The reader will know from sections [14], [14a], [14b] that God is a unique individual whose name is Jehovah and who exists in a spirit body and dwells in unapproachable light. They will know too that Jesus is a second unique individual who is an angelic son of God, a creation of God, a being who himself worships a God, who in his case is his angelic father. They will know that the Holy spirit is simply all of the loyal angels as a group, it is all of the holy spirits in fact. These things are very straightforward. But if the reader has accepted these understandings in circumstances where he or she used to believe that God was either Jesus or was 3 in 1, then hopefully he or she is feeling overjoyed in the holy spirit, if, that is, he or she is thinking spiritually. For great spiritual truths have been revealed to him/her.
However, being realistic, given that the reader is human like the writer, he or she is more likely to be feeling a trifle foolish or possibly even angry that he or she has been so badly misled by his or her church into what amounts to idolatry of a non existent contrivance of man. Isaac Newton felt similarly and became distressed to the point of near mental breakdown as a result. He was a very sincere person a lover of the truth.
But look! The scriptures are ambiguous over the deity, the divinity, of Christ. This ambiguity has lead to the misconception of the Trinity and the misconception that Jesus is God so that Mary is the Mother of God etc etc. The Good news for the reader who used to believe that Jesus is God is that Jesus was promoted when he died to be something more even than the firstborn son of God. Section [243] explains how actually Satan was the first angel that God created, but that Satan lost his birthright to Michael. One wonders whether he sold it for the equivalent of a bowl of red soup. [As an aside, we think that this bowl was the 6,000 year reign over mankind, that Michael was originally given because he agreed to ransom Adam. Although a part of this agreement between Satan and Michael would have to have been that Jesus would only get the firstborn rights if he truly died as a ransom for Adam]
We are going to deduce from the scriptures that Jesus became not only the firstborn and only begotten son of God at his resurrection on 33Nisan16 from his angelic death on 33Nisan14, but also he became divine, in fact he became our God alongside Jehovah at his resurrection. for the avoidance of doubt, we will prove that we should worship two God's now, Jesus and Jehovah, for the generosity and love of the Father is so great that he has given the whole family business to the Son. Yet since the two are in union one with another, the worship of the one is largely, but not entirely, the worship of the other.
It does mean that we should pray to either or both of them, and worship both of them. Indeed this is really why the name of God YHWH, Jehovah, Yahweh, does not appear anywhere in the New Testament, rather, the ambiguous, Lord, which title refers to both of them, replaces it.
We owe thanks a certain International Bible Student, to Jesus and to God and to the holy spirit for this one. It all started like this:
27 Next he said to Thomas: Put your finger here, and see my hands, and take your
hand and stick it into my side, and stop being unbelieving but become believing.
28 In answer Thomas said to him: My Lord and my God! (John 20).
Lets us clear our minds of any preconceptions. Jesus did not rebuke Thomas
for calling him his God. Jesus' response was:
29 Jesus said to him: Because you have seen me have you believed?
Happy are those who do not see and yet believe (John 20)
So Jesus did not deny and therefore by omission confirmed that he was God to Thomas. Then Paul tells us:
9 For this very reason also God exalted him to a superior position and kindly gave him the name that is above every [other]
name,
10 so that in the name of Jesus every knee should bend of those in heaven and those on earth and those under the
ground,
11 and every tongue should openly acknowledge that Jesus Christ is Lord to the glory of God the
Father (Philippians 2).
Whereas Paul also says of Jehovah:
11 For it is written: As I live, says Jehovah, to me every knee will bend down, and every tongue will make open acknowledgment to God (Romans 14).
So Jesus is getting the knee bending open acknowledgement that Jehovah is getting. But we read in Revelation that John fell down at the feet of the angel (not the angel Michael) who was showing him the vision twice:
11 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; for the bearing witness to Jesus is what inspires prophesying (Revelation 19).
9 And there came one of the 7 angels who had the 7 bowls which were full of
the 7 last plagues, and he spoke with me and said: Come here, I will show you
the bride, the Lamb's wife.
10 So he carried me away in [the power of the] spirit to a great and lofty
mountain, and he showed me the holy city Jerusalem coming down out of heaven
from God (Revelation 21).
17 And, look! I am coming quickly. Happy is anyone observing the words of the
prophecy of this scroll. (Says Jesus)
18 Well, I John was the one hearing and seeing these things. And when I had
heard and seen, I fell down to worship before the feet of the angel that had
been showing me these things.
19 But he tells me: Be careful! Do not do that! All I am is a fellow slave of
you and of your brothers who are prophets and of those who are observing the
words of this scroll. Worship God (Revelation 22 - says the angel of Revelation
21:9,10).
Now making an acknowledgement on one's knees is not necessarily worship, but the point is that the holy spirit stepped in to prevent further idolatry in the case of John, so why did Jesus not rebuke Thomas?
Then we have the dying words of Stephen, which echo precisely the dying words of Jesus.
59 And they went on casting stones at Stephen as he made appeal and said:
Lord Jesus, receive my spirit.
60 Then, bending his knees, he cried out with a strong voice: Lord, do not charge this sin against
them. And after saying
this he fell asleep [in death] (Acts 7)
34 But Jesus was saying: Father, forgive them, for they do not know what they are
doing. Furthermore, to distribute his
garments, they cast lots (Luke 23).
46 And Jesus called with a loud voice and said: Father, into your hands I entrust my
spirit. When he had said this, he expired (Luke 23).
Now Jesus was the eternal Father of Stephen. So Stephen was saying precisely
what Jesus said. Incidentally the 'Lord' of Acts 7:60 is Jesus because:
22 For the Father judges no one at all, but he has committed all the judging to the Son (John 5)
And so the pleas for the non charging of sin would be made to Jesus not Jehovah. So here Stephen was making an audible prayer to his father Jesus, just as Jesus made to his father God at his death. Jesus said on the night of his death, after the last supper:
13 Also, whatever it is that you ask in my name, I will do this, in order that the Father may be glorified in connection with the
Son.
14 If you ask me anything in my name, I will do it (John 14 Adapted
from the Greek).
In verse 13 the request is made of God, in verse 14 the request is made of Jesus. In both cases Jesus performs the request. However one cannot just pray to God and say to him things like: Please oh God look after my mother, I ask this in the precious name of Jesus Christ. Because you need to be baptised into Jesus' precious name before you can act with the authority of that name before God or before anyone else. For example:
13 But certain ones of the roving Jews who practiced the casting
out of demons also undertook to name the name of the Lord Jesus over those having the wicked spirits, saying:
I solemnly charge you by Jesus whom Paul preaches.
14 Now there were seven sons of a certain Sceva, a Jewish chief
priest, doing this.
15 But in answer the wicked spirit said to them:
I know Jesus and I am acquainted with Paul; but who are you?
16 With that the man in whom the wicked spirit was leaped upon
them, got the mastery of one after the other, and prevailed against them, so that they fled naked and wounded out of that
house (Acts 9).
Unless you are bearing Jesus' name you cannot use its authority. So now, those
who are born again, baptised into the name of the son, parties to the ARC
through the 3AC, those who have associated angels in heaven, those who
themselves are God's sons, those who act and walk with a clear conscience before
God despite their many sins, those who bask in his undeserved kindness, can pray
to God in Jesus' name and can make requests of him in Jesus' name. They can also
pray to Jesus, and make request of him. This is why Jesus said, when he was
dying:
46 About the ninth hour Jesus called out with a loud voice, saying: Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani? that is, My God, my God, why have you forsaken me? (Matthew 27)
34 And at the ninth hour Jesus called out with a loud voice: Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani? which means, when translated: My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?
The greater meaning being that FDS1 and FDS3 (who are both his wife and hence 'him' in the flesh) would cry out not to one God but to two Gods, namely Jehovah God and Jesus God, asking why they had forsaken them. The answer is because they have become corrupt in their idolatry of each other and so Jesus has appointed FDS2 and FDS4 respectively. Is it not the great irony and finesse of the true God, that in Jesus agony, his very words were inspired to declare that he was going to become a God to be worshipped by men, just like his dad.
More evidence of this is found in the two recitals of the Lord's prayer in Matthew 6 and Luke 11:
6 You, however, when you pray, go into your private
room and, after shutting your door, pray to your Father who is in secret;
then your Father who looks on in secret will repay you.
7 But when praying, do not say the same things over and over again, just
as the people of the nations do, for they imagine they will get a hearing for
their use of many words.
8 So, do not make yourselves like them, for God your Father knows
what things you are needing before ever you ask him.
9 you must pray, then, this way:
'Our Father in the heavens, let your name be sanctified.
10 Let your kingdom come. Let your will take place, as in heaven, also
upon earth.
11 Give us today our bread for this day;
12 and forgive us our debts, as we also have forgiven our debtors.
13 And do not bring us into temptation, but deliver us from the wicked
one.'
14 For if you forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will
also forgive you;
15 whereas if you do not forgive men their trespasses, neither will your
Father forgive your trespasses.
16 When you are fasting, stop becoming sad-faced like the hypocrites, for
they disfigure their faces that they may appear to men to be fasting. Truly I
say to you, They are having their reward in full.
17 But you, when fasting, grease your head and wash your face,
18 that you may appear to be fasting, not to men, but to your Father
who is in secrecy; then your Father who is looking on in secrecy will
repay you.
In the literal meaning, 'your Father' is God. In the greater coded symbolic meaning:
Your father who is in secret/secrecy is Jehovah (because he is in secret to
men)
Your father who looks on in secret/secrecy is Jesus (for those born again)
(because he is not in secret to men - we have seen him)
1 Now on the occasion of his being in a certain place praying, when he
stopped, a certain one of his disciples said to him: Lord, teach us how to pray,
just as John also taught his disciples.
2 Then he said to them: Whenever you pray, say, 'Father, let your name be
sanctified. Let your kingdom come.
3 Give us our bread for the day according to the day's requirement.
4 And forgive us our sins, for we ourselves also forgive everyone that is in
debt to us; and do not bring us into temptation (Luke 11).
Since there are two gospel accounts of Jesus teaching various groups how to pray, we know by the Parallel Account Principle that there are two greater groups whom he teaches how to pray. Since in Matthew he was teaching the crowds and in Luke he was teaching his disciples, we already know what these two greater groups are more or less. If we play the usual spot the difference between Matthew 6 and Luke 11, we see that Matthew 6 mentions the will of the father being done and a delivering from evil but Luke 11 does not. This is because the particular disciples in the greater group of Luke are already delivered from evil by virtue of the blood of the Christ, and because the greater meaning of the prayer in Luke is a prayer to Jesus whose will is subordinate in will to the almighty. So here are the two prayers for the two groups. Any human can pray to God, and any born again Christian can also pray to Jesus. Amen. It is as Jesus himself prophesied:
19 Therefore, in answer, Jesus went on to say to them: Most truly I say to
you, The Son cannot do a single thing of his own initiative, but only what he beholds the Father
doing. For whatever things that One does, these things the Son also does in like manner.
20 For the Father has affection for the Son and shows him all the things he himself does, and he will show him works greater than
these, in order that you may marvel (John 5).
So he will eventually listen to prayer and accept worship as his father does. This eventuality became a reality on 33Nisan16.
10 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 (Matthew 4).
8 In reply Jesus said to him: It is written, It is Jehovah your God you must worship, and it is to him alone you must render sacred service (Luke 4).
But this isn’t what was written in the Masoretic Hebrew text of the old testament. The ‘alone’ is not mentioned there:
13 Jehovah your God you should fear, and him you should serve, and by his name you should swear (Deuteronomy 6).
12 And now, O Israel, what is Jehovah your God asking of you but to fear Jehovah your God, so as to walk in all his ways and to love him and to serve Jehovah your God with all your heart and all your soul (Deuteronomy 10).
20 Jehovah your God you should fear. Him you should serve, and to him you should cling, and by his name you should make sworn statements (Deuteronomy 10)
But in the LXX ‘alone’ is mentioned in Deuteronomy 6:13.
13 The Lord your God you shall fear and him alone you shall render sacred service (Deuteronomy 6:13 LXX)
Fear is something that would not only apply to God. Jesus is therefore indicating that worship can apply to more than one person.
23 For this night there stood near me an angel of the God to whom I belong and to whom I render sacred service (Acts 27).
So there was only one God to whom Paul rendered sacred service in the literal meaning. But there are two God’s in the greater meaning by the Successive Descriptions Principle of the code.
9 For God, to whom I render sacred service with my spirit in connection with the good news about his Son, is my witness of how without ceasing I always make mention of you in my prayers (Romans 1)
So that God is Jehovah. But worship (holy fear) is to Jesus too:
22 You worship what you do not know; we worship
what we know, because salvation originates with the Jews.
23 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.
24 God is a Spirit, and those worshipping him must
worship with spirit and truth (John 4).
The ‘greater’ Father is Jesus, who is also to be worshipped, for the symbolism of John 4 - see [207].
Jesus is only God of those to whom he is the eternal father. Sacred service to God is obeying the laws of Jehovah. The commandments of the Christ are today a part of these laws.
12 This is my commandment, that you love one another just as I have loved you (John 15:12).
You do not need to be a God to make a commandment. But if a God makes a commandment and if you follow that commandment because you accept the God then you are worshipping that God and rendering to him sacred service. This brings us to the Greek word proskunew, which means 'to worship' or 'to do obeisance to'. When Jesus appeared to the two Mary's immediately after his resurrection we read:
9 And, look! Jesus met them and said: Good day! They approached and caught him by his feet and worshipped/did obeisance to him (Matthew 28).
10 At that I fell down before his feet to worship/do obeisance to 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/do obeisance to God; for the bearing witness to Jesus is what inspires prophesying (Revelation 19).
8 Well, I John was the one hearing and seeing
these things. And when I had heard and seen, I fell down to worship/do obeisance
before the feet of the angel that had been showing me these things.
9 But he tells me: Be careful! Do not do that! All
I am is a fellow slave of you and of your brothers who are prophets and of those
who are observing the words of this scroll. Worship/do obeisance to God
(Revelation 22)
Now when you are clinging to someone’s feet in the cases of Revelation 19 and 22 above and Acts 10 below, it was considered worship by the angel/Peter and was therefore prohibited, so in the case of Mary and Mary in Matthew 28:9 it was worship by the No Coincidences Principle of the code.
25 As Peter entered, Cornelius met him, fell
down at his feet and worshipped/did obeisance to him.
26 But Peter lifted him up, saying: Rise; I myself
am also a man (Acts 10).
16 However, the eleven disciples went into
Galilee to the mountain where Jesus had arranged for them,
17 and when they saw him they worshipped/did
obeisance, but some doubted.
18 And Jesus approached and spoke to them, saying:
All authority has been given me in heaven and on the earth.
19 Go therefore and make disciples of people of all
the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the
holy spirit,
20 teaching them to observe all the things I have
commanded you. And, look! I am with you all the days until the conclusion of the
system of things (Matthew 28).
If he has all of God’s authority then he is also to be worshipped. Observing commandments of God and Jesus which are not contradictory is worshipping both of them.
So now we can understand why Isaiah said of the Christ:
6 For there has been a child born to us, there has been a son given to us; and the princely rule will come to be upon his shoulder. And his name will be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Eternal Father, Prince of Peace (Isaiah 9).
He was to become a mighty God in the future. He became the only begotten son of God as follows. The angel Michael died on the stake. Satan committed suicide in Judas, and God allowed Satan to die as an angel at that time too. God himself then resurrected Michael, and then subsequently, Michael resurrected Satan. This then physically reversed their genealogy. David said in his song...
32 For who is a God besides Jehovah, And who is a rock besides our God? (2 Samuel).
In the literal meaning at the time of the song, nobody. In the first word symbolic meaning, after the law, by the Binary Question Principle - Jesus.
Now dear reader, are you still dim in your mind or are you becoming bright? Have you (in the case that you have not read it elsewhere) yet asked the question:
If an angel can become a God, and if a man can become an angel, then can a man become a God?
If you have, then you are blessed, for the holy spirit has the control of
those sorts of realisations.