Your Identity Before The Elohim

Series: Retraining the Mind

By Michael Mitchell, Light Productions

Introduction: Understanding Identity in the Divine Court

In Exodus 4:22-23 (Ethiopian Hebrew text), God declares:

“Israel is My firstborn son; so I say to you, ‘Let My son go…’”

This declaration is profound: firstborn in Hebrew (bĕkôr) implies inheritance, authority, and covenant privilege. Identifying with Messiah Yeshua is not merely believing—it is reclaiming royal identity before the Elohim.

When we align our identity with Yahweh’s designation, tribulation no longer defines us. We learn to retrain our minds to affirm: we belong to a higher order.

1. Ancient Identity: A Kingdom Mindset

Historical & Biblical Roots

• Jacob becomes Israel (Genesis 32:28)—he is given an identity aligned with divine purpose.

• Israel as firstborn (Exodus 4:22–23) establishes a national and mystical identity—not as per flesh but as per promise.

In Ethiopian Orthodox tradition, identity is interwoven with covenant. The Talmud (Pirkei Avot 2:1) teaches: “Turn it and turn it”—continually re-examine identity through study, prayer, and preservation.

Esoteric / Metaphorical Perspective

By identifying as Messiah’s heirs, we operate in a different realm of spiritual authority. Paul writes:

Romans 8:17 – “Now if we are children, then we are heirs…”

This identity changes how we speak, act, and interact with the world—not from pride, but from spiritual legitimacy.

2. Messiah’s Words vs. Humanity’s Words

The Order of Apostolic Teaching

• Yeshua emphasized kingdom truth: love, mercy, justice.

• The apostles (Peter, James, John) spoke from a call to service and covenant renewal (Acts 15—care for widows, orphans, foreigners).

• Paul’s epistles addressed Gentile reconciliation and law instruction carefully.

The misuse of Paul’s authority to suppress sacrifice, justice or relational accountability is a distortion of his mission.

3. Identity, Unity, and the False Burden of Narcissism

Because identity is under attack, many believers are encouraged to isolate, conform, or suppress heritage under so-called spiritual submission. The Synagogue of Satan manipulates “individualism” as a form of control.

Key Truths:

• You’re not just an individual—you are part of a covenant community.

• The command to love the orphan, widow, foreigner (Exodus 22:21; Leviticus 19:34) is not optional.

• Messiah’s example: served the unworthy, healed the despised, extended invitation to the marginalized.

4. Your Heart, Your Tongue: Reclaiming Power

Speak Identity Daily

• Choose words that affirm: “I am Messiah’s, My Father is my King, I walk in covenant.”

• Guard the tongue: “Death and life are in the power of the tongue” (Pr 18:21).

• Speak purpose, not fear. That is ruach (spirit) at work—divine breath aligning mind and mouth.

Mindset Shifts

Lie

Truth

“I’m not enough.”

“I’m c hosen by Elohim.”

“I’m alone.”

“I walk in covenant community.”

“My pain is pointless.”

“God uses affliction to refine identity.”

5. Messiah’s Identity as Blueprint

• Messiah fulfilled Isa 53—bearing suffering for many.

• He embodied Melchizedekhood (Ps. 110) for a new order: priestly authority + kingly identity.

Believers today must reclaim this dual identity without domination, but as servants with relational authority.

6. A Call to Action: Live Authentically

• Relearn your divine name: YHWH, El Shaddai, Elohim—not conditioned by colonialism.

• Press into covenant practice: care for the fatherless, love diversity, engage in justice.

• Speak destiny into your household and community.

• Refuse identity theft by culture; reclaim blessed heritage in Messiah.

Conclusion: Embrace Your Divine Identity

Your identity is not shaped by who you’ve been told you are. It’s shaped by who your Creator declared you to be: a covenant child, a sacred heir, a priest-king in Messiah.

Ending Prayer

Abba YHWH,

We thank You for declaring us Your firstborn—chosen, beloved, and called. Teach us to think as those who bear sacred identity before Heaven’s court. Remove every lie about who we are. Align our tongues, our minds, and our hearts with the Messiah’s true mission. May we serve one another, uplift the marginalized, and walk in holiness. Use us to restore covenant identity across the earth. In Yeshua’s matchless Name, Amen.

📚 Works Cited / Bibliography

• Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Bible: Exodus, Isaiah, Romans, Acts

• Talmud Bavli, Pirkei Avot 2:1

• Strong’s Hebrew and Aramaic Lexicons

• Kebra Nagast: Ethiopian covenant identity tradition

• Albert Pike, Morals & Dogma—Eastern Star & Masonic symbolism

• Josephus, Antiquities of the Jews

• Kebra Berhan commentaries on identity in Messiah

• The Aramaic Peshitta (NT) – linguistic context on Messiah’s speech

• “Hebrew Thought Compared with Greek” — Thorleif Boman