What is SHEKINAH? Is a plural word? Is a Name of God as we were told about the word ELOHIM?

Preachers and book writers use the word SHEKINAH often, I heard and read that word early after my conversion; over 50 years ago, (this may, 2004, my darling and I celebrate our 50^th. anniversary) but never I was informed what in all reality is SHEKINAH.

But now I know that it is an old word, and appears to be even now-days, as the word GODHEAD, few people in the religious world really knows what the word GODHEAD IS. One, who wants to grow in the faith, is told that he must..grow in the knowledge of the Lord.. ; But sad to say, must professing believers grow, but in apathy toward the “…treasures of wisdom and knowledge … that are …hid in Christ our Lord…” to really know who is THE LORD JESUS-CHRIST.

How important is the word SHEKINAH? In my opinion it is as important as the word Godhead was to the Apostle Paul who mentioned on two of his letters, in one he wrote “ For the invisible things of him, from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead… ”, In another letter he wrote “ For in Him (Jesus) dwelleth all the fullness of the Godhead (all the completeness of Divine Deity) bodily”. And in Mars’ Hill he preached “…forasmuch then as we are the offspring of God, we ought not to think that the Godhead is like unto gold, or silver, or stone graven by art and man’s device.” Precisely these happen in 325 A.D. with the new doctrine on the Godhead, MEN’S DIVICE!; From Moody Bible College, they offered this (in their advertising in my website page): God is a PERSON, he exist as a Trinity in three Persons… They still are devising it for the worse! God a Person, a Divine Person + Three other Divine Persons, is not that FOUR DIVINE PERSONS? In their Trinity??.

The statements of Paul swept aside all philosophical opinions about what human intellect can say about what GODHEAD is, being synonymous of SHEKINAH and vice-verse. When Saul got converted on the road to Damascus, the Lord Jesus and him had a conversation that if it was in Hebrew, we are told ,the word LORD, IS A SUBSTITUTION FOR THE UNPRONOUNCIABLE NAME OF DEITY. Why Saul lost his sight? What he saw? and not only what he saw but why his complete immediate self-will surrender; saying “…LORD, what wilt thou have me to do?” He was very sure till that very moment that he was serving The LORD YHAWEH the One Deity of Israel, and that Jesus was nothing else that a false prophet. Saul never conceived the thought that Jesus could be “another God”, he knew better than that; “And profited in the Jews’ religion above many my equals in my own nation, being more exceedingly zealous of the traditions of my fathers…”; that young Pharisee, was well knowledgeable of the tradition about the word SHEKINAH.

It were the fathers of the Jews religion the originators of the word SHEKINAH; an oral expression

of the Sublime Appearance of a Celestial Divine form of a human, Complete in Beauty and Splendor, and of Great-Grand Grandeur and of Majestic Majesty; the A.C.M.E. of PERFECTION AND HOLINESS.

That was what Moses and Aaron and the elders saw of the.. Form in heaven.. , And the Heavenly Form that Isaiah saw sitting upon a throne.., and the Glorious Form that Ezekiel saw and reported “…the Glory of God of Israel came from the way of the east, and His voice was like… and the earth shined with GLORY .

The word “form” and the word “voice” and the word HIS GLORY referred to One and the same Divine Heavenly Form, the very One to whom Moses asked ..show me Thy Glory..; (after he had see Him appearing in a flame of fire) and was denied of it at that time. Years later this Glorious ..“Form of God“.. said to prophet Isaiah; “I am The Lord; that is My Name; and my glory I will not (share) with another.. , …I am The Lord; and beside me there is no Savior.”

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Paul knew all of the last two segments mentioned above, yet he wrote “…Jesus Christ who is the Savior of all men, specially of those who believe”. and “we see the GLORY OF GOD IN THE FACE OF JESUS CHRIST…” “ WHEREFORE HENCEFORTH …THOUGH WE HAVE KNOWN CHRIST AFTER THE FLESH, YET NOW HENCEFORTH KNOW WE HIM NO MORE”.
We know him no more in the flesh, because. “…GOD WAS IN CHRIST…” AND GOD IN CHRIST was: DIVINITY IN HUMANITY. Omnipotence in a babe that was not able to feed himself IN ORDER TO POSSES WHAT HE DIN’T HAVE IN HEAVEN, BLOOD THAT IS, to be able to WASH AWAY THE STEIN OF SIN ONCE FOR ALL, SPECIALLY IN THOSE WHO BELIEVE.

So, “…we see Jesus, who was made a little lower than the angels for the suffering of death, crowned with glory and honor”. (THE SHEKINAH) “…that he by the grace of God should taste death for every man. For it became him, for whom are all things, and by whom are all things, IN BRINGNING MANY SONS UNTO GLORY, (since He is THE FATHER OF THE SPIRITS OF ALL FLESH AND HE IS THE ETERNAL FATHER, AND ETERNAL LIFE COMES ONLY FROM THE ETERNAL FATHER) …to make the captain of their salvation perfect through sufferings; FORASMUCH THEN AS THE CHILDREN ARE PARTAKERS OF FLESH AND BLOOD, HE ALSO HIMSELF LIKEWISE TOOK PART OF THE SAME; THAT THROUGH DEATH HE MIGHT DESTROY HIM THAT HAD THE POWER OF DEATH, THAT IS, THE DEVIL.”

Alleluia! What a victory over the very first sinner and the very one who stained heaven with his sin, later on he brought sin into the garden of Eden, and then and since then, he has brought sin into the House of God (Temple, Tabernacle, Sanctuary or Dwelling Place); Jesus’ body was and still is all that. The Devil has try to defile every place were THE SHEKINAH APPEARED and since SHEKINAH DWELLETH IN JESUS, THE DEVIL TEMPTED JESUS IN ORDER TO DEFILE THE HUMAN TEMPLE OF GOD that HE HAD MADE FOR HIMSEL, But God. Cannot be stained with sin… and His flesh was “…holy. Without spot, and made more sublime that the heavens.. Who did not sin, neither was guile found in his mouth”. Now then, since His Tabernacle, His Sanctuary His House and His Temple, all that were places were the SHEKINAH appeared, they were types of the …manifestation of God in the flesh… (The Son given) where The SHEKINAH WAS TO DWELL PERMANENTLY since His flesh was made AHOLIBAT =TENT OF THE FATHER Permanently and to be shared with those who became “…partakers of HIS divine nature….” And this is that, that began to happen at the beginning of the Apostolic Church the day of Pentecost, Jesus have prayed for that to happen “…the glory which Thou gavest me I have given them. That they may be one, even as we are one: I IN THEM, AND THOU IN ME.”
That is why John wrote: “...he who acknowledges the Son, HATH THE FATHER ALSO.”

“…THROUGH HIM (Jesus)) WE BOTH HAVE ACCESS BY ONE SPIRIT UNTO THE FATHER..” The church at Ephesus was though that, on the same letter that “grace” was mentioned to them.

What a privilege, what a blesedness, what an experience to walk on the heavenly atmosphere right to the HOLY OF HOLIEST like the priest of the temple not without having been wash first and then enter in with the blood of the sacrifice; now it is with the blood of our Savior God Almighty, and being wash as Saul was told, …be baptize and wash- away thy sins calling on the Name of The Lord… that one can pass … through the veil, that is his flesh… and one can go as close to the MERCY SEAT AS CAN BE . as John rested his head in the boson of his Master, Wonderful, Wonderful Lord Jesus!.

We are told, …”our hearts might be comforted, unto all riches of full assurance of understanding of the mystery of GOD, AND OF THE FATHER, AND OF CHRIST. IN WHOM ARE HID ALL TREASURES OF WISDOM AND KNOWLEDGE.” I have no claim in my part, any celestial revelation for this reading material only what my understanding has allow me to comprehend about this Divine Mystery of The SHEKINAH PRESENCE, At this point, this writer feels it is necessary to made mention that the SHEKINAH departed from the temple that God’s People build, the reason? MIXED WORSHIP.

They knew that the SHECHINAH was The Holy Presence of Almighty God, The glory of Invisible Omnipresence in glorious visible form in one place that sanctified the place for Him to receive their worship with all their heart; all their strength and all their understanding and as the years went by they didn’t do it in God’s standards. As mentioned above, since the Glorious Beginning of The Church, it is made possible for men to say.. ( I )have this treasure in earthen vessel… that is assuming that the reader has experienced the Glorious Baptism of The Holy Ghost, “…CHRIST IN YOU, THE HOPE OF GLORY…”
.And THE WORD (SHEKINAH) WAS MADE FLESH, AND TABERNACLE AMONG US, AND WE BEHELD HIS GLORY…, … OF HIS FULLNESS (GODHEAD, SHECHINAH) HAVE ALL WE, RECEIVED, AND GRACE FOR GRACE. “ And I heard a great voice out of heaven saying, Behold THE TABERNACLE OF GOD (His manifestation in the flesh) is with men (to worship in spirit and in truth) and He will dwell with them…, … and He said unto me…, HE THAT OVERCOMETH SHALL INHERIT ALL THINGS; AND I WILL BE HIS GOD, AND HE SHALL BE MY SON”,Allow me please this personal words to the reader: I write with no professional artist to “manicure my thoughts and writings” , I write from my heart, the Apostle Paul wrote about the danger to preach “another Jesus” different of the One they (the Apostles) preached; I expose myself to the criticism, ridicule and judgment of anybody out there, I am aware that most of the readers disagree with me in most of what I write, but let it be!

Can some one prove me wrong?. You see, I believe and understand and know that The Lord Jesus is all that I mentioned in all my reading materials, if I said some thing that The Lord is not, then I am guilty of presenting “another Jesus” therefore guilty of very serious consequences; the reason I am saying this, is because I take very serious whom my Savior is. I don’t write to defend any denomination or to seek the favor of any.

I write to Ministers to share with them one o many, what I have accepted from the Holy Scriptures for myself, what I see inside the Kingdom, to which like Jesus said, one “...must enter in…”
most believers believe that they have the kingdom in their heart. I have learn reading from religious writers “how I don’t want to be”, and make repetitions of errors that others preach.

For example: I have in my position a booklet of 32 pages in which four times the writer says that Jesus is equal to His Father, and the fifth time this writer says (quote): and the Lord Jesus Christ place himself equal to his father in his prayer in the 17 chp. of John “And this is life eternal, that they might know thee the only

True God, and Jesus Christ whom thou has sent”. (end of quotation).

It is not a contradiction to what Paul wrote saying about The Lord Jesus? “Who, being in the form of God thought it not robbery to be equal with God.” (His Father that is)

To preach about Jesus in that manner, is defiling God’s Temple, Jesus spoke of his body as a temple; and there are many preachers like this one mentioned, and all because they are eager to promote their dogma of plurality of deities in the Godhead. And by the way, NO, THE SHEKINAH IS NOT PLURAL WORD, AND IT IS NO A NAME OF GOD EITHER, is as described before, A SINGLE HEAVENLY FORM OF OMNIPRESENCE IN ONE PLACE; Jesus as The Teacher ..from God, taught that THE SUBSTANCE OF GOD WAS A SPIRIT, His eternal substance was not plurality of persons as many preach, Jesus should know for more that one reasons, one of them: Jesus said ..I know Him.. And six times He said ..I came fort and proceed out from God.. .

The Scriptures never said explicitly that God is three persons, if God always existed as three persons, why Jesus describing God didn’t say it? Instead he said …God is a (singular) Spirit.. ; Jesus never said that

God was a Person, not he called God a being, but people say that God is a Being, and that Being exists as three divine Beings; if that is the case here again is the sum of it , One Being God, in three Divine Beings = Four Celestial Beings.

On a reading material about the eternal existence of the Three Divine Persons, sponsor by Christian Research Institute Int. (of which Bible Answer Man is the President) on page 5.d. Is God a Person? They wrote this: “The uniqueness of God (111above) should prepare us for the POSSIBILITY that THE ONE BEING EXIST UNIQUELLY AS A PLURALITY OF PERSONS. (end of quotation) POSSIBILITY DENOTS UNCERTANTY, (Right?)

So, who is right? The Man who have the Spirit of God without measure, or the men who have a spirit reasonalistic without measure; they are satisfied with half truth, in the other hand there are those that follow the Apostle Paul complete sure and satisfied with THE REVELATION OF GOD, he wrote “without controversy great is the mystery of godliness, GOD WAS MANIFESTED IN THE FLESH… and that

manifestation in the flesh, is the express image of God’s SUBSTANCE; and as God’s substance is Spirit, the manifestation of God, is the substance of that same Spirit that is the substance that is God MANIFESTED IN THE FLESH, IN WHO IS SEEN THE BRIGHTNESS OF GLORY (SHEKINAH) …Invisible… Omnipresent, Single Deity. “…THE LORD OUR GOD IS ONE LORD…” Is that too hard to believe?.

If it is, REMEMBER that in one occasion Jesus PREACHING about SALVATION, some disciple said to Him; “...hard is that saying… .. if that is the case, who then can be save”? And Jesus answer to that question about becoming saved was: “..for men it is impossible, but for God nothing is impossible.” In preaching “…ALL THE THINGS CONCERNING THE KINGDOM OF GOD…” as we know that Paul did, Peter wrote that “…the long-suffering of our Lord is salvation; even as our beloved brother Paul also, according to the wisdom given unto him, hath written unto you; as also in ALL HIS EPISTLES, SPEAKING IN THESE THINGS; IN WHICH THINGS ARE SOME THINGS HARD TO BE UNDERSTOOD,” (things for salvation hard to be understood, if you please!) which they that are unlearned and unstable wrest, as they do also the other Scriptures, unto their own destruction.” This is very hard saying, but it is Scripture inspired by the Holy Spirit, THE SPIRIT OF TRUTH. Scripture explains Scripture because it was given by the same Spirit; “…ALL SCRIPTURE IS GIVEN BY INSPIRATION OF GOD, AND IS PROFITABLE FOR DOCTRINE, FOR REPROOF, FOR CORRECTION, FOR INSTRUCTION IN RIGHTEOUSNESS…” When a preacher rejects all or part of this writing of Apostle Peter specially the part “profitable for DOCTRINE” IS HE NOT …TAKING AWAY FROM THE WORDS …”GIVEN BY INSPIRATION OF GOD..?”.

In one occasion Paul wrote: “..for I am speaking to you who know the Law..” I don’t call myself apostle, I am not a big wheel in the gospel, I am not writing this reading material from a desk on a high pedestal, far from all that!. But I am writing to hundres of you preachers who suppose to know the Scriptures.

In this over five years of me writing to you preachers at random, I have mentioned repeatedly the account of

Church History what took place in 325 A.D. before and after when Roman Bishops inquired from UNBELIEVERS THEIR DEFINITION ABOUT the term FATHER SON AND HOLY GHOST

And they came up with their “interpretation” with the terminology of “Three Divine Persons” and Jesus being “The Eternal Son of God” ..begotten trough the ages”; for years I have ridicule that last statement and still do now as I write to you all and ask, What “that” means BEGOTEN TROUGH THE AGES?

According to what the Bible Answer Man stands for: Jesus is clearly not the literal Son of God, He was not physically procreated by God.. , (in heaven, that is). So how He became begotten trough the ages??

I just hear a preacher in TBN saying that God is Omnipresent, and His Eternal Son is sitting at His right hand. What is that saying? Where is God’s right hand since He is Omnipresent invisible Spirit?.

Ten days, before the 25 of Dec. 2003 another very well known Bishop and Prophet and Doctor in Theology from Orlando, Florida, who often preaching says ..God spoke to me, the Holy Spirit told me etc, etc. Preaching about the “season’s Good News of Great Joy” and using Isaiah 9:6 he said that he went to some Rabbis to ask them about that Scripture in Hebrew and their interpretation; imagine that! With all those “credentials” and divine visitations and years of preaching around the world as he says he goes, have he not found the truth about …the child born the son given..? Evidently No, as the half-converted Roman Bishops of 325 A.D. he went to UNBELIEVERS, in his case, RABBIS, and to make matters worse he accepted their interpretation about Isaiah 9:6 specially the terms …MIGHTY GOD AND EVERLASTING FATHER… and give it to the whole world as THE TRUTH OF GOD’S WORD!.

As far as I am concern about this guy, he may keep going from one source of information to another asking for light and truth but finding nothing; those Rabbis do not believe that The Lord Jesus was born of a virgin they don’t believe He is IMMANUEL and is in heaven now and that from there had inspired His Apostles to write about Him how He has proven that He is all that the prophets wrote about Him.

To those Rabbis, The terms ..Mighty God and Everlasting Father.. Don’t say what God really mean, those names of the Savior, “they” said, in reality say mighty hero, and father of eternity, but not really father. Well, some preachers will keep preaching using theories and speculations “second hand”, the Apostles’ Doctrine contains none of that but A REVELATION, John the beloved Apostle, with one mighty sweep of his pen sweep aside the vain and empty hypothesis of human minds and wrote to his brotherhood by the leading of the Spirit of Truth “..I WRITE UNTO YOU… BECAUSE YE HAVE KNOWN HIM THAT IS FROM THE BIGINNING…,( IN THE BEGINNING WAS THE WORD AND THE WORD WAS WITH GOD AND THE WORD WAS GOD.) …I WRITE TO YOU.. BECAUSE YE HAVE KNOWN THE FATHER.” In closing words, remember that the Man Jesus was the human revelation of the Invisible God The Father, He was ..full of grace and truth.. And in heaven now, He, glorified and decked with glorious splendor of Eternal Divinity (SHEKINAH) is waiting for believers to accept him for all that the SCRIPTURES SAY THAT HE IS. Can you hear Him saying? :..I WILL RECEIVE YOU; AND WILL BE A FATHER UNTO YOU, AND YE SHALL BE MY SONS AND DAUGHTERS, SAITH THE LORD ALMIGHTY. Remember He is coming to …take many sons to glory…, According to Isaiah 53:10 He arose from death, to …see His (own) seed… .

Gabriel Mendez