Earnest
I am glad you see the way I seen the scripture.
I ask my pastor who is also a bible teacher, and know hebrew, and Greek, about Gen 18:1.
I was amazed what he taught me.
He said: that all three was God like you mention, and all three men are Jehovah , wow.
I am sorry also to try to explain the other two was angels, meaning angels that are sevant for the God.
I learned something new, and I am humble to repent when I get understanding and I say something false.
I am a human, and but I don`t give up getting understanding, and telling the truth.
I ask God to give me wisdom according to James, and he does, that why I found the truth, even if it`s from you , and my pastor.
Thank you very much, for having patience , trying to show me the truth, I thank God for using you to bring understanding to my growth in the Lord Jesus, and rightly dividing the Word of God.
by the way my pastor said: that the three men is really the trinity of God, the Father,was one of the men, the Son, and the Holy Spirit is all three.
God revealed Him self to Abraham , and Abraham knew that God was three in one. I never knew that in the old testament this revelation of God was revealed to people in the old testament, WOW.
My pastor said: in some scriptures , when said the Angel of the Lord, this is really Jesus Christ, and only people can bow down to this angle which is Jesus, but if a person bows down and worship a normal angel the angel will always say don`t bow down to me or worship me like Re:19:10: And I fell at his feet to worship him. And he said unto me, See thou do it not: I am thy fellowservant, and of thy brethren that have the testimony of Jesus: worship God: for the testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy.
But look at this scripture where Jesus did not say dont worship me, he accepted the worship M't:20:20: Then came to him the mother of Zebedee's children with her sons, worshipping him, and desiring a certain thing of him.
M't:20:21: And he said unto her, What wilt thou? She saith unto him, Grant that these my two sons may sit, the one on thy right hand, and the other on the left, in thy kingdom.
there are many more Scripture where Jesus is worshiped, like God is worship, because God is Jesus, and Jesus is God.
Must people have a problem with manafestations of God, and they try to understand a mystery which a normal fleshly man can`t understand.
1Tm:3:16: 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.
Thank you for this information
Earnest evangelist,
These two chapters of Genesis are particularly interesting because here you have the first of 134 tiqqune sopherim, or scribal corrections, where the Jewish copyists removed the tetragrammaton and substituted the Hebrew term for 'Lord'. This was primarily designed to preserve the dignity of God's name as they found it offensive having angels being referred to as 'Jehovah'.
We know this because notes (in smaller writing) were made of these corrections between the upper and lower margins and in the side margins between the columns of the text. This smaller writing is called the Massorah.
One question I must ask you, can I use this Chapter as proof for the trinity of God????
God bless you
ps: praise God for you , you have taught me something I need to know.