Jesus is the Lord (YHWH) in 1 Corinthians 10:26 (Psalm 24:1) and Deuteronomy 6:4

[Fred]

1 Corinthians 10:26
for the earth is the Lord's, and all it contains.

Paul applies YHWH from Psalm 24:1 in reference to the Lord Jesus in 1 Corinthians 10:26 which demonstrates Jesus is YHWH. When Jesus is referred to as the "Lord" in 1 Corinthians 8:6 it too is to be understood that He is YHWH. I will supply the evidence for how these two passages from 1 Corinthians relate to one another below. I will also mention other important passages which relate to the words used in these sections of Scripture.
The following will be quite detailed, and perhaps a bit choppy, but I will try to present the evidence as clear as possible. It would be easier for me if I could simply speak about it. With that, here goes.


We see that Paul speaks of the Lord Jesus in the same manner the Old Testament did in reference to YHWH and His jealousy concerning idolatry.

1 Corinthians 6:17 (the "Lord" is Jesus; cf. 6:14-15)
But the one who joins himself to the Lord is one spirit with Him.
1 Corinthians 10:22 (the "Lord" is Jesus; cf. v. 21 in which I will address further below)
Or do we provoke the Lord to jealousy?
We are not stronger than He, are we?
Numbers 25:3, 11
(3) So Israel joined themselves to Baal of Peor, and the LORD was angry against Israel.
(11) Phinehas the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest, has turned away My wrath from the sons of Israel in that he was jealous with My jealousy among them, so that I did not destroy the sons of Israel in My jealousy.
Psalm 106:28-29
(28) They joined themselves also to Baal-peor,
And ate sacrifices offered to the dead.
(29) Thus they provoked Him to anger with their deeds,
And the plague broke out among them.

There are 4 key words used in 1 Corinthians 8 and 1 Corinthians 10:19-29 that Paul uses in association with the worship properly due unto the Lord Jesus in contradistinction to the improper worship given unto idols. These are:
1. (the) Lord (apart from 1 Corinthians 8:5 where idols are in view, "Lord" always refers to the Lord Jesus)
2. things sacrificed to idols (or a close expression; eidōlothytos)
3. idol (eidōlon)
4. conscience (syneidēsis)

1 Corinthians 8
(1) Now concerning things sacrificed to idols, we know that we all have knowledge. Knowledge makes arrogant, but love edifies.
(2) If anyone supposes that he knows anything, he has not yet known as he ought to know;
(3) but if anyone loves God, he is known by Him.
(4) Therefore concerning the eating of things sacrificed to idols, we know that there is no such thing as an idol in the world, and that there is no God but one.
(5) For even if there are so-called gods whether in heaven or on earth, as indeed there are many gods and many lords,
(6) yet for us there is but one God, the Father, from whom are all things and we exist for Him; and one Lord, Jesus Christ, by whom are all things, and we exist through Him.
(7) However not all men have this knowledge; but some, being accustomed to the idol until now, eat food as if it were sacrificed to an idol; and their conscience being weak is defiled.
(8) But food will not commend us to God; we are neither the worse if we do not eat, nor the better if we do eat.
(9) But take care that this liberty of yours does not somehow become a stumbling block to the weak.
(10) For if someone sees you, who have knowledge, dining in an idol’s temple, will not his conscience, if he is weak, be strengthened to eat things sacrificed to idols?
(11) For through your knowledge he who is weak is ruined, the brother for whose sake Christ died.
(12) And so, by sinning against the brethren and wounding their conscience when it is weak, you sin against Christ.
(13) Therefore, if food causes my brother to stumble, I will never eat meat again, so that I will not cause my brother to stumble.

Notice that to sin against Christ (8:12) in relation to engaging in idolatry corresponds in the same manner to sinning against YHWH in relation to engaging in idolatry.
Exodus 23:33
They shall not live in your land, because they will make you sin against Me; for if you serve their gods, it will surely be a snare to you.

Furthermore, in Psalm 51:4 David affirms that his sins, even the ones committed against others, were ultimately against YHWH alone. Paul affirms the same thing in 1 Corinthians 8:12 in reference to Jesus (= YHWH).

1 Corinthians 10
(19) What do I mean then? That a thing sacrificed to idols is anything, or that an idol is anything?
(20) No, but I say that the things which the Gentiles sacrifice, they sacrifice to demons and not to God; and I do not want you to become sharers in demons.
(21) You cannot drink the cup of the Lord and the cup of demons; you cannot partake of the table of the Lord and the table of demons.

The "Lord" (cup of the Lord) in v. 21 refers to Jesus, and so throughout.
1 Corinthians 11:27
Therefore whoever eats the bread or drinks the cup of the Lord in an unworthy manner, shall be guilty of the body and the blood of the Lord.

To partake of the table of demons involves worshiping demons. Likewise, to partake of the table of the Lord involves worshiping the Lord Jesus.

(22) Or do we provoke the Lord to jealousy? We are not stronger than He, are we?
Deuteronomy 32:21
They have made Me jealous with what is not God;
They have provoked Me to anger with their idols.

Paul applies the "Lord" in v. 22 in reference to Jesus (cf. v. 21) based on a section of Scripture which contains one of the greatest proclamations of the monotheistic faith.
Deuteronomy 32:39
See now that I, I am He, and there is no god besides Me; It is I who put to death and give life. I have wounded and it is I who heal, and there is no one who can deliver from My hand.

(23) All things are lawful, but not all things are profitable. All things are lawful, but not all things edify.
(24) Let no one seek his own good, but that of his neighbor.
(25) Eat anything that is sold in the meat market without asking questions for conscience' sake;
(26) for the earth is the Lord's, and all it contains. (Psalm 24:1)
(27) If one of the unbelievers invites you and you want to go, eat anything that is set before you without asking questions for conscience' sake.
(28) But if anyone says to you, “This is meat sacrificed to idols,” do not eat it, for the sake of the one who informed you, and for conscience' sake;
(29) I mean not your own conscience, but the other man’s; for why is my freedom judged by another’s conscience?

One should not provoke the Lord Jesus to jealousy because He is a jealous God.
1 Corinthians 8:10; 10:22
(8:10) eat things sacrificed to idols
(10:22) Or do we provoke the Lord to jealousy? We are not stronger than He, are we?
Exodus 34:14-15
(14) for you shall not worship any other god, for the LORD, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God—
(15) otherwise you might make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land and they would play the harlot with their gods and sacrifice to their gods, and someone might invite you to eat of his sacrifice.

Notice that what is taught concerning the Lord, jealousy, and idolatry are so important that they are included in the Ten Commandments.
Deuteronomy 5:6-9
(6) I am the LORD your God who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery.
(7) You shall have no other gods before Me.
(8) You shall not make for yourself an idol, or any likeness of what is in heaven above or on the earth beneath or in the water under the earth.
(9) You shall not worship them or serve them; for I, the LORD your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children, and on the third and the fourth generations of those who hate Me.

The very next chapter continues with this teaching...

Deuteronomy 6:4-5, 14-15
(4) Hear, O Israel! The LORD is our God, the LORD is one!
(5) You shall love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might.
(14) You shall not follow other gods, any of the gods of the peoples who surround you,
(15) for the LORD your God in the midst of you is a jealous God; otherwise the anger of the LORD your God will be kindled against you, and He will wipe you off the face of the earth.

The one Lord who is a jealous God, is differentiated from all creation (potential idols) in that He alone is to be worshiped. Since what is said of Him is EQUALLY used in reference to the Lord Jesus demonstrates Jesus (not any idol) is to be worshiped as being YHWH.

 

[ppierac]

You are mistaken....

Psalms 110:1

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Psa 110:1 A Psalm of David. The LORD says to my Lord: "Sit at My right hand Until I make Your enemies a footstool for Your feet."

Psalms 110:1 is a unusual verse. It is referred to in the New Testament 23 times and is thus quoted much more often than any other verse from the Old Testament. It’s importance must not be overlooked. It is a psalm that tells us the relationship between God and Jesus.

Psalms 110:1 is a divine utterance although poorly translated if your version leaves out the original word "oracle". It is “the oracle of Yahweh” (the One God of the Hebrew Bible, of Judaism and New Testament Christianity) to David's lord who is the Messiah, spoken of here 1000 years before he came into existence in the womb of the Virgin Mary.

I want to bring attention to the fact that David's lord is not David's Lord. There should be no capital on the word "lord." The Revised Version of the Bible (1881) corrected the misleading error of other translations which put (and still wrongly put) a capitol L on lord in that verse.

He is not Lord God, because the word in the inspired text is not the word for Deity, but the word for human superior- a human lord, not a Lord who is himself God, but a lord who is the supremely exalted, unique agent of the one God.

The Hebrew word for the status of the son of God and Psalms 110:1 is adoni. This word occurs 195 times in the Hebrew Bible and never refers to God. When God is described as "the Lord" (capital L) a different word, Adonai, appears. Thus the Bible makes a careful distinction between God and man. God is the Lord God (Adonai), or when his personal name is used, Yahweh, and Jesus is his unique, sinless, virginally conceived human son (adoni, my lord, Luke 1:43; 2:11). Adonai is found 449 times in the Old Testament and distinguishes the One God from all others. Adonai is not the word describing the son of God, Jesus, and Psalms 110:1. adoni appears 195 times and refers only to a human (or occasionally an angelic) lord, that is, someone who is not God. This should cut through a lot of complicated post Biblical argumentation and create a making which in subtle ways that secures the simple and most basic Biblical truth, that God is a single person and that the Messiah is the second Adam, "the Man Messiah" (1 Tim. 2:5).

Let's have a look at a few Old Testament verses that show us the clear distinction alluded to here. In Genesis 15:2, Abraham prays to God and says, "O LORD, God [Adonai Yahweh], what will you give me, since I am childless?" In another prayer Abraham's servant addresses God: "O LORD, God of my lord Abraham, please grant me success today" (Gen. 24:12). The second word for "my lord" here is adoni which according to any standard Hebrew lexicon means "Lord," "Master," or "owner." Another example is found in David's speech to his men after he had cut off the hem of King Saul's robe and his conscience bothered him: "So he said to his men, far be it from me because of the Lord [here the word is Yahweh, Lord God] that I should do this thing to my lord [adoni].”

The International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, page 157. states… "The form Adoni (‘my lord’), a royal title (Sam. 29:8), is to be carefully distinguished from the divine title Adonai (‘Lord’) used of Yahweh. Adonai the special plural form [the divine title] distinguishes it from adoni [with short vowel] = ‘my lords.’” Hastings Dictionary of the Bible, vol. 3, page 137. States… “lord in the Old Testament is used to translate Adonai when applied to the Divine Being. The [Hebrew] word… has a suffix [with a special pointing] presumably for the sake of distinction... between divine and human appellative.” Wigram, The Englishman’s Hebrew and Chaldee Concordance of the Old Testament, p. 22. states…

“The form ‘to my lord,’ I’adoni, is never used in the Old Testament as a divine reference… the general excepted fact is that the masoretic pointing distinguishes divine reference (adonai) from human references (adoni).”

“The Hebrew Adonai exclusively denotes the God of Israel. It is attested about 450 times in the Old Testament…Adoni [is] addressed to human beings (Gen 44:7; Num 32:25; 2 Kings 2:19, etc.). We have to assume that the word Adonai received it’s special form to distinguish it from the secular use of adon [i.e. adoni]. The reason why [God is addressed] as Adonai [with long vowel] instead of the normal adon, adoni or adonai [short vowel] may have been to distinguish Yahweh from other gods and from other human Lord's.” from

Dictionary of deities and demons in the Bible, p. 531.

If David the Psalmist had expected the Messiah to be the Lord God he would not have used "my lord" (adoni), but the term used exclusively for the one God, Jehovah- Adonai. Unfortunately, though, many English translations which faithfully preserved this distinction elsewhere capitalize the second "lord" only in Psalms 110:1. This gives a misleading impression that the word is a divine title.

Occasionally, it will be objected that this distinction between Adonai and adoni was a late addition to the Hebrew text by the Mesorites around 600 to 700 AD and therefore is not reliable. This objection needs to be considered in the light of the fact that the Hebrew translators of the Septuagint (the LXX) around 250 B.C. recognize and carefully maintained this Hebrew distinction in their work. They never translated the second “lord” of Psalm 110:1 (“my lord,” kyrios mou) to mean the Deity. The first LORD of Psalm 110:1 (the LORD, Ho Kyrios) they always reserve for the one God, Jehovah.

Both the Pharisees and Jesus knew that this inspired verse was crucial in the understanding of the identity of the promised Messiah. Jesus quoted it to show the Messiah would be both the son (descendent) of King David and David's “lord” (see Matt. 22:41-46; Mark 12:35-37; Luke 20:41-44). This key verse, then, quoted more than any other in the New Testament, authorizes the title "lord" for Jesus. Failure to understand this distinction has led to the erroneous idea that whenever the New Testament calls Jesus "Lord" it means he is the Lord God of the Old Testament

Hope this helps,
Paul

 

[Fred]

You are mistaken....

But yet you totally dodged the evidence I presented in the OP which demonstrates Jesus is YHWH.
This isn't surprising, because it refutes your heresy.

Psalms 110:1

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Psalm 110:1
The LORD says to my Lord: “Sit at My right hand
Until I make Your enemies a footstool for Your feet.”

Mark 14:62
And Jesus said, “I am; and you shall see the Son of Man sitting at the right hand of power, and coming with the clouds of heaven.”

Daniel 7:13-14
(13) I kept looking in the night visions,
And behold, with the clouds of heaven
One like a Son of Man was coming,
And He came up to the Ancient of Days
And was presented before Him.
(14) And to Him was given dominion,
Glory and a kingdom,
That all the peoples, nations and men of every language
Might serve Him.
His dominion is an everlasting dominion
Which will not pass away;
And His kingdom is one Which will not be destroyed.

All the passage above correspond to one another.
The fact that the Lord Jesus is the proper recipient of pelach ('serve) in Daniel 7:14 demonstrates He is God.

This Aramaic word is properly applied only to the true God or improperly to heathen deities.
Ezra 7:24 – servants of this house of God
Daniel 3:12 – They do not serve your gods
Daniel 3:14 – Is it true…you do not serve my gods
Daniel 3:17 – our God whom we serve
Daniel 3:18 – we are not going to serve your gods
Daniel 3:28 -yielded up their bodies so as not to serve or worship any god except their own God
Daniel 6:16 - your God whom you constantly serve
Daniel 6:20 – your God whom you constantly serve
Daniel 7:14 – serve Him
Daniel 7:27 – all the dominions will serve and obey Him

Hope this helps,
Paul

It does help in that it also proves the Lord Jesus is God.

 

[ppierac]

But yet you totally dodged the evidence I presented in the OP which demonstrates Jesus is YHWH.
This isn't surprising, because it refutes your heresy.



Psalm 110:1
The LORD says to my Lord: “Sit at My right hand
Until I make Your enemies a footstool for Your feet.”

Mark 14:62
And Jesus said, “I am; and you shall see the Son of Man sitting at the right hand of power, and coming with the clouds of heaven.”

Daniel 7:13-14
(13) I kept looking in the night visions,
And behold, with the clouds of heaven
One like a Son of Man was coming,
And He came up to the Ancient of Days
And was presented before Him.
(14) And to Him was given dominion,
Glory and a kingdom,
That all the peoples, nations and men of every language
Might serve Him.
His dominion is an everlasting dominion
Which will not pass away;
And His kingdom is one Which will not be destroyed.

All the passage above correspond to one another.
The fact that the Lord Jesus is the proper recipient of pelach ('serve) in Daniel 7:14 demonstrates He is God.

This Aramaic word is properly applied only to the true God or improperly to heathen deities.
Ezra 7:24 – servants of this house of God
Daniel 3:12 – They do not serve your gods
Daniel 3:14 – Is it true…you do not serve my gods
Daniel 3:17 – our God whom we serve
Daniel 3:18 – we are not going to serve your gods
Daniel 3:28 -yielded up their bodies so as not to serve or worship any god except their own God
Daniel 6:16 - your God whom you constantly serve
Daniel 6:20 – your God whom you constantly serve
Daniel 7:14 – serve Him
Daniel 7:27 – all the dominions will serve and obey Him




It does help in that it also proves the Lord Jesus is God.

Read Revelations....


Rev 4:1 After these things I looked, and behold, a door standing open in heaven, and the first voice which I had heard, like the sound of a trumpet speaking with me, said, "Come up here, and I will show you what must take place after these things."
Rev 4:2 Immediately I was in the Spirit; and behold, a throne was standing in heaven, and One sitting on the throne.
Rev 4:3 And He who was sitting was like a jasper stone and a sardius in appearance; and there was a rainbow around the throne, like an emerald in appearance. 4 Around the throne were twenty-four thrones; and upon the thrones I saw twenty-four elders sitting, clothed in white garments, and golden crowns on their heads. 5 Out from the throne come flashes of lightning and sounds and peals of thunder. And there were seven lamps of fire burning before the throne, which are the seven Spirits of God; 6 and before the throne there was something like a sea of glass, like crystal; and in the center and around the throne, four living creatures full of eyes in front and behind.
Rev 4:7 The first creature was like a lion, and the second creature like a calf, and the third creature had a face like that of a man, and the fourth creature was like a flying eagle. 8 And the four living creatures, each one of them having six wings, are full of eyes around and within; and day and night they do not cease to say, "HOLY, HOLY, HOLY is THE LORD GOD, THE ALMIGHTY, WHO WAS AND WHO IS AND WHO IS TO COME."

Rev 5:1 I saw in the right hand of Him who sat on the throne a book written inside and on the back, sealed up with seven seals.


Rev 5:6 And I saw between the throne (with the four living creatures) and the elders a Lamb standing, as if slain, having seven horns and seven eyes, which are the seven Spirits of God, sent out into all the earth.
Rev 5:7 And He came and took the book out of the right hand of Him who sat on the throne.

You do the Math..... God is sitting on the Throne.... and someone is worthy to approach and take that Book out of His hand..... Only the traditions of men would suggest that the Lamb and the one on the throne are the same being....


The traditions of men have blinded you to this truth...
Paul

 

[Fred]

Read Revelations....

Which means you are running away from the evidence I presented in my previous post.
Try again.


Furthermore,
It's not "Revelations."
It's Revelation.

 

[ppierac]

Which means you are running away from the evidence I presented in my previous post.
Try again.


Furthermore,
It's not "Revelations."
It's Revelation.

I answered it in post #4

Now reply....

Rev 4:1 After these things I looked, and behold, a door standing open in heaven, and the first voice which I had heard, like the sound of a trumpet speaking with me, said, "Come up here, and I will show you what must take place after these things."
Rev 4:2 Immediately I was in the Spirit; and behold, a throne was standing in heaven, and One sitting on the throne.
Rev 4:3 And He who was sitting was like a jasper stone and a sardius in appearance; and there was a rainbow around the throne, like an emerald in appearance. 4 Around the throne were twenty-four thrones; and upon the thrones I saw twenty-four elders sitting, clothed in white garments, and golden crowns on their heads. 5 Out from the throne come flashes of lightning and sounds and peals of thunder. And there were seven lamps of fire burning before the throne, which are the seven Spirits of God; 6 and before the throne there was something like a sea of glass, like crystal; and in the center and around the throne, four living creatures full of eyes in front and behind.
Rev 4:7 The first creature was like a lion, and the second creature like a calf, and the third creature had a face like that of a man, and the fourth creature was like a flying eagle. 8 And the four living creatures, each one of them having six wings, are full of eyes around and within; and day and night they do not cease to say, "HOLY, HOLY, HOLY is THE LORD GOD, THE ALMIGHTY, WHO WAS AND WHO IS AND WHO IS TO COME."

Rev 5:1 I saw in the right hand of Him who sat on the throne a book written inside and on the back, sealed up with seven seals.


Rev 5:6 And I saw between the throne (with the four living creatures) and the elders a Lamb standing, as if slain, having seven horns and seven eyes, which are the seven Spirits of God, sent out into all the earth.
Rev 5:7 And He came and took the book out of the right hand of Him who sat on the throne.

You do the Math..... God is sitting on the Throne.... and someone is worthy to approach and take that Book out of Gods hand..... Only the traditions of men would suggest that the Lamb and the one on the throne are the same being....


The traditions of men have blinded you to this truth...
Paul

 

[Fred]

I answered it in post #4

Total dodge of 1 Corinthians 10:26.

Try again.