Bible Study
Who is God? (part 1)
August 21, 2009
Prov 22:28 Remove not the ancient landmark, which thy fathers have set.
Prov 23:23 Buy the truth, and sell it not; also wisdom, and instruction, and understanding.
We are taking up the task of discovering the ancient landmarks that our fathers have set. “Our fathers” can mean to us:
a. our Heavenly Father who gave us His Word;
b. our Jewish fathers like Abraham, Moses, David, Isaiah, and others who introduced God to us;
c. and finally our Apostolic fathers, Peter, John, Paul and others who revealed Jesus and His kingdom to us.
These fathers set down landmarks, which if we are diligent about discovering them, we can seek to live within their boundaries. Once we find truth, we must buy it and never sell out to something less.
We have already examined one such landmark that we discovered by asking the question, “How can we know truth?” or “Where do we find truth?” The answer is the Bible—the trustworthy Book from God that teaches us His eternal truths. The only Book on this level. The second landmark we will discover is the answer to this very important question: “Who is God?”
Who is God? (part 2)
August 24, 2009
The first answer to the question, "Who is God?", is, He is Creator. Now that we know that the Bible is the source of truth (see the fomer Bible study topic just completed), the first truth we discover from the very first verses of the Bible is that God is the creator of everything:
Genesis 1:1-3
1 In the beginning God created the Heaven and the earth.
2 And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.
3 And God said, Let there be light: and there was light.
John said it like this:
John 1:3 All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made.
That of course includes man: God created mankind as well. Jesus said God created male and female:
Matthew 19:4 And he answered and said unto them, Have ye not read, that he which made them at the beginning made them male and female,
The implication of Jesus' words here does not leave room for evolution of humans from a lower life form. The scripture makes it clear that God is the creator of all things. As such, we are His creation and owe Him our worship.
Psalms 100:1-3
1 Make a joyful noise unto the LORD, all ye lands.
2 Serve the LORD with gladness: come before his presence with singing.
3 Know ye that the LORD he is God: it is he that hath made us, and not we ourselves; we are his people, and the sheep of his pasture.
Who is God? (part 3)
August 25, 2009
He is one
A second fact that we learn about God early in scripture is that God is one. It is true that not only is there only one God, but that God is one:
Deuteronomy 6:4 Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God is one LORD:
That is a foundational truth imparted by God to His ancient people and was the primary distinguishing factor that separated the Jews from other religions in the ancient. The Jews believed that there was only one true God, and not many.
In comparison, it is interesting that today, one of the primary doctrinal differences between Apostolic teaching and that of other religious groups is the strong adherence to the teaching that God is one and not three. The Jews were strict monotheists and the law did not permit worship of other gods. God was so strict with this teaching about one God that when He gave Moses the 10 commandments, the first commandment addressed this truth:
Exodus 20:3 Thou shalt have no other gods before me.
Harsh judgment from God always fell on Israel when they chose to worship other gods. Going from one God to many gods was always a downhill slide. That is still true today. Not only does scripture only recognize one God, but also that the one God is absolutely one.
Various names and titles of God such as Jehovah or Yahweh, Lord, Father, King, The Almighty, Word, Holy Ghost, Jesus, The Holy One, all refer to the same one being.
There are some scriptures that use a plural noun to refer to God but the reference can be attributed to the plurality of God's majesty, various attributes, titles, roles, or modes of activity. Oneness Christians and Jews have the same view of God's oneness as defined in Deut 6:4 Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God is one LORD. This was one of the core teachings, or “landmarks,” that the Jews were to repeatedly teach to their children when sitting, walking, lying down, rising up—continuously remind them.
Who is God? (part 4)
August 26, 2009
How important is the complete unity (oneness) of God?
How important is it to make an issue about God being one? Does it really matter how many we see God as? Let us see how Jesus answered this question.
Mark 12:28-30
28 And one of the scribes came, and having heard them reasoning together, and perceiving that he had answered them well, asked him, Which is the first commandment of all?
29 And Jesus answered him, The first of all the commandments is, Hear, O Israel; The Lord our God is one Lord:
30 And thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind, and with all thy strength: this is the first commandment.
This was Jesus' answer to the question about what was the most important commandment. Jesus quoted Deuteronomy 6:4 which contains that all-important statement about God's nature. Jesus said this truth that God is one was singularly identified as the most important commandment of scripture.
Who is God? (part 5)
August 27, 2009
There is only one--What about other gods?
Jesus said the oneness of God was the most important commandment, so let's deal with some practical questions on the subject. If there were ever any other gods, we should ask, when did they show up? Were they around before our God? If not, were there any gods that came along after Him?
Isaiah 43:10-11
10 Ye are my witnesses, saith the LORD, and my servant whom I have chosen: that ye may know and believe me, and understand that I am he: before me there was no God formed, neither shall there be after me.
11 I, even I, am the LORD; and beside me there is no saviour.
God looked beside Himself and found no one. Isaiah said it a second time just to make sure we didn't miss the point:
Isaiah 45:21 … and there is no God else beside me; a just God and a Saviour; there is none beside me.
While it is true there is no God beside the one and only God, Paul says that one God who is over all is Christ:
Rom 9:5 Theirs are the patriarchs, and from them is traced the human ancestry of Christ, who is God over all, forever praised! Amen. NIV
Who is God? (part 6)
August 28, 2009
Only One Savior
Notice how Isaiah also said that God claimed to be the only savior. He stated another important truth about Himself in the 2nd commandment that we need to notice: He is a jealous God.
Ex 20:4-5
4 Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth:
5 Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: [why not?] for I the LORD thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me;
God declared that He was the only savior and that He was jealous and would not tolerate His people honoring any other savior. Yet with that being true, God sent an angel to reveal this truth about the birth of Jesus Christ:
Luke 2:10-11
10 And the angel said unto them, Fear not: for, behold, I bring you good tidings of great joy, which shall be to all people.
11 For unto you is born this day in the city of David a Saviour, which is Christ the Lord.
This angel lived in heaven and knew first-hand that God was a jealous God who said there was no other savior; yet he now proclaims that this baby is the Savior. There is no contradiction here; the angel knew there was only one Savior—the God of eternity who was now being born as a human baby.
The Samaritans, after hearing and seeing the ministry of Jesus, recognized that Jesus was the Savior of the world:
John 4:42 And said unto the woman, Now we believe, not because of thy saying: for we have heard him ourselves, and know that this is indeed the Christ, the Saviour of the world.
It is not a contradiction to identify Jesus as the savior when the scriptures had declared that God was savior because they are the same. We find the scripture saying interchangeably that God is Savior and Jesus is Savior:
Titus 3:4 But after that the kindness and love of God our Saviour toward man appeared,
Titus 3:6 Which he shed on us abundantly through Jesus Christ our Saviour;
Yes God is a jealous God and won't tolerate worship of any other. But to worship and honor Jesus as Savior does not identify a second person as a savior, but the one true God coming as savior.
Who is God? (part 7)
August 31, 2009
Only One Creator
Could God have had a second-person god beside Him and had that person help Him create the heavens and the earth?
Isaiah 44:6, 24
6 Thus saith the LORD the King of Israel, and his redeemer the LORD of hosts; I am the first, and I am the last; and beside me there is no God.
24 Thus saith the LORD, thy redeemer, and he that formed thee from the womb, I am the LORD that maketh all things; that stretcheth forth the heavens alone; that spreadeth abroad the earth by myself;
The answer is that, no, God did all the creation Himself without any help: “alone” and “by myself”. Jesus was God Himself doing the creating. Paul acknowledged that this was a mystery from the beginning:
Eph 3:9 And to make all men see what is the fellowship of the mystery, which from the beginning of the world hath been hid in God, who created all things by Jesus Christ:
All things were created by Jesus yet Isaiah said all things were created by God. What does that mean? That Jesus is God and it rules out the possibility that another god or a second-person god beside Him did the creating.
In another place, Paul added this about Jesus the Creator:
Col 1:16 For by him were all things created, that are in heaven, 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:
We also have the witness of the Apostle John who was caught up into heaven and witnessed Jesus in the throne of God and a crowd around Him worshipping and proclaiming:
Rev 4:10-11
10 The four and twenty elders fall down before him that sat on the throne, and worship him that liveth for ever and ever, and cast their crowns before the throne, saying,
11 Thou art worthy, O Lord, to receive glory and honour and power: for thou hast created all things, and for thy pleasure they are and were created.
John saw Jesus being worshipped in heaven as the creator! If Jesus were something other than God, then God, being a jealous God, would not allow that kind of honor to be given to another, especially on His own throne in heaven! But Jesus is God and Jesus is our Creator and worthy to be worshiped as such.
Who is God? (part 8)
September 1, 2009
Is there any like God?
Let's consider one more question that could be asked about the existence of other gods. We discovered that there were no gods around before God; none came along after God; there was no other savior but God; and no other creator but God. God who is called by the name, Jesus Christ, is the only God.
Here is the question: Could there not possibly exist somewhere out there, another being, maybe not another god, but perhaps something or someone like god? Does God's Word leave room for the existance of the existance of others perhaps like the gods of the Greeks, Romans, or Hindus, or Buddhists, Muslims? There is not even a god-like being out there according to God:
Isaiah 46:9 Remember the former things of old: for I am God, and there is none else; I am God, and there is none like me,
God said there is not even another like Him out there. Even the devil, who as Lucifer once dwelt in heaven, knows of the one God:
James 2:19 Thou believest that there is one God; thou doest well: the devils also believe, and tremble.
Why would he tremble at that fact? Luke 10:18 reveals that Jesus watched the devil fall from heaven, and Rev 12:8-9 reveals that satan was cast out of heaven after warring with the angel Michael. The devil is still trembling at that one God in heaven, Jesus, who was responsible for his ultimate eviction from heaven.
No, there is not even another god-like being out there. There is but one true God, Jesus Christ!
Who is God? (part 9)
September 2, 2009
Summary of the past 8 lessons and moving ahead with more...
The teaching that God is one was what the Jews believed. Moses, the one who spoke with God on the mountain, believed in one God who existed as one. The notion of God being a divided, multi-part deity is a doctrine that is not developed in the scriptures. He is the only God. He is the only Savior. He is the only Creator. The apostle Paul and Jude the brother of Jesus both wrote letters about Jesus and included this phrase about Him: “the only wise God.”
To sum up the past few lessons in one sentence: There is one God and God is one and His name is Jesus.
To further explore that summary, let us look at why Jesus presented a problem to the Jewish people He came to.
Equality with God
Jesus made the claim to be equal to God—this is the Apostle Paul's description of that:
Phil 2:6 Who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God:
It was not robbery—Jesus did not steal the position of being equal with God—that is who He was and is. By listening to the enemies of Jesus, we find further evidence of that same claim of Jesus to be equal with God raised strong disagreement from the strongly monotheistic Jews. The commandments didn't allow worship of any other with claim to be God. The monotheistic Jews believed that their God was an invisible Spirit who filled the heavens.
In addition, they rejected the idea that Jesus was a fulfillment of the messiah scriptures. Their religious leaders knew the scriptures well enough to feel pretty certain that they had found the key to eternal life in them. But Jesus challenged them to carefully search the scriptures because if they would, they would find Him in there:
John 5:39 Search the scriptures; for in them ye think ye have eternal life: and they are they which testify of me.
They saw Jesus simply as the neighbor boy who grew up in the home of Joseph the carpenter along with the rest of the neighborhood kids.
Mark 6:2-3
2 And when the sabbath day was come, he began to teach in the synagogue: and many hearing him were astonished, saying, From whence hath this man these things? and what wisdom is this which is given unto him, that even such mighty works are wrought by his hands?
3 Is not this the carpenter , the son of Mary, the brother of James, and Joses, and of Juda, and Simon? and are not his sisters here with us? And they were offended at him.
Their problem was that they saw His humanity and could not accept His claim of deity. When Jesus made claims making Himself equal with God, that came as an attack against their religious upbringing.
John 5:18 Therefore the Jews sought the more to kill him, because he not only had broken the sabbath, but said also that God was his Father, making himself equal with God.
Who is God? (part 10)
September 3, 2009
I am
Jesus' enemies had a problem with Him because He claimed equality with God. But did Jesus ever make such claims about Himself?
In Exodus 3:14, God told Moses His name was “I AM” meaning the always existing, self-existent One with no beginning and no creator who created Him. The Jews highly reverenced and respect that name. In John 8:58, Jesus angered His listeners by identifying Himself as that “I AM”.
John 8:58 Jesus said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Before Abraham was, I am.
They understood the significance of His claim to deity and sought to stone Him.
John 8:59 Then took they up stones to cast at him: but Jesus hid himself, and went out of the temple, going through the midst of them, and so passed by.
Jesus made it clear that He identified Himself as the "I Am," making Himself the singular God of the Old Testament, not another.Who is God? (part 11)
September 4, 2009
Visible God
In John 14:6-9, Jesus identified himself as the only way to the Father because He was the Father and the only visible image of the Father.
John 14:6-9
6 Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.
7 If ye had known me, ye should have known my Father also: and from henceforth ye know him, and have seen him.
8 Philip saith unto him, Lord, shew us the Father, and it sufficeth us.
9 Jesus saith unto him, Have I been so long time with you, and yet hast thou not known me, Philip? he that hath seen me hath seen the Father; and how sayest thou then, Shew us the Father?
Jesus also claimed total oneness with God in
John 10:30 I and my Father are one.
The orthodox religious leaders understood His claim and again took up stones to kill Him because “thou makest thyself God.”
John 10:31-33
31 Then the Jews took up stones again to stone him.
32 Jesus answered them, Many good works have I shewed you from my Father; for which of those works do ye stone me?
33 The Jews answered him, saying, For a good work we stone thee not; but for blasphemy; and because that thou, being a man, makest thyself God.
Since Jesus taught that He was God in flesh, He created enemies of the strict monotheistic Jews.
Who is God? (part 12)
September 8, 2009
Scriptures claim that Jesus=Old Testament LORD
John the Baptist prepared the way of the LORD
We have seen several scriptures that affirm that Jesus and the Father were not two but one, and will look at some other examples of that. When you see the word “LORD” in all caps in the Old Testament, it is a translation of the word used for the name of God, Yahweh or Jehovah.
Isaiah foretold of a man to come in the wilderness who would prepare the way of the LORD on earth.
Isaiah 40:3 The voice of him that crieth in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the LORD, make straight in the desert a highway for our God.
According to Jesus, John the Baptist was the one who fulfilled that prophecy.
Matthew 11:10 For this is he, of whom it is written, Behold, I send my messenger before thy face, which shall prepare thy way before thee.
Since John was the one preparing the way for the LORD, who was that LORD he prepared the way for? Jesus. In John 1:30, John the Baptist identified Jesus as the one: “This is he”. Isaiah told us that this person would prepare the way for Jehovah—and in walked Jesus Christ—the “LORD” of the Old Testament.
Who is God? (part 13)
September 9, 2009
Bowing to Jehovah or Jesus?
Through Isaiah, Jehovah of the Old Testament said, “Unto me every knee shall bow, every tongue shall swear.”
Isaiah 45:23 I have sworn by myself, the word is gone out of my mouth in righteousness, and shall not return, That unto me every knee shall bow, every tongue shall swear.
Paul applied that scripture to Jesus as though Jesus and the Old Testament Jehovah were the same person:
Philippians 2:10-11
10 That at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of things in heaven, and things in earth, and things under the earth;
11 And that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.
To avoid any misunderstanding or apparent contradiction with those two verses, Paul quoted Isaiah 45:23 and directly applied it to Jesus:
Romans 14:10-11
10 But why dost thou judge thy brother? or why dost thou set at nought thy brother? for we shall all stand before the judgment seat of Christ.
11 For it is written, As I live, saith the Lord, every knee shall bow to me, and every tongue shall confess to God.
It is clear then that the scriptures teach that when you bow your knees before God, you are bowing to Jesus.
Who is God? (part 14)
September 10, 2009
Jesus is the Father
What do we do with Jesus' claims that He was the Father? We find a reference to this unique relationship foretold in:
Isaiah 9:6 For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counseller, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace.
The child, the son, is the mighty God and everlasting Father. He does not identify Himself as an eternal second person but as the First and Last. Examine how Jesus explained this unique relationship:
John 10:30 I and my Father are one.
He further explained it in this way:
John 10:38 But if I do, though ye believe not me, believe the works: that ye may know, and believe, that the Father is in me, and I in him.
It was a unique idea for them to consider—that God could actually be seen in a fleshly, human form. How could a man see the Father? Even His own disciples who spent much time with Him and knew Him better than any other, needed an extra explanation:
John 14:7-9
7 If ye had known me, ye should have known my Father also: and from henceforth ye know him, and have seen him.
8 Philip saith unto him, Lord, shew us the Father, and it sufficeth us.
9 Jesus saith unto him, Have I been so long time with you, and yet hast thou not known me, Philip? he that hath seen me hath seen the Father; and how sayest thou then, Shew us the Father?
With the claim of Jesus that God was His father, and then adding that they had seen the Father, He was revealing something altogether different than a second person next to His Father. Jesus answer to the statement, "Show us the Father," was, "Here I am." Jesus claimed that the invisible Father and LORD was He Himself. Although God lived on earth in a human body for 33 years, He also continued to live everywhere in the universe as a Spirit as He always had.
Who is God? (part 15)
September 11, 2009
A mystery of the ages revealed
The scripture calls this a mystery, meaning that it was a previously unknown fact. Not that it is unknowable, but that it was unknown in the old days but is now revealed in the last days.
1 Tim 3:16 And without controversy great is the mystery of godliness: God was manifest in the flesh, justified in the Spirit, seen of angels, preached unto the Gentiles, believed on in the world, received up into glory.
Jesus Christ was always the one and only true God from the beginning, but was manifest, revealed or made known to people after His birth in Bethlehem . That is the meaning of the “begotten son” as in:
John 1:18 No man hath seen God at any time; the only begotten Son , which is in the bosom of the Father, he hath declared him.
“Declare” means, unfold, to make apparent. The hidden mystery of godliness was unfolded and revealed in Jesus. The Apostle Peter was close to Jesus and he eventually understood this mystery:
1 Peter 1:19-20
19 But with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot:
20 Who verily was foreordained before the foundation of the world, but was manifest in these last times for you,
God's decision to come to the earth in human flesh was preplanned from before the world was created, but took place during Peter's day. In these last times, Jesus, the invisible God of eternity, took on a body, an act called the “incarnation”, and in His flesh He was called the Son of God.
The writer of Hebrews made a revealing statement about the incarnation:
Hebrews 1:1-3
1 God, who at sundry times and in divers manners spake in time past unto the fathers by the prophets,
2 Hath in these last days spoken unto us by his Son, whom he hath appointed heir of all things, by whom also he made the worlds;
3 Who being the brightness of his glory, and the express image of his person, and upholding all things by the word of his power, when he had by himself purged our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high;
Jesus, “the Son”, was not another person, like a second person of God; He was the image of the one person, God. Jesus was “the express image of his person,” which means “representation or stamp of his essence or substance.” This scripture clearly reveals that Jesus was not another person in the Godhead, but the visible image or stamp of the only divine person that exists.
Who is God? (part 16)
September 14, 2009
More evidence of One: The flesh/image of God
Jesus was the flesh of God. He was the invisible One taking on a visible image:
Col 1:15 [Jesus Christ] Who is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of every creature:
God had no other image and in the second commandment (Ex 20:4) He forbid people from making a image of him.
What about three persons? Not one scripture ever declares that God exists in three persons, but 48 times makes reference to the Holy One. Such as:
Isaiah 54:5 For thy Maker is thine husband; the LORD of hosts is his name; and thy Redeemer the Holy One of Israel; The God of the whole earth shall he be called.
Only one passage uses the word “three” in relation to God and has to do with how God “bears record” in heaven.
1 John 5:7 For there are three that bear record in heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost: and these three are one.
“Bear record” comes from one Greek word that most often is translated “witness” or “testify.” Being the only verse that directly refers to three, it is important to note that it does not say is that God is a three-part God, but that God testified in three forms, manifestations or modes of appearance. That does not make God a trinity of persons any more that me being a father, me speaking words, and me having a spirit, makes me three persons. We already noted in the last study lesson how that when Jesus came to earth, He was begotten as the "express image of his person," meaning the visual expression (body) of the invisible person (God) not the introduction of another person. And the conclusion of 1 John 5:7 is that “these three [manifestations] are one [person].”
Who is God? (part 17)
September 15, 2009
The Godhead
What is meant by the word “Godhead” (used in the Bible three times: Acts 17:29, Rom 1:20, Col 2:9)? The state of being God, divinity. From Colossians 2:9 we see that center of the power of God is located in Jesus Christ.
Col 2:9 For in him dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead bodily. KJV
Col 2:9 For in Christ there is all of God in a human body; TLB
This is an easy way to understand the Godhead: God's spirit that dwells everywhere in the universe at the same time has His power centrally located and administered in and through Jesus Christ. He can be God in heaven and God on earth at the same time. He can listen to every person praying or worshipping anywhere on earth at the same time.
A good example of this picture is seen in the baptism of Jesus. God's voice was heard from heaven while Jesus was being baptized and the Spirit of God was descending like a dove. (Matt 3:16-17) God was operating in three places at the same time. Although Jesus was God in the water being baptized, He had not ceased to exist as God that always inhabited the entire universe as an invisible spirit.
For humans to look at that picture and to say that God must be three distinct persons or three separate personalities in order to have three simultaneous appearances puts severe restrictions on how we define God and limits His existence to weak human terms of understanding. For instance, God can show up in 100,000 places at the same time in whatever manner He chooses. Does that mean that for God to accomplish that, that He must exist in 100,000 distinct persons? No.
When reading Bible verses that present different manifestations of God, whether visual or audio, we must keep in mind the verse in the Bible that Jesus considered the most important scripture:
Mark 12:29 And Jesus answered him, The first of all the commandments is, Hear, O Israel; The Lord our God is one Lord:
Who is God? (part 18)
September 16, 2009
What is the name of God?
There is supreme power and authority in the name of Jesus. It is the only saving name. It is the only name that provides remission of sins.
God was called Yahweh or Jehovah in the Old Testament. He was known as Jehovah rapha, the healer; Jehovah nissi, our banner; Jehovah shalom, our peace; Jehovah shammah, is present; and several other similar compound names.
But finally, God revealed the one that tops them all, Yehowshuwa` (yeh-ho-shoo'-ah) mashiyach (maw-shee'-akh); Jehovah our anointed savior. Ieesoú Christou is the Greek translation of that Hebrew name of God, and Jesus Christ is the English translation.
Where does prayer power come from? Jesus
John 14:14 If ye shall ask any thing in my name, I will do it.
Where does salvation power come from? Jesus
Acts 4:12 Neither is there salvation in any other: for there is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved.
What is the highest name? Jesus
Philippians 2:9-10
9 Wherefore God also hath highly exalted him, and given him a name which is above every name:
10 That at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of things in heaven, and things in earth, and things under the earth;
Who was the possessor of all power? Jesus
Matt 28:18 And Jesus came and spake unto them, saying, All power is given unto me in heaven and in earth.
The New Testament church always prayed, preached, taught, healed, performed miracles, cast out devils and baptized in His name and counted it a privilege to suffer persecution and even die for that name. It was as obvious to them as it should be to the student of scripture today, there is one God and Jesus is His name!
Who is God? (part 19)
September 17, 2009
Conclusion of “Who is God?”
We come to the end of this topic. The evidence is conclusive. Who is God? The Jews of Old Testament believed there was only one God. The New Testament church believed that the one God was revealed in flesh as Jesus Christ.
John the Apostle was caught up into heaven and given a preview of the conclusion of all things. After the 7th trumpet sounds in Revelation 11:15, it will revealed to everyone that Christ will reign for ever and ever.
Rev 11:15 And the seventh angel sounded; and there were great voices in heaven, saying, The kingdoms of this world are become the kingdoms of our Lord, and of his Christ; and he shall reign for ever and ever.
John recognized it was “He” or “Christ” who was the singular visible person who will reign for ever. John also beheld the throne and only saw one sitting on it:
Revelation 4:2 And immediately I was in the spirit: and, behold, a throne was set in heaven, and one sat on the throne.
He further revealed that the one in the midst of that throne was the Lamb, Jesus Christ (Rev 5:6).
It is interesting that the people who got a preview of God in heaven (Isaiah, Paul, and John) were the primary advocates in scripture of a singular God. Why not make Jesus your God and king today?
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