Beyond Gender: The Complete Nature of Elohim Revealed

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What if our understanding of God has been missing a crucial dimension? In this candid exploration of my new devotional project "28 Days to Revival," I open up about a perspective that might challenge traditional thinking but remains deeply rooted in scripture.

The Hebrew scriptures present the Holy Spirit—Ruach HaKodosh—using feminine language, portraying a nurturing, motherly aspect of God's character that complements the more familiar masculine attributes. This isn't about imposing modern gender concepts onto the divine, but rather recovering the full biblical picture that has always been there. The Spirit hovers over creation "like an eagle over her brood," serves as the "Ezer" (helper) to Messiah just as Eve was to Adam, and prepares us—the bride—for our ultimate covenant relationship.

This perspective offers profound healing, especially for those whose concept of God has been damaged by negative experiences with earthly parents. By recognizing both the strength and tenderness of our Creator, we experience a more complete relationship with the divine. Since humanity—both male and female—was created in God's image, both masculine and feminine qualities reflect aspects of divine character. Through daily meditation on scripture and personal divine encounters structured in this devotional, we can discover a revival that isn't just emotional fervor but a transformed understanding of who God is and how we relate to Him in every moment of our lives.

Have you considered how your concept of God might change if you embraced both the Father's strength and the Spirit's nurturing presence? Take this journey with me through "28 Days to Revival" and discover the fullness of God's nature as revealed in scripture.

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:02):
Just a few words.
This morning I wanted to talkabout the latest project I'm
working on, which is 28 Days toRevival, and it's the Voice of
the Holy One.
I'm not sure that's going to bethe final title, but that's
just my working title right now.
And I know people that revivalis an old, tired expression and

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what we really want is not arevival of old traditions.
Anyway, we want restoration.
But the reason I use revival isbecause that's the term that
most people think of when theythink of renewed walk in walk in
the spirit and, and, uh, fireof heaven.
You know the nature, the, thepassion, the, the commit,

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commitment and compassion of arenewed walk with Elohim and in
the spirit.
It's revival, you know, and soI'm going to go with that for
now.
It's a working title, but theone thing I wanted to talk about
was it's revival, and so I'mgoing to go with that for now.
It's a working title, but theone thing I wanted to talk about
was the nature and the formatof the book.
It's a devotional, 28 days, soit's 28 chapters, one chapter

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for each day, and the structureis scriptural.
So the first thing you have areliving words, which are a group
of passages of scripture thatset the theme for that day, and

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after that there's a sectioncalled the voice of god, where
I'm using god isn't in the firstperson, he's speaking to you.
I like a book that like comeaway, my beloved was that sort
of that format, but it'spersonal and it's scriptural,
it's biblical directed, but moreimportantly is I am referring

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to the Holy Spirit, the RuachHaKadosh, in the female
participle, staying true to theHebrew.
In the Hebrew the Ruach is afeminine noun and I understand
this is controversial and couldcreate a lot of, you know,

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uncomfortableness for somepeople, and you know I've
struggled with it.
But the more I've studied itand and the more I've looked at
it, it truly is that the RuachHaKadosh is the Ezer, the helper
Of the Messiah.

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The same way is that Eve wasthe Ezer of Adam and Messiah
Yeshua is the second Adam andthe Ezer is the helper that
adorns the bride, that preparesthe bride for the wedding feast,
and this is the position of thebody of Yeshua.
We are his children, we are hisbride, and the Holy Spirit

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guides us and leads us.
And, importantly, because thecreator himself has both
masculine and femininecharacteristics, and this is
borne out in Scripture.
You know there's verses thattalk about the motherliness of

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the Holy Spirit, that the HolySpirit in creation, from the
very beginning, hovered over thewaters like a giant eagle
hovering over her brood.
And this is the picture that Ihave in my mind.
And what it does too, is itsoftens the rough edges of just

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a completely, totally masculineGod and that you could say
people, you could begin to bedominant male masculineness.
You know, people, it'styrannical, it can be, it can be
overpowering.
You know that when hedisciplines, he disciplines in

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harshness.
You've completely removed anysoftness, any feminine aspect of
God.
Then you're left with raw,heartless, you know.
And as much as you might thinkin your mind, you know, but just

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because he's man doesn't makehim not compassionate.
Think about the way our mindworks, the way our society works
, the way our culture works.
We are male and female.
We are male and female andwe're made in the image of God.
And it takes both aspects.
It says the two become oneflesh.
It is a covenant relationship.
So the marriage between a manand a woman is the reflection or

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the mirror of the relationshipbetween Elohim, the creator, and
his creation.
It is a covenant relationship.
He is unknowable, he isindescribable, yet he makes
himself known through covenant.
There is no relationship withGod outside of covenant.
Let me say that again there isno relationship with the creator

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outside of covenant.
He's made no other provisionexcept through the son, except
through union and confirmationof the covenant that he has made
, the covenant of promise thathe gave to us, that he brought
forth from Abraham to Sinai, tothe new covenant in his blood.
This is how he's made himselfknown to us and there are both

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male and female characteristicsof his nature, and that's what I
hope to bring forth in thisbook and to help people with a
deeper walk.
It highlights the fact becauseif you think of the Holy Spirit
as he, always as he, and it's amothering role, it's a nurturing

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role it might be hard forpeople to grasp that, because
what, if you know, if maybetheir father was a monster?
And that's the imprint on theirlife, is that they have this
distorted view of God because ofthe way their father was, their
earthly father or their earthlymother?
But what this does is itprovides an opportunity to see

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the Holy Spirit from a differentperspective, a perspective
that's nurturing, mothering,loving, kindness, and it's not
to gender the Holy Spirit.
It's not because I'm not.
We're not even talking aboutgendering in the human sense,
where you know that's.
This is about characteristics.

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This is about understandingnature.
So what is the nature of God?
And it's hard to describe, it'shard to explain, but I'm not
going to explain it other thanwhat I have already and I have
explained it with the scripture,and I'm going to continue down

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this track because it's helpfulin my walk that I've had.
I've seen fruit in my own life.
Now, as I approach the fatherdaily, continuously, as I let
his ten words wash my heart, inmy risings up, in my sittings
down, in my driving, in mywalking, in my washing the
dishes and doing my work,whatever it is that I'm mindful

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of him and his spirit within me.
So that's really all I wantedto say today.
I just wanted to get that outthere because it's a project I'm
working on.
I understand it could becontroversial.
I understand it could beuncomfortable for some.
It could be controversial, Iunderstand it could be

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uncomfortable for some, but Ihope that you would work past
that and see it for the work,for the purpose of what it is,
which is to enable you to have acloser walk, a better
understanding of the true natureof Elohim, the full nature of
God, the whole nature of God.
And so my prayer for you isthat the words that you say, the

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things that you read, will leadyou into a closer walk, a
transformative walk with Elohim.
So I bless you in Yeshua's name, amen.