Echad = Compound Unity of One
Why does the Trinity reference Themselves as “Us, They, Them, We” in the Pearl Letters, instead of just God or Lord? Why is this plural pronoun not seen in the Bible?
When people know the Trinity as “God,” it demonstrates they are in the church age, because God is more nebulous and distant to them. But when someone knows Them individually, it is because that person knows Them more intimately and can distinguish Their distinctness. If one doesn’t want to know Them intimately, than God is all they want on Sunday morning as an intellectual doctrine and at a distance. When someone wants to know Them intimately, they will see Them as “They” and as individual (Father, Son, Holy Spirit). within the Godhead. That is why the Trinity is only for the Age of the Bride. It is about intimacy with Them.
Echad=Compound Unity of One
In Hebrew the plural pronoun is seen as a compound unity of one (echad). which is not seen in English.
More on the Age of the Bride
It is no longer the Church Age; it is the Age of the Bride. He is making His bride ready and is coming very soon. He is waking her up to make herself ready to be with Him. In order for the bride to be ready for Him, they need to know Him and each member of the Trinity as well as together. Those who do not desire the Groom are not the brides, but the guests. You’re not to wake up sleeping guests and you’re not to try to force them to desire the Groom. So let the guests alone. Let them have their choice. I want My bride to choose passion for Me. I will not have a lukewarm bride who is content with being a guest. The Bride Age will be much shorter, quicker than the Church Age, and there will be only a tiny fraction of the people. The Church Age lasted long because I was patient in waiting that none should perish, except those who were determined. But when a man asks a woman to marry him, he trusts a quick “yes.” But if a woman lingers, doesn’t answer him, “yes,” with enthusiasm right away, then he knows her love and passion for him is limited. So the Age of the Bride will be short.
Read these scriptures and parables as they all go together. The invitations are being sent out. Not all are saved. Not everyone is the bride. The guests are saved, but not intimate with the Groom.
REFERENCES:
In What Sense is God a Unity?
By Don Stewart
The Bible speaks of the unity of God. Moses wrote:
Hear, O Israel! The Lord is our God, the Lord is one! (Deut 6:4).
One: Echad (compound unity of one).
God Cannot Be Divided
The doctrine of the Trinity does not mean that God is a composite being made up of three gods, but rather He is a unity. As a unity God cannot be divided. The technical term is “indivisible.” God cannot be divided, neither is He made up of multiple substances. The members of the Trinity are not separate beings within the one divine essence. God is one in number.
There Is An Absolute And A Compound Unity
While Scripture teaches that God is a unity, we must realize there is a difference between an absolute and compound unity. For example, if we say “one man” we are referring to an absolute unity because only one person is in view. However, when the Scripture says the man and woman will be “one flesh” (Genesis 2:24) this is a compound unity. This is because the union consists of two distinct persons.
Examples Of A Compound Unity:
Now when the seventh month came, and the sons of Israel were in the cities, the people gathered together as one man to Jerusalem (Ezra 3:1).
Then join them for yourself one to another into one stick, that they may become one in your hand (Ezekiel 37:17).
The many people were as one.
Both of these passages used the same Hebrew word (echad). for one as Deuteronomy 6:4.It speaks of a compound unity.
A compound unity is what is in mind in Deuteronomy 6:4. Furthermore, the fact that the word for God in Hebrew is Elohim, a plural noun, we have further inference of a compound unity.
Summary:
There is a difference between a compound unity and an absolute unity. When we speak of “one man” we would be speaking of an absolute unity. When referring to man and woman being “one flesh” we would be speaking of a compound unity. The Hebrew word yachidh is used of something that is an absolute unity while the word echad is used of a compound unity.
The God of the Bible is a compound unity. This is evidenced by the use of the Hebrew term echad when speaking of God. Although there is only one God who exists, within the nature of the one God are three distinct persons. The fact that the word echad is used of the God of Scripture further confirms His Trinitarian nature.
Stewart, D. (2014). In what sense is God a unity?: Blueletterbible.org Retrieved on May 20, 2014 from website http://www.blueletterbible.org/faq/don_stewart/don_stewart_323.cfm
BIBLICAL REFERENCES:
- Gen 1:26 Then God said, “Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness . . . . . “Us” and “Our”
- Isa 6:8 Also I heard the voice of the Lord, saying: “Whom shall I send, And who will go for Us?”. . . . . “Us”
- John 14:23 Jesus answered and said to him, “If anyone loves Me, he will keep My word; and My Father will love him, and We will come to him and make Our home with him . . . . .”We” and “Our”
- John 17:11 Holy Father, keep through Your name those whom You have given Me, that they may be one as We are . . . . . “We”
- John 17:21 . . . that they all may be one, as You, Father, are in Me, and I in You; that they also may be one in Us, . . . . .”Us”
- John 17:22 And the glory which You gave Me I have given them, that they may be one just as We are one . . . . . .”We”