Yes the Holy Spirit does have a name, I'll come to that in a minute. Margery was once reading a book, part of which a young woman alone in a church was wondering and asking does the Holy Spirit have a name, "And what do I call you?" she was asking, that got Margery thinking, "Well does the Holy Spirit really have a name, I can talk to just as I talk to my family and friends?" Well I found the answer to that several months ago, it is very definately yes. The name of the Holy Spirit is Noah, does that surprise you? How did I find it? Well it came to me after writing the tract on on the names of the patriarchs from Adam to Noah. What struck me was Jesus' words, John 14:16, "And I will pray the Father, and he will give you another comforter, that He may abide with you forever." "But when the Comforter is come, whom I will send unto youfrom the Father, even the Spirti of truth, which proceedeth from the Father, he shall testify of me."
Lets go back to Genesis 5: 29, "And he called his name Noah, saying, This same shall comfort us concerning our work and toil of our hands, because of the ground which the Lord has cursed." The name Noah means literally, one who brings comfort, or simply comforter, the apostles were going to need this comforter in their own work of the good news. By default the name Noah equals comforter. I think the baptism of John was in type a visible sign of the coming of the baptism of the Holy Spirit, all to do with water.
Before the beginning of time the Spirit hovers over the face of the deep, brings order to chaos, as he did on the lake of Galilee. "Who is this man who can even command the winds and waves to be still." Noah the comforter, wern't the disciples in distress because of it. "Be obedient to my word," says Jonah, and the storm died down, rock which was Christ in the wilderness gave water, fear of dying of thirst, that Spirit gave comfort. Peter at Pentecost, streams of lifegiving water flowing from his belly, you know the scripture. Water turned into wine at the wedding feast, out of the flood Noah planted a vinyard, was drunk on the wine he fermented, a lot I could say on this subject maybe another time.
It is interesting ...Our pastor brought up as lot of these points today. Thank you Michael!
Isn't it interesting the meanings of various names for individuals in the scriptures! I was also thinking about Jabez, whose name means (if I remember correctly) pain. And, others.
Ruth Ann
Glad to see you here, interesting post.
I will try to discern how the Lord wants me to understand your post.
John 14:16-17
16"I will ask the Father, and He will give you another (A)Helper, that He may be with you forever;
17that is (B)the Spirit of truth, (C)whom the world cannot receive, because it does not see Him or know Him, but you know Him because He abides with you and will be in you.
Right now, I feel Jesus Christ said when I leave, I will send you a comforter, the Holy Spirit. I am of the understanding that the Holy Spirit as part of the Holy Trinity. I feel HIS presence(for example, our conscience) is the holy spirit living inside of us.
Never thought about a name other than that..
The way I see it is not so much trinity, as you and I are like God, we have ourselves, body, we have a Spirit, our inner being, and we have our word, it is what we speak. That is God, he is an eternal being, he has his Spirit, and he has his word what he speaks, and through his word he causes things to be. God sent his angel Gabriel to tell Mary she would conceive a son, that flesh Jesus was wholly the word of God, and when the Spirit descended upon Jesus, the fullness of God dwelt wholly within Him, and the word being of God himself could only carry out the fathers wishes, even to death on the cross. What we call trinity, is the whole being of God, in one entity, Father, His word what he speaks and and His Spirit, God speaks the word and the Spirit goes into action.
Summicron: I find much of typology interesting and it seems a worthwhile tool in biblical interpretation. I have decided however,
for personal use, I must be very careful with it. In this instance I can see the Adamic relationship with Noah, and can understand
the baptismal significance of the flood itself. Try as I may, I have been unable to find Type significance with Noah and the Holy Spirit.
Can you elaborate? Sorry, I'm a little slow at times. :thinking: