Hosea 10:3 Jesus Omitted: The Godhead Obscured

 

For now they shall say We have no king because we feared not YHWH ALEPH TAV ^{First Last}  What then should a king do to us?

Comments: The Hebrew letters ALEPH and TAV are present in the Hebrew text of Hosea 10:3. In this verse the first and last letters of the Hebrew alephbet follow the plural name for the Almighty, YHWH.

Although translators don’t really know what the two letters together mean, they frequently translate ALEPH TAV as “the” or simply omit the letters altogether without even a footnote to tip readers off that they have fundamentally changed a verse because of the omission.

The ALEPH TAV is referred to as an “untranslatable symbol.” And it’s not just a case of leaving the letters untranslated, scholars omit them altogether when they can’t make sense of a sentence just because the ALEPH TAV doesn’t make sense as a “the,” which they admit they don’t really know it means that anyhow. 

Why have we given scholars the authority to delete words from our sacred writings just because they don’t know what the words mean? Why have we given scholars a pass for failing to include words in a translation just because they are clueless as to the meanings? The only honest way to handle such instances would be to include the words or letters untranslated, and then add a footnote.   

We see an omitted ALEPH TAV in Genesis 1:1. Most Believers have never heard that the two letters are there. Some believe (including this writer) the letters reveal Jesus [before he became the Son at his birth as a human] as being involved in the Creation. The literal reading in Genesis 1:1 is, “In the beginning Elohim ALEPH TAV (Elohim First Last) created the heavens and the earth.” 

Some believe the ALEPH TAV symbol means “Strength of the Covenant.” If that is so, Yeshua, the First the Last, through his shed blood and the resurrection, is the strength of the Covenant ^{Matthew 26:28}.

Translating the ALEPH TAV in Genesis 1:1 reveals Jesus as THE WORD and as being the First and the Last, the Almighty ^{Revelation 1:8, John 1:1, Colossians 1:16-17}. Jesus is the Creator. Jesusis God. In the beginning Elohim ALEPH TAV created the heavens and the earth. 

The ALEPH TAV in Genesis 1:1 is stupendous and should never have been left out.