THE DIVINE SON OF GOD

- Worthy of Worship -

Compiled by Rachel Cory-Kuehl, November 2012.

Last edited October 2017.

Scripture is from New King James Version unless otherwise noted.

Matthew 1:23 Christ is called “Immanuel” - “God with us.”

I Timothy 3:16 “God was manifest in the flesh.”

Colossians 2:9 “For in Him dwells all the fullness of the Godhead (divinity) bodily.”

Isaiah 9:6 “For unto us a child is born, unto us a Son is given; and the government shall be upon His shoulder; and His name shall be called Wonderful Counselor, the Mighty God, the Everlasting Father, the Prince of Peace.”

1 Corinthians 15:47 “The Second Man is the Lord from heaven.”

John 20:26-29 Thomas called Christ “My Lord and My God.” (Christ did not correct him.)

THE ONLY “BEGOTTEN” SON OF GOD

Matthew 1:18,20,23 Mary was His human mother and God was His divine Father.

Luke 1:35 “And the angel answered and said to her, ‘The Holy Spirit will come upon you, and the power of the Highest will overshadow you; therefore, also, that Holy One who is to be born will be called the Son of God.’”

John 1:14 “And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we beheld His glory, the glory as of     the only begotten of the Father, full of grace and truth.”

2 John 1:3 “Grace, mercy, and peace will be with you from God the Father and from the Lord Jesus Christ, the Son of the Father, in truth and love.”

The Holy Spirit impregnated Mary, and the child born to her was called “the only begotten of the Father” and “the Son of the Father. It seems very simple. The Holy Spirit IS the divine Being whom Jesus called “Father”. He appears sitting on a throne, while His spirit presence pervades the Universe.

Hebrews 1:4-6 “Being made so much better than the angels, as He has by inheritance obtained a more excellent name than they.” (Angels are created beings. Christ was “begotten.”)

John 1:18 “No one has seen God at any time. The only begotten Son, who is in the bosom of the Father, He has declared Him.”

         Whom has Christ “declared”? Answer: “The Father”.

John 3:16 “For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have ever-lasting life.”

Jesus is “the only begotten of the Father”. Therefore God the Father gave His only begotten Son. The Father is a single divine being. He beget another divine being out of Himself. He sent His begotten Son into the world (via the womb of Mary), to save those who would believe.

John 3:18 “He who believes in Him is not condemned; but he who does not believe is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God.”

1 John 4:9 “In this the love of God was manifested toward us, that God has sent His only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through Him.”

HE was begotten (brought forth)

from God His Father

before time began.

He was the Son of God

before He created all things.

Proverbs 8:22-25 “The LORD possessed me at the beginning of His way, Before His works of old. I have been established [anointed] from everlasting, From the beginning, before there was ever an earth. When there were no depths I was brought forth, When there were no fountains abounding with water. Before the mountains were settled, Before the hills, I was brought forth;”

This passage from Proverbs is from an allegory on wisdom. Solomon was inspired by the Spirit of Christ to write these words. They are the words of Christ concerning Himself, and His existence with His Father prior to His creation of “all things,” and prior to His incarnation. Paul was alluding to this passage when he wrote, “...Christ the power of God and the wisdom of God” (1Cor.1:24) and “...Jesus Christ, who of God is made unto us wisdom...” (1Cor.1:30).

The Hebrew word in this passage translated “brought forth” means “to be born.” In the Septuagint translation (300BC) from the Hebrew, the Greek word “gennao” was chosen. This is the same word which Paul uses in Hebrews 1:5, speaking of Christ.

      NOTE: “Gennao” is Strong’s #1080, gennao {ghen-nah'-o}.

                  Meaning: to beget, to bring forth.

Proverbs 8:25 “before the mountains were settled, and before all the hills, he begets me.” (LXE)

     NOTE: The LXE is an English translation of the Septuagint by Sir Lancelot C. L. Benton, 1844.

John 17:8 “I came forth from You and they have believed that You sent Me.”

John 16:28 “I came forth from the Father AND have come into the world.”

Matthew 16:16-18 [Peter said] “You are the Christ, the Son of the living God.”

    [And Jesus said] “Upon this rock I will build my church.”

John 17:5 [From Christ’s last public prayer at the last supper] “And now, Father, glorify me in your presence with the glory I had with you before the world began.”

Was Jesus, was Paul, were the disciples trying to mislead? A son - in any language - is one who was begotten by a Father. Why call Him the Son of God, if He was not really a Son at all?

Did He simply take the role of a son, when He incarnated? I don’t believe so. Proverbs presents Him as begotten before anything was created. He shared the glory of the Father, “before the world was.”

I know someone is going to ask, “Who was His mother?” before the creation of all things?

      Answer: God can beget from Himself alone. Think cell division.

QUESTION: Was Christ simply a different manifestation of one divine being who also manifests as “the Father” and as “the Holy Spirit?” I don’t believe so. If only ONE divine being exists, then there should be only ONE WILL. Yet we read:

Luke 22:42 [Christ prayed] “Not my will but Thine be done.”

How could there be “my will” and “Thy will,” if Christ and His Father are two manifestations of the same divine being?

JESUS CLAIMED TO BE THE SON OF GOD.

John 5:18 “Therefore the Jews sought the more to kill Him, because He not only had broken the Sabbath, but said that God was His Father, making Himself equal with God.”

As a son - when grown - may be the equal of his father, so Christ the Son WAS equal with His Father, in divine power and strength, before His incarnation into human nature (See Philippians 2:6-7). Yet He never challenged His Father’s authority. And He did not seek to retain that equality, but rather “emptied Himself” of divine power, to “take the form of a servant.”

John 10:30-33 [Christ speaking] “‘I and my Father are one ...’ [The Jews answered Him, saying] ‘For a good work we do not stone You, but for blasphemy, and because You, being a Man, make Yourself God.’”

NOTE: The oneness is between Father and Son, not Father, Son and Spirit. Jesus said, “The Father is in Me, and I in Him” (John 10:38).

Christ was not saying that He and the Father were two manifestations of the same divine being. He prayed that His followers would also be “one” with the Father and with Himself (John 17:20-23). Obviously the followers of Christ are separate beings. We become “one” with the Father and His Son, as the Spirit of the Father flows through Christ into our hearts. “I in them, and You in Me; that they may be made perfect in one” (John 17:23).

 CHRIST FORGAVE SINS COMMITTED AGAINST GOD

Mark 2:7 “Who can forgive sins but God alone.” (Job 14:4, Isaiah 43:25)

Daniel 9:9 “To the Lord our God belong mercy and forgiveness,...”

Luke 5:24 [Christ] “‘But that you may know that the Son of Man has power [authority] on earth to forgive sins’; He said to the man who was paralyzed, ‘I say to you, arise, take up your bed, and go to your house.’” (Mark 2:5-12, Matthew 9:6).

            Christ did only those things which His Father directed. The forgiveness was therefore the Father’s forgiveness. Christ acted as the medium of that forgiveness.

The story of the paralyzed man, illustrates that forgiveness is not just a legal maneuver; blotting out a mark against our name in a book in heaven. Forgiveness includes healing. Only God can forgive sins because only God can heal.

Luke 7:48-49 “And He [Christ] said to her, ‘Your sins are forgiven.’ And those who sat at the table with Him began to say to themselves, ‘Who is this who even forgives sins?’”

JESUS WAS GIVEN THE AUTHORITY TO FORGIVE SIN

Who gave Him this authority?

God His Father!

John 3:35 [Christ speaking] “The Father loves the Son, and has given all things into His hand.”

John 5:22 [Christ speaking] “For the Father judges no one, but has committed all judgment to the Son.”

Matthew 6:12 Christ instructed His disciples to pray to the Father for forgiveness, in the name of His Son.

The Son of God

“will baptize you with the Holy Spirit”.

Who gave Jesus this power?

Answer: God His Father

Matthew 3:11 [John the Baptist] “I indeed baptize you with water unto repentance, but He who is coming after me is mightier than I, whose sandals I am not worthy to carry. He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and fire.”

Mark 1:8 [The Baptist] “I indeed baptized you with water, but He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit.”

Luke 3:16 [The Baptist] “John answered, saying to all, “I indeed baptize you with water; but One mightier than I is coming, whose sandal strap I am not worthy to loose. He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and fire.”

John 1:33 [The Baptist] “I did not know Him, but He who sent me to baptize with water said to me, ‘Upon whom you see the Spirit descending, and remaining on Him, this is He who baptizes with the Holy Spirit.’”

John 20:22 [Christ] “And when He had said this, He breathed on them, and said to them, “Receive the Holy Spirit.”

The Source of Christ’s power and authority?

His Father

Luke 4:18 “The Spirit of the LORD is upon Me, Because He has anointed Me to preach the gospel to the poor; He has sent Me to heal the brokenhearted, To proclaim liberty to the captives And recovery of sight to the blind, To set at liberty those who are oppressed;

The LORD anointed Jesus, and the LORD sent Jesus. According to Christ’s own words, who “sent” Him? Answer: “the Father”. Fourteen different verses affirm that Jesus was “sent” by God His Father.

Therefore Who is “the LORD” of this passage? Answer: God our Father. It was God the Father who anointed Jesus.

How did God the Father anoint His Son? Answer: with His Spirit, which was made visible at this anointing, in the form of a dove.

Note: Only kings and priests were anointed. Jesus is our High Priest and will soon be King of Kings and Lord of Lords, on the earth.

Colossians 2:9 “For in Him dwells all the fullness of the Godhead (divinity) bodily.”

God the Father is over all. He is the “head”, even of Christ (1Cor 11:3). “All the fullness” of God our Father dwells in Jesus His Son, because the Father filled Jesus with His Spirit - “without measure”. Jesus was not born with all that fullness. Rather He was given (anointed with) that “fullness” first at His baptism, and later to a greater degree when He was “glorified” in Heaven after He ascended there.

“A servant is not greater than his master; nor is he who is sent greater than he who sent him” (John 13:16-17). The Son was sent by God His Father, therefore the Father is greater than the Son.

GOD HAS COMMANDED

MEN AND ANGELS TO WORSHIP JESUS.

Philippians 2:10-11 “That at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of things in heaven, and things in earth, and things under the earth; And that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.” (Notice that only two divine Beings are worshiped.)

Hebrews 1:6 “But when He again brings the first born into the world, He [God the Father] says: ‘Let all the angels of God worship Him.’”

Matthew 2:11 Wise men directed of the Holy Spirit “worshiped” the infant Jesus.

Matthew 14:33 “Then those who were in the boat came and worshiped Him, saying, ‘Truly You are the Son of God.’”

This scene took place just after Jesus walked on the water during a terrible storm. The men who “worshiped Him” were “His disciples” (Matt. 14:22). They were the ones in the boat, caught in the storm. There is no indication that Christ corrected his disciples for this worship.

Matthew 28:8-9 "So the women hurried away from the tomb, afraid yet filled with joy, and ran to tell his disciples. Suddenly Jesus met them. “Greetings,” he said. They came to him, clasped his feet and worshiped him.

John 20:28-29 "Thomas said to him, “My Lord and my God!” Then Jesus told him, “Because you have seen me, you have believed; blessed are those who have not seen and yet have believed.”

          Jesus did not correct Thomas for addressing Him as “my God”.

Luke 24:51-52 [After the resurrection and 40 days spent with His disciples] “Now it came to pass, while He blessed them, that He was parted from them and carried up into heaven. And they worshiped Him, and returned to Jerusalem with great joy,”

Revelation 5:13 “And every creature which is in heaven and on the earth and under the earth and such as are in the sea, and all that are in them, I heard saying: “Blessing and honor and glory and power be to Him who sits on the throne, and to the Lamb, forever and ever!”

Two beings are worshiped here - not just one, and certainly not three. We worship Jesus Christ because God the Father has commanded that we worship His Son.

God's Law said to worship God and God alone. In Hebrews, we are told the Father commanded that we worship the Son. Either Jesus is God or He is a charlatan who has deceived the world.

If Jesus Christ is not “God”

we could not worship Him

and still keep the First Commandment.

Exodus 20:3-6 “Thou shalt have no other gods before me.” “Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them nor serve them.”

Who spoke the 10 Commandments? Answer: God’s son - the only mediator between God and man. I explain in the study titled “The Mediator - Christ thru the Old Testament,” my belief that the earth was cut off from God the Father by the sin of Adam. Yet God did not abandon the earth to the complete control of Satan. Mercy was extended because the Son of God promised to become a man, to be tested by the Evil One.

And because a probation - a grace period - was extended to mankind, the Son of God became the mediator between Heaven and earth. He would stand in place of His Father. As such, He became God to this world - Yahweh to Israel. He was worshiped as Yahweh. He spoke and then wrote the Ten Commandments. When the Son incarnated, the Spirit of the Father was restored to men. The rupture was partly healed. One day soon, the presence of God our Father will be restored to earth. The Holy City will descend. The Lord God Almighty and the Lamb are the (one) Temple of that glorious City (Rev. 21:22).

Matthew 8:2 “And behold, a leper came and worshiped Him, saying, ‘Lord, if You are willing, You can make me clean.’”

      Jesus received worship while on this earth (Matthew 14:33, Matthew 28:9, Revelation 5:8-14).

AN EXTENSION OF GOD

God “beget” another being from out of Himself - a “son”. (There was no “mother” being involved.) This new being was therefore an exact replication of God Himself. He was an exact copy, with all the characteristics of His divine Father. An image is a copy (Heb. 1:3). Therefore He was divine. The “son” was separate from God the Father because He had a will of His own. He the acted as the agent of His Father in creation, in mediation, in reconciliation, in judgment, and in restoration.

This “son of God” incarnated by taking upon himself the form and the nature of humanity. “A body you have prepared for me” (Heb.10:5). Eve was created from bone taken from Adam. The “body” for God’s Son was made from Mary’s DNA. In both cases, Eve from Adam’s DNA and Jesus Christ from Mary’s DNA, the sex linked chromosome was changed (Y to X, and X to Y).

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THE BIBLE FORBIDS THE WORSHIP OF CREATED BEINGS

Colossians 2:18, Revelation 19:10, Revelation 22:8.9

NOTE: Does Revelation 3:14 refer to Christ as a created being?

Revelation 3:14 "And to the angel of the church of the Laodiceans1 write,`These things says the Amen, the Faithful and True Witness, the Beginning of the creation of God:’”

Colossians 1:15 “He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation.”                    

The word “beginning” is “arche,” which can also be translated correctly as “head” or “chief.” Christ is the creator, the ruler, the head, the chief over “all creation”.

Christ refers to Himself as the “Alpha and Omega”- the beginning and the end - the first and the last (Rev. 21:6, Rev. 22:13). As “the first”and also “the last”, He is “the only”.

Because He is the “firstborn” and the “only begotten”, God His Father has “given all things into His hand”. Anciently, the firstborn also inherited the priesthood, which is why Jesus has become our High Priest.

BEFORE THIS WORLD WAS CREATED.

John 8:58 [Jesus speaking] “Before Abraham was, I AM” (Exodus 3:14).

Micah 5:2 “But thou Bethlehem Ephratah, though thou be little among the thousands of Judah, yet out of thee shall He come forth unto me that is to be ruler in Israel: Whose goings forth [origins] have been from old, from everlasting.”

Note: The Son of God originated from another Being. He was begotten. Jesus said, “I came forth from the Father, and have come into the world” (John 16:28).

John 17:5 [Christ prayed] “And now, O Father, glorify Me together with Yourself, with the glory which I had with You before the world was.”

2 Corinthians 8:9 “For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that though He was rich, yet for your sakes He became poor,...”

John 6:38 “For I came down from heaven, not to do mine own will, but the will of Him that sent me.”

John 1:1-2 “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. The same was in the beginning with God.”

            I believe that the Father’s begetting of His Son WAS “the beginning”.

John 1:15 “John [the Baptist] bore witness of Him, and cried out, saying. This was He of whom I said. He who comes after me is preferred before me: for He was before me.”

Philippians 2:5-6 “Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus: Who being 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;”

Proverbs 8:22-30 “The Lord possessed me in the beginning of His way, before his works of old. I was set up [anointed] from everlasting, from the beginning, or ever the earth was.” . . . “Then I was beside Him, as a master craftsman; and I was daily his delight, rejoicing always before Him;” (v. 24-30).

THE EXPRESS IMAGE - OF GOD HIS FATHER

“The image of the invisible God” (Col. 1:15).

Hebrews 1:1-3 “God, who at various times and in various ways spoke in time past to the fathers by the prophets, has in these last days spoken to us by His Son, whom He has appointed heir of all things, through whom also He made the worlds; who being the brightness of His glory and the express image of His person, and upholding all things by the word of His power, when He had by Himself purged our sins, sat down at the right hand of the Majesty on high,”

Prior to His incarnation into human flesh the Son of God created the worlds, and upheld those worlds by His power. He was the express image (exact copy) of His Father’s person. He emptied Himself of this divine power when He incarnated into human flesh and nature. Jesus said, “God is Spirit” (Jn 4:24), speaking of “the Father.” Yet we know that He “sits on the throne” (Rev 5:13, 7:10). He has a “face” (Rev. 20:11) and two hands (Rev. 5:1,7). We were made in His image, but we are not the “express image.”

“God is Spirit.” He is an omnipresent spirit being, yet He manifests in a form which can be seen by created beings. If this is true of the Father, then it was also true of the Son, prior to His incarnation. And we find exactly that. He “appeared” in human form to Abraham, to Joshua, to Moses, and perhaps to Daniel and to Ezekiel (Gen. 18, Josh. 5, Ezek. 1:26, Dan. 10:5, Dan. 12:7). The “saw” Him. Yet “the spirit of Christ” inspired the prophets of old (1 Pet. 1:10-11).

            Now that Christ has ascended to the Father’s throne, He has been “glorified” with the glory that the shared with the Father before the world was (John 17: 5). The Father has infused His Son with His own spirit. The two have now become “one” in this shared spirit, which is poured out to us as the presence of Christ. This spirit is our comforter, and “our fellowship is with the Father and with His Son” (1 Jn 1:3).

Compare Psalm 45:6 WITH Hebrews 1:1-10.

Look for the relationship between God the Father and His divine Son.

Psalm 45:6-8 [David writing of Christ.] “Thy throne, O God is forever and ever; the scepter of Thy kingdom is a right scepter. Thou lovest righteousness, and hatest wickedness: therefore God, thy God [the Father], hath anointed Thee [Christ] with the oil of gladness [the Holy Spirit] above Thy fellows. All Thy garments smell of myrrh, and aloes, and cassia, out of ivory palaces, whereby, thy have made Thee glad.” (KJV)

The writer of the Book of Hebrews quotes this Psalm as the words of the Father to His Son, and then goes on to quote the Father as saying to His Son, “You LORD in the beginning laid the foundation of the earth and the heavens are the work of Your hands” (Hebrews 1:8-10).

Jesus claimed that He was Himself the subject

of all the Old Testament writers

when He said:

John 5:39 “You search the scriptures [Old Testament] for in them you think you have eternal life: and these are they which testify of Me.”

1 Timothy 2:5 “For there is one God, and one Mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus”;

This statement applies with equal force to Old Testament times. See study “The Mediator.”

John 1:18 [Christ said] “No one has seen God at any time. The only begotten Son, who is in the bosom of the Father, He has declared Him” (Jn 5:37; Jn 6:46).

How then could it be said that the Lord “knew” Moses “face to face” and spoke with him “face to face, as a man speaks to his friend?” (Deut. 34:10, Ex. 33:11)

John 6:46 “Not that anyone has seen the Father, except He who is from God; He has seen the Father.”

Exodus 6:3 “And God spoke to Moses and said to him: ‘I am the Lord’ ... ‘I appeared to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob as God Almighty...”

Moses was speaking with the pre-incarnate Son of God.

THE WORD WAS GOD

John 1:3 “The Word was with God, and the Word was God.”

      What are our options for understanding this passage?

      The word translated “God” simply means “divine being,” in the Greek.

“The Word [Christ] was with “divine being” [the Father] and WAS “divine being.”

We could understand that “God” is one divine being who manifests as two (or as three),

OR we could understand that the Father is one divine being and the Son is another.

If we take the second option, that the Father is God, and beget another divine being out of Himself - so that there were TWO, then how do we then understand the passage which says “God is one?” (Deuteronomy 6:4). How do we understand the command to “have no other gods before Me?” (Exodus 20:3).

My personal belief is that God the Father is one divine being, and is the one and only God Supreme. He is above all. He is above Christ (1 Cor. 11:3, 1 Cor. 15:27). When we worship the Father as supreme, we fulfill the first commandment.

God the Father beget a Son in His exact image (like a clone, if you will excuse the word). Just as the son of a human father is a human being, so the Son of The Divine Father was Himself also a divine being. The only difference between the Father and the Son was that the Son was begotten and had not always existed. As the Father is all-knowing, so was the Son before His incarnation. The Son was also all-powerful, and omnipresent. At the incarnation, when the Son took on the form and the nature of humanity, He emptied Himself of divine power. He must overcome as a man among men. Only in this way, could He regain dominion of the earth - FOR mankind.

One could say that the Son existed from eternity because He created all things. He created time. He existed before time - therefore He existed from eternity. This does not preclude His having “come forth from the Father.”

In a sense, the Son of God WAS/IS our “everlasting Father” BECAUSE He created us. He is our Father, and HIS Father is our divine Grandfather. There is no word in the Hebrew for Grandfather. All of the male ancestors are simply called “father”. John 8:56 for example: “Your Father Abraham rejoiced to see my day.”. We must not be confused because the Son of God is called “Father.”

Isaiah 9:6 “For unto us a Child is born, Unto us a Son is given; And the government will be upon His shoulder. And His name will be called Wonderful, Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.”

The Father sent His Son into the world, to live and die, to effect a reconciliation with all who would be won. Paul makes it clear that we are reconciled to the Father - through His Son (Col. 1:19-20, 2 Cor. 5:18-19).

Until the incarnation of Christ, human beings were separated from God the Father. The Son of God acted as the agent of His Father. Because the Son represented His Father to human beings, He took the name of His Father - Yahweh. He stood in place of His Father. He acted as God to human beings. Yet His Father is supreme.

The Father is called the God of Christ (John 20:17, Romans 15:6, 1Corinthians 11:3, 2Corinthians 1:3, 2Corinthians 11:31, Ephesians 1:3, Ephesians 1:17, Colossians 1:3, Hebrews 1:9, 1Peter 1:3, Revelation 1:6, Revelation 3:12).

God the Father is the ultimate source of life (1Corinthians 8:6) and it was by His will that all things were created (Revelation 4:9-11, 1Corinthians 15:24-28). The whole family in heaven and earth is named after the Father (Ephesians 3:14-15).

The Father’s will is recognized in Scripture as supreme (Ephesians 4:6, Luke 11:2, Matthew 7:21, Matthew 12:50, Matthew 26:42, Mark 14:36, John 5:30, John 6:38-39, Galatians 1:4, Ephesians 1:5, Ephesians 1:9, Ephesians 1:11, Hebrews 13:20-21, Revelation 4:11).

I believe that Jesus Christ is the divine Son, begotten out of His divine Father, before the foundation of the world. As such He is worthy of worship. We worship the Son because the Father has commanded us to worship Him. Yet we recognize the Father as The Supreme Being who is without beginning.

Then comes the end,

when the Son Himself will be subject - to God His Father

1 Corinthians 15:24 “Then the end will come, when he [Jesus] hands over the kingdom to God the Father after he has destroyed all dominion, authority and power. 25 For he [Christ] must reign until he has put all his enemies under his feet. 26 The last enemy to be destroyed is death. 27 For he [God the Father] ‘has put everything under his feet.’ Now when it says that ‘everything’ has been put under him, it is clear that this does not include God himself, who put everything under Christ. 28 When he has done this, then the Son himself will be made subject to him [God the Father] who put everything under him, so that God may be all in all. (NIV)

God the Father gave all authority to His Son. When Christ has completed His mission to defeat every enemy of God, and to reconcile earth with the Father, then He will present this Kingdom to His Father as His perfect offering - cleansed and restored. The Holy City New Jerusalem will descend from Heaven to Earth. God and the Lamb are the Temple of that City.

Revelation 5:13 “And every creature which is in heaven and on the earth and under the earth and such as are in the sea, and all that are in them, I heard saying: "Blessing and honor and glory and power Be to Him who sits on the throne, And to the Lamb, forever and ever!"

Two divine beings are worshiped here.

THE FATHER CREATED ALL THINGS

THROUGH HIS SON

John 1:1-3 “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. The same was in the beginning with God. All things were made through Him; and without Him nothing was made that was made.”

Colossians 1:15-17 “He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation. For by Him all things were created that are in heaven and that are on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or principalities or powers. All things were created through Him and for Him. And He is before all things, and in Him all things consist.

I Corinthians 8:6 “yet for us there is one God, the Father, of whom are all things, and we for Him; and one Lord Jesus Christ, through whom are all things, and through whom we live.”

John 1:10 “He was in the world, and the world was made by Him, and the world knew Him not.”

Genesis 1:26 “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness.”

Hebrews 1:1-3 “God...Hath in these last days spoken unto us by his Son, whom he hath appointed heir of all things, by whom also he made the worlds;”.

Hebrews 1:8,10 [God the Father speaking to His Son]

    v. 8 “Thy throne, O God, is forever and ever: a scepter of righteousness is the scepter of thy kingdom”.

v. 10 “Thou, Lord, in the beginning hast laid the foundation of the earth; and the heavens are the works of thine hands. [Christ is addressed as creator by His Father.]

THE AGENT OF HIS FATHER

In creation - in mediation - in reconciliation - in redemption - in judgment - in restoration, the Son of God was, and is, and will be, the agent of His Father.

This is a concept we must get clear in our minds. God the Father acts through His Son. He has done so from the moment the Son was begotten, and He will do so for all eternity. The Son of God is not simply “the image of the invisible God” (Col. 1:15). He is the One who acts for God. The Father poured all His plans and power through His Son, to bring creation into being, and to save that creation from complete destruction.

THE ANTICHRIST DENIES THAT JESUS CHRIST

IS THE SON OF GOD

1 John 2:22-23 “Who is a liar but he who denies that Jesus is the Christ? He is Antichrist who denies the Father and the Son. Whoever denies the Son does not have the Father either; he who acknowledges the Son has the Father also.”

            Only two beings are referenced in this verse - the Father and the Son.

            NOTE: Islam denies that God beget a Son.

THE FATHER AND THE SON

1 John 1:3 “and truly our fellowship is with the Father and with His Son Jesus Christ.”

1 John 2:24 “you also will abide in the Son and in the Father.”

l. The prophecies call Him “Mighty God”.

2. The Father called Him God (Psalm 45:6, Hebrews 1:8).

3. He is called the only “begotten” Son of God.

4. He claimed pre-existence with God.

5. He existed before the creation.

6. He created this earth and “all things.”

7. He received worship.

8. He baptizes with the Holy Spirit.

9. He forgave sin, by authority given to Him by His divine Father.

10. He gives eternal life, and the power to overcome sin, to “whom He will.”

11. He will judge. The Father has committed all judgment to the Son.

12. He will execute judgment, by authority given Him from His Father.

13. He shares His Father’s throne.

     He is the divine Son of God.

We pray this study will prove a blessing.

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