ABEL\'S UNIVERSE (General)

by Abel , Sunday, November 20, 2011, 19:34 (4752 days ago) @ Abel

(continued from previous post)

According to this site:

http://www.thechristianrabbi.org/whoismetatron.htm

Who is Metatron? He is the highest archangel, esteemed more than any other of God’s hosts. The letters [of his name] are the great mystery. You may translate the letters vav, hay which is [part of] the name of God… He rules over all, the living things below and the living things above. This is hidden in them and taken from them.

Readings from the Zohar

The above quotation is from the Jewish mystical book, the Zohar, in its comment on Genesis 1:1, which introduces Metatron as being present in this very first verse of the Torah. The writer, Simeon ben Yochai, continues his comment, stating that Metatron is the very first [kadmoni], as well as the highest. He also states that Metatron is eternal.

…He [Metraton] is the very first. Nobody can understand anything higher than this. Why? Because it is closed for the mind. God’s mind is a closed mystery from above. The mind of man can be connected with things, but no one can connect God’s mind from above, the more His thoughts. He is without end.

The Zohar gives the above definition, but the origin of the name Metatron remains a mystery. According to Jewish scholars’ statements, it could come from the Hebrew matara, which means "keeper of the watch;" from the Hebrew cabalistic term metator, which means "guide or messenger" or from two Greek words, meta thronos, which mean "one who serves behind the throne." The Jewish sages do not present a unified opinion regarding the etymology of the name Metatron.

Another Talmudic passage, Yebamoth 16b, also refers to Psalm 37:25, "I was young and was old," as Simeon ben Yochai does in his comment on Genesis 24:2 previously quoted, and comes to the same conclusion that the person mentioned is Metatron. Some believe that Metatron is Enoch, but Yebamoth 16b refutes this conclusion:

Who said it? If God said it, can old age be applied to God? But David said it. Was he so old? But from this we learn that the prince of the world said it. [Tosefos said this prince is young. He is Metatron, the glorified and the fearful. Metatron is the prince of the world. He is called "the youth."]

In the poem Yesod Tokeh, [Strong Foundation], Metatron is a prince turned to fire from the flesh. In this poem it seems to mean that Enoch is Metatron, but he cannot be. He cannot be the prince of the world because in [the Talmudic book] Chulin 60:1 it says that in the first six days the prince of the world [Metatron] said, "God is rejoicing in his work," and Enoch was not yet born…[Tosefos Yebamoth 16b.]"

You can see from these and previous passages, that there are two Metatrons. One that existed at the beginning of creation and one that was made later (the youth). God (YHWH) has been described as the first and the last. The alpha and the omega, just like Metatron is. He was made first and then His shadow was made to walk the earth last. That shadow is the last of the seven sentinels (seven thunders***, aka the "voices" of God) made to walk the path of life to teach and lead humanity.

According to a Wikipedia summary of Revelations:

***The angel cries out and seven thunders utter their voices.
The apostle John is commanded to seal up what the thunders uttered in the little book, and is told not to write about what was said.
The angel declares that the mystery of God would be revealed on the sounding of the seventh trumpet.