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The bodily fullness of The Godhead in 'The God Thread'
Many attempts to empty The Godhead of Jesus were dared,
Because throughout history, some didn’t see Him in The God Thread.
By revelation of The Holy Spirit, Paul has declared,
Jesus is the bodily fullness of The Divine Godhead’. 1
From Adam-to-Abraham-to-Israel-to-the Church,
His presence and personality are evidenced throughout,
With a clear, consistent command that no one can pervert:
‘Multiply and fill all the Earth!’ That is what He’s all about. 2
Reverberating in the annals of human history,
Folks who received this command and those related to it,
Had clear, personal knowledge of Him as ‘Lord’, intimately.
Thus, as they multiplied, folks’ knowledge of Him would be lit!
But as our knowledge of Him as The Lord would wane,
He programmed special …episodic interventions,
To ensure our knowledge of Him would be regained,
Also to dispel all …denying contradictions. 3
During each of His interventions, so unique,
He underscored what He had revealed previously,
Then gave more insights into His awesome mystique,
To contradict lies spread about Him heinously.
The biggest lies were those that denied His deity,
To demote Him, The Lord Creator, to …just a man,
And to seed strange new beliefs that would spread, fruitfully.
They started in ‘the East’, then spread across every land. 4
His next planned, strategic intervention,
Will dispel every dark and devilish lie about Him!
For a thousand years, with no opposition,
Knowing Jesus as God, all the Earth will regain its vim!
This promise is accentuated,
In three unique predictions in prophecy,
That the Earth will be satiated,
With knowledge of Him, of and with His Glory. 5
To all would-be gods, and deniers of Jesus’ deity,
He emphatically says:
‘Present your case. Bring forth your strong reasons. Let them bring forth and show us what will happen; let them show the former things, what they were, that we may consider them, and know the latter end of them; or declare to us things to come. Show the things that are to come hereafter, that we may know that you are gods; yes, do good or do evil, that we may be dismayed and see it together. Indeed you are nothing, and your work is nothing; he [whoever] who chooses [believes in] you is an abomination.’ (Isaiah 41:21 - 24)
‘Most assuredly, I say to you, the Son can do nothing of Himself, but what He sees The Father do; for whatever He does, The Son also does in like manner. For The Father loves The Son, and shows Him all things that He Himself does; and He will show Him greater works than these, that you may marvel. For as The Father raises the dead and gives life to them, even so The Son gives life to whom He will. For The Father judges no one, but has committed all judgment to The Son, that all should honor The Son just as they honor The Father. He who does not honor The Son does not honor The Father who sent Him. Most assuredly, I say to you, he who hears My word and believes in Him who sent Me, has everlasting life, and shall not come into judgment, but has passed from death into life. Most assuredly, I say to you, the hour is coming, and now is, when the dead will hear the voice of The Son of God; and those who hear will live. For as The Father has life in Himself, so He has granted The Son to have life in Himself, and has given Him authority to execute judgment also, because He is The Son of Man. Do not marvel at this; for the hour is coming in which all who are in the graves will hear His voice and come forth - those who have done good, to the resurrection of life, and those who have done evil, to the resurrection of condemnation. I can of Myself do nothing. As I hear, I judge; and My judgment is righteous, because I do not seek My own will but the will of The Father who sent Me. (John 5:19 - 30)
>NB: What He considers as ‘good’ begins with
deep-seated belief in Him to be
ALL He declares Himself to be, and nothing less.<
Friends, may there be no doubt - Jesus, is as Paul declares,
The fullness of The Godhead, in human body form.
That you and others come to this knowledge is my prayer.
Alas, that’s work only The Holy Spirit performs. 6
NB: Counterfeits (religions and prophets) can only follow that which is first REAL and TRUE!
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1 See: Colossians 2:9
2 First given to Adam/Eve, this command was reiterated to Noah’s family after the global flood. Subsequent versions of it were given to Abraham and his descendants, and finally to Christ’s disciples and Paul through whom the nascent Christian church would be seeded, then multiplied across all the Earth. How’s that for multi-millennial consistency?!
3 Across The Old Testament, Jesus’ appeared in both pre-incarnate forms and in the many storied miracles depicted therein. Across the New Testament, He first appeared as the incarnate Son of Man, born of the virgin, Mary. Later He appeared in post-incarnate forms to Paul and John, and in the many miracles the apostles performed. He concluded His appearance to John with a clear ‘copyright’ on things revealed, plus a stern warning to anyone who would dare modify His and Heaven’s final, authoritative revelation of Him, His deity, and His closing chapter plans for humanity. See: Is Jesus God? (Part 5). His next appearance will be as The Lord God, to put a shocking end to the Armageddon War at the end of the great tribulation (Zechariah 14 and Revelation 19), then serve as King of/over the entire world for thousand years (His long-promised Millennial Reign). He will replace ALL human governments at all levels, with the support of His resurrected, immortal saints from across the four previous ages of humanity. So much of this blog delves into the details of this glorious time on Earth.
4 Following the flood, humans migrated to, and settled in the East, in the plain of Shinar, in modern-day Iraq. From there, they spread across the region, then beyond. See: Genesis 11:1-9, and also Zechariah 5 for a fascinating end-times prophecy about this land.
5 See: Numbers: 14:21, Isaiah: 11:9 and Habakkuk 2:14. This refers to the glorious Millennial Reign of Jesus Christ with all His saints from across the ages, discussed at length from various perspectives throughout this blog. It will start with the end of the 7-year tribulation period, and His incredible ending of the Armageddon War as depicted in Zechariah 14 and Revelation 19. Via salvation in Christ and abiding in Him, I’ve got my ticket to be there. Do you? Here’s the first step: Prayer of Salvation (Poem).
6 …No one can say that Jesus is Lord except by The Holy Spirit. (1 Corinthians 12:3)
