Grace unto you, and peace,
from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
Indeed, Elohim (Elohiym in Strongs) is plural; And Genesis 1:1 in the Hebrew (read right to left) is a Menorah Seven having plural things in the midst as well as on either side of such plural divided central lamp considered the seventh. See link for details:
http://www.godshew.org/Sevens3.htm
But you missed my point that it's all "allegory", and written as "mystery" to solve; notably the mystery of God, and of the Father, and of Christ: Colossians 2. So allegoric mystery about Mother + Father = Son; And if these three are not Mercy + Grace = Peace, then Son can be a son of a bitch or a miserable bastard. Every good mystery has twists to it. We solve it by seek and find, using see-king clues to "find grace" to "obtain mercy", and notably "in time".
The stated purpose is our "learning". So then it's a virtue-all learning game, not a blame game inducts all players into a hall of shame, not fame.
For it is preposterous order to teach first and learn after, or to be a man and still a child, or to be saved and still give place to destroyed after, which can only happen by grace and law after.
So Bible has schoolmaster law first and grace after, for child-ren first and man-kind after. But if child not put away, "let us make man" can't be stablished; If destructive law not put away, "saved by grace" can't be established. If death by law not put away, lay hold on eternal life gets thwarted. So the Bible talks of put away child to be man as if put away part to be perfect and as if put away law to grace us and as if put away death to lay hold on eternal life.
For "eternal life" is neither "life eternal" nor life after death, but rather it's life void of death, which speaks of grace void of law, mercy void of sacrifice, and peace void of division. The peace God authors is even peace void of confusion.
Eternal God has neither beginning of days nor end of life, and our goal is to be reconciled to "that God" can't lie nor die. Until we apply the see-king clues, that God remains invisible; And until we properly apply take away the first to establish the second that God remains inaccessible. For he doesn't want a deadly virus that could make him non eternal. So we're grounded, quarantined, till we put away law.
As for the 3 wise men you mentioned, they were not suffered to continue by reason of death. Endure to the end to be saved obviously requires continuance. So they failed, by giving place to destroyed after; which is to say they gave place to law afterward. Since law is both natural and spiritual, it's not just natural disaster, but spiritual disaster after. So good thing it's only a God shew, and nobody really dies in a shew where the end (of law) is grace only, life only, especially if it's the JC sort of grace that's with you all, against none. For the Noahic sort of grace + law was partial, saved only 8 souls to keep corruptible seed alive, then later sacrificed them, making it total destruction when studied out. Same scenario with Exodus folk: saved + destroyed. So let's not go there, to life + death of grace + law.
Charity "never faileth" because it "thinketh no evil". Law is both good and evil; So obviously charity thinketh no law. No law would be no sin even imputed to forgive. So that's why charity is put on above forgiving one another. That way, the more excellent way, we can never fail to forgive. Selah.
The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ [is] with you all. Amen.
