Part 4
"But the hour cometh, and now is, when the true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth: for the Father seeketh such to worship him. God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth"
– John 4:23-24LOGOS: THE BEGINNING
OF
THE CREATION OF GODDUAL NATURE
The most difficult thing to understand about Jesus Christ is, perhaps, His Personality make-up. However, we do understand that like all men He was an individual and a separate being from the entity of God. But, remember that before His baptism, He was just a sinless Man Who had come directly from above (Jhn.8:23), and not from the union of Mary and Joseph. He had eternal life because He had no sin in Him. He was divine but not deity. As such, by nature He could not die. Death could only come upon Him by physical force, if God allowed it (Lk.23:46; Joh.19:10-11a; 1 Cor.15:3.) He had to eat and sleep (Matt.4:2; 8:24). He could feel weariness and pain (Jhn.4:6; Lk.22:44). But God, Who is a Spirit, is not subject to all these constraints.
So, Jesus was a Man and not God before the incarnation at His Baptism. He was merely a Man and a Son of God just like Adam was a man and also a son of God without sin and having eternal life before his fall. But only Jesus had the pre-eminence as The Son of God for He was that LOGOS that was declared and revealed to the saints of old. In the beginning, the WORD (Monogene/Seed), which was to be revealed in Jesus, was the 'Son' who dwelled with God Who is the Father of us all (Jhn.1:2).
With the Fullness of God dwelling within Him after His Baptism, Jesus became a GOD-MAN, both God and Man. Only then did He have the power of words – "For as the Father hath life in himself; so hath he given to the Son to have life in himself; And hath given him authority to execute judgment also, because he is the Son of man" (Jhn.5:26-27). Before that, there was no power in His words. From the lips of that GOD-MAN, the Almighty God spoke His words of life and power. On the other hand, the Man Jesus also used the same lips to speak words, perhaps, of thanks to His friends who provided Him food and lodging, and praises to God, His Father.
That Jesus was both God and Man did not mean that the Deity and the Humanity of Christ were fused into one nature, as some Christians believe. Jesus was fully God and fully Man. He had a distinct spirit and a distinct will from the Heavenly Father.
When Paul said "God sent forth His Son, made of a woman" (Gal. 4:4), undisputedly, he was referring to the flesh or humanity of Christ. Whereas when the Everlasting Father or God was mentioned, it was referring to the Almighty Spirit Who indwelt the Son. Thus, the great mystery of 1 Timothy 3:16 was revealed in that "God was manifest in the flesh".
[Note: Christians who assume that the Jews of old knew that God had a SON or that there was "God the Son" are only presuming it by deducing from such passages of Scriptures as Daniel 3:23-25 and John 7:25-29. It is true that the Jews believed their Messiah (a man) would also be God. But had they known that God had a Son (if God the Son truly pre-existed), they would have gladly received Christ as their Messiah and would not have said,
"However, we know where this Man is from; but when the Christ comes, no one knows where He is from" (Jhn.7:27, NKJ version).
Even Saul, a Pharisee, did not receive such a teaching about God the Son though he knew about ADONAI, the Angel of Yahweh. Therefore, it is obvious that even those in the Old Testament time did not have no such revelation of a Son of God. But who was the fourth man in the fire with Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego? Nebuchadnezzer said,
"Lo, I see four men loose, walking in the midst of the fire, and they have no hurt; and the form of the fourth is like the Son of God" (Dan.3:25).
Could Nebuchadnezzer, a Babylonian king, have such a revelation about "the Son of God"? The term is a translation error. There is no article in the words and the translation should be "a son of God" or "a son of the gods", denoting "a mighty one", "an angel", "a messenger" or "a superhuman being". (See other Bible versions.) However, this fourth man was undoubtedly the WORD prefiguring Jesus Christ, the Son of God.
The chosen people during the Old Testament era never addressed God as "Heavenly Father". Also, there is no account where they turned and called upon a "Heavenly Son" because there is no "Eternal Son". The terms "Everlasting Father" and "Heavenly Father" are New Testament terms. Though the former is used once in the Old Testament (in Isaiah 9:6), it is used prophetically in relation to the New Covenant when the Everlasting God would manifest Himself in the flesh of the Son. Both terms are used because of the Only Begotten Son Who was born to reconcile God's Family. See Hebrews 1:5-14; cf. 2 Samuel 7:14; Psalm 2:7; Acts 13:33; Romans 1:4; and also Daniel 7:9-10; 13-14; Revelation 1:13; Matthew 25:31; Ephesians 1:20-22.
The phrase, "whose goings forth have been from of old, from everlasting" concerning the "Ruler" whom God would bring forth out of Israel, in the prophecy of Prophet Micah (5:2), does not imply that Jesus (Who fulfilled this prophecy of being the Ruler) was from eternity past, but rather from a distant era, ages past. Yet, Jesus did not exist then as a separate being from God. But, because He was the Full Word of God incarnated and expressed, the Scriptures traced Him back to His beginning in ELOHIM as the One Who was pre-eminent in the Mind or Bosom of the Almighty Spirit. He was the Only Begotten Son (Monogene) Whom the Logos came forth, out of the eternal Mind of God's counsel, to express and to prefigure. The Logos later became incarnated in Jesus right after He was water baptized in River Jordan. The following different translations will give you a better understanding:
The Jerusalem Bible – "his origin goes back to the distant past, to the days of old";
The Sacred Scriptures (Bethel Edition) – "whose origin is from an ancient era, from ages of eternity";
Lamsa's Translation – "whose goings forth have been predicted from of old, from eternity".]When Jesus was praying in the garden of Gethsemane, it was not God praying to God. God is One Who is worshipped and Who receives prayer. God does not render worship or prayer. If He does, it undeifies Himself. It was the Man Jesus praying unto God, His Father. Appearing unto Mary Magdalene, after His resurrection, "Jesus saith unto her, Touch me not; for I am not yet ascended to my Father: but go to my brethren, and say unto them, I ascend unto my Father, and your Father; and my God, and your God" (Jhn.20:17).
And it was not God Who died for our sins on Calvary either, for GOD CANNOT DIE. God is a SPIRIT. It was Christ Jesus, the Only Begotten Son of God Who died for us (1 Cor.15:3). Yet, somehow God did 'die' in a way, so to speak. In order to carry out His Covenant Plan of Redemption, the Eternal Spirit must be both God and Man. The Law of the Covenant was that the Covenant-maker had to die before the Covenant would be in force (Heb.8:7-13; 9:16-17). And since God was a Spirit, He had to take the form of a man to identify Himself with mankind and taste death for us in order to redeem us (Heb.2:9; Rom.8:3). So, He Who died at Calvary was in that sense Jehovah, the Covenant-maker.
THE WORD, NOT GOD, WAS CRUCIFIED
From another point of view, we also know that THE WORD, Which was GOD, was crucified. THE WORD, Which was glorified in the beginning before the world was (Jhn.17:5), was crucified at Calvary. We cannot separate THE WORD from Jesus because Jesus was the Word of Life. Jesus, THE WORD of God, the Son of God, died. And after His resurrection and ascension into Heaven, the Holy Spirit was given to confirm that THE WORD had again been glorified by the ETERNAL SPIRIT, just as He had prayed (Jhn.12:28 cf. 7:39; 1 Tim.3:16).
It behoves us to know that Elohim always identifies Himself with His Word for they are one (Jhn.1:1; 1 Jhn.5:7). When He was dying on the cross, Jesus suddenly let out a terrible cry, "My God, My God, why hast Thou forsaken Me?" (Matt.27:46). That cry was a cry of great agony for He, Who knew no sin, had the sin of mankind suddenly thrust upon Him. He became the sin-bearer, fulfilling many Old Testament prophecies that were spoken of Him. Under the burden of sin, He felt God-forsaken because He was human. And because He took the sin of the world upon Himself, judgment was passed on Him. Hence, the terrible cry. But God did not actually desert or forsake Him at all (cf. Jhn.16:32). [Note: A study of the "Meal Offering" in the Book of Leviticus chapter 2:1-3, where the fine flour (Christ's humanity) and frankincense (Christ's intercessory life) were mixed with oil (Holy Spirit of God) and together baked by fire on the altar (which speaks of Calvary) proves that Jesus was never actually forsaken of God at Calvary.]
THE GLORIFIED BODY OF CHRIST
After our Saviour had conquered death and hell, He resurrected and ascended into the Heaven and put on His heavenly body, Word Body. The fusion of the natural and the celestial bodies produced a new body which is incorruptible and immortal. This glorified body is a spiritual body.
When Adam came into this world, he was a natural man of dust. He had an earthly body of flesh. God sown this same natural body in Jesus that He might raise a spiritual body out of what was sown.
"So also is the resurrection of the dead. It is sown in corruption; it is raised in incorruption: It is sown in dishonour; it is raised in glory: it is sown in weakness; it is raised in power: It is sown a natural body; it is raised a spiritual body. There is a natural body, and there is a spiritual body" (1 Cor.15:42-44).
When corruption set in upon the soul of mankind, "the last Adam was made a quickening spirit" (1 Cor.15:45b) to give life and a new body – a spiritual body – to those who believed.
"For we know that if our earthly house of this tabernacle were dissolved, we have a building of God, an house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens" (2 Cor.5:1).
When a saint of God dies, his soul leaves his earthly body to the dust of the earth and returns to the Heaven to pick up his "house not made with hands", a Word body. And on the resurrection morning, when the dead in Christ shall rise, he will have a new body. He will come with his Word body to pick up his earthly body of dust. The fusion of these two bodies will produce a spiritual glorified body. As for those living saints, they will be also be changed when their Word bodies come down to cap their bodies of flesh at the Last Trump.
"In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed. For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality" (1 Cor.15:52-53).
And when all these come to pass, then these words of Paul shall become a reality:
"As we have borne the image of the earthy [i.e. Adam], we shall also bear the image of the heavenly [i.e. Christ]" (1 Cor.15:49).
Amen. We shall surely put on the same kind of spiritual glorified body that Christ Jesus now possesses.
New Creation
New Birth is not Regeneration. It is New Creation. New Creation is brought about by the Baptism of the Holy Spirit. "Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new" (2Co.5:17).
Regeneration cannot bring about a new and total transformation of God’s creation. This is shown to us in the Scripture that rebellion would arise in the heart of many people even after they had spent a thousand years in "the regeneration" under the reign of Christ (Rev.20:7-9 cf. Mat.19:28). For those who have willingly chosen to subject themselves to the Lord’s Christ they shall enter into the Eternal Age of New Heaven and New Earth in their natural bodies, and they shall walk in the Light of the Holy City New Jerusalem. In the New Heaven and New Earth only those who are part of the Holy City New Jerusalem, the Lamb’s Wife, have glorified bodies
Adam was created first a spirit before he was given a body of dust to express himself, that is, he became a living soul. Adam’s "spirit" was his origin. His "soul" was his nature, his real self, which manifested the seed (gene) of his Heavenly Father (the Almighty God). His "body" was merely the tabernacle which housed his spirit-soul. And when sin prevailed, the result was death. Death means separation from God in whom lies eternal life. As the light of LIFE moved away from Adam the darkness of DEATH set in. His body began to decay, and eventually it returned as elements to the dust of the earth.
Through the Gospel of Christ, the Spirit of the Living God brings a New Birth and a fresh beginning for Man by quickening his spirit. Without the Lord quickening his spirit, the soul of a man is not alive, he is still dead in his sin; he cannot bring forth the fruits of the Spirit of the Living God. God works from the inside out – "your whole spirit and soul and body" (cf. 1Th.5:23).
[Note: Some have taken these words of the Apostle Paul to Titus (Tit.3:5): “Not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to his mercy he saved us, by the washing of regeneration, and renewing of the Holy Ghost” to mean a person does not have the "new birth" until he has been through a process of cleansing; that is, the "new birth" is not a spiritual one time experience but a series of changes before the person is said to be "born again". The word "regeneration" is taken out of context. The word in Greek is "paliggenesia"; it simply means "a new genesis, new beginning, new creation".]
The First Man First Adam was a new creation; the Second Man Last Adam was also a new creation. (Note: There is no Second Adam. The word “Adam” reflects the word “Man”.) Both new creations were subjected to temptation and death. The First Man First Adam “was made subject to vanity, not willingly, but by reason of him who hath subjected the same in hope, because the creature itself also shall be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of God” (Rom.8:20-21). The Second Man Last Adam “was made a quickening spirit" (1Co.15:45b) to give LIFE and a new body – a spiritual body – to those who believed. For that He, the Son of God, was made subject to temptation and death. His Heavenly Father subjected Him to death that He would bring forth much fruit (cf. Joh.12:24,27; 3:16-17). "So also is the resurrection of the dead. It is sown in corruption; it is raised in incorruption: It is sown in dishonour; it is raised in glory: it is sown in weakness; it is raised in power: It is sown a natural body; it is raised a spiritual body. There is a natural body, and there is a spiritual body" (1Co.15:42-44).
Adam fell in death to the dust – in Adam all died. Christ fell in death to the dust – in Christ all shall be made alive. “As we have borne the image of the earthy, we shall also bear the image of the heavenly” (1Co.15:49).
THE FULL-ORBED DEITY
OF JESUS CHRIST
– GOD IN CHRISTIn the 17th chapter of John, we are told that Jesus came to fulfill three things that God had purposed for Him. He was to finish God's work (v.4). He was to manifest God's Name (v.6). And He was to deliver God's words (v.8). He accomplished all His missions by the AUTHORITY that God had granted Him. In John 14:10, He said,
"Believest thou not 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 dwelleth in me, He doeth the works."
This ought to be enough proof that Jesus is not His own Father contrary to what the "Jesus Only" movement professes.
The WORD was the MONOGENE of God. To fulfill God's Predestinated Will the WORD (existing in a Body – Spirit Body) had to manifest His Sonship. The mystery hidden in the relationship between THE ALMIGHTY SPIRIT and THE WORD was the mystery of Father-Son relationship. To make the Father-Son relationship might become a visible reality in His creation, God ordained the Sonship spirit of the LOGOS to take the form of a human person. The LOGOS would not continue to exist in a Spirit Body. God prepared a human body from the dust of the earth for the LOGOS to manifest as the Son of God (Heb.10:5). Then the Theophany ceased when the Child was born in Bethlehem.
"Wherefore when he cometh into the world, he saith, Sacrifice and offering thou wouldest not, but a body hast thou prepared me: In burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin thou hast had no pleasure. Then said I, Lo, I come (in the volume of the book it is written of me,) to do thy will, O God" (Heb.10:5-7).
"For unto which of the angels said he at any time, Thou art my Son, this day have I begotten thee? And again, I will be to him a Father, and he shall be to me a Son?" (Heb.1:5)
Christ Jesus, in His humanity, could have sought to do His own will. But He desired only the Perfect Will of God in His life. He was one with THE WORD. You cannot separate THE WORD from Jesus. He was the very Word of Life, the Life of God Himself. Paul wrote:
"Though He was a Son, yet learned He obedience by the things which He suffered" (Heb.5:8).
Yes, Jesus was obedient unto death, even the death of the cross.
"Have this mind in you, which was also in Christ Jesus: who, existing in God's form [*as He was the Son of God, He was one with the Word of Life, He was the WORD of God incarnate], counted not the being on an equality with God aught to be grasped at, but emptied himself, taking a bondman's form, being made in likeness of men; and being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself, becoming obedient unto death, yea, death of the cross. Wherefore also :God highly exalted him, and endowed him with the name :above every name; that in the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of things in heaven and on earth and under the earth, and that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to God the Father's glory." (Phil.2:5-11; from the Greek Text as established by Bible Numerics; cf. Psm.129:3; Isa.53:2-5,11; Mk.15:19-28; 1 Pet.1:9-11. [*Emphasis: mine.]
His mind, His word and His act were so completely submissive to God that He and God literally became ONE: "I and my Father are one" (Jhn.10:30 cf. 10:39) and "he that hath seen me hath seen the Father" (Jhn.14:9). His Spirit was so harmoniously blended with the Spirit of God that His spirit had become one with the eternal Spirit. May we, the saints of God, so blend our spirits with the Spirit of God by our total subjection to His WORD that the world will see only Christ in us, even as Jesus had said, "At that day, ye shall know that I am in my Father, and ye in me, and I in you" (Jhn.14:20). May we also fulfill His Will as He had prayed, "That they all may be one; as thou, Father, art in me, and I in thee, that they also may be one in us: that the world may believe that thou hast sent me" (Jhn.17:21, also vv.22-23).
The words of the Apostle Paul, in Philippians 2:5-8, have often been misinterpreted or misconstrued. While the Apostle was referring to the Man Jesus Christ, as he knew Him by revelation of Who He was, some Christians try to prove that Jesus pre-existed with God before the creation by making Paul's words to read as follows:
"Have this mind in you, which was also in Christ Jesus: who, pre-existing in God's form, counted not the being on an equality with God aught to be grasped at, but emptied himself, taking a bondman's form, being made in likeness of men; and being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself, becoming obedient unto death, yea, death of the cross."
Or, using the King James Version, they would misconstrue the Greek word "being" in the passage to read as follows:
"Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus: Who, being [was originally] in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God: But made himself of no reputation, and took upon him the form of a servant, and was made in the likeness of men: And being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself, and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross.
These Christians contend that as Adam pre-existed in spirit form Jesus also pre-existed in God's form either as the so-called Second Person ("Eternal Son") of the Godhead or "in the beginning" as stated in John 1:1. And because they believe He pre-existed, Jesus could therefore make His own choice to come to earth as a human being. But did Adam really have a choice as to whether he should remain in the spirit form or come to earth as a human being? Obviously not. God created all things for His own good pleasure and glory which He had purposed in Himself after the counsel of His own will (Eph.1:19; Rev.4:11). Before the existence of THE WORD in the beginning (Jhn.1:1), the Great Almighty God, in His self-counselling, pre-ordained that His SEED should come to earth and take the form of a man to fulfill His purpose as predestinated. The Great Eternal Spirit did not seek anyone’s permission. He planned, He created, He sent and He fulfilled His own desire "after the counsel of His own will" (Eph.1:11).
Since Jesus Christ was the "express image" of God's essence (Heb.1:3) and the Word of Life (1 Jhn.1:1) He was worshipped as God. Being in the form of God (the Word incarnate, as was prefigured in ages past), Jesus was equal with God the Father. However, Jesus chose to give up that position or identity being that He was born in the likeness of man but without sin. He unreservedly humbled Himself even to fulfill His death on the cross which was pre-planned by God. And He always directed people's attention to the Everlasting Father, the Spirit of Life.
For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man, Christ Jesus" (1 Tim.2:5).
"Now a mediator is not a mediator of one, but God is one" (Gal.3:20).
Concerning Jesus, Paul wrote in Romans 9:5: "...of whom as concerning the flesh Christ came, Who is over all, God blessed forever". Jesus was both Lord and Christ (Acts 2:36). So, without a shadow of a doubt, the Lord Jesus Christ was BOTH GOD and MAN, and that God and Christ are ONE. It's not "God in Three Persons, Blessed Trinity", but God in One Person, Blessed Unity. Hence, we see the vindication of the truth of the Apostolic revelation concerning Water Baptism in the NAME of the Lord Jesus Christ (Acts 2:38; 8:12,16; 10:48; 19:5 cf. Matt.28:19 – name of triune titles).
COMFORTER
The Holy Spirit is that SPIRIT of the Father that dwelt in Christ. And since Christ and God are ONE, it is also called the Spirit of Jesus Christ (Phil.1:19) as well as the Spirit of His Son (Gal.4:6). Notice these words of Jesus:
"And I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another Comforter, that he may abide with you for ever;
Even the Spirit of truth; whom the world cannot receive, because it seeth him not, neither knoweth him: but ye know him; for he dwelleth with you, and shall be in you.
I will not leave you comfortless: I will come to you."
– John 14:16-18By "another Comforter (or Helper)" Jesus is not referring to another God but rather to another (or different) form of ministration of Christ Himself as the Holy Spirit. Clearly, Christ was speaking of Himself coming in the form of the Spirit when He said, "Even the Spirit of truth; whom the world cannot receive, because it seeth him not, neither knoweth him: but ye know him; for he dwelleth with you, and shall be in you. I will not leave you comfortless: I will come to you." The disciples knew Him because He dwelt with them. And, as promised, Jesus came to them – in the form of the Holy Spirit on the Day of Pentecost!
The Apostle John who recorded these words of Jesus: "It is the spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing: the words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life" (Jhn.6:63), wrote later in the same book, "...He breathed on them, and said, Receive ye the Holy Ghost" (Jhn.20:22). These statements establish that the person of a man and his breath cannot be differentiated. Unless we can do it, we cannot succeed in proving that the person of Jesus and the Holy Ghost are separate and distinct individuals.
Christ (THE WORD) came from the Father (THE ETERNAL SPIRIT) and had to return to the Father after His atonement (Jhn.16:28). But He promised, "I will not leave you comfortless (Grk: orphanos – parentless, fatherless): I WILL COME to you". Ten days after His Ascension, He emanated from that same Great Fountain of Life again to dwell with His Church and in every member as the Spirit of the FATHER (Gal.4:6; Rev.21:7). He could not do this while He was on earth as a PERSON born into this world, but He could do it now in the SPIRIT form (Jhn.14:16-20). Thus, the Person of Jesus Christ, in the form of the Holy Spirit of God, is abiding in His Word-believing saints.
"In whom ye also trusted, after that ye heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation: in whom also after that ye believed, ye were sealed with that Holy Spirit of promise." – Eph.1:13
These words of the Apostle Paul point clearly to the Holy Spirit dwelling in us: "Christ in you, the hope of glory" (Col.1:27; cf. Rom.8:9,11). Yes, we are made rich through the poverty of Christ: "For ye brethren, know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ. How that though He were rich, yet for our sakes He became poor, that we through His poverty might be made rich" (2 Cor.8:9 cf. Eph.2:13-16).
If the Holy Spirit is not the Spirit of the Father Who indwell the Son but another (the Third) Person in the Godhead, consider this statement: "That which we have seen and heard declare we unto you, that ye also may have fellowship with us: and truly our fellowship is with the Father, and with his Son Jesus Christ" (1 Jhn.1:3). Why did the Apostle John exclude the Holy Spirit in fellowship?
Hence, abiding in the saints of God are not two or three Divine Persons. The pronouns "we" and "our" in the New Testament, as in John 14:23, speak of the difference between what God is as the Almighty Yahweh and what He is as the Saviour in the Man Yahshua. In John 12:45 we see the operation of two offices of One Person – "And he that seeth Me seeth Him that sent Me." Remember the dual nature in Christ Jesus – the Spirit of the Father which is Omnipotent, Omniscient and Omnipresent, and the Spirit of the Son which is humility, obedience, priestliness, prayerfulness and submission. These are but ONE SPIRIT (Eph.4:4; Jhn.4:24).
ALPHA & OMEGA
"Then cometh the end, when he shall have delivered up the kingdom to God, even the Father; when he shall have put down all rule and all authority and power.
For he must reign, till he hath put all enemies under his feet.
The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death.
For he hath put all things under his feet. But when he saith all things are put under him, it is manifest that he is excepted, which did put all things under him.
And when all things shall be subdued unto him, then shall the Son also himself be subject unto him that put all things under him, that God may be all in all."
– 1 Cor.15:24-28Jesus has never been an ETERNAL SON of God. He is the BEGOTTEN SON of God. As such, the Sonship ministry will have its end just as it has its beginning. After His millennial reign as King of kings, Jesus Christ will sit upon the Great White Throne to pass the final judgment and cleanse the earth from all traces of sin and death. After that he will hand back to the FATHER the redeemed Kingdom that the FATHER may be all in all as it was in the beginning. Jesus will then take His place at the head of God's family of children as the Eldest, the Firstborn among many brethren. The Lordship of Jesus Christ, a conferred authority which was his right of inheritance given by the Father and which is presently in operation, will be put in subjection to the Godhead – "that God may be all in all".
In Revelation 1:8, the Lord, Which is, and Which was, and Which is to come, the Almighty (the Eternal, High and Lofty Spirit) said,
"I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the ending."
This verse speaks of Him, Who is Eternal, in relation to His plan of creation, and how He would bring to a perfect ending that which He had purposed and ordained in the beginning after the counsel of His Own Will. And when TIME – "the beginning and the ending" – is absorbed into the eternal circle in God, the Eternal Spirit, there will be only eternity.
Finis
Logos
Addendum