The Mystery Of God

 

All things are delivered to me of my Father; and NO MAN

knoweth 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).

According to these words of Jesus no man can know who

the Father nor the Son is, except it be revealed. The Jews

declared that they knew God the Father, but Jesus did they did

not. (John 8:19,54,55). Even to this day they claim to know God,

but Jesus said He alone can reveal the Father to those who

rejected Him.

The Mohammedans claim to know God, the Father, even in

the same sense in which the Jews know Him. Can it be said that

Jesus is revealing the Father to those ungodly Moslems who look

upon his sacrificial death with unspeakable hatred ?

Modern theological institutes, seminaries and colleges,

the majority of which are destitute of the Spirit of God, claim

the same knowledge of God that the Jews maintain. Is Jesus

revealing this mystery to them contrary to His own words that

these things are hidden from the “wise and prudent” but are

revealed to babes?

Almost any one that is able to read at all can take up

the Bible and see what is apparently “Three Persons,” the common

view held by the Catholic and all other denomination, but is

Jesus revealing this to them? I tell you “Nay.” God has taken

the wise in their own craftiness. For it is written, “I will

destroy the wisdom of the wise, and will bring to nothing the

understanding of the prudent.” (Isa.. 29:11-14; Matt. 11:25).

That Jesus Christ is the MIGHTY GOD was declared by the

prophet Isaiah (Isa.. 9:6); acknowledged by the apostle Thomas

and accepted by Christ (John 20: 28,29); revealed by the Spirit

(Rev. 1:1); and spoken by the glorified Christ himself, saying,

“I am Alpha and Omega … the First and the Last . . . I am he

that liveth and was dead, and behold, I am alive for everyone.

Amen.” (Rev. 1 :8-18). “l am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and

the end. I will give unto him that is athirst of the fountain of

the water of life freely. He that overcometh shall inherit all

things; and I will be his God, and he shall be my Son.” (Rev.

21:6,7).

To acknowledge Jesus Christ as the only true God does no

more detract from His Sonship than does acknowledging Him as our

High Priest detract from His sacrificial office as a Lamb slain

for our many sins. lt is the “veil of flesh” assumed by the

Mighty God that is causing men to stumble at the word. In the

flesh He was the Son of man and Son of God. As a man he walked,

wept and prayed, suffered and died. As God He raised Himself

from the dead (John 2:19-21) and shined forth in the

radiance of eternal glory. “Yea, though we have known Christ after the flesh, yet, now know we him no more.” (2 Cor. 5:16).  When He came in the flesh He was beheld in the Glory as the Son (John 7:14), but when He comes again He will come in the glory of the father. (Matt. 16:27 with Matt 25:31).  Compare Isaiah 6:1-9 with John 12:39-41, also verses 44 and 45.

Our Lord and His Christ

And the seventh Angel sounded : and there were great voices in

heaven, saying, “The kingdoms of this world are become the

kingdoms of our Lord and His Christ; and He shall reign forever

and ever.” (Rev. 11:15). These sayings are faithful and true.

They are the true things of God, and he said unto me, “Write; for

these words are true and faithful.” (Rev. 19:9; 2:15; 22:6). But

since the revelation of Jesus Christ has come and has oven Him to

be “our Lord” who then is “his Christ?” That Jesus Christ is the

LORD must be acknowledged f all. Whether in heaven, or in earth.

(Phil. 2:10, 11). To say that there is more than “one Lord” is to

flatly intradict the Word of God which saith, “Hear, 0 Israel;

the Lord our God is ONE LORD.” (Deut. 6:4, Mark 12:29; Eph. 4:5).

Jesus has been proven to be “Lord of all” and in His own time he

will show who is that blessed ld only Potentate King of Kings,

and “LORD of Lords.” Tim. 6:15, 15).

The earth is the Lord’s and the fulness thereof. All things were

made by him and for him, and without him as not anything made

that was made. He (Jesus) was in the world, and the world was made

by him, and the world knew him not. (Psa. 24:1; John 1 :1,2,10;

Col. 1:16,17). The God that created the heavens and earth (Gen.

1), is our Lord Jesus who made them all by himself. (Isa.. 44:24).

Jesus Christ our Lord is LORD of all creation. He created it for

his glory and his own pleasure, but Satan has usurped the

authority and made himself the god and prince of this world. (See

Rev. 4:11; and 2 Cor. 4:4; John 14:30). The world is now being

ruled by Satan and his people, but thank God, the kingdoms of this

world shall soon become the kingdom of our Lord and his Christ, or

anointed.

Since Jesus is our Lord, we then, are his anointed. The church

anointed with the Holy Ghost is the body of Christ. (1 Cor.

12:12-14). As God called all the children of Israel in Egypt His

son, saying, When Israel was a child, then I loved him, and called

my SON out Egypt (Hos.11:1 ), even so does he call the body of

baptized believers “his Christ, or anointed,” We shall reign here

with him, if we suffer here with him. We are his sons (Rev. 21:7),

being overcomers.  lt is Christ Jesus who has anointed us (Matt.

3:11; John 15:26; 16:7) and he who has anointed us is GOD. (2

Cor. 1:21, 22).

The kingdom of this world shall become the kingdom of

our Lord Jesus Christ and his saints, the body of Christ. By

reading Dan. 7:18,22,27, these words will be verified. “For the

greatness of the kingdom, under the whole heaven shall be given

to the people of the saints of the Most High, whose kingdom is

an everlasting kingdom, and all dominions shall serve him.”

(Dan. 7:27) If you will notice this passage closely you will see

that the “people of the saints of the most High” are spoken of

as “him” (singularly); that is, as all nations and kingdoms must

“serve” Israel (Isa.. 60:12), even so they must “serve” our Lord

and his Christ. This is not that we are “his Christ” separately,

or individually, but collectively as one body.

And they sang a new song, saying, Thou are worthy to

take the book, and to open the seals thereof, for thou hast

slain, and hast redeemed us to God by thy blood out of every

kindred and tongue, and people and nation. And hast made us unto

our God kings and priests, and we SHALL REIGN ON EARTH. The fact

that it is said we “shall reign on earth” confirms the words

Christ, shall have a part in his dominion, that the Church,

which is the body of for the kingdoms of this word shall become

the kingdom of “our Lord and His Christ.” (See Rev. 5:9, 10).

Dangers of Denying The Father

There are many honest souls who are anxious to obey the

Voice of God and be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ but

they are intimidated by persons misconstruing the Scriptures

which says, “He is anti-Christ that denieth the Father and the Son.” (John 2:22).

There is no one who knows the word of God, and has been

baptized in Jesus’ name, that denies the Father and the Son.

Acknowledging the Father and the Son does not necessarily mean

to believe in “three persons in the Godhead.”

The Fatherhood of God is found only in the Son, who was

God manifested in the flesh. The following portions of this

article will be sufficient to convince any God-fearing person

that they cannot deny the Father by being baptized in Jesus’

name.

Whosoever denieth the Son, the same hath not the Father,

but he that acknowledgeth the Son hath the Father ALSO. (1 John

2:23).

We desire to call the attention of the reader to the

above quotation for prayerful consideration. While reading the

above passage the words, “the Father also” drew my particular

attention. And 1 believe it will help many to see God’s purpose

in these last days.

The thought before us is that he that denieth the Son

(Jesus Christ) the same has denied the Father ALSO. Why is this?

Is it not because Jesus and the Father are one? (John 10:30).

There is no Scripture that says, “He that denieth the Father,

the same hath not the son,” but to the contrary, all scriptures

seem to be the opposite. By this I mean that all scripture

identifies the Father in the Son. God was in Christ reconciling

the world unto himself. (2 Cor. 5:19). God was manifest in the flesh. (1 Tim. 3:15). Therefore when one turns from Christ, he turns from God.

He that believeth not on the Son, the same believeth lot

on the Father ALSO. Compare John 12:44; 14:1. The Jews believed

that God would take their sins away (Jer. 31:31-34); but they

did not believe Jesus had anything to do with it; and Jesus

said, “If ye believe not that I am he, ye shall die in your

sins.” (John 8:24).

He that knoweth not the Son, the same knoweth not he

Father, but he hath knoweth the Son, knoweth the Father ALSO. See

John 8:19; 14:7. To know Christ is to know God, the Father, for

the mystery of God the Father ; Christ. (Col. 2:2,9).

He that seeth not the Son, the same seeth not the Father,

but he that seeth the Son seeth the Father ALSO John 12:45;

14:9).

He that loveth not the Son, the same loveth not the

Father; but he that loveth the Son loveth the Father also. John

15:23, 24). To love God one must love Jesus. For Jesus and God are

one and inseparable. If the Father and on were two separate

persons, then we could love one and hate the other (as the Jews

sought to do). If you do not love Jesus you cannot love God, but

you cannot love Jesus without loving God, for Jesus is God

(manifest in the flesh, in a visible form).

If the above scriptures are true (and no one could

honestly say they are not), why does not the same hold with the

NAME used in baptism? Let us look at it from a scriptural

standpoint.

He that baptizeth not in the name of the Son (Jesus),

the same baptizeth not in the name of the Father; but he that

baptizeth (or is baptized) in the name of the Son (Jesus)

baptizeth (or is baptized) in the name of the Father ALSO.

By the scriptures this is clearly proven, from the fact

that the Commission is given (recorded by Matthew), to baptize in

the name of the Father and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost

(Matt. 28:18,19) but on the day of Pentecost, and thereafter,

according to the book of Acts, all the disciples baptized in the

name of Jesus (the Son) proving that they recognized it to be the

name of the Father ALSO. See Acts, 2:38, 8:12-16; 9:18 with Acts

22:16; Acts 10:47,48; Acts 19:5.

All who are baptized in the name of Jesus are baptized in

the name of the Father ALSO, but those who have not been baptized

in the name of Jesus, have never been baptized in the name of the

Father. The only way to fulfill the command of Jesus in Matt.

28:19, is to do as the Holy host authorized on the day of

Pentecost and carried out by the Apostles according to the book

of Acts.

The only way that a person can really “deny the Father”

is to fail to acknowledge that Jesus is the true and living God.

(1 John 5:20; Jude 25). When you are baptized in Jesus’ name, you

thereby acknowledge that the Father, Son and Holy Ghost “are one”

(1 John 5:7) and that in Christ Jesus dwelleth all the fulness of

the Godhead in a bodily form. (Col. 2:9). Be not faithless, but

believe. (John 12:44,45; 20:26-8).