The name made manifest
Of course, we know the
Hebraic name Michael and Gabriel was not a secret at this time.
Nor even the name Melchisedec or Lucifer for that matter. However, the Greek name
Jesus (residing from the Hebraic Joshua) was still a secret at this
stage. You see the name of
Jesus, outside Him being just an angelic man (who was also the
Rock and the Lord), was a hidden secret prior to the introduction of
the NT. At the commencement of the NT and the conclusion of the
OT (as one was phased into the other), it was now made plain and known,
and announced and revealed for the
first
time. God had put on flesh and blood and become personalized and
a very intimate friend for
the whosoever at the same time. He could now become our own
personal God, Saviour,
Messiah, Dad, Brother and Lord. What's more, now God had a name
beyond
Jehovah ("He
is who He is") personalized now as Jesus (God saves) for the
whosoever. Do you believe it? Here's the great verse
(Romans 16:25-26) reassuring us of the announcement of the Lord Jesus
Christ (God in the flesh) for the first time and for all time and
eternity, crossing and
removing all barriers and divisions:
"Now to him that is of
power to stablish you according to my gospel, and the preaching of Jesus Christ, according to the revelation of the
mystery, which was kept
secret since
the world began, But now is
made manifest".
When the children of Israel
entered the promised land,
the angel present was also known as "the captain of the host (of the
angels) of the LORD". If this angel was another holy angel
like
Michael (or Gabriel), he would not have received worship and would not
have
represented holy
ground, as God would and did with Moses. Besides, what's more
important ... "the gold, or the temple (Jesus) that sanctifieth the
gold"? Or ... "the gift, or the altar (Jesus) that sanctifieth the
gift?" God is never
inconsistent, is He? Look at Josh. 5:14-15:
"And he said, Nay; but
as captain of the host of the
LORD am I now come. And Joshua fell on his face to the earth,
and
did worship, and said unto him, What saith my lord unto my
servant.
And the captain of the LORD'S host said unto Joshua, Loose thy
shoe from off thy foot; for the place whereon thou standest is
holy.
And Joshua
did so."
This man cannot be just merely an angel or else he too would've been
ousted outta heaven as a fallen angel with the rest of Lucifer's
fallen cohorts. Both holy angels and righteous men do
not take worship to themselves. They humbly and fearfully
redirect it to God when they
represent Him. In contrast, Lucifer failed to and kept praise to
himself and fell. However,
this angel, which Joshua stood before on holy ground, did not rebuke
Joshua and was the captain of the host ...
of all the angels!
Conclusion at this
point in time: God
comes, or manifests Himself three ways (not because He/They are three
different people). For example, following is three major ways God
manifests Himself:
1) In the
Spirit. He is omnipresent and come and goes like the wind (in the
spiritual realm - no limitations).
2) In the
angelic. As an individual man called an angel, with access to
both heaven and earth (connecting the spiritual with the physical and
vice versa - some limitations).
3) In the
flesh. As an individual man again, this time being limited to
time and geography, and born of a woman (limited by the physical world).
Trust this covers and
clears
up a lot of things for us, as it did for me. Hopefully, you will
also find that this does not pigeon hole God as in the Trinity
doctrine.
However, it does reveal three things about how God is without limitations
... omnipotent (all powerful), omniscient (all knowing),
omnipresent (everywhere at all times). As well as, on the other
hand, knowing limitation
(coming
as a man). Please note, this is not a contradiction when you
rightly divide, but a
scriptural reality, by seeing things God's way and in the Spirit.
Yes, "a just weight (balance)
is (indeed) His delight"!
Therefore, it is very
important and imperative that God is spirit first ... the Holy
Ghost without limitations! Then manifested angelically, bridging
heaven and earth. Followed by coming as flesh and blood (with
much limitations) in order to empathize with, win and save mankind, of
those few who call out and find space to repent.
Truth or tradition? Revelation
or indoctrination?
However, getting back to what the Penties and Charimaniacs preach,
in
regards to the Holy Ghost and the so-called "second blessing", with
that familiar question
again ... does not the
fulness of God
come through the baptism of the Holy Spirit? No, the baptism of
the Holy Ghost is all to do with how our Lord manifests Himself to His
children or through His children. Remember, the Holy Ghost is
made up largely of seven chief spirits (see the book of Revelation), or
seven chief manifestations as spiritual anointings!
No, these seven Spirits are not the seven churches in the book of
Revelation as some say, laying out a chronological order of seven
supposed church periods or events throughout history (another form of
dispensationalism). They all make up the Holy Spirit as just
pointed out and are various manifestations of Him. Therefore, you
cannot break these Spirits up into segments as some do, to make it
their
historical case and justify their institutionalized movement. You
must see the full relevance they ALL hold in
the 'here and now' for every person. When we apply this
revelation it changes things entirely and God's word becomes reality,
present-tense,
completely applicable to the saints now, wrecking both denominational
and
dispensational boundaries man has set up, in order to box in or
triangulate God, as man so happens to do.
Another very important factor to mention here is that if the so-called
professing church started teaching and preaching the seven Spirits as
being God from God, for the present 'here and now', then using this
same
type of
logic that justifies the Trinity, a SEVEN person God would also have to
be endorsed or maybe replace the THREE person God. Or maybe we
could choose out of a "three person god" or a "seven person god" which
one we individually wanted to go with? Dependant on which one
suited our social environment or (stretched)
theology the best! For information and enlightenment sake,
it is the the seven candlesticks that are actually the seven churches
according to scripture, confirmed here in Rev 1:20:
"The mystery of the seven stars which thou sawest in my
right hand, and the seven golden candlesticks. The seven stars are the
angels of the seven churches: and the seven candlesticks which thou
sawest are the seven churches.
Proof that the seven Spirits are not the seven churches is found here,
where we find the seven before the throne in heaven:
Re 1:4-5. John to
the
seven churches which are in
Asia: Grace be unto you, and peace,
from him which is, and
which was, and which is to come
(God
- witness 1);
and from the
seven Spirits (God - witness
2) which are before his throne: And
from Jesus Christ
(God - witness 3)".
From the above passage we find John in person greeting the seven
churches as well as God as three witnesses (not three persons).
Moreover, as Jesus sent forth the Holy Ghost in Acts 2, John in
Rev. 5:6 makes
it clear also that these seven Spirits come from the Lord and are
called "the seven Spirits
of God",
and are therefore not the seven churches:
"And I beheld, and, lo, in the midst of the throne and of the four
beasts, and in the midst of the elders, stood a Lamb as it had been
slain, having seven horns and seven eyes,
which are the seven Spirits of God sent forth into all the earth."
Furthermore, churches are not sent from heaven but are born on earth,
as
people are regenerated by the Spirit and gather and function as one in
the Lord, becoming living lights on earth. Therefore, breaking
all this down and placing them in sequence, we find the following:
'The seven churches', which are 'the
seven golden candlesticks' ... meaning, the seven churches are
lit up as (golden) candles (lit up as bright as a city on a hill).
Then
we have 'the seven stars' which are 'the seven angels' of 'the seven
churches' ... meaning, the seven churches also are presided with
seven shinning angels (stars) in heaven.
Followed
by 'the seven lamps of fire' burning before the throne, which are 'the
seven Spirits of God'
... meaning, just like seven lights on earth and in the mid
heaven (the angelic) there is also seven lights in the sanctuary before
the throne, being the seven Spirits (or manifestations of God).
Bearing in mind, these
seven Spirits (manifestations) are sent to earth
also (5:6) to anoint and fill, and bring specific giftings or
manifestations to the saints for a specific purpose, as we will see in
the next portion. In
regards to these seven manifestations, here they are
following and will be expounded on more later. From Is.
11:2:
"And the spirit of the
LORD (1) shall rest upon him - (shall come upon, be anointed upon - the
manifest life - 1 John 1:2)
the spirit
of wisdom (2) - the gift of wisdom
and
understanding (3), - the prophetic (1 Cor. 13:2)
the spirit
of counsel (4) - Pr. 8:14
and might (5), - power - "for the spirit of glory and of God resteth
upon you (1 Pet. 4:14)"
the spirit of knowledge
(6) - "word of knowledge (1 Cor. 12:8)"
and of the fear of the LORD (7)
Basically,
the anointing (or the outpouring) is to do with the way the Lord
chooses to manifest Himself. Therefore, He can only manifest
Himself in the Spirit coz this is the only way He can do this across
the board, so to speak (not being restricted as flesh and blood or as
one angelic being by geography and location). Or across the Body,
from individual to individual. Or some times at once, in isolated
incidences. Herez how Paul puts it to the church at Corinth (in
the first lot of epistles, 7-11):
"But the
manifestation
of
the Spirit is given to
every man
(believer) to profit withal.
For to
one is given
by
the Spirit the word of
wisdom; to
another the word of
knowledge by
the same Spirit; To
another faith by
the same Spirit; to
another the
gifts of healing by
the same Spirit; To
another the
working of miracles; to
another prophecy; to
another discerning of spirits; to
another divers kinds of tongues; to
another the interpretation of tongues:
But all these worketh that
one
and
the selfsame Spirit,
dividing (as different manifestations) to
every man severally
(multi times) as he will."
There we have it ... various ("severally" multiple)
manifestations, or spirits, being found in scipture! But of and
as "
one
and
the selfsame Spirit"
as the word says! Verse 13: "For by
one
Spirit are we
all baptized
into one body, whether we be Jews or
Gentiles, whether we be bond or free; and have been
all (every believer) made to drink into
one
Spirit." This being nothing to do with salvation by the way, but
the
way the Lord chooses to manifest Himself through His people, for His
own reason and purpose, as they are
yielded and conformed to His will.
Furthermore, a good example from scripture about how a specific spirit
or anointing is given for a specific time (to endower, unction, enable
and empower the believer, for the glory of God) is not only found in
Acts Two (where unlearnt, unpolished and common men could preach the
gospel with boldness), but what happens when a Christian is also
persecuted,
even in the most cruel way? How can they endure such harshness
and injustice, and come out as victors as Peter and John did (Acts
4:18) for preaching
the outlawed Jesus in public? Answer
(1 Pet. 4:14):
"If ye be reproached for the name of Christ,
happy are ye; for
the spirit of
glory
and of
God resteth upon you:
on their part
(the non believer)
he
(Jesus) is evil spoken of,
but on your part
(the believer)
he
(Jesus) is glorified."
This nothing to do with an emotional psych-up or an intellectual
hype-up by the person in need, but because God looks down and chooses
to anoint his servant with power as He did with Stephen when Stephen
was painfully being stoned to death. Moreover, it is nothing to
do with a fatalist attitude or becoming numb by handing yourself over
to supernatural powers, a tranced state, or coping out in an hypnotic
state, but because out of the grace and goodness of God He has extended
to His servant with divine power to overcome victoriously in Him.
After all, and according to Is. 10:27, "the yoke shall be destroyed
because of the anointing." Thatz God faithfully doing His part
(with nothing of ourselves) as we faithfully abide in Him.
The anointing or baptism is not the born again experience, but ...
The logic with the Penties (and sometimes the Charismaniacs) is
when you are born again you find Jesus, God the Son (the second person
called God). Then later on when
you are baptized (or filled) with the Holy Spirit, you find God the
Spirit (the third person called God). This will then enable you,
as you get filled everyday, to know
"the Father heart of God", God the Father that iz (the first person
called
God)! So the teaching goes!
Now doesn't that sound nice, as an analytical way of
presenting and expressing God all wrapped up, pigeon holed, and neatly
packaged for the new convert to learn but never question. A great
way for someone new to come in and get the wool pulled over their eyes
to thinking they are serving one God while they are actually serving
three divine separate persons at the same time, as deity. This is
due to the notion you cannot
question the Great Teacher, the Holy Spirit (according to this
teaching).
Also, being reminded here that you could be verging on blaspheming the
Holy Spirit ("coz He is a very special One of the Three you know") and
being lost
forever, if you start making inquiries like these. A lovely
attractive
package to embrace, with horrible
consequences awaiting you should you dare to question and try and get
things for yourself, in accordance with God's word and straight from
God direct by the way (Pr. 25:2, Eph 5:6, 1 Thes. 5:21, 1 John 2:27
& 4:1). The horrible consequences
as mentioned being God rejecting you forever as a believer, coz you
thought you would test "the holy spirit" of Christendom to be satisfied
scripturally whether this spirit is indeed the true Spirit of God or not, the
Spirit of TRUTH, reinforcing who Jesus is and not who the Trinity is,
or
other traditions of the mainstream IC.
The truth with
religion, it always comes down to using the tool of fear or guilt
working hand in hand,
to manipulate the spiritually naive or complacent into
compliance. See how this Trinity thing is all religiously sown
up, to trap new
converts and keep old traditionalists pew bound, till earthly departure!
I know I will upset
many of my formal and present Pentecostal friends by the
points I made at the beginning of this treatise, by my generalization
of
this
fragmented movement. No doubt the (very few) more biblically
orientated Pentecostals
will accuse me of attacking the whole movement per se, when they would
be
staunch in
standing by the notion that 'traditional' or 'classical' (nice word)
Pentecostalism
is
scriptural and that it just happened to be spoiled, or hijacked, or
discredited, by
the excesses and extremes of
the more
wayward followers of this movement, especially in these apostatized
latter
days.
My point though is
this ... if the foundation of something is
wrong, then
so is the
building it is built upon! As an example ... if Catholicism
is wrong from the beginning, then so is any movement (like the Catholic
Charismatic movement) that springs from it. Not to forget to
mention
the break away Protestant cliques through and since the
Reformation. Would
this not be
true? Most movements
throughout history, from their
onset, were based on the direction their founders had taken, after a
genuine
outpouring. This includes the turn of the 20th Century, when the
Pentecostal movement commenced from the leftovers of the dwindling
Welsh revival
and
other genuine outpourings gone sower, similar to Asusa
Street and the later Jesus Movement of the
late
1960s.
The very reason a genuine revival is quenched (that's a large outbreak
and manifestation of the
Holy
Ghost in one place, centred on and glorifying Jesus only - never the Trinity - as well as His
imminent return), is not due
to
God
deliberately abandoning His people coz He feels it is time to move
on elsewhere, just for the fun of it (and taking with Him heaven's
blessing
and refreshment at the same time) because God has become so bored
or tired of His people. Or some other unfounded reason.
It is never God's will
to
depart
from His people. It is always because His 'called out' people are
the
ones who have departed from Him, by listening to man instead, and being
seduced away. This is because they have allowed
themselves to be
lead away by men institutionalizing the Bible, selling the truth or
organizing the "move
of
God". In other words, it is because many of God's people have
been mesmerized with
men pleasing doctrine, then departed from the faith as a result,
thinking they had done the right and honourable thing, by following
"qualified" and professional men who they believed would never decieive
them. This
spiritual degeneration is very subtle
and is a clever tactic of the Devil, who will infiltrate and
counterfeit
the works of God
and use 'a
truth' or 'a
revelation', taken to extreme, as the bait, to lure the
unsuspecting and naive into his religious trap.
This trap could
be getting stuck in a denomination or a cult. Or coming under
some new teaching waltzing onto the scene, to replace a 'tired' and
'worn out' old doctrine, that has failed to make the church or group
expand numerically. Very sad, because God is not after fat
fellowships anyway. Nor corporate impression or expression, but
individual
growth. This inner maturing process is found on a more low key
note and on a much smaller scale, due to the unpopularity and cost
involved in living for the
gospel. Never due to converting en masse. Meaning ...
more bottoms on pews adds up to more loot in the collection, to cover
the
wages of the head sherangs plus the overheads incurred.
God's call however, is
nothing
to do with the "spectacular", or the external, or running a business in
His name. Even
if it means for the called individual remaining in
obscurity for the Lord,
being hidden with Christ, instead of striving for popularity,
recognition or platform (I think they call it prestige). Or to
prove you are of a "special" calling;
or have a "special" anointing; or are a "special" and rare kind
... like being raised up "watchman" or
"prophet" or "the voice of God", for the very last hour. Did you
not know that emulation
is not from the
Lord anyway! Read Gal. 5:20.
Therefore, ignore all
'attention seekers' and 'position hunters', instead, and make the word of
God your
final authority!
Thatz because it is
really hard to crack these eggheads and nutheads, as
they have convinced themselves into believing that any loving
correction or real concern shown towards them is
actually persecution
against them. Thatz cos they have also convinced themselves they
have got all the
goods and all revelation sown up, and don't need being spoon fed on
anything "second-hand" from you or me or anyone. Or that any
concern or
correction shown towards them just happens to be
religious folk manifesting and spitting the dummy, due to being envious
of their zeal and speciality in God. When in actual
fact they are the ones clutching for straws. Coz deep down they
wont
admit they are phoney, who have taken the bait (the icing and the cake
too),
or have been bought off somewhere along the line.
Furthermore, just
because I reject man-made movements (which include
all the
Pentecostal churches because they have taken the bait from
commencement - yielded to the temptation to organize and name) this
does
not
mean I
reject everything they stand for. Nor does it mean I have
embraced 'the
cessation movement' either, as a counteraction or rebound. Nor because I have
looked for an
alternative as an apparent "burnt out" or dejected Pentecostal.
If God is divine and chooses to move
miraculously, like granting a gift of wisdom or knowledge for as
specific time
and
purpose to someone; or sees to speak through someone in an unknown
tongue, or
perfectly
heal a
medical condition instantly (always for His glory and purpose only, of
course); then that's God's prerogative according to
His word. After all, He is God alone!
Moreover, this has
got
nothing to do
with what teacher
or
movement I have chosen to follow, but because I am a Bible believer and
believe
the word when Jesus said to His followers (no, not Israel of the flesh)
… "greater
works than these shall he do", etc. The condition of course
(which many
have forgot to teach and the reason it has been so easily explained
away), is that this privilege is only reserved for those who deem
themselves "least in
the kingdom of
heaven"! As
simple and uncluttered as it
sounds, this is the essence of our faith and the simplicity that is in
Christ. Furthermore, this simplicity can never be complicated or
philosophized away, as it is never divorced from the cross. In
fact, it is the
only thing we are to know continually ... Jesus Christ, and him
crucified!
This brings me to the
place of expounding on God manifesting
Himself
in many ways as He chooses to, for His own purposes, gain and glory, in
the natural as well as the spiritual. This never happens in the
Devil's
playground of course, to what is labelled as 'the supernatural'! God
is not a
supernatural god by the way, but a natural and beyond natural
God! He does not operate in the subnormal either, but in the
normal! Anything with a
'super',
'excess', 'freaky', or 'extreme' element or tag, is satanic and
deceptive.
Merely because God never sanctifies crankism, "the weird and wonderful",
nor
lunacy. Being addicted "to the ministry of the saints" as in 1
Cor. 16:15, is nothing to do with being "a junky for Jesus" or a
religious fanatic either. This verse merely means to be involved (occupied) with the
ministering of others within the Body. The term "Jesus Freak" is a slur or degradation against the true faith also. Fanaticism is nothing to do with
God.
Furthermore, by
yielding
to the supernatural one is
automatically playing
Satan's game, who comes as an angel of light, who loves handing
out warm fuzzies, nice vibes and elated feelings, if it means the bait
can be taken for deception, as well as the suspect being diverted from
the written
word. 'Crowd control' (like 'corporate worship' or tradition's
obsession
with 'formalism') are great tools in his hands. Especially when
it
is done in Jesus name, because this relaxes the supposed Bible believer
and takes him off guard, making him believe the course he is taken is
sound, coz it has Jesus name stamped on it. Not so, if you
rightly divide the word of life! Simply because, what is done in
'the name' must line up with 'the word'. This is the reason the
Bible
believer has every right to judge, discern, question, and weigh things
up for
himself, and go from there ... proving all things; and holding
fast that which is good!
The truth is ... God our
Maker and Deliver is first into changing the
individual from the inside out. This is triggered off by
heartfelt repentance and brokeness from the
individual, before the Lord. Secondly, God then knows He has now
been welcomed into a position of strengthening this softened
and teachable
individual from the innerman out, not the other way (what some term
'character building') in order for stability and steadfastness in
Him. The other way (from the outside in) centres on personality
enhancement and making
man look inward to himself, to achieve success by
self-improvement. This way man can build his own wishful remedies
in
trying to solve his eternal quandary, instead of looking out and up to
the risen Christ. This inward self-search omits responsibility
towards God and waives the gift of repentance out the door. The
'looking out' and away from self for salvation, is dangerous for the
Devil and his kingdom, as this way, the individual is vulnerable
towards
his Maker and brings admittance to himself for the need for external
deliverance, as well as the need for God and the end to living and
trying
without Him.
Additionally, it is not
mans business nor prerogative to work out
who
God is, let alone give Him labels or categories. Mans place is
simply to bend and yield before God and acknowledge God for who He
is. This of course takes swallowing one's pride and humbling
oneself before the Almighty. Any manifestation from God (which
can be tested) is for
His
own reason and not for man to categorize and assume it is a trademark
of the Godhead as one separate personality expressing himself this way,
with another personality expressing himself another way (while being a
separate individual but one in unison with the others, who are also
called God). If God is God alone, with no other beside Him,
then any expression from Him, is His chosen way to manifest Himself and
not licence for man to conclude another personality is working out of
heaven in accordance with another personality, or personalities
(plural), co existing together there as well.
In other
words, a spiritual manifestation from above is not proof of multi
personalities, but one God choosing to display or reveal Himself this
particular way, for His one particular reason, purpose and to His
credit.
If you
want to use logic then here is logic:
Take the Spirit
of God
f'instance ... the Holy Ghost! God
being omnipresent that iz! But the same God nevertheless!
Religion says this Spirit is God the Spirit, who happens to be one out
of three in heaven co existing with Two other persons as God the
Third Person! Right! Okay, lets dig deeper and take this
further: As far as the Spirit is concerned, scripture is clear
the Spirit can manifest itself (yes, itself - no apologies!) in seven
ways or so, as mentioned previously. Are you with me (and gotcha
Bible ready)? Do you
really want to be logical (actually 'reasonable' is a more accurate
word
here)? Following we can see these seven manifestations again, which the
written word
calls "the Seven spirits of God". Yes, thatz multi spirits from
God! By rightly dividing scripture and allowing scripture to
prove and back itself, here they are once again, reiterating Is. 11:2:
"And the spirit of the LORD (1) shall rest upon him, the spirit
of wisdom (2) and
understanding (3), the spirit
of counsel (4) and might (5), the spirit of knowledge (6) and of the fear of the LORD (7)".
Now isn't this a
contradiction when scripture is clear that there is
only one Spirit? Of course it is a contradiction, just as it is when it says
there is only one God, if you happen to follow tradition.
However, man is clever isn't he, with a
little bit of cunning from the Devil? He will leave one pattern
of logic out of the equation coz it does not suit, like there is only
ONE Spirit (this Spirit fits in with the Trinity after all).
However, he will hone in on the other pattern of logic and bend and
make it suit, by saying it does not rule out the THREE.
Typical! Therefore, where it says seven Spirits, man can rightfully agree there is only one
Spirit! However, on the other hand, when it says only one God and Lord, man can have a
(twisted) reason to say there happens to be Three
separate persons!
Yes, very typical of Bible corrupters and doctrine inventors ...
they will keep one truth when it suits, but bend the other truth when
it
does not suit! If man is consistent in his analogy here, then the
seven Spirits should represent seven separate beings, just as the three
in heaven represent three separate beings, according to the Trinity
conclusion.
If you have dared to have taken a peep at my previous treatises on
exposing the Holy Trinity some of you may have already shrugged them
off by
now as seeing them as using the extreme element of Christendom to push
a
point. By this I mean seeing me as only using the more graphic
illustrations of
the Trinity, teaching from the more traditional point of view, in order
to suit my own agenda. Understanding this is the area many have been
accustomed
to (outside 'the renewal movement', which kicked-off in the late 60's
in conjunction with Vatican II, and outside the 'new wave movement' of
the
90's, in conjunction with Jubilee 2000, preparing the institutional
church
for the world's pre-empt New Millennium) who could bag my Trinity
series as not
relevant for today's modern believer or contemporary church scene.
here of the one and same person
nevertheless, but never persons in the plural sense? The
Nominalist, Traditionalist or Trinitarian of Christendom would say
different however,
that this
verse is evidence of the Trinity, that God is indeed three separate,
distinct
people (not just the one Lord manifested this way), functioning as
three
individuals. Like the Lord supposedly coming as three distinct
men to
Abraham (see right image) in Genesis 18 for a start. Is this
really the
case?
Please look at this verse (1 Tim. 3:16) very carefully!:
This
teaching was rife without a word of exaggeration! That's the
teaching God was doing a "new thing", commencing with the ushering in
of the 20th Century by raising or renewing the Pentecostal Church; the
supposed "original" church, that was apparently asleep through the Dark
Ages (as part of God's "restoration" programme). Or hiding out in
the
Alps and other remote places (not to forget to mention the
Appalachians), until the system got better educated,
more civilized and became more understanding.
creed,
tradition,
catechism, experience, dogma, triune framework, or what has been
accepted as
'the run of the mill' thing, because qualified or lovely men approved
it.
Or your mamma or quiet mannered "submitted" wife happened
to go all gooey gaga
over. Or the Spirit just happened to move in that direction,
which you were not
allowed to question one iota ... "just let go and flow,
man!" Or
...
"just open up and receive, Brother!" After all, why did these
words
of Jesus (reiterating from an OT Psalm) only click with the 
If you ponder more
over this truth (Jesus as both fully man and fully
God, being a stand alone God minus attachments) than trying to
understand
something like the Holy Trinity concept, which can never be understood,
then you will be focusing on who God is and not on a redefined God to
"biblically" fit into a box (or triangle) man has made for
himself. Something
the Devil does not want you to give much attention to. Only for
you to give token reference to, in order to make your Christian belief
credible while not fully scriptural and proven. Or, to justify
your
life and existence as a supposed Bible believing Christian (after
all, this is your stance and inclination in the eyes of others) when in
actual fact you are not. Only giving the appearance that you are,
for self-preservation purposes. Plus, allowing yourself a good
measure, sense and
feeling of adulation and
justification, as well as appeasement to others, through family ties,
peer pressure and self reassurance, that you are really, "deep down",
that good, redeemed
and well meaningful guy, looking to God, after all.
This verse confirms
and reinforces that
God standing and being as one person 
and where he
should complete the verses as add-ons (in
paraphrase form to suit his stance), lets revisit Isaiah 45:5 (& 6)
and see
how the Nominalist/Trinitarian should really rewrite these
verses, if he indeed has a valid case. Here
it is ... this should be the corrected Nominalist/Trinitarianist
rendition of scripture, or something along these lines:
There,
nicely slotted into an analytical, uniform 'triune
system', misnaming or misrepresenting the biblical Godhead; even though
we can
only place a (restricted) tick beside point 1. as being biblically
correct, as point 2 & 3 are not. Explanation ... there
is no line 'God the Son' or
'God
the Holy Spirit' found anywhere in the Bible.
on the second chief angel
Gabriel (two in the OT balanced with two in the NT), backing his
importance to
a similar scale of the other two named angels also:
Remember,
they, whether wolf or pigeon (cunning wolves eat you while cute pigeons
poop on you) are not the ones responsible for giving an account of YOUR
life at
the end time, but only YOU, yourself! If they aren't really true
blue
Bible believers, then they have nothing to worry about coz their god
(or Trinity) is only a figment of their human imagination. On the
other hand, if God is not an intellectual
fabrication after all, but insists He is who He says He is (the one
true God), then
they have everything to be worried about. This of course goes for
every religionist or
those who name the name of Christ, but do not do as He says. As
for
you and your house ... what will you do or have to say when the
real time comes? An elder will have to give an account of what he
did with the young and vulnerable (Heb. 13:17) and his judgement will
be
far greater than the average Joe Bloggs (Luke 20:47 & James
3:1). Best to be an average Joe Bloggs and humbly do as the Lord
says than be a hotshot for "Gawd"! Wouldn't you agree?