The Word of Elohim/Aloha

The Word of Elohim (Aloha/God)

—The Scriptures

I am convinced that the envoy (apostle) John knew the name of the *(Hebrew) Scriptures! Once the Testimony of Yeshua (“New Testament”) was finished, he mentioned it by name—in the same breath (Revelation 1:2 & 9): “the Word of God”, (in Aramaic, it would be Word of “Aloha”, rather than Word of Elohim or “God”.) The Jews particularly wanted to differentiate “their” Scriptures from the writings about the Nazarene, so they created the acronym Tanak, from three Hebrew consonants. “TaNaK” stands for the Torah, the Prophets and the Writings. Tertullian, the “Father of the Latin Church”, and inventor of the term “Trinity”, is credited (or blamed) by some for coining the supersessionist term “Old Testament”, in reference to the Hebrew Scriptures, tho contemporaries Clement or Hippolytus etc. may have coined it.

In the introduction to The Testimony of Yeshua. I explain that John used “the Testimony of Yeshua” to describe the collective words of Yeshua several times, including twice in Revelation 1. Biblical canonization didnt take place centuries later, as so many uninspired scholars have led so many to believe. Overwhelming evidence for “Apostolic canonization”, rather than Catholic, can be read in Ernest Martin’s online book Restoring the Original Bible.

Going a step further than Ernest Martin (no known relationship), we see that specifically, John used the term “the Testimony of Yeshua Messiah” three times and “Testimony of Yeshua” twice, after he had established the term; hence the name for the Gabriel Version: The Testimony of Yeshua.

The very verses in Revelation that designate the name for the writings of Yeshua, also point out the true name for what Christians brand the “Old Testament”, and what the Jews refer to as the “Tanakh”. The Texts in Revelation use the title—“The Word/s of Aloha” (Elohim/God), but they also point out the formal title to the Scriptures. Every time that the phrase “Word of God [Elohim/Aloha]” is referenced in your Bibles, it is referencing either the living “Word of Elohim”, (the living Scriptures), or the written Tanakh! And Incidentally, all 51 times that the word “Scriptures” is used in the Testimony of Yeshua, it is referencing the Tanakh—the very Word of Elohim—in contrast to the Testimony of Yeshua! Contrary to Christian doctrine, neither Yeshua or His disciples ever had a negative word to say about the Word of Elohim/Tanakh/“Old Testament”. Every statement about the Word of Elohim in the Testimony of Yeshua implies an absolute necessity for understanding the Scriptures. Here is a primary example:

2 Timothy 3:14-16 But you must continue in the things you have learned and been assured of; because you know who you learned it from; 15 because from your infancy, you were taught from the dedicated Scriptures, things that can give you the understanding to obtain eternal Life, by believing that Yeshua is the Messiah. 16 All Scripture was written by the spirit, and is profitable for doctrine, for proving convictions, for improving character, and for complete instruction in righteousness; —The Testimony of Yeshua, Gabriel Version (GV)

So if we add what Timothy was “taught from the dedicated Scriptures” with “believing that Yeshua is the Messiah”, we can “obtain eternal Life”!

Were the, in essence, Word of Elohim/Scriptures really nailed to the cross, as false teachers preach, then you would expect to find references to that effect in the Testimony, rather than hundreds of supportive quotations from it!

Of course Timothy was taught from the “Tanakh” from his “infancy”, while the Testimony wasnt even written yet.

When Yeshua mentioned the “Words of Aloha”, He had the (Hebrew) Scriptures in mind, as did every one of of His listeners.

Mark 7:9,13 ... Despite your pretenses, you reject the Commandments of Yehovah, so that you can preserve your own traditions! ... 13 You reject the Words of Aloha [the “Old Testament”], because of the tradition that you hand down. You do many things like that”.GV

Luke 3:2 During the administration of the leading priests Annas and Caiaphas; the Words of Aloha came to John the son of Zachariah, in the wilderness. GV

Luke 4:4 Yeshua replied, “The Scriptures say, ‘People dont live on bread alone; but by all of the Words of Aloha’”. GV

Luke 5:1 A crowd gathered around Him, to hear the Words of Aloha. He was standing by the side of the sea of Gennesaret ... GV

Luke 8:11 But this is the analogy, “The seed represents the Words of Aloha. GV

Luke 8:21 He said, “My mother and My brothers, are those who hear Words of Aloha, and obey them”. GV

Luke 11:28 He replied, “Blessed are those who hear the Words of Aloha, and obey them. GV

John 10:35 If he called the people who possessed the Words of Aloha, “aloha”, and the binding force of the Scriptures cant be declared unlawful ... GV

I am convinced that in all forty eight instances where the “Word of Elohim”, or “Word of Aloha”, is mentioned in the Bible, it excludes the Testimony of Yeshua, tho the Testimony is a very valuable and inspired separate book!

Revelation 1:2 He was a witness to the Words of Aloha, AND to the Testimony of Yeshua the Messiah, concerning everything that he saw. GV

Revelation 1:9 I John, your Friend, and your participant in the tribulation and suffering that are ours in Yeshua the Messiah, was on the island called Patmos, because of the Words of Aloha, AND because of the Testimony of Yeshua the Messiah. GV

Revelation 6:9 After he had opened the fifth seal, I saw under the altar the bodies of those who were slain because of the Word of Aloha, and because of the Testimony of the Lamb that they possessed. GV

Revelation 20:4 I saw thrones, and Saints sat on them, and judgment was given to them, and I saw the bodies of those who were beheaded for the Testimony of Yeshua AND for the Words of Aloha... GV

Not to be overlooked is the fact that in His preincarnate state, He commissioned the Words of Aloha to be written:

(1 Corinthians 10:4 ... and they [ancient Israel, vs.1-3] all drank the same spiritual drink; because they drank from the spiritual Rock that attended them, and that Rock was the Messiah.) GV

Revelation 19:13 He was clothed with a vest splattered with blood; and His name is called, the Word of Aloha. GV

The Tanakh doesnt even use the word Scripture/s, except for once in the KJV where it means book. The 51 usages of the word “Scripture/s” in the Testimony always refers to the “Old Testament”, as it had for centuries. Only one usage is even questioned as to which texts are in question, that being a reference in Second Peter:

2 Peter 3:16 Also in all his [Paul’s] letters, he wrote concerning these matters some things that are difficult to understand; and that those who are ignorant and unstable, twist, as they do with the rest of the Scriptures, to their own destruction. GV

If the Scriptures were to suddenly be greatly expanded, would it make sense for it to happen only incidentally, in passing, in a single comment that is questionable at best? Doesnt it make more sense that Peter was saying that people were twisting Paul’s commentary on the Scriptures, just as “those who are ignorant and unstable, twist ... the rest of the Scriptures, to their own destruction?” Peter was simply stating what should have been becomming common knowledge among the converted, rather that announcing that the words of the envoys were becoming “the rest of the Scriptures”!

The Scriptures followed by “WE” (the Word of Elohim) in Mysteries of the Everlasting Kingdom and other things I have written refer to my own version of the Hebrew Scriptures. Most of that only existing on my computer.

Originally, I only intended to update the Murdock Translation of “The Testimony of Yeshua”, the so-called “New Testament”, in my Gabriel Version, and use the World English Bible for all of my quotations from the Word of Elohim on this site, since copyright restrictions were hampering my objectives. I had been substituting the WEB’s use of the name “Yahweh” with Yehovah in brackets [ ], but this alone accounts for over 6000 changes to the text of the WEB. The WEB website requests that if any changes are made to their public domain text, that it not be called the WEB, so I will be replacing all of the bracketed WEB quotations on this site. The Word of Elohim, heavily based on the WEB, will not be indexed on my website since it needs so much work, except for the many Biblical quotations that got special attention, that are being retro fitted into the chapters of my book, Mysteries of the Everlasting Kingdom, as well as anything else that I have personally written on this site.

While I like the WEB version, it still has a considerable KJV flavoring, that is not exactly “modern English”. So, for example, the word “shall”, that hasnt been used since General MacArthur said, “I shall return”, was changed to “will”. This amounts to 977 changes in Leviticus alone! Many other rewordings that update the English, as well as enhance the meaning, as illustrated by the live lexicon links are being made (as I need them), as well as any other interesting findings that I come across in my lexicon studies.

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