Shalowm
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May Yahweh (YHWH, Hebrew name of God)
creator of heaven and earth,
bless you and your family abundantly!
Ricky Samson
24-year Life Coach at a Manila-based Christian Fellowship
TRUTH TO PONDER: There is no other God except YHWH:
To many people, life is simply a random occurrence of events independent of each other. They read the newspaper daily to see “what’s happening”. Young people especially go out on “lakad” – “saan ang happening ngayon?” [Where is the ‘happening’ today?]
When things are just random, then it is very difficult if not impossible to see meaning or patterns or design in life. Life just somehow happens.
Without much meaning, life can be absolutely boring and many times troublesome to a point of despair. People do not see the “light” at the end of the tunnel. What is their life all about?
This stretch of meaninglessness is in our minds because we do not see any deliberate design in the things around us. We do not see how one event relates to another.About 9 years ago, a great mathematical “discovery” was made, which can give people a sense of meaning and importance but this was “hidden” from our eyes. We never knew it. This was never taught to us in school. So we go on with life without much meaning.
Today, we will uncover this mathematical discovery that was made over 9 centuries ago and I’m sure it will CHANGE YOUR LIFE FOREVER, for the better.
In 1180, Italian mathematician, Leonardo Fibonacci “discovered” a recurring number sequence PATTERN as he did experiments on how rabbits multiply. The formula for the sequence is the sum of the preceding two numbers:
1,1,2,3,5,8,13,21,34,55,89,144,233 …. What’s the next number? —- 377 — He also saw that the ratio of any two adjacent numbers was approximately 1:1.618From this sequence, he derived what is known as the Golden Rectangle which is the “foundation” of what is considered beautiful design. The Golden rectangle is formed with length and width of any two succeeding number in the Fibonacci number sequence.
Within this golden rectangle, it was then possible to derive SQUARES using the numbers in sequence. These squares in combination were considered by the Greeks as aesthetically pleasing to the eye i.e. beautiful.
INTRODUCTION
THE GREAT MATHEMATICAL DISCOVERY
The Fibonacci spiral is in itself not significant. What makes it significant is WHERE we find it. The Golden Rectangle design has been used in the following “man-made” structures:
The Parthenon in Greece / the Great Pyramid / The United Nations Building / Credit cards, Playing Cards, Postcards / Light Switch Plates / Writing pads / Index cards, 3 x 5, 5 x 8 etc.
The design is even employed in the classic arts by famous artists: Leonardo Da Vinci, Van Gogh, Monet, Renoir, etc. to produce “dynamic symmetry” – as opposed to static symmetry. Dynamic symmetry means growth, movement, power, giving animation and life to an artist’s work.
A breakthrough occurred several hundred years later as this “design” was also observed in floral arrangements in NATURE:
The spiral design is also seen in Phyllotaxis – the arrangement of leaves around a plant’s stem. The spiral arrangement maximizes the exposure of the leaves to sunlight and air without shading or overcrowding from other leaves.
The “Fibonacci ratio” is also seen in the revolution of planets in outer space and in the circumference of trees.
The Golden spiral is seen everywhere in NATURE:
Chambered Nautilus; Hurricanes; Spiral seeds; Ram’s horn; Sea horse tail; DNA molecule; tornados; galaxies; sunflowers; daisies; ears of all mammals; cochlea of HUMAN EAR!
What is the clear IMPLICATION of the fact that this number sequence PATTERN is seen everywhere? This means that it is a “signature” of a DESIGNER, a Creator. The One who made the galaxies is the same One who made the trees and the flowers; the same One who designed animals and MAN!
Lily3 petalsYellow Violet5 petalsDelphinium8 petalsMayweed13 petalsAster21 petalsPyrethrum34 petalsHelenium55 petalsMichaelmas Daisy89 petals
This means that we are not RANDOM CREATIONS. This means that there is a DESIGNER who designed us. This means that there must be a PURPOSE why we were created! This means we are not an “accident that happened”! The mathematics of the design says that our Creator is a PRECISE, PERFECT and PURPOSEFUL CREATOR who creates BEAUTIFUL PATTERNS!
If you have ever been under the ocean, you know that it gets dark the deeper you go. When a diver takes a photograph under the sea, a light must be opened. When one opens the light, the amazing thing is there is so much beauty even at the depths of the sea where NO ONE (VERY FEW) GOES TO APPRECIATE IT!
Why is there so much beauty down there? — All that our Creator designs is patterned after Him. He must be so beautiful! — We cannot imagine how beautiful the Garden of Eden must have been when the Creator planted it! —
An obvious question therefore is “WHO IS THIS CREATOR GOD?” We take our answer from the oldest book that has been written – the Hebrew Scriptures – TaNaKAfter He created the heavens and the earth, He revealed His name to man: (In most English translations the name of God is translated as “LORD”. In Hebrew it is a 4-letter word: YHWH. The translation has made our creator GENERIC rather than a PRECISE PERSONAL CREATOR with a name)
Genesis 2:4 NKJV
This is the history of the heavens and the earth when they were created, in the day that the LORD [YHWH] God made the earth and the heavens,
Here is some information from Vine’s Expository Hebrew Dictionary about this word YHWH:The divine name YHWH appears only in Scripture. This use of the word occurs 6,828 times. Its precise meaning is much debated. God chose it as His personal name by which He related specifically to His chosen or covenant people.Apparently Adam knew Him by this personal or covenantal name from the beginning, since Seth both called his son Enosh (i.e., man as a weak and dependent creature) and began (along with all other pious persons) to call upon (formally worship) the name of YHWH, “the LORD”
Genesis 4:25-26 NKJV25And Adam knew his wife again, and she bore a son and named him Seth, “For God has appointed another seed for me instead of Abel, whom Cain killed.” 26 And as for Seth, to him also a son was born; and he named him Enosh. Then men began to call on the name of the LORD [YHWH].What began in the family of Adam found a fuller expression and application when YHWH revealed Himself to Abram and started the Hebrew nation:Genesis 12:1-4, 7-8 NKJV1 Now the LORD [YHWH] had said to Abram: “Get out of your country, from your family and from your father’s house, to a land that I will show you. 2 I will make you a great nation; I will bless you and make your name great; and you shall be a blessing. 3 I will bless those who bless you, and I will curse him who curses you; and in you all the families of the earth shall be blessed.” 4 So Abram departed as the LORD [YHWH] had spoken to him, and Lot went with him. And Abram was seventy-five years old when he departed from Haran. 7 Then the LORD [YHWH] appeared to Abram and said, “To your descendants I will give this land.” And there he built an altar to the LORD [YHWH], who had appeared to him.8 And he moved from there to the mountain east of Bethel, and he pitched his tent with Bethel on the west and Ai on the east; there he built an altar to the LORD [YHWH] and called on the name of the LORD [YHWH].Thus, since the earliest days of man, approximately 5,770 years ago, men have been calling on (worshiping) ONE NAME – YHWH – There were no “religions” back then at the time of Abraham as we know today.This promise of YHWH to Abraham finally became reality approximately 400 years later when YHWH called Moses to liberate His people, the Hebrews, from Egypt, the most powerful nation at that time. YHWH once again gave His covenant name to Moses:Exodus 3:4-8 NKJV4 So when the Lord saw that he turned aside to look, God called to him from the midst of the bush and said, “Moses, Moses!”
And he said, “Here I am.”
5 Then He said, “Do not draw near this place. Take your sandals off your feet, for the place where you stand is holy ground.”
6 Moreover He said, “I am the God of your father—the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.” And Moses hid his face, for he was afraid to look upon God.
7 And the Lord said: “I have surely seen the oppression of My people who are in Egypt, and have heard their cry because of their taskmasters, for I know their sorrows.
8 So I have come down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians, and to bring them up from that land to a good and large land, to a land flowing with milk and honey, to the place of the Canaanites and the Hittites and the Amorites and the Perizzites and the Hivites and the Jebusites.
Exodus 3:13-16 NKJV13 Then Moses said to God, “Indeed, when I come to the children of Israel and say to them, ‘The God of your fathers has sent me to you,’ and they say to me, ‘What is His name?’ what shall I say to them?”14 And God said to Moses, “I AM WHO I AM.” And He said, “Thus you shall say to the children of Israel, ‘I AM has sent me to you.’ “15 Moreover God said to Moses, “Thus you shall say to the children of Israel: ‘The LORD[YHWH] God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, has sent me to you. This is My name forever, and this is My memorial to all generations.’16 Go and gather the elders of Israel together, and say to them, ‘The LORD [YHWH] God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, of Isaac, and of Jacob, appeared to me, saying, “I have surely visited you and seen what is done to you in Egypt;When the Hebrews were finally liberated from Egypt (approximately 2.5 million people), YHWH gave them His 10 words (commonly known as the 10 commandments) through Moses. From these, it is very clear that the top priority of our Creator was that He be recognized and worshiped as the ONLY GOD:Exodus 20:2-5 NKJV2 “I am the LORD [YHWH] your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage. 3 “You shall have no other gods before Me. 4 “You shall not make for yourself a carved image–any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth; 5 you shall not bow down to them nor serve them. For I, the LORD [YHWH] your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children to the third and fourth generations of those who hate Me.Exodus 34:14 NKJV14 (for you shall worship no other god, for the LORD [YHWH], whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God),In his fifth and last book, Moses once again repeats all that is important:Deuteronomy 4:30-40 NKJV30 When you are in distress, and all these things come upon you in the latter days, when you turn to the LORD [YHWH] your God and obey His voice 31 (for the LORD [YHWH] your God is a merciful God), He will not forsake you nor destroy you, nor forget the covenant of your fathers which He swore to them. 32 “For ask now concerning the days that are past, which were before you, since the day that God created man on the earth, and ask from one end of heaven to the other, whether any great thing like this has happened, or anything like it has been heard. 33 Did any people ever hear the voice of God speaking out of the midst of the fire, as you have heard, and live? 34 Or did God ever try to go and take for Himself a nation from the midst of another nation, by trials, by signs, by wonders, by war, by a mighty hand and an outstretched arm, and by great terrors, according to all that the LORD [YHWH] your God did for you in Egypt before your eyes? 35 To you it was shown, that you might know that the LORD [YHWH] Himself is God; there is none other besides Him. 36 Out of heaven He let you hear His voice that He might instruct you; on earth He showed you His great fire, and you heard His words out of the midst of the fire. 37 And because He loved your fathers, therefore He chose their descendants after them; and He brought you out of Egypt with His Presence, with His mighty power, 38 driving out from before you nations greater and mightier than you, to bring you in, to give you their land as an inheritance, as it is this day. 39 Therefore know this day, and consider it in your heart, that the LORD [YHWH] Himself is God in heaven above and on the earth beneath; there is no other. 40 You shall therefore keep His statutes and His commandments which I command you today, that it may go well with you and with your children after you, and that you may prolong your days in the land which the LORD [YHWH] your God is giving you for all time.”Deuteronomy 5:6-7 NKJV6 ‘I am the LORD [YHWH] your God who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage. 7 ‘You shall have no other gods before Me.Deuteronomy 6:13-15 NKJV13 You shall fear the LORD [YHWH] your God and serve Him, and shall take oaths in His name. 14 You shall not go after other gods, the gods of the peoples who are all around you 15 (for the LORD [YHWH] your God is a jealous God among you), lest the anger of the LORD [YHWH] your God be aroused against you and destroy you from the face of the earth.Deuteronomy 8:19 NKJV19 Then it shall be, if you by any means forget the LORD your God, and follow other gods, and serve them and worship them, I testify against you this day that you shall surely perish.Deuteronomy 11:16 NKJV16Take heed to yourselves, lest your heart be deceived, and you turn aside and serve other gods and worship them,Deuteronomy 11:26-28 NKJV26 “Behold, I set before you today a blessing and a curse: 27 the blessing, if you obey the commandments of the LORD [YHWH] your God which I command you today; 28 and the curse, if you do not obey the commandments of the LORD[YHWH] your God, but turn aside from the way which I command you today, to go after other gods which you have not known.Deuteronomy 28:13-14 NKJV13 And the LORD [YHWH] will make you the head and not the tail; you shall be above only, and not be beneath, if you heed the commandments of the LORD [YHWH] your God, which I command you today, and are careful to observe them. 14 So you shall not turn aside from any of the words which I command you this day, to the right or the left, to go after other gods to serve them.Deuteronomy 32:39 NKJV39 ‘Now see that I, even I, am He, And there is no God besides Me; I kill and I make alive; I wound and I heal; Nor is there any who can deliver from My hand.As YHWH spoke through Abraham, Isaac, Jacob (name was changed to Israel) and Moses, so He also spoke the same truth to all the other prophets that followed: Elijah, Samuel, Isaiah, Jeremiah, etc.1 Kings 18:36-39 NKJV36 And it came to pass, at the time of the offering of the evening sacrifice, that Elijah the prophet came near and said, “LORD [YHWH] God of Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, let it be known this day that You are God in Israel and I am Your servant, and that I have done all these things at Your word. 37 Hear me, O LORD [YHWH], hear me, that this people may know that You are the LORD[YHWH] God, and that You have turned their hearts back to You again.” 38 Then the fire of the LORD [YHWH] fell and consumed the burnt sacrifice, and the wood and the stones and the dust, and it licked up the water that was in the trench. 39 Now when all the people saw it, they fell on their faces; and they said, “The LORD[YHWH], He is God! The LORD [YHWH], He is God!”1 Samuel 2:1-2 NKJV1 And Hannah prayed and said: “My heart rejoices in the LORD [YHWH]; My horn is exalted in the LORD [YHWH]. I smile at my enemies, because I rejoice in Your salvation. 2 “No one is holy like the LORD [YHWH], for there is none besides You, nor is there any rock like our God.2 Samuel 22:29-32 NKJV29 “For You are my lamp, O LORD [YHWH] ; The LORD[YHWH] shall enlighten my darkness. 30 For by You I can run against a troop; by my God I can leap over a wall. 31 As for God, His way is perfect; the word of the LORD is proven; He is a shield to all who trust in Him. 32 “For who is God, except the LORD[YHWH]? And who is a rock, except our God?Isaiah 37:20 NKJV20 Now therefore, O LORD [YHWH] our God, save us from his hand, that all the kingdoms of the earth may know that You are the LORD [YHWH], You alone.”Isaiah 41:4 NKJVWho has performed and done it, calling the generations from the beginning? ‘I, the LORD [YHWH], am the first; And with the last I am He.’ “Isaiah 42:8 NKJVI am the Lord, that is My name;
And My glory I will not give to another,
Nor My praise to carved images.Isaiah 43:10-15 NKJV10 “You are My witnesses,” says the LORD [YHWH], “And My servant whom I have chosen, That you may know and believe Me, And understand that I am He. Before Me there was no God formed, Nor shall there be after Me. 11 I, even I, am the LORD [YHWH], And besides Me there is no savior. 12 I have declared and saved, I have proclaimed, and there was no foreign god among you; Therefore you are My witnesses,” Says the LORD [YHWH], “that I am God. 13 Indeed before the day was, I am He; And there is no one who can deliver out of My hand; I work, and who will reverse it?” 14 Thus says the LORD[YHWH], your Redeemer, The Holy One of Israel: “For your sake I will send to Babylon, And bring them all down as fugitives– The Chaldeans, who rejoice in their ships. 15 I am the LORD [YHWH], your Holy One, The Creator of Israel, your King.”Isaiah 44:6-8 NKJV6 “Thus says the LORD [YHWH], the King of Israel, And his Redeemer, the LORD[YHWH] of hosts: ‘I am the First and I am the Last; Besides Me there is no God. 7 And who can proclaim as I do? Then let him declare it and set it in order for Me, since I appointed the ancient people. And the things that are coming and shall come, Let them show these to them. 8 Do not fear, nor be afraid; Have I not told you from that time, and declared it? You are My witnesses. Is there a God besides Me? Indeed there is no other Rock; I know not one.’ “Isaiah 45:5-6 NKJV5 I am the LORD [YHWH], and there is no other; There is no God besides Me. I will gird you, though you have not known Me, 6 That they may know from the rising of the sun to its setting That there is none besides Me. I am the LORD [YHWH], and there is no other;Isaiah 48:10-12 NKJV10 Behold, I have refined you, but not as silver; I have tested you in the furnace of affliction. 11 For My own sake, for My own sake, I will do it; For how should My name be profaned? And I will not give My glory to another. 12 “Listen to Me, O Jacob, And Israel, My called: I am He, I am the First, I am also the Last.Jeremiah 7:9-10 NKJV9 Will you steal, murder, commit adultery, swear falsely, burn incense to Baal, and walk after other gods whom you do not know, 10 and then come and stand before Me in this house which is called by My name, and say, ‘We are delivered to do all these abominations’?Jeremiah 25:6 NKJVDo not go after other gods to serve them and worship them, and do not provoke Me to anger with the works of your hands; and I will not harm you.’Jeremiah 35:15 NKJVI have also sent to you all My servants the prophets, rising up early and sending them, saying, ‘Turn now everyone from his evil way, amend your doings, and do not go after other gods to serve them; then you will dwell in the land which I have given you and your fathers.’ But you have not inclined your ear, nor obeyed Me.Ezekiel 36:22-2322 “Therefore say to the house of Israel, ‘Thus says the Lord GOD: “I do not do this for your sake, O house of Israel, but for My holy name’s sake, which you have profaned among the nations wherever you went.23 And I will sanctify My great name, which has been profaned among the nations, which you have profaned in their midst; and the nations shall know that I am the LORD [YHWH],” says the Lord GOD [YHWH], “when I am hallowed in you before their eyes.Not only the prophets but the Kings of Israel recognized YHWH as the one true God!2 Chronicles 20:5-7 NKJV5 Then Jehoshaphat stood in the assembly of Judah and Jerusalem, in the house of the LORD [YHWH], before the new court,6 and said: “O LORD[YHWH] God of our fathers, are You not God in heaven, and do You not rule over all the kingdoms of the nations, and in Your hand is there not power and might, so that no one is able to withstand You? 7 Are You not our God, who drove out the inhabitants of this land before Your people Israel, and gave it to the descendants of Abraham Your friend forever?Psalms 18:31 NKJV (King David)31 For who is God, except the LORD? And who is a rock, except our God?Psalms 86:8-10 NKJV8 Among the gods there is none like You, O Lord; nor are there any works like Your works. 9 All nations whom You have made Shall come and worship before You, O Lord, And shall glorify Your name. 10 For You are great, and do wondrous things; You alone are God.Who is the God I should worship is the most important question that a man can ask. Your answer will determine whether you get blessings or curses. If the Scriptures are wrong at this point, then there is no use to study it.However, since there is an abundance of external evidence that suggests that the Scripture is scientifically accurate and precise, and archaeology has proved beyond reasonable doubt that they events listed in Scripture actually took place, it is illogical to believe that it is wrong.Given the large amount of verses that declare over and over that YHWH alone is the only true God, we would do well to heed these words and live by it. Only fools would ignore the volume of these verses.It is my prayer that all those that read this will declare from their heart that YHWH is their God and that they love YHWH with all their heart, with all their soul and all their might: As it is written:Deuteronomy 6:4-6 NKJV4 “Hear, O Israel: The LORD [YHWH] our God, the LORD [YHWH] is one!(He is the only One) 5 You shall love the LORD [YHWH] your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your strength. 6 “And these words which I command you today shall be in your heart.Signed:Ricky Samson
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