John 1:1-18

Accurate Knowledge

2008-10-31T06:45:00.000-07:00

Jesus’ own name means "Jehovah Is Salvation, He stated: God so loved the world that he gave the world salvation in his only begotten Son. John 3:16-18. "Jesus came in the name of his Father" I have come in the name of my Father, (John 5:43); he taught his followers to pray: "Our Father in the heavens, let your name be sanctified" (Matthew 6:9); his works, he said, were done "in the name of my Father" (John 10:25); and, in prayer on the night of his death, he said he had made his Father’s name manifest to his disciples and asked, "Holy Father, watch over them on account of your own name. John 17

You can readily see that GOD always provided a "Father Figure" on earth to shepherd His people. GOD is the invisible Head of His children, and He is Our "Father Figure." It is no different today. GOD never changes. The truth never changes. Since GOD is infinite truth, how then could He possibly change, since any change would then imply a defect in the truth?

Therefore GOD also has exalted him and has bestowed upon him the name that is above every name, so that at the name of Jesus every knee should bend of those in Heaven, on earth and under the earth, and every tongue should confess that the Lord Jesus Christ is in the glory of GOD the Father. Philippians 2:9-11

For I am Jehovah YOUR God; and YOU must sanctify yourselves and YOU must prove yourselves holy, because I am holy. So YOU must not make YOUR souls unclean by any swarming creature that moves upon the earth. Leviticus 11:44

My judicial decisions YOU should carry out, and my statutes YOU should keep so as to walk in them. I am Jehovah YOUR God. And YOU must keep my statutes and my judicial decisions, which if a man will do, he must also live by means of them. I am Jehovah."YOU people must not come near, any man of YOU, to any close fleshly relative of his to lay bare nakedness. I am Jehovah. The nakedness of your father and the nakedness of your mother you must not lay bare. She is your mother. You must not lay bare her nakedness. "‘The nakedness of your father’s wife you must not lay bare. It is your father’s nakedness. "‘As for the nakedness of your sister, the daughter of your father or the daughter of your mother, whether born in the same household or born outside it, you must not lay bare their nakedness.

"As for the nakedness of the daughter of your son or the daughter of your daughter, you must not lay bare their nakedness, because they are your nakedness. "‘As for the nakedness of the daughter of your father’s wife, the offspring of your father, she being your sister, you must not lay bare her nakedness."‘The nakedness of your father’s sister you must not lay bare. She is the blood relation of your father. ‘The nakedness of your mother’s sister you must not lay bare, because she is a blood relation of your mother. "‘The nakedness of your father’s brother you must not lay bare. You must not come near his wife. She is your aunt. "‘The nakedness of your daughter-in-lawyou must not lay bare. She is your son’s wife. You must not lay her nakedness bare. "‘The nakedness of your brother’s wife you must not lay bare. It is your brother’s nakedness. "‘The nakedness of a woman and her daughter you must not lay bare. The daughter of her son and the daughter of her daughter you must not take in order to lay her nakedness bare. They are cases of blood relationship. It is loose conduct.

"Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the earth. "Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they shall be satisfied. "Blessed are the merciful, for they shall receive mercy. "Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God. 5:5-8

"And you must not take a woman in addition to her sister as a rival to uncover her nakedness, that is, besides her during her lifetime. "‘And you must not come near a woman during the menstruation of her impurity to lay her nakedness bare. "‘And you must not give your emission as semen to the wife of your associate to become unclean by it. "‘And you must not allow the devoting of any of your offspring to Mo´lech. You must not profane the name of your God that way. I am Jehovah.

"And you must not lie down with a male the same as you lie down with a woman. It is a detestable thing. "‘And you must not give your emission to any beast to become unclean by it, and a woman should not stand before a beast to have connection with it. It is a violation of what is natural. "Do not make yourselves unclean by any of these things, because by all these things the nations whom I am sending out from before YOU have made themselves unclean. Consequently the land is unclean, and I shall bring punishment for its error upon it, and the land will vomit its inhabitants out. And YOU yourselves must keep my statutes and my judicial decisions, and YOU must not do any of all these detestable things, whether a native or an alien resident who is residing as an alien in YOUR midst. For all these detestable things the men of the land who were before YOU have done, so that the land is unclean. Then the land will not vomit YOU out for YOUR defiling it the same way as it will certainly vomit the nations out who were before YOU. In case anyone does any of all these detestable things, then the souls doing them must be cut off from among their people. And YOU must keep YOUR obligation to me not to carry on any of the detestable customs that have been carried on before YOU, that YOU may not make yourselves unclean by them. I am Jehovah YOUR God.’" Leviticus 18:4-30

"‘And in case an alien resident resides with you as an alien in YOUR land, YOU must not mistreat him. The alien resident who resides as an alien with YOU should become to YOU like a native of YOURS; and you must love him as yourself, for YOU became alien residents in the land of Egypt. I am Jehovah YOUR God. "‘YOU must not commit injustice in judging, in measuring, in weighing or in measuring liquids. YOU should prove to have accurate scales, accurate weights, an accurate e´phah and an accurate hin. Jehovah YOUR God I am, who have brought YOU out of the land of Egypt. So YOU must keep all my statutes and all my judicial decisions, and YOU must do them. I am Jehovah.’" Le 19:33:-37

A Prayer of Moses, the man of God. Lord, a habitation Thou -- Thou hast been, To us -- in generation and generation. 90:1

You turn human beings back to dust. You say to them, "Return to dust." To you a thousand years are like a day that has just gone by. They are like a few hours of the night. You sweep people away, and they die. They are like new grass that grows in the morning. 90:3-5

Jehovah is my shepherd; I shall not want. He restoreth my soul; he leadeth me in paths of righteousness for his name's sake. Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff, they comfort me.Thou preparest a table before me in the presence of mine enemies; thou hast anointed my head with oil; my cup runneth over. Surely, goodness and loving-kindness shall follow me all the days of my life; and I will dwell in the house of Jehovah for the length of the days. Psalm 23:1-7

He will weigh me in accurate scales And God will get to know my integrity. If my heart has been enticed toward a woman, And I kept lying in wait at the very entranceway of my companion, Let my wife do the grinding for another man, And over her let other men kneel down. For that would be loose conduct, And that would be an error for [attention by] the justices. For that is a fire that would eat clear to destruction, And among all my produce it would take root. If I used to refuse the judgment of my slave man Or of my slave girl in their case at law with me, Then what can I do when God rises up? And when he calls for an accounting, what can I answer him? Job 31:6, 9-14

Why are the nations in tumultuous agitation, and [why] do the peoples meditate a vain thing? The kings of the earth set themselves, and the princes plot together, against Jehovah and against his anointed one: Let us break their bonds asunder, and cast away their cords from us! He that dwelleth in the heavens shall laugh, the Lord shall have them in derision. Then will he speak to them in his anger, and in his fierce displeasure will he terrify them: And *I* have anointed my king upon Zion, the hill of my holiness. 2:1-6

Ask of me, and I will give thee nations for an inheritance, and for thy possession the ends of the earth: Thou shalt break them with a sceptre of iron, as a potter's vessel thou shalt dash them in pieces. And now, O kings, be ye wise, be admonished, ye judges of the earth. 2:8-10

And just as they did not approve of holding God in accurate knowledge, God gave them up to adisapproved mental state, to do the things not fitting, filled as they were with all unrighteousness, wickedness, covetousness, badness, being full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, malicious disposition, being whisperers, backbiters, haters of God, insolent, haughty, self-assuming, inventors of injurious things, disobedient to parents, without understanding, false to agreements, having no natural affection, merciless. Although these know full well the righteous decree of God, that those practicing such things are deserving of death, they not only keep on doing them but also consent with those practicing them. For I bear them witness that they have a zeal for God; but not according to accurate knowledge; for, because of not knowing the righteousness of God but seeking to establish their own, they did not subject themselves to the righteousness of God. For Christ is the end of the Law, so that everyone exercising faith may have righteousness. Romans 1:28-32;10:2-4. Jesus said in John 4:24, "God is a Spirit and they that worship Him must worship Him in spirit and in truth." For at present we see in hazy outline by means of a metal mirror, but then it will be face to face. At present I know partially, but then I shall know accurately even as I am accurately known. Now, however, there remain faith, hope, love, these three; but the greatest of these is love. 1 Corinthians 13:12,13

I am strong, and I offer sensible advice and sound judgment. By my power kings govern, and rulers make laws that are fair. Every honest leader rules with help from me. 8:14-16

Riches and honor are mine to give. So are wealth and lasting success. What I give is better than the finest gold, better than the purest silver. I do what is right and follow the path of justice. 8:18-20

In the past you were spiritually dead because of your sins and the things you did against God. Yes, in the past you lived the way the world lives, following the ruler of the evil powers that are above the earth. That same spirit is now working in those who refuse to obey God. In the past all of us lived like them, trying to please our sinful selves and doing all the things our bodies and minds wanted. We should have suffered God's anger because we were sinful by nature. We were the same as all other people. But God's mercy is great, and he loved us. Ephesians 2:1-4

For I am confident of this very thing, that he who started a good work in YOU will carry it to completion until the day of Jesus Christ. It is altogether right for me to think this regarding all of YOU, on account of my having YOU in my heart, all of YOU being sharers with me in the undeserved kindness, both in my [prison] bonds and in the defending and legally establishing of the good news. For God is my witness of how I am yearning for all of YOU in such tender affection as Christ Jesus has. And this is what I continue praying, that YOUR love may abound yet more and more with accurate knowledge and full discernment; that YOU may make sure of the more important things, so that YOU may be flawless and not be stumbling others up to the day of Christ, and may be filled with righteous fruit, which is through Jesus Christ, to God’s glory and praise. Philippians 1:6-11

I tell you the truth, we talk about what we know, and we tell about what we have seen, but you don't accept what we tell you. I have told you about things here on earth, and you do not believe me. So you will not believe me if I tell you about things of heaven. The only one who has ever gone up to heaven is the one who came down from heaven—the Son of Man. "Just as Moses lifted up the snake in the desert, the Son of Man must also be lifted up. So that everyone who believes can have everlasting life in him. John 3:11-15

I was so sure of all this that I made plans to visit you first so you could be blessed twice. I planned to visit you on my way to Macedonia and again on my way back. I wanted to get help from you for my trip to Judea. Do you think that I made these plans without really meaning it? Or maybe you think I make plans as the world does, so that I say yes, yes and at the same time no, no. But since you can believe God, you can believe that what we tell you is never both yes and no. The Son of God, Jesus Christ, that Silas and Timothy and I preached to you, was not yes and no. In Christ it has always been yes. 2 Corinthians 1:15-19

That is also why we, from the day we heard [of it], have not ceased praying for YOU and asking that YOU may be filled with the accurate knowledge of his will in all wisdom and spiritual comprehension, in order to walk worthily of Jehovah to the end of fully pleasing [him] as YOU go on bearing fruit in every good work and increasing in the accurate knowledge of God, being made powerful with all power to the extent of his glorious might so as to endure fully and be long-suffering with joy, thanking the Father who rendered YOU suitable for YOUR participation in the inheritance of the holy ones in the light.

He delivered us from the authority of the darkness and transferred us into the kingdom of the Son of his love, by means of whom we have our release by ransom, the forgiveness of our sins. He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation; because by means of him all [other] things were created in the heavens and upon the earth, the things visible and the things invisible, no matter whether they are thrones or lordships or governments or authorities. All [other] things have been created through him and for him. Colossians 1:9-16

and clothe yourselves with the new [personality], which through accurate knowledge is being made new according to the image of the One who created it, where there is neither Greek nor Jew, circumcision nor uncircumcision, foreigner, Scyth´i·an, slave, freeman, but Christ is all things and in all. Accordingly, as God’s chosen ones, holy and loved, clothe yourselves with the tender affections of compassion, kindness, lowliness of mind, mildness, and long-suffering. Continue putting up with one another and forgiving one another freely if anyone has a cause for complaint against another. Even as Jehovah freely forgave YOU, so do YOU also. But, besides all these things, [clothe yourselves with] love, for itis a perfect bond of union. Also, let the peace of the Christ control in YOUR hearts, for YOU were, in fact, called to it in one body. And show yourselves thankful. Let the word of the Christ reside in YOU richly in all wisdom. Keep on teaching and admonishing one another with psalms, praises to God, spiritual songs with graciousness, singing in YOUR hearts to Jehovah. And whatever it is that YOU do in word or in work, do everything in the name of the Lord Jesus, thanking God the Father through him. YOU wives, be in subjection to [your] husbands, as it is becoming in [the] Lord. YOU husbands, keep on loving [your] wives and do not be bitterly angry with them. YOU children, be obedient to[your] parents in everything, for this is well-pleasing in [the] Lord. YOU fathers, do not be exasperating your children, so that they do not become downhearted. YOU slaves, be obedient in everything to those who are [your] masters in a fleshly sense, not with acts of eye-service, as men pleasers, but with sincerity of heart, with fear of Jehovah. Whatever YOU are doing, work at it whole-souled as to Jehovah, and not to men, for YOU know that it is from Jehovah YOU will receive the due reward of the inheritance. SLAVE for the Master, Christ. Certainly the one that is doing wrong will receive back what they wrongly did, and there is no partiality. Colossians 3:10-25

I therefore exhort, first of all, that supplications, prayers, intercessions, offerings of thanks, be made concerning all sorts of men, concerning kings and all those who are in high station; in order that we may goon leading a calm and quiet life with full Godly devotion and seriousness. This is fine and acceptable in the sight of our Savior, God, whose will is that all sorts of people should be saved and come to an accurate knowledge of truth. For there is One God, and one mediator between God and mankind, a man, Christ Jesus, 1 Timothy 2:1-5

So, flee from the desires incidental to youth, but pursue righteousness, faith, love, peace, along with those who call upon the Lord out of a clean heart. Further, turn down foolish and ignorant questionings, knowing they produce fights. But a slave of the Lord does not need to fight, but needs to be gentle toward all, qualified to teach, keeping himself restrained under evil, instructing with mildness those not favorably disposed; as perhaps God may give them repentance leading to an accurate knowledge of truth, and they may come back to their proper senses out from the snare of the Devil, seeing that they have been caught alive by him for the will of that one. 2 Timothy 2:22-26

But know this, that in the last days critical times hard to deal with will be here. For men will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, self-assuming, haughty, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, disloyal, having no natural affection, not open to any agreement, slanderers, without self-control, fierce, without love of goodness, betrayers, headstrong, puffed up [with pride], lovers of pleasures rather than lovers of God, having a form of Godly devotion but proving false to its power; and from these turn away. For from these arise those men who slyly work their way into households and lead as their captives weak women loaded down with sins, led by various desires, always learning and yet never able to come to an accurate knowledge of truth. 2 Timothy 3:1-7

For if we practice sin willfully after having received the accurate knowledge of the truth, there is no longer any sacrifice for sins left, but [there is] a certain fearful expectation of judgment and [there is] a fiery jealousy that is going to consume those in opposition. Hebrews 10:26,27

Certainly if, after having escaped from the defilements of the world by an accurate knowledge of the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, they get involved again with these very things and are overcome, the final conditions have become worse for them than the first. For it would have been better for them not to have accurately known the path of righteousness than after knowing it accurately to turn away from the holy commandment delivered to them. The saying of the true proverb has happened to them: "The dog has returned to its own vomit, and the sow that was bathed to rolling in the mire." 2 Peter 2:20-22

“As for you, son of man, your people who talk together about you by the walls and at the doors of the houses, say to one another, each to his brother, ‘Come, and hear what the word is that comes from Jehovah.’ And they come to you as people come, and they sit before you as my people, and they hear what you say but they will not do it; for with lustful talk in their mouths they act; their heart is set on their gain. And behold, you are to them like one who sings lustful songs with a beautiful voice and plays well on an instrument, for they hear what you say, but they will not do it. Ezekiel 33:30-32. ESV. In the book of Revelation, chapters 2 and 3 contain the seven letters that God gave unto Christ to give John to be sent to seven churches that existed in John’s time in Asia Minor. For this to be true there would have to be seven churches today representing the people on earth. For reference here are the seven churches and the church age each “represents.” Ephesus - the apostolic period of the church (A.D. 30-100). Smyrna - the age of persecution of the church in the second and third centuries. Pergamos - the age of the state church, beginning with Constantine and continued until the first pope was recognized to have authority over the Catholic church. The Mother of all Harlots tied at the hip with all religion's who go against Jesus' teachings claiming Jesus is God and also claiming that Jesus has returned or his presence was in 1914.(A.D. 313-590). Thyatira - this church corresponds to the time period when the church was firmly established not only as a church, but also as a state. (A.D. 590-1517). It begins with the first pope, Gregory the great, and continues to the time of the Protestant Reformation. Sardis - this church represents the Reformation era of the church. (A.D. 1517-1790). Philadelphia - represents the age of the missionary church which began with the rise of modern missions under William Carey. (A.D. 1730-1900). Laodicea - represents the apostate church of the last days (A.D. 1900-present). Which began with Charles Taz Russell. Russell called himself the Laodicean messenger its on his pyramid shaped gravestone within which when he was alive he got his preditions out of a pyramid, many false predictions including the 1914 date. I would like to concentrate on the last church mentioned, Laodicea, because I do believe that its description by the Lord Jesus in Revelation 3:14-22 does resemble the sorry condition of the Churches in our own time and the worst apostate church, Jesus spoke of before his death saying his teachings would go apostate, of the people world-wide. Here is the passage in its entirety. “And to the angel of the church in Laodicea write: ‘The words of the Amen, the faithful and true witness, the beginning of God’s creation. “‘I know your works: you are neither cold nor hot. Would that you were either cold or hot! So, because you are lukewarm, and neither hot nor cold, I will spit you out of my mouth. For you say, I am rich, I have prospered, and I need nothing, not realizing that you are wretched, pitiable, poor, blind, and naked. I counsel you to buy from me gold refined by fire, so that you may be rich, and white garments so that you may clothe yourself and the shame of your nakedness may not be seen, and salve to anoint your eyes, so that you may see. Those whom I love, I reprove and discipline, so be zealous and repent. Behold, I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, I will come in to him and eat with him, and he with me. The one who conquers, I will grant him to sit with me on my throne, as I also conquered and sat down with my Father on his throne. He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches.’” Revelation 3:14-22 ESV Needless to say, I have also heard various interpretations of what Jesus meant by “lukewarm.” Some feel that this is describing a church that has lost its fire or zeal for Jehovah. It is distracted that’s all. All they need to do is get busy again sincerely repent and get out of the Watchtower's teachings and out of her. God nor his Son Jesus are not in any of the earthly churches. The Word Bethel meant House of God it became "house of hurtfulness". Causing injury or suffering; damaging. One of the characteristics of a destructive religion is an enforced policy that requires the members to shun anyone who leaves or gets expelled from the religion. It is a common trait among esoteric movements that claim to be "the Truth." Members are required to sever association with even their own family members and relatives who leave. The consequences of this harsh doctrinal policy are extreme, shattering family relationships and leaving the victims emotionally and spiritually devastated. Suicides or attempted suicides are not uncommon. Others have said that Jesus’ description, taken in its entirety, gives us a picture of a church full of unregenerate, unredeemed, lost people who are simply religious. I am in agreement with the latter, and who don't change their ways and seek The Way Jesus to his Father. I also am in full agreement that Jesus’ description of the church of Laodicea is a valid comparison with the 21st Century church we are in now or age. Let’s dig some here in this passage to see what message Jesus was pointing out to us that we can compare to our own experience. First, he says that they are neither cold nor hot, but are lukewarm. This lukewarmness could also be described as halfheartedness. In the passage I placed at the top of this post we read of God’s description of the Judean exiles in Babylon with Ezekiel. He says they delight in “religious” things, but only to be entertained by them, not to hear from God in order to obey Him nor the son of man Jesus. Does that sound familiar? The Seeker Sensitive churches actually create a climate that encourages this. The next characteristic we see in v 17 is that these people in Laodicea were backsliders. They were sinful unregenerate people. The Puritans referred to these people as “temporary Christians.” They believed when it was convenient for them to do so, but as soon as things got tough they split. As long as the only requirements put on them are religious in nature then they stay and appear to be part of the church, however, as soon as God’s genuine requirements of personal holiness are brought to bear they can’t stand. They are all form and function and organization with no spiritual substance. They can stay and be content in a formal church setting saying we have no idols in our church, but forget that repentance leads them to the Father and Son.. The Laodiceans were also indifferent. “Hey, so what if that speaker we had in here last week is anti-religion, because we're the truth, he spoke well and I got a lot out of his message.” I call this the favoristism and partially complex. The bottom one of the drawers partially came apart, well that wasn't my favorite anyway. We find this a lot today in the Leaders of the churches today and their mouthpieces. They accuse everyone who has a problem with their indifference of being judgmental. I see also that since these are unredeemed, unregenerate people they are also subject to reprobation. They have no way to control their sinful desires and the hurtful desires that they show other's in shunning, because they have not the Holy Spirit. Therefore, they are wretched, miserable, poor, blind and naked. Since they can’t control their sinful desires they do away with the “commands of Love” so that all are welcome as long as you dress well for God? After all, God doesn’t expect anyone to be perfect and He loves everyone, but he hates a false witness and lies also those who cause divisions. So come on in. They are self-righteous the whole lot of the world who looks to the god of this age with all the desires of the flesh. Their doctrines have blinded them to the point that they see themselves as having a corner on God. God know's the character in heart of every human being. Paul wrote, "We are not trying to please men but God, who see's our hearts." 1 Thessalonians 2:4, NIV. They have him while everyone else calling themselves Christians are simply bogged down in fad of times old-fashioned religion. They say they are rich, have become wealthy, and have need of nothing. Even in their paganism they believe they are on the inside track with God while, in reality, they are in spiritual poverty, They are full of the world and destitute with God. Their spiritual blindness keeps them from seeing their own condition. Instead they see what they want to see. When a believer rebukes them or shares the truth to them they scoff and refuse to listen. This is Spiritual Pride. Matthew 13:49 "So it will be at the end of the age. The angels will come forth, separate the wicked from among the just, Satan may be their god (or the one they worship). The Bible clearly identifies Satan as an angel. When the world rejects the truth, they will be blinded by Satan. He will do anything within his grasp to keep his followers from seeing the glory of Christ in the hope that they will never be persuaded to turn to the truth. Before Satan can blind anyone, there must first be a rejection of the truth. Look at 2 Thessalonians 2:11,12, And for this reason God will send them strong delusion, that they should believe the lie, that they all may be judged who did not believe the truth but had pleasure in unrighteousness. So, does Jesus’ description of the church at Laodicea bear any resemblance to our 21st Century church? I say yes. We are in the midst of a very long and protracted downgrade fought in his day. We are reaping the fruits more so thorns of well over an hundred years of growing apostasy that began with the the church in the 19th century. Manmade Humanism has all but replaced the genuine Gospel with a counterfeit gospel that preaches a different Jesus. Spiritual blindness is rampant. Church after church is falling under the spell of Satan and his clone demons, where within the sheep are entertained and taught to focus on each other rather than God. The high-jacking rejection of the the church and temple of God is nearly complete. There are two paths I see before us one leads to everlasting life the other to destruction. Be aware during the Great Tribulation the world will have no mediator to God His Son Jesus and prayers will not be heard. God will unrestrain Satan. God’s will be done. People don’t reject the truth because they are blind; they are blinded because they have rejected the truth. God allows us to go down the path we love. If we love the truth, God will reveal Himself to us. If we choose the world or its religions over the truth, God will allow Satan to blind us. However, the choice has already been made. The decision can be reversed, but not without turning from the world and to the truth. As long as a person loves the world, they will remain blind.

What Jesus Never Said!

2008-10-30T18:26:00.000-07:00

I am God Almighty worship me> Jesus God's Son never said. compare /w Matthew 3:16,17; 4:9,10; 20:23; Mark 10:18; 12:29,30; 13:32; 15:34; Luke 4:18; 20:9-16; 22:42; 23:46; John 4:20-24; 5:19; 6:38; 7:16; 8:17,18; 14:26; 17:3; & John 20:17..There are so many scriptures that I could add to prove Jesus was sent by Jehovah God Almighty, but if we don't seek God in spirit and truth, John 4:24 through His Son Jesus, Romans 5:11 & 1 Timothy 2:5 >> keyword>> through, we will not see, and sadly not acknowledge that Jesus Has a God whom he calls Father.

For by the grace given me I say to every one of you: Do not think of yourself more highly than you ought, but rather think of yourself with sober judgment, in accordance with the measure of faith God has given you. Just as each of us has one body with many members, and these members do not all have the same function, so in Christ we who are many form one body, and each member belongs to all the others. 12:3-5

Or do you think Scripture says without reason that the spirit he caused to live in us envies intensely? But he gives us more grace. That is why Scripture says: "God opposes the proud, but gives grace to the humble."Submit yourselves, then, to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you. 4:5-7

The following represents such a mirror. It presents the opposite of what the biblical record reports Jesus as saying. What we find is that this opposite describes pretty accurately what we really should hold to be true about nature, despite religious or organizational loyalties? Huh! In order to experience the full impact, you may need to continually remind yourself that this is the opposite of what Jesus said.

Blessed are the rich…Blessed are the happy...Blessed are the aggressive and power hungry...Blessed are those who get away with doing wrong…Blessed are the guilty and the troublemakers…Blessed are the those who are apathetic, who stand for nothing…Blessed are you when you get back at someone, and spread gossip… Compare w/ Mt 5: 3-12...And when you pray, do so dramatically in front of crowds of people, or on television, and you will be richly rewarded by men who will think you holy, and will send you money for your antics, and sitting in churches on Sunday will make you righteous. Even the poor will give up their meager wages. Compare w/Mt 6: 5-8... Hoard your treasure on earth and to not share with other's for they don't have the same religion, for people will think you deserving of God's love…Compare w/Mt 6: 19-21.

There are six things which Jehovah hateth; Yea, seven which are an abomination unto him: Haughty eyes, a lying tongue, And hands that shed innocent blood; A heart that deviseth wicked purposes, Feet that are swift in running to mischief, A false witness that uttereth lies, And he that soweth discord among brethren. My son, keep the commandment of thy father, And forsake not the law of thy mother: Proverbs 6:16-20

By serving money, you serve God. Material success is the badge of honor in spiritual matters. So it is right to worry about your reputation, about what you eat and drink, and the way you dress. Seek first your own satisfaction, and the world will be at peace. And when you judge others, make sure you are conscious of your own image…Compare w/Mt 6: 25 - 7: 2...Welcome false prophets who come to you in sheep's clothing. Support them with your hard-earned money. And remember, everyone who says to me, "Lord, Lord," shall enter the kingdom of heaven; so speak as much religious jargon as you can, and don't worry about your heart. Compare w/Mt 7: 15-23.

It is the successful and socially accepted people that I have come for; I have no interest in the rest, and neither should you. Separate yourselves from them, and associate only with the hypocrites who pretend to be righteous. Learn what this means: "I desire image, not purity, pretension, not authenticity, class distinction, not brotherhood;" I come to call those who cannot possibly respond to me, for they have already justified their sins in their own minds, and have no taste for being forgiven…Compare w/Mt 9: 12, 13...I am sending you out like wolves among the sheep. Be shrewd as snakes and take whatever you can get…Compare w/Mt 10: 16...If you want to be perfect, go, build up your possessions, forget the poor. I tell you the truth, only the rich and successful and power-hungry will enter the Kingdom of Heaven, so be like them. Again, I tell you, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a sincere and simple believer to enter the Kingdom of God. Compare w/Mt 19: 21-26.

Whoever wants to be great among you should seek to be rich and powerful, and discriminate against those who cannot be used. Compare w/Mt 20: 26... Blessed are the rich…Blessed are the satisfied…Blessed are the partygoers…Blessed are you when men love you and include you and compliment you, and accept your name as honorable because of the Son of Man…But woe to you who are poor…Woe to you who are hungry…Woe to you who weep and mourn…Woe to you when men speak ill of you…But I tell you, hate your enemies, do evil to those who hate you, plot against those who curse you, condemn those who mistreat you. If someone strikes you on the one cheek, stab him with a knife… If you love those who hate you, you go against a long and honorable tradition of war and vengeance. If you lend to those who can't pay you back, that doesn't make good economic sense… Be critical, just as your father is critical… Judge harshly, and others will be afraid to judge you. Condemn vehemently, and you will be above others' condemnations. Take from others, and you will have more than you had before. Only the sightless can lead the blind into this pit that leads nowhere…Compare w/Lu 6: 20-39.

If anyone would come after me, he must be happy with himself and all his faults, accept himself for what he is, throw away responsibility toward others and do what he wants… What good is it for a man to gain personal selfhood, and not be financially well-off? Compare w/Lu 9: 23-25...For everyone who exalts himself will be honored, and he who humbles himself is not opportunistic enough to deserve cheap social praise…Compare w/Lu 18: 14...Keep the children away from me, for they are tainted with original sin. I tell you the truth, you must be clever and indirect and insincere to enter the Kingdom of God…Compare w/Lu 18: 16-17...My house will be a television set, that speaks of greed…Compare w/Lu 19: 46.

God placed before Adam a simple request, to see if he loved God enough to obey Him. Before the first woman was created, God had commanded Adam: "You are free to eat from any tree in the garden; but you must not eat from the tree of knowledge of good and bad for [in the day that] you eat of it you will surely die." Genesis 2:16,17. Thus God said to Adam and warned him that for disobedience he would die, which caused death to all mankind, we reap what we sow. Galatians 6:7

It is astonishing in the face of such transparent evasions of wolves that religion has any adherents at all. But religions are tough and no one seems to be able to break them into the truth of the scriptures, so it seems we are on our own with Jehovah God, he makes the call again His Son Obeys. Either they make no contentions which are subject to disproof or they quickly redesign doctrine after disproof, but sure know how to call out Lord, Lord. The fact that religions can be so shamelessly dishonest, so contemptuous of the intelligence of their adherents, and still flourish does not speak very well for the tough-mindedness of the believers. But it does indicate, if a demonstration were needed, that near the core of the religious experience is something remarkably resistant to rational inquiry and evidentially will be destroyed.

For there will be a period of time when they will not put up with the healthful teaching, but, in accord with their own desires, they will accumulate teachers for themselves to have their ears tickled; and they will turn their ears away from the truth, whereas they will be turned aside to false stories. 2 Timothy 4:3,4.

NOW WE LOOK AT: WHAT ONE OF THE APOSTLES OF JESUS SAID: These are fountains without water, and mists driven by a violent storm, and for them the blackness of darkness has been reserved. For they utter swelling expressions of no profit, and by the desires of the flesh and by loose habits they entice those who are just escaping from people who conduct themselves in error. While they are promising them freedom, they themselves are existing as slaves of corruption. For whoever is overcome by another is enslaved by this one. Certainly if, after having escaped from the defilements of the world by an accurate knowledge of the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, they get involved again with these very things and are overcome, the final conditions have become worse for them than the first. For it would have been better for them not to have accurately known the path of righteousness than after knowing it accurately to turn away from the holy commandment delivered to them. The saying of the true proverb has happened to them: "The dog has returned to its own vomit, and the sow that was bathed to rolling in the mire." 2 Peter 2:17-22

Did Jesus accept worship?

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Why have the nations been in tumult And the national groups themselves kept muttering an empty thing? The kings of earth take their stand And high officials themselves have massed together as one Against Jehovah and against His anointed one, [Saying:] "Let us tear their bands apart And cast their cords away from us!" The very One sitting in the heavens will laugh; Jehovah himself will hold them in derision. At that time he will speak to them in his anger And in his hot displeasure he will disturb them, [Saying:] "I, even I, have installed my king Upon Zion, my holy mountain." Let me refer to the decree of Jehovah; He has said to me: "You are my son; I, today, I have become your Father. Ask of me, that I may give nations as your inheritance And the ends of the earth as your own possession. You will break them with an iron scepter, As though a potter’s vessel you will dash them to pieces." And now, O kings, exercise insight; Let yourselves be corrected, O judges of the earth. Serve Jehovah with fear And be joyful with trembling. Kiss the son, that He may not become incensed And YOU may not perish [from] the way, For his anger flares up easily. Happy are all those taking refuge in him. Psalms 2:1-12. For this very reason also God exalted him to a superior position and kindly gave him the name that is above every [other] name, so that in the name of Jesus every knee should bend of those in heaven and those on earth and those under the ground, and every tongue should openly acknowledge that Jesus Christ is Lord to the Glory of God the Father. Consequently, my beloved ones, in the way that YOU have always obeyed, not during my presence only, but now much more readily during my absence, keep working out YOUR own salvation with fear and trembling; for God is the one that, for the sake of [his] good pleasure, is acting within YOU in order for YOU both to will and to act. Keep doing all things free from murmurings and arguments, that YOU may come to be blameless and innocent, children of God without a blemish in among a crooked and twisted generation, among whom YOU are shining as illuminators in the world, Philippians 2:9-15

Gather us back, O God of our Salvation, And break off your vexation with us. Is it to time indefinite that you will be incensed at us? Will you draw out your anger to generation after generation? Will you yourself not enliven us again, That your people themselves may rejoice in you? Show us, O Jehovah, your loving-kindness, And your Salvation may you give to us. I will hear what the [true] God Jehovah will speak, For he will speak Peace as he is King of Righteousness to his people and to his loyal ones, But let them not return to self-confidence. Surely his Salvation is near to those fearing him, For glory to reside in our land. As for loving-kindness and trueness, they have met each other; Righteousness and peace—they have kissed each other. Exalt ye the LORD our God, and worship at His footstool (The Earth) for He is Holy Exalt the LORD our God, and Worship at His Holy hill; Zion for the LORD our God is Holy. Psalms 85:4-10; 99:5,9

In the Old Testament, texts like Proverbs 3:13-20 and especially all of Proverbs 8 we find a personification of God's wisdom, the giving of a son his attributes to and —the wisdom of God. Here wisdom, personified as a Jesus is the Logos John 1:1-3, His Father's Word, called a woman (because the Hebrew word hokmah like the Greek word Sophia is a female noun) is said to be present and to have helped God create as God's master worker. This is of course a way of saying that God's creating involved a Divine plan that entailed Wisdom. But there is more, for in Proverbs 8 Wisdom is calling God's people back to God, back to God's wise teaching about how to live a good and Godly life through Jesus' teachings of his Father's Kingdom come his Father's Will be done. Wisdom came down from heaven and urged God's people to repent, but they rejected Wisdom and so he returned to heaven to be with God. All of this needs to be borne in mind when we look carefully at the teachings of Jesus, because in fact, it is especially apparent in both Matthew's and John's Gospel that Jesus is being portrayed as God's wisdom come to earth in the flesh in the form not of a book like Torah, but as a person—Jesus and not as God made flesh, God can't be seen and God can't die. Jesus is seen as the human embodiment of the spirit of God in truth of his Father, and God's living revelation come in person. For example consider Matthew 11:19-20, (NIV). We have here a parallel construction, "The Son of Man came eating and drinking, and they say, 'Here is a glutton and a drunkard, a friend of tax collectors and sinners." But wisdom is vindicated by her actions." It is quite clear in this case that the one called Wisdom is the Son of Man. Jesus is revealing his divine qualities given him by his Father, and origins. The Divine Wisdom Of God given him, but Jesus worshiped God in Spirit and Truth as he told other's to as God is Spirit and His Spirit is Holy.. Proverbs 8:22-31. The woman said to him: "Sir, I perceive you are a prophet. Our forefathers worshiped in this mountain; but YOU people say that in Jerusalem is the place where persons ought to worship." Jesus said to her: "Believe me, woman, The hour is coming when neither in this mountain nor in Jerusalem will YOU people worship the Father. YOU worship what YOU do not know; we worship what we know, because salvation originates with the Jews. Nevertheless, the hour is coming, and it is now, when the true worshipers will worship the Father with spirit and truth, for, indeed, the Father is looking for suchlike ones to worship him. God is a Spirit, and those worshiping him Must worship with spirit and truth." The woman said to him: "I know that Mes·si´ah is coming, who is called Christ. Whenever that one arrives, he will declare all things to us openly." Jesus said to her: "I who am speaking to you am he." John 4:19-26

Just as Wisdom is portrayed as a woman who would protect and nurture her spiritual offspring in Proverbs 8 and elsewhere, so Jesus portrays Himself as like a mother bird who would gather her chicks, in this case the residents of Jerusalem, under her wings, but they would not come (see Luke 13:34). But it is not only in the Synoptic Gospels that Jesus is portrayed and depicts himself as the Wisdom of God come in the flesh, this is also a prominent theme in the Gospel of John. The truth is that Jesus never once referred to himself as the Creator or God—not once! Isn't that interesting? Wouldn't you think that, as the personification of the truth, if Jesus were really God Almighty that he would have just plainly said so when he walked among men? Would it be unreasonable of us to expect that of him? However, Jesus often referred to himself as God's Son. There are many daughters that have shown capableness, but you—you have ascended above them all. Charm may be false, and prettiness may be vain; [but] the woman that fears Jehovah is the one that procures praise for herself. GIVE her of the fruitage of her hands, and let her works praise her even in the gates. Proverbs 31:29-31

Zion heard and began to rejoice, And the dependent towns of Judah began to be joyful By reason of your judicial decisions, O Jehovah. For you, O Jehovah, are the Most High over all the earth; You are very High in your ascent over all gods and all kings of the earth. O YOU lovers of Jehovah, hate what is bad. He is guarding the souls of his loyal ones; Out of the hand of the wicked ones he delivers them. Light itself has flashed up for the righteous one, And rejoicing even for the ones upright in heart. Rejoice in Jehovah, O YOU righteous ones, And give thanks to his holy memorial. 97:8-12

And cursed is the one acting cunningly when there exists in his drove a male animal, and he is making a vow and sacrificing a ruined one to Jehovah. For I am a Great King," Jehovah of armies has said, "and my name will be fear-inspiring among the nations." "Look! I am sending to YOU people E·li´jah the prophet before the coming of the great and fear-inspiring day of Jehovah. And he must turn the heart of fathers back toward sons, and the heart of sons back toward fathers; in order that I may not come and actually strike the earth with a devoting [of it] to destruction." Malachi 1:14 4:5,6

Lamb of God, Lion of Judah: Jehovah spoke"it" Holy Spirit of His Son Jesus unto the prophets: This is a prophecy in the OT that has not occurred Yet as there are many, another at Daniel 7:13,14 and 12:1. But did Jesus accept worship? Where in the Bible did Jesus claim to be God or accept worship? Never! He told people to worship God not him. Jesus' apostles were not under any Trinitarian delusion back then, they knew Jesus is the Son of the Living God.

A good example of that is John 8:58. That's where most translations record Jesus as saying that "before Abraham was born, I am." That is literally what the Greek text says and the translators merely transferred that expression into English. Trinitarians, of course, have seized upon this verse in a hackneyed attempt to prove that Jesus was claiming to be Jehovah. But transliterating the Greek expression into English, as most popular versions have done, produces a grammatically incorrect and nonsensical statement. If "I am" is another name for Jehovah, as Trinitarians insist, then "I am" and Jehovah ought to be interchangeable. So, insert the name Jehovah for "I am" in that verse and you can begin to grasp the point about transliteration. As another example of the difficulties facing translators, take Matthew 27:46, where Jesus said: "My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?" The Greek transliteration says: "The God of me, the God of me, with what left you down in me?" Does that expression make any sense? Obviously the translator had to forget about using a word for word rendering and instead translate the thought that Jesus was expressing to God so that the reader might be able to understand as easily as if he understood the nuances of the original language. Here is the way one version translated John 1:4. Here is the way the verse was translated in the Contemporary English Version.

The book of the history of Jesus Christ, son of David, son of Abraham: Abraham became father to Isaac; Matthew 1:1,2. Abram, or Abraham as he was afterwards called, was not born in Canaan; God brought him from his own land to live there. Abraham loved and trusted God and had faith. The Holy Scriptures tells us that "he was called the Friend of God." God promised him that from his family a saviour was to come. This was the great promise of God, and through it the greatest of all blessings was to be given to sinful man. Holy Scriptures: The Power of God unto Our Salvation. It is said in the New Testament that Abraham saw, or foresaw, the day of Jesus, and was glad. He was glad there was a Saviour for his own soul, who would be a Saviour for all those who would believe in Him, in every age. He knew that God is His Salvation in sending His Lamb Jesus. Abraham's willingness to give up his son Issac led to a precusor of Jesus' death a gift Yahweh Jehovah God gave to the world in His Lamb and Only begotten Son Y'shua Jesus.

Habakkuk 1:12 reads: "Are you not from long ago, O Jehovah? O my God, my Holy One, you do not die. O Jehovah, for a judgment you have set it; and, O Rock, for a reproving you have founded it." BINGO = BE IN NOW GOD ONLY THROUGH HIS SON JESUS! SO how can Jesus be God if God does not die and God can't be seen? Is that such a hard thought to ponder? Jesus was seen by many, Jesus did die for the world.

"For God loved the world so much that he gave his only-begotten Son, in order that everyone exercising faith in him might not be destroyed but have everlasting life. For God sent forth his Son into the world, not for him to judge the world, but for the world to be saved through him. He that exercises faith in him is not to be judged. He that does not exercise faith has been judged already, because he has not exercised faith in the name of the only-begotten Son of God. John 3:16-18

The destiny of these civilizations, as recorded in scripture, is a witness to all the world: if we don't have the word of God or don't cling to and heed the word of God, we will wander off in strange paths and be lost as individuals, as children of God. As with voices from the dust, the prophets of the LORD cry out to us on earth today: take hold of the scriptures! Cling to God rely on him, to them who spoke of him, His words, walk by them, live by them, rejoice in them, feast on them. Don't nibble. They are "the power of God unto salvation" that lead us back to our Savior Jesus Christ.

If the Savior were among us in the flesh today, He would teach us from the scriptures as He taught when He walked upon the earth. In the synagogue at Nazareth, And he began to say unto them, This day is this scripture fulfilled in your ears. Later when the Sadducees and Pharisees posed a difficult question, "Jesus answered and said unto them, "YOU are searching the Scriptures, because YOU think that by means of them YOU will have everlasting life; and these are the very ones that bear witness about me. And yet YOU do not want to come to me that YOU may have life. I do not accept glory from men, but I well know that YOU do not have the love of God in YOU. I have come in the name of my Father, but YOU do not receive me; if someone else arrived in his own name, YOU would receive that one. How can YOU believe, when YOU are accepting glory from one another and YOU are not seeking the glory that is from the only God? Do not think that I will accuse YOU to the Father; there is one that accuses YOU, Moses, in whom YOU have put YOUR hope. In fact, if YOU believed Moses YOU would believe me, for that one wrote about me. But if YOU do not believe the writings of that one, how will YOU believe my sayings?" John 5:39-47 see Deuteronomy 19:15. As God was and is with Jesus..AND THE TRUE BELIEVER'S IN FATHER AND SON AS ONE! Again I truly say to YOU, If two of YOU on earth agree concerning anything of importance that they should request, it will take place for them due to my Father in heaven. For where there are two or three gathered together in my name, there I am in their midst.” Matthew 18:19,20...Does Not! have to be in any earthly church for God nor His Son are there.

that Jesus is the Christ the Son of God, and that, because of believing, YOU may have life by means of his name. John 20:28-31. I will reflect on the word OBEISANCE below as well as whom we are to worship. Jesus prostrated himself to the One whom he called "the only true God," his God and his Father. In the account in the Garden of Gethsemane, it says of Jesus: And going a little way forward, he fell upon his face, praying and saying: "My Father, if it is possible, let this cup pass away from me. Yet, not as I will, but as you will." Matthew 26:39

The act of falling upon one's face is the Hebrew way of saying that a person prostrates themselves flat out in an act worship, or obeisance is to bow down. Only someone intent on deceiving themselves would argue that Jesus was not doing an act of worship before the Living God Jehovah.

Then Jesus said to him: "Go away, Satan! For it is written, ‘It is Jehovah your God you must worship, and it is to him alone you must render sacred service." You have heard that it was said, "You shall love your neighbor and hate your enemy." But I say to you, Love your enemies, bless those who curse you, do good to those who hate you, and pray for those who despitefully use you and persecute you, No one can serve two masters. For either he will hate the one and love the other, or else he will hold to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and mammon. And then many will be offended, and will betray one another, and will hate one another. Matthew 4:10; 5:43,44; 6:24

For this very reason also God exalted him to a superior position and kindly gave him the name that is above every [other] name, so that in the name of Jesus every knee should bend of those in heaven and those on earth and those under the ground, and every tongue should openly acknowledge that Jesus Christ is Lord to the glory of God the Father. 2:9-11

and after he had been made perfect he became responsible for everlasting salvation to all those obeying him, because he has been specifically called by God a high priest according to the manner of Mel·chiz´e·dek. Concerning him we have much to say and hard to be explained, since YOU have become dull in YOUR hearing. For, indeed, although YOU ought to be teachers in view of the time, YOU again need someone to teach YOU from the beginning the elementary things of the sacred pronouncements of God; and YOU have become such as need milk, not solid food. For everyone that partakes of milk is unacquainted with the word of righteousness, for he is a babe. But solid food belongs to mature people, to those who through use have their perceptive powers trained to distinguish both right and wrong. 5:9-14

"I am the true vine, and my Father is the cultivator. Every branch in me not bearing fruit he takes away, and every one bearing fruit he cleans, that it may bear more fruit. YOU are already clean because of the word that I have spoken to YOU. Remain in union with me, and I in union with YOU. Just as the branch cannot bear fruit of itself unless it remains in the vine, in the same way neither can YOU, unless YOU remain in union with me. I am the vine, YOU are the branches. He that remains in union with me, and I in union with him, this one bears much fruit; because apart from me YOU can do nothing at all. If anyone does not remain in union with me, he is cast out as a branch and is dried up; and men gather those branches up and pitch them into the fire and they are burned. If YOU remain in union with me and my sayings remain in YOU, ask whatever YOU wish and it will take place for YOU. My Father is glorified in this, that YOU keep bearing much fruit and prove yourselves my disciples. Just as the Father has loved me and I have loved YOU, remain in my love. If YOU observe my commandments, YOU will remain in my love, just as I have observed the commandments of the Father and remain in his love.

"These things I have spoken to YOU, that my joy may be in YOU and YOUR joy may be made full. This is my commandment, that YOU love one another just as I have loved YOU. No one has love greater than this, that someone should surrender his soul in behalf of his friends. YOU are my friends if YOU do what I am commanding YOU. I no longer call YOU slaves, because a slave does not know what his master does. But I have called YOU friends, because all the things I have heard from my Father I have made known to YOU. YOU did not choose me, but I chose YOU, and I appointed YOU to go on and keep bearing fruit and that YOUR fruit should remain; in order that no matter what YOU ask the Father in my name he might give it to YOU.

"These things I command YOU, that YOU love one another. If the world hates YOU, YOU know that it has hated me before it hated YOU. If YOU were part of the world, the world would be fond of what is its own. Now because YOU are no part of the world, but I have chosen YOU out of the world, on this account the world hates YOU. Bear in mind the word I said to YOU, A slave is not greater than his master. If they have persecuted me, they will persecute YOU also; if they have observed my word, they will observe YOURS also. But they will do all these things against YOU on account of my name, because they do not know him that sent me. If I had not come and spoken to them, they would have no sin; but now they have no excuse for their sin. He that hates me hates also my Father. If I had not done among them the works that no one else did, they would have no sin; but now they have both seen and hated me as well as my Father. But it is that the word written in their Law may be fulfilled, ‘They hated me without cause.’ When the helper arrives that I will send YOU from the Father, the spirit of the truth, which proceeds from the Father, that one will bear witness about me; and YOU, in turn, are to bear witness, because YOU have been with me from when I began. John 15:1-27

Those who hate you shall be clothed with shame; and the tent of the wicked shall be no more. The foolish shall not stand in Your sight. You hate all doers of iniquity. Have mercy on me, O Jehovah; see my trouble from those who hate me, You who lift me up from the gates of death, You have also given me the neck of my enemies; so that I might destroy those who hate me. Your hand shall find out all Your enemies; Your right hand shall find out those who hate You. Look on my enemies; for they are many; and they hate me with cruel hatred. Evil shall slay the wicked; and those who hate the righteous shall be held guilty. Job 8:22, Psalms 5:5; 9:13; 18:40; 21:8; 25:19; 34:21. You love righteousness, and hate wickedness; therefore God, Your God, has anointed You with the oil of gladness above Your fellows. Psalms 45:7

All things have been delivered to me by my Father, and no one fully knows the Son but the Father, neither does anyone fully know the Father but the Son and anyone to whom the Son is willing to reveal him. But looking at the windstorm, he got afraid and, after starting to sink, he cried out: "Lord, save me!" Immediately stretching out his hand Jesus caught hold of him and said to him: "You with little faith, why did you give way to doubt?" And after they got up into the boat, the windstorm abated. Then those in the boat did obeisance to him, saying: "You are really God’s Son." In answer Simon Peter said: "You are the Christ, the Son of the living God." In response Jesus said to him: "Happy you are, Simon son of Jo´nah, because flesh and blood did not reveal [it] to you, but my Father who is in the heavens did. Matthew 11:27; 14:30-33; 16:16,17; 28:16-18

And God went on to say: "Let us make man in our image, according to our likeness, and let them have in subjection the fish of the sea and the flying creatures of the heavens and the domestic animals and all the earth and every moving animal that is moving upon the earth." When he prepared the heavens I was there; when he decreed a circle upon the face of the watery deep, when he made firm the cloud masses above, when he caused the fountains of the watery deep to be strong, when he set for the sea his decree that the waters themselves should not pass beyond his order, when he decreed the foundations of the earth, then I came to be beside him as a master worker, and I came to be the one he was specially fond of day by day, I being glad before him all the time, being glad at the productive land of his earth, and the things I was fond of were with the sons of men. Genesis 1:26, Proverbs 8:27

Now people began bringing him young children for him to touch these; but the disciples reprimanded them. At seeing this Jesus was indignant and said to them: "Let the young children come to me; do not try to stop them, for the kingdom of God belongs to suchlike ones. Truly I say to YOU, Whoever does not receive the kingdom of God like a young child will by no means enter into it." And he took the children into his arms and began blessing them, laying his hands upon them. But the disciples gave way to surprise at his words. In response Jesus again said to them: "Children, how difficult a thing it is to enter into the kingdom of God! It is easier for a camel to go through a needle’s eye than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God." They became still more astounded and said to him: "Who, in fact, can be saved?" Looking straight at them Jesus said: "With men it is impossible, but not so with God, for all things are possible with God." Mark 10:13-16,10:24-27

My little children, I am writing YOU these things that YOU may not commit a sin. And yet, if anyone does commit a sin, we have a helper with the Father, Jesus Christ, a righteous one. And he is a propitiatory sacrifice for our sins, yet not for ours only but also for the whole world’s. And by this we have the knowledge that we have come to know him, namely, if we continue observing his commandments. He that says: "I have come to know him," and yet is not observing his commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in this [person]. But whoever does observe his word, truthfully in this [person] the love of God has been made perfect. By this we have the knowledge that we are in union with him. He that says he remains in union with him is under obligation himself also to go on walking just as that one walked. 1 John 2:1-6

For this very reason also our LORD and Father Jehovah God exalted him to a superior position and kindly gave him the name that is above every [other] name, so that in the name of Jesus every knee should bend of those in heaven and those on earth and those under the ground, and every tongue should openly acknowledge that Jesus Christ is Lord to the glory of God the Father. Philippians 2:9-16

Those who hate you shall be clothed with shame; and the tent of the wicked shall be no more. The foolish shall not stand in Your sight. You hate all doers of iniquity. Have mercy on me, O Jehovah; see my trouble from those who hate me, You who lift me up from the gates of death, You have also given me the neck of my enemies; so that I might destroy those who hate me. Your hand shall find out all Your enemies; Your right hand shall find out those who hate You. Look on my enemies; for they are many; and they hate me with cruel hatred. Evil shall slay the wicked; and those who hate the righteous shall be held guilty. Job 8:22, Psalms 5:5; 9:13; 18:40; 21:8; 25:19; 34:21. You love righteousness, and hate wickedness; therefore God, Your God, has anointed You with the oil of gladness above Your fellows. Psalms 45:7

God, who long ago spoke on many occasions and in many ways to our forefathers by means of the prophets, has at the end of these days spoken to us by means of a Son, whom he appointed heir of all things, and through whom he made the systems of things. He is the reflection of [his] glory and the exact representation of his very being, and he sustains all things by the word of his power; and after he had made a purification for our sins he sat down on the right hand of the Majesty in lofty places. So he has become better than the angels, to the extent that he has inherited a name more excellent than theirs. For example, to which one of the angels did he ever say: "You are my son; I, today, I have become your father"? And again: "I myself shall become his father, and he himself will become my son"? But when he again brings his Firstborn into the inhabited earth, he says: "And let all God’s angels do obeisance to him." Wherefore, seeing that we are to receive a kingdom that cannot be shaken, let us continue to have undeserved kindness, through which we may acceptably render God sacred service with Godly fear and awe. Hebrews 1:1-6; 12:28

Matthew 4:10, Jesus said: "You must worship [from pro·sky·ne´o] Jehovah your God and him only shall you serve." At Deuteronomy 6:13, which Jesus is evidently here quoting, appears the personal name of God, the Tetragrammaton.) In harmony with that, we must understand that it is pro·sky·ne´o with a particular attitude . Many people when it comes to the word worship need to have the same mind set as the Son of God has. Let's look at what he himself said about who we should worship. the Devil took him along to an unusually high mountain, and showed him all the kingdoms of the world and their glory, and he said to him: "All these things I will give you if you fall down and do an act of worship to me. Mt 6:8,9. So what did Satan want Jesus to do? "fall down and do an act of worship to me" Why did I use this passage? two reasons. 1. We need to understand what Jesus response was to the Devil. 2. In terms of Jehovah and Jesus we need to come to see both as different not the same person as the Churches of Christianity. Mt 4:10. Now is Jesus Jehovah? if so why would he say it is to God we must worship. Satan was trying to cause Jesus to be disloyal to God. But what test of loyalty would that be if Jesus were God? Could God rebel against himself? The temptation of Jesus would make sense only if he was, not God, but a separate individual who had his own free will, one who could have been disloyal had he chosen to be, such as an angel or a human. It is unimaginable that God could sin and be disloyal to himself. "Perfect is his activity A God of faithfulness, righteous and upright is he." said Moses. De 32:4. So if Jesus had been God, he could not have been tempted this is made clear by what James says: For with evil things God cannot be tried . James 1:13

Jehovah has not given any other name other than Jesus to his Son. The name Jesus literally means "Jehovah is salvation." So, Jesus' own name really just magnifies God's name. Jesus said that "God loved the world so much that he gave his only-begotten Son." In other words, Jehovah made the provision for salvation by sacrificing Jesus. "The Lamb of God" That is how Jehovah gave us the name of Jesus. Jesus, “the Son of man,” was thus seen by Stephen in a role supportive to God in heaven—“at God’s right hand”—even as he had been ‘alongside God’ before he came to earth. John 17:5. Later, after Stephen’s execution, Jesus made a miraculous appearance to Saul, better known by his name, Paul. In Acts 9:3-6 When Paul was in Athens, Greece, he spoke of “the God that made the world and all the things in it.” He said that this God, the “only true God,” will “judge the inhabited earth in righteousness by a man whom he has appointed, and he has furnished a guarantee to all men in that he has resurrected him from the dead.” Acts 17:24,31 Here the apostle Paul described Jesus as “a man”—yes, subortinate to God—whom God had restored to life in heaven.

"Men of Israel, hear these words: Jesus the Naz·a·rene´, a man publicly shown by God to YOU through powerful works and portents and signs that God did through him in YOUR midst, just as YOU yourselves know, this [man], as one delivered up by the determined counsel and foreknowledge of God, YOU fastened to a tree by the hand of lawless men and did away with. But God resurrected him by loosing the pangs of death, because it was not possible for him to continue to be held fast by it. For David says respecting him, ‘I had Jehovah constantly before my eyes; because he is at my right hand that I may never be shaken. 2:22-25

They are no more than humble slaves of God. There is no room in pure worship for worship of the angels or even for relative worship, directing worship to God via some "saint" or angel. Colossians 2:18. Worship to anyone other than Jehovah was prohibited by God. Exodus 23:24; 34:14. Similarly, the worshipful bowing down to religious images or to any created thing was positively condemned. Ex 20:4,5; Le 26:1; De 4:15-19; Isa 2:8, 9, 20, 21. Jehovah's servants prostrated themselves before angels, they only did so to show they recognized that these were God's representatives, not to render obeisance to them as deities. Ge 18:1-3; Jos 5:13-15.

"Stop judging that YOU may not be judged; for with what judgment YOU are judging, YOU will be judged; and with the measure that YOU are measuring out, they will measure out to YOU. Why, then, do you look at the straw in your brother’s eye, but do not consider the rafter in your own eye? Or how can you say to your brother, ‘Allow me to extract the straw from your eye’; when, look! a rafter is in your own eye? Hypocrite! First extract the rafter from your own eye, and then you will see clearly how to extract the straw from your brother’s eye. "Do not give what is holy to dogs, neither throw YOUR pearls before swine, that they may never trample them under their feet and turn around and rip YOU open. "Keep on asking, and it will be given YOU; keep on seeking, and YOU will find; keep on knocking, and it will be opened to YOU. For everyone asking receives, and everyone seeking finds, and to everyone knocking it will be opened. Indeed, who is the man among YOU whom his son asks for bread—he will not hand him a stone, will he? Or, perhaps, he will ask for a fish—he will not hand him a serpent, will he? Therefore, if YOU, although being wicked, know how to give good gifts to YOUR children, how much more so will YOUR Father who is in the heavens give good things to those asking him? "All things, therefore, that YOU want men to do to YOU, YOU also must likewise do to them; this, in fact, is what the Law and the Prophets mean. "Go in through the narrow gate; because broad and spacious is the road leading off into destruction, and many are the ones going in through it; whereas narrow is the gate and cramped the road leading off into life, and few are the ones finding it. "Be on the watch for the false prophets that come to YOU in sheep’s covering, but inside they are ravenous wolves. By their fruits YOU will recognize them. Never do people gather grapes from thorns or figs from thistles, do they? Likewise every good tree produces fine fruit, but every rotten tree produces worthless fruit; a good tree cannot bear worthless fruit, neither can a rotten tree produce fine fruit. Every tree not producing fine fruit gets cut down and thrown into the fire. Really, then, by their fruits YOU will recognize them. Mt 7:1-20

"Not everyone saying to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter into the kingdom of the heavens, but those ones doing the will of my Father who is in the heavens will. Many will say to me in that day, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name, and expel demons in your name, and perform many powerful works in your name?’ And yet then I will confess to them: I never knew YOU! Get away from me, YOU workers of lawlessness. 7:21-23

" GOD THE ONLY ONE WE HAVE TO WORSHIP ?" Hebrews 1:6, the angels are instructed to "worship" Jesus, according to the rendering of RS,TEV, KJV, JB, and NAB, NW says "do obeisance to." At Mt 14:33, Jesus' disciples are said to have "worshiped" him, according to RS, TEV, KJ; other translations say that they "showed him obeisance" (NAB), "bowed down before him" (JB), "fell at his feet" (NE), "did obeisance to him" (NW). The Greek word rendered "is pro·sky·ne'o, which A Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature says was also "used to designate the custom of prostrating oneself before a person and kissing his feet, the hem of his garment, the ground."

Now the word OBEISANCE is an act of bowing, kneeling, prostrating the body, or making some other gesture to betoken submission; or simply the paying of respect. But is this worship? Colossians 2:9 is to show that Christ has in him all the fullness, not of God himself, the Deity, the Godhead, but of the divine quality dwelling bodily, and this in behalf of the spiritual body of Christ. "It is in [Christ] that all the fullness of the divine quality dwells bodily. And so you [Christians] are possessed of a fullness by means of him, who is the head of all government and authority." Col 2:9, 10. Now I want you to realize that the Messiah is the head of every man, and man is the head of the woman, and God is the Head of the Messiah. 1 Co 11:3

The Devil is the god of this age, he is called a god. among whom the god of this age of things has blinded the minds of the unbelievers. 2 Co 4:4. No wonder, for even Satan disguises himself as an angel of light. 1 Co 11:14

Therefore, now that we have been declared righteous as a result of faith, let us enjoy peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom also we have gained our approach by faith into this undeserved kindness in which we now stand; and let us exult, based on hope of the glory of God. And not only that, but let us exult while in tribulations, since we know that tribulation produces endurance; endurance, in turn, an approved condition; the approved condition, in turn, hope, and the hope does not lead to disappointment; because the love of God has been poured out into our hearts through the holy spirit, which was given us. For, indeed, Christ, while we were yet weak, died for ungodly men at the appointed time. For hardly will anyone die for a righteous [man]; indeed, for the good [man], perhaps, someone even dares to die. But God recommends his own love to us in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us. Much more, therefore, since we have been declared righteous now by his blood, shall we be saved through him from wrath. For if, when we were enemies, we became reconciled to God through the death of his Son, much more, now that we have become reconciled, we shall be saved by his life. And not only that, but we are also exulting in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have now received the reconciliation. Romans 5:1-11

For until the Law sin was in the world, but sin is not charged against anyone when there is no law. Nevertheless, death ruled as king from Adam down to Moses, even over those who had not sinned after the likeness of the transgression by Adam, who bears a resemblance to him that was to come. But it is not with the gift as it was with the trespass. For if by one man’s trespass many died, the undeserved kindness of God and his free gift with the undeserved kindness by the one man Jesus Christ abounded much more to many. Also, it is not with the free gift as it was with the way things worked through the one [man] that sinned. For the judgment resulted from one trespass in condemnation, but the gift resulted from many trespasses in a declaration of righteousness. For if by the trespass of the one [man] death ruled as king through that one, much more will those who receive the abundance of the undeserved kindness and of the free gift of righteousness rule as kings in life through the one [person], Jesus Christ. So, then, as through one trespass the result to men of all sorts was condemnation, likewise also through one act of justification the result to men of all sorts is a declaring of them righteous for life. For just as through the disobedience of the one man many were constituted sinners, likewise also through the obedience of the one [person] many will be constituted righteous. Now the Law came in beside in order that trespassing might abound. But where sin abounded, undeserved kindness abounded still more. To what end? That, just as sin ruled as king with death, likewise also undeserved kindness might rule as king through righteousness with everlasting life in view through Jesus Christ our Lord. 5:13-21

The angel told John to "worship God. At that I fell down before his feet to worship him. But he tells me: "Be careful! Do not do that! All I am is a fellow slave of you and of your brothers who have the work of witnessing to Jesus. Worship God. Revelation 19:10. This came after Jesus’ resurrection and exaltation, showing that matters had not changed in this regard. Next, the end, when he hands over the kingdom to his God and Father, when he has brought to nothing all government and all authority and power. For he must rule as king until [God] has put all enemies under his feet. As the last enemy, death is to be brought to nothing. For [God] "subjected all things under his feet." But when he says that ‘all things have been subjected,’ it is evident that it is with the exception of the One who subjected all things to him. But when all things will have been subjected to him, then the Son himself will also subject himself to the One who subjected all things to him, that God may be all things to everyone. 1 Corinthians 15:24

The apostle John too described Jesus as subordinate to God. John said that he had written his Gospel so that readers might come to believe that "Jesus is the Christ the Son of God" not that he was God. John 20:31. John also received a heavenly vision in which he saw "the Lamb," who in his Gospel is identified as Jesus. John 1:29. The Lamb is standing with 144,000 others, who John says "have been bought [or resurrected] from the earth." John explains that the 144,000 have the Lamb’s "name and the name of his Father written on their foreheads." Revelation 14:1, 3.

Could "the Lamb" be the same as "his Father"? Clearly not. In the Bible they are distinct. They even have different names. Name of the Lamb and of the Father. As we have just seen, the name given to God’s Son, the Lamb, is Jesus. Luke 1:30-32. What about his Father’s name? It appears in the Bible thousands of times. For example, Psalms 83:18 says: "You, whose name is Jehovah, you alone are the Most High over all the earth." Sadly, God’s name, Jehovah, has been replaced in many Bible translations by the terms ""Lord and "god," often spelled in all lower cap letters for Lord should be LORD. The capitals are supposed to distinguish Jehovah from others called gods or lords. Also that is why there is much confusion Jesus is called Lord, but not LORD GOD ALMIGHTY, in the older texts with a lower cap lord for Jesus not in name for also David was called lord, Jesus inherited the throne of David. Nor is Jesus called a god. Yet, in many Bible translations, the Divine Name has been restored to its rightful place. The English-language American Standard Version (1901) is a notable example of a Bible translation that has restored God’s name, Jehovah, to its rightful place. Its preface observes: "The American Revisers, after a careful consideration, were brought to the unanimous conviction that a Jewish superstition, which regarded the Divine Name as too sacred to be uttered, ought no longer to dominate in the English or any other version of the Old Testament, as it fortunately does not in the numerous versions made by modern missionaries. "Micah 5:1-4 seemingly places the birth of Christ during the time of the Assyrian invasion of Judah. "At this time you make cuttings upon yourself, O daughter of an invasion; a siege he has laid against us. With the rod they will strike upon the cheek the judge of Israel. And you, O Bethlehem Ephrathah, the one too little to get to be among the thousands of Judah, from you there will come out to me the one who is to become ruler in Israel, whose origin is from early times, from the days of time indefinite. Therefore He will give them up until the time that she who is giving birth actually gives birth. And the rest of his brothers will return to the sons of Israel. And he will certainly stand and do shepherding in the strength of Jehovah, in the Superiority of the name of Jehovah his God."

The Father—Superior to the Son. Jesus taught his disciples to pray: "Our Father which art in heaven, hallowed be thy name." Our heavenly Father, whose name is Jehovah, is described in the Bible as being Superior to his Son. For example, Jehovah is "from everlasting to everlasting." But the Bible says that Jesus is "the firstborn of all creation." That Jehovah is Greater than Jesus, Jesus himself taught when he said: "My Father is Greater than I." Matthew 6:9; Psalms 90:1, 2; Colossians 1:15; John 14:28.

This is what Jehovah has said: "Let not the wise man brag about himself because of his wisdom, and let not the mighty man brag about himself because of his mightiness. Let not the rich man brag about himself because of his riches." "But let the one bragging about himself brag about himself because of this very thing, the having of insight and the having of knowledge of me and boast, that I am Jehovah, the One exercising loving-kindness, justice and righteousness in the earth; for in these things I do take delight," is the utterance of Jehovah. "Look! Days are coming," is the utterance of Jehovah, "and I will hold an accounting with everyone circumcised [but still] in uncircumcision, upon Egypt and upon Judah and upon E´dom and upon the sons of Am´mon and upon Mo´ab and upon all those with hair clipped at the temples who are dwelling in the wilderness; for all the nations are uncircumcised, and all the house of Israel are uncircumcised in heart." Jeremiah 9:23-26

In the Hebrew and Greek languages, the words usually translated "Messiah" and "Christ" mean "Anointed One." Jesus was the Anointed One, Chosen One of God—the promised Leader. Isaiah 55:4. The Scriptures contained prophecies concerning him, and the Jews at the time were in expectation of him. Luke 3:15. How do we know that Jesus really was God’s Chosen One? Well, consider what happened in the year 29 C.E. when Jesus was 30 years of age. He went to John the Baptizer to be baptized by him in the waters of the Jordan River. The Bible states: "After being baptized Jesus immediately came up from the water; and, look! the heavens were opened up, and he saw descending like a dove God’s spirit coming upon him. Look! Also, there was a voice from the heavens that said: ‘This is my Son, the beloved, whom I have approved.’" Matthew 3:16, 17 After hearing those words of approval, could John have had any doubt that Jesus was God’s Chosen One? By pouring out His holy spirit on Jesus, Jehovah God anointed him, or appointed him, to be the King of His coming Kingdom. Thus, Jesus became Jesus Christ, or Jesus the Anointed One.

"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." John 5:22,23..Have you ever wondered why Jesus put the 'hallowing,' or sanctifying, of God's name first in this prayer? Matthew 6:9 Afterward, he mentioned other things such as the coming of God's Kingdom, God's will being done on earth and our sins being forgiven. The fulfillment of these other requests will ultimately mean lasting peace on earth and everlasting life for mankind. Can you think of anything more important than that? Nevertheless, Jesus told us to pray first of all for the sanctification of God's name. It was not merely by chance that Jesus taught his followers to put God's name first in their prayers. That name was clearly of crucial importance to him, since he mentioned it repeatedly in his own prayers. On one occasion when he was praying publicly to God, he was heard to say: "Father, glorify your name!" And God himself answered: "I have glorified it, and I will glorify it again." John 12:28.

John 3:16 "For God so loved (agape) the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life." Notice the first part of this verse, "God so loved (agape)... He gave". Agape love gives, agape love is the deep and constant love of a perfect being (God) towards an unworthy object (mankind). Ephesians 2:4 - 5 "But because of his great love (agape) for us, God, who is rich in mercy, made us alive with Christ even when we were dead in transgressions - it is by grace you have been saved." Romans 5:8 "But God demonstrates his own love (agape) for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us." We're unworthy objects, we were sinners, we die aquitted. For God to forgive us we are to forgive other's or our heavenly Father and True God doesn't forgive us.

Names in Bible Times: Jehovah God evidently put in man a desire to name things. The first human had a name, Adam. In the story of creation, one of the first things Adam is reported as doing is naming the animals. When God gave Adam a wife, immediately Adam called her "Woman" (’Ish·shah', in Hebrew). Later, he gave her the name Eve, meaning "Living One," because "she had to become the mother of everyone living." Ge 2:19, 23; 3:20. Even today we follow the custom of giving names to people. Indeed, it is hard to imagine how we could manage without names. In Israelite times, however, names were not mere labels. They meant something. For example, the name of Isaac, "Laughter," recalled the laughter of his aged parents when they first heard that they were to have a child. Ge 17:17, 19; 18:12. Esau's name meant "Hairy," describing a physical characteristic. His other name, Edom, "Red," or "Ruddy," was a reminder that he sold his birthright for a dish of red stew. Ge 25:25, 30-34; 27:11; 36:1. Jacob, although he was only slightly younger than his twin brother, Esau, bought the birthright from Esau and received the firstborn's blessing from his father. From birth, the meaning of Jacob's name was "Taking Hold of the Heel" or "Supplanter." Ge 27:36. Similarly the name of Solomon, during whose reign Israel enjoyed peace and prosperity, meant "Peaceable." 1 Ch 22:9.

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, for according to his great mercy he gave us a new birth to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, to an incorruptible and undefiled and unfading inheritance. It is reserved in the heavens for YOU, who are being safeguarded by God’s power through faith for a salvation ready to be revealed in the last period of time. 1 Peter 1:3-5

For this reason I shall be disposed always to remind YOU of these things, although YOU know [them] and are firmly set in the truth that is present [in YOU]. But I consider it right, as long as I am in this tabernacle, to rouse YOU up by way of reminding YOU, knowing as I do that the putting off of my tabernacle is soon to be, just as also our Lord Jesus Christ signified to me. So I will do my utmost also at every time that, after my departure, YOU may be able to make mention of these things for yourselves. No, it was not by following artfully contrived false stories that we acquainted YOU with the power and presence of our Lord Jesus Christ, but it was by having become eyewitnesses of his magnificence. For he received from God the Father honor and glory, when words such as these were borne to him by the magnificent glory: "This is my son, my beloved, whom I myself have approved." Yes, these words we heard borne from heaven while we were with him in the holy mountain. Consequently we have the prophetic word [made] more sure; and YOU are doing well in paying attention to it as to a lamp shining in a dark place, until day dawns and a daystar rises, in YOUR hearts. 2 Peter 1:12-19

However, let this one fact not be escaping YOUR notice, beloved ones, that one day is with Jehovah as a thousand years and a thousand years as one day. Jehovah is not slow respecting his promise, as some people consider slowness, but he is patient with YOU because he does not hope any to be destroyed but seeks all to attain to repentance. Yet Jehovah’s day will come as a thief, in which the heavens will pass away with a hissing noise, but the elements being intensely hot will be dissolved, and earth and the works in it will be discovered. Since all these things are thus to be dissolved, what sort of children ought YOU to be in holy acts of conduct and deeds of Godly devotion, awaiting and keeping close in mind the presence of the day of Jehovah, through which [the] heavens being on fire will be dissolved and [the] elements being intensely hot will melt! But there are new heavens and a new earth that we are awaiting according to his promise, and in these righteousness is to dwell. 2 Peter 3:8-12

That which was from [the] beginning, which we have heard, which we have seen with our eyes, which we have viewed attentively and our hands felt, concerning the word of life, (yes, the life was made manifest, and we have seen and are bearing witness and reporting to YOU the everlasting life which was with the Father and was made manifest to us,) that which we have seen and heard we are reporting also to YOU, that YOU too may be having a sharing with us. Furthermore, this sharing of ours is with the Father and with his Son Jesus Christ. 1 John 1:1-3

The older man to the chosen lady and to her children, whom I truly love, and not I alone, but all those also who have come to know the truth, because of the truth that remains in us, and it will be with us forever. There will be with us undeserved kindness, mercy [and] peace from God the Father and from Jesus Christ the Son of the Father, with truth and love. 2 John 1-3

But thanks to God that YOU were the slaves of sin but YOU became obedient from the heart to that form of teaching to which YOU were handed over. Yes, since YOU were set free from sin, YOU became slaves to righteousness. I am speaking in human terms because of the weakness of YOUR flesh: for even as YOU presented YOUR members as slaves to uncleanness and lawlessness with lawlessness in view, so now present YOUR members as slaves to righteousness with holiness in view. For when YOU were slaves of sin, YOU were free as to righteousness. What, then, was the fruit that YOU used to have at that time? Things of which YOU are now ashamed. For the end of those things is death. However, now, because YOU were set free from sin but became slaves to God, YOU are having YOUR fruit in the way of holiness, and the end everlasting life. Ro 6:17-22

Therefore those in union with Christ Jesus have no condemnation. For the law of that spirit which gives life in union with Christ Jesus has set you free from the law of sin and of death. For, there being an incapability on the part of the Law, while it was weak through the flesh, God, by sending his own Son in the likeness of him who saved us from death and rose Jesus up, of sinful flesh and concerning sin, condemned sin in the flesh, that the righteous requirement of the Law might be fulfilled in us who walk, not in accord with the flesh, but in accord with the spirit. For those who are in accord with the flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh, but those in accord with the spirit on the things of the spirit. For the minding of the flesh means death, but the minding of the spirit means life and peace; because the minding of the flesh means enmity with God, for it is not under subjection to the law of God, nor, in fact, can it be. So those who are in harmony with the flesh cannot please God.

However, YOU are in harmony, not with the flesh, but with the spirit, if God’s spirit truly dwells in YOU. But if anyone does not have Christ’s spirit, this one does not belong to him. But if Christ is in union with YOU, the body indeed is dead on account of sin, but the spirit is life on account of righteousness. If, now, the spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the dead dwells in YOU, he that raised up Christ Jesus from the dead will also make YOUR mortal bodies alive through his spirit that resides in YOU.

So, then, brothers, we are under obligation, not to the flesh to live in accord with the flesh; for if YOU live in accord with the flesh YOU are sure to die; but if YOU put the practices of the body to death by the spirit, YOU will live. For all who are led by God’s spirit, these are God’s sons. For YOU did not receive a spirit of slavery causing fear again, but YOU received a spirit of adoption as sons, by which spirit we cry out: "Abba, Father!" The spirit itself bears witness with our spirit that we are God’s children. If, then, we are his children, we are also heirs: heirs indeed of God, but joint heirs with Christ, provided we suffer together that we may also be glorified together. Romans 8:1-17
Consequently I reckon that the sufferings of the present season do not amount to anything in comparison with the glory that is going to be revealed in us. For the eager expectation of the creation is waiting for the revealing of the children of God. For the creation was subjected to futility, not by its own will but through him that subjected it, on the basis of hope that the creation itself also will be set free from enslavement to corruption and have the glorious freedom of the children of God. For we know that all creation keeps on groaning together and being in pain together until now. Not only that, but we ourselves also who have the firstfruits, namely, the spirit, yes, we ourselves groan within ourselves, while we are earnestly waiting for adoption as sons, the release from our bodies by ransom. For we were saved in [this] hope; but hope that is seen is not hope, for when a man sees a thing, does he hope for it? But if we hope for what we do not see, we keep on waiting for it with faith and endurance. In like manner the spirit also joins in with help for our weakness; for the [problem of] what we should pray for as we need to we do not know, but the spirit itself pleads for us with groanings unuttered. Romans 8:18-26
Now the worship of God — in Old Testament times — was by means of a system of symbols. It was like a shadowy silhouette of what was still in the future. That's why the worship of God had to be radically changed after the ransom of Jesus. The old symbols just wouldn't do any more when the reality (of which they were a shadow only) had come into historical existence. This is what our Lord Jesus meant when He spoke to the Samaritan woman. When He told her that salvation was 'from the Jews' he was looking back at the preparatory phase of his Father God's plan of salvation. But when He told her that now the hour had come when the old argument between Samaritan and Jew would no longer be a relevant question, He was contemplating the new temple of God with its new way of worship.
Our savior Jesus said God is Spirit, and that those who worship Him must do so in spirit and truth. Now what, exactly, did Jesus mean by that statement? Did He mean by 'spirit' the Holy Spirit, or only the human spirit? Either way it makes very good sense and is consistent with the rest of the Bible. Taking it one way it would mean that the true worship of God must 'live and move and have its being' (as it were) in the realm of the Holy Spirit. Taking it the other way it would mean that the genuine worship of God involves the inward reality of our own human spirits. I have not been able to find any conclusive argument for either of these possible meanings. But in this instance — as in so many others — it really makes little difference. You certainly can't have any true worship of God apart from his Holy Spirit as the Spirit of truth is one. And the heart of man has to be 'in it' as we say, if it is genuine worship. It may even be — as we believe it often is in the writings of John — that there's a deliberate dualism of meaning. In any event, the great contrast here is between the two historical eras — the one existing before Jesus came, the other after His coming. Before Jesus came and finished His work, John says the Holy Spirit wasn't yet given (John 7:39). This doesn't mean the Spirit was not there at all, of course, in the Old Testament worship. And it doesn't mean that there was no sincerity, then, in Old Testament worship. No, it's not an absolute contrast. Yet it is a contrast that underlines the radical difference between the two historical eras and the two kinds of worship. We can see this very clearly when we consider the other term used by our Lord Jesus. We cannot say the Old Testament worship was a system of falsehood and error. No, the contrast here was rather the difference between the 'real' and the 'synthetic.' What we now have — in the finished work of Christ — is 'the real thing' (to use a modern expression). What they had, in Old Testament times, was only a simulation. Because we now have the true, and not a mere representation, it follows that our worship has to be radically different. We must worship God in the sphere of the real — not the synthetic, we must! This, says Jesus, is the kind of worship that God seeks for His people to practice.

There were a number of times, in the Old Testament period, where there were some radical changes. (1) In the long era of history between the time of Adam and Abraham, for instance, it appears that there were some things God allowed with men which were later restricted. The first we see in Melchizedek, and in Abraham we see the second. And while Abraham acknowledged the Superiority of Melchizedek's priesthood, Melchizedek also acknowledged the special calling of the one who was to become the eternal father of the faithful. (2) Then later on, the rather simple bowing down of the Patriarchs gave way to the Mosaic. And things which had been forbidden as to worship any other gods, but only Jehovah then came those who said the Messiah is to be worshiped as a god or called a god? for its to God alone we are to Worship, Jesus' Father and God. The Patriarchs were priests, in a sense, within their own household of people. My point is that at least twice before God instituted radical changes. (3) How much more, then, when the final reality came in the redemptive sphere in the finished work of the Lord Jesus? As God is our husband, Jesus is the bridegroom. But I want YOU to know that the head of every man is the Christ; in turn the head of a woman is the man; in turn the Head of the Christ is God. 1 Corinthians 11:3. "The Head" of the Christ "is God", God is "Superior" to his Son and its God we are to worship, not Jesus. In like manner, YOU wives, be in submission to YOUR own husbands, in order that, if any are not obedient to the word, they may be won without a word through the conduct of [their] wives, because of having been eyewitnesses of YOUR chaste conduct together with deep respect. 1 Peter 3:1,2

God He showed me that I need to understand my husband's vision for our family. Even if it is very limited, I need to come in line with what God is directing my husband to do and allow my husband to begin to walk in the role of husband and father in our home. Even if that means that I don't see any fruit in him, I will trust God to be faithful in the plans and direction of our family EVEN IF MY HUSBAND DOES NOT LIVE UP TO HIS END. And, finally - I am to treat my husband in loving kindness and have mercy for him if he doubts, in deferrence to my LORD and GOD, not because I am to worship my husband, and be subject to him, but because by honoring my husband - I honor my KING. HE is the "LORD" My God and Father of our home, in the same manner that Sarah called Abraham Lord and was honored for her Submissiveness. I recently heard a precious man say, "Subjection is when you come under authority because you have to or are forced to... Submission is what you willingly give up to place yourself under the authority that has been placed over you." Because of Eve's role in the fall, women are not entrusted with the responsibility of decision making and vision casting in the family - why? We are vulnerable to deception. We should always check out visions and plans with our husband to remain in line with God's will. If the truth is told, I am grateful for that. Jesus a submissive Son of God who did his Father's will and will again. If our husbands use the wrong methods we pray for them and on many occasions if what they are saying is not wholesome speak with them in love and the understanding and knowledge of the marriage relationship God instituted.

"Michael who is like, God"

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John 6:41-51

( Jesus: So he went on to say to them): "YOU are from the realms below; I am from the realms above. YOU are from this world; I am not from this world. John 8:23

So now You, Father glorify me alongside Yourself with the glory I once had alongside You before the world was." John 6:46; 17:5. Michael who is Jesus before God sent him was with His Father before God created the heavens and earth.

Michael (First Name Origin and Meaning) Hebrew · Male Who is like God. Jesus is an image of the invisible God, the first begotten (prõtotokos) of the creation. Colossians 1:15 hence the beginning (arche) of the creation of God. Revelation 3:14. First and foremost mean virtually the same thing.

The foremost prince, both in power and authority, is Michael, the archangel. The one who stands up for God's people during the end of the age. Michael was with the Jews in the wilderness at the exodus, Michael disputes with the Devil over the body of Moses . When Jesus who is Michael returned back to his Father in heaven, after 40 day's on earth as Michael he cast Satan down to earth woe to the world. Exodus 14; Joshua 5:13-15; Daniel 10:13, 21; 12:1; Jude 9; Revelation 12:7-9

To the abundance of the princely rule and to peace there will be no end, upon the throne of David and upon his kingdom in order to establish it firmly and to sustain it by means of justice and by means of righteousness, from now on and to time indefinite. The very zeal of Jehovah of armies will do this. 9:7

THE POINT being that there is only ONE Archangel, and that indeed is Christs other title among others. Keep this mental attitude in YOU that was also in Christ Jesus, who, although he was existing in God’s image, Christ himself was like God, Who gave no consideration to a seizure, namely, that he should be equal to God. No, but he emptied himself and took a slave’s form and came to be in the likeness of men. More than that, when he found himself in fashion as a man, he humbled himself and became obedient as far as death, yes, death on a tree. Philippians 2:5-8

It is written in the Prophets, ‘And they will all be taught by Jehovah.’ Everyone that has heard from the Father and has learned comes to me. Not that any man has seen the Father, except he who is from God; this one has seen the Father. Most truly I say to YOU, He that believes has everlasting life. 6:45-47

ARCH means chief, foremost, number one. The word Archangel derives from the Greek archangelos = αρχ- arch- ("first, primary, chief") ("messenger"). The prefix "arch," meaning "chief" or "principal," implies that there is only one archangel, the chief angel; in the Scriptures, "archangel" is never found in the plural. because the Lord himself will descend from heaven with a commanding call, with an archangel’s voice and with God’s trumpet, and those who are dead in union with Christ will rise first. 1 Thessalonians 4:16, in speaking of the preeminence of the archangel and the authority of his office, does so in reference to the resurrected Lord Jesus Christ: It is, therefore, not without significance that the only name directly associated with the word "archangel" is Michael. Chief leader of the angels.

Jesus Christ, Messenger of the new Covenant: In answer he said: "I was not sent forth to any but to the lost sheep of the house of Israel." Malachi 3:1-3; Matthew 15:24. But he said to them: " Also to other cities I must declare the good news of the kingdom of God, because for this I was sent forth." Luke 4:43; John 5:36; 6:57; 7:16,29; 8:42. do YOU say to me whom the Father sanctified and dispatched into the world, ‘You blaspheme,’ because I said, I am God’s Son? John 10:36, 11:42; 17:3; 1 John 11:1.

Jesus said, "And he said to them, 'I have eagerly desired to eat this Passover with you before I suffer. For I tell you, I will not eat it again until it finds fulfillment in the kingdom of God.'" Luke 22:15. Jesus had often tried to talk to them about His death and the manner in which He would die. But now the time had come and this was their last feast together. The Bible says that He took bread and gave each of them some and then said, "This is my body given for you; do this in remembrance of me" 22:19. And He took wine and shared with them. He said, "This cup is the new covenant in my blood, which is poured out for you." Luke 22:20. He told them several things in these short statements. He wanted them to know that He was going to die a sacrificial death for sin, that it was going to be His blood that paid the blood sacrifice, that He was to establish a new covenant and to replace the Old Covenant. Luke's gospel records a dispute that took place at this dinner among a few of His disciples as to which of them was the greatest. His disciple's had still not grasped the significance of His words. He had just told them that he was having a last meal with them before His death and they are arguing about who is going to be the greatest in His kingdom! So Jesus taught them a lesson on serving, "For who is greater, the one who is at the table or the one who serves? Is it not the one who is at the table? But I am among you as one who serves. You are those who have stood by me in my trials. And I confer on you a kingdom, just as my Father conferred one on me, so that you may eat and drink at my table in my kingdom and sit on thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel." Luke 22:27-30. Again with His words, He gave more than one major message: His kingdom was not going to be of this world and in order to be great in His kingdom, they needed to learn how to serve.

"Jehovah himself produced me as the beginning of his way, the earliest of his achievements of long ago. From time indefinite I was installed, from the start, from times earlier than the earth.When there were no watery deeps I was brought forth as with labor pains, when there were no springs heavily charged with water. Before the mountains themselves had been settled down, ahead of the hills, I was brought forth as with labor pains, when as yet he had not made the earth and the open spaces and the first part of the dust masses of the productive land. When he prepared the heavens I was there; when he decreed a circle upon the face of the watery deep, when he made firm the cloud masses above, when he caused the fountains of the watery deep to be strong, when he set for the sea his decree that the waters themselves should not pass beyond his order, when he decreed the foundations of the earth, then I came to be beside him as a master worker, and I came to be the one he was specially fond of day by day, I being glad before him all the time, being glad at the productive land of his earth, and the things I was fond of were with the sons of men. Proverbs 8:22-31. When the world began, the Word was already there. The Word was with God, and the nature of the Word was like the nature of God. The Word was there in the beginning with God. It was through the agency of the Word that everything else came into being. Without the Word not one single thing came into being. John 1:1-3,14. So the Word became flesh and resided among us, and we had a view of his glory, a glory such as belongs to an only-begotten son from a father; and he was full of undeserved kindness and truth. He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation; because by means of him all [other] things were created in the heavens and upon the earth, the things visible and the things invisible, no matter whether they are thrones or lordships or governments or authorities. All [other] things have been created through him and for him. Also, he is before all [other] things and by means of him all [other] things were made to exist, Colossians 1:15-17

'Jesus Christ, Chief Cornerstone' The stone that the builders rejected Has become the head of the corner. This has come to be from Jehovah himself; It is wonderful in our eyes. Psalms 118:22,23; Matthew 21:42; Ephesians 2:20-22. Michael (Hebrew: מיכאל, is the Archangel mentioned in the Book of Revelation 12:7; in the OT Michael is mentioned by name in the Persian context of the post-Exilic Book of Daniel. He is generally presented as the field commander of the Army of God. There Michael appears as "one of the chief princes" 10:13 who in Daniel's vision comes to the angel Gabriel's aid in his contest with the angel of Persia, and is also described there as the advocate of Israel and "great prince who stands up for the children of your people" 10:21, 12:1. Michael is one of the principal angels in Abrahamic tradition; his name was said to have been the war-cry of the angels in the battle fought in heaven against Satan and his followers.

Jesus and the Archangel Michael are the same being. Jesus/Michael was the first being that God created and through whom He made the universe, the angels, and mankind. In this pre-human existence he was known as the Word of God. He later took human form as Jesus and led a life without sin. After his death, Jesus was resurrected in his previous spiritual form. The bible also refers to Michael as the leader of an army of angels in heaven who overthrow Satan in a great battle. Jesus is also spoken of as leading such an army and the bible never speaks of two armies of faithful angels in heaven following two seperate leaders.

"As Lord of the Sabbath," Matthew 12:8. Jesus will lead obedient mankind into a right relationship with God and ultimately vindicate his Father's Sovereignty. By all indication the thousand-year reign of Christ will prove to be a sabbatical rest for the earth.

Paul's question?, "to which one of the angels did God ever say You are my son?" is as simple as it is profound. The answer is that Jehovah never honored any angel as such. But he did confer sonship upon the man, Jesus Christ. Hebrews 1:1,2; 2:5, "For it is not to angels that he has subjected the inhabited earth to come, about which we are speaking." Paul then quotes the 8th Psalm, indicating that man was originally made a little lower than the angels. After pointing out the obvious fact that because of sin, mankind has not fulfilled the divine mandate given to Adam to have the earth in subjection. Christ Jesus, as the Last Adam, also became a little lower then the angels, and that he was crowned with glory and honor for having suffered such an inglorious death. Thereby Jesus, by reason of his humanity, inherited the right to subjugate the earth, as Adam's replacement. The point Paul was making was that God exalted a man above the angels! After his baptism all authority was given to Jesus. That's why Jesus could order the demons around and even they recognized his power and position as the king of Jehovah's kingdom. What the people fail to take into consideration is the obvious fact that Michael also gained a great amount of authority over Satan and his demons.

The fact that before the Christian era Michael deferred to Jehovah and told the Devil, "May Jehovah rebuke you," and yet in the 12th chapter of Revelation we have Michael leading all of God's angels in a no-holds barred, knock-down, drag-out fight with Satan and all his demons, so that Michael is credited with a victory that rightly belongs to Christ? Michael only wields authority over Satan after Jesus' return to heaven. That being the case, it is yet another indication that Michael and Jesus are indeed one and the same. You will not find a verse that says what you are looking for. However, there are many places where it is implied that Jesus and Michael the archangel are one and the same. That means that we have to use our reasoning ability to unravel Jehovah's sacred secrets and not expect everything to be simply spelled out.

The book of Daniel contains a series of visions that all end the same way, with God's kingdom taking control. The 2nd chapter of Daniel we are told that God's kingdom crushes all opposing kingdoms of the world and it rules to time indefinite. In the 7th chapter we are given a more detailed vision, which depicts "someone like a son of man" being given authority over all the nations, a prophecy that Christ personally applied to himself. According to the overlapping prophecies of Daniel it is obvious that the Son of man, the Prince of princes and Michael, the great prince, are the same person.

However, Christ’s coronation is still a future event, occurring at an hour we do not know. Therefore, that makes it more of an urgent matter for us to "keep on the watch!" Matthew 22:14; 25:13-46

The angel of the LORD appeared to him in a blazing fire from the midst of a bush; and he looked, and behold, the bush was burning with fire, yet the bush was not consumed. Exodus 3:2. And when forty years were expired, there appeared to him in the wilderness of mount Si´nai an angel of the LORD in a flame of fire in a bush. Acts 7:30

Michael is called one of the foremost princes: Jesus is the Son of Jehovah. Jehovah has many other heavenly sons. A prince is a son of a King. Jesus is merely one of many princely sons of Jehovah. Michael could rightly be called one of the foremost princes before he came to earth because it was simply not God's time then to reveal and distinguish his special son and prince. Exodus 23:20-22; 32:33,34. And a cloud formed, overshadowing them, and a voice came out of the cloud: "This is my Son, the beloved; listen to him." Mark 9:7

This one was in [the] beginning with God. All things came into existence through him, and apart from him not even one thing came into existence. What has come into existence by means of him was life, and the life was the light of men. And the light is shining in the darkness, but the darkness has not overpowered it. Malachi 3:1-John 1:2-5. John the Baptist as a like Elijah the prophet in the OT, actually did "clear the way" For Jehovah as a messenger of God's Son Jesus' coming. There arose a man that was sent forth as a representative of God: his name was John. John 1:6.

As Jesus came up out of the baptismal waters, God's voice was heard from heaven, saying: "This is my Son, the beloved, whom I have approved." Matthew 3:17

Jesus anointed at his birth? No, he was anointed by God's holy spirit on the occasion of his baptism, when he was 30 years old. That is when he became the Messiah, or Christ. "Jehovah's spirit is upon me, because he anointed me to declare good news to the poor ". Isaiah 61:1, Luke 4:18.This marked a change in Jesus' life. God's declaration meant that he had now begotten the 30 year-old Jesus to be a spiritual Son of God. Thus the way was opened up for this Son of God to return to heaven. This was necessary even for Jesus. The heaven was opened up and God's holy spirit in bodily shape like a dove came down upon him, Luke 3:21-23. For the word of God is alive and exerts power and is sharper than any two-edged sword and pierces even to the dividing of soul and spirit, and of joints and [their] marrow, and [is] able to discern thoughts and intentions of [the] heart. And there is not a creation that is not manifest to his sight, but all things are naked and openly exposed to the eyes of him with whom we have an accounting. Seeing, therefore, that we have a great high priest who has passed through the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold onto [our] confessing of [him]. Hebrews 4:12-14

For example, to which one of the angels did he ever say: "You are my son; I, today, I have become your father"? And again: "I myself shall become his father, and he himself will become my son"? But when he again brings his Firstborn into the inhabited earth, he says: "And let all God’s angels do obeisance (bow down) to him." Hebrews 1:5,6. Also, with reference to the angels he says: "And he makes his angels spirits, and his public servants a flame of fire." But with reference to the Son: "God is your throne 1 Corinthians 11:3..forever and ever, and [the] scepter of your kingdom is the scepter of uprightness. Ephesians 4:15. You loved righteousness, and you hated lawlessness. That is why God, your God, anointed you with [the] oil of exultation more than your partners." But with reference to which one of the angels has he ever said: "Sit at my right hand, until I place your enemies as a stool for your feet"? Hebrews 1:13. Jehovah did not give the kingdom to any angel. He gave it to a man. The point at which the prophecy was fulfilled, whereby Jehovah claimed Christ as His Son, was when Jesus was baptized.

Great Tribulation & Time Of Trouble. When Michael Stands At God's Temple In Heavenly Mount Zion.*Daniel 12:1; Matthew 24:15, He will cause God's earthly sacrifice and oblation to cease and be taken away. Satan is unrestrained, by God ~ Daniel 12:1-13; Matthew 24:15-21; Daniel 9:25-27. Jesus Christ's Servants will be first to meet Jesus out of the Great Tribulation and out of the Grave to meet Michael "in the air" 1 Thessalonians 4:14-17", or on the Mountain of God*Isaiah 2:1-5.

Let's take a look at the passage of Scripture that clearly tells of the harpazo a catching away that is to come. 1 Thessalonians 4:13-17, But I would not have you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning them which are asleep, that ye sorrow not, even as others which have no hope. For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so them also which sleep in Jesus, will God bring with him. For this we say unto you by the word of the Lord, that we which are alive and remain unto the coming of the Lord shall not prevent them which are asleep. For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, with God's trumpet: and the dead in Christ shall rise first: Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord. It is the Greek word, arpazw/harpazo that is translated "caught up," Rapture is not a biblical word its Latin the Holy Scriptures in the NT are not Latin they are Greek. 726 arpazw harpazo har-pad’-zo from a derivative of 138; TDNT-1:472,80; v AV-catch up 4, take by force 3, catch away 2, pluck 2, catch 1, pull 1; 13. (1) to seize, carry off by force (2) to seize on, claim for one’s self eagerly (3) to snatch out or away.

Jesus said before his death: Jesus spoke these things, and, raising his eyes to heaven, he said: "Father, the hour has come; glorify your son, that your son may glorify you, according as you have given him authority over all flesh, that, as regards the whole [number] whom you have given him, he may give them everlasting life. This means everlasting life, their taking in knowledge of you, the only true God, and of the one whom you sent forth, Jesus Christ. I have glorified you on the earth, having finished the work you have given me to do. So now you, Father, glorify me alongside yourself with the glory that I had alongside you before the world was. "I have made your name manifest to the men you gave me out of the world.

Those who have believed not that God sent His Son Have Been judged Already: 3:17 For God sent forth his Son into the world, not for him to judge the world, but for the world to be saved through him. THOSE that exercise faith in him will not be judged. THOSE that do not exercise faith HAVE been judged already, because they have not exercised faith in the name of the only-begotten Son of God. Now this is the basis for judgment, that the light has come into the world but mankind has loved the darkness rather than the light, for their works were wicked. For those that practice vile things hates the light and does not come to the light, in order that their works may not be reproved. But those that do what is true come towards the light, in order that their works may be made manifest as having been worked in harmony with God." - V 21

When I was with them I used to watch over them on account of your own name which you have given me; and I have kept them, and not one of them is destroyed except the son of destruction, in order that the scripture might be fulfilled. But now I am coming to you, and I am speaking these things in the world in order that they may have my joy in themselves to the full. I have given your word to them, but the world has hated them, because they are no part of the world, just as I am no part of the world. "I request you, not to take them out of the world, but to watch over them because of the wicked one. They are no part of the world, just as I am no part of the world. Sanctify them by means of the truth; YOUR WORD is truth. Just as you sent me forth into the world, I also sent them forth into the world. And I am sanctifying myself in their behalf, that they also may be sanctified by means of truth.

will be. V 28 Wherever the carcass is, there the eagles will be gathered together. "Immediately after the tribulation of those days the sun will be darkened, and the moon will not give its light, and the stars will fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens will be shaken. And then the sign of the Son of man will appear in heaven, and then all the tribes of the earth will beat themselves in lamentation, and they will see the Son of man coming on the clouds of heaven with power and great glory. And he will send forth,(Michael as chief leader of His angels, an Archgel's voice Jesus comes with,) his angels with a great God's******* trumpet sound, and they will gather his chosen ones together from the four winds, from one extremity of the heavens to the other extremity. - V 31. "Concerning that day and hour nobody knows, neither the angels of the heavens nor the Son, but only the Father. For just as the days of Noah were, so the presence of the Son of man will be. For as they were in those days before the flood, eating and drinking, men marrying and women being given in marriage, until the day that Noah entered into the ark; and they took no note until the flood came and swept them all away, so the presence of the Son of man will be. Then two men will be in the field: one will be taken along and the other be abandoned; two women will be grinding at the hand mill: one will be taken along and the other be abandoned. Keep on the watch, therefore, because YOU do not know on what day YOUR Lord is coming. "But know one thing, that if the householder had known in what watch the thief was coming, he would have kept awake and not allowed his house to be broken into. On this account YOU too prove yourselves ready, because at an hour that YOU do not think to be it, the Son of man is coming. "Who really is the faithful and discreet slave whom his master appointed over his domestics, to give them their food at the proper time? Matthew 24:36-45

"I make request, not concerning these only, but also concerning those putting faith in me through their word; in order that they may all be one, just as you, Father, are in union with me and I am in union with you, that they also may be in union with us, in order that the world may believe that you sent me forth. Also, I have given them the glory that you have given me, in order that they may be one just as we are one. I in union with them and you in union with me, in order that they may be perfected into one, that the world may have the knowledge that you sent me forth and that you love them just as you love me. Father, as to what you have given me, I wish that, where I am, they also may be with me, in order to behold my glory that you have given me, because you loved me before the founding of the world. Righteous Father, the world has, indeed, not come to know you; but I have come to know you, and these have come to know that you sent me forth. And I have made your name known to them and will make it known, in order that the love with which you love me may be in them and I in union with them." John 17:1-26

The Time of trouble that has never occured leading to the end of this age, Two fold prophecy: Inciting " The Great tribulation" is primarily the time of trouble for the..The prophesied "great tribulation" "And in the time of [the] end the king of the south will engage with him in a pushing, and against him the king of the north will storm with chariots and with horsemen and with many ships; and he will certainly enter into the lands and flood over and pass through. He will also actually enter into the land of the Decoration, and there will be many [lands] that will be made to stumble. But these are the ones that will escape out of his hand, E´dom and Mo´ab and the main part of the sons of Am´mon. And he will keep thrusting out his hand against the lands; and as regards the land of Egypt, she will not prove to be an escapee. And he will actually rule over the hidden treasures of the gold and the silver and over all the desirable things of Egypt. And the Lib´y·ans and the E·thi·o´pi·ans will be at his steps. "But there will be reports that will disturb him, out of the sunrising and out of the north, and he will certainly go forth in a great rage in order to annihilate and to devote many to destruction. And he will plant his palatial tents between [the] grand sea and the holy mountain of Decoration; and he will have to come all the way to his end, and there will be no helper for him. Daniel 11:40-45

Jesus/Michael will Stand Up! "And during that time Mi´cha·el will stand up, the great Prince Isaiah 9:6 who is standing in behalf of the sons of your people. And there will certainly occur a time of distress such as has not been made to occur since there came to be a nation until that time. And during that time your people will escape, every one who is found written down in the book. And there will be many of those asleep in the ground of dust who will wake up, these to indefinitely lasting life and those to reproaches [and] to indefinitely lasting abhorrence. "And the ones having insight will shine like the brightness of the expanse; and those who are bringing the many to righteousness, like the stars to time indefinite, even forever. "And as for you, O Daniel, make secret the words and seal up the book, until the time of [the] end. Many will rove about, and the [true] knowledge will become abundant." And I saw, I Daniel, and, look! there were two others standing, one on the bank here of the stream and the other on the bank there of the stream.

Then one said to the man clothed with the linen, who was up above the waters of the stream: "How long will it be to the end of the wonderful things?" And I began to hear the man clothed with the linen, who was up above the waters of the stream, as he proceeded to raise his right [hand] and his left [hand] to the heavens and to swear by the One who is alive for time indefinite: "It will be for an appointed time, appointed times and a half. And as soon as there will have been a finishing of the dashing of the power of the holy people to pieces, all these things will come to their finish."

Now as for me, I heard, but I could not understand; so that I said: "O my lord, what will be the final part of these things?" And he went on to say: "Go, Daniel, because the words are made secret and sealed up until the time of [the] end. Many will cleanse themselves and whiten themselves and will be refined. And the wicked ones will certainly act wickedly, and no wicked ones at all will understand; but the ones having insight will understand. "And from the time that the constant [feature] has been removed and there has been a placing of the disgusting thing that is causing desolation, there will be one thousand two hundred and ninety days. "Happy is the one who is keeping in expectation and who arrives at the one thousand three hundred and thirty-five days"And as for you yourself, go toward the end; and you will rest, but you will stand up for your lot at the end of the days." Daniel 12:1-13. Matthew 24:1-51.

Jesus was indeed "the First" human to be resurrected to immortal spirit life. Col 1:18. Moreover, he is "the Last" to be so resurrected by Jehovah personally. Thus, he becomes "the living one . .living forever and ever." In this, he is like his immortal Father, who is called "the living God." Re 7:2; Ps 42:2. For all others of humanity, Jesus himself is "the resurrection and the life." Joh 11:25. he says to John: "I became dead, but, look! I am living forever and ever, and I have the keys of death and of Hades." Re 1:18. Jehovah has given him the authority to resurrect the dead. That is why Jesus can say that he has the keys to unlock, and the gates of Ha'des will not overpower it. For those bound by death and Hades. Mt 16:18; Ga 1:1

Scriptural evidence indicates that the name Michael applied to God’s Son before he left heaven to become Jesus Christ and also after his return. Michael is the only one said to be "the archangel," meaning "chief angel," or "principal angel." The term occurs in the Bible only in the singular. This seems to imply that there is but one whom God has designated chief, or head, of the angelic host. 1 Th 4:16 in this scripture Jesus is described as having assumed his power as God's Messianic King. Yet, he speaks with "an archangel's voice." Note, that he has the power to raise the dead.The voice of the resurrected Lord Jesus Christ is described as being that of an archangel, suggesting that he is, in fact, himself the archangel. It is only logical, therefore, that the voice expressing this commanding call be described by a word that would not diminish or detract from the great authority that Christ Jesus now has as King of kings and Lord of lords. Mt 28:18; Re 17:14.

The Bible calls Michael the archangel.Too bad for apostates. No other archangels mentioned in the Bible except Jesus who has the archangel's voice. If the designation "archangel" applied, not to Jesus Christ, but to other angels, then the reference to "an archangel’s voice" would not be appropriate. In that case it would be describing a voice of lesser authority than that of the Son of God. Jesus is Jehovah’s appointed King, commissioned to destroy all the nations at Har–Magedon. Re 11:15; 16:14-16. But we would not have you ignorant, brethren, concerning them that fall asleep; that ye sorrow not, even as the rest, who have no hope. For if we believe that Jesus died and His Father rose him again, even so them also that are fallen asleep in Jesus will God bring with him. For this we say unto you by the word of the Lord, that we that are alive, that are left unto the coming of the Lord, shall in no way precede them that are fallen asleep. 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; then we that are alive, that are left, shall together with them be caught up in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord. Wherefore comfort one another with these words. 1 Th 4:13-18.

After God resurrected His Son Jesus he was raised to a "superior position" in heaven again as a spirit creature. Php 2:9 No longer a human, he has the voice of an archangel. Is it not reasonable that Jesus would also be the one to take action against the one he described as "ruler of this world," Satan the Devil? Joh 12:31-Da 12:1 associates the "standing up" of Michael' to act with authority with "a time of trouble, such as never has been since there was a nation till that time." The glorified spirit Son of God. Michael/Jesus Christ, completes His High Priest duties, stands up leaving all before a Holy God without a Mediator. In his prehuman existence Jesus was called "the Word." (Logos) Joh 1:1. He also had the personal name Michael. By retaining the name Jesus after his resurrection. Ac 9:5, "the Word" shows that he is identical with the Son of God on earth. His resuming hisheavenly name Michael and his title "The Word of God" Re 19:13.

The very name Michael, "Who Is Like God?" points to the fact that Jehovah God is without like, or equal, and that Michael His archangel is His great Champion or Vindicator. As for the notion that Jesus was equal to God before he came to the earth the Bible says the exact opposite. Consider what Php 2:5,6 Paul wrote: "Your attitude should be the same as that of Christ Jesus: Who, being the likeness and the image of God, did not consider equality with God something to be grasped, but made himself nothing, taking the very nature of a servant, being made in human likeness." The NIV admits that "very nature of God" is more accurately rendered as "in God's form". Meaning of the word image: exact likeness : SEMBLANCE <>Us create man in Our image God created mankind in his own image -- Genisis 1:27. RSV> b : a person strikingly like another person We were all created in God's image, but we fall short of the Glory of God. Almighty God is Jesus' Father He gave His Son glory and Jesus doesn't accept glory from man. God is not a man that he should tell lies, Neither a son of mankind that he should feel regret. Has he himself said it and will he not do it, And has he spoken and will he not carry it out? Numbers 23:19

If Jesus "did not consider equality with God something to be grasped" doesn't that indicate that Jesus was not equal with God? But how sensible is it that God is not equal with himself or that one faction of God's supposed triplicate personality may be tempted to grasp for equality within the imaginary three fold godhead? True, Jesus was in God's form, meaning he is in God's likeness; as a son resembles his father. Instead, he humbly considered God's superiority over himself and did not seek to cash in on his privileged standing as the one closest to Jehovah. In that respect he did not consider equality with God something to be grasped. Jesus said: The Father is greater than I am. John 14:28

1 Timothy 3:16 There is some controversy over what is the correct translation of this verse. The KJV says "God was manifest in the flesh". This gives the definite idea that God came to earth as Jesus. However many other Bibles say "He who was manifested in the flesh," The noun God is replace by the pronoun he. Some of the Bibles that do that are the 1901 ASV, BBE, RSV and, NWT. Others are prone to presume out the word "God" or "He" the word "who" and the Catholic Douay says "which was manifested in the flesh,". Many translators of the bible tainted it to suit religion and the Trinity Dogma, and the confusion of that doctrine not only in 1 Ti 3:16, but in many other chapters in the NT have corrupted and mocked God to no end, but really to what end, in the end? TO THEIR END!.......And the beginning of the New Heavens and New Earth!!!!!!!

And without controversy great is the mystery of Godlikeness; He who was manifested in the flesh, Justified in the spirit, Seen of angels, Preached among the nations, Believed on in the world, Received up in glory. 1 Timothy 3:16 ASV. Keep Alert! not by man.

"Also, I am no longer in the world, but they are in the world and I am coming to you. Holy Father, watch over them on account of your own name which you have given me, in order that they may be one just as we are.

If Jesus wasn't Michael, then the scripture would say Jesus. Jesus is the Christ, therefore, why would he send an angel to do HIS job? The answer is in the scripture itself. The scripture specifically says (Michael) for the reason of revealing the sacred secret that Jesus and Micahel are the same spirit person kicking Satan out of heaven. Revelation 12:7-9. Only believers of faith in God and His Christ acknowledge this scripture. Everyone else will claim it's a lie, rejecting the word of God, therefore, Jesus rejects to give sight to these blind ones. Have you ever heard the statement "One in a Million"? That statement gives endearment to that "One" because this "One in a Million" takes much work to harvest out and who sends out the trumpet call? Holy Spirit is the one making the statement. There are Seven Billion People on the Earth, but Only ONE TRUE LORD GOD ALMIGHTY and one true Lord Jesus Christ. Jehovah must draw you out..(all the heart)..and bring you to His Son, Jesus Christ by Holy Spirit. Everyone else is REJECTED.

Therefore, only this is revealed "from the Spirit of truth," ONLY ONE! Continue putting up with one another and forgiving one another freely if anyone has a cause for complaint against another. Even as Jehovah freely forgave YOU, so do YOU also. But, besides all these things, [clothe yourselves with] love, for it is a perfect bond of union. Also, let the peace of the Christ control in YOUR hearts, for YOU were, in fact, called to it in one body. And show yourselves thankful. Let the word of the Christ reside in YOU richly in all wisdom. Keep on teaching and admonishing one another with Psalms, Praises to God, spiritual songs with graciousness, singing in YOUR hearts to Jehovah. And whatever it is that YOU do in word or in work, do everything in the name of the Lord Jesus, thanking God the Father through him. Colossians 3:13-17