Jesus
as The “Alpha and Omega”
and
His Subordination at the Incarnation
“5. The Subordination of
Christ. Voluntarily
assuming the limitations of human nature at the incarnation, the Lord Jesus
Christ thereby subordinated Himself to the Father for the duration of His
earthly ministry (see ps. 40:8; Matt. 26:39; John 3:16 4:34; 5:19, 30;
12:49; 14:10; 17:4, 8; 2 Cor. 8:9; Phil. 2:7, 8; Heb. 2:9; see on Luke 1:35;
2:49; John 3:16; 4:34; Phil 2:7, 8).
‘Laying aside His royal robe and kingly
crown’ (DA 22, 23). “He voluntarily assumed human nature. It was His own act,
and by His own consent.” (EGW ST Jan 20, 1890; cf 5T 702). “He humbled Himself, and took mortality
upon Him.” (EGW RH Sept. 4, 1900).
Current day Adventism is rife with teachers who confuse
the voluntary subordination of Christ from His Incarnation and time on earth,
with His eternal existence and equality with God the Father. In a failed
attempt to distance themselves from the evils of the Trinity Doctrine, they
blindly enter another option that is just as Catholic and denying of the great
eternal sacrifice made by the Testator of the Everlasting Covenant that
occurred at His Incarnation. Make no mistake about it,
this issue involves the omega heresy for Ellen White said that the alpha heresy
involved the personality of God and Christ.
The Subordination
Factor
Dishonest teachers of the Word, take one-sided statements
by Christ relative to His earthly role of servitude, in lieu of taking all the
evidence and interpreting so that nothing contradicts. Thus, they will take
statements like John 14:28, and disregard ones like Col. 2:9 and Phl. 2:6 below, the latter referring to His servitude as a
man (humanity), and the latter as His real status in the Godhead. Some of these
falsesayers on the Godhead even say that the only
person to the Godhead is God the Father, when God’s Word expressly says that in
Jesus dwells ALL THE FULLNESS of the Godhead bodily. That is not honest dealing
in the Word.
Jesus was killed for saying He was God. The Jews
understood Him right! The words King of the Jews were hung above His head on
the cross, which signified that He regarded Himself as the Messiah God.
Jhn 14:28 Ye
have heard how I said unto you, I go away, and come [again] unto you. If ye
loved me, ye would rejoice, because I said, I go unto the Father: for my Father is greater than I.
Col 2:9 For in him dwelleth all
the fulness of the Godhead bodily.
Phl 2:6 Who,
being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God:
The
teachers of the Catholic derived antichrist, satanic lie that Jesus is inferior
to the Father, allthewhile
He is of the same ONE ETERNAL SPIRIT GODHEAD ESSENCE AND SUBSTANCE is thus the
oxymoron of all oxymoron’s! You will see in this document just how Catholic
that lie is!
God is One Spirit -- The
Eternal Spirit
There
is only ONE ETERNAL SPIRIT, the Spirit of God. Any person to the Godhead who
possesses that ONE ETERNAL SPIRIT is God.
Hbr 9:14 How
much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered
himself without spot to God, purge your conscience from dead works to serve the
living God?
Jhn 4:24 God
[is] a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship [him] in spirit and in
truth.
“They
have one God and one Saviour; and one Spirit—the
Spirit of Christ” (9T p. 289)
“Now
the Lord is the Spirit; and where the Spirit of the Lord is; there is Liberty.”
(2 Cor. 3:17)
How
can foolish men say that the Comforter, THE HOLY SPIRIT is Christ, and in the
same breath say Christ is not God? That is a contradiction of all
contradictions!
Problems the False Teachers on the Godhead
Never Deal With
Only
one fully equal to God could be the Testator of the Everlasting Covenant,
because the Everlasting Covenant was made because of a breach in God’s Law, and
Ellen White says that both the Father and the Son delivered the law from Mt.
Sinai.
·
The Testator of the
Covenant had to die.
·
The Testator, the
Son of God, was fully divine when He made the Testament.
·
Divinity cannot die.
·
Ellen White says
that Divinity DID NOT die on the cross. Only the humanity of Christ died on the
cross.
·
Can humanity atone
for sin, the breach in God’s Law? Nay!
·
Can the death of
Christ’s humanity for three days and nights in a tomb atone for the wages of
sin which is eternal death? Nay!
·
Is our penalty for unrepented of sin, death for three days and night? Nay!
So
how are all the above problems solved by the Sanctuary Service and the Spirit
of Prophecy? One very crucial statement by Ellen White, resolves the entire
dilemma. Here is that statement:
Two Sacrifices Required—One as a Cure for Sin
and one for the Redemption From Sins Past
"The darkness rolled away from the
Saviour and from the Cross. Christ bowed His head and died. In
His Incarnation He had reached the prescribed limit as a sacrifice,
but not as a redeemer." E.G. White Manuscript Releases
Volume Twelve, p. 409.
The Incarnation in and of itself was the
highest good, crowing sacrifice that heaven could bestow because it provided a
cure for sin, whereby the cross pardoned sin. In the Sanctuary
service, when a Jew offered his best animal for a sacrifice, that did not cure
his sin so that he would never sin again. Conversely,
when Christ had all our sins placed upon Him on the cross,
that did not cure them. It redeemed us from repented of sin, but it did
not cure sin. Repented for sins still enters into the Sanctuary in heaven.
The cure for sin as provided by the
Incarnation ALONE, WITHOUT THE CROSS, was the bequeathed gift of the soul of
the life of Christ, His former Holy Spirit Divine Nature, as a regenerating agency
to restore man to the image of God. Without this gift, Christ’s sacrifice on
the cross would have been of no avail but to pardon sin forever. In order for
that “highest good, crowning gift” to be made available to man, the death of
the Testator, A DIVINE ONLY MEMBER OF THE GODHEAD, had to take place. That did
not occur on the cross. No part of DIVINITY died on the cross, says Ellen
White. She also says that Divinity cannot die. So how could the Testator’s
Covenant—DEATH OF THE DIVINE ONLY TESTATOR, occur if He cannot die?
"Christ declared that after his
ascension, he would send to his church, as his crowning gift, the Comforter, who was to take his place. This Comforter is the Holy
Spirit,--the soul of his life, the efficacy of his church, the light and
life of the world. With his Spirit Christ sends a reconciling influence and a
power that takes away sin.
In the gift of the Spirit [HIS LIFE--THE SOUL
OF HIS LIFE], Jesus gave to
man the highest good that
heaven could bestow....
The Spirit was given as a regenerating
agency, and without this the sacrifice of Christ
would have been of no avail....
It is by the Spirit that the heart is made
pure. Through the Spirit the believer becomes a partaker of the divine nature. Christ has given his Spirit
as a divine power to overcome all hereditary and cultivated tendencies to evil,
and to impress his own character upon the church." E.G. White, Review and Herald Articles, May 19, 1904, vol. 5, p. 42.
Before the Incarnation, God could give His
Spirit to man in some measure, but Ellen White says not to the degree it would
be given after the Incarnation, at which time His Spirit could indwell us and
empower us to overcome all sin.
Why was the same measure of the Spirit not
accessible to mankind before the Incarnation? The answer is found within the
Testator’s Covenant and must be reconciled with the fact that the Testator was
DIVINE ONLY when He made that Testament. The gift of the Testator, the soul of
His life, the Holy Spirit Divine Nature of the Testator, to mankind, could not
be ratified until the death of the Testator, for that is the only thing that
could atone for any breach in God’s law. The atonement for that breach must be equal
to the penalty for that breach! And the person making the atonement had to be equal to the
Lawgiver—God. Why did the Testator have to be equal to God? Because the
Testator of the Law of God was God as well as the Son! Remember that Ellen
White said they both gave the law at Sinai. And all these are crucial reasons why God
could not give His Spirit to man in full measure before the Incarnation act in
and of itself.
"He (Christ)
suffered the death which was ours, that we might receive the life which WAS
His." Desire of Ages, p. 25 1 Cor. 11:24-265, cf. John 6:53, 54,
Titus 3:5, 6.
What life WAS
(PAST TENSE) His? It was His same life that He divested from Himself at His
Incarnation at His Incarnation—His pre-Incarnated life as THE HOLY SPIRIT
HIMSELF. That life was divested from the personality of His
humanity and became independent thereof. Jesus “died” to that DIVINE
ONLY state of Being forever. He will never again be
DIVINE ONLY. He will always be combined with humanity forever. The Bible says
“a man forever,” and Ellen White said the same thing.
24But this
man, because he continueth ever, hath an unchangeable priesthood.
"Cumbered
with humanity Christ could not be in every place personally, therefore it was
altogether for their advantage that He should leave them to go to His Father
and send the Holy Spirit to be His successor on earth. The Holy Spirit is Himself divested of
the personality of humanity and independent
thereof. He
would represent Himself as present in all places by His Holy Spirit.” E.G. White,
(Manuscript Releases Volume 14 (No’s 1081-1135) MR No.1084.
Again, what is the penalty to man for
unrepented for sin? Eternal death! So that penalty—ETERNAL DEATH, had to be
paid (atoned for) by the Testator, the Son of God, BEFORE the gift of the Holy
Spirit, THE CURE FOR SIN, could indwell men. Did three days and nights of death
provide that cure? NO! NO! NO! Did a forfeiture of (DEATH TO) the Son’s
pre-Incarnation existence (life) as HOLY SPIRIT DIVINE NATURE
ONLY meet the Testator’s Testament demand? Yes! Yes! Yes! That is the
only form of death that divinity could ever make! Therein the eternal atonement
met the eternal penalty. He took the death that WAS OURS that we might have the
live that WAS HIS—HIS DIVINE NATURE HOLY SPIRIT INDWELLING THE SOUL OF MAN.
If you were DIVINE ONLY and had to leave that
estate to be combined with humanity forever, would you consider that a
sacrifice?
"The
Incarnation of Christ was an act of self-sacrifice; His life was one of
continual self-denial. The highest glory of the love of God to man was
manifested in the sacrifice of His only-begotten Son, who was the express image
of His person. This is the great mystery of godliness. It is the privilege and
the duty of every professed follower of Christ to have the mind of Christ. Without
self-denial and cross bearing we cannot be His disciples." E.G. White, Selected Messages, Book 2,
p. 185.
1.Hebrews
9:16 For where a testament is, there
must also of necessity be the death of the testator.
2.Hebrews 9:17 For a testament is of force after men are dead: otherwise it is of no strength at all while the testator liveth.
The Colossal AntiChrist Mistake
The
prime antichrist error of the Trinity Doctrine, is that it denies the Sanctuary
Atonement act of the Son of God in the Heavenly Sanctuary at His Incarnation,
whereby He voluntarily divested Himself of His Holy Spirit Divine ONLY Nature,
to become combined with humanity forever.
Misguided
leaders of some independent Adventist movements, are teaching the antichrist
error that either no such divestment took place:
·
Jesus had a
beginning subsequent to that of the Father,
·
There is only one
person to the Godhead—the Father.
·
That any person to
the Godhead other than the Father is a pagan pantheon of gods. That God is the
only God of the Gohead and Jesus is Lord only. A huge problem with that false
theology arises when the Bible makes literally hundreds of references to “LORD
GOD,” and specifically in reference to Jesus, to wit: Rev 22:6 And he said unto me, These sayings [are]
faithful and true: and the Lord God of the holy prophets sent his angel to shew unto his
servants the things which must shortly be done.
Rev 22:7 Behold, I come quickly: blessed [is] he that keepeth the sayings of the prophecy
of this book. Note: Who is speaking? An angel is quoting the Lord God. Who is
the Lord God that the angel is quoting? The Lord God the angel is quoting says:
“Behold I come quickly.” The angel is quoting Jesus. The Bible speaks of both the
Father and Jesus and Lord God interchangeably. Study it out for yourself
and you will see! This is another proof that they are ONE GOD, constituted of
the same ONE ETERNAL SPIRIT essence, substance. That is what makes them ONE
GOD.
·
That there is no third
person to the Godhead that is equal to the Father when the third person is of
the same one eternal Spirit as the Father.
·
That the Holy Spirit
and the Spirit of God does not involve a third person.
·
That the Holy Spirit
and the Spirit of Christ does not involve a second person.
·
That “the Spirit of Jesus is the mind of Jesus.” (That is a
direct statement by Smyrna Ministries, of Virginia). That is a lie. The truth
is that the Spirit of Jesus is the ONE ETERNAL HOLY SPIRIT, THE HOLY GHOST, the
soul of His life, THE “ANOTHER COMFORTER,” of John 14. In order to keep from
making Jesus a person to the Godhead, Smyrna Ministries has to say that the
Spirit of Jesus is the mind of Jesus. Intentional (knowing what they are
saying) or not, that is a satanic, antichrist perversion of the truth.
·
That the words of
Jesus mentioning “another Comforter” in John 14, don’t involve a third person because Jesus
is the Comforter. It is true that Jesus is the Comforter, but there is an
important reason why the words “another Comforter are used when Jesus says He
will send “ANOTHER Comforter” That “another Comforter” is the Holy Ghost of His
Divine only Holy Spirit, which He consisted of before His Incarnation. He
divested Himself of His Holy Spirit at that time and His Holy Spirit became an
independent person from the personality of His humanity, even a THIRD PERSON to
the Godhead. The Trinity Doctrine denies this “highest good, crowning
sacrifice,” which involved an eternal “death” to the Son’s former state of
being DIVINE ONLY. This met the prescribed limit of a sacrifice according to
the Testator’s Covenant, that while the Testator (The Son) liveth (in His first
estate of Being) the Testament (Everlasting Covenant) is of no strength. If
this divestation form of death to being DIVINE ONLY did not occur, there has
been no heavenly Sanctuary Atonement and the Everlasting Covenant would not be
ratified. The Trinity doctrine denies this heavenly Sacrifice at which time the
THIRD PERSON ACCRUED to the Godhead, and so do many independent ministries. So
the all important Testator’s covenant is made null and void by BOTH—The
trintity doctrine achieves this by teaching that there was always a third
person to the Godhead. The false SDA independent ministries achieve this
antichrist teaching by saying that there is no such thing as a third person
whatsoever—that the only person to the Godhead is the Father and that there is
no second or third person to the Godhead. Both teachings are totally antichrist
and totally antithetical to the Heavenly Sanctuary/Atonement sacrifice which
occurred at the Incarnation of the Son of God.
·
The Holy Spirit is
emanates from the Father and is not a separate, distinct, independent person
from the Father. Ellen White’s “original,
underived, unborrowed” statement concerning Christ is reinterpreted to mean
only what some want it to mean.
·
That we either have
the Spirit of the world, or the Spirit of God and there is no other person to
the Godhead that is involved with the Holy Spirit, when Ellen White says that the
Holy Spirit is the soul of the life of Christ. Here is what one ministry says: “To whom hast thou uttered words? and whose
spirit came from thee?” (Job 26:4) When we utter words, we are revealing whose
spirit we have. We either have the spirit of the world, or the spirit of God,
which is Holy Spirit. “And grieve not the Holy Spirit of God, whereby ye are
sealed unto the day of redemption.” (Ephesians 4:30)
·
They give only one
meaning to Ellen White’s “original, unborrowed, underived statement”— “From Jesus
is our life derived. In him is life that is original,—unborrowed, underived life. In him is the fountain of life. In us there is a streamlet from the
fountain of life. Our life is something that we receive, something that the
Giver takes back again to himself. If our life is hid with Christ in God, we
shall, when Christ shall appear, also appear with him in glory. And while in
this world, we shall give to God, in sanctified service, all the capabilities
he has given us.... {RH August 6, 1914,
par. 1} They say that we can have that
life only in Jesus, which is correct, but they negate the meaning that Jesus’
life was original, unborrowed and underived from the Father.
·
They pervert the
E.G. White statement that the Father and the Son Alone to be Exalted, for in
exalting the Son, we automatically exalt the Holy Ghost of His pre-Incarnation
DIVINE NATURE HOLY SPIRIT.
Some
misguided reformers are interpreting the following statement to mean that there
is no THIRD PERSON bodily that constitutes the Holy Spirit; that the Holy
Spirit is the Father’s Spirit only:
“And the child grew, and waxed strong in
spirit, filled with wisdom: and the grace of God was upon him.” “And he went
down with them, and came to Nazareth, and was subject unto them.” “And Jesus
increased his wisdom and stature, and in favor with God and man.” Let the
brightest example the world has yet seen be your example, rather than the
greatest and most learned men of the age, who know not God, nor Jesus Christ
whom he has sent. The Father and the Son alone are to be exalted. {YI July 7,
1898, par. 2}
Question: Is exalting the Holy Spirit Divine
Nature of Christ, exalting the Son? Is exalting the ONE ETERNAL SPIRIT of the
Father, the Son, and their Holy Spirit, exalting the Father and the Son ALONE?
Is exalting the Holy Spirit Divine Nature of Christ, exalting all three persons
to the Godhead because they ALL are of the ONE ETERNAL SPIRIT? Yes indeed.
You should ask such persons: Do you agree with
the following statements by Ellen G. White, and if not, why not?
The Power of God in the Third Person—The
prince of the power of evil can only be held in check by the power of God
in the third person of the Godhead, the Holy Spirit.—Special
Testimonies, Series A, No. 10, p. 37. (1897). {Ev 617.2}
In Co-operation With the Three Highest
Powers—We are to co-operate with the three highest powers
in heaven,—the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost,—and these powers
will work through us, making us workers together with God.—Special Testimonies,
Series B, No. 7, p. 51. (1905). {Ev 617.3}
MR
No. 487—The Holy Spirit Is a Person
“I beseech you, therefore, brethren, by the
mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy,
acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service. And be not conformed to
this world; but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may
prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect will of God.” {7MR
299.1}
The Lord says this because He knows it is for our good. He would build a wall
around us, to keep us from transgression, so that His blessing and love may be
bestowed on us in rich measure. This is the reason we have established a school
here. The Lord instructed us that this was the place in which we should locate,
and we have had every reason to think that we are in the right place. We have
been brought together as a school, and we need to realize that the Holy Spirit, who
is as much a person as God is a person, is walking through these grounds, that the
Lord God is our keeper, and helper. He hears every word we utter and knows
every thought of the mind."—Manuscript 66, 1899, 4. (Talk, April 15,
1899). {7MR 299.2}
Released April 28, 1976.
"In describing to His disciples the office work of the Holy Spirit, Jesus
sought to inspire them with the joy and hope that inspired His own heart. He
rejoiced because of the abundant help He had provided for His church. The Holy
Spirit was the highest of all gifts that He could solicit from His Father for
the exaltation of His people. The Spirit was to be given as a regenerating
agent, and without this the sacrifice of Christ would have been of no avail.
The power of evil had been strengthening for centuries, and the submission of
men to this satanic captivity was amazing. Sin could be resisted and
overcome only through the mighty agency of the Third
Person of the Godhead, who would come with no modified energy, but in the fullness of
divine power. It is the Spirit that makes effectual what has been wrought out
by the world’s Redeemer. It is by the Spirit that the heart is made pure.
Through the Spirit the believer becomes a partaker of the divine nature. Christ
has given His Spirit as a divine power to overcome all hereditary and
cultivated tendencies to evil, and to impress His own character upon His
church." {DA 671.2}
"Cumbered
with humanity Christ could not be in every place personally, therefore it was
altogether for their advantage that He should leave them to go to His Father
and send the Holy Spirit to be His successor on earth. The Holy Spirit is Himself divested of
the personality of humanity and independent thereof. He would represent
Himself as present in all places by His Holy Spirit.” E.G. White, (Manuscript
Releases Volume 14 (No’s 1081-1135) MR No.1084.
Questions
based upon the above statement:
·
When Christ, as the “ANOTHER” third person COMFORTER, comes to
us, is that Holy Spirit Comforter Christ's spirit admixed with His humanity, or
is it a separate, distinct person independent thereof?
·
If, prior to the Incarnation there were two persons to the
Godhead (and that is true), how many persons accrued when the Son divested His
Holy Spirit from the personality of His humanity and His Holy Spirit HIMSELF,
became an INDEPENDENT PERSON THEROF? There would be THREE PERSONS TO THE
GODHEAD ACCRUING AT THAT TIME.
·
The Trinity Doctrine bypasses that Incarnation sacrifice by
which the Son divested His Holy Spirit from the personality of His humanity to
make the THIRD PERSON, by teaching the false, antichrist doctrine that the
THIRD PERSON, ALWAYS EXISTED FROM ETERNITY, and that is an antichrist lie by
Rome.
·
Why, to your mind, does Ellen White refer to the Holy
Spirit as a THIRD PERSON OF THE GODHEAD, when she clearly says that the Holy
Spirit is the Spirit of Christ in the words: "Christ has given His
Spirit..."
The Power of God in the Third Person—The
prince of the power of evil can only be held in check by the power of God in
the third person of the Godhead, the Holy Spirit.—Special Testimonies,
Series A, No. 10, p. 37. (1897). {Ev 617.2}
In Co-operation With the Three Highest Powers—We are to co-operate with the
three highest powers in heaven,—the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost,—and
these powers will work through us, making us workers together with God.—Special
Testimonies, Series B, No. 7, p. 51. (1905). {Ev 617.3}
Ask those who don’t believe in a third person
to the Godhead the following questions, and don’t stop until you get a
straight, forthright answer, because they either don’t believe these statements
were by Ellen White, and/or they believe she was errant and a false prophet in
regard to these statements:
·
Do you believe God gave the gift of the Holy Spirit to the
church via Ellen White?
·
Do you believe that God gave that gift to the church for the
purposes of unity TILL HE COMES, only to have it perverted and changed by the
leaders in the books Desire of Ages and Evangelism?
·
Did the leaders also change Special Testimonies, Series B, No.
7, p. 51, cited above?
·
Did the leaders also change Special Testimonies, Series A, No.
10, p. 37 citec above?
·
Did the leaders also change Review and Herald, November 19,
1909, cited below?
·
Did the leaders also change Signs of the Times, December 1,
1898, cited further down?
·
Did the leaders also change and/or insert the words "...the
third person of the Godhead in the Southern Watchman, Nov. 28, 1905,
cited below?
·
Did the leaders also tamper with {2MR 34.1} cited further down?
"In describing to his disciples the
office work of the Holy Spirit, Jesus sought to inspire them with the joy and
hope that inspired his own heart. He rejoiced because of the abundant help he
had provided for his church. The Holy Spirit was the highest of all gifts that
he could solicit from his Father for the exaltation of his people. The Spirit
was to be given as a regenerating agent, and without this the sacrifice of
Christ would have been of no avail. The power of evil had been strengthening
for centuries, and the submission of men to this satanic captivity was amazing.
Sin could be resisted and overcome only through the mighty agency of the
third person of the Godhead, who would come with no modified energy,
but in the fulness of divine power. It is the Spirit that makes effectual what
has been wrought out by the world’s Redeemer. It is by the Spirit that the
heart is made pure. Through the Spirit the believer becomes a partaker of the
divine nature. Christ has given his Spirit as a divine power to overcome all
hereditary and cultivated tendencies to evil, and to impress his own character
on his church." {RH November 19, 1908, Art. B, par. 5}
"Christ determined that when He ascended
from this earth He would bestow a gift on those who had believed on Him and
those who should believe on Him. What gift could He bestow rich enough to signalize
and grace His ascension to the mediatorial throne? It must be worthy of His
greatness and His royalty. He determined to give His representative, the
third person of the Godhead. This gift could not be excelled. He would give
all gifts in one, and therefore the divine Spirit, converting, enlightening,
sanctifying, would be His donation." {ST December 1, 1898, par. 2}
"Christ determined that when he ascended
from this earth, he would bestow a gift on those who had believed on him, and
those who should believe on him. What gift could he bestow rich enough to
signalize and grace his ascension to the mediatorial throne? It must be worthy
of his greatness and his royalty. He determined to give his representative, the
third person of the Godhead. This gift could not be excelled. He would
give all gifts in one, and therefore the divine Spirit, that converting,
enlightening and sanctifying power, would be his donation." {SW
November 28, 1905, par. 2}
"Evil had been accumulating for centuries, and could only be restrained
and resisted by the mighty power of the Holy Spirit, the Third Person of
the Godhead, who would come with no modified energy, but in the
fullness of divine power. Another spirit must be met, for the essence of evil
was working in all ways, and the submission of man to this satanic captivity
was amazing...." {2MR 34.1}
"Christ determined that when He ascended
from this earth He would bestow a gift on those who had believed on Him and
those who should believe on Him. What gift could He bestow rich enough to
signalize and grace His ascension to the mediatorial throne? It must be worthy
of His greatness and His royalty. He determined to give His representative,
the third person of the Godhead. This gift could not be excelled. He would
give all gifts in one, and therefore the divine Spirit, that converting,
enlightening, and sanctifying power, would be His donation.... It came with a
fullness and power, as if for ages it had been restrained, but was now being
poured forth upon the church...." {ML 36.3}
"The Holy Spirit always leads to the
written word. The Holy Spirit is a person; for He beareth witness with
our spirits that we are the children of God. When this witness is borne, it carries
with it its own evidence. At such times we believe and are sure that we are the
children of God. What strong evidence of the power of truth we can give to
believers and unbelievers when we can voice the words of John, “We have known
and believed the love that God hath to us. God is love; and he that dwelleth in
love dwelleth in God, and God in him.” {20MR 68.5}
"The Holy Spirit has a personality, else He could not bear witness
to our spirits and with our spirits that we are the children of God. He must
also be a divine person, else He could not search out the secrets which lie
hidden in the mind of God. “For what man knoweth the things of a man save the
spirit of man, which is in him; even so the things of God knoweth no man, but
the Spirit of God.”—Manuscript 20, 1906. {20MR 69.1} Ellen G. White
Estate, Washington, D. C., January 22, 1989. Entire Ms.
The
Lord God as Christ and the Alpha and Omega in the Context of Revelation 22
Rev
22:1 And he shewed me a pure river of
water of life, clear as crystal, proceeding out of the throne of God and of the Lamb.
Note:
They share the same throne as GOD.
Rev 22:2
In the midst of the street of it, and on either side of the river, [was
there] the tree of life, which bare twelve [manner of] fruits, [and] yielded
her fruit every month: and the leaves of the tree [were] for the healing of the
nations.
Rev 22:3
And there shall be no more curse: but the
throne of God and of the Lamb shall be in it;
and his servants shall serve him:
Notice
that God and the Lamb are BOTH INCLUDED by the words: “…and his servants shall
serve Him. This is good evidence that both God and the Lamb ARE VERY GOD.
Rev 22:4
And they shall see his face; and his name [shall be] in their foreheads.
Note:
Whose face? BOTH, GOD AND THE LAMB! Whose name? BOTH GOD AND THE LAMB.
Rev 22:5
And there shall be no night there; and they need no candle, neither
light of the sun; for the Lord God giveth them light: and
they shall reign for ever and ever.
Note:
Who gives light? In context, BOTH GOD AND THE LAMB AS THE LORD GOD!
Rev 22:6
And he said unto me, These sayings [are] faithful and true: and the Lord God of the
holy prophets sent his angel to shew unto his servants the things which must
shortly be done.
Rev 22:7 Behold, I come quickly: blessed [is] he that keepeth the sayings of the prophecy
of this book.
Note:
Who is speaking? An angel is quoting the Lord God. Who is the Lord God that the
angel is quoting? The Lord God the angel is quoting says: “Behold I come quickly.”
The angel is quoting Jesus.
Rev 22:8
And I John saw these things, and heard [them]. And when I had heard and
seen, I fell down to worship before the feet of the angel which shewed me these
things.
Note:
The SDA Bible Commentary on the above verse says: “Fell down to worship.
Perhaps as an act of homage, which act the angel rejected. The grandeur of the
vision must have completely overwhelmed the prophet and made him feel extremely
humble. Moreover, the angel had been quoting
Jesus Christ as if the Lord Himself were speaking.”
Rev 22:9
Then saith he unto me, See [thou do it] not: for I am thy fellowservant,
and of thy brethren the prophets, and of them which keep the sayings of this
book: worship God.
Note:
Worship which God—God or the Lamb? Worship BOTH AS ONE GOD—IN CONTEXT!
Rev 22:10
And he saith unto me, Seal not the sayings of the prophecy of this book:
for the time is at hand.
Rev 22:11
He that is unjust, let him be unjust still: and he which is filthy, let
him be filthy still: and he that is righteous, let him be righteous still: and
he that is holy, let him be holy still.
Rev 22:12
And, behold, I come quickly; and my
reward [is] with me, to give every man
according as his work shall be.
Rev 22:13 I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the
end, the first and the last.
Note:
The Angel is quoting Jesus as coming quickly and saying that He is the Alpha
and Omega, the beginning and the end, the FIRST and the LAST.
Rev 22:14 Blessed [are] they that do his commandments,
that they may have right to the tree of life, and may enter in through the
gates into the city.
Rev 22:15
For without [are] dogs, and sorcerers, and whoremongers, and murderers,
and idolaters, and whosoever loveth and maketh a lie.
Rev 22:16
I Jesus have sent mine angel to testify unto you these things in the
churches. I am the root and the offspring of David, [and] the bright and
morning star.
Rev 22:17
And the Spirit and the bride say, Come. And let him that heareth say,
Come. And let him that is athirst come. And whosoever will, let him take the
water of life freely.
Rev 22:18
For I testify unto every man that heareth the words of the prophecy of
this book, If any man shall add unto these things, God shall add unto him the
plagues that are written in this book:
Rev 22:19
And if any man shall take away from the words of the book of this
prophecy, God shall take away his part out of the book of life, and out of the holy
city, and [from] the things which are written in this book.
Rev 22:20
He which testifieth these things saith, Surely I come quickly. Amen.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
Rev 22:21 The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ [be] with you all. Amen.
False SDA “Independent” Ministries are
Teaching Another Version of Rome’s Lie on the Godhead
If
Satan can’t get you within the heretical abominations of the new movement, new
organization professing to be the SDA church, he will try to get you outside
it! Don’t think that all the Jesuits are working only inside the SDA church.
There are plenty of them teaching antichrist Catholicism on the Godhead via
so-called SDA Independent Minsitries and two of them are Smyrna Ministries of
Virginia, and Maranatha Media Ministries. These ministries teach that Christ
was brought forth and begotten in the sense that He did not exist with the
Father at the very beginning, but was later brought forth as some subsequent
time in the far distant vastness of time. That is another form of Satan’s
perversion of the Godhead, as the following data from the SDA Bible Commentary makes abundantly clear:
Here
is what the SDA Bible Commentary says
on the meaning of “only begotten” and/or brought forth. The first notion that
Jesus became extant at some time future to the Father,
is just another variation on the themes of Rome’s lies that originated with the
early Fathers of the Catholic church and derived from the influence of the
Latin Vulgate, the official Bible of the Catholic Church. So while pretending
to spare you the evils of the Trinity Doctrine, Rome’s central doctrine, they
snare you with another antichrist notion emanating from Rome, the concept that
Jesus is younger than the Father and came forth at some time future to the
Father.
Quoting the SDA Bible Commentary:
“The only begotten. Gr.
monogenēs, from two words meaning “only” and “kind,” and thus properly
translated “unique,” “only,” “only one of a kind.” As with the title Logos (see on v. 1), only John uses the word monogenēs of Christ (see John 1:18; 3:16, 18; 1 John 4:9).
Absence of the definite article in the Greek either makes monogenēs indefinite, “an only one,” or makes it an expression of quality, in which case John would be saying, “glory as of an only one [who had
come] from beside the Father.” This seems evidently the sense here. See on Luke
7:12; 8:42, where monogenēs is translated “only.”
In Heb. 11:17 monogenēs is used of Isaac, who was by no means Abraham’s “only begotten,” or
even his first-born. But
he was the son of the promise, and as such, the one destined to succeed
his father as heir to the birthright (Gen. 25:1–6; Gal. 4:22, 23).
“Similarly in respect to the five texts in John’s writings of Christ, the
translation should be one of the following: ‘unique,’ ‘precious,’ ‘only,’
‘sole,’ ‘the only one of his kind,’ but not ‘only begotten’” (Problems in
Bible Translation, p. 198).
The translation “only begotten,” here and elsewhere,
apparently originated with the early Fathers of the Catholic Church, and entered early English translations of the Bible
under the influence of the Latin Vulgate, the official Bible of the Catholic
Church. Accurately reflecting the Greek, various
Old Latin manuscripts which antedate the Vulgate read “only” rather than
“only begotten.” The idea that Christ
“was born of the Father before all creation” appears first in the
writings of Origen, about a.d.
230. Arius, nearly a century later, is the first to use gegennemenon, the correct Greek word for “begotten,” when speaking
of Christ, and to affirm that He was “begotten of God before all ages” (see
Additional Note at end of chapter). This Greek word is
never used in the Bible concerning the preincarnate
Christ. The idea that Christ was
“begotten” by the Father at some time in eternity past is altogether foreign to
the Scriptures. For a detailed
discussion of this subject see Problems in Bible Translation, pp.
197–204.
Properly understood of Christ’s unique status as the
Son of God, the word monogenēs distinguishes between Him and all others who, through
faith in Him, are given “power to become the sons of God” (v. 12), and who are specifically declared to be
“born … of God” (v. 13). Christ is, and always has been, very “God” (see on v.
1), and by virtue of this fact we “become the sons of God” when we
receive Christ and believe on His name.
The statement of v. 14 obviously deals with the
incarnation, and its purpose is to emphasize the fact that the incarnate Word
retained the divine nature, as evidenced by the manifestation of the preincarnate divine glory (see ch. 17:5). Although the word monogenēs means strictly “unique,” or “only,” rather
than “only begotten,” John nevertheless here applies it to Christ
at His incarnation, to the time when “the Word was made flesh” in order to
dwell among us. Paul confirms this application in Heb. 1:5, 6, where
he links the words gegenneka, “have I begotten” (from gennaō, “to beget”), and prōtotoktos, “first-born” (from pro, “before,” and tiktō, “to beget”), to the
time “when he bringeth in the firstbegotten into the
world.” It seems therefore wholly unwarranted to
understand monogenēs as referring to a
mysterious begetting of “the Word” at some point of time in eternity past. For a discussion of Christ as the Son of God see on
Luke 1:35; and as the Son of man, see on Matt. 1:1; Mark 2:10; see also EGW
Supplementary Material on Phil. 2:6–8; Col. 2:9.
Of the Father. Gr. para theou, literally “with
the Father,” or “beside the Father,” here probably with the force of “from beside the
Father.” The Greek preposition para sometimes has the
force of ek, “out of,” “from,” which here agrees best with the
context. The incarnate Logos had come forth from the presence of the Father when
He entered this world. See on ch. 6:46.
Full of. This clearly applies to the Word incarnate. Dwelling on earth as a man
among men, the Word was “full of grace and truth.”[1][1] SDA Bible Commentary, Vol. 5, pp. 902, 903.
Ellen White on Colossians 2:9:
“So with the followers of Christ. We can receive of heaven’s light only as we are willing
to be emptied of self. We cannot discern the character of God, or accept Christ
by faith, unless we consent to the bringing into captivity of every thought to
the obedience of Christ. To all who do this the Holy Spirit is given without
measure. In
Christ “dwelleth all the fullness of the Godhead bodily, and in Him ye
are made full.” Colossians 2:9, 10, R.
V. {DA 181.1}
John
16:28 teaches that Christ came forth from the Father, strongly implying that
there was a Father/Son relationship before He came into this world.
·
John 17:5,24 also indicates that there was a Father/Son relationship
in the Godhead even before the creation of the world.
The Meaning of Psalm 2:7:
Psa 2:7 I will declare the decree: the LORD hath
said unto me, Thou [art] my Son; this day have I begotten thee.
The Meaning of John 16:28
American
King James Version
“I came
forth from the Father, and am come into the world: again, I leave the world,
and go to the Father.”
Psalm 2:7
does not militate against the eternal Sonship of
Jesus Christ. It does not refer to a time
when Christ became the Son of God through a begetting act of God. Instead it
refers to the day of Jesus’ resurrection when God brought Him forth from the
womb of the earth and thereby publicly decreed that He is who He always was—the
Son of God (see Acts 13:33 and Romans 1:3-4).
The declaring of God's decree in Psalm 2:7 will take place at the close of the
great tribulation and will be Jesus’ way of asserting that He is the legitimate
ruler of the world who has the right and authority to take over the earth.
Pro 8:22 The LORD possessed me in the beginning of
his way, before his works of old.
Pro 8:23 I was set up from
everlasting, from the beginning, or ever the
earth was.
Pro 8:24 When [there were] no depths, I was brought forth; when
[there were] no fountains abounding with water.
Pro 8:25 Before the
mountains were settled, before the hills was
I brought forth:
Pro 8:26 While as yet he had
not made the earth, nor the fields, nor the highest part of the dust of the
world.
Pro 8:27 When he prepared
the heavens, I [was] there: when he set a compass upon the face of the
depth:
Pro 8:28 When he established
the clouds above: when he strengthened the fountains of the deep:
Pro 8:29 When he gave to the
sea his decree, that the waters should not pass his commandment: when he
appointed the foundations of the earth:
Pro 8:30 Then I was by him, [as] one brought up [with
him]: and I was daily [his] delight, rejoicing always before him;
Pro 8:31 Rejoicing in the
habitable part of his earth; and my delights [were] with the sons of men.
Pro 8:32 Now therefore hearken unto me, O ye
children: for blessed [are they that] keep my ways.
Pro 8:33 Hear instruction, and be wise, and refuse it
not.
Pro 8:34 Blessed [is] the
man that heareth me, watching daily at my gates, waiting at the posts of my
doors.
Pro 8:35 For whoso findeth
me findeth life, and shall obtain favour of the LORD.
Pro 8:36 But he that sinneth
against me wrongeth his own soul: all they that hate me love death.
Additional
Evidence That Christ Spoke of Himself as the Alpha and Omega | The Beginning and the End
Rev 1:8 I am Alpha and Omega,
the beginning and the ending, saith the Lord, which is, and which was, and
which is to come, the Almighty.
Rev 1:11 Saying, I am Alpha and Omega, the first and the
last: and, What thou seest, write in a book, and send
[it] unto the seven churches which are in Asia; unto Ephesus, and unto Smyrna,
and unto Pergamos, and unto Thyatira, and unto
Sardis, and unto Philadelphia, and unto Laodicea.
Rev 21:6 And he said unto me, It
is done. I 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.
Rev 22:13 I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the
end, the first and the last.
Any
other teaching that Christ is not God in the highest sense,
is seriously antichrist. Such error is anti the truth associated with Jesus
Christ, and derives from men and women who are either novices
in the word and/or without spiritual discernment to see the truth on this
serious issue that is so basic to Christianity and everything that clusters around
it.
—rwb
https://omega77.tripod.com/begottenbroughtforth.htm
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Message -----
From:
Ron Beaulieu
To: AdventistHotIssues@yahoogroups.com ; Gene Brown
Sent: Friday, July 20, 2012 11:53 AM
Subject: Re: [AdventistHotIssues]
Questions on the Third Person of the Godhead
Cindy,
I can afford to be kind for I have done my homework for about
58 years. I know that NO ONE can prove any more or less than I am saying on the
issue, and this is a shaking issue. There is much that cannot be proven, but it
is safer to take what is given so that it does not contradict. What Jesus says
of His servitude as a human, and what He says of His Divinity, is
"apparently" confusing to many. Try not to mix them up and that
effort will serve you will. You can take that to heaven's bank.
Think of this example:
And you can take that to the bank of heaven as well. No one
will ever prove this reasoning wrong.
All blessings,
Ron
----- Original Message -----
From: Cindy
Haynes
To: AdventistHotIssues@yahoogroups.com
Sent:
Thursday, July 19, 2012 12:52 PM
Subject:
Re: [AdventistHotIssues] Questions on the Third
Person of the Godhead
Hi Ron,
Thank you for your answers. And your kind attitude. Most cannot study seemingly
controversial topics without becoming accusatory.
To clarify what I understand you believe.
Do you believe that God the Father, is God, God the Son, Jesus, IS God, and God
the Holy Spirit, Is God = all three are God, but one God?
They are all three parts of the ONE God?
Am I correct that this is what you believe?
Thank you,
Cindy
----- Original
Message -----
From:
Ron Beaulieu
To: AdventistHotIssues@yahoogroups.com ; Gene Brown
Sent: Friday, July 20, 2012 11:03 AM
Subject: Re: [AdventistHotIssues]
Questions on the Third Person of the Godhead
Hi Cindy,
I believe that God is a Spirit. I believe that there is ONE
ETERNAL SPIRIT. I believe there is ONE HOLY SPIRIT. I believe that if
Jesus is the Comforter, the Holy Spirit, He is God. Thus, I believe that the
Holy Spirit is God. I believe that what makes them ONE GOD is their ONE ETERNLA
HOLY SPIRIT ESSENCE, SUBSTANCE.
Ron