TYMK - Making himself known
Six testimonies
- 1Jo 5:7 For there are three that bear record in heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost: and these three are one.
- 1Jo 5:8 And there are three that bear witness in earth, the Spirit, and the water, and the blood: and these three agree in one.
John is not giving new revelation with this teaching. He is making a commentary on the Old Testament using the method of interpretation that Jesus taught. [1] Unlike any other language, Hebrew words derive their meaning from the combined meaning of the letters.
There are 28 letter in the Hebrew alphabet, each deriving it's metaphoric meaning from the strokes within it. Everything that can be said or thought can be expressed by combining the strokes into letters and the letters into words. Considering that God spoke creation into existence, they are also the key to understanding all.
The word 'heaven' is שמים. The first letter, the shin ש, is a symbol for the metaphor of God's word coming to earth in grace, then returning to him in holiness with an increase.
- ↑ This assertion will be demonstrated as the methods for interpreting sensus plenior are shown to be used and taught by Jesus.
