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God's name Elohim אלהים means 'God אל separated from man ים by ignorance ה.
Everything God has made and done is to teach us about himself.
All of creation is like 'visual aids' to the teaching of God. Looking at a stone or a picture of a stone while the teacher is teachinhg does not tell us much.
But the word 'stone' in Hebrew is aben אבן. We learn from what God says about the stone. We learn from his word.
stone aben 𝆑- father ab אב and son ben בן.
We learn that Christ is the stone which the builders rejected. [1] We see the stone in the OT as the visual aid.
When the rock was split by Moses's rod, it was a prophetic riddle of the cross when the Father and Son were separated. [2]
- ↑ ▸ ± Mt 21:42 Jesus saith unto them, Did ye never read in the scriptures, The stone which the builders rejected, the same is become the head of the corner: this is the Lord’s doing, and it is marvellous in our eyes?
- ↑ ▸ ± Ex 17:6 Behold, I will stand before thee there upon the rock in Horeb; and thou shalt smite the rock, and there shall come water out of it, that the people may drink. And Moses did so in the sight of the elders of Israel.
