The Greater and Lesser YHWH
The Greater and Lesser YHWH
Special New Teaching For YATI Members
By Rabbi/Brother Moshe Yoseph Koniuchowsky
President YATI Intl Ministries
The truth you are about to read, comes
straight from Scripture alone, as you are about to see. Some, having not been
willing or able to understand what scripture teaches on the greater and lesser
YHWH, have attempted to attribute this teaching to Jewish kaballah, giving them
an easy way to label TRUTH as heresy. Sadly, this often happens with people when
they do not understand something or are afraid of something. While kaballah in
this particular case may confirm Scripture in certain aspects, the truth
of this concept does not originate from kaballah, but from Scripture alone,
as Yahshua Himself explains the true concept of the Shema, as seen below.
Shalom.....
The title of this message may pique the reader to amazement and wonder. Most
Believers in YHWH whether they be modern traditional Jews, Messianic Jews,
Messianic Israelites, Sunday Christians or Roman Catholics, generally do not
understand the truth of Scripture regarding two powers in heaven. Through false
expressions of monotheism, the Jew and Moslem reject the understanding of the
duality of powers in heaven. Christianity, with its unscriptural Trinitarian
doctrine of the three equal persons/powers in heaven all existing as personages
all being YHWH, have confused millions through the centuries, including
Trinitarian proponents, who accept it despite the fact that Yahshua never taught
it, and despite the fact that the only Trinitarian verse in First John 5:7-8 has
now been revealed universally as a fraudulent addition to the original texts.
Most updated translations are removing this papal addition to the Bible. The
more that these manmade myths have been perpetuated; the harder it is to
overcome them with scriptural understanding. Nevertheless we will attempt to do
so.
Most Believers
Most Believers in the New Testament are not fully Believers in Yahshua's own
Words when it comes to His position in YHWH. His testimony and His Father's
testimony concerning Him contradict man's religious edicts, interpretations and
convocations. Councils such as Nicea and Constantinople only served to reinforce
the error of the trinity by causing sincere men and women to over look and even
disregard the Words of Messiah in favor of the words of men. Modern Judaism and
Islam have gone to the other extreme stating that monotheists cannot ever
entertain a duality of powers (not persons) considered to be echad in the
heavens. That is all well and good, but ancient Judaism and more importantly the
prophets, the sages, and the Messiah of Israel, all speak a different message
concerning true insight into understanding Elohim.
In John 10:29 Yahshua calls the Father, the Greatest Person/Power in the
universe. He clarifies that by stating that the “Father is greater than all.”[1]
That all would then relegate Yahshua, as being “less great” in position and all
other attributes, since all attributes that He possesses are said to
come/originate from the Father. The Greek word for “greater” is meizon[2]
meaning “greater”, “larger”, “stronger” or Elder”.The “Greater YHWH” is also
acknowledged as Yahshua’s own Elohim or Superior in many references such as John
20:17, Revelation 3:12 and countless other scriptures in both covenants.[3] This
concept is eternal and eternally binding on all worshippers in all generations.
IT cannot be limited to a time from Bethlehem to Golgotha, as many
dispensationalists try to convey! Christians realize that the Father is greater
BUT in order to preserve their "holy cow" doctrine of the trinity, they caveat
that by insisting that Yahshua’s lesser status was only for a limited period of
33.5 years!
In order to fully grasp Messiah's own Words, worshippers are going to have to be
willing to leave Trinitarian dogma along with monotheistic explanations that are
manmade, based on man’s dogma but not divine revelation. When one accepts sola
scriptura/scripture alone as divine revelation, one is left with a picture of
YHWH, that completely opposes all religious perversions of His nature.
Speaking of His own existence both before and after Bethlehem, the Messiah
Yahshua teaches us in John 13:16 that the Servant, in this case the Suffering
Servant of YHWH, is not greater than the One who sent Him. That is plain and
simple. There should be no argument and no dissenting opinion. In the literal
Greek this verse reads “Neither is the apostle or YHWH’s messenger (Malach in
Hebrew) greater or the elder of Him who sent Him.” He said in John 13:17,
“blessed are you if you know these teachings!” What teachings must we know? We
must grasp that the Father is always greater the Yahshua. That is where the
truth and the blessings of comprehension reside!
Here Yahshua states that as the “Messenger of His Presence” known in times past
as Metatron, He was not, is not and will never be the elder over the Father or
equal unto the Father. Unlike Christianity, Scripture does not teach of a
“plurality of equal elders” but of the Father above all, in all and through all
including his Son.[4] The Father is said to be Greater or larger or stronger,
and the Elder of ALL, which includes the “Lesser YHWH” Yahshua. Many times in
Scripture, Paul teaches us this ancient Jewish understanding, by beginning his
epistles with a greeting in Elohim the Father the Elohim and Father of Yahshua
the Messiah. He is not only Yahshua's Father, but also His Elder Elohim. This is
not to say or even hint at the denial of Yahshua’s deity.
That in Scripture is a foregone conclusion. Yahshua is fully and equally YHWH in
that He is and has all that the Father is and has, by first receiving all things
from the Father. This bestowing upon Yahshua of all things from the Father
establishes Him forever as “YHWH the Lesser”, or the “Lesser YHWH”, eternally
under the Elder or Greater YHWH. This understanding may not initially sit well
with the reader. It may make the reader very uncomfortable, but it is pure
Scripture, reiterated many times by the Messiah Himself. When properly grasped
it is a most liberating truth from the shackles of religion and man's puny
attempts to explain His Creator, as the clear references to the duality of
divinity sets us free to worship in truth. This understanding is that “two
powers abide eternally as one”, in the heavens.
Yahshua Himself Declared
In John 14:28 Yahshua declares that “pater meizon mou” or “the Father is
greater than me.” There are those who teach that Yahshua was limited in His days
as a man, and that the Father was greater than Yahshua ONLY for those days when
Yahshua was on earth. This cannot be so. Malachi 3:6 tells us that YHWH does not
change. Since YHWH is a plurality of divinity, then Yahshua, as the brought
forth YHWH, or YHWH the Lesser is always under the authority of YHWH the
Greater. Hebrews 13:8 declares that Yahshua’s status had to be the same for
eternity, past, present, and future.
Throughout the Old Testament, it is YHWH the Greater always sending YHWH the
Lesser as YHWH the Lesser, Yahshua, is known as many things from the Messenger
of YHWH to the Captain of YHWH’s Hosts, to YHWH’s Face to the young man Metatron,
to the Word/Memra of YHWH. In order to protect the heretical views of the
trinity, Christians of all persuasions have tampered with the Word of YHWH by
applying dispensational reasoning and human logic, into what is seen as a
protection of Yahshua’s deity against heretics. In so doing, they have refused
Messiah's own teachings in both testaments, that He always was, always is, and
always will be YHWH, but YHWH the Lesser, who reflects, images, and perfectly
magnifies YHWH the Greater.
If these terms are puzzling, new or challenging to you, it is because religion
has hid them well from you. That has brought s.a.tan much joy. These references
we site do not even hint at the fact that Yahshua’s submissive role to YHWH the
Father was in anyway limited to just 33.5 years on earth, nor does He make any
reference to His Lesser YHWH designation as being merely a “role within divine
government”, or a “limiting human condition” or a “lesser role player” in the
so-called “pecking order” of heavenly government. These understandings are
isogesis or insertions of man's views into the texts. Yahshua does not speak of
a subservient position, or of a limited role as a Lesser YHWH for just 33.5
years. No, not at all. He speaks plainly of an eternal state of being, YHWH that
is eternally a submitted Lesser Power, which is exactly what Scripture tells us,
yet being fully YHWH.
Early Nazerenes
The early Nazarenes who actually wrote the Scriptures believed the truth of the
Greater and Lesser YHWH, since Yahshua taught them personally, before the
“leaven of religion” crept in unawares. Yahshua warned us about the false
trinity (from Rome) and absolute unity (from Rambam’s “13 Principles of Faith”)
heresies in Matthew 13:33, where the leaven as a type of sin, leavens the truth
of the one pure Bread of Life (Messiah). Satan introduced leaven into 3 measures
of meal or the 3 primary faces/pillars or manifestations of YHWH, the Father,
Son, and Spirit by turning them into persons at one extreme, and into one single
face of YHWH at the other extreme. Both extremes are to be avoided! The John
14:28 pronouncement is fully understandable in combination with Hebrews 13:8,
where Yahshua declares that He was, is and will yet be YHWH the Lesser or “YHWH
Ha Katan” forever. Both He and His Father never change and continue throughout
eternity as YHWH the Lesser submitted to YHWH the Elder. Apparently, much of
organized religion chooses not to remember the Words of Yahshua Himself as
reiterated again in John 15:20, where Yahshua commands His disciples to never
forget this understanding. “Remember the [this] word that I said to you.”
The Ancients Understood
The ancients of Israel understood full well this concept of two literal powers
in heaven, both being part of the echad of Israel. We see this understanding in
such places as Exodus 24:1-2, Psalm 110:1-5 (where one YHWH converses with
another YHWH), Ezekiel 10:1-2, Ezekiel 1:19-28, Daniel 7:9,13,14 and many other
places. In Genesis 19:23, for example, we see the “Sent YHWH” or “YHWH Katan”
calling up to His Elohim or YHWH the Greater who SENT Him to destroy the cities
of the plains. The ancient sages of Israel referred to the Lesser and Greater
YHWH with the Lesser YHWH appearing to prophets such as Ezekiel in Ezekiel 1:28,
or as He did later on earth to his disciples.[5] In Jewish literature the
understanding was that the Word of YHWH, who we know to be Yahshua, was known as
the Lesser YHWH or YHWH Ha Qatan.[6]
Yahshua did not come to earth with a new revelation. He was reiterating what had
happened in the Old Testament, as well as confirming the ancient
understanding[7] of the Greater YHWH sending the Lesser YHWH, with the Sent One
being the One who carries the Divine Name. Yahshua reiterates that He is
eternally the Sent One or “Angel/Messenger of His Presence” and has come to be
known as Messiah YHWH, to carry the Divine Name to Israel through His
disciples.[8] The Lesser YHWH was known as the “Guardian of Israel”, as Yahshua
refers to Himself in John 17:12, where He "is carrying" the divine name of YHWH,
to deliver it to the disciples, all the while claiming to be guarding them. In
Aramaic He was known as Metatron.[9] The Lesser YHWH received His Name from His
role as guardian of YHWH’s people. Whether or not the concept of the Lesser and
Greater YHWH may be new to the reader is not the issue here. Yahshua taught it
and we as His true Torah honoring disciples must perceive Him as He is revealed,
not as we might like to recreate Him in our image after our likeness.
Jewish understanding does not only coincide with Messiah's revelation of Himself
as YHWH Ha Qatan. We are fortunate in that historical ecclesiastical records of
the early Israelite Nazarenes have been preserved for us to examine whether this
truth was familiar and was embraced by them, or rather if this doctrine would
have seemed strange to them.
Epiphaneus states that the early Believers were “just like the Torah keeping
Jews” and differed in no way from their accepted practices.[10] The Israelite
disciples then were no different than their non-believing Jewish counterparts in
all ways. Because of these Messianic Torah beliefs, the Nazarenes were
considered heretics along with another similar group by the name of the
Cerinthians, named after Cerinthus, a Born Again Believer who followed Torah.
And what did his group believe?
According to Epiphaneus, they believed the same thing the early Nazarenes
believed. What was that? They believed in Messiah Yahshua, Torah and a view of
Elohim that held that the world was not created by the Supreme Deity but by a
certain power emanating from Him. Epiphaneus 2:29:1 affirms that the Nazarenes
and Cerinthians held common views on the true Creator emanating from the Supreme
One. According to this historian, he couldn’t say who came first the Nazarenes
or Cerinthians, but they held similar beliefs.[11] Irenaeus, another
anti-Nazarene, kirch historian and father who lived in 130-200 CE states that
the Cerinthians/Nazarenes taught that “the world was not made by the primary God
[sic] but by a certain power from Him, and at a distance from the Principality
who is Supreme over the Universe and ignorant of Him who is above all.”[12]
Furthermore he also stated that, “But a certain Cerinthus himself being
discipled in the teachings of the Egyptians, asserted that the world was not
made by the Primal Deity, but by some virtue which was an offshoot [Branch/Tzemach/Messiah]
Power, which is above all things.”[13] The idea of a Lesser YHWH, still YHWH but
above all powers, thrones, dominions, principalities, having preceded forth from
YHWH the Greater was so common among Yahshua’s disciples in the Nazarene,
Ebonite and Cerinthians Torah Messianic communities, that all these Messianic
groups were labeled as heretics by the “church fathers.” Of course, as the
reader can see not much has changed.
Nevertheless Yahshua and the Old Testament teach the same thing, and as we
return to the faith once for all delivered to the saints, we can do no less. We
can expect the same treatment from both sides of the issue.
We are left with the overwhelming evidence of Scripture, history and Messiah’s
very own Words. No matter how unsettling or new this understanding may be, it
nonetheless stands solely on His Word in both covenants. We have merely touched
the tip of the iceberg on this subject of the Greater and Lesser YHWH, as we
could literally pen a separate work with hundreds of pages of documentation
further substantiating the concept.
For Now
For now however, let the reader understand that the anti-missionary’s teachings
flies in the face of all testimony concerning the eternal identity of Messiah as
YHWH. We have brought this concept to the reader in order for the reader to
understand that the concept of the Messiah being divine as YHWH emanating from
the Father YHWH, and yet not being the Father, but One of two ruling powers in
heaven in one echad, is the most Jewish of concepts. Moreover, it remains the
most Messianic of concepts, and most importantly the truest understanding of
YHWH-Elohim-Echad, explaining all the “duality of divinity” references in the
Old Testament. This understanding preserves Abba-YHWH as the Greatest of all
powers in this age, and in all the worlds without end.
May this most Hebraic, Messianic, and biblical understanding of the nature and
role of Messiah, assist the reader, as the reader remains or returns to the
faith. Fight the good fight of first century Messianic faith, as you hold fast
against the darts and demonic confusing agenda of the modern day
anti-missionaries, who stand for little else than dislodging the reader from
eternal life in Israel’s Messiah.
Le Chaim... To life!
[1] John 10:29
[2] Strongs Greek # 3187
[3] For a full consideration on the topic see Messiah Volume Three B. Mordechai
chapters daled and kuf
[4] Ephesians 4:6
[5] Zohar, Shemot Section 2. p. 126 a
[6] Messiah, Volume Three p. 392
[7] Zohar Amsterdam Edition p. 114 Col 1
[8] John 17:12
[9] Aramaic word for guardian
[10] Parnarion Eusebius Section 29,7. 1-9:5
[11] Epiphanius Panarion 2:29:1
[12] Irenaeus, The Refutation Of All Heresies Chapter 20 p. sec 1 p351-352
[13] Ibid. P.114
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