SPELLING EDITED O-3. DID JESUS PREEXIST in the ETERNITY PAST? HOW DID JESUS PREEXIST?
Every Christian believes that Jesus pre-existed in some way or form. Even those Christians, who teach that Jesus did not exist BEFORE his virgin birth must agree that Jesus pre-existed in the FORM of God's “LOGOS” before the “LOGOS” became flesh. In other words, even BIBLICAL Unitarians believe that Jesus pre-existed WITHIN God as His THOUGHTS and secretly devised PLAN of Salvation before God began to manifestly DECLARE the END FROM the BEGINNING by using His word of logos of PROPHECY which have hidden prophecies foretelling of His Messiah, Jesus. For those of you, who may have never heard the word “LOGOS”, it is the Greek word translated as the “word” of God. The Greek word “logos” is found 207 times in the New Testament and all but seven times the Greek word “logos” is translated as “word” with a small or lower case “w” and means the spoken word of God. And in those other seven times, the same exact Greek word “logos” is translated as “Word” with a capital “W”. Here are those seven times found in the following five verses of Scripture. John 1:1.
“In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.”
John 1:14.
“And the Word was made 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.”
1 John 1:1.
“That which was from the beginning, which we have heard, which we have seen with our eyes, which we have looked upon, and our hands have handled, of the Word of life;”
1 John 5:7.
“For there are three that bear record in heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost: and these three are one.”
Revelation 19:13.
“And he was clothed with a vesture dipped in blood: and his name is called The Word of God.”
Now some Christians INTERPRET these five verses as the “LOGOS” being a SEPARATE divine eternal Spirit being, who was WITH the God AT the God's SIDE from all eternity past as a second divine eternal person or being. But in order to keep with the monotheism of the Old Testament of there being only ONE God, then these Christians who sincerely believe that Jesus PRE-EXISTED as a divine eternal being who was WITH God must somehow reconcile the contradiction of their interpretation of the “LOGOS” being a separate divine eternal Spirit being, who was WITH God AT his SIDE. For you see, most of those Christians ALSO sincerely believe that this SECOND divine eternal being who was WITH God in eternity past CREATED ALL THINGS. So then, the pat answer of some of these Christians who believe that Jesus pre-existed as the CREATOR is to claim that since Jesus is called God in Hebrew 1:8 then Jesus MUST BE the one true God. In other words, they claim that Jesus as being called God MUST mean that Jesus is one and the self-same being as Yahweh Himself. To say this another way, the Oneness Pentecostal Christians claim that Yahweh manifested Himself as His Son whom he then sent down from heaven to become the Son of man, but yet remained fully the Almighty God at the same time having two natures, one divine, and one human. This is the same basic belief of SOME Oneness believers, who differ from the Oneness Pentecostals and the Trinity believers. Whereas, Trinitarians Christians claim that the always pre-existing without any beginning God the Son incarnated himself to become flesh but yet remain the fully Almighty God BEING composed of three separate persons in the ONE being known as Yahweh, the Almighty God. Now, all Oneness Pentecostal Christians argue that Jesus IS the Father and the Father IS the Son, as in, the Father and His Son are NOT two separate divine beings. They say that the Father and the Son are ONE and the self-SAME being appearing in or manifesting in different forms. But again, there are some Oneness believers who argue that the Son did, indeed, have a beginning as God the real Son of God having his own will and his own soul. But yet, they still dogmatically insist that Jesus is Almighty God Himself. So then, all Oneness Pentecostal believers dogmatically demand that Yahweh Himself existed ALONE in ONE person having NO Son in eternity past. And thus, to them, Yahweh manifest Himself in the womb of the Virgin Mary to be born as a human being but yet REMAINED the fully Almighty God having TWO natures at the SAME time, one divine, and one human. And Trinitarian Christians say no to ALL of the Oneness theories and say that the “LOGOS” was the LITERAL pre-existing second person of a triune or Trinity God existing in three different persons but still being one God. They say that God the Father sent down God His ONLY BEGOTTEN Son, the second person of the Trinity. And then the already “full-grown adult” God the SON incarnated himself to become the Son of man in the womb of the Virgin Mary, but yet, the incarnated God the Son remained the fully divine Almighty God at the same time having two natures, one divine, and one human. Obviously, Trinitarians believe that God is a Trinity God, which they define as the ONE God being three separate persons in the one God. NOT three Gods, but rather, three persons in the ONE eternal God who is the Almighty God. And the doctrine of the Trinity also states that God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit are co-ETERNAL which means that all three have always existed WITHOUT EVER having any kind of BEGINNING. And the doctrine of the Trinity also states that the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit are co-EQUAL which means that neither is less than or GREATER than the other. But, the Bible itself clearly states as a fact with no interpretation needed that Jesus was BEGOTTEN BY Yahweh, Almighty God the Father which means that the SON OF God did, indeed, have a BEGINNING. So the mere fact that Jesus was begotten means that Jesus can NOT be Almighty God Himself. Also, the Bible itself clearly teaches us that the Father is GREATER than His, Son Jesus. And thus, the co-equal part of the doctrine of the Trinity can NOT be true. So that is two strikes against to doctrine of the Trinity. Now the very meaning of the word Almighty means that the ONE TRUE God who IS the Almighty can NOT have any other God over Himself or the God over Him would then BE the Almighty God. In other words, you can NT have an Almighty God OVER another Almighty God because that contradicts the very meaning of the word Almighty. And the Bible itself clearly teaches us that the Father ALONE is the Almighty and His Son in under and subject to his God and Father whose name is Yahweh. So that is three strikes against the doctrine of the Trinity. Then there are some Christians, who say no to both the above theories of Oneness Pentecostal Christians and the Trinitarian Christians. And these Christians say that the “LOGOS” was begotten in eternity past and pre-existed WITH God AT his SIDE as a LITERAL second eternal divine Spirit being, who was God's eternal divine SON named the Word. Then the eternal Son of God named the Word was sent down from heaven and the eternal Son of God named the Word became flesh but yet remained divine in NATURE only and that Jesus is NOT Almighty God Himself. They differ slightly from the above two theories by saying that Jesus was NOT fully Almighty God and the Son of man at the SAME time, but they still maintain that Jesus had TWO natures, one divine, and one human. To my knowledge, this group of believers has no particular SINGLE denominational name. They are found among different denominational churches like the Jehovah's Witnesses, the Seventh Day Adventist, the Church of God, and other smaller congregations of believers. And they believe that the DIVINE nature of the HUMAN Jesus did NOT make Jesus be “Almighty God” the Son DURING the DAYS of his FLESH. But rather, Jesus was the SON OF God DURING the DAYS of his FLESH. But I say, WHY do Christians complicate things by INTERPRETING that the “LOGOS” in these seven occurrences found in these five verses to mean a divine eternal separate being, who was WITH the God AT his SIDE when ALL the other 200 times the Greek word “LOGOS” means SPEECH, the SAYING of God, the SPOKEN word of God? What I mean by this is that the church has been REFORMING back to what the Apostles teach us in the New Testament from the time of the Great Reformation that began with Martin Luther coming out of the Roman Catholic Church. But yet, some Christians still hold on to many things that are taught in the doctrine of the Trinity. And even when Christians finally see that the doctrine of the Trinity is FALSE teaching, some of those Christians still cling to the LITERAL PRE-EXISTING of Jesus, teaching. And only a few of those Christians have finally seen that Jesus did NOT have TWO natures DURING the DAYS of his flesh, but yet, they still cling to the PRE-EXISTING Jesus who created everything else after God created his Word as a LITERAL divine being in eternity past. To say this another way, ALL of the above Christians STOPPED REFORMING to return to what the Apostles of Jesus teach us in the New Testament. Now, I myself have kept reforming never to give up until I see the WHOLE truth and nothing but God’s INTENDED truth. And that is WHY I interpret God's “LOGOS” in these seven occurrences as being God's SPOKEN word of PROPHECY, which then became the Son of man VOID of ANY divine nature as the FULFILLMENT of Yahweh’s PROPHECY that came forth OUT FROM God. Now, I am not saying that Jesus was not uniquely born and that he was the exact same as every other human being. I teach that Jesus was uniquely born without any human father. I teach that Jesus is the SON OF God, but I differ in what I teach as to WHEN Jesus BECAME the ETERNAL SON OF God. I cover those verses in another three-part in-depth study called “WHEN DID JESUS BECOME GOD'S ETERNAL SON?”. I absolutely believe in and teach the VIRGIN birth of Jesus. But I believe that the TRUE SOUND Biblical means of having DIVINE NATURE is defined by the Bible ITSELF in 2 Peter 1:4 which is the ONLY verse in the entire Bible that has the phrase “divine nature”. Please read 2 Peter 1:1-4.
“Simon Peter, a servant and an apostle of Jesus Christ, to them that have obtained like precious faith with us through the righteousness of God AND our Savior Jesus Christ: (In other words, WITHOUT Jesus obeying the will of his God and Father there would be NO GIFT of righteousness from the Father. See Romans 5:15-19) 2. Grace and peace be multiplied unto you through the knowledge of God, AND of Jesus our Lord, 3. According, as His divine power has given unto us all things that pertain unto life and godliness, through the knowledge of him that has called us to glory and virtue: 4. Whereby are given unto us exceeding great and precious PROMISES: that BY these YOU MIGHT be PARTAKERS of the DIVINE NATURE, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust.”
And this DIVINE NATURE is ETERNAL LIFE in the world to come to be like Jesus who is the FIRSTBORN of every creature to be GIVEN the DIVINE NATURE of IMMORTALITY as the JOY SET before him to ENDURE the cross. And the PROMISE to us is that we MIGHT be made PARTAKERS of the DIVINE NATURE as well IF we overcome EVEN AS Jesus overcame.
Please read Revelation 3:21,22.
“To him that OVERCOMES will I grant to sit with me in my throne, EVEN AS I ALSO OVERCAME, (MY cross to bear FOR the JOY that was SET before me to ENDURE the CROSS) and am set down with my Father in his throne. 22. He that has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit is saying unto the churches.”
Also, please read the study “HOW YOU CAN LIVE YOUR LIFE FREE FROM SIN!” But for now, let us consider PROPHECY! What does the Bible ITSELF prophesy will come? What I mean by this is does the Bible itself prophesy that God will send down God the SON from heaven to become the Son of man, who would remain the fully divine Son of God at the same time and thus he would have two natures, one divine, and one human? Do you find ANY prophecies saying that God will send down the SON OF God from heaven to become FLESH? How about a LITERAL PRE-EXISTING divine eternal being named the Word being sent down from heaven to become flesh? Let us see what the Bible ITSELF prophesies about the “word” being made FLESH and then that CHILD born of a VIRGIN would be GIVEN the NAME Jesus or Yeshua in Hebrew which means Yahweh saves and the salvation OF Yahweh. Let us start with the famous Genesis 3:15 hidden prophecy of HOW the Messiah would come. Genesis 3:15.
“And I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your seed and her SEED; IT (The translated English word IT here LITERALLY reads HE referring to the SEED of father Abraham as the SEED of PROMISE would continue to be planted by the word of prophecy. And that prophecy declared that the SEED would come out of the woman Israel in the lineage of Jacob and the tribe of Judah to eventually come out of the womb of the Virgin Mary. And then that word of prophecy was planted in the Virgin Mary’s womb BY the SEED of God’s word of PROPHECY from the Angel Gabriel. And when Mary BELIEVED the word of prophecy then that SEED of God’s word of prophecy was CONCEIVED in the womb of Mary to become FLESH through the overshading of the Holy Spirit. And that SEED, Jesus, AT the CROSS) shall bruise your head, and you shall bruise HIS heel.”
We, who believe, ARE the BODY of Jesus Christ, the church. So to me, the CHURCH is the feet of Jesus. The feet are the part of his body that is shod with the preaching of the Gospel of Jesus. And the HEEL being bruised, to me, means Satan buffeting the body of Jesus Christ to HINDER the TRUE Gospel of Jesus Christ. Almost every Christian, at least to my knowledge, agrees that Genesis 3:15 is a prophecy of the coming Messiah, which we, as Christians, believe in Jesus, the Son of the living God. Now, I myself do not see any evidence of the SEED being a LITERAL ALREADY PRE-EXISTING God the Son being prophesied to come down from heaven to incarnate himself in the womb of the Virgin Mary. But rather, what I see is that the SEED of PROMISE was first given to Abraham. And then the SEED continued through the lineage of Isaac and Jacob who was renamed Israel by God. And then Israel, aka, Jacob, had twelve sons which became the twelve tribes of Israel. And then the SEED of promise continued through the tribe of Judah to eventually be planted or conceived in the womb of the Virgin Mary BY the FAITH of Mary saying be it DONE, ACCORDING to your WORD. You can take the time right now if you like and read HOW the word was made FLESH in the Gospel of Luke found in Luke 1:26-45. I will cover those same verses further on in this study to show you that I, myself, do NOT see God the Son coming down from heaven unless you believe that Jesus is the Angel Gabriel. We will cover HOW the word was ACTUALLY made flesh in those verses in Luke 1:26-45. But for now, let us continue with the PROPHECIES in the Old Testament first comparing their FULFILLMENT in the New Testament.
Genesis 22:16-18.
“And said, By myself have I sworn, says the LORD, for because you have done this thing, and have not withheld YOUR son, YOUR ONLY son: 17. That in blessing I will bless you, and in multiplying I will multiply your SEED as the stars of the heaven, and as the sand which is upon the seashore; and your SEED shall possess the gate of HIS enemies; 18. And IN YOUR SEED shall all the nations of the earth be blessed; because you have obeyed my voice.”
Just as a side note, I, myself, find it interesting that BECAUSE Abraham was willing to offer up HIS only begotten son that this allowed God to then offer up HIS only begotten Son when that day came to pass. Again, we all agree that this is a prophecy that was fulfilled by Jesus being IN the SEED or linage of Abraham. If you have any doubt please read Galatians 3:16.
Galatians 3:16.
“Now to Abraham and his SEED were the promises made. He says not, And to seeds, as of many; but as of one, And to your SEED, which is Christ.”
In other words, the PROPHESIED coming SEED would come into existence THROUGH the PROPHESIED lineage to be BORN as a CHILD first. And then that HUMAN child would grow up to BECOME the King of Isreal. For you see, it was after the DAYS of his FLESH and his ANOINTED ministry that the Son of MAN was MADE Lord and by Almighty God the Father THROUGH Yahweh PERFORMING His own the spoken word of PROPHECY which came forth OUT FROM the MOUTH of Yahweh.
Please read Hebrews 11:17,18.
“By faith Abraham, when he was tried, offered up Isaac: and he that had received the promises offered up his only begotten son, 18. Of whom it was said, That IN Isaac shall your SEED be called:”
Romans 9:6-8.
“Not as though the word of God has taken none effect. For they are not all Israel, which are of Israel: (This means that some of Israel are from the seed of Isaac, the SEED of PROMISE and others are from the seed of Ishmael, who are NOT of the seed of promise, but they were natural-born Jews being of the seed of Abraham. They came to follow another prophet as Jesus said they would in John 5:43. “I am come in my Father's name, and you receive me not: if another shall come in his own name, him you will receive.” We know them as Muslims, who follow the teachings of the false prophet Muhammad.) 7. Neither, because they are the seed of Abraham, are they all children: but, IN Isaac shall your SEED be called. 8. That is, They which are the children of the flesh, these are not the children of God: but the children of the promise are counted for the seed.”
Or because of the TRUE promised SEED born as a CHILD first of the Virgin Mary to BECOME the Messiah BY the ANOINTED Son of MAN enduring the CROSS for the JOY set before him. You see, Jesus did not actually BECOME the Messiah unto he completed the task God gave him to do. It was when Jesus said it is FINISHED and gave up the ghost that Jesus became the Messiah. For you see, Jesus could have changed his mind even at the last second and God would have sent a legion of angels to deliver him. And AFTER God raised Jesus from the dead is WHEN Jesus became the ETERNAL Son of God. I am getting ahead of myself. This will all be shown to you straight from the word of God, but first, let us look at the prophecy of the SEED and HOW that prophecy of the SEED was actually fulfilled.
Please read Acts 13:22,23.
“And when he had removed him, he raised up unto them David to be their king; to whom also he gave testimony, and said, I have found David the son of Jesse, a man after mine own heart, which shall fulfill all my will. 23. Of THIS man's SEED has God according to his promise RAISED UP unto Israel a Savior, Jesus:”
So then, by these New Testament verses we know that the disciples of Jesus, who were eyewitnesses to the resurrection from the dead and his ascension into heaven, discerned, understood, and taught us that Jesus was the FULFILLMENT of PROPHECY. All the disciples of Jesus saw Jesus as a MAN with whom God was WITH, as in, they knew and understood and taught that God dwelt IN Jesus. And all these prophecies concerning Jesus speak of Jesus being BORN of a woman, who was in the line or lineage of King David. Even the GENEALOGY of Jesus teaches us that he is the Son of MAN as was PROPHESIED in the Old Testament.
Please read Matthew 1:1.
“The book of the GENERATION of Jesus Christ, the son of David, the son of Abraham.”
Matthew 1:2-16 is actually the genealogy of Jesus through the line of Joseph, who was NOT the biological father of Jesus, but only a guardian of his adopted son Jesus. Luke 3:23-38 gives us the genealogy of Mary, which is the actual human bloodline or seed line of Jesus all the way back to Adam the first human, who is called the son of God. This is why the genealogy in Luke differs from the genealogy recorded in Matthew. But we all know that since Joseph was NOT the biological father of Jesus and it takes TWO seeds to beget a child. So then, the SEED that was joined with the SEED of the woman which CONCEIVED the SEED of the woman to begat Jesus came FROM God Himself. BUT what does the Bible itself teach us IS the SEED of God? Certainly, we know that God did NOT have intercourse with the Virgin Mary. So then, what CONCEIVED the seed of the woman to form a fetus in the womb of Mary to be BORN as a human CHILD? What does the Bible ITSELF teach us IS the SEED of God?
Please read Luke 8:9-11.
“And his disciples asked him, saying, What might this parable be? 10. And he said, Unto you, it is given to know the mysteries of the kingdom of God: but to others in parables; that seeing they might not see, and hearing they might not understand. 11. Now the parable is this: The SEED is the WORD (Or the LOGOS) of God.”
Now we, as new creatures in Jesus Christ, are BORN of God THROUGH God’s SPOKEN word, the logos, being preached to us. And WHEN we BELIEVED the word, that spoken logos, was conceived in us, CREATING us to become God's NEW creation who will inherit the worlds to come as JOINT-HEIRS with Jesus. But we are still yet being creatures IN Jesus Christ. For you see, we are still yet being formed into the IMAGE of God's dear Son who was made in the IMAGE of his God and Father AFTER the cross. That is WHEN the Son of MAN, Jesus became the FIRSTBORN of every creature IN the IMAGE of the invisible God. And when we are made COMPLETE in the IMAGE of Jesus then we will be made in the perfect IMAGE of God. I realize that was SAY we have already been created in the image of God but that is not completely accurate. But that is another study in and of itself that will be coming soon. So for now, please understand that we are still yet BEING creating in the IMAGE of God.
Please read 1 Peter 1:23.
“Being born again, not of corruptible SEED, but of INCORRUPTIBLE (SEED), by the word (Speaking of the SPOKEN and written LOGOS) of God, which lives and abides forever.”
In other words, the gospel of TRUTH, the living and spoken word of God was preached or SPOKEN to us, and when we BELIEVED that spoken word or SAYING of God, then that spoken logos came alive in us causing us to be BORN anew as a NEW creature CREATED IN Jesus Christ. However, God is NOT yet FINISHED with us. We are still yet BEING born-again and when we are born-again from the dead to actually receive our new glorified IMMORTAL bodies THEN we will be made in the IMAGE of God. Again, what does the PROPHECY in the Old Testament teach us?
Please read Deuteronomy 18:15.
“The LORD your God will raise up unto you a Prophet from the midst of you, (Or from AMONG you) of your BRETHREN, like unto ME; (Or a human prophet like unto Moses whom we all know to be Jesus) unto HIM you shall hearken;”
Now, to ME, I do not see how any of the children of Israel were looking for a God/man being fully Almighty God and fully a human being at the same time having two natures to be their Messiah. The Jews were looking for a HUMAN MAN that God was WITH to be their Messiah. Moses was a man so the Messiah is a MAN. So to me, the doctrine of the Deity of Jesus being fully Almighty God and fully a man at the same time having TWO natures, one divine, and one human, was man's invention of a theory as to how to TRY and explain how an eternal God could DIE on the cross for our sins. The TWO nature theory was also invited by the Roman Catholic Church in the year 451 AD to try and explain away other arguments like, how could Jesus be Almighty God Himself if he did not know the time of his own return at the same time the Father did know the day and the hour of His Son's return. So those, of you who still hold to this yet unproven theory of Jesus being fully Almighty God and fully a man at the same time, claim that it was the HUMAN SIDE of Jesus who died on the cross and it was the divine side that raised himself from the dead. And it was the human side of Jesus, who did not know either the day or the hour of his return and it was his divine side who did know. All I can say to this theory is WHERE are the SCRIPTURES to prove this man-made theory? And for you who have been told that if God HIMSELF did NOT die on the cross then we are ALL still dead in our sins, because, according to the doctrine of the Trinity and the doctrine of Oneness, a MAN can NOT die for the sins of others. But yet, both doctrines argue that it was only the HUMAN nature of Jesus that DIED on the cross because the God nature of Jesus cannot die. Well, I am seeing that God HIMSELF chose a MAN to die for the sins of the world. So then, to me, the Christians who wrongly teach that Jesus is Almighty God Himself are basically REJECTING God’s WAY to save them. For you see, if it was only the HUMAN NATURE of Jesus that died on the cross then that means that a MAN died on the cross. So the TWO NATURE theory that is taught only by Trinitarian and Oneness Christians, still do not have God HIMSELF dying on the cross for their sins because they argue that ONLY the HUMAN nature of Jesu DIED on the cross. So let us stay with what the Bible ITSELF actually states as fact with no interpretation needed. For you see, the Bible itself is not confusing and is easy to comprehend if you believe that God alone and by Himself created all things by SPEAKING them into existence like the Genesis creation account clearly teaches us. We will get to the explanation of what I mean by this in a moment, but for now, let us see what PROPHECY teaches us. First of all, Jesus himself said it was the Son of MAN who died on the cross, according to John 3:14. John 8:28, and John 12:34. Let us now read 2 Samuel 7:12-14.
“And when your days be fulfilled (Speaking of King David), and you shall sleep with your fathers, I will set up your SEED after you, which shall proceed out of your bowels, and I will establish his kingdom. 13. He shall build a house for my name, (This is another hidden PROPHECY pointing to the Messiah, Jesus, building his CHURCH as a spiritual house for God to dwell in and not a house made with hands. Know you not that YOU are the temple or house of God) and I will establish the throne of his kingdom forever. 14. I WILL BE his father, and he SHALL BE my son. If he commits iniquity, I will chasten him with the rod of men, and with the stripes of the children of men:”
Some argue and say that this is not a prophecy of Jesus, but rather, it is speaking of Solomon because Jesus did not sin. What they do not discern is that many prophecies have a dual fulfillment and the last part of this prophecy is speaking of Solomon, who did sin. However, some interpret the last part of verse 14 that Jesus bore those stripes and bruises for OUR iniquities that were laid upon him. We will go to Isaiah 53 in a moment, but first, let us read the parallel account of this verse found 1 Chronicle 7:11-14.
1 Chronicle 7:11-14.
“And it shall come to pass when your days be expired (Speaking of king David) that you must go to be with your fathers, that I will raise up your SEED after you, which shall be OF YOUR sons; and I will establish his kingdom. 12. He shall build me a house, and I will establish his throne forever. 13. I WILL BE his father, and he SHALL BE my son: and I will not take my mercy away from him, as I took it from him that was before you: 14. But I will settle him in mine house and in my kingdom for ever: and his throne shall be established forevermore.”
Now, in this prophecy, we do not see any mention of anyone committing sin. We also see in verse 11 that the yet coming SEED being prophesied is NOT Solomon, because it says that the SEED shall be OF YOUR SONS speaking of the SEED coming FROM Solomon the son of King David. We will come back to these PROPHECIES that teach us that God WILL BE the Father and Jesus SHALL BE his Son in a moment, but let us first take a look at Isaiah 53:1-2 to see if Jesus was bruised FOR OUR sins that were laid upon him to bear for us.
Isaiah 53:1-12.
“Who has believed our report? and to whom is the ARM of the LORD revealed? (The ARM of Yahweh is another hidden prophecy of Jesus, the salvation of Yahweh to save the people from their sins) 2. For he SHALL grow up before him as a tender plant, and as a root out of a dry ground: he has no form nor comeliness; and when we shall see him, there is no beauty that we should desire him. (Why would God PROPHESY of his YET COMING Son if so be Jesus ALREADY pre-existed as God the Son in eternity past? Can you not see my dear brothers and sisters in our Lord Jesus Christ, that the incorrect INTERPRETATIONS of some verses in the New Testament CONTRADICT ALL the PROPHECIES in the Old Testament of God’s YET COMING Son into existence where God’s Son never existed before? It is NOT that the Scriptures themselves contradict each other. But rather, it is the INCORRECT INTERPRETATIONS of some New Testament verses that SEEM to be IMPLYING that Jesus is the creator of everything that exists that is the reason for the church doctrines of the Trinity and the Deity of Jesus pre-existing as God the Son in eternity past) 3. He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were our faces from him; he was despised, and we esteemed him not. 4. Surely he has borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows: yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted. 5. BUT he was wounded FOR OUR transgressions, he was bruised FOR OUR iniquities: the chastisement of OUR peace was upon him, and with his stripes, we are healed. 6. All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way, and the LORD has laid on him the iniquity of us all. 7. He was oppressed, and he was afflicted, yet he opened not his mouth: he is brought as a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep, before her shearers is dumb, so he opens not his mouth. 8. He was taken from prison and from judgment: and who shall declare his generation? for he was cut off out of the land of the living: for the transgression of my people was he stricken. 9. And he made his grave with the wicked, and with the rich in his death; because he had done no violence, neither was any deceit in his mouth. 10. Yet it pleased the LORD to bruise him; he has put him to grief: when you shall make his soul an offering for sin, he shall see his seed, he shall prolong his days, and the pleasure of the LORD shall prosper in his hand. 11. He shall see of the travail of his soul, and shall be satisfied: by his knowledge shall my righteous servant justify many; for he shall bear their iniquities. 12. Therefore will I divide him a portion with the great, and he shall divide the spoil with the strong; because he has poured out his soul unto death: and he was numbered with the transgressors, and he bare the sin of many, and made intercession for the transgressors.”
So then, to ME, it is clear that both passages of Scripture in 2 Samuel 7:12-14 and 1 Chronicles 7:11-14 are prophecies of Jesus where Almighty God PROPHESIES that God WILL BE his Father and Jesus SHALL BE his Son in the FUTURE sometime AFTER this word of PROPHECY was given to men of old to write down and the prophets would prophesy every time the word or logos of God was read or taught. Now to ME, simple common sense says that, if so be, Jesus already preexisted as God eternal divine Son in eternity past as some dogmatically demand that we must believe in order to be a true Christian, then God would have said, I AM his Father and he IS my Son. But that is NOT what these PROPHECIES of Jesus teach us. These prophecies teach us that God WILL BE his Father and he SHALL BE my Son.
Let us now read Hebrews 1:5.
“For unto which of the angels said he at any time, You are my Son, THIS DAY have I begotten you? And again, I WILL BE to him a Father, and he SHALL BE to me a Son?”
The writer of the book of Hebrews is quoting Psalm 2:7 which is a PROPHECY of Jesus that was yet to be fulfilled from when the prophecy was first given to be prophesied. Jesus said that the Scriptures spoke of HIM. But yet there are NO Scriptures in the Old Testament of some pre-existing God the Son coming down from heaven to MANIFEST himself in the FLESH. However, on the other side of the coin, when Jesus read this verse he knew by the Holy Spirit that this was a PROPHECY of him to be GLORIFIED to become God’s, ETERNAL Son. So I am quite sure that the Son of MAN, Jesus, declared this DECREE of himself to his God and Father in his time of prayer to the Father.
Psalm 2:7.
“I WILL declare the DECREE: the LORD has said unto me, You are my Son; THIS DAY have I begotten you.”
Now surely, anyone with eyes to see and ears to hear can clearly see that Jesus was begotten or brought into existence on a certain DAY in time. In other words, Jesus had a BEGINNING and that beginning was NOT in eternity past as God the Son or as the Son of God. But this verse ALONE and by itself does not teach us as to WHEN this day is that Jesus became God's ETERNAL Son and Almighty God became his Father. Trinitarians use John 3:16 to argue that God SENT His ONLY BEGOTTEN Son down from heaven. So, obviously, Trinitarian Christians believe that Jesus was BEGOTTEN in the eternity past. But they fail to see that the word BEGOTTEN means to be generated or brought into existence where one never existed before. The Oneness Pentecostal Christians believe that the Son of God came into existence at his Virgin BIRTH but they claim that Jesus is Yahweh Himself. The Jehovah's Witness believe that Jesus was begotten or created in the eternity past and that Jesus is NOT Almighty God Himself. And only Biblical Unitarian Christians and other Christians like myself teach that the THIS DAY that God's Son was begotten to become the ETERNAL Son of God was when God GAVE the Son of MAN the DIVINE NATURE of IMMORTALITY after the cross. So which view is the correct view? For the SOUND BIBLICAL CORRECT answer, we need only to read Acts 13:33-35.
Acts 13:33-35.
“God has FULFILLED the same unto us their children, IN THAT He has raised up Jesus again; as it is also written in the second psalm, you are my Son, THIS DAY have I begotten you. 34. And AS CONCERNING that He raised him up from the dead, now NO MORE to return to corruption, he said on this wise, I will give you the sure mercies of David. 35. Wherefore he said also in another psalm, You shall not suffer your Holy One to see corruption.”
So then, Scripture has interpreted Scripture FOR us as to WHEN Jesus BECAME the ETERNAL Son of Almighty God and it was NOT in eternity past as Orthodox Christianity wrongly teaches. The Bible ITSELF, through the word or LOGOS of PROPHECY, teaches us that the “WHEN” that the prophesied “THIS DAY” was fulfilled and Jesus BECAME God's ETERNAL Son never to see corruption or death ever again, was on the very DAY that God raised up the Son of MAN from the dead and GAVE the Son of MAN eternal life BECAUSE he was the Son of MAN.
Please read John 5:22-27.
“For the Father judges NO man, but has COMMITTED ALL judgment unto the Son: 23. That (Or so that) all men should honor the Son, even as they honor the Father. He that honors not the Son honors not the Father which has sent him. 24. Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that hears my word, and believes on him that sent me, has everlasting life, and shall not come into condemnation; but is passed from death unto life. 25. Verily, verily, I say unto you, The hour is coming and now is, when the dead shall hear the voice of the Son of God: and they that hear shall live. 26. FOR (Or BECAUSE or the REASON of WHY the Son of MAN will be able to give eternal life is BECAUSE) AS the Father HAS life in himself (As in, the eternal invisible Spirit has ALWAYS possessed immortality in himself); SO HAS HE GIVEN TO the Son (Speaking of the Son of MAN AFTER the CROSS) TO HAVE life IN himself; (Speaking of the DIVINE NATURE of IMMORTALITY that is PROMISED to the faithful Christians as well in the world to come. Now, if so be that Jesus always pre-existed as the ALREADY ETERNAL God the Son in eternity past then WHY would the Father need to GIVE eternal life to God the Son who already had eternal life? The very next verse PROVES beyond any shadow of a doubt that Yahweh the Father gave eternal life to the Son of MAN BECAUSE he was the SON OF MAN) 27. AND (Or and also for the same reason that the Father gave the Son of man eternal life) has given him authority to execute judgment ALSO, BECAUSE he is the Son of MAN.”
Now some Christians still CLINGING to the Roman Catholic Church teaching of a pre-existing God the Son in eternity past still try and argue that the Son was given eternal life in eternity past. But this is NOT what PROPHECY teaches us as we have just seen in Acts 13:33-35 where THIS DAY that Jesus was BEGOTTEN was the very day that Jesus was RESURRECTED from the dead NEVER TO DIE again. So then, in order for the MORTAL Son of man to never die AGAIN then he must have been GIVEN immortality AFTER he was resurrected from the dead. If you remember the conversation that Jesus had with Mary Magdalene right after Jesus, the Son of MAN was raised from the dead he specifically told Mary Magdalene NOT to TOUCH him. And he gave her and us the REASON of WHY he did NOT want Mary Magdalene to TOUCH him.
Let us read John 20:17,18.
“Jesus said unto her, TOUCH ME NOT; FOR (Or BECAUSE) I am NOT YET ASCENDED to my Father: but go to my brethren, and say unto them, I ascend unto my Father, and your Father; and to my God, and your God. 18. Mary Magdalene came and told the disciples that she had seen the Lord and that he had spoken these things unto her.”
Then later that same evening Jesus appeared to his disciples.
Please read John 20:19,20.
“Then the same day at evening, being the first day of the week, when the doors were shut where the disciples were assembled for fear of the Jews, came Jesus and stood in the midst, and said unto them, Peace be unto you. 20. And when he had so said, he showed unto them his hands and his side. Then were the disciples glad, when they saw the Lord.”
This is WHEN the Apostles of Jesus HANDLED the Word of LIFE in 1 John 1:2. In other words, this was when the Apostles of Jesus handle the glorified Jesus who was made ALIVE by the word of Almighty God to never die again. This was WHEN the disciples of Jesus beheld Jesus as the ONLY BEGOTTEN of the Father in John 1:14. Now, we are not actually told here in the gospel of John 20:20 that Jesus told his disciples to touch or HANDLE him, but in Luke 24:36-44, we clearly see that Jesus is telling them to look at his hands and his feet saying HANDLE ME or TOUCH ME to prove to yourself that I am NOT a SPIRIT for a SPIRIT has NOT FLESH and BONES as you see me have.
Please read Luke 24:36-44.
“And as they, thus spake, Jesus himself stood in the midst of them, and saith unto them, Peace be unto you. 37. But they were terrified and frightened, and supposed that they had seen a spirit. 38. And he said unto them, Why are you troubled? and why do thoughts arise in your hearts? 39. Behold my hands and my feet, that it is I myself: HANDLE ME, and see; for a spirit has not flesh and bones, as you see me have. 40. And when he had thus spoken, he showed them his hands and his feet. 41. And while they yet believed not for joy, and wondered, he said unto them, Have you here any meat? 42. And they gave him a piece of a broiled fish, and of a honeycomb. 43. And he took it, and did eat before them. 44. And he said unto them, These are the words which I spake unto you, while I was yet with you, that all things must be fulfilled, which were written in the law of Moses, and in the prophets, and in the psalms, concerning me.”
So then, from the time that Jesus spoke to Mary Magdalene saying TOUCH me NOT because I have NOT YET ASCENDED to my Father to the time that he appeared the SAME day in the evening to his disciples saying HANDLE ME, or TOUCH me and see for yourselves that I am ALIVE forevermore, Jesus ASCENDED to his God and Father to be GIVEN ETERNAL LIFE and ALL POWER to BECOME God the Son AFTER the CROSS. And then God the Son descended back down from heaven to show himself ALIVE forevermore never to die again by many infallible proofs for forty days before he ascended back into heaven a second time.
Another proof of Jesus BECOMING God the Son AFTER the cross is in Matthew 28:18 where the GLORIFIED Son of MAN, Jesus, was GIVEN all power.
Please read Matthew 28:18.
“And Jesus came and spoke unto them, saying, All power is GIVEN unto me in heaven and in the earth.”
Jesus spoke these words AFTER his resurrection. So then, Jesus was GIVEN TWO things when he ascended into heaven right after saying to Mary Magdalene do NOT TOUCH me because I have NOT YET ASCENDED to my Father. And then we are clearly and plainly told in John 5:22-27 WHAT TWO things were given to the Son of MAN after he was resurrected and ascended to his Father. And we are told the REASON of WHY Jesus was given these TWO things, which is BECAUSE Jesus was the Son of MAN. NOT because Jesus was Almighty God himself. And not even because Jesus was the Son of God. But rather, it was BECAUSE Jesus was the Son of MAN. Please read John 5:22-27 again.
“For the Father judges NO man, but has COMMITTED ALL judgment unto the Son: 23. That (Or so that) all men should honor the Son, even as they honor the Father. He that honors not the Son honors not the Father which has sent him. 24. Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that hears my word, and believes on him that sent me, has everlasting life, and shall not come into condemnation; but is passed from death unto life. 25. Verily, verily, I say unto you, The hour is coming and now is, when the dead shall hear the voice of the Son of God: and they that hear shall live. 26. FOR (Or BECAUSE or the REASON of WHY the Son of MAN will be able to give eternal life is BECAUSE) AS the Father HAS life in himself (As in, the eternal invisible Spirit has ALWAYS possessed immortality in himself); SO HAS HE GIVEN TO the Son (Speaking of the Son of MAN AFTER the CROSS) TO HAVE life IN himself; (Speaking of the DIVINE NATURE of IMMORTALITY that is PROMISED to the faithful Christians as well in the world to come. Now, if so be that Jesus always pre-existed as the ALREADY ETERNAL God the Son in eternity past then WHY would the Father need to GIVE eternal life to an already eternal God the Son who already had eternal life? The very next verse PROVES beyond any shadow of a doubt that Yahweh the Father gave eternal life to the Son of MAN BECAUSE he was the SON OF MAN) 27. AND (Or and also for the same reason that the Father gave the Son of man eternal life) has given him authority to execute judgment ALSO BECAUSE he is the Son of MAN.”
Now, you can try to reason AWAY the clear, plain, and simple word of God that teaches us in SIMPLICITY with NO interpretation needed that Jesus was BEGOTTEN of the Father on the DAY that God resurrected his Son and GAVE the Son of MAN eternal life never to die again to BECOME God’s, ETERNAL Son. But if you do then you create yet another CONTRADICTION between your own personal private INTERPRETATION and the clear word of God which plainly states in 1 Timothy 6:13-16 that there was only ONE in heaven, who has always possessed IMMORTALITY in himself. And that ONE is the INVISIBLE God, which the Bible itself ALWAYS identifies as being the FATHER. And clearly, Jesus is NOT the FATHER.
1 Timothy 6:13-16.
“I give you charge in the sight of God, who quickens all things, AND before Christ Jesus, who before Pontius Pilate witnessed a good confession; 14. That you keep this commandment (Or that you keep this teaching) WITHOUT SPOT, unrebukeable, until the appearing of our Lord Jesus Christ: 15. Which in his times (Speaking of both the first and second comings of Jesus) he shall show, WHO is the blessed and ONLY Potentate (Meaning the ONLY Almighty Sovereign God), the King of kings, and Lord of lords; 16. WHO ONLY HAS IMMORTALITY, dwelling in the light which NO MAN can approach unto; WHOM NO MAN has seen, NOR CAN SEE: to whom be honor and power everlasting. Amen.”
Clearly, the Scriptures teach us that Jesus came to show us the FATHER. Clearly, men have SEEN Jesus and will see him at his second coming. So then, the WHO being spoken of in this verse that Jesus came to SHOW us, is the FATHER who ONLY has always had IMMORTALITY in him as the SOURCE of all life. Now, if so be, that one INTERPRETS that Jesus preexisted as God's eternal divine Son in eternity past WITH the God AT his SIDE and that the Son of God was GIVEN immortality in eternity past, as some claim, then that would make TWO eternal divine beings in eternity past, which CONTRADICTS 1 Timothy 6:13-16 that we just read where ONLY the one true invisible God, whom no man has seen nor can see has immortality. Another reason why I myself believe that Jesus preexisted WITHIN the God and NOT WITH God AT his SIDE is that I already believe that everything that is created was created by Yahweh alone and by himself when he SPOKE his creations into existed where BEFORE he created them they only existed in his THOUGHTS WITHIN himself as his desire to bring them forth into existence.
Please read Genesis 1:3.
“And God said, Let there be light: and there was light.”
Pretty simple to understand and believe the Yahweh SPEAKS words out from His MOUTH and those words of prophecy come to pass. Almost every Christian ALREADY believes this SIMPLE truth. God first desired light within Himself as His thoughts, for light to come into existence. God painted a picture in His mind as an IMAGE of what He desired the light to be like first and then God SPOKE the IMAGE of light that He had within Himself in His MIND into existence where THAT light never existed before except WITHIN the God as His THOUGHTS and desire for light to be brought forth into existence. In other words, the word or the LOGOS was WITHIN God in the form of His yet unspoken THOUGHTS of light to be. But there was no light with the God UNTIL God SPOKE forth His LOGOS, His word, His SAYING out from His mouth.
Let us read Isaiah 55:8-11.
“For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, says the LORD. 9. For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts. 10. For as the rain comes down, and the snow from heaven, and returns not thither, but waters the earth, and makes it bring forth and bud, that it may give seed to the sower, and bread to the eater: 11. So shall my word be that goes forth out of my mouth: it (My spoken word or logos coming forth out from my mouth and NOT out of the so-called God the Son’s mouth. Yahweh is the one speaking of His OWN spoken word of PROPHECY that came forth OUT FROM His OWN MOUTH. The word in John 1:1 is NOT a person who spoke himself into existence. The word is Yahweh OWN spoken word that Yahweh spoken as PROPHECY and that word of PROPHECY) shall not return unto me void, but it (My spoken word coming forth out from my mouth) shall accomplish that which I please, and it (My spoken word or logos coming forth out from my mouth) shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it (My spoken word or logos coming forth out from my mouth).”
Now let us read John 1:1 from the LITERAL translation.
“In original was the SAYING and the SAYING was toward the God and God was the SAYING.”
Now let us compare this with Genesis 1:3 by using similar wording as we find in John 1:1.
“In original was the SAYING and the SAYING was toward the God and LIGHT was the SAYING.”
In other words, the SAYING or the logos coming forth out of the mouth of God in Genesis 1:3 was LIGHT BE. And then AFTER God SPOKE the desire that was WITHIN himself SAYING, LIGHT be, then the spoken logos, the word, the SPIRIT, brought light into existence where light never existed before except within the God as his THOUGHTS and desires to one day create LIGHT. In other words, the living word, the living SPIRIT became light. Jesus spoke the words of God and Jesus said that the words he spoke to us are SPIRIT. He went on to teach us that the Spirit quickens or makes alive, and that His words are life, meaning that the word Jesus spoke were not his own words. God's word is ALIVE. Spirit is LIVING, but more than just being alive, Spirit is the SOURCE of all life. And THE God is SPIRIT.
John 6:63.
“It is the SPIRIT that quickens; the flesh profits nothing: the words that I speak unto you, they are SPIRIT, and they are LIFE.”
So then, in the VERY VERY beginning in the eternity past before God created anything, God was alone by Himself with no one with Him at His side. God was alone with only His THOUGHTS WITHIN Himself. And then when God brought forth His very first creation, in the very beginning in the eternity past, was the SAYING and the SAYING was with THE God. The SAYING is the ALPHABET of God. I Hebrew, the word is Aleph and Tave, the first and the last letters of the Hebrew alphabet. In Greek, the word is Alpha and Omega the first and the last, the beginning and the ending of the Greek alphabet. And at ANOTHER beginning AFTER Lucifer and the fallen angels rebelled against God to bring DARKNESS, God's word, the Aleph and the Tav, the SAYING of God was LIGHT or LIGHT was the SAYING. And the word BECAME LIGHT. But the PROPHECY referring to God's yet future Son becoming light did not come to pass until the baptism of Jesus which is the BEGINNING of the ministry of Jesus to be the LIGHT of the world. Now, go back to John 1:1 and read it as PROPHECY so you can SEE this SAME thing happening in John 1:1 that took place in Genesis 1:3. And God SAID, God, BE as PROPHECY just like He said LIGHT BE and the word became a God. But before the word became a God AFTER the cross the word became FLESH. And then the Son of MAN was ANOINTED at his baptism to begin another BEGINNING, the beginning of his ministry that he is the Christ. the one prophesied to BE. The spoken logos did not become THE Almighty God Himself. But rather, THE Almighty God SPOKE forth His own logos or His OWN word from out of His own mouth and the SPIRIT, the living SAYING of THE Almighty God, was fulfilled as “A” God who was brought into existence where he never existed before except WITHIN the God as an IMAGE within Himself to one day beget an eternal Son to rule as Elohim or as God FOR Him in the world to come. For you see, Yahweh the creator will rests DURING the SEVENTH day, the seventh 1000 year-long day of the Lord where Jesus is the Lord of the SABBATH rest of Yahweh, his God, and Father. Now, I know that there are several verses that SEEM to be saying that Jesus came down from heaven, but I assure you that ALL of those verses can be INTERPRETED in another way that agrees with the WHOLE word of God without any contradictions. And I will cover each and every one of those verses at the end of this study. In other words, there is NO need to fabricate a doctrine that has absolutely NO Scripture to support it. This fabricated man-made doctrine that I am referring to is the doctrine of the Deity of Jesus, which dogmatically demands that Jesus had to have TWO natures, one divine and one human to explain how an ETERNAL divine being could die on the cross. But yet they give NO Scriptures to even try to prove their man-made doctrine. They simply dogmatically demand that you believe it because they said so. They say it is a MYSTERY and we just have to believe it even if it makes no sense to us. And some even make it a matter of SALVATION saying that you are dead in your sins if you do NOT believe that Jesus is Deity now after his resurrection, that Jesus was Deity DURING the days of his FLESH, and that Jesus has always been Deity in eternity past, PRE-EXISTING as the LITERAL ETERNAL God the Son who came down from heaven to incarnate himself to become flesh but yet REMAINING the ETERNAL divine God the Son having TWO natures, one divine, and one human. Now, I myself believe and teach that Jesus is Deity NOW AFTER the cross and his resurrection. In other words, I believe that the Bible teaches us the Jesus BECAME Deity when his God and Father HIGHLY EXALTED the Son of MAN as his reward by GIVING him all power and the divine nature of IMMORTALITY to rule FOR Yahweh his God and Father for 1000 years in the world to come. Yahweh’s sound Biblical truth was all MANIFESTLY DECLARED right in the Scriptures PROPHESYING the END FROM the BEGINNING. It is so easy to see and so easy to comprehend to those Christians who are willing to lay aside their church denominational teaching of Jesus being a God/man being fully divine and fully human during the days of his flesh at the same time. For you see, IF Oneness and Trinitarian Christians would TRULY lay aside their belief long enough to allow the Holy Spirit to teach them the truth of the whole word of God then they would clearly see that Jesus is “A” God whom Yahweh Himself MADE to become a God under and subject to Himself to rule FOR Yahweh in the world to come for 1000 years and then commit the kingdom back into his God and Father's hands. Again, let us STAY with what the Bible ITSELF teaches us through PROPHECY. Let us read some more prophecy to see HOW Jesus came into being.
Please read Isaiah 7:14-16.
“Therefore the Lord himself shall give you a SIGN; Behold, a virgin shall conceive, and bear a son, and shall call his NAME Immanuel. (Which is interpreted as God WITH us. And that simply means that God was WITH Jesus by dwelling IN Jesus. And it was the Father dwelling IN the Son of MAN who did the works that same way that the Holy Spirit IN us who does the works) 15. Butter and honey shall he eat, that (Or so that) he may know to refuse the evil and choose the good. (Showing us that the Son of man would learn from God's word to know to refuse evil and choose only good and that Jesus has a free will or his own will) 16. For before the child shall know to refuse the evil, and choose the good, (This shows us that Jesus LEARNED the word of God before God anointed him to preach the kingdom was at hand) the land that you abhor shall be forsaken of both her kings.”
Again, the last part was part of a dual prophecy that was fulfilled before Jesus was conceived in the womb of the Virgin Mary. God HID these prophecies for a reason, for had the enemy known who Jesus was and WHY the Son of MAN must suffer and die they would have never crucified the Lord of glory. Here we see that Jesus would be a SIGN and that one way to recognize the SIGN of the Messiah was that he would be born of a VIRGIN, who did not know, as is, have intercourse with, any man, but yet a child would be CONCEIVED in her womb without knowing any man. Let us go ahead and read another prophecy to see the ORDER of the event in which the prophecy is prophesied to be fulfilled.
Please read Isaiah 9:6,7.
“For (Order of event #1 that has already been FULFILLED) unto us a CHILD is BORN, (THEN comes Order of event #2 that has also already been FULFILLED) unto us a son is given: and (And THEN Order of event #3 is YET FUTURE and it is YET TO BE FULFILLED) the government shall be upon his shoulder: and (And THEN will come Order of event #4 is YET FUTURE and it is YET TO BE FULFILLED WHEN the government will be set upon the shoulder of Jesus IN the world to come) his name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace. I7. Of the increase of his government and peace there shall be no end, upon the throne of David, and upon his kingdom, to order it, and to establish it with judgment and with justice from henceforth even forever. The zeal of the LORD of hosts will perform this.”
Now, most all Christians understand that the word of God prophesies of TWO comings of Jesus, his FIRST coming to suffer and die on the cross and be resurrected from the dead, and his SECOND coming to rule and reign for 1000 years in the world yet to come. But what some Christians have not seen as yet is that this prophecy of Jesus teaches us that FIRST a CHILD will be BORN. This was fulfilled in Luke 1:26-45, which we will read in a moment. THEN Isaiah says that after the CHILD is BORN, then a SON would be GIVEN. And then AFTER the Son is GIVEN the Son will reign, but we know that this has not been fulfilled and will not be fulfilled until the SECOND coming of Jesus. So then, at the first coming of Jesus, a CHILD was born FIRST, who would become to be called the Son of God, and then a SON is GIVEN.
Now let us read Luke 1:26-45.
“And in the sixth month, the angel Gabriel was sent from God unto a city of Galilee, named Nazareth, 27. TO a virgin espoused to a man whose name was Joseph, of the house of David; and the virgin's name was Mary. (Here we see that God sent the MESSENGER Gabriel the angel to the VIRGIN Mary with a MESSAGE) 28. And the angel came in unto her, and SAID (Or the messenger which was sent down from heaven from God SPOKE God's MESSAGE to the Virgin Mary), Hail, you that are highly favored, the Lord is with you: blessed are you among women. 29. And when she saw him, she was troubled at his SAYING and cast in her mind what manner of salutation this should be. 30. And the angel SAID unto her, Fear not, Mary: for YOU have found favor with God. (Or the messenger of God SPOKE God's word of logos TO the virgin Mary, SAYING or PROPHESYING) 31. And, behold, YOU SHALL CONCEIVE IN YOUR WOMB, and bring forth a SON, (Or God’s PROPHECY of a CHILD being BORN to a virgin is being PROPHESIED to the Virgin Mary identifying her AS that chosen woman to FULFILL the prophecy of a male CHILD being BORN) and shall call his name JESUS. (This teaches us that the FIRST part of the prophecy of Isaiah 9:6 of a CHILD being BORN is being fulfilled by being prophesied directly TO the virgin that God chose to be the one to give birth to the one PROPHESIED to come INTO existence) 32. He SHALL BE great and SHALL BE called the Son of the Highest: (Here we see the second part of Isaiah 9:6 being PROPHESIED again showing us that this male child will grow up to be great and then he shall be called the Son of the Highest or the Son of God) AND the Lord God shall GIVE unto him the throne of his father David: (Then after we see that Jesus will be in the future called the Son of God, we see the remainder of the prophecy of Isaiah 9:6,7 being prophesied again.) 33. And he SHALL reign over the house of Jacob forever; and of his kingdom, there shall be no end. 34. Then said Mary unto the angel, How shall this be, seeing I know not a man? 35. And the angel answered and said unto her, The Holy Ghost SHALL COME upon you, and the POWER of the Highest SHALL overshadow you:(In other words, Yahweh shall PERFORM his spoken word of PROPHECY through His POWER), therefore, (Or for this very REASON of Yahweh PERFORMING His word of PROPHECY) also that holy THING which SHALL BE BORN of you SHALL BE called the Son of God. (So then, here we clearly see that the CHILD must be BORN of the virgin FIRST before the child will grow up and become great and be called the SON OF God. And then AFTER the child is grown and is called the SON OF God, then God will give his Son power and authority to rule in his Father's kingdom, which is yet to be fulfilled. Remember that the words of God are SPIRIT that gives LIFE. So the SEED of God implanted in the womb of Mary was God's SPOKEN LOGOS, which Mary then BELIEVED. And once Mary BELIEVED that spoken LOGOS was CONCEIVED in her womb to produce a male embryo, that holy THING, which would be BORN as a human child, the Son of MAN, who would grow up to become great and then be called the SON OF God. Yahweh PERFORMED His own spoken word of prophecy by His own Holy Spirit overshadowing Mary. I see the overshadowing of the Holy Spirit as being God's presence covering the Virgin Mary and God's power in His PRESENCE generated the fetus in the womb of the Virgin Mary. There is no way that any Christian can see a God the Son coming down from heaven to enter into the womb of Mary in this RECORD of Luke of what actually happened. And one would have to really read into this actual account of what really happened to say that God Himself manifested Himself in the womb of Mary for an Almighty God Himself to be BORN of a woman) 36. And, behold, your cousin Elisabeth, she has also conceived a son in her old age: and this is the sixth month with her, who was called barren. 37. For with God nothing SHALL BE impossible. (The messenger of God is building Mary's FAITH) 38. And Mary said, Behold the handmaid of the Lord; BE IT unto me ACCORDING to your word. And the angel departed from her. (Once the angel saw Mary's FAITH by her CONFESSING, Let it be according as you have SPOKEN, then he departed. It does NOT say that the angel Gabriel enter into the womb. No, the angel BROUGHT the spoke word of PROPHECY and then Yahweh performed His word of PROPHECY, and the word of PROPHECY was made flesh FIRST and then some more of the PROPHECY was fulfilled at the baptism of Jesus being MADE the Christ. And AFTER the cross some more of the PROPHECY was fulfilled which is when the Son of man was highly exalted to be MADE Lord. And in the word yet to come the rest of PROPHECY will be fulfilled where Jesus will rule as the God of the whole earth IN the NAME OF Yahweh FOR Yahweh in the world to come) 39. And Mary arose in those days, and went into the hill country with haste, into a city of Judah; 40. And entered into the house of Zacharias, and saluted Elisabeth. 41. And it came to pass, that, when Elisabeth heard the salutation of Mary, the babe leaped in her womb; and Elisabeth was filled with the Holy Ghost: 42. And she spoke out with a loud voice (Being under the anointing of the Holy Spirit), and said, Blessed are you among women, and blessed is the fruit of your womb. 43. And whence is this to me, that the mother of my Lord should come to me? (Please notice my dear Catholic brothers and sisters in our Lord Jesus Christ that this verse is NOT saying that the Virgin Mary is the mother of THE one true and only Almighty God himself, but rather, this verse is saying that Mary is the mother of our Lord and Savior Jesus the CHRIST, the one who was PROPHESIED to be ANOINTED by Almighty God in the fullness of time. The Bible itself in 1 Corinthians 8:6 CLEARLY teaches us that to us as Christians there is but ONE God who IS the Father and God OF Jesus. And the Bible goes on to say that to us there is also one Lord Jesus Christ. Then in Acts 2:26, we learn that Yahweh the Father is the one who PERFORMED His own word of prophecy saying that God MADE Jesus BOTH Lord and Christ. The word Christ means Messiah and ANOINTED. So when you read the words Jesus Christ it means the Son of MAN named Jesus is the one that Yahweh prophesied to be the one whom He chose out from among his people to be ANOINTED with Yahweh’s own Holy Spirit and POWER to be the Messiah who was prophesied to bear the sins of the world) 44. For, lo, as soon as the voice of your salutation sounded in mine ears, the babe leaped in my womb for joy. 45. And blessed is she that BELIEVED: for (Or BECAUSE you have BELIEVED God's LOGOS, His SPOKEN word of prophecy from God’s angel and you have submitted your womb and your life to bearing and raising God’s chosen Messiah) there shall be a PERFORMANCE of those things which were TOLD (Or the LOGOS of Yahweh SPOKEN to) her FROM the Lord.”
So then, Luke 1:26-45 is the FULFILLMENT of HOW the prophecies ACTUALLY came to pass. In other words, Luke 1:26-45 is HOW the word in John 1:1 was MADE flesh and dwelt among men. This is HOW the LOGOS, the spoken word, the SAYING of God came out from God's mouth and CAME DOWN from heaven to BECOME FLESH and dwell among men. This TRUTH is SIMPLE and very easy to understand. There is no need for some so-called MYSTERY to be attached to the TRUTH saying that you cannot understand how God the Son came down from heaven and incarnated himself to become flesh and yet remain fully God at the same time having two natures, one divine, and one human because it is a MYSTERY. And, therefore, you just have to BLINDLY believe this great MYSTERY lest you remain dead in your sins NO! We do not have to believe that Jesus pre-existed in eternity past as God the Son who came down from heaven and incarnated himself to be the Son of God in order to be SAVED. In other words, if you can believe that God alone and by himself creates everything by or through his SPOKEN word, his SAYING, his speech coming out from his mouth, then you can easily believe that God SPOKE his Son into existence in the womb of the Virgin Mary to be BORN a male human CHILD void of any divine nature, who would grow up to become great after he was ANOINTED with God's Holy Spirit DWELLING IN him and then be called the SON OF God. . Let us read Isaiah 44:24-28.
“Thus says the LORD, your redeemer, and He that formed YOU from the WOMB, I am the LORD that makes ALL things; that stretches forth the heavens ALONE; that spreads abroad the earth BY MYSELF; 25. That frustrates the tokens of the LIARS, (Or more precisely, verse 24 which CLEARLY teaches us that NO one was WITH Yahweh when He ALONE and by himself created all things FRUSTRATES, breaks up, and dissolves that which appears as being proof or evidence of LIARS) and makes diviners mad; (One of the meanings diviners is those who speak the OPPOSITE of God's word of truth. The word mad means to BOAST, and thus, the DISTRIBUTERS of the LIES are shown to be foolish) that turns wise men backward, and makes their knowledge foolish; (Again, verse 24 is that SOUND Biblical teaching that turns away the so-called wise of Orthodox Christianity who boasts their lies of a Trinity God and proves their knowledge to be foolish) 26. That confirms the word of His servant, (In other words, the ONE Yahweh in ONE person confirms the word of His SERVANT, Jesus, who Yahweh formed in the WOMB of the Virgin Mary. Yahweh is the one true God one person who ALONE that confirms His word of prophecy) and PERFORMS the counsel of His messengers; (The Hebrew word translated as “counsel” also means PLAN. In other words, Yahweh PERFORMS His prophesied PLAN of salvation through His messengers) that SAID (And continue to believe and say) to Jerusalem, (Yahweh’s word of PROPHECY) You shall be inhabited; and to the cities of Judah, You shall be built, and I will raise up the decayed places thereof: 27. That said to the deep, Be dry, and I will dry up your rivers: 28. That said of Cyrus, He is my shepherd, and shall perform all my pleasure: even saying to (Or PROPHESYING over) Jerusalem, You shall be built; and to the temple, Your foundation shall be laid.”
Some Christians highly esteem what their church denomination teaches them OVER what the clear, plain, and SIMPLE word of God teaches us. In other words, they are teaching LIES thinking and even sincerely believing that they are teaching the truth. For example, some Christians teach that Jesus himself created all things totally ignoring Isaiah 44:24 and thus dogmatically demand that Jesus IS Yahweh himself. I myself believe that verses 25-28 above is a prophesy speaking of those Christians, who twist God's word to make it say things that it is NOT TRULY saying. All the verses in the New Testament that SEEM to be saying that Jesus created all things have a logical interpretation that does NOT contradict Isaiah 44:24. Please read the study “EPHESIANS 3:9-11 DID JESUS CREATE ALL THINGS?”. In this study, I cover ALL the verses like Colossians 1:15-17 that SEEM to be saying that Jesus himself is the creator of all things. In fact, I implore you to read all the studies under the two headings >>>IS JESUS THE CREATOR?<<< and >>>WAS JESUS CREATED?<<< But for now, let us get back to the PROPHECIES of Jesus to see how he grew up and became great.
Please read Isaiah 50:4-7.
“The Lord GOD has given me the tongue of the learned, that I should know how to speak a word in season to him that is weary: he wakens morning by morning, (The Holy Spirit speaks to me in the early morning hours when I first wake up so I can see how Jesus growing up and even after he was anointed was awakened every morning and the Holy Spirit taught him the Scriptures and how the logos spoke of him) He wakens my ear to hear as the learned. 5. The Lord GOD has opened my ear, and I was not rebellious, neither turned away back. 6. I gave my back to the smiters, and my cheeks to them that plucked off the hair: I hid not my face from shame and spitting. 7. For the Lord GOD will HELP me; therefore shall I not be confounded: therefore have I set my face like a flint, and I know that I shall not be ashamed.”
How did the Son of MAN, Jesus, KNOW that Yahweh would HELP him and that he would not be ashamed. Jesus knew that the Scripture testified of him as being God’s chosen Messiah because God woke him up every morning and TAUGHT him the Scriptures that he would be God’s servant, God’s messenger, God’s prophet, God’s Lamb slain in God’s mind before the foundation of the world to become God’s Savior of the world to whosoever BELIEVES in Jesus as the atonement for their sins. Then in Luke 2:40, we read where God is fulfilling this prophecy of Jesus.
Luke 2:40.
“And the child grew, and waxed (Or grew) strong in spirit, filled with wisdom: and the grace of God was upon him.”
This was spoken of Jesus somewhere between that time he was circumcised to the time he was 12 years old. We are not specifically told anything in the New Testament of what took place in the life of Jesus between the time he was twelve years old to the time of his baptism around the age of thirty. But we can assume that he continued to grow even stronger in spirit being filled with more and more wisdom of God as the Holy Spirit awakened him each morning after morning talking to him showing him that the Scriptures spoke of him. Let us now read the prophecy of Jesus being ANOINTED by God and then we will read it's fulfillment.
Please read Isaiah 42:1-9.
“Behold my servant, whom I uphold; mine elect (Or I will HELP my chosen one), in whom my soul delights; I have put my spirit upon him: he shall bring forth judgment to the Gentiles. 2. He shall not cry, nor lift up, nor cause his voice to be heard in the street. 3. A bruised reed shall he not break, and the smoking flax shall he not quench: he shall bring forth judgment unto truth. 4. He shall not fail nor be discouraged, till he has set judgment in the earth: and the isles shall wait for his law. 5. Thus says God the LORD, He that created the heavens, and stretched them out; he that spread forth the earth, and that which comes out of it; He that gives breath unto the people upon it, and (He that GIVES) spirit to them that walk therein: 6. I the LORD have called YOU in righteousness, and will HOLD your hand, and will KEEP you, and GIVE YOU for a covenant of the people, for a light of the Gentiles; (Here we see the PROPHECY of CHILD now grown and ANOINTED with God's Spirit who is now GIVEN to the people, as in, these parts of prophecy have already been FULFILLED in Jesus who first was ANOINTED or EMPOWERED by Yahweh to preach the kingdom of God is at hand. Then THROUGH the anointing power of the eternal Spirit that Son of MAN, Jesus, suffered and died on the cross for our sins so that whosoever BELIEVES might be saved. The latter part of this prophecy is yet being fulfilled by the BODY of Jesus the Christ, the anointed one of God. Jesus himself preached to the Jews, but the words of the gospel of Jesus Christ are a light unto to the Jews and the Gentiles) 7. To open the blind eyes, to bring out the prisoners from the prison, and them that sit in darkness out of the prison house. 8. I am the LORD: that is my name: (Or more precisely, THAT ONE whom I will ANOINT is my NAME or the one coming IN my name) and my glory will I not give to another, neither my praise to graven images. (Here we see that God will not share his glory with any other than his elect one, his Son Jesus, the one prophesied to come in Yahweh’s NAME) 9. Behold, the FORMER THINGS are come to pass, and NEW THINGS do I declare: BEFORE they spring forth I tell you of them.”
So then, BEFORE God ever had a SON, God prophesied that His Son would spring forth into existence. Here we see God PROPHESYING that things are about to change from the way they used to be. The FORMER things will come to an end because I Yahweh am about to do NEW THINGS that I have not done in the former things. And one of those NEW things is that I am going to share my glory with the one whom I will choose. He SHALL BE my SON and I WILL BE to him a Father. I will highly exalt my Son to become a God to rule for me at my right-hand side. God had never said to any of His previous creation of the angels to sit on His throne at His right-hand side having ONLY Yahweh ABOVE him. Also, never before had the Holy Spirit ever REMAINED upon, nor DWELT IN any man before the Son of man, Jesus. So this as well is a NEW thing. Now let us read in Luke 4:14-21 where Jesus reads this passage of Scripture from Isaiah saying in the ears of those who heard him, this day is this Scripture FULFILLED in your ears. Luke 4:14-21.
“And Jesus returned in the power of the Spirit into Galilee: (Jesus just return after being baptized by John the Baptist and the Holy Spirit descended down from heaven and remained upon Jesus) and there went out a fame of him through all the region round about. (Shortly after this time, Jesus became great and his fame spread rapidly) 15. And he taught in their synagogues, being glorified of all. 16. And he came to Nazareth, where he had been brought up: and, as his custom was, he went into the synagogue on the Sabbath day, and stood up for to read. 17. And there was delivered unto him the book of the prophet Isaiah. And when he had opened the book, he found the place where it was written, (Or PROPHESIED) 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 (Or he has COMMISSIONED me which means that Yahweh EMPOWERED Jesus with the Holy Spirit dwelling in him) to heal the brokenhearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised, 19. To preach the acceptable year of the Lord. 20. And he closed the book, and he gave it again to the minister and sat down. And the eyes of all them that were in the synagogue were fastened on him. 21. And he began to say unto them, This day is this Scripture FULFILLED in your ears.”
This was the BEGINNING of the ministry of Jesus when Jesus BEGAN to expound and reveal little by little that he is the Messiah who was PROPHESIED to be raised up from among the children of Israel. And in all that Jesus said he never once called himself Almighty God. He never once said that he was equal with God. He never once said he pre-existed with the Almighty God at his side. And Jesus never once said that he was a God/man being fully God and a human being at the same time having two natures, one divine, and one human. In fact, the Scriptures prove just the OPPOSITE of those man-made Roman Catholic Church doctrines that spilled over into Orthodox Protestant Christianity that is being PARROTED even unto this day in Trinitarian and Oneness churches. All the prophecies of Jesus never once prophesy of God the Son coming down from heaven to manifest himself to become a human being but yet remain the fully divine Son of God having two natures one divine and one human. The clear plain and simple word of God states that the word, the LOGOS, the SAYING BECAME FLESH in John 1:14. Here is the LITERAL translation of John 1:14. “And the SAYING flesh became...”
Now, I myself say that John 1:14 simply means exactly what it says, which is the “LOGOS” the SPOKEN word of prophecy or the SAYING of God became flesh and NOT that God the Son came down from heaven and became a God/man having two natures as some Christians INTERPRET John 1:14 to mean. Again, as for all the verses that SEEM to say that Jesus came down from heaven or preexisted with God at his side they all can be interpreted in other ways, which do NOT contradict any other part of God's word. Please read the following studies that explain the ERRORS of interpretation of those verses in question. Below is a list of all the verses that I myself have been made aware of by others, who struggle with these verses only being able to see what they have been TAUGHT by their church denomination that these verses must without fail mean. Now some of these verses will be in the blue type being underline, which are LINKS to in-depth studies. Each link is a study on that particular verse. If there are no links within a study, then at the very end I will briefly expound on another meaning of those verses and give a master link such as the one below that has ALL the links to all my studies on that particular subject. This makes it easy for you to send just ONE link to someone with whom you are sharing the truth of the whole word of God. All I ask is that you KEEP the above study, which you just read in your mind as you read, what I myself believe are the correct interpretations of all the verses that SEEM to be saying that Jesus came down from heaven or pre-existed in heaven WITH God AT his SIDE for all the eternity past. Thanks for reading and may God bless you richly as you continue to seek the truth of the WHOLE word of Almighty God. Below is a list of the studies I mentioned within this study along with all the other studies that I have related to this subject of HOW did Jesus PRE-EXIST. We all agree that Jesus pre-existed in some form so the question is not IF Jesus pre-existed, but rather, in what form as to HOW Jesus pre-existed in eternity past. Your brother in our Lord Jesus Christ, Brother Mark. RETURN TO HOMEPAGE AT VERSES USED TO TEACH THAT JESUS PREEXISTED! Here is a link that will give you links to all the studies that I have written on every verse of Scripture that I have been made aware of that are used to teach that Jesus pre-existed and to try and prove the doctrine of the Trinity. >>>VERSES USED TO TEACH THAT JESUS PRE-EXISTED!<<< Simply click on the link and then scroll down to find the verse of Scripture that you would like to study to learn its true sound Biblical meaning when it is correctly interpreted in the LIGHT of the WHOLE word of Almighty God. And then click on that link to read the study on that particular verse of Scripture. Thanks for reading and may God bless you richly as you continue seeking the truth of the whole word of God. Your brother in our Lord Jesus Christ, Brother Mark.
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