Thus far we have seen that in order to truly know Yahushua, we must search for Him, and search out His will for us, not only in the New Testament, but also in the Old Testament!  In fact, we may see Yahushua hidden in every book of the Bible, disguised here and there in various personages, prophetically revealing Himself in the activities and sayings of various characters.

We are looking at the various Truths of Messiah, and how He will cause all of those to enter His Rest, another euphemism for entering in to the City of the King.  To see this more clearly, we will look at Messiah In the Wilderness, and His dealings with the Israelites in the Wilderness, as our example.

We shall now look for further clues to the true identity of Yahushua.  Notice the following passage:

1 Moreover, brethren, I would not that ye should be ignorant, how that all our fathers were under the cloud, and all passed through the sea;  2 And were all baptized unto Moses in the cloud and in the sea;  3 And did all eat the same spiritual meat;  4 And did all drink the same spiritual drink: for they drank of that spiritual Rock that followed them: and that Rock was Christ.  5 But with many of them God was not well pleased: for they were overthrown in the wilderness.  6 Now these things were our examples, to the intent we should not lust after evil things, as they also lusted.  7 Neither be ye idolaters, as were some of them; as it is written, The people sat down to eat and drink, and rose up to play.  8 Neither let us commit fornication, as some of them committed, and fell in one day three and twenty thousand.  9 Neither let us tempt Christ, as some of them also tempted, and were destroyed of serpents.  10 Neither murmur ye, as some of them also murmured, and were destroyed of the destroyer.  11 Now all these things happened unto them for ensamples: and they are written for our admonition, upon whom the ends of the world are come.   (1 Corinthians 10:1-11)

We see in the above passage that it was Messiah that accompanied the Israelites in the Wilderness (verse 4), and that it was Messiah that they tempted (verse 9).  Now let us notice the following passage:

20 And the LORD said, I have pardoned according to thy word:  21 But as truly as I live, all the earth shall be filled with the glory of the LORD.  22 Because all those men which have seen my glory, and my miracles, which I did in Egypt and in the wilderness, and have tempted me now these ten times, and have not hearkened to my voice;  23 Surely they shall not see the land which I sware unto their fathers, neither shall any of them that provoked me see it:   (Numbers 14:20-23)

Here we are told that it was Yahuweh (spelled YHWH in Hebrew, with no vowels, and spelled LORD with all Capital letters in the English Scriptures) that they tempted!  Beloved, either this is a contradiction, or else Yahushua is Yahuweh of the Old Testament. Dear Reader, Which is it?  We do know that there are no contradictions in Yahuweh’s Word (there are riddles, however, appearing as contradictions to the unlearned).  Let us look at further Scripture.  In the following passage observe what Yahuweh said:

9 When your fathers tempted me, proved me, and saw my work.  10 Forty years long was I grieved with this generation, and said, It is a people that do err in their heart, and they have not known my ways:  11 Unto whom I sware in my wrath that they should not enter into my rest.   (Psalms 95:9)

We read of the same event, even the same passage above, quoted in Hebrews – in the context that it is talking about Messiah Yahushua.  Note the following:

7  Wherefore (as the Holy Ghost saith, To day if ye will hear his voice,  8 Harden not your hearts, as in the provocation, in the day of temptation in the wilderness:  9 When your fathers tempted me, proved me, and saw my works forty years.  10 Wherefore I was grieved with that generation, and said, They do alway err in their heart; and they have not known my ways.  11 So I sware in my wrath, They shall not enter into my rest.)  12 Take heed, brethren, lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief, in departing from the living God.13  But exhort one another daily, while it is called To day; lest any of you be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin.  14 For we are made partakers of Christ, if we hold the beginning of our confidence stedfast unto the end;   (Hebrews 3:7-15)

So we see from Scripture that both Yahuweh and Messiah and the Holy Spirit were the One that was tempted in the wilderness.  Are they one and the same?  In order to answer this, we must look for further clues in Scripture.

Let us look closely at the following passage:

Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.   (Matthew 11:28)

Who is it, that spoke the promise, "I will give you rest," in the above verse?  We know from the context, that it was Yahushua that spoke these words.  Now look at the following verse:

And he said, My presence shall go with thee, and I will give thee rest.    (Exodus 33:14)

Now again, who said, "I will give you rest," in this verse?  We see from the context of the above passage, that it was Yahuweh that spoke these words.  Is there a contradiction?  No, there is no contradiction, when we realize that Yahushua is none other than Yahuweh's promised presence, and the speaker of Yahuweh's Words, as seen throughout the Old Testament.  This is not only a revealing of who He is, but as we shall see in this series, a prophetic promise of how "Messiah-in-you" will be our hope of glory, and will allow us to enter in!

We could continue indefinitely.  We shall show a few more passages, each revealing the true identity of Yahushua as Yahuweh of the Old Testament:

For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace.   (Isaiah 9:6)

Jesus said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Before Abraham was, I am.   (John 8:58)

I and my Father are one.   (John 10:30)

7  If ye had known me, ye should have known my Father also: and from henceforth ye know him, and have seen him.  8 Philip saith unto him, Lord, shew us the Father, and it sufficeth us.  9 Jesus saith unto him, Have I been so long time with you, and yet hast thou not known me, Philip? he that hath seen me hath seen the Father; and how sayest thou then, Shew us the Father?   (John 14:7-9)

"Yes, yes," we say.  "We have long known of the above passages," we insist.  "We all know and believe that Yahushua is Yahuweh, that He is Yahuweh of the Old Testament," we continue.   "We believe in the deity of Messiah at our church – isn’t that one of the fundamentals of the Faith?" we ask.

What is the great irony here?  We have now arrived at a fork in the road!  But first let us pause for a moment, to summarize what we have seen thus far.

We started out in seeing that those that do not do the will of the Father will not know Yahushua, and will not know His true identity;  these will also not know the Father.  We have seen that to lay a good foundation, one must be a "do-er" of the sayings of Yahushua.  We then started out on a search to determine what constitutes Yahushua’s sayings, so that we may be do-ers of those sayings, and not hearers only.  We then found that we must search both the Old and New Testaments for those precious things that Yahushua has laid up for His Beloved.  Then we have seen that Scripture reveals that Yahushua is none other than Yahuweh of the Old Testament.  Let us now proceed to find the great and vast significance to these Truths.

Beloved, we have seen some clues in Scripture that indicate Yahushua is Yahuweh of the Old Testament.  Thus we must realize that the words described as the "sayings of Yahushua" are not confined to the New Testament.  The sayings of Yahushua will be found in the Old Testament also!  The sayings of Yahushua are the words that Yahuweh spoke.  The sayings of Yahushua will be "Old Covenant" words.  It is here at this understanding that the great divide begins!

Many today "say" they believe that Yahushua is Yahuweh.  Yahuweh is now testing their foundation, to see if it is one built on the sand of hearing, but not doing, or on the Rock of hearing and doing, of "My Sayings" as we saw in the parable of Mat 7:24-27.  The "My Sayings" we now see are those of both the Old and New Testament.

This great importance of this understanding of who Yahushua really is, can be seen in one statement by Yahushua:

If ye love me, keep my commandments.   (John 14:15)

Notice Yahushua did not say keep the "New Testament" commandments, but "My" Commandments.  Yahushua is testing us, whether we know Him, and love Him, by looking to see which Commandments we keep.  If we keep only the "New" Testament commandments, then we are demonstrating two things:

  1) We do not "know" who He really is (Yahuweh of the Old Testament), and
  2) We do not "Love" Him, since "My commandments" are Old Testament Commandments also.

Thus we have the great divide!  Many have been told by their Pastors that the "Old" Covenant has been done away with, but in reality the 'Old' is simply the fine print of the 'New' Covenant, with a few changes of the Sacrifice, and the Priesthood, all outlined in the Book of Hebrews for our inspection.  Other Scriptures, the words of Paul, have been "wrested" or twisted by the Theological Cemeteries and Bible Schools these well-meaning Leaders had attended.

The result is that most of the people following these Leaders have been deceived, and will fail the first test of "Love" and of "Knowing" Him ("I never 'knew' you)!  Are you one of these?

The sayings of Yahushua are sayings and commandments that many today have relegated to the ash heap, because their Pastors and Teachers have told them that the "Old Covenant words are not for us, not for today, and certainly not for New Testament Saints."  Still others have been told that the "Old Testament" words and sayings are for information and encouragement only, but not for us to "obey," as if the words were somehow separated from Yahuweh Himself. 

We will next compare some of these "notions" against the Light of Scripture.  The great "Divide" is simply a "Great Gulf Fixed," a separation between those who hold to, and practice the Traditions and Doctrines of Men, and those who hold to, and practice only the Scriptures.  It is our Traditions and Commandments of Men that can actually "prevent" Messiah-in-us from being manifest.  This is an important issue — for It is Messiah-in-us who will bring us in.

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