Breath of Life: 3 Breaths From God That Shaped Humanityনমুনা

Yahweh truly does save, and He specifically embedded His desire to save us in the name of our Savior, which carries a heavier weight when we use His name. In Hebrew, the name given to Jesus by Yahweh is Yahshua.

Yahshua is made up of the short form of Yahweh’s name, YAH, combined with “who saves” or “is salvation.” So, when we declare Jesus’ name as Yahshua, we are literally saying, “Yahweh is Salvation.”

The First Breath that shaped humanity came from Yahweh in the Garden of Eden. It was a breath given in holiness and its power made the first Adam come alive. The breath of life.

But the Second Breath that shaped humanity came from the lungs of Yahshua at the cross, where He was crucified. The Second Breath that shaped humanity could be labeled “the breath of death.”

Like every daughter or son of man before Him, the breath of life was with Yahshua at the cross. Profoundly, it was given back to Yahweh when Yahshua spoke His final words, recorded in Luke 23:46 (emphasis added): “Then Jesus [Yahshua] called out in a loud voice, ‘Father, into Your hands I commit My Spirit.’ And when He had said this, He breathed His last.”

The final breath of Yahshua on the cross is the final exhale of Christ as a man who is the Second Adam. 

The first Adam, inhaled the First Breath, the breath of life. And now, very specifically, the Gospels record how Jesus, who was Himself God, emptied Himself of His deity, becoming the Second Adam so that “Yahweh Who Saves” could redeem all of humanity by becoming the perfect sacrifice, once and for all on behalf of sinful humanity. 

While being found in the form of a man, Yahshua never once took Yahweh’s name in vain, not even with a single breath!

Every breath of Yahshua is life, save His final exhale on the cross, which was a breath of death in the flesh. This was accomplished so that we could be crucified with our old self in Christ. Through His death and resurrection, Yahshua completed His work. 

The fate of humanity hinges upon this “it is finished” moment. When Yahshua breathed out his last breath as a man, by exhaling His final “YAH…WEH” to the Father. In that moment, all of humanity was given a Second Breath from God.

And the Son’s next move was to bring this restored breath to humanity by giving us the Holy Breath itself.

Prayer: God, we have to stop to catch our breath at the profound and shocking way in which You brought salvation into the world. Thank You that Jesus is salvation and that He lived a perfect life so that our spirits could be renewed. Thank You for the sacrifice of Your Son on the cross that would make a way for us to receive Your Holy Spirit. Amen.