>>>John 10:34 Yehoshua answered them, Is it not written in your law, I said, You are elohim?
35 If he called them elohim, unto whom the word of Elohim came, and the scripture cannot be broken;
36 You say of him, whom the Father has sanctified, and sent into the world, You blasphemy; because I said, I am the Son of Elohim?
Let us look at some of the Scriptural background to the exchange from which this quote is taken:
Deuteronomy 18:18 I will raise them up a Prophet from among their brethren, like unto thee, and will put my words in his mouth; and he shall speak unto them all that I shall command him.
19 And it shall come to pass, that whosoever will not hearken unto my words which he shall speak in my name, I will require it of him.
20 But the prophet, which shall presume to speak a word in my name, which I have not commanded him to speak, or that shall speak in the name of other elohim, even that prophet shall die.
Psalms 82
1 Elohim stands in the congregation of El; in the midst of elohim he judges.
2 How long will you judge unjustly, and accept the persons of the wicked? Selah.
3 Defend the poor and fatherless: do justice to the afflicted and needy.
4 Deliver the poor and needy: rid them out of the hand of the wicked.
5 They know not, neither will they understand; they walk on in darkness: all the foundations of the earth are out of course.
6 I have said, You are gods; and all of you are children of the most High.
7 But you shall die as mortals, and fall like one of the princes.
8 Arise, O God, judge the earth: for you shall inherit all nations.
Psalms 8
1 O HASHEM our Lord, how excellent is your name in all the earth! who has set your glory above the heavens.
2 Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings you have ordained strength because of your enemies, that you might still the enemy and the avenger.
3 When I consider your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars, which you have ordained;
4 What is adam, that you are mindful of them? and the son of adam, that you are present with him?
5 For you have made him a little lower than the elohim, and have crowned him with glory and honour.
6 You made him to have dominion over the works of your hands; you have put all things under his feet:
7 All sheep and oxen, yes, and the beasts of the field;
8 The fowl of the air, and the fish of the sea, and whatsoever passes through the paths of the seas.
9 O HASHEM our Lord, how excellent is your name in all the earth!
Hosea 1:10 Yet the number of the children of Israel shall be as the sand of the sea,
which cannot be measured nor numbered; and it shall come to pass,
that in the place where it was said unto them, Ye are not my people, there it shall be said unto them,
The children of the living Elohim.
Yehoshua asked, When the Scriptures call you elohim, why are you offended when I say that I am the Son of Elohim?
In order to understand this, we can look at another Scripture, one that can tie the children of Israel being called the children of Israel being called the children of the living Elohim together with their being themselves called elohim.
Isaiah 63:9 In all their affliction he was afflicted, and the angel of his presence saved them: in his love and in his pity he redeemed them; and he bare them, and carried them all the days of old.
God's (Elohim's) choice of Israel is His choice to be with Adam even in Adam's fallen state, even in Adam's death. It is a choice of grace and mercy, but it is also a choice of judgment, for only one branch of the family tree of Adam is chosen. Indeed, God chose to direct the creation of this family branch of Adam Himself, and to call it His own and to be revealed to the lost world through His choice of it and ultimately through its corporate salvation. Just as every family branch of Adam is fallen because there is a corporate solidarity to Adam that remains, and must remain in order for Adam (mankind) to be Adam, so Israel also in Adam is in a fallen state. In every family branch of Adam, every nation or people, there is a natural affinity for the original sin of Adam, a disposition of rebellion against Elohim and a proclivity for seeking knowledge and wisdom that should belong to Elohim alone. In Israel, this affinity for the original sin of Adam was illustrated by the sin of the golden calf.
In suffering with Israel all that she suffers (Isaiah 63:9) there is the aspect of HaShem being there with Adam and cHavah in their fall, at least to the degree that He was present with that representative part of Adam which HaShem chose to be His nation, Israel. We can say, then, that Adam-Israel fell from the original hight in which Adam was created by turning to their own understanding and seeking to be as Elohim by the act of disobedience to Elohim in seeking wisdom and the knowledge of good and evil in its entirety in their own experience, having the beginning and end of that knowledge in their own experience without need of Elohim and thereby making themselves to be Elohim.
Now, what is this that HaShem was there with them by way of His suffering with them in this, their error, and in their falling from their hight but that He was made thereby a little lower than Elohim? For, indeed, Elohim was made a little lower than Elohim in order to suffer with Israel. This is because the one who was created a little lower than Elohim tried to make itself to be a little above Elohim and Elohim would not let them fall all the way to destruction. Rather, He made Himself personally to be their foundation so that when they should fall they should fall upon Him.
Thus it is that we see the suffering of Knesset Israel and the suffering of Mashiach as one. As it is one below, so it is one above, for as Israel is repentant and walks in the ruach of HaShem she is elevated to the rectification of her transgression. What is the rectification of her transgression? It is that she should have understanding and wisdom from above and not from below. Because she desired wisdom and did not simply desire disobedience she can hear the correction to the sin that she sought to give what was not hers to give, (the goodness and wisdom of the forbidden fruit). For wisdom is for nothing but to give. However, she sought to give as from herself as the source of giving while the source of giving was not hers. Therefore, being deceived through her desire to be the provider of all that is good she deceived the world and became worthy of condemnation, but HaShem was gracious to her and showed her the suffering of Mashiach's love for her for the sake of her rectification of all things from evil to good, and yet seeing her lacking of the Divine Presence of Elohim within her, she (Israel) repented, (she shall repent entirely when her hour comes), that she might become a true and complete instrument of goodness. Through walking in repentance she was thus elevated to the level of reconciliation with the One who loved her and gave Himself for her, the level of her sufferings being accounted as one with His sufferings. Thus, above, she is Knesset Israel, and she ascends from below unto herself and unto her beloved. Through Mashiach she is elevated again to be a little lower than Elohim, the place of her origin and her life and the place of her eternal estate.
Luke 20:36 Neither can they die any more: for they are equal unto the angels; and are the children of Elohim, being the children of the resurrection.
35 If he called them elohim, unto whom the word of Elohim came, and the scripture cannot be broken;
36 You say of him, whom the Father has sanctified, and sent into the world, You blasphemy; because I said, I am the Son of Elohim?
Let us look at some of the Scriptural background to the exchange from which this quote is taken:
Deuteronomy 18:18 I will raise them up a Prophet from among their brethren, like unto thee, and will put my words in his mouth; and he shall speak unto them all that I shall command him.
19 And it shall come to pass, that whosoever will not hearken unto my words which he shall speak in my name, I will require it of him.
20 But the prophet, which shall presume to speak a word in my name, which I have not commanded him to speak, or that shall speak in the name of other elohim, even that prophet shall die.
Psalms 82
1 Elohim stands in the congregation of El; in the midst of elohim he judges.
2 How long will you judge unjustly, and accept the persons of the wicked? Selah.
3 Defend the poor and fatherless: do justice to the afflicted and needy.
4 Deliver the poor and needy: rid them out of the hand of the wicked.
5 They know not, neither will they understand; they walk on in darkness: all the foundations of the earth are out of course.
6 I have said, You are gods; and all of you are children of the most High.
7 But you shall die as mortals, and fall like one of the princes.
8 Arise, O God, judge the earth: for you shall inherit all nations.
Psalms 8
1 O HASHEM our Lord, how excellent is your name in all the earth! who has set your glory above the heavens.
2 Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings you have ordained strength because of your enemies, that you might still the enemy and the avenger.
3 When I consider your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars, which you have ordained;
4 What is adam, that you are mindful of them? and the son of adam, that you are present with him?
5 For you have made him a little lower than the elohim, and have crowned him with glory and honour.
6 You made him to have dominion over the works of your hands; you have put all things under his feet:
7 All sheep and oxen, yes, and the beasts of the field;
8 The fowl of the air, and the fish of the sea, and whatsoever passes through the paths of the seas.
9 O HASHEM our Lord, how excellent is your name in all the earth!
Hosea 1:10 Yet the number of the children of Israel shall be as the sand of the sea,
which cannot be measured nor numbered; and it shall come to pass,
that in the place where it was said unto them, Ye are not my people, there it shall be said unto them,
The children of the living Elohim.
Yehoshua asked, When the Scriptures call you elohim, why are you offended when I say that I am the Son of Elohim?
In order to understand this, we can look at another Scripture, one that can tie the children of Israel being called the children of Israel being called the children of the living Elohim together with their being themselves called elohim.
Isaiah 63:9 In all their affliction he was afflicted, and the angel of his presence saved them: in his love and in his pity he redeemed them; and he bare them, and carried them all the days of old.
God's (Elohim's) choice of Israel is His choice to be with Adam even in Adam's fallen state, even in Adam's death. It is a choice of grace and mercy, but it is also a choice of judgment, for only one branch of the family tree of Adam is chosen. Indeed, God chose to direct the creation of this family branch of Adam Himself, and to call it His own and to be revealed to the lost world through His choice of it and ultimately through its corporate salvation. Just as every family branch of Adam is fallen because there is a corporate solidarity to Adam that remains, and must remain in order for Adam (mankind) to be Adam, so Israel also in Adam is in a fallen state. In every family branch of Adam, every nation or people, there is a natural affinity for the original sin of Adam, a disposition of rebellion against Elohim and a proclivity for seeking knowledge and wisdom that should belong to Elohim alone. In Israel, this affinity for the original sin of Adam was illustrated by the sin of the golden calf.
In suffering with Israel all that she suffers (Isaiah 63:9) there is the aspect of HaShem being there with Adam and cHavah in their fall, at least to the degree that He was present with that representative part of Adam which HaShem chose to be His nation, Israel. We can say, then, that Adam-Israel fell from the original hight in which Adam was created by turning to their own understanding and seeking to be as Elohim by the act of disobedience to Elohim in seeking wisdom and the knowledge of good and evil in its entirety in their own experience, having the beginning and end of that knowledge in their own experience without need of Elohim and thereby making themselves to be Elohim.
Now, what is this that HaShem was there with them by way of His suffering with them in this, their error, and in their falling from their hight but that He was made thereby a little lower than Elohim? For, indeed, Elohim was made a little lower than Elohim in order to suffer with Israel. This is because the one who was created a little lower than Elohim tried to make itself to be a little above Elohim and Elohim would not let them fall all the way to destruction. Rather, He made Himself personally to be their foundation so that when they should fall they should fall upon Him.
Thus it is that we see the suffering of Knesset Israel and the suffering of Mashiach as one. As it is one below, so it is one above, for as Israel is repentant and walks in the ruach of HaShem she is elevated to the rectification of her transgression. What is the rectification of her transgression? It is that she should have understanding and wisdom from above and not from below. Because she desired wisdom and did not simply desire disobedience she can hear the correction to the sin that she sought to give what was not hers to give, (the goodness and wisdom of the forbidden fruit). For wisdom is for nothing but to give. However, she sought to give as from herself as the source of giving while the source of giving was not hers. Therefore, being deceived through her desire to be the provider of all that is good she deceived the world and became worthy of condemnation, but HaShem was gracious to her and showed her the suffering of Mashiach's love for her for the sake of her rectification of all things from evil to good, and yet seeing her lacking of the Divine Presence of Elohim within her, she (Israel) repented, (she shall repent entirely when her hour comes), that she might become a true and complete instrument of goodness. Through walking in repentance she was thus elevated to the level of reconciliation with the One who loved her and gave Himself for her, the level of her sufferings being accounted as one with His sufferings. Thus, above, she is Knesset Israel, and she ascends from below unto herself and unto her beloved. Through Mashiach she is elevated again to be a little lower than Elohim, the place of her origin and her life and the place of her eternal estate.
Luke 20:36 Neither can they die any more: for they are equal unto the angels; and are the children of Elohim, being the children of the resurrection.
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