NOTE: All comments in brackets [ ] or in parentheses ( ) as well as highlighted text (bolded and/or in blue) are from the author of this study.
Bible quotations are in maroon.
God
- A family made up of 2 beings:
- God, an eternal spirit being who became God the Father when the Logos was begotten in the virgin Mary as Jesus-Christ who then became the Son of God
- The Logos, the Word or Spokesman is also an eternal spirit being and fully a God being whose existence is separate and distinct from that of God the Father
- God is a family now composed of 2 beings which is to grow very large to become a nation and a kingdom (John 1:1-3)
The God Family Structure
- God the Father is the most high in authority and the Logos, Word or Spokesman is in perfect submission to Him (John 5:30)
- First Resurrection saints will be the Bride of Christ; the Bride is to obey her husband
- Millennial and Last Great Day saints will be the children of the Kingdom; the children are to obey their parents
God and Mankind
- Man created in the image and likeness of God (Gen 1:26); has a mind like God and in general physical appearance looks like God (eyes, fingers, hair, mouth, feet, etc.) Christ, the Son of God said that he who has seen Him has seen His Father (John 14:9)
- God’s purpose in creating mankind was as a means of reproducing Himself i.e., creating more God beings i.e., spirit beings with eternal life wholly sharing in the very nature of God.(Rom 8:28-30)
- They would be God as God is God in the same way that a human being begotten of a human father is fully a human being partaking fully of the nature of its human parents
How Does God a Spirit Being Communicate with physical flesh-and-blood men?
- A spirit essence received at the time of conception gives man’s animal brain mind power (1Co 2:11)
- This mind can receive another spirit which gives it the ability to know and understand spirit things which are invisible to man’s 5 physical senses (1Co 2:12)
- A tiny portion, the earnest, of God’s Holy Spirit can be added to men’s minds to make it possible for communication to occur between God and man (2Co 1:22)
The Word, Logos, Spokesman
Old Testament (OT) Israel
- In the days of ancient Israel, God communicated with OT Israel through the Word
- The Word spoke to Moses and Moses relayed God’s message given him by the Word to Israel (Ex 4:15-16)
- Old Testament Israel never had God’s Holy Spirit as part of their human spirit and it was impossible for God to communicate with them directly i.e., with thoughts from His mind to their minds
- The Word is God’s Spokesman and was the means used by God to speak to ancient Israel through Moses
New Testament (NT) Israel
- No longer a physical, flesh-and-blood nation as was ancient Israel where to become an Israelite, one had to be born as an Israelite
- New Testament Israel is a spiritual nation (Rom 2:28-29) made up of physical, flesh-and-blood individuals from all nations who have been spiritually begotten by God the Father and as such are spiritual embryos who must grow from being babes-in-Christ to spiritual adulthood by feeding on God’s truth as contained in God’s Holy Bible
God is Holy and Spirit
- God and the Word are both spirit beings and they are both holy; both of them are holy spirits
- The holy spirit being that works in the minds of physical, flesh-and-blood individuals spiritually begotten by God the Father is the holy spirit called the Spokesman (Heb 1:2)
- In the days of ancient Israel, God’s Spokesman only communicated with one person, Moses and his successors after his death; there were no communication directly from the Spokesman with other members of the nation of Israel
- The holy spirit that was God’s Spokesman was only with Moses and his successors; not in them
Christ the Holy Spirit that is God’s Spokesman to Spiritual Israel
- Before the First Coming of Christ, there was no possibility of the Holy Spirit dwelling in men as it could not be given until Christ’s glorification
Joh 7:37 In the last day, that great day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried, saying, If any man thirst, let him come unto me, and drink.
Joh 7:38 He that believeth on me, as the scripture hath said, out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water.
Joh 7:39 (But this spake he of the Spirit, which they that believe on him should receive: for the Holy Ghost was not yet given; because that Jesus was not yet glorified.)
- The holy spirit being called Word and Spokesman could not be made available to those that would be begotten by the holy spirit being called God UNTIL Christ was glorified.
- The God being that was the Logos, Word or Spokesman who became fully a man had to first die as God the Father’s perfect sacrifice for the sins of mankind and be resurrected with the glory He had before becoming a man (John 7:39).
Why?
- Neither God the Father nor God’s Spokesman, Christ can dwell with sin; there had to first be a means to forgive the past and future sins of those God would call and who would be chosen as it is impossible for anyone, converted or not, not to sin
- Christ was that perfect sacrifice for sin accepted by God the Father who resurrected Jesus with the glory that He had before becoming a man while He dwelt in eternity with God
- Christ, God’s Spokesman is the holy spirit being that works in the minds of the truly converted as Satan is the spirit being that works in the minds of the children of disobedience (Eph 2:2)
Joh 14:16 And I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another Comforter, that he may abide with you for ever; [Christ was the comforter that was with them while He was a flesh-and-blood man]
Joh 14:17 Even the Spirit of truth; whom the world cannot receive, because it seeth him not, neither knoweth him: but ye know him; for he dwelleth with you, and shall be in you.
And here, in this verse is the mystery unveiled of who and what is the holy spirit that works in the minds of the truly converted. Christ told his disciples that He was the spirit of truth who comforted them with God’s truth and that the world cannot receive because it cannot see or know him. Notice, Christ refers to the holy spirit as being a person not a thing AND that He, Christ is that spirit of truth which the disciples know and that the world does not know because it dwells with them, the disciples and not those that are in the world. AND, not only does Christ the holy spirit of truth dwell with them as a physical, human being but in the future it will be in them after Christ’s ascension to His Father. (John 7:39) That is why Christ says in John 16:7 quoted below that “…..It is expedient for you that I go away: for if I go not away, the Comforter will not come unto you; but if I depart, I will send him unto you.” It was necessary (expedient) for Christ to go away (return to His Father) and be glorified with the glory He had before the world was (John 17:5) for him to return to being God’s Spokesman, the Word (John 1:14), the spirit being that works in the minds of the truly converted. This is how Christ would be in the disciples following His ascension back to His Father. He would enter them on the Day of Pentecost and also be in the minds of all those God would call (Act 2:38-39) as the Comforter that would teach them, the disciples, and all those God would call, ALL things (John 14:26 quote below).
Can who and what is the holy spirit be any clearer?
Joh 14:26 But the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in my name, he shall teach you all things, and bring all things to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto you.
Joh 15:26 But when the Comforter is come, whom I will send unto you from the Father, even the Spirit of truth, which proceedeth from the Father, he shall testify of me:
Joh 16:7 Nevertheless I tell you the truth; It is expedient for you that I go away: for if I go not away, the Comforter will not come unto you; but if I depart, I will send him unto you.
- Christ had to go back to His Father and this would occur when He would be resurrected back to His former glory as a God being with God the Father and ascend back to His Father and no longer be with His disciples.
- He could not, once glorified, remain with them as God the Father’s plan of salvation is worked out in those called out by the holy spirit that is God’s Spokesman as has been the case since the beginning of God working out His plan of salvation for mankind which began on the day of Pentecost.
- How can we know this for sure?
Heb 1:1 God, who at sundry times and in divers manners spake in time past unto the fathers by the prophets, [In Old Testament times God spoke to ancient Israel by the prophets]
Heb 1:2 Hath in these last days spoken unto us by his Son, [the Word, the Spokesman] whom he hath appointed heir of all things, by whom also he made the worlds; [And since the glorification of Christ and His ascension to His Father, we have been in the last days of God’s plan of salvation for mankind (we are now at the very end of the God’s 6th day with the 7th one or the Millennium about to begin). Since Christ’s return to His Father in the 3rd heaven, God the Father has been communicating with His Spirit-begotten nation of Israel through His Son who is the holy spirit being that is God’s word or Spokesman to God’s called and chosen ones from the nations of the world.]
The glorified Christ who is the holy spirit being that is God’s Word or Spokesman is the one speaking to those who are part of God’s spiritual nation of Israel; to those who are God the Father’s called and chosen ones; to those who from all nations of the world have become part of God’s holy nation or church.
God and the Word are Holy Spirits
- God and the Word are holy and they are spirit beings
- The words “holy” and “spirit” are adjectives that qualify the noun “God”
- The holy spirit is not a thing that exists by itself and in separation from God and the Word
- The expression “holy spirit” define who and what are God and the Word; they are “holy” “spirits”; the terms “holy spirit” do not refer to a separate and distinct being in the Godhead; they are qualifiers explaining who and what are God and the Word i.e., they are holy and spirit
- The holy spirit being or God personage that works in the minds of the truly converted is God the Father’s Spokesman, the Word who was made flesh for the purpose of becoming God the Father’s perfect sacrifice for sin
Joh1:14 And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth
In Conclusion
As many of us know but sometimes do not realize, the manner in which words are used can result in our seriously misunderstanding what is being said. If we use the term “holy spirit” as a noun rather than treating these 2 words as adjectives or noun qualifiers as we should then our minds picture the “holy spirit” as being a separate and distinct being from God and the Word. But this is totally contrary to what the Bible says.
Joh 1:1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
Joh 1:2 The same was in the beginning with God.
Joh 1:3 All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made.
In the beginning before anything was created there were God and the Word who had eternally existed with no mention whatsoever of the concurrent or simultaneous existence of another God being called the Holy Spirit.
The Bible tells us that the Word is before all things and created all things.
Col 1:15 Who is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of every creature:
Col 1:16 For by him were all things created, that are in heaven, [that would include any other beings whether spirit or not] and that are in earth, visible and invisible, whether they be thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers: all things were created by him, and for him:
Col 1:17 And he is before all things, [He existed before anything that was created] and by him all things consist.
And in Hebrews 1:2 we learn that God created all things by the Word.
Heb 1:1 God,[the Father] who at sundry times and in divers manners spake in time past unto the fathers by the prophets,
Heb 1:2 Hath in these last days spoken unto us by his Son, whom he hath appointed heir of all things, by whom [the Word, the Spokesman] also he made the worlds;
The Bible very clearly tells us that God and the Word existed from the beginning; that all things were made by God through the Word; and that the Word existed before all things that were created.
There is no justification whatsoever to be found anywhere in the Bible for the existence of a third being in the Godhead if we will allow God’s Word the Holy Bible to speak to us. The Bible is Christ in writing ; He is the being who inspired the prophets and the apostles who wrote the books of the Bible. The Bible though written over many centuries and by different individuals does not contradict itself in any way. Its cohesion is perfect as it is basically the words of one entity or being, God the Word or Spokesman, recorded in writing by men under inspiration.
Eph 2:20 And are built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ himself being the chief corner stone;
Eph 3:5 Which in other ages was not made known unto the sons of men, as it is now revealed unto his holy apostles and prophets by the Spirit; [God’s Spokesman, the Word]
God and the Word have existed forever and before anything was created; they constitute the complete Godhead. Nowhere in the Bible do we read of the existence of a separate and distinct being from God the Father and the Word called the Holy Spirit.
For a more detailed explanation of this topic, please click on the following hyperlink: Who or What is the Holy Spirit?
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