bible (Part 5)
In relation to The Angel of Yehovah being Yehovah God according to Trinitarians we see in these verses:
Acts 7:35 - 35 “This Moses, whom they rejected, saying, ‘Who made you a ruler and a judge?’—this man God sent as both ruler and redeemer by the hand of the angel who appeared to him in the bush.
(God made Moses both ruler and judge over Israel by the Angel, not that the Angel of Yehovah was Yehovah, no God by the Angel sent him, however Trinitarians manipulate the verse this is talking about from Exodus to make the Angel of Yehovah to be Yehovah himself, even though Yehovah God sent Moses by the Angel that apeared in the bush as you see in this verse shown in Acts 7:35.)
The verse that this is talking about is in Exodus 3:2-4 - 2 And the angel of the Lord appeared to him in a flame of fire out of the midst of a bush. He looked, and behold, the bush was burning, yet it was not consumed. 3 And Moses said, “I will turn aside to see this great sight, why the bush is not burned.” 4 When the Lord saw that he turned aside to see, God called to him out of the bush, “Moses, Moses!” And he said, “Here I am.”
(We see clear as day it says the Angel of Yehovah apeared in the Bush and that God spoke to him but Trinitarians take this hyper literal thinking the Angel is the God who spoke but yet we see it wasn't in Acts 7:35 it was God by the Angel that is how God spoke to him, this is called Agency, Yehovah is God who speaks to people in various ways by Prophets, Messengers (Malak) and Angels (Malak) which are heavenly messengers, so Yehovah by his Angel who apeared in the bush did the action the messenger is like a postman when you send a letter you speak through a postman who delievers the message. This Postman/Messenger - MALAK is not Yehovah himself but is how Yehovah speaks to us as well as by visions, as no one has seen God according to the next verse for context.)
John 1:18 - 18 No man hath seen God at any time, the only begotten Son, which is in the bosom of the Father, he hath declared him.
(So if no one has seen Yehovah God at anytime, the only begotten son made him known, then the Angel can not literally be Yehovah God himself, as we see in Acts 7:35 and Exodus 3:2-4 as previously stated God spoke to Moses by the Angel that apeared to him in the bush and sent him by the Angel to Israel, so God spoke to Moses by his messenger. This therefore refutes the decptive lies of Trinitarians misleading you to think the Angel is God because God speaks when the Angel appears to Moses, however we know a Malak is a messenger or representative with a message on behalf of the sender who is speaking through that Malak which can translate as Angel, Messenger or Representative for example. So it is clear the Malak (Angel) of Yehovah (YHVH) is not Yehovah himself but a messenger/angel of who Yehovah is. The reason no one has seen God is because no one can see God and live according to the next verse.)
Exodus 33:20 - 20 He further said, “You cannot see My face, for mankind shall not see Me and live!”
(Now unless Yehovah lies which is contradictory to Hebrews 6:18 which says it is impossible for God to lie, so if it is impossible for Yehovah God to lie and he said mankind can not see him and live, and then John 1:18 says no one has seen God but the Son made him known this would be contradictory so how can the Angel of Yehovah literally be Yehovah because people have seen the Angel of Yehovah, no he is an agent or representative of God on earth someone who has God's authority to do things on his behalf because if people see God they would die, so the Angel is the presence of God but is not God, he represents God's presence in a physical tangible form.)
13) Verses That Point To Agency In The Bible (Part 6)
Relating the Angel Of Yehovah in Zechariah 1:12-18 I will show you the context of who is speaking and when they are speaking so you can see that Yehovah is one person who speaks to his Messenger (Malak) the Angel and therefore talks to Zachariah through his Angel. Let us look at the passage Zechariah 1:12-18 - 12 Then the angel of the Lord said, “Lord of armies, how long will You take no pity on Jerusalem and the cities of Judah, with which You have been indignant for these seventy years?” (THIS THE ANGEL SPEAKING) 13 And the Lord (YEHOVAH) responded to the angel who was speaking with me with [a]gracious words, comforting words. (YEHOVAH RESPONDS TO A SEPARATE PERSON THE ANGEL) 14 So the angel who was speaking with me said to me, “Proclaim, saying, ‘This is what the Lord of armies says: “I am exceedingly jealous for Jerusalem and Zion. 15 But I am very angry with the nations who are carefree; for while I was only a little angry, they [b]furthered the disaster.” (THE ANGEL IS SPEAKING WHAT YEHOVAH TOLD HIM HE IS SPEAKING TO ZECHARIAH WHAT YEHOVAH SAID.) 16 Therefore the Lord says this: “I will return to Jerusalem with compassion; My house will be built in it,” declares the Lord of armies, “and a measuring line will be stretched over Jerusalem.”’ 17 Again, proclaim, saying, ‘This is what the Lord of armies says: “My cities will again overflow with prosperity, and the Lord will again comfort Zion and again choose Jerusalem.”’” (THE ANGEL OF YEHOVAH IS SPEAKING THE WORDS OF YEHOVAH THAT HE WAS TOLD TO SAY WHEN YEHOVAH SAID COMPASSIONATE WORDS SO THE ANGEL IS THE SPEAKER OF YEHOVAH'S WORDS SPEAKING TO ZECHARIAH ON BEHALF OF YEHOVAH GOD) 18 [c]Then I raised my eyes and looked, and behold, there were four horns. (THIS FINAL PART WHEN IT SAYS I RAISED MY EYES THIS IS ZECHARIAH WHO RAISED HIS EYES SO HE IS THE SPEAKER AT THIS POINT.) // So what we see explicitly is The Angel ask Yehovah a question about how long he will show no pity and then Yehovah responds which indicates a singular person Yehovah speaking to the Angel responding to him words then Yehovah is speaking through the Angel as the Angel speaks the words that Yehovah responded with. We see therefore that if I was to say for example if I had children told a Son to tell his Sister tell your sister yoru dad tells you to clean your room, and then my son says those words he is not me, but speaks on behalf of my authority what I have told him to relay, so God through the Angel speaks and the Angel reiterates Yehovah's words to Zechariah, the Angel is not Yehovah but is a messanger of Yehovah.
14) Verses That Point To Agency In The Bible (Part 6)
Different topic but still relating Agencie we talk in relation to the destroyer or Yehovah two separate persons.
Exodus 12:12 - For I will go through the land of Egypt on that night, and fatally strike all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, from the human firstborn to animals; and against all the gods of Egypt I will execute judgments—I am the Lord.
We see later relating the same context that it is Yehovah destroying Egypt through a destroyer who is talked of as separate to Yehovah himself The Lord.
Exodus 12:23 - For the Lord will pass through to strike the Egyptians; but when He sees the blood on the lintel and on the two doorposts, the Lord will pass over the door and will not allow the destroyer to come in to your houses to strike you.
So Yehovah (The LORD) moved over the houses with blood on the door posts and will not let the destroyer come into your house so is it Yehovah or is there a destroyer separate to him but God through this destroyer doing the Egyptians like how a President or leader of the nation goes to war by his own nation this is the leader through his armies.
15) Verses That Point To Agency In The Bible (Part 7)
Isaiah 7:2-10 - 2 When the house of David was told, “Syria is in league with[a] Ephraim,” the heart of Ahaz[b] and the heart of his people shook as the trees of the forest shake before the wind. 3 And the Lord said to Isaiah, “Go out to meet Ahaz, you and Shear-jashub[c] your son, at the end of the conduit of the upper pool on the highway to the Washer's Field. 4 And say to him, ‘Be careful, be quiet, do not fear, and do not let your heart be faint because of these two smoldering stumps of firebrands, at the fierce anger of Rezin and Syria and the son of Remaliah. 5 Because Syria, with Ephraim and the son of Remaliah, has devised evil against you, saying, 6 “Let us go up against Judah and terrify it, and let us conquer it[d] for ourselves, and set up the son of Tabeel as king in the midst of it,” 7 thus says the Lord God:“‘It shall not stand, and it shall not come to pass. 8 For the head of Syria is Damascus, and the head of Damascus is Rezin. And within sixty-five years Ephraim will be shattered from being a people. 9 And the head of Ephraim is Samaria, and the head of Samaria is the son of Remaliah. If you[e] are not firm in faith, you will not be firm at all.’” 10 Again the Lord spoke to Ahaz: 11 “Ask a sign of the Lord your[f] God; let it be deep as Sheol or high as heaven.” 12 But Ahaz said, “I will not ask, and I will not put the Lord to the test.” 13 And he[g] said, “Hear then, O house of David! Is it too little for you to weary men, that you weary my God also? 14 Therefore the Lord himself will give you a sign. Behold, the virgin shall conceive and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel.
(Isaiah is told by Yehovah to speak to Ahaz and then in verse ten it says YEHOVAH spoke again to Ahaz, when his prophets or messengers speak to people on Yehovah's behalf it is as if Yehovah himself is.)
16) Verses That Point To Agency In The Bible (Part 8)
Exodus 23:20-22 - 20 “Behold, I send an angel before you to guard you on the way and to bring you to the place that I have prepared. 21 Pay careful attention to him and obey his voice; do not rebel against him, for he will not pardon your transgression, for my name is in him. 22 “But if you carefully obey his voice and do all that I say, then I will be an enemy to your enemies and an adversary to your adversaries.
Acts 7:35 - 35 “This Moses, whom they rejected, saying, ‘Who made you a ruler and a judge?’—this man God sent as both ruler and redeemer by the hand of the angel who appeared to him in the bush.