The Breath of the Lord Is the Power Against Death (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9798257889431)

The Breath That Conquers Death

"And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul." - Genesis 2:7

In the beginning of all things, before the first syllable of human history was spoken, before the foundations of civilisation were laid, before the first empire rose or fell, there was a singular, unrepeatable, cosmically decisive act: God breathed. The Almighty, the self-existent One, the Uncreated Creator, stooped over a lifeless form fashioned from the dust of the earth and performed the most intimate act recorded in all of Scripture-He breathed into the nostrils of man the breath of life. That breath was not merely biological oxygen; it was not a chemical reaction; it was not a metaphorical flourish. That breath was the very substance of divine life-the neshamah of the Almighty-transferred from the infinite, eternal, uncreated Source into a finite, temporal, created vessel.

This book is a deep etymological and theological investigation into the nature of that breath. It is a study of the Hebrew, Greek, and Aramaic vocabulary of divine respiration. It is an exploration of the relationship between the Breath of the Lord and the annihilation of death. For if death entered through the forfeiture of that breath, then the reversal of death-the resurrection-must come through the restoration of that same breath. This is the thesis of this entire work: the Breath of the Lord is the power against death.

The English word "breath" is woefully insufficient to contain the theological freight carried by the original biblical languages. In Hebrew, we encounter at least three primary terms: neshamah(נְשָׁמָה), the divine inbreathing, the breath of God that constitutes the spirit of man; ruach (רוּחַ), the wind, spirit, and animating power of God that moves across chaos and brings order; and naphach (נָפַח), the verbal act of breathing, blowing, or exhaling divine life into that which is dead. In Greek, the New Testament employs pneuma(πνεῦμα), the Spirit-the very breath-wind of God that raised Christ from the dead and shall quicken our mortal bodies. In Aramaic, the Syriac Peshitta presents rukha (ܠܘܚܐ), the Spirit-Breath, and particularly Rukha d'Qudsha (ܠܘܚܐ ܕܩܘܕܫܐ), the Holy Spirit, the Breath of Holiness, the sanctifying wind of the Almighty that stands as the absolute antithesis to death.

The 153 Protocol-the divine signature of completion drawn from the miraculous catch of fish in John 21:11-governs the architecture of this work. One hundred and fifty-three is the triangular number of seventeen, the number of victory. It is the number of the sons of God drawn into the unbroken net of the Kingdom. It is the number that governs the structure of divine completion across all of our publications. In this volume, the 153 Protocol manifests in the 153 Scriptures catalogued in Appendix B, each one a witness to the Breath of God as the power against death.

The theological framework undergirding this study is the doctrine of partaking in the divine nature. As the Apostle Peter declares, we are made "partakers of the divine nature" (2 Peter 1:4). The nature of God is creativity-He is the Creator whose very mode of existence is to create, to speak, to breathe into being that which was not. When He shares His creative fiat with His creation, He does so after the pattern of seven times-seven days, seven spirits, seven seals, seven trumpets, seven bowls, seven churches, seven thunders. The breath of the Lord is the vehicle through which this creative fiat is transmitted. And the ultimate expression of that creative fiat is the annihilation of death itself.

From Genesis to Revelation its showing that the purpose of God from eternity has been to bring many sons to glory through the impartation of His own breath-life.