All things are delivered to me of my Father: and no man knows who the Son is, but the Father; and who the Father is, but the Son, and he to whom the Son will reveal him. Luke 10:22.
For I would that ye knew what great conflict I have for you, and for them at Laodicea, and for as many as have not seen my face in the flesh; that their hearts might be comforted, being knit together in love, and unto all riches of the full assurance of understanding, to the acknowledgement of the mystery of God, and of the Father, and of Christ; in whom are hid all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge. Colossians 2:1-3.
Christ on earth, the image of the invisible God, the first born of every creation is one of the many wondrous mysteries of godliness of God manifested in the flesh, justified in the spirit, seen of angels, preached unto the Gentiles, believed on the world, received up into glory.1Timothy3:16. Note: the title of Christ while on earth as the Son of God (Luke 1:35) was the manifestation and evidence of the effectiveness of the word of God to reproduce himself as the seed of the woman, – Emmanuel, God with us (Mt1:23) which was the son of Enos, which was the son of Seth, which was the son of Adam, which was the son of God. Luke 3:38), that the word, being God in the flesh or was made flesh, should give the same power of sons ship to all those who will and have received Jesus Christ, even those who believed in his name to become sons of God – you are all children of God by faith in Christ Jesus.
After the fall and the judgment issued by God in the Garden, Christ was prophetically announced to Satan as one who is to come after him to bruise his head with the garments of vengeance for clothing (Isaiah 59:17) to destroy and undo the wickedness of the old serpent against mankind – he shall bruise your head, and thou shall bruise his heel. Genesis 3:15.
Abraham was promised that Christ should spring from his loins. Jacob knew by revelation that Christ would be of the tribe of Judah. David knew that his Lord and Savior Christ should be the son of David in the flesh. Prophet Micah by prophetic power declared that Christ should be born at Bethlehem, though his going forth has been from of old, from everlasting. Prophet Isaiah declared his birth and divinity, his eternality and headship as the everlasting Father (Isaiah 9:6): even the demonic spirits from the invisible world confessed to his deity or divinity, and acknowledged his incarnation as the Son of God – and unclean spirits, when they saw him, fell down before him, and cried, saying, thou art the Son of God. Mark 3:11.
Jesus denote for Jehovah Everlasting Savior of Universal Sinners. Has God not so much loved the world that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believes in his should not perish, but have everlasting life? John 3:16. Is it not written, thou shall call his name Jesus, for he shall save his people from their sins. Jesus is the code name of God on earth in his mission to reconcile the world unto himself, not imputing their trespasses unto them (2 Cor. 5:19): neither is there salvation in any other: for there is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved. Acts 4:12.
The name of Jesus was given from heaven as the name of God on earth whose own arm brought him the salvation of his people. Isaiah 59:16. The name of Jesus is also the seal of God’s authority, revealing that he is the God of heaven and earth, and of every created being, wherefore God also hath highly exalted him, and given him a name which is above every name: that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of things in heaven, and things in earth, and things under the earth; and that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father. Great indeed is the mystery of godliness. Philippians 2:9-11.
This is the fundamental truth about the One true God and Jesus Christ whom he has sent, operating or manifesting himself in three distinctiveness or individuality as God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit (a) the all powerful God – Omnipotent, the God who can do all things: (b) the Omnipresence, the God who is everywhere at anytime: (c) the God of all knowledge – Omniscience Creator. Canst thou by searching find out God? Can thou find out the Almighty unto perfection? It is as high as heaven; what canst thou do? Deeper than hell; what canst thou know? The measure thereof is longer than the earth, and broader than the sea. Job 11:7-9), – the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit, be with you all. 2 Cor.13:14.
God is a spirit, but with a spiritual body – there is a natural body and there is a spiritual body. John 4:24. God is the word, meaning that he expresses or demonstrate himself to create the world, while at the same time, show himself as the creative Spirit or power of the word. In the beginning was the word, and the word was with God, and the word was God. The same was in the beginning with God: all things were made by him, nothing was made without him. And the word was made flesh, dwelling among us, – showing Christ as the word spoken by God in the creation, – the express image of his person, by whom also he made the worlds, – that Christ was the word made flesh sent from heaven to speak unto us in these last days on the earth. Hebrews 1:1-3.
Now, you clearly understand the reason why the winds and the waves of sea obeyed Christ in reverence recognition to the origin of their creation and existence when he commanded them to calm down while he was with his disciples at sea in the boat because he is before all things, and by him, meaning Christ or the Word made flesh all things consist. Colossians 1:17.
The manifestations or visibility of the things spoken by God were the demonstration of the active force or the power of God’s creation (through faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God, so that things which are seen were not made of things which do appear. Heb.11:3) because the power of the creative word (which is Christ, but was not revealed by such name in heaven before the world was made or before the fall of man until the first begotten of God was brought into the world) is in the word of God, which is the Spirit of God, – and the Lord is that Spirit (2 Cor.3:17) which was confirmed to us by Christ himself that the word he has spoken unto us, they are Spirit, and they are life (John 6:63), which indeed proves to us that in Christ dwells all the fullness of the Godhead bodily. Colossians 2:9.
So, whenever the Father speaks, the Word spoken manifest the Father’s desire through the quickening and creative power of his Spirit because God is a Spirit, – and where the word of King is, there is the manifestation of his creative power, the Spirit of God. Eccle.8: 4 a. So, therefore we see the three that bear record in heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost: and these three are one. 1 John 5:7.
God made man by the skillfulness of his hand from the clay or dust of the earth, but he spoke the creation and other created beings into existence (let there be), just as he sent his word into the Virgin Mary who was the earthly mother of Jesus that she should be overshadowed by the power of the Spirit to conceive and bring forth Christ who is called the Son of the most high (Luke 1: 32): for he spoke, and it was done: he commanded, and it stood fast. Psalms 33:9.
When the Highest gave his word, Christ by miraculous conception came into the world by the spirit of God, thus we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father, full of grace and truth. Note: whenever the word of God comes to you, consider it as Christ visitation to you (a) either for blessing like in the case of Mary who received and believed the word given unto her by the angel of God (b), or for chastening and correction like in the case of king Nebuchadnezzar (c), or for the re-assurances of his purposes and his presence with you, for he has promised never to leave you, nor forsake you.
The scripture says that Christ was the Lamb foreordained before – preparatory to the foundation of the world (as of a lamb without blemish and without spot: who verily was foreordained before the foundation of the world. 1 Peter1:19-20) whose blood was shed from the foundation (indicating the point in time at which a particular process, event, or activity starts – when God laid the foundation of the earth. Job 38:4) of the world (and all that dwell upon the earth shall worship him, whose names are not written in the book of life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world. Revelation 13:8) as an offering and sacrifice to God for a sweet smelling savor made ready from the eternity before anything was made (b) ever before any created being in heaven and on earth came into existence, (c) ever before the transgression and expulsion of man from the garden of Eden for the sin not yet committed, so that in Christ Jesus, all who were made sinners by the transgression of the first Adam, dead in sins and trespasses called sinners from the womb should found their salvation and righteousness in Christ Jesus who is the Bishop and Shepherd of their soul. Note: after the fall, Adam gave birth to children after his kind, that is, of the sinful and corrupt nature; but the naissance of Christ as God’s ‘holy thing’ on earth is designed to give birth to sons and daughters after God’s kind who should be partakers of his divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lusts through the same power of the Spirit that brought Christ on earth (born of the Spirit. John 1:13): being born again, not of corruptible seed, but incorruptible seed of the word of God which lives and abides forever.
The blood of Jesus is a wondrous mystery…..and they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb….Revelation 12:11. This text indicate that the blood of the everlasting covenant was a preemptive sacrifice (serving or intended to pre-empt or forestall something, especially to prevent attack by disabling the enemy), which is also the signatory mark of God’s ownership, and his indemnity or insurance policy against any loss or damage of things made or created by his word, that is Christ, with the capacity to serve as weapon or instrument of warfare (b) instrument of defense to plead and to win any spiritual litigation against the enemy which has was kept secret in heaven until the proper time of its usefulness to as defeat Satan in his rebellion against God: secondly on earth, for its reconciliatory purpose when the Lord formerly made peace through the blood of his cross to reconcile all things unto himself, whether they be things in earth, or things in heaven. Colossians 1:20.
Can you just think of the moment when God, for the first time, called the attention of angel Michael to the availability of the blood of the Lamb as a weapon to fight, attack and defend in the battle against the Dragon and his angels in heaven? Michael and his angels were not aware of the existence of the blood of the Lamb until war and confusion broke out before the throne of God in heaven before access was given unto them for the application of the blood of the Lamb who was foreordained before the foundation of the world, but was shed from the foundation of the world – Lord, thou hast been our dwelling place in all generations. Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever before you formed the earth and the world, even from everlasting to everlasting, thou art God. Psalms 90:1-2.
Satan presented himself before Christ as the god and rightful owner of this world (all this power will I give thee, and the glory of them: for that is delivered unto me; and to whomsoever I will I give it. Luke 4: 6), but the certificate of true ownership, having the seal of the blood of the Lamb shed before the foundation of the world is Christ himself by whom all things were made; visible or invisible, thrones or dominions, principalities or powers, things in heaven, or things on earth.
After Christ died on the cross, one of the soldiers pierced him with a spear, and blood and water issue suddenly out of his side. John 19:34. He was declared to be Son of God (a) by the centurion and other men. Matthew 27:54: (b) declared to be the Son of God according to the spirit of holiness, by his resurrection from the dead. Romans 1:4. Here again, we see the testimonies of the three that bear witness on earth (a) the Spirit (by which our Lord was conceived through Mary, (b) and the water, and the blood that gushed out of his side, – for they shall look upon him whom they have pierced. Zachariah 12:10: these three agree in one. If we receive the witness of men, the witness of God is greater: for this is the witness of God which he hath testified of his Son. He that believeth on the Son of God hath the witness in himself: he that believeth not God hath made him a liar; because he believeth not the record that God gave of his Son. And this is the record that God hath given to us eternal life, and this life is in his Son. He that hath the Son hath life; and he that hath not the Son of God hath not life.1 John 5:8-12.
This is the eternal rejection and condemnation of anyone claiming to have the knowledge and relationship with the Father without the Son, for no one comes to the Father, except by him. John 14:6.
The Father made great encomium about the Son as God who changes not, by whom the world was made, and by whom the present heavens and earth shall also be dissolved by fire (2 Peter 3:5-7): but unto the Son he (God) says, thy throne, O God, is forever and ever: a scepter of righteousness is the scepter of thy kingdom. You loved righteousness, and hated iniquity; therefore God, even thy God, hath anointed thee with the oil of gladness above thy fellows. And, thou, Lord, in the beginning hast laid the foundation of the earth; and the heavens are the works of your hands: they shall perish; but thou remain; and they all shall wax old as doth a garment; and as a vesture shall thou fold them up, and they shall be changed: but thou art the same, and thy years shall not fail. Hebrews 1:8-12.
Herein was the cause of strife, the envy, the confusion and the madness of many of the Jewish brethren of Christ in the flesh as they find fault to accuse him of blasphemy that he made himself equal with God (John 10:33), not able to agree with his claim that’ before Abraham was, I am’. John 8:58.
I came from the Father and entered into the world (John 16:28), meaning that he is the God of Christ, and he is the Christ of God in the world – I and my Father are one (John 10:30): for when he – Father brings in the first-begotten into the world, he says, and let all the angels worship him. Heb.1:6.
The angels are far more excellent and superior in creation than man, though, they don’t worship man, but they also don’t receive any form of worship from man, nor should anyone worship an angel of God – it is forbidden. Nevertheless, by inheritance, Christ obtained a more excellent name than the angels (Heb.1:4) as the God by whom the angels were made to be, and by him shall they be preserved throughout all eternity.
By inheritance, I mean by Christ position and power over all the created beings – by whom also God made the worlds (Heb.1:2), but because of his relationship with us through redemption by his blood, we are technically grafted into the vine – a royalty position over the angels (Matthew 18:10), for he has made us kings and priests unto God his Father (Revelation 1:6): there is but one God, the Father, of whom are all things, and we in him; and one Lord Jesus Christ, by whom are all things, and we by him. 1 Cor. 8:6.
By our present position of relationship in Christ Jesus, we are not made better than the angels, that we should be worshipped by them the same way that they worship Christ, but we, as the heirs of salvation with the privilege status of co- heirs with Christ because of his superiority over the angels – The God of the angels, we are in the position of grace or favour to receive the ministrations or services of his holy angels. Hebrews 1:14.
From one of the three temptations Satan presented before Christ, he demanded worship from his God; but he, whose specialist is to blind the minds of the unbelievers (2 Cor.4:4) has his own mind blinded to the divinity of the person of Christ as the God of all creation – if thou therefore wilt worship me, all shall be yours. Luke 4:7. Consider the prevailing power and the effects of the eternal word over the three temptations when God’s impersonator – Satan came face to face with the Word of God personified, – Christ, who being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God. Philippians 2:6.
Little did Satan knew or realized that he was before the Lord of hosts who once ordered his banishment and debasement before his throne from God heaven down to the earth, and by whose blood he lost the previous battle in heaven. But the sword of the spirit drawn out from what was written in the scripture pierced so hard and deep into Satan’s soul with no room to think twice, ‘thou shall not tempt the Lord thy God’ and ‘thou shall worship the Lord thy God’ as to leave him with clueless with what to expect in his future encounter with the God whose throne he vainly coveted after in heaven, but has brought the fight down to him on earth: first, to defeat and to destroy his works on earth; second, to send him to hell throughout all eternity – for his time is short.
There was no throne install for Christ in heaven before the accomplishment of our redemptive work on the cross, until his death and resurrection, when he had by himself purged our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high. Heb.1:3 c. After his death and resurrection was God said to his Christ, sit thou at my right hand, till I make thy enemies thy footstool. This was his exaltation, Christ throne set up at the right hand of God in heaven is the symbol and honor of his life, death and resurrection as the Son of man, the reward of the sacrifice and pain of his love: to him that overcomes will I grant to sit with me in my throne, even as I also overcame, and am set down with my Father in his throne. Revelation 3:21. Chris reign to sit as our faithful high priest, the intercessor, and the mediator between God and man (I Timothy 2:5-6): for he must reign, until all his enemies are put under his footstool. Psalms.110:1.
From the eternity has Christ been with the Father (John 5:19): both are eternally inseparable, – I am in my Father and my Father is in me. John 14:1. Philip says unto him, Lord, show us the Father, and it suffices us. Jesus says unto him, have I been so long time with you, and yet hast thou not known me, Philip? He that hath seen me hath seen the Father (the features of godliness in the Son of God on earth, is the express character of the divinity of the Father which is in heaven – no man has seen God at any time, but the Only begotten of the Father from his bosom has declared him. John 1:18); and how says thou then, show us the Father? Don’t you believe that I am in the Father, and the Father in me? The words that I speak unto you I speak not of myself: but the Father that dwells in me, he does the works. Believe me that I am in the Father, and the Father in me: or else believe me for the very works’ sake. John 14:1-11.
And God saw that everything he made was good…..Christ was the manifestation of the glory of God in the beauty of creation (and now, O Father, glorify thou me with thine own self with the glory which I had with thee before the world was John 17:5): when he – God prepared the heavens, I – Christ was there: when he set a compass upon the face of the depth: when he established the clouds above: when he strengthened the fountains of the deep: when he gave to the sea his decree, that the waters should not pass his commandment: when he appointed the foundations of the earth…Whatever God desire, this shall Christ be or become: Christ is the word, and when God commanded, it stood fast.
God is the Almighty, the only wise God, but Christ is the wisdom and power of God. Whatever God was (in the beginning was the word, the word was with God and the word was God. John 1:1), Christ was, – the word was made flesh and dwells among us. John 1:14.
Whatever God is (God is light, and in him is no darkness. 1 John 1:5), Christ is, – I have come as light in the world, that whosoever believes in me should not walk in darkness, but have the light of life. John 12:46.
Whatever God is to become shall his Christ stoop for or descend to that God may be all in all 1 Cor.15:28.
Likewise in Christ Jesus, the spirit filled believer is an embodiment of Christ on earth because Christ lives in him – he is the member of his body and of his flesh. Were the early believers not rightly named as Christians first at Antioch because they resembled Christ in their behaviors and representatives of him, – having learnt to live and act like him, and were filled up to live and walk daily in the spirit?
God appointed Christ as the heir – next in line of all things. Heb. 1:2. First, this position is applicable because he is the Son of man, – the head of the church, – the second Adam. Second, this position is worthy of Christ as the first- begotten of the creation of God by whom all things, not only comes into existence, but by him are all things holds together. Col.1: 6 b.
The termination of the present of heaven and the earth, their renewal or renovation are under the operation of the determined counsel of the eternal word of God, – this is the power of Christ. 2 Peter 3:5-7. Note: when all things shall discontinue or be terminated, the word of God once made flesh, but is now alongside the Father in heaven, with the family in heaven, altogether with the elects which God redeemed from the four-corners of the earth by the blood of the everlasting covenant shall live forever – God was in Christ, reconciling the world to himself, no longer counting peoples sins against them. 2 Cor. 5:19.