Roles of Father, Son and Holy Spirit

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by Ray Daly (Lincoln, North Dakota)
            Mathew 28:19. “Go you therefore and teach all nations.  BAPTIZING them in the NAME of the Father, and [the NAME of] the Son, and [the NAME of] the Holy Spirit!”
            Obviously, I applied the word “Name” in brackets, when referring to the latter two.  Simply, because most of mainstream Christianity believes that that is the main “topic” of the above.  The names of the “three” beings in the God head.  It seems that, even though they believe the three mentioned are three individuals, they NEVER tell us what said names are.
            While the Father’s name is given in Old Testament Scriptures, it is seldom used in basic Scriptural teachings.  This is True of both Sabbath and Sunday teachings.  I will come to his name as the article continues.
            In a sense, the same is True of the Son of the Father.  Whom all know of as being Jesus, the son of Mary.  Few know of his name as it is recorded in Hebrew writings.  I will come to this also.
            This leaves the “third party”.  The Holy Spirit.  And, lo and behold, the religionists cannot give a name to said Holy Spirit, because there is no name given in Scripture.   The Father?  Yes.  Actually, two names.  The Son?  Yes.  And he is also known by other names.  But the fact that Scripture shows that the Holy Spirit is NOT A THIRD PERSON.  It is not a personage at all.  Which will be shown as the Study continues.
            What we will see shortly is, that the word “name” ought not to be in this verse at all.  For, if there is no name known, then how can we say that name is supposed to be there?  What we will see is that, according to the use of names in the Hebrew language, said real “names” are often used in order to make it to fulfill a “role”.  An example.  Aaron was the first high priest of the Old Covenant law called Moses law.  Yet, long after Aaron’s death, when his children had carried on, the “role” that Aaron played, is placed upon the priesthood.  It is called “Aaron’s priesthood”, even though he no longer heads it.
            As well, the above, and many examples like it, should be what the reader sees, when he or she reads Mat. 28:19. “The ROLE of the Father.  The ROLE of the Son.  The ROLE of the Holy Spirit”.  For it is evident that all three play a great part in the plan of salvation for mankind.
            Before starting with what are the “roles” of the three mentioned above, let’s go to the Old Testament, and look at what the original name of the Father was.  Before he adopted his second name.
            Gen. 17:1. “When Abram was ninety-nine years old, the LORD appeared to Abram, and said.  I am God Almighty…!”  This was and still is the Creator’s name, at the time it was given to him, after our Father’s Father first “begot him”.  In the Hebrew, God Almighty is written “El Shadday”.  We see the name “LORD”, but this was not in the original writings, but added by the Scribes over the centuries.  Now go to Ex. 6:3, where we see the REAL FIRST time that the name LORD/YHVH is applied to El Shadday.  “And I appeared to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, by the name of [El Shadday].  BUT by my [new, second] name [YHVH/LORD] was I NOT KNOWN to them!”
            Now, as we go into the New Testament writings, to find out what the words of Mat. 28:19 are really telling us, let’s keep in mind that, we will not find “any names given”.  Only “roles”.  As well, we will find that the main theme of said verse in identifying those roles, will be found in the word “Baptisms”.
            John 6:44. “No man can come to me [the Son], except the Father, who has SENT me, DRAW him”.  The word “draw” can best be read in New Testament teachings as “call”. And the act of “calling” is exactly the “role” that the Father played, in introducing the coming of his Son to be, for a while, with mankind. 
            Now note what was it that “called” people in the first century to said Son.  Yes, it was through John the Baptist, that the Jews of the first century, learned of the coming of the Son.  And it was his BAPTISM of the total immersion of the body in water, that showed that those who heard his message, had accepted his message.  Take note that, “total emersion” baptism, is simply a “CALLING” into the message.  Much as all of Israel was “baptized [emerged] in the cloud”, when they crossed the Eastern arm of the Red Sea, and in so doing, became “priests”.  Going on.
            John 14:6. “Jesus said to them.  I am the Way, the Truth, the Life.  No man comes to the FATHER but by me!”  What do these words mean?  Well, if the Father had called “multitudes” to come to his Son, then it obviously means of those multitudes, that the Son “chose” a few to be able to “come to the Father”.  It does say, “Many are called, but few are chosen”.
            In the above two Scriptures, we have seen the “roles” of the Father and the Son.  The first to call the many, and the second to choose only a few.  Which then brings us to the “role” of the Holy Spirit.  But before explaining that, let’s just take a look at “what” the Holy Spirit really is.
            John 14:23. “If a man loves me, he will keep my words.  And my Father will love him.  And WE will come and make our abode with him!”  This “abode” can be looked at in two ways.  For one, in the future, there will be a time when “New Jerusalem” will come down upon the earth.  And in so doing, the Father and the Son will “make their abode in it”.  Secondly, it can mean that, in the time that one is “chosen”, the Father and the Son can make their abode with them, by placing a part of their Spiritual selves to be with and within them.  The main thing is, “Where is the Holy Spirit”?  If it is a person?
            John 15:26. “But when the Comforter [the Holy Spirit] is come, [which] I will SEND to you, from the Father, even the SPIRIT of Truth, which proceeds FROM the Father, [it] shall testify of me!”  Don’t let yourselves to continue to be deceived.  The words “it, he, him, and such” that is used in these accounts, when referring to the Comforter, were put there by translators, that believed the lie of the Holy Spirit being a person.  An individual.  We have already seen this as being an impossibility.  And there is more.
            For, if the Comforter comes “FROM” the Father, and it is referring to a person, then “how many persons can the Holy Spirit be”?  It is no different than if the “Father” came to live his life in any individual.  Or the Son.  There is only one Father, and only one Son.  Thus, if there were only “one” Holy Spirit, then as mentioned, how can he be MANY individuals.
            We have seen the “role” of the Father, as being the “calling” of peoples to his son.  The “baptism” being total immersion of the body in water.  But what of the son.  If his role is to “choose” a few for the Father, and the theme of Mat. 28:19 centers on Baptisms, then what sort of “baptism” was it that shows us what the “choosing” involves?
            We see this at the time of Christ’s last Passover meal.  And said baptism was when he took a pan of water, and went to each of the disciples, and “immersed their feet” in water.  For, it was this “immersion” of the feet, that would later be one of the reasons for the future baptism of the Holy Spirit.  But to understand what it really means, when Christ “washed” their feet, let’s go back to the Old Testament, and see what happened, that made “priests” of the Levites.  Especially, that of the high priesthood of Aaron and his sons.
            Lev. 8:6. “And Moses brought Aaron and his sons and WASHED them with water!”  This “washed” in Hebrew is #7364, and it means to “LAVE [put in water] the WHOLE of a PART of a thing”.  In this case, said “washing” was the “whole” of the body.  Just as John’s calling baptism was the immersing of the “whole” body.  It needs to be kept in mind that, in this verse above, said “immersing” was of the whole body.  For, this was before Aaron and his sons could even begin their priesthood works.  Even then, said first works were limited to only those duties in the court before the Tabernacle of Meeting.
            Now note the words of Ex. 40:31-32.  “And Moses, and Aaron and his sons WASHED their hands and feet…Whenever they went into the tent [Holy Place] …they WASHED.”  Even though Aaron and his sons (and all Levites) had been washed/baptized in water, they could only do the work of the called.  That being the works of the court of the Temple.  But it took the “choosing” immersion of the feet, before they could further their works within the Temple itself.  In which room the “chosen” can do their duties.
            In the New Testament, the “many” (all Levites) had their bodies totally immersed in water.  Only the “few” had their feet totally immersed in water.  But “neither the total immersion of the body, or of the feet”, gave the Holy Spirit to those partaking of said baptisms.  Except, with the “chosen”, the Holy Spirit was to be “with them”.  This is what it meant when it tells us “Jesus breathed on them and said.  Receive the Holy Spirit”.  They received it “outwardly”.  It was with them, but not in them.
            In the outer room of the Tabernacle, the Holy Place, there was a candlestick.  Now, only those disciples that had their feet washed, and the Holy Spirit placed “with them” were allowed to be of the work of the Holy Place.  Which basically centered on the old covenant law of Moses.  But Moses law has no Spiritual qualities.  One does not have the Holy Spirit enter into them, simply by obeying Moses.  There is more required before the “chosen” can enter into the inner room, the Holy of Holies.  Where the Old Covenant Law of the Ten Commandments (a law of faith, as to the law of works of the outer room) was hidden away in the Ark.
            Only one group of chosen disciples were allowed to enter into the Holy of Holies.  That being for those that, for a while had the Holy Spirit WITH them, to have the Holy Spirit be placed WITHIN them.  Meaning, the “ROLE OF THE HOLY SPIRIT”, is to allow entrance into the ONLY room in which there is Eternal Life promised.  And, it is in that room, into which the Son of Man entered after his resurrection.  The room in which is the throne (Mercy Seat), upon which he will sit.  In other words, those with the Holy Spirit within them will become the “Sons of God”.  Those left in the Holy Place, with the Holy Spirit “with” them are still “sons of God in waiting”.
            Mat. 28:19. “Three ROLES, three BAPTISMS”.  Only TWO beings/persons”.
 
Editor’s Note: We have never heard this one before. Is it true or isn’t it true? Does anyone have the answer? Laura Lee
Iron Sharpening Iron
In regard to: Roles of Father, Son and Holy Spirit
Article by Ray Daly
Comments by Alfio La Spina (Victoria British Columbia)
The qualification for receiving the Holy Spirit is made clear in these verses. We are to Love and follow Jesus. We need the help of the Holy Spirit to overcome so we can be Sons of God. So, the part about the Sons of God in waiting does not seem to fit.
 
John 14:23-26 (NIV) 23 Jesus replied, “Anyone who loves me will obey my teaching. My Father will love them, and we will come to them and make our home with them. 24 Anyone who does not love me will not obey my teaching. These words you hear are not my own; they belong to the Father who sent me. 25 “All this I have spoken while still with you. 26 But the Advocate, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, will teach you all things and will remind you of everything I have said to you. 
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