Who Is "US" In Scripture?

Three times in scripture the Lord God uses the phrase, "Us" when speaking about himself.  This usage is plural, meaning more than one person.

Genesis 1:26

God says "Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth."

 

Then goes on in verse 27 to use the word "He", not us. This is plural but singular.

 

'So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them. ' - Genesis 1:27.

 

In Genesis 11 we read the story of the Tower of Babel built by the notorious King Nimrod, who wanted to be a god in his own rights. He had led his people away from the God of his forefathers, Adam, Noah, and those who followed the One True God of the Universe and brought in the pagan worship of many gods.  But Yehovah Elohim decided to totally disrupt the plans of Nimrod.

 

Genesis 11:7

'Go to, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another's speech.

 

The people were no longer able to understand one another and they scatter across the lands just as the Lord God had told them to do when Noah and his family disembarked from the Ark. 

 

Then again in Isaiah God again refers to himself in the plural by asking Isaiah "who will go for us?".

 

Isaiah 6:8

'Also I heard the voice of the Lord, saying, Whom shall I send, and who will go for us? Then said I, Here am I; send me. '

 

Three times in scripture God refers to himself in a plural form.  Many times in scripture he refers to himself in singular.  The plural form is where the God the Father, God the Son and God the Holy Spirit are working in unison for one reason or another.  They used the plural form in the creation of mankind, using the image of all three combined into one.  They used the plural form when they decided to scatter mankind across the face of the earth with different languages and ethnic traits.  They were in agreement that mankind was a problem when left to their own devices and needed to be split up into differing groups of people.  Too much power in the hands of mankind is not a good thing.  Mankind thinks up too much evil and pushes that evil into the hearts and minds of many others.  They used the plural form when speaking to mankind about the ways of Godliness and who could or would help them speak into the hearts and minds of mankind.  Who better to speak to and about God than a heart and mind that is aligned with Godliness?  When the Godhead uses a person to speak for them he wants all three images of God to be used.  God the Father, God the Son, God the Holy Spirit.  All three work in unison to speak love, kindness, comfort, wisdom, and all fruits of the Spirit in the person they are directing to others.  Each person of the Godhead, the Trinity of God, is important to the understanding of how God works on the earth and in his people.  All three are as important as the other. All three are God in the triune form and each one can be used in a separate or individual form. 

 

It is amazing that God works in the lives of his people either together or separately, whatever the situation calls for.  He speaks in ways for each of us to understand how and why he is working in plural or singular form.  Sometimes the Father needs to speak to or direct his child from a fatherly perspective.  Sometimes the Son needs to remind his people of the sacrifice that was made to cleanse them from the sinful nature of mankind and to fill those people with love for others.  Sometimes the Holy Spirit needs to come into the hearts of his people to comfort them and guide them, to speak life into the spirit of his child. 

 

There are so many ways Yehovah Elohim works in the lives of his chosen and all we have to do is acknowledge him, plural or singular.  They live in us.  We are made in their image.  He calls to us and we hear his voice.  We are his people.  We are singular and we are plural.

 

I John 3:24 - 'Now he who keeps His commandments abides in Him, and He in him. And by this we know that He abides in us, by the Spirit whom He has given us.'

 

Psalms 100:3 - 'Know that the Lord , He is God; It is He who has made us, and not we ourselves; We are His people and the sheep of His pasture.'