Jehovah’s Witness Myopic View Of Jesus (VIII)

An exchange of His zoe for the mortal life of His sheep!

 (…continued from part VII)        Does God know the time and hour? Is the fact of this knowledge decipherable in words? Is Christ the express Word of God, the Logos i.e. the totality of the Father’s mind, thought and verbalism? If this Christ is the power of God, wisdom of God personified and is the Sender of the Holy Spirit who teaches all things because He would hear from Christ what to communicate, then Christ, indubitably, knows the said time and hour. Christ just did not give this secret to be divulged by the man, Jesus: no more, no less.

The apparent humanity of Jesus manifests when He got tired, needed sleep, when He needed food and of course, His incarnate parturition. But when He ventilated His thought with, “I am the resurrection,” that was Christ. Only God can claim the personification of resurrection. When He made the asseveration, “…..I have power to lay it down, and I have power to take it again…..,” speaking of His redemptive life, in John 10:18, did He not speak as God would, hence, of Christ? In the next verse, the Jewish hearers thought He was suffering from the disgorgement of blasphemy. The simple reason being that He was, to the best of their understanding, Jesus, a mere carpenter, arrogating divine attributes to Himself.

One mind blowing, thought provoking thing He did in John 14:1, when He asseverated, “Let not your heart be troubled: ye believe in God, believe also in me;” was to display His equality with the Eternal Father! The truth is that it takes a certain affinity with the eternal Holy Spirit of Jehovah to apprehend the divine reality of His claims. Unfortunately for these Jehovah’s Witness adherents, they hate to acknowledge the divine Personage of the Holy Spirit. A spiritual loss! Selah!

John 10:10 “The thief cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy: I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly.’ ‘Life’ is zoe (dzow-ay’) ‘1. life-above 2. epithet of Jesus (John 14).’ Zoe comes from zao (dzah’-o) ‘1. to live {literally or figuratively}.’ It is in contrast to another Greek word, bios (bee’-os) ‘1. natural, physical life 2. (literally) the present state of bodily existence 3. (by implication) the means of livelihood.’ ‘More abundant’ is the Greek perissos (per-is-sos’) ‘1. superabundant (in quantity) or superior (in quality) 2. (by implication) excessive.’ He must of necessity be the Author of life-eternal to be in the position, not just to give it, but in an everlasting abundance! He is both Jesus and Christ, the incomprehensible God-man.

His nailed feet gave us befitting feet to walk the walk with God

John 10:11 “I am the good shepherd: the good shepherd giveth his life for the sheep.” To understand the unique profundity of this asseveration let us begin with ‘I am.’ When you read this verse from the Septuagint ‘I am’ will be ego eime. When Moses asked God for His name, the Septuagint rendition of God’s response is ego eime. The life, zoe, that Jesus is giving abundantly in this verse is God’s kind of life. It does not come to extermination, and absolutely nothing can bring it to extinction. What is the connection between the ‘I am’ and the shepherd? Psalm 23 opens with “The LORD is my Shepherd” where the title ‘LORD’ is Yhovah (yeh-ho-vaw’) ‘1. (the) self-Existent or Eternal 2. Jehovah, Jewish national name of God.’ In Psalm 80 the first verse reads: “Give ear, O Shepherd of Israel, thou that leadest Joseph like a flock; thou that dwellest between the cherubims, shine forth.” If the Shepherd of this verse is not Jehovah God, then Jesus never trod upon the surface of this terra firma.

So, when Jesus declared, “I am the good shepherd” the definite article points in the direction of the One no Israelite would feign not to know: the Almighty LORD God of Israel! Amen! Jesus is the most enigmatic Personage to tread upon the surface of the earth –not an iota of doubt– if you allow yourself to be led by the Spirit and make it a duty to constantly be leaning on Him: who has come to teach us all things, which only God, the Omniscience, is capable of doing. So, if any should ask, “Who is Jesus?” The answer should simply be: “Yehoshua, the God-man, the LORD. Jesus, definitely, is very God of very GOD!”

The Eternal One died that you may have eternal life. Amen!

You can get born again by praying this prayer with all your heart and truthfully: Dear heavenly Father, I come to You now in the name of Jesus Christ. I believe in my heart that Jesus is the Son of God. I believe in my heart that Jesus died for my sins and You raised Him from the dead. I confess with my mouth that Jesus is Lord, and I receive Him as my Lord and my Saviour. I give God all the glory, Amen.              (Concluded)

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Jehovah’s Witness Myopic View Of Jesus (VII)

                  Jesus has the whole world in His hand

 (…continued from part VI)

  “Then I was by him, as one brought up with him: and I was daily his delight, rejoicing always before him” [Proverbs 8:30]. ‘One brought up’ is one Hebrew word, ‘âmôn (aw-mone’) ‘probably in the sense of training; skilled, that is, an architect (like ‘âmôn workman). This ‘âmôn comes from ‘âman (aw-man’) ‘properly to build up or support; to foster as a parent or nurse; figuratively to render (or be) firm or faithful, to trust or believe.’ The underlined words are in italics. Italized words of King James Version Bible are not in the original script. They were inserted as translators’ interpretations. You will find out that when you pull them out the reading becomes more forceful.

With the Holy Spirit, the Word leads to a walk with the Father.

Wisdom, according to verse 30, was brought up or, as it were, grew up with Almighty God just as two brothers who went through an architectural training. We understand that Jehovah is eternal. If wisdom ‘grew up’ with Him and it is a scriptural truism that Jehovah has no beginning, then, the gospel truthfulness is simply that wisdom is inherently of God. This wisdom is a Personage found in scripture. Of whom is spoken of in Colossians 2:9, “For in him dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead bodily.”  ‘Dwelleth’ is katoikeō (kat-oy-keh’-o): ‘to house permanently, that is, reside (literally or figuratively).’

What about ‘Godhead?’ It is theotēs (theh-ot’-ace) meaning: ‘deity; the state of being God; divinity (abstractly).’ Of the same it is mentioned in 1Corinthians 1:24, “But unto them which are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God, and the wisdom of God.” How can the same Person be both power and wisdom of Jehovah God? He must be inherently God. Colossians 2:3 “In whom are hid all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge.” This is Jesus, the King of kings and Lord of lords even the Word of God. Amen!

Matthew 24:36, “But of that day and hour knoweth no man, no, not the angels of heaven, but my Father only.” Do a paltry scratch of the scriptures and you will find yourself easily concurring with the Jehovah’s Witness’ submission that Christ has no equality with the Father, after you have read the verse above. If that is what Jesus is implying then the scripture is fraught with contradictions. Thank God the Bible does not have such defects. There is an incredible duality concerning Jesus Christ. As Jesus, He is a man: born of a woman, who began His life in Mary’s womb. But as Christ, He is dateless. Not one thing created is comparable to the Creator. Neither science nor art can measure or give an absolutely perfect limn of the Creator. Not even a centillion raised to the power of a centillion years will come close to analyzing the eld of Christ.

JESUS: The most enigmatic Personage to tread the surface of the earth

He is both God and man: the son of man and the Son of God. Theologically it is called the hypostatic union. This is where God and man merge, forming an unprecedented compound of Jesus Christ. As a man, He is limited in wisdom, knowledge and power. As Christ, He is the Almighty, the wonderful everlasting Father. In Revelation 1:8 He calls Himself ‘Almighty,’ which is pantokratōr (pan-tok-rat’-ore) in Greek and it means: ‘the all ruling, that is, God (as absolute and universal sovereign).’ Isaiah announced Him as ‘Wonderful’ in chapter 9 verse 6. It is the Hebrew pele’ (peh’-leh): ‘a miracle.’

Who works miracles apart from God? The Hebrew ‘âb (awb) is ‘Father,’ defined as: ‘God as father of his people; head or founder of a household; ancestor; originator; producer or generator.’ And His Fatherhood is eternal. Amen. Jesus Christ is the God-man. Christ and Jesus had become a supernatural compound mixture forming a new entity of scientific befuddlement. Befuddling in the sense that this God-man is one hundred percent God, and 100% man. Science is too weak; it cannot explain this theological reality. The Lord Jesus is a supernatural phenomenon.

You can get born again by praying this prayer with all your heart and truthfully: Dear heavenly Father, I come to You now in the name of Jesus Christ. I believe in my heart that Jesus is the Son of God. I believe in my heart that Jesus died for my sins and You raised Him from the dead. I confess with my mouth that Jesus is Lord, and I receive Him as my Lord and my Saviour. I give God all the glory, Amen.              (…to be concluded…)

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Jehovah’s Witness Myopic View Of Jesus (III)

(…continued from part II)

Once I asked, “What makes you teach that Christ is an angel?” The answer from the Jehovah’s Witness people, they explained, is in 1Thessalonians 4:16 “For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first.” They teach that the archangel is Michael therefore archangel Michael is actually Christ Jesus. Nowhere, in the Bible, is Christ designated Archangel. He is the Creator and not one of the angels.

As the Angel of the LORD, He received worship. Hebrews 1:6-7 says in verse 6, “And again, when he bringeth in the firstbegotten into the world, he saith, And let all the angels of God worship him. 7. “And of the angels he saith, Who maketh his angels spirits, and his ministers a flame of fire.” In Jude 1:9, Michael told the devil, “The Lord rebuke thee;” which proves that he, Michael, is not the Lord. Did Jesus use Michael’s rebuke when He had an encounter of temptation with Satan in the wilderness? The Lord of glory, King of kings and the Lord of lords will shout and the vocal chords of the heavenly host will echo the Lord’s. This is what Paul is teaching in this verse.

          In defence of their doctrine, one of them challenged me to explain why He is the first born of Colossians 1:15, “Who is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of every creature:” taking this to mean that He was the first intelligent being of creationism. Is there any mention of Adam’s birth. Who did labour through, to the parturition of the angels? Angels and our pristine parents were sculptured, one after the other personally, by Christ.

Why debate Christ’s angelic birth or creation? There is no need for it.

Verse 18 answers that question of verse 15. “And he is the head of the body, the church: who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead; that in all things he might have the preeminence” [Colossians 1:18]. Paul divinely ascribes the beginning to an angel? He is the Creator. He must be preeminently first in all things. In this verse He is first to conquer death. He is the first from His mother’s womb. From eternity, He is the first begotten of the Father in verse fifteen; making His primogeniture a threefold.

Too stubborn to give in to a superior argument based on scriptural fact the avowed disciples of Charles Taze Russell contend still with Proverbs 8:22 to prove that Christ was definitely an entity of creationism. “The LORD possessed me in the beginning of his way, before his works of old” [Proverbs 8:22]. Qânâh (kaw-naw’) is the Hebrew word for ‘possess’ and it means: ‘to erect, that is, create; by extension to procure, especially by purchase (causatively sell); by implication to own.’ Is the possession wisdom? If the LORD had to possess wisdom before embarking upon all His creative works, therefore, an urgent need to create wisdom for Himself arose, can these people not see the implications of the portentous blasphemy? It portends the lack of wisdom on God’s part before creating anything. One who is deficient in wisdom is indubitably dumb. Is this what Jehovah God is?

God will have to continue to acquire more wisdom to remain preeminently the origin and source of wisdom. The attainment of wisdom requires a pedagogue. Tell me, if you know, from whose hands the display of pedagogical prowess God did receive the certificate of wisdom? If God is absolutely complete in all ramifications ere creation then He did not need to acquire any facilitating faculty in His ways of old. When you pull out a scripture indiscriminately for the sake of teaching, the resultant effect breeds an illogical conclusion of God’s protocol. They did not take cognizance of the thirtieth verse.

You can get born again by praying this prayer with all your heart and truthfully: Dear heavenly Father, I come to You now in the name of Jesus Christ. I believe in my heart that Jesus is the Son of God. I believe in my heart that Jesus died for my sins and You raised Him from the dead. I confess with my mouth that Jesus is Lord, and I receive Him as my Lord and my Saviour. I give God all the glory, Amen.              (…to be continued…)

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Jehovah’s Witness Myopic View Of Jesus (II)

The Trinity: God’s Divine essence.

 (…continued from part I)

It reads in John 1:3, one of my favourite scriptures, “All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made.” If this verse fails to settle the deity question of Christ what else can? The verbal ‘made’ is ginomai (ghin’-om-ahee) which means: ‘to cause to be (“gen”-erate), that is, (reflexively) to become (come into being), used with great latitude (literally, figuratively, intensively, etc.).’ If He did ’cause to be’ then He created the first things out of nothing! Thereafter, He, the Christ, made others out of the existing materials. Only the LORD God could perform this preternatural feat.

Let us bring it to a logical conclusion by looking at this analogy. If there are a million objects in a receptacle and a particular one of the whole lot is said to have created everything, tell me, what did create the particular one, as far as the items of the container is concerned? Nothing, absolutely: you will agree with me. Christ Jesus, through whom all was created, is not in any way a product of the effort of creationism. God alone creates ex nihilo (out of nothing) as the Greek puts it.

Ask yourself why Jesus must be a known entity to all and sundry? John 1:4 “In him was life; and the life was the light of men.” The import of the fourth verse is strengthened by the 9^th: “That was the true Light, which lighteth every man that cometh into the world.” Now you can understand why every religion must talk about Jesus. He has, providentially, been made available to all; and for a religion to escape being labelled a fake, Jesus must be involved. If Divine protocol must be observed then do not tread the way of the Lord à la Jehovah’s Witness induction.

If this Light is the Author of life how different is He from the One of whom it is said in Acts 17:28 “For in him we live, and move, and have our being; as certain also of your own poets have said, For we are also his offspring?” There is no difference. The two are the one and the same Jehovah. The One, Father, sits eternally in heaven and the Other, His express image, is Jesus Christ. Amen. Cannot we just see that without God there is no life and that if it is lucidly understood that Jesus is the true Light then man’s search for the deity of Jesus is over. Amen.

Shall we peruse the fourteenth verse? “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” [John 1:14]. Does the clause ‘made flesh’ support the indoctrination of Jehovah’s Witness prop? It certainly does not. The clue to my submission is in the main verb ‘made:’ for it speaks not of creation of Him, as the Christ. Ginomai (ghin’-om-ahee) is the Greek word for ‘made’ meaning: ‘to become, i.e. to come into existence, begin to be, receive being.’ Our observation, from scriptural standpoint, clearly apprises us of the fact that Christ exists before creation. If He became flesh it was simply because He was not flesh, in the true sense of it, before getting into the toga of this habiliment. This is the climax of the first chapter of the book of John. The unprecedented evolutionary Incarnation of God!

This is the consummation of the prophetic Emmanuel. The word ‘dwelt’ is skēnoō (skay-no’-o) ‘to tent or encamp, that is, (figuratively) to occupy (as a mansion) or (specifically) to reside (as God did in the Tabernacle of old, a symbol of protection and communion).’ He had come to perfect the scriptural, “I will never forsake nor leave thee.” Christians have become His Tabernacle. This is not an angel of Jehovah’s Witness teaching, an indoctrination which, undoubtedly, is reeling from an impairment engendered by a spiritual view of myopia.

TRINITY

You can get born again by praying this prayer with all your heart and truthfully, say: Dear heavenly Father, I come to You now in the name of Jesus Christ. I believe in my heart that Jesus is the Son of God. I believe in my heart that Jesus died for my sins and You raised Him from the dead. I confess with my mouth that Jesus is Lord, and I receive Him as my Lord and my Saviour. I give God all the glory, Amen.              (…to be continued…)

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Jehovah’s Witness Myopic View Of Jesus (I)

Who is this Yehoshua? The God-man, the LORD, Jesus.

It is quite appalling when one observes the intransigent denial of the deity of Jesus by the Jehovah’s Witness doctrine. “Jesus can’t be God,” they go knocking, from a door to other available doors. Do I wonder how they read John 1:1, the lucidity of which stipulates, “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God?” The intransigence of their scriptural stance will not let me.

The word ‘beginning’ is archē (ar-khay’) in Greek, and it means: ‘(properly abstract) a commencement, or (concrete) chief (in various applications of order, time, place or rank).’ The commencement is not, in any way, in reference to God’s or Christ’s existence. Time is absolutely too weak to ever measure the agelessness of the Divinity. The ‘beginning,’ ergo, is the embarkation of His work. Now if at the embarkment of God’s creation there was another entity, it then follows that He was not alone. If the Bible says, “In the beginning” it also means that nothing, of creationism, had been brought into being yet. Amen!

Simple logic should inform anyone that whatever or whoever exists before creation is indubitably as eternal as Jehovah! ‘Word’ in the Greek is logos (log’-os): ‘something said (including the thought); by implication a topic (subject of discourse), also reasoning (the mental faculty) or motive; by extension a computation; specifically (with the article in John) the Divine Expression (that is, Christ).’ Logos is the totality of God’s mind, thought, word and being. Did God have to create the Word before creationism? That will be tantamount to His Divine dumbness ere creation. So, the correct answer will be a resounding, “No! He wasn’t dumb.”

THIS IS JESUS: the express word of Jehovah

Ergo, the Word is the Eternal One also. The Word is intrinsically of God, the Father! Is there any difference between a person and the word of his mouth? None, I believe. John 14:10, “Believest thou not that I am in the Father, and the Father in me? the words that I speak unto you I speak not of myself: but the Father that dwelleth in me, he doeth the works.” They are, as the WORD reveals in this verse, co-eternal.

The very first word of John 1:1, ‘in’ is an interesting en (en) Thayer Definition: ‘in, by, with etc. Origin: a primary preposition denoting (fixed) position (in place, time or state), and (by implication) instrumentality (medially or constructively), i.e. a relation of rest {it is an intermediate between eis (ice) ‘A primary preposition; to or into (indicating the point reached or entered), of place, time, or (figuratively) purpose (result, etc.); also in adverbial phrases;’ and ek ex (ek) ‘A primary preposition denoting origin (the point whence motion or action proceeds), from, out (of place, time or cause; literally or figuratively; direct or remote}.’ The definition of ‘in’ proves that as God was contemplating what and how to create, the eternal Word, Logos, was already in existence.

The seated Father, the Saviour Son & the ubiquitous Spirit: The Trinity.

The Word, and God, and of course the Holy Spirit were the real Creators –constituting one worshipped God (and there’s a reason for that). John would not have penned, “and the word was a god” as wickedly scripted in the Jehovah’s Witness’ “New World Translation” of their bible. The Septuagint does not have an article before the last ‘God.’ Now, when the Greek uses the definite article before a person or object it is a way of designation or pointing out that object. But when the article is left out, the Greek is bringing out the inherent nature or quality of the object or person. This is a Greek idiom called the anarthous. What John meant by leaving out the article is: “and the Word was of the very nature or quality of God.” Is it not on the American judicial record that Charles Taze Russell, the founder of the Jehovah’s Witness, did not know Greek?

The Ancient of days; who became the Infant of days! JESUS!!

You can get born again by praying this prayer with all your heart and truthfully: Dear heavenly Father, I come to You now in the name of Jesus Christ. I believe in my heart that Jesus is the Son of God. I believe in my heart that Jesus died for my sins and You raised Him from the dead. I confess with my mouth that Jesus is Lord, and I receive Him as my Lord and my Saviour. I give God all the glory, Amen.        (…to be continued…)

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SPIRIT RELEVANCE (Part two)

THE HOLY SPIRIT SAT IN THE HOLIEST OF ALL AS GOD

Throughout the theophanous phenomenon of the Messianic enterprise, wrought in a man called Jesus, the Holy Spirit was there in the holiest of the temple; a place where only the high priest was privileged an access, just once a year, and must approach the room with the blood of atonement in his hands. It was a grave, awe inspiring business. It could cost the high priest his life if he should treat the ritual with any levity. History teaches that two high priests did die while performing the annual rite. At the epical final pronouncement of “It is finished,” the Holy Ghost left the temple, “And, behold, the veil of the temple was rent in twain from the top to the bottom;…..” in Matthew 27:51; simply because of what Pauline’s Hebrews 10:20 “By a new and living way, which he hath consecrated for us, through the veil, that is to say, his flesh” attests to. Amen.

As a co-Creator it is quite instructive to understand that He stood side by side the Father to raise the Lord Jesus from the grave. Before the passion week Jesus had intimated on the relevance of the Holy Spirit: John 14:26, “But the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in my name, he shall teach you all things, and bring all things to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto you.” Ahead of the time Jesus would sit in the heavenly assizes, in accordance with scriptural sacerdotalism, Spirit relevance is seen in John 16:7, “Nevertheless I tell you the truth; It is expedient for you that I go away: for if I go not away, the Comforter will not come unto you; but if I depart, I will send him unto you.”

The relevance is buttressed here in John 16:13 “Howbeit when he, the Spirit of truth, is come, he will guide you into all truth: for he shall not speak of himself; but whatsoever he shall hear, that shall he speak: and he will shew you things to come.” God understands that Lucifer is the god of this world so, we, the holy offspring of the Most High must be empowered to deal with satanic jingoism. Luke 24:49 “And, behold, I send the promise of my Father upon you: but tarry ye in the city of Jerusalem, until ye be endued with power from on high.” Without the Holy Spirit we can do absolutely nothing to please Jehovah God.

Is the Holy Spirit a Personage? Let us do an exploration of the Bible, where this Spirit of God is designated ‘Holy Spirit,’ ‘Spirit’ (with a capital ‘S’) and ‘Holy Ghost.’ I want to start from the Old, Jewish, Testament of Isaiah 63:10, “But they rebelled, and vexed his holy Spirit: therefore he was turned to be their enemy, and he fought against them.” The word ‘vexed’ comes from the Hebraic ‛âtsab (aw-tsab’) ‘(properly) to carve, that is, fabricate or fashion; hence (in a bad sense) to worry, pain or anger.’ Only an emotionable entity can be made to go through the reaction of Isaiah’s reminiscence. Ephesians 4:30, “And grieve not the holy Spirit of God, whereby ye are sealed unto the day of redemption.” Lupeō (loo-peh’-o) is the Greek word for ‘grieve’ which means: ‘to distress; reflexively or passively to be sad.’ For the fact that this Spirit can be grieved should be a constant warning to us that He is watching (which can only be consummated by a living Entity).

Hebrews 10:29, “Of how much sorer punishment, suppose ye, shall he be thought worthy, who hath trodden under foot the Son of God, and hath counted the blood of the covenant, wherewith he was sanctified, an unholy thing, and hath done despite unto the Spirit of grace?” The clause, ‘done despite unto’ is one Greek word enubrizō (en-oo-brid’-zo) ‘to insult.’ I know how very easy it is to wriggle out of this glaring facts with your calculated pandering of Jehovah’s Witness sect who teach that: “The Holy Spirit is an impersonal force from Jehovah, but not God.” They infer that an inanimate thing cannot be insulted. Agreed! Acts of the Apostles 5:3 reads, “But Peter said, Ananias, why hath Satan filled thine heart to lie to the Holy Ghost, and to keep back part of the price of the land?”

There are two spirits involved here, in the above verse. If we believe that Satan has a physical palpability, then he told Ananias to ‘lie,’ which is: pseudomai (psyoo’-dom-ahee): ‘to utter an untruth or attempt to deceive by falsehood.’ Any uttered untruthfulness is an immediate affront to the Holy Spirit. It was His Divine presence that received the sacerdotal adoration as He was seated as Jehovah of Israel, in the holiest of the temple. He is still present in every feat of mankind from the day of Pentecost, because His presence is the result of God’s promise of Luke 24:49 “And, behold, I send the promise of my Father upon you: but tarry ye in the city of Jerusalem, until ye be endued with power from on high.”                            

 (…to be continued in the next part…)

Read part one here

WHICH JESUS? (part one)

The LORD God, the Lamb, our High Priest and the Lion of Judah.

There is hardly any religious sect that does not have a replica of the Lord Jesus. Is the reason far-fetched? I think not. Without this most enigmatic Personage there, most definitely, would not have been the act of creationism.

He is the perfection of truth – the Light. He is the salvaging Spirit, called the Word of God. Every religion must, as a matter of necessity, find a place for this Personage.

             Cerinthus           

Docetic championing by Cerinthus did believe in Christ but not as the scripture teaches, thereby parading another Jesus. Docetism stems from Gnostic ideology of human mental escapade. You may be smart enough to punch a hole in my submission, especially when the emergence of Jesus (the Incarnation) on earth comes millennia after much older religions is taken into cognizance. Jesus is the eternal Christ.

Hinduism has, as one of its deities, Krishna. He is said to have reincarnated severally and that the last time he did so he came or left at age twelve (12 is the spiritual number of Jesus). Cain went to the east (where the light – i.e. Jesus- of the day rises). Nimrod (sun god) formed an unholy trinity with his wife (Semiramis – moon goddess) and son, Tammuz. Buddha was purportedly brought into conception by a virgin mother, a queen, through the manipulations of the demonic spirits.

                                          Krishna’s foster mother

The Jehovah’s Witness bible reads in John 1:1, “In the beginning was the word, the word was with God and the word was a god”. The God’s ‘Word’ of Charles Taze Russell is a god with a small ‘g’ i.e. a demon. To them Jesus the Christ is an angel: an angel of creationism. Jesus, we acknowledge, is worshipped in the Book of Revelation (Psalm 72:11; Isaiah 45:23; Romans 14:10; Philippians 2:10; Hebrews 1:6; Revelation 4:10, 5:13-14). Heb. 1:6 is a quotation from Isaiah 45:23, and the eventuation of which we see in Revelation. Revelation 5:8 “And when he had taken the book, the four beasts and four and twenty elders fell down before the Lamb, having every one of them harps, and golden vials full of odours, which are the prayers of saints.” Does the Bible allow the worship of an angel? Jesus sits on a throne of judgment. How many angels adjudicate in the matters of celestial assizes?

Horus and mother Isis

Osiris and Isis gave birth to Horus to complete the Egyptian form of trinitarian worship. Horus is deified as the second member of Egyptian worship. A blogger presents this (Osiris, Isis & Horus) as the original trinity. Definitely Metal Gaia does not have any information concerning Babel’s trinity of Nimrod, Semiramis and Tammuz, which, esoterically speaking, is the first duplication of the Trinity. The reading of Genesis 1:1-3 reveals the true Trinity. The fourth word of the first verse, ‘God’ is Elohiym, the plural of Eloahh! Verse two beams the light of scripture on the Holy Spirit. The Eternal Father spoke in verse three, on behalf of the Trinitarian Godhead, “Let there be light”. This is not a created light. The light of creationism came into being in the 14th verse. The Light of the 3rd verse is the True Light (John 1:1-14), Metal Gaia (blogger), take note please.

Ifa worshippers of Nigeria, Benin Republic and Brazil call the Creator Olodumare, which literally means ‘the owner of the oracle, the son of Àrè’. How is this so? Simple. Adam, no doubt, with his exceptional intelligence, should have known it and passed it to his offspring. Noah probably taught his children. It’s quite easy to have an idea passed down to another generation. Satan, who must continue to have man deceived, teaches the perversion of its idolatrous form to every generation. He’s been there before the creation of man.

Jesus of the Bible, evidently as a Spirit Being, wants to occupy our hearts. “Jesus answered and said unto him, If a man love me, he will keep my words: and my Father will love him, and we will come unto him, and make our abode with him” (John 14:23). This is quite an incongruity with Roman Catholic Church’s love for the physical artwork of Jesus. Which Yeshua is this? John 4:24 says, “God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth”. The Spirit of regeneration dwells in our own spirit. The truth of Jesus is evidenced in the words of faith we speak in worship.

But some must put the supposedly ‘photograph’ of Jesus in their churches, homes and vehicles. Which Jesus is this? Demonic Jesus, of course!

Islam calls Him Issa. They know Him as one of the prophets (lower in rank to Mohammad), yet Qur’an calls him the word and spirit of Allah, “Behold! the angels said: “O Mary! Allah giveth thee glad tidings of a Word from Him: his name will be Messiah: Jesus, the son of Mary, held in honour in this world and the Hereafter and of (the company of) those nearest to Allah” 3:45. This is what Qur’an says in 4:171, “O People of the Book! Commit no excesses in your religion: Nor say of Allah aught but the truth. Messiah, Jesus the son of Mary was (no more than) a messenger of Allah, and His Word, which He bestowed on Mary, and a spirit proceeding from Him: so believe in Allah and His messengers.           (…to be concluded…)

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An Ambassador (For Christ or Lucifer) 3rd part

 

 

(Continued from the 2nd part)

The opening verse of Genesis 1:1, “In the beginning God created…” is a plurality proof of Persons in the Godhead. The Hebrew word for ‘God’ is ‘ĕlohıym (el-o-heem’): ‘gods in the ordinary sense; but specifically used (in the plural thus, especially with the article) of the supreme God; occasionally applied by way of deference to magistrates’. The singular for ĕlohıym is ĕloahh (el-o’-ah) ‘a deity or the Deity’. Ēloahh appears 57 times in the Old Testament; 52 times it is used in connection with the Almighty (i.e. an individual of the Trinity), and five times it is used in connection with a demonic idol. “And God said, Let there be light: and there was light” [Genesis 1:3]; these are the Words of God, the Eternal Father. HE is the First Member of the Godhead. The ‘Light’ is a Personage, the Second Member of the Godhead. John 1:1-14 expressly teaches the Deity of Jesus; verse 4, “In him was life; and the life was the light of men”. Verse 9, “That was the true Light, which lighteth every man that cometh into the world.” Genesis 1:2, “And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters”. The word ‘moved’ in Hebrew is rachaph (raw-khaf’): ‘to brood; by implication to be relaxed’. The ‘brood’ is actually a picture of a mother bird. The Holy Spirit was energizing the earth for Christ’s creationism. The solemn promise of Jesus in John 14:26, “But the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in my name, he shall teach you all things, and bring all things to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto you”, is a proof of the Omniscience of the Holy Spirit. Who else but God can teach all things? The word, ‘Comforter’ is, paraklētos (par-ak’-lay-tos): ‘An intercessor, consoler’. Can a neuter object be a paraklētos, as defined? Check this one out in Acts 13:2, “As they ministered to the Lord, and fasted, the Holy Ghost said, Separate me Barnabas and Saul for the work whereunto I have called them”. Can a lifeless intangibility say words? Note the personalization. The word ‘called’ is proskaleomai (pros-kal-eh’-om-ahee) ‘to call toward oneself, that is, summon, invite‘. In the Holy of Holies, only the high priest can enter that place and it must be once in a year, and with visible blood in his hands. What makes the place so sacred is the Divine, personal presence of the Holy Spirit, receiving all the worship and the sacrifices, as the Jehovah God of Israel. This is the Third Member of the Godhead. Can somebody see clearly that Jehovah’s Witness people are not ambassadors for the true Christ?

 

 Roland Obu & father Olumba Olumba Obu

 White garment churches e.g. Olumba Olumba Obu’s founded “Brotherhood of the Cross and Star”, “Cherubim & Seraphim” of Moses Orimolade, “Celestial Church of Christ” founded by S.B.J. Oshoffa to mention a few, from all indications cannot claim to be true churches of Jesus Christ. Members’ white, church uniform finds its scriptural reliance on Revelation 3:4; 3:5; 6:11; 7:9; 7:13; 7:14; 19:14. “Angels wear white” they make it very clear. So, I ask whether they have already made it to heaven as Rev 7:14, “These are they which came out of great tribulation, and have washed their robes, and made them white in the blood of the Lamb”, states. Are there fashion designing tailors and seamstresses in heaven, and who sews the earthly theirs to give it a celestial prominence?

    Does the white make them righteous?

  None of the Bible prophets, writers or the apostles ever taught the wearing of any spiritual garment for worshippers. What Jesus said in John 4:24 is, “God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth”. They must not, as a rule, put on any footwear into the church auditorium because of what the Lord told Moses (in Exodus 3:5), and Joshua (in Joshua 5:15). “And he said, Draw not nigh hither: put off thy shoes from off thy feet, for the place whereon thou standest is holy ground” (Exodus 3:5). Two things: Draw not nigh hither; and put off thy shoes. So, why do they draw nigh into the church auditorium? The putting off of shoes was just to arrest his attention. In the first ever Passover ritual that enhanced the victorious departure from Egypt the instruction was, “And thus shall ye eat it; with your loins girded, your shoes on your feet, and your staff in your hand; and ye shall eat it in haste: it is the LORD’S passover” [Exodus 12:11]. Someone opined that maybe it was because they were in a hurry to leave Egypt. I ask, “How long does it take to wear sandals and would God ever bend His holy rules?

 

Photos top left is  Moses Orimolade, bottom left is S.B.J. Oshoffa

on the right is  Prophet Adetunji Adeonigbagbe of Celica Church of Christ.                                                      

When the lead role star of the prodigal son parable came back home, the paraphernalia of his justification and restoration was found in Luke 15:22, “But the father said to his servants, Bring forth the best robe, and put it on him; and put a ring on his hand, and shoes on his feet“. In Exodus chapter 19 where Moses was told to prepare Israelites for God’s physical visitation and the 20th when the Eternal Visitant did show up, there was no mention of removal of shoes before His holy presence. You cannot find anywhere in the New Testament where footwears are forbidden in a Christian worship. The white garment churches are usually headed by a prophet (which reminds me of the prophets of the antichrist) but we know that a pastor is the New Testament shepherd of a local assembly. I do not know of any of their services where an altar call is made. They do not get people born again! Ambassadors of Lucifer. The deliverance services of white garment churches speak fetish volumes. They use candles, soaps, sponges, eggs, oil, and in dire cases, the spirit of their prophetic oracle demands blood sacrifice! They (C.C.C.) begin prayers thus: “Jah! Jah! Jah! Jesus Christ! Holy Michael!” Some invoke ‘holy Uriel’ and ‘holy Raphael’ -unscriptural angels. Olumba declared in his teachings, “I am the Holy Spirit”. It is believed that he is dead; it would not, or shall I say, “shouldn’t be made public”, for how does one go about the obituary of the Holy Spirit? (…to be continued…)

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