In this chapter we will discuss the Hebrew perspective on the soul and on the state of the dead, and discuss the Ruach Ha Kadosh (the Holy Spirit), and the relation of the Father to the Son.
Hebrew, I say, because the whole of Scripture from B’resheet (Genesis) to Revelation was written by Jewish people, in the language of Hebrew, within the culture and background of the ancient faith of the Jewish people.
And because Yeshua, and His Apostles, taught within this same Hebrew culture as Jewish people from within the culture and background of this ancient Faith; my intent, as was theirs, is to restore the Gospel back to the pure Faith of those who obey the commandments of Torah and have the Testimony of the Messiah Yeshua, the Son of Yahuweh.
The same Faith of the early assembly which was based wholly and entirely on the Hebrew Scriptures written in the Tenach and contained between the books of B’resheet (Genesis) and Malachi.
The commentary of which we have received in the form of a new covenant showing the replacement of the sacrifices at the Temple, with the sacrifice of Yeshua on the execution stake, and contained between the books of Mattit'yahu (Matthew) and Revelation.
These books written decades after Yeshua’s resurrection for the main purpose of instructing us from the Tenach, that Yeshua was that expected Messiah of Israel to come; and to provide the early believers with instruction on how to conduct themselves as Torah obedient believers in Yeshua apart from the Temple sacrifices, and apart from the synagogues of the mainstream of Judaism where they were no longer welcomed.
This Gospel of salvation of my people, written, spoken, and declared originally to the 12 tribes of Israel living in the Land of 1st century Israel in the Hebrew tongue. This is what we seek to restore.
Contained in this study is only a small portion of the doctrines that have been misunderstood and misquoted, but they are critical ones to understand the Hebraic mindset of thinking.
I will begin by stating that there now considerable evidence to show that the original writings of the renewed covenant were indeed been written in Hebrew.
Which makes sense, for if Yahuweh gave all the Scriptures of the Tenach through our prophets and leaders to receive, to preserve, and to teach in the Hebrew language and culture of our people, then why would He not do the same for the writings of the new covenant that would be given first to our people in Israel who, in the 1st century, were still living in a very Hebrew culture, and still speaking the Hebrew language.
All of the writers of the Scriptures, of both the Tenach, and of the New Covenant, were Hebrews, who were fluent in the Hebrew language, and who lived, worked, studied, and taught in the Hebrew culture of Israel. They were all likewise, obedient to the Torah of Yahuweh.
All the way from Abel, to Noah (Noah), to Avraham, and to Moshe (Moses), to Eli’yahu (Elijah), Yesh’yahu (Isaiah), Yahuchanan the Immerser (John the Baptizer), and to Yeshua and His Apostles, upheld, lived, and taught the commandments and Torah of Yahuweh’s Law within that culture, language, and background. So how is it that our interpretations and translations of the Hebrew Gospel have been so far removed today from its Hebrew roots and heritage?
The Torah, and the Hebrew Scriptures that surround them, are the standard of Yahuweh’s chosen people, the redeemed of Yahuweh through the Messiah Yeshua our King.
There is no other standard for Yahuweh’s people.
Yahuweh is one, His people are one, and His standard is one. And likewise, there is only one acceptable commentary on the Tenach (the Old Testament), and that is the writings, from the Hebrew perspective, of the renewed covenant, renewed in the blood of Yeshua, the Lamb of Yahuweh.
And there is no other Scripture or commentary outside of the writings contained between B’resheet and Revelation that is inspired of Yahuweh or authorized by Yahuweh; for only that which is written between B’resheet and Revelation is the inspired word of Yahuweh.
Ellen G. White’s writings are not Scripture, Joseph Smith’s writings are not Scripture, Mary Baker Eddy’s writings are not Scripture, Jehovah’s Witness’ writings are not Scripture, Billy Graham’s writings are not Scripture, and the Pope’s writings are not Scripture.
In fact, no writings outside of the Scriptures contained between B’resheet (Genesis) and Revelation are Scripture. There is no word of Yahuweh outside of the word of Yahuweh. And these Scriptures are what Yahuweh chose to present and preserve through the Jewish people, the Hebrew speaking people of the nation of Israel.
All of the prophets of Scripture were Hebrew, all of the writers of Scripture were Hebrew, and all of the Scriptures were originally written in Hebrew. So any, and all, interpretations given to Scripture must be consistent with the Hebrew language, mindset, and culture that it was written within.
And this would be true even if the New Testament had been written in Greek, for the Greek writings would still have come from the minds of those who thought like Hebrews, not who thought like Greeks, the differences in thought being as different as day is from night.
Sadly, because of this schism between Hebrew thought and Western/Grecian thought I have yet to find a main stream English translation of Scripture that is in harmony with the Hebrew language and culture of Scripture.
Why is that? It is because the organizations that create and publish the English translations of the Hebrew Scriptures in a way that they can best relate to it and comprehend it from the culture, language, and background of their life experiences. Not to mention that to translate them to reflect the original Hebraic thought from which they were written would cause "the Church" and "the Gospel" to become more "Jewish" than most religious leaders and people would be comfortable with promoting.
But no responsible translation can discount the nuances of the Hebrew language and be a true or reliable translation. The Hebraic thought and culture behind the Scriptures cannot be ignored.
You may find it interesting to note that many linguists and etymologists throughout the world today are beginning to discover elements of Hebrew in every language of the earth, indicating that Hebrew may very well have been the original language of the earth.
Within every language, whether in Russian, Chinese, English, French, German, African, Indonesian, South American, or some other language, traces of Hebrew are being discovered.
This cannot be said of any other language. Hebrew so far is the only language that all other languages of the earth can be tied to as a common root. It all began at the tower of Babel, which, by the way, is where the English word "babble" is derived from (as just one example of the influence of Hebrew in a contemporary non-Hebrew language). And at this tower of Babel, which in Hebrew means confusion, Yahuweh thwarted the plans people who were in rebellion against Him by confounding their language into multiple Hebrew dialects.
These dialects were diverse enough to cause an inability of these people to communicate effectively with one another, and prevented them from bringing their evil plans to completion.
Ultimately, they separated into their common dialects and left the city of Babel, which later became known as Babylon, to fill the earth and populate it with those of their own respective dialects.
These dialects eventually evolved into the diverse and distinctive languages of today.
But Yahuweh chose one group of people to preserve the original Hebrew language through, so that the purity of His word might be preserved. That group of people was made up of the descendents of Noah, through Shem; which ultimately led up to the lineage of Avraham, the father of our Faith, and first to be called out from among the nations.
And Avraham was called a Hebrew. Why? Because people then, as they are today, are identified by the language they speak.
For example: Russians are Russians because they speak Russian; Germans, German because they speak German. Likewise, Avraham, (who was a descendent of, and contemporary with, Shem [one of Noah’s sons who survived the Flood, and who was alive at the Tower of Babel]), was called a Hebrew because he spoke Hebrew, the original language of the earth before the Flood. It was through these descendents of Avraham, and through the Hebrew language that he and his descendents spoke, that Yahuweh would choose to preserve His word through.
Yahuweh caused our people, the descendents of Avraham through Yit’zak (Isaac), to record His word, and put it on our minds to preserve His word through His language, and Avraham’s descendents, meticulously. Making sure that not the least stroke of the pen in His word was lost, and that every jot and tittle of the Hebrew language would be preserved in Scripture for future generations. So it is very important that we look to how they understood what we would call various doctrinal positions before we begin drawing any conclusions about what we believe the Scriptures may or may not be saying.
So what do the Hebrew Scriptures teach about the soul? They teach that the soul is separate from the body and spirit. That man is composed of body, soul, and spirit. This is not a Greek concept. It is not an Egyptian concept. It is not a pagan concept. It is a concept of the Hebrew language that was retained in the dialects created at the Tower of Babel, and that was ultimately incorporated into the religious practices of most all, if not all, the major religions of early history.
One example in Scripture I can give of this concept is in relation to Yeshua Himself where the Scriptures state that at death His Spirit returned to His Father, Luke 23:46; that His body was placed in a tomb, Mattit'yahu (Matthew) 27:57-60, and that his soul was temporarily left in the compartment of Sheol that we would call hell; Maaseh (Acts) 2:30,31.
During our life, our soul either attaches itself to the things of the flesh, to the things of darkness, which is like attaching oneself to negative energy; or it attaches itself to the things of the Spirit, to the things of the light, which is like attaching oneself to positive energy.
At the time of death, if our soul is attached to the things of the flesh, then it departs into the realm of darkness; but if at the time of death it is attached to the things of light, then our soul departs with the spirit, to return to the Father who gave it, into the realm of light called Paradise.
The place where the soul departs to is called Sheol. Sheol has been translated in your bibles as grave, but does not mean grave.
The Hebrew word Sheol does not mean grave, or a hole in the ground where someone is buried; but means literally, the conscious underworld of the dead, including its prisoners and accessories. It is a place of consciousness, and no translation can nullify or render void this nuance of this Hebrew word.
The Hebrew words for the various places of burial are "qabar" which means "buried"; “qibrah" which means "tomb"; and "shachath" which means a pit or hole in the ground. But Sheol, which has been translated as "grave" in most translations, is the conscious dwelling place of the soul.
To ignore this subtlety in the Hebrew language is deadly. For example, if I told your child not to go into a certain section of the jungle because a pride of lions has been identified there and has already killed and eaten 3 children in the village, would you not be thankful that I gave you this information, and have your children pass, instead, through the section that you know is safe? Of course you would.
But if I treated this scenario the same way others treat the word Sheol, or the word Hell, to be more specific, and just told you that the pride of lions doesn’t really exist, and that no children have been killed or eaten, and you believed my lie, then you would send your children through that section believing that it was safe, when in fact it was very dangerous.
Then to top it all off, when one of the village elders came and told you not to listen to me, and told you that I was lying about the danger in that section of the jungle, would you sit there and then become upset with the village elder just for telling you the truth, and for trying to expose the lie for you so that you could keep your children safe? Would you turn around and say to the other villagers "how can you follow any elder who would create such a dangerous place in the jungle to where my children have to walk around him in fear?"
We can see in this example the absurdity of someone reacting in this manner to the elder’s exposure of the lie through truth, and to his loving and concerned warning. But people do this all the time with Sheol (Hell/Hades), and in their attitudes towards Yahuweh.
But Yahuweh is simply warning us about this very real place of danger, and has even gone so far as to explain to us the alternative route that will take us through the safe section of the jungle, and even sent His Son to die in our place in that dangerous part of the jungle in order to secure the safe section of the jungle for us.
So with that analogy, let me provide some more examples to explain what Sheol is similar to, and see if I can paint a more clear picture of what it is, and of why it exist.
Sheol is similar to a battery in that one half of it contains pure positive energy, and the other half pure negative energy. That is, Sheol has two compartments, one containing pure light, and the other pure darkness; because in the spirit world it is impossible for light and darkness to co-exist.
It is only in the physical realm of things that light and darkness can co-mingle, the physical world acting as a medium between the two. And this is what Yeshua was referring to when He related to us the parable of the rich man and Lazarus.
But once the soul separates from the physical world, it separates immediately into the realm that it has attached itself to at the time of death. Sheol is a conscious place of existence, and the soul, according to the Hebrew, is the seat of your conscious awareness, of your emotions, and of your sense of right and wrong.
Also, there is a veil that separates the spiritual world from the physical world that the soul passes through at the time of death; and even as we know nothing about what goes on in the spiritual world, even so, those in Sheol know nothing about what is going on in the physical world.
In Hebraic thought, the whole function of the Torah and the Testimony is to turn the soul away from the things of the flesh, to circumcise it if you will, away from the things of the flesh in order to unite it, that is, to make it one, to make it "echad", with the spirit. For the soul is not only the seat of our consciousness and emotions, it is also the place of our will, and the soul must choose between the way of the flesh and the way of the Spirit.
Another form of expression of the Hebrew Scriptures is the presentation of things in terms of marriage and conception, birth and death, of planting and harvesting, of fruitful and unfruitful, of pure and impure, and so on.
You also have patterns of three in the Hebrew Scriptures. For example, you have a tree; the fertilized seed of the tree; and the resulting fruit of that tree.
This concept parallels the virtuous woman; the fertilized womb of the virtuous woman; and the resulting fruit, or child, of that virtuous woman.
Another parallel of three is that of a father, a mother, and of the offspring of the father and mother; which in Hebrew parallels the concept of Yahuweh the Father, Wisdom (Chokmah) the Ruach haKadosh (the Holy Spirit), and Yeshua the Son.
There are also three strands that make up DNA; and three components of an atom, the proton, the neutron, and the electron.
The time of day, likewise, has three components, the components of seconds, minutes and hours. And the time of year is made up of the three components of days, weeks, and months.
The biblical cycles of Jubilee are likewise composed of 1 year cycles, 7 year cycles, and 50 year cycles; and the minimum number of people required to create a biblical family unit is 3.
Now I’m going to take this concept of three related in the Hebrew Scriptures, and share with you about the Ruach haKadosh (the Holy Spirit), as Yeshua, the Apostles, and the believers of the early assembly understood the Ruach haKadosh (the Holy Spirit).
Did you know that the Hebrew word for spirit cannot be translated as "He"? That Hebrew, like Spanish and other languages, contains masculine and feminine tenses within the words themselves that indicate and determine the gender of those words?
In the Hebrew language, the word translated as spirit comes from the Hebrew word "ruach", which is feminine tense.
Based on the Hebrew language of Scripture that Yahuweh gave us to write and preserve His word through, the Spirit (Ruach) is clearly identified by Her gender and character traits as our spiritual mother. Even as Yahuweh is our spiritual Father and Yeshua is the spiritual Son of the Mother and Father.
Have you ever wondered how it is that we can have a heavenly Father, who has a heavenly Son but no Mother?
The Hebrew language itself defines clearly the Ruach haKadosh, the Holy Spirit, as our spiritual Mother that we must receive rebirth through in order to enter into the kingdom of Yahuweh.
Like Yeshua said, "Unless you are born of the Spirit and of water, you cannot enter the kingdom of Yahuweh." And this is what Yeshua’s conversation with Nicodemus was all about in the Gospel of Yahuchanan (John) 3:1-9.
Yeshua goes on to say in that passage with Nicodemus, "For that which is born of the flesh is flesh and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit." And when Nicodemus feigns ignorance of this concept, Yeshua calls his bluff by stating, "...You are a teacher of Israel and do not know these things?"
You see, these concepts were no mystery to the teachers of Torah, and as such, Nicodemus would have had no difficulty whatsoever understanding what Yeshua was saying.
Yeshua was speaking to Nicodemus that which was common knowledge among the teachers of Torah. The knowledge that, to enter the kingdom of Yahuweh we had to first advance beyond the stage of human birth through fleshly mothers, and as sinful individuals, and advance to the stage of spiritual birth through our spiritual Mother where we will receive a spiritual nature.
For that which is born of the flesh, is flesh, and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.
Even creation itself teaches that all things are born of the mother, never of the father, and that all plant, fish, human, and animal life are a result of communion between male and female of the species, whether through direct interaction, or through the activation of spores, etc. Everything needs assistance from something "outside" of itself, before life originating from inside the female of the species can be activated. In fact, to the best of my knowledge, all life on earth has some form of mother and father except for viruses and bacteria.
In B’resheet (Genesis) it plainly states, "Let Us make humans in our image".
Your bible probably says "let Us make man in our image", but the Hebrew word Adam, means "human", which is more accurately translated as "mankind", or as "humans".
So Elohim (God) said, "Let Us make humans in Our image", and so Elohim (God) made them male and female, in Their image. This is interesting to note also because the Hebrew word Elohim, and translated as God, is actually plural. Not plural in the sense of being multiple deities, but plural in the sense of involving multiple expressions of the one deity, Yahuweh.
Even as Adam, Havah (Eve), and Abel were all expressions of Adam.
Yahuweh is the Father; Yesh’yahu (Isaiah) 63:16; 64:8; Yerem’yahu (Jeremiah) 3:19; 31:9; Malachi 1:6; 2:10; and Mizmor (Psalm) 89:26 as such, His first created being on earth was Adam, who was also a Father.
And from Yahuweh proceeded forth His Spirit; Yahuchanan (John) 15:26, who is Chokmah (Wisdom), His wife, and the Mother of all the spiritually living; as such, He caused Havah (Eve) to proceed forth from Adam to be Adams’ wife, and caused her to be the mother of all the physically living.
As it is written, "Let Us make humans in Our image" and so He made them male and female, in "their" image.
And Yahuweh, through consummation with the Ruach haKadosh (the Holy Spirit), produced Yeshua their Son, with Miriam (Mary) acting as the surrogate mother.
In like manner, when Adam and Havah (Eve) came together they produced Abel, who was the image of Yeshua the Son, who would also be murdered by his brothers for offering up a better sacrifice than they.
To clarify this one step further, Yahuweh is Elohim (God), even as Adam was human. So when Chokmah (Wisdom) was brought forth from Yahuweh, She was a complimentary expression of Elohim (of God) as well; even as Havah (Eve), who was also human, when brought forth out of Adam was a complimentary expression of Adam, and of the exact same flesh and bone as Adam.
And when Yahuweh and Chokmah (Wisdom) came together, Yeshua came forth from them and was also a complimentary expression of Elohim (God); even as when Adam and Havah (Eve) came together, Abel, who was a picture of Yeshua, and who was also a human like Adam, came forth, and was of the same flesh and bone as his parents; and a fully complimentary expression of them.
All three from Yahuweh proceeded forth from Yahuweh, but are all distinctly different and separate from one another. Even so, all three from Adam were expressions of Adam, yet all distinctly different and separate from one another.
If that is difficult to comprehend, let me reword it this way. Adam was created from the dust of the earth. Out of Adam came Havah (Eve) who was of identical genetic make-up as Adam with the exception of being female.
Havah (Eve) was flesh of his flesh and bone of his bones. In essence, Havah (Eve) was a female clone of Adam. So Adam and Havah (Eve) were literally one flesh. And they came together and produced children, who were, likewise, one flesh with them.
All came from Adam. All were Adam. And in fact, we are all copies of Adam ourselves. And if this still does not make sense, here is a final example.
You have one tree, like we have one Elohim (one God). But from that one tree can be produced many fruits. All of the fruits will be the same kind of fruit, but each fruit will contain within itself the seeds to produce other trees in the likeness of the original tree.
Likewise, each tree produced from the original will be a uniquely different, though similar expression of the first. All are "echad" with the first tree, they are all one; and all one expressed as many.
This is Hebraic thought, not catholic thought or protestant thought.
Yahuweh our God is echad, is a plural Unity, a united One, even as Adam, Havah (Eve), and Abel were echad, in unity, and one. This is Hebrew thought. And this concept of one being expressed as three can be explained as follows.
In Yahuchanan (John) 1:1 it says,
1:1 "In the beginning was the word, the word was with Elohim (God), and the word was Elohim (God)."
So where do we learn about the beginning in Scripture? In B'resheet (Genesis) which means "beginning".
So in Yahuchanan (John) it is saying that the "word" spoken in the beginning was also Elohim (God).
So the Son of Yahuweh is also Elohim (God), even as Abel, and all men, are Adam; with Adam as the "father", and we as his sons; even as Yahuweh is the Father, and Yeshua is His Son.
So Yeshua as the Son of Yahuweh, as the Son of the Father, is not a "separate" Elohim (God) unto Himself, but rather is an exact replication of Elohim (God), even as we are exact replications of Adam.
And so Elohim (God) is also the "word". And what do the Scriptures relate the word to? They relate the word of Elohim (God) to water.
Ephesians 5:26 says,
5:26 "... so that He might set us apart and cleanse us with the washing of water by the word."
And water takes on how many forms? Three.
That’s right. Elohim (God) is the word, and the word is the water that washes us; and water, like Elohim (God), takes on three forms. The forms of liquid, steam, and ice.
And it just so happens that every living thing on earth contains what? Water.
Ice, liquid, steam. The Father, the Son, the Ruach haKadosh (the Holy Spirit). One expressed as three. And even as ice is not steam or liquid, neither is the Father the Son, or the Son the Father.
Each expression of Elohim (God), like water, has its own unique set of characteristics that makes it distinct from the other two expressions, yet all are the same substance.
All are the same source.
And I tell you, when people teach that Yeshua is the Father, and Yahuweh is the Son, this is not Hebrew thought, that is Babylonian thought, Babylonian religion. The religion that taught that N-mrod, the husband of S-miramis the mother, was reincarnated as T-mmuz, the son of the mother.
That is, that the father and the son were the same person; that the son, was in effect, his own father.
But the Torah teaches Yahuweh is the Father, that Yeshua is the Son, and that the Ruach haKodesh, the Holy Spirit, is the mother; and that all three proceeded forth from the one Elohim (one God), who is Yahuweh.
Just like when Adam and Havah (Eve) united and become one flesh in Abel, but all 3 were the same flesh and bone of Adam. This very same concept is expressed in B'resheet (Genesis), in the beginning, in Adam and Havah (Eve) who were made in the image of Elohim (God).
That is, you had Adam the father, Havah (Eve) the mother who proceeded forth out of Adam the father, and you had Abel the son who proceeded forth as a result of consummation between Adam the father and Havah (Eve) the mother.
All three are expressions of Adam, all three proceeded forth from Adam. Yet they are all distinctly different, but uniquely the same; and they are all human (Adam means human), like the Father, the Son, and the Ruach haKadosh are all Elohim (all God), the same Elohim (God).
And just like the water, the liquid is not the ice, or the steam; and the ice and steam are not the liquid, but all three are expressions of water, of the same water. And so it is with Elohim (God).
Yahuweh the Father, Yeshua the Son, and Chokmah (Wisdom), the Ruach haKadosh (the Holy Spirit), the Mother.
All distinct from one another, yet all expressions of the one Elohim (God), the same Elohim (God), thus the reason for the plurality of the word "Elohim", used in combination with the word "Echad" which means "unity".
So is Yeshua the Son of Yahuweh? Yes. Is He Elohim (God)? Yes. But Yeshua is not the Son of Elohim (God) anymore than Yahuweh is the Father of Elohim (God). Both are Elohim (God). Both are the one only true, and eternal, Elohim (God).
But the Greek manuscripts have replaced the Name of Yahuweh with the general title of "theos" in most places, which in turn has been translated as God in English; so that we get the erroneous impression that Yeshua is the Son of Elohim (the Son of God), when in fact it should have been translated to declare Him as the Son of Yahuweh.
For both Yahuweh and Yeshua are expressions of Elohim (of God).
Yahuweh, the Father, is like the water expressed as the ice, the strong rock and firm foundation who is forever the same and never changing; Chokmah (the Holy Spirit). Who is like the steam that fills the space between heaven and earth, connecting the human with the divine; and Yeshua like the liquid, the river of life that cleanses the earth and brings life to all that lies within it.
So what are some other nuance that the ancient Hebrews believed about the soul, about the state of the dead, about the Ruach haKadosh (the Holy Spirit), and about the relation of Yeshua to the Father?
Concerning the soul, they believed that the soul is one of three components of a conscious being. The soul of man being represented by the Father, the spirit of man being represented the Ruach haKadosh, and the flesh of man being represented Yeshua, the second and eternal Adam.
All animals and humans have souls. Just look into their eyes and you will see the life of the soul within them. Or compare the eyes of a living human or animal with the eyes of a corpse, which are just blank, like that of an insect.
And concerning the state of the dead? Sheol, commonly translated as grave in the English translations of the Tenach (the Old Testament), and as hell in the Brit Chadasha (the renewed covenant), is literally, the conscious dwelling place of departed souls.
And as Yeshua pointed out in His parable about the rich man and Lazarus, Sheol is composed of two main compartments, one for the evil dead where the rich man was at, and one for the righteous dead where Lazarus was at, with the two compartments separated by an un-crossable canyon.
Yeshua described this place of Lazarus’ dwelling as Avraham’s Brook. Other Scriptures refer to it as Paradise.
Avraham’s Brook, Paradise, is not the eternal abode of heaven, but the temporal abode of the dead where the righteous remain until the time of their resurrection to eternal life; and Hell, the fiery place of Sheol, is the place where the unrepentant remain until the day of the Great White Throne judgment where the wicked will be cast into their eternal abode in the lake of fire (in the dangerous section of the jungle that they chose to walk through due to their unbelief in the danger there, and due to their lack of trust in the community elder who tried to protect them from that section of the jungle).
Many people who do not believe in a literal "hell" (Sheol) declare Yeshua's parable to be fictional. There are three main errors in this thinking however. The first being that the Pharisees did believe in a literal "hell" and "Paradise"; but the Scribes did not believe in either.
The consequence? If Yeshua's parable had been fictional, then His parable would have inadvertently endorsed a lie believed and perpetuated by the Pharisees, and cast down a truth believed and perpetuated by the scribes. However, Yeshua never endorses lies or speaks against truth.
This brings us to our second point. In all of the other parables that Yeshua presents, He never identifies any individuals by name, but in this one He does. It would be very odd for Yeshua to assign a name to a specific individual in a parable if that parable was fictional; especially in the absence of any names provided in any other parables. And thirdly, Yeshua never lies. He stated, "I am the Way, the Truth, and the Life. No one comes to the Father except through Me."; Yahuchanan (John) 14:6.
Yeshua speaks truth only. This means that every parable He taught was a true story of an actual event in history that ran parallel to another truth He was presenting.
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