The Impact of Revelation
The mystery of the Godhead is beyond our comprehension and cannot be fully described. Because God and His Word cannot differ, we must let the Scripture speak for itself, and we trust that you will permit the Holy Spirit to reveal it to you, although this is not a detailed Bible study on the subject.
There are multiple Scripture passages, in which God gives His all-sufficient testimony of Himself. Whether we read in the Old or the New Testament about the Creator, Sustainer, Redeemer, King, etc., it always speaks of the same ‘One True God’.
In the Old Testament, the invisible God revealed Himself in a visible form of a appearance as the ‘Lord Yahve’ who walked in the Garden of Eden and spoke to the prophets.
Whoever had seen the Lord, cried out, “We shall surely die, because we have seen God” (Jud.13: 22). Jacob wrestled with God, had revealed Himself in the visible form of an angel (Gen.32: 24-30). In Hos.12: 4-6, He is called the “Lord god of hosts”.
In heaven, He is called the Father. Therefore we are to pray, “Our Father, who art in heaven.” The same God was manifested on earth in the Son and was called ‘Immanuel –God with us’. In the Old Testament, the one who was called ‘God Elohim’ is known as the ‘Father’ in the New. The term ‘Yahve –Saviour’ in the Old is Jesus –the Son in the New. God is Spirit (Jn.4: 24) and therefore could not be seen (Jn.1: 18).
In the New Testament, the same Lord God, the heavenly Father, was manifested in the ‘Son’, the Lord Jesus. Philip was eager to look into this divine mystery, when he asked the Saviour, “Lord, show us the Father, and it sufficeth us. Jesus saith 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; and how sayest thou then, Show us the Father?” (Jn.14). The following Words of Jesus have not lost their validity, “...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” (Lk.10: 22).
This mystery of God can only be made known to us through divine revelation. When the divine revelation of Christ was made known to Peter, he cried out, “Thou art Christ, the Son of the living God.” When this revelation struck Thomas after the resurrection, he cried out, “My Lord and my God”, referring to the same Lord Jesus. No prophet or apostle tried to explain God or His Word, neither did they divine Him into three persons. The terms ‘Trinity’ and ‘Triune God’ have no scriptural basis –they are not found in the Holy Word. No servant of God used Genesis 1:26, “Let us make man”, to constitute more than one person in the Godhead. Ministers and all Christians should ask themselves: Who has misinterpreted Gen.1: 26? The Lord, His prophets and His apostles did not do it throughout the entire Bible from Genesis to Revelation. Job 38:4-7 clearly tells us to whom God spoke and who was present at the beginning.
When will the children of God turn from this deceptive, dressed-up appearance of Christendom and return to the simple faith in the living God? A true child of God believes every Word the way it is written and never gives ear to private interpretations to suit his own doctrines.
“Unto thee was shown, that thou mightest know that the Lord, he is God; there is none else beside him” (Deut.4: 35).
“Know therefore this day, and consider it in thine heart, that the Lord, he is God in heaven above, and upon the earth beneath; there is none else” (Deut.4: 39)
“ye are my witness, saith the Lord, and my servant whom I have chosen, that ye may know and believe me, and understand that I am he; before me there was no God formed, neither shall there be after me. I, even I, am the Lord; and beside me there is no saviour” (Isa.43: 10-11).
“Thus saith the Lord, the King of Israel, and his redeemer, the Lord of hosts: I am the first, and I am the last, and beside me there is no God” (Isa.44: 6).
“And without controversy great is the mystery of godliness...” (1 Tim.3: 16)
“...Whose are the fathers, and of whom, as concerning the flesh, Christ came, who is over all, God blessed for ever. Amen.” (Rom.9: 5).
“Fear not; I am the first and the last; I am that liveth, and was dead; and, behold, I am alive for evermore, Amen, and have the keys of hell and of death”(Rev.1: 17:18). “Holy, holy, holy, Lord God Almighty, who was, and is, and is to come” (Rev.4:8).
We must learn to say only what the Scripture says. Whether we read of the Creator, or Redeemer, the Father in heaven, the Son on earth, or the Holy Spirit dwelling within us: it is always the same God in action, revealed in various manifestations.
The mystery of the Godhead is beyond our comprehension and cannot be fully described. Because God and His Word cannot differ, we must let the Scripture speak for itself, and we trust that you will permit the Holy Spirit to reveal it to you, although this is not a detailed Bible study on the subject.
There are multiple Scripture passages, in which God gives His all-sufficient testimony of Himself. Whether we read in the Old or the New Testament about the Creator, Sustainer, Redeemer, King, etc., it always speaks of the same ‘One True God’.
In the Old Testament, the invisible God revealed Himself in a visible form of a appearance as the ‘Lord Yahve’ who walked in the Garden of Eden and spoke to the prophets.
Whoever had seen the Lord, cried out, “We shall surely die, because we have seen God” (Jud.13: 22). Jacob wrestled with God, had revealed Himself in the visible form of an angel (Gen.32: 24-30). In Hos.12: 4-6, He is called the “Lord god of hosts”.
In heaven, He is called the Father. Therefore we are to pray, “Our Father, who art in heaven.” The same God was manifested on earth in the Son and was called ‘Immanuel –God with us’. In the Old Testament, the one who was called ‘God Elohim’ is known as the ‘Father’ in the New. The term ‘Yahve –Saviour’ in the Old is Jesus –the Son in the New. God is Spirit (Jn.4: 24) and therefore could not be seen (Jn.1: 18).
In the New Testament, the same Lord God, the heavenly Father, was manifested in the ‘Son’, the Lord Jesus. Philip was eager to look into this divine mystery, when he asked the Saviour, “Lord, show us the Father, and it sufficeth us. Jesus saith 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; and how sayest thou then, Show us the Father?” (Jn.14). The following Words of Jesus have not lost their validity, “...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” (Lk.10: 22).
This mystery of God can only be made known to us through divine revelation. When the divine revelation of Christ was made known to Peter, he cried out, “Thou art Christ, the Son of the living God.” When this revelation struck Thomas after the resurrection, he cried out, “My Lord and my God”, referring to the same Lord Jesus. No prophet or apostle tried to explain God or His Word, neither did they divine Him into three persons. The terms ‘Trinity’ and ‘Triune God’ have no scriptural basis –they are not found in the Holy Word. No servant of God used Genesis 1:26, “Let us make man”, to constitute more than one person in the Godhead. Ministers and all Christians should ask themselves: Who has misinterpreted Gen.1: 26? The Lord, His prophets and His apostles did not do it throughout the entire Bible from Genesis to Revelation. Job 38:4-7 clearly tells us to whom God spoke and who was present at the beginning.
When will the children of God turn from this deceptive, dressed-up appearance of Christendom and return to the simple faith in the living God? A true child of God believes every Word the way it is written and never gives ear to private interpretations to suit his own doctrines.
“Unto thee was shown, that thou mightest know that the Lord, he is God; there is none else beside him” (Deut.4: 35).
“Know therefore this day, and consider it in thine heart, that the Lord, he is God in heaven above, and upon the earth beneath; there is none else” (Deut.4: 39)
“ye are my witness, saith the Lord, and my servant whom I have chosen, that ye may know and believe me, and understand that I am he; before me there was no God formed, neither shall there be after me. I, even I, am the Lord; and beside me there is no saviour” (Isa.43: 10-11).
“Thus saith the Lord, the King of Israel, and his redeemer, the Lord of hosts: I am the first, and I am the last, and beside me there is no God” (Isa.44: 6).
“And without controversy great is the mystery of godliness...” (1 Tim.3: 16)
“...Whose are the fathers, and of whom, as concerning the flesh, Christ came, who is over all, God blessed for ever. Amen.” (Rom.9: 5).
“Fear not; I am the first and the last; I am that liveth, and was dead; and, behold, I am alive for evermore, Amen, and have the keys of hell and of death”(Rev.1: 17:18). “Holy, holy, holy, Lord God Almighty, who was, and is, and is to come” (Rev.4:8).
We must learn to say only what the Scripture says. Whether we read of the Creator, or Redeemer, the Father in heaven, the Son on earth, or the Holy Spirit dwelling within us: it is always the same God in action, revealed in various manifestations.