Exodus 6:2-9:35
Ezekiel. 28:25-29:21
Romans 9:14-17
VA’ERA - And I Appeared
Exodus 6:2-3 God spoke further to Moses and said to him, “I am Adonai. I appeared to Abraham, to Isaac and to Jacob, as El Shaddai. Yet by My Name, Adonai, I made Myself known to them?
רָאָה ra’ah - to appear, to see, experience, to see or perceive someone or something H7200
ַעָד yada, odi to know-be intimate, to know by experience, find out and discern H3045
YHWH made His Presence known to the patriarchs, they just did not know the totality of who He is.
Matthew 22:34-38 But the Pharisees, when they heard that Yeshua had silenced the Sadducees, gathered together in one place. And testing Him, one of them, a lawyer, asked, “Teacher, which is the greatest commandment in the Torah?” And He said to him, “‘You shall love Adonai your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind.’ This is the first and greatest commandment.
What disqualifies someone from ministry?
Is it lying? Or stealing, sexual immorality, greed, murder, idolatry, etc.?
What about not “loving YHWH with all our heart?”