A fact about the Holy Shroud of Turin that is more or less ignored...........
The Facial image of the Holy Shroud of Turin.
Not often noticed or mentioned is this. Those two famous trickles of blood - one of which resemble a number "3"when a negative image of the Shroud face is shown....
....... can be seen when face to face with the positive image to spell out the Hebrew word "EL"
"EL" is transliterated Hebrew for the word "God" in the singular. "Elohim" on the other hand, I have discovered is the PLURALIZED form of the word "God" As can be witnessed in the first chapter of the book of Genesis (and many other places) Genesis 1:27 states in Hebrew......
"In the beginning ELOHIM created the world.... ."
John and the students of the Disciples (aka The Apostolic Fathers - see below link) referred to Jesus as being the Incarnation of the Memra aka Logos (The Word) Who appeared many times in the Old Testament whenever God manifested HIMSELF PHYSICALLY on earth. For instance, when He physically fought with Jacob and overpowered him. Or when He stood in front of Abraham and ate with him.
John states that Jesus was the incarnation of the Old Testament Divine Manifestation of God known as "The Word " in the first Chapter of his Gospel.
1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was WITH God, and the Word WAS God. 2He was with God in the beginning. 3 Through Him all things were made, and without Him nothing was made that has been made.
...also.... See Wisdom 18 for a clear example.......
"[14] For while all things were in quiet silence, and the night was in the midst of her course, [15] Thy almighty Word leapt down from Heaven from Thy Royal Throne, as a fierce conqueror into the midst of the land of destruction."
The many appearances OF God's Almighty WORD can be seen most clearly in some of the pre-Christian Aramaic Targums (study texts used by Rabbi's to instruct students before the time of Christ) These Targums have recently been Translated.... Here is how one Targum defines Genesis 1:27 showing that they viewed the WORD as God prior to the Incarnation of Christ.
JERUSALEM TARGUM for Genesis 1:27 And the Word of the Lord created man in His likeness, in the likeness of the presence of the Lord He created him, the male and his yoke-fellow He created them.
