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Thursday, July 28, 2011

Understanding the Trinity vs Three Manifestations: Jesus Christ is "The Holy Ghost, which is The Spir...

Understanding the Trinity vs Three Manifestations: Jesus Christ is "The Holy Ghost, which is The Spir...: "John 14: 6-13, 16-20, 26 Let’s first establish that Jesus is truth and that he is the Spirit of truth which is the Holy Ghost. Note: The H..."

Jesus Christ is "The Holy Ghost, which is The Spirit of Truth"


John 14: 6-13, 16-20, 26

Let’s first establish that Jesus is truth and that he is the Spirit of truth which is the Holy Ghost. Note: The Holy Ghost and Holy Spirit are used interchangeably in the scriptures (John 14:6, 16, 17)

Look at verse 13 – redundant. Jesus speaks again about the Father being glorified in the Son.  This lets us know again that Jesus is God because God will only glorify himself (Isaiah 42:8)..

In verse 16, Jesus shows us how the flesh, any flesh must pray to the Spirit, the Father – his Spirit, who will send another Comforter, The Holy Ghost/Spirit, that he may abide with you forever. Jesus lets us know that the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost/Spirit, is also the Spirit of truth. Let’s go back; look at this; Jesus is truth, The Spirit of truth. The Comforter, and The Holy Ghost.  Let's reverse the statement.  Jesus is the Holy Ghost, the Comforter, and the Spirit of truth. Jesus explains that the world can’t receive the Holy Ghost/Spirit because they can’t see him. Neither do they know who the Holy Ghost is. Jesus makes a profound statement at this point. Jesus says that they, the apostles, know that the Holy Ghost is Jesus. Jesus says that he is the Holy Ghost by saying, he is staying with them right now as he speaks; and later he will be in them as the Holy Ghost/Spirit.

Verse 18. Jesus is saying that he will come; meaning, Jesus will come back as the Holy Ghost/Spirit. Therefore, the name of the Holy Ghost/Spirit/Truth is Jesus Christ. Look at Matthew 28:19, Acts 2:38.

Verse 20. Jesus says in that day they will know that he is the Father and they are in him and he is in the disciples in the form of the Holy Ghost/Spirit.

Verse 21. Jesus will show the disciples who he is by showing his manifestation as God. Thus the disciples would understand that the Spirit and the flesh of God will love them if they keep his commandments.

Verse 26. Jesus identifies the Comforter as the Holy Ghost, whom the Father, Jesus’ Spirit, will send in his name, the name of Jesus Christ. If the Holy Ghost will be sent in Jesus name, then the name of the Holy Ghost is Jesus Christ. The Holy Ghost/Spirit will bring the things that you have learned about Jesus back to your remembrance. If you have the Holy Ghost, then you will see based on your training and the scriptures that the name of the Holy Ghost is Jesus Christ. (John 14:26, Matthew 28:19, Acts 2:38).

I would like to go back to Verse 12 and ask a question which would be a mystery to most who don’t quite understand the manifestation and revelation of Christ. If Jesus said he is the Father, in the aforementioned verses. Why would he say, I go unto my Father?

Let me show you how God has been working with me in the revelation of who he is. I was finishing up my writings in the book of I Peter. I had already passed John. This is what happened. I was in a Bible class. I was flipping through the scriptures looking for a passage that we were studying at the time and this verse, John 14:12, seems to have jumped out at me, it caught my attention, and it stirred my spirit. In my spirit, I knew, I would have to address this scripture.

On the following Saturday, I woke up and was lying in bed mediating. I started thinking about this book, Understanding the Trinity, and how I could make the revelation of Christ clearer to a person who really wanted to believe but couldn’t quite get it.

While I’m lying there, God brought back to my remembrance a pitcher full of water and a glass. I said in my heart, Lord, you know me and you know that I wouldn’t want to offend you by comparing your glory to earthly vessels. I felt that the Lord pressed upon my heart that this would not offend him in any way. This analogy is for those who are truly trying to understand the mystery of God and the operation of his manifestations.

Let’s consider God as this big pitcher of water which fills the Universe. This big pitcher of Water, the Spirit, was poured into a glass. Jesus Christ is the glass. According to the scriptures, God cannot be seen face to face by any man while he is in his full Spiritual form. Moses saw God’s backside. In order for us to see God, God had to make himself visible and clothe his Spirit in human flesh. God poured his Spirit into the body of Jesus Christ, the glass (Colossians 1:19, 2:9, II Corinthians 5:19, I Timothy 3:16)..

This same water, the Spirit, that is in heaven is the same water that was poured in the glass so we could see the water, God’s Spirit in the body of Jesus. In this case, Jesus who is the express image of the water (Spirit). We can see the glass but we can’t see the water (Spirit) that is in the glass. Therefore, when we see Jesus, we see the express image of the water, the image of God himself who is the water that was poured out of the pitcher. One God who transformed himself and took on the form of the glass. Jesus is God incarnate (John 1:1-14).

This transformation of God (the glass- Jesus) was changed and glorified. God put all of his power and the complete Godhead in this glass, the body of Jesus Christ (Colossians 1:14-19, 2:9-12).

Therefore, when we see God, upon his return, he will be in the form of Jesus Christ who is the visible image of God. In that day there will be one Lord and his name will be one. In Philippians 2:10, we find that at the name of Jesus every tongue will confess that Jesus Christ is Lord (Deuteronomy 6:4, Luke 2:11).

Jesus Christ who is the visible image of God, is in the highest and most powerful position in the Spiritual realm of God. Thus when we see scriptures that say, Jesus is on the right hand of the Father, we fully understand the phrase, “the right hand of the Father.” Because we know that Jesus is in the most powerful position in the Godhead and he is the visible essence of God. God has incorporated all of his power, glory and majesty into the body of Jesus Christ who is the “right hand of the power of God” (Isaiah 42:8, Colossians 1:14-19, 2:9-10).

Based on the aforementioned analogy, we can see what Jesus meant when he said, “I go to my Father. What Jesus is saying is that I am going back into my Spiritual realm. Now, if we put blood in the glass of water, we will see the glorified flesh as red in the glass (body). Jesus will be the glass with the red water in it. When we put the whole glass with the red blood, back inside the big pitcher, we can see the glass inside the pitcher. The water inside the glass will be red and we will be able see it in a position of power within the pitcher (the right hand of the Power of God). Jesus’ glorified body, the red glass of water inside the pitcher, will be seen on the Throne as the lamb of God. Jesus Christ, as the Lamb, is the visible essence of God.

Think of about this: Once this glass, with the red blood, is placed back into the Spirit (Pitcher), it can been seen by man and that red blood starts to ooze out of the glass and color all of the water in the pitcher. In other words, God came from heaven, made himself visible to mankind, died, and went back as a glorified body, with his (God’s) blood that was shed for the salvation of man (Acts 20:28). That slain Lamb took the blood back to the mercy seat.

This glass of water (Jesus' Spirit of Truth) is the same water (Spirit of the Father) that came from the big pitcher and it is the same water (Spirit) that was put back into the pitcher after it was glorified. The only difference is that now we can see the water (the express image of the Spirit) because it is in a glass (body - Jesus Christ - Jehovah Saviour).

Therefore, we can see the Lamb which was slain before the foundation of the world sitting on the One Throne in heaven (Revelation 4:2,9, 5:6,8, 6:1, 7:10,17, 10:6,7, 11:15, 15:3,4, 17:14, 19:7,13,16). There is only one God and there is only one way to salvation and that's through God's highest and most glorified name - Jesus Christ (Acts 4:12).

In summary, when you see Jesus, upon his return, you will see Jesus as God himself riding on a “White Horse.” (Revelation 19:11-16). The Lord of Lords and King of Kings - The Almighty (Isaiah 9:6, Revelation 1:8,11,18, 17:14, 22:13). The foregoing analogy is an attempt to relay a Spiritual concept into a natural form so that one can understand the operation of God and his amazing miracles.

The is a edited excerpt from my book, "Understanding the Trinity, Three Persons vs Three Manifestations".  To order call 1-888-280-7715