The Mystery of Jesus Christ: YHWH-Elohim-I Am-Jesus Christ

By Andrew Mnzava

Who is this Jesus Christ? For by Him were all things created that are in heaven and in earth, visible and invisible. Whether they be thrones or dominions, or principalities or powers—all things were created by Him and for Him. He is before all things, and by Him all things consist.Learn about who Jesus is, from dateless past to dateless future, as described in the Bible.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.
• Release date: Mar 16, 2021
• ISBN: 9781645699118

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The Mystery of Jesus Christ

YHWH-Elohim-I Am-Jesus Christ

Andrew Mnzava

Copyright © 2021 by Andrew Mnzava

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Table of Contents

Chapter 1

Chapter 2

Chapter 3

Chapter 4

Chapter 5

Chapter 6

Chapter 7

Chapter 8

Chapter 9

Chapter 10

Chapter 11

Chapter 12

Chapter 13

Chapter 14

Chapter 15

Chapter 16

Chapter 17

Chapter 18

Chapter 19

Chapter 20

Chapter 21

Chapter 22

Chapter 23

Chapter 24

Chapter 25

Chapter 26

Chapter 27

Chapter 28

Chapter 29

Chapter 30

Chapter 31

Chapter 32

Chapter 33

Chapter 34

Chapter 35

Chapter 36

Chapter 37

Chapter 38

Chapter 39

Chapter 40

Chapter 41

Chapter 42

To every person who is created according to the image of God, Yahweh, Elohim—Jesus Christ loves you. May you see His love as you read this book and become the partaker of Eternal Life.

And this is life eternal, that they may know Thee the only true God and Jesus Christ whom, Thou hast sent.

—John 17:3

Acknowledgments

I would like to thank my wife, Elizabeth Mnzava, for her support and prayers during challenging times of writing this book. Thank you for believing in me.

I would also like to thank the leadership of Kings Touch Church in Tanzania—more specifically, Pastor Fred Okello and Pastor Nsiandumi Ndossi, who gave me the opportunity to teach this mystery for the first time during Sunday services as a series for several months in 2017. That opportunity gave birth to this book. Thank you for being such great friends and coworkers in the kingdom.

Special thanks are extended to the entire team of Christian Faith Publishing for their sacrificial efforts in reviewing and editing the book countless times as the versions kept changing for two years. Thank you so much for your patience, and may the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, the love of God, and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with you all!

Introduction

In the midst of today’s world full of different beliefs, opinions, theories, and many gods, one needs to ask very profound questions: Is there one true God? If so, where is He? Has He ever reveled Himself to mankind? How do I find Him? Can He find me? Can I know Him and have a relationship with Him? Sometimes, even those who believed in a one true God, when encountered with tough questions and challenges of life, backslide and ask themselves, Maybe I was wrong? or even ask Why this and why that?

I believe that the Bible explains the truth about one true God, from eternity past to eternity future. Most people, when they read the Bible about God, they end up with more complicated and challenging questions, which leads them to believing without understanding or not believing at all. They ask questions such as Where was God before creation? or What was He doing? or Why did He create man? or Where did Satan come from? or How come God has a Son?

The Christian doctrine is centered around trinity, so are there three Gods? In several chapters in the Bible, Jesus spoke that He is equal with God and then at the same time He is saying He is no greater than His Father—doesn’t that provide confusion? Is believing in the Trinity similar to other eastern religions? Will there be the end of the world? And there so many more questions yet asked.

This book tries to address some of those question by revealing the mysteries hidden in the Bible about God’s character and the revelation of His attributes from dateless past to dateless future, all wrapped up in Jesus Christ. In more than twenty-five years of reading the Bible, listening to different preachers, reading countless books, teaching the word, and fasting and prayers—the Holy Spirit lead me to write about this mystery of God to the level and dimension it was revealed to me. Others might have different dimensions of revelation, yet it is the same Lord and God! As the apostle Paul puts it,

For this cause I Paul, the prisoner of Jesus Christ for you Gentiles, if ye have heard of the dispensation of the grace of God which is given me to you-ward: how that by revelation he made known unto me the mystery; (as I wrote afore in few words, whereby, when ye read, ye may understand my knowledge in the mystery of Christ) which in other ages was not made known unto the sons of men, as it is now revealed unto his holy apostles and prophets by the Spirit. (Eph. 3:1–5)

And in another place, Paul expound His knowledge of this mystery:

And without controversy great is the mystery of godliness: God was manifest in the flesh, justified in the Spirit, seen of angels, preached unto the Gentiles, believed on in the world, received up into glory. (1 Tim. 3:16)

This book is prepared for those who desire to know this mystery of God and Jesus Christ, to those who are not Christians to know why the Christian God is the only one and true God, and to the Christians to understand the mystery of God and Jesus Christ—the connection between God the Father, Jesus, and the Holy Spirit; why Jesus was called both the Son of God and the Son of man; and our relationship with God, as His children. This book is about God who Himself is self-sufficient, needs nothing or no one to complete Him, is complete by Himself, and desired to reveal His character and attributes to be known through His creation and to have a family and fellowship with His creation. It is truly a mystery.

It is my desire that for each chapter. you read you may reflect what you have learned in relation to your daily life, how is God revealed in your life in what you have learned.

As you read this book, may you gain the heart of understanding and the eyes of your understanding being enlightened (Eph. 1:8) and your faith be lifted up by God’s grace so that you may know Him and have eternal life, as it is written: And this is life eternal, that they may know Thee the only true God and Jesus Christ whom, Thou hast sent (John 17:3).

As believers in Jesus Christ and servants of God, regardless of our professions or daily activities, we are stewards of the mysteries of God. As the Word teaches in these verses:

Let a man so account of us, as of the ministers of Christ, and stewards of the mysteries of God. (1 Cor. 4:1)

But we speak the wisdom of God in a mystery, even the hidden wisdom, which God ordained before the world unto our glory. 1 Cor. 2:7)

May God—Yahweh, Elohim, I Am, Jesus Christ—reveal Himself to you as you read this book and may your life be transformed.

Part 1

Yahweh—Elohim—Alpha

I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end, the first and the last.

—Revelation 22: 16

Chapter 1

His Existence before the Beginning

There are several verses in the Bible which starts with the words in the beginning. The first one is from the Old Testament, in Genesis 1:1, which says, In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. The second verse is from the New Testament, in John 1:1–2, which says, In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was with God in the beginning. Another verse comes from Hebrews 1:10: And, Thou, Lord, in the beginning hast laid the foundation of the earth; and the heavens are the works of thine hands.

First, the words in the beginning introduces the reader to a time frame the whole story started. Using the word beginning, it denotes the existence of time and space or place. There must be time and place or space to have in the beginning. So when the Bible says in the beginning, it means time and space already existed before.

Second, the word god means the object of worship. For the creator to be god, there must be creatures to worship! Since the word god also means somebody or something which is worshiped as being the creator, ruler, protector, or moral authority and because of ignorance, there are so many gods being worshiped around the world who are not really God. To differentiate the different types of gods, each god has a name! The Hebrew Bible in the first verse in genesis uses the word Elohim: In the beginning [Elohim] created the heavens and the earth (Gen. 1:1). The name Elohim is plural but always used with a singular verb when it speaks of the true God. But there is one name that is unique to the God of the Bible. This name is Yahweh.

Yahweh refers to supreme one, mighty one, immortal, and self-existing, eternal God—the name God Himself revealed to Moses. Now Yahweh–Elohim is translated the Lord God. This title is used of God’s relationship to humanity as the Creator and Redeemer. This indicates a oneness of the many manifestations of the nature of one true God. We will see later the names of God as used in the Old Testament and the changes in the New Testament. So before in the beginning when Elohim, or Yahweh, created the heaven and the earth, He is the Self-Existing One. He is self-sufficient, He doesn’t need anybody to make Him complete, and He is complete by Himself. But what happened before the beginning? Who is Yahweh before the beginning when there is nothing to worship Him as God?

Before the existence of anything there was Yahweh, the Self-Existing One, the great Eternal Spirit, whom later on we will see how He chose to introduce Himself to His creation as the great I Am—no beginning, no ending, just I Am. Theses verses in the Bible says Yahweh is Spirit and Light, not the light we see or comprehend but a totally different dimension of light:

God is Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth. (John 4:24)

This then is the message which we have heard of him, and declare unto you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all. (1 John 1:5)

Yahweh—the great I Am, the Self-Existing One—is Spirit and Light. The Bible says in the Book of Deuteronomy and the First Epistle to Timothy that He has no form and He is invisible:

You saw no form of any kind the day the Lord spoke to you at Horeb out of the fire. Therefore, watch yourselves very carefully. (Deut. 4:15)

Now unto the King eternal, immortal, invisible, the only wise God, be honour and glory for ever and ever. Amen. (1 Tim. 1:17)

Yahweh, the Self-Existing One, has the following characteristics:

Eternal (no beginning or ending),

Omnipotent (all-powerful),

Omniscient (all knowing),

Omnipresent (everywhere present),

Sovereign (not dictated), and

Infinite (no limitation)

In Him all things consist, which are seen and those which are not seen. Even the salvation of man was in Him before the foundation of the world (Col. 1:17; Rev. 13:8; Titus 1:2; Eph. 1:4). He is right there where you are; and He knows your needs, challenges, and tears. He said, Call and I will answer you! (Jer. 33:3; Isa. 65:24).

Him being omnipresent—meaning, present everywhere—His dwelling place is everywhere. Remember, He is the Self-Existing One; while there was no time, space, light or darkness, or anything being spiritual or physical, He was there, thus the Self-Existing One. Everything we can define, see, touch, hear, smell, and imagine was made possible by Him and through Him. In Him, all things consist.

David in Psalm 139 was asking very interesting questions as to where one can hide from God. This is what David says:

Whither shall I go from Thy Spirit? or whither shall I flee from Thy Presence? If I ascend up into heaven, Thou art there: if I make my bed in hell, behold, Thou art there. If I take the wings of the morning, and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea; Even there shall Thy Hand lead me, and Thy right Hand shall hold me. If I say, Surely the darkness shall cover me; even the night shall be light about me. Yea, the darkness hideth not from Thee; but the night shineth as the day: the darkness and the light are both alike to Thee. (Ps. 139:7–12)

David understood that there is no place you can hid from God. He is everywhere present.

The Bible mentions something very interesting about God’s dwelling place; even though He is everywhere present, He chose a place where His Glory is hidden as His dwelling place. The Bible says He dwells in unapproachable light and, at the same time, He dwells in darkness! Remember Yahweh God is Spirit and Light, but this Light is of different nature and dimension—nobody can see and live. And since He is God, He created everything else such as space, time, and including light and darkness, as it is written in Isaiah 45:67:

That they may know from the rising of the sun, and from the west, that there is none beside me. I am the Lord, and there is none else. I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the Lord do all these things.

He chose to dwell in the light and darkness He created. Apostle Paul explains this mystery of God’s dwelling when he was writing to his spiritual son Timothy: Who only hath immortality, dwelling in the light which no man can approach unto; whom no man hath seen, nor can see (1 Tim. 6:16). And we read in the Old Testament that He dwells in the darkness; we can read this in Psalm 18:9, 11: He bowed the heavens also and came down: and darkness was under his feet… He made darkness His secret place; His pavilion round about Him were dark waters and thick clouds of the skies.

Also, when King Solomon was dedicating the temple to God, we see that the presence of God came down, and the cloud filled the house of the Lord that the priests were not