Revelation of the Godhead

This insight provides an answer to the question, How is it there is but One God, yet Three (1 Jn.5:7, Jn.10:30, Matt.28:19 below)?

1 Jn.5:7 For there are THREE that bear record in heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost: and THESE THREE ARE ONE.

Jn.10:30 I and my Father are ONE (Lk.1:68, Col.2-9, Re.1:6 below).

Jn.12:45 And he that seeth me seeth him that sent me (Jn.10:30 above).

Matt.28:19 Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son (Jn.1:14 below), and of the Holy Ghost (1 Jn.5:7 above).


In the Beginning

To explain this revelation we reference Genesis 1:2, which declares in part, "… And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters."

And, we reference Genesis 1:26, in part, "And God said, Let US make man in OUR image… ."

John 1:1-3 also declares that, "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was WITH God, and the Word WAS God (Re.1:6 below). The same was in the beginning WITH God. All things were made by him (the Word); and without him was not any thing made that was made."

And, John 1:14 declares, "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 (Matt.3:17, Matt.1:20 below)), full of grace and truth."

What is divinely present in the beginning is the triune God - God the Father, the Word of God the Father, and the Spirit of God the Father.

Re.1:6 And hath made us kings and priests unto God AND his Father; to him be glory and dominion for ever and ever. Amen.

Matt.3:17 And lo a voice from heaven saying, This is my beloved Son (Matt.3:17 below), in whom I am well pleased.

Matt.1:20 But while he thought on these things, behold, the angel of the Lord appeared unto him in a dream, saying, Joseph, thou son of David, fear not to take unto thee Mary thy wife: for that which is conceived in her is of the Holy Ghost.

Jn.1:18 No man hath seen God at any time; the only begotten Son, which is in the bosom of the Father (Jn.17:8), he hath declared him.


In Jesus dwells ALL the fullness of the Godhead bodily (Col.2:9 below). In Jesus, the Word of God made flesh, who dwelt among us, the Lord God of Israel VISITED (Lk.16:8 below).

Col.2:9 For in him (Jesus) dwelleth ALL the fullness of the Godhead bodily (Lk.1:68 below)

Lk.16:8 Blessed [be] the Lord God of Israel; for HE HATH VISITED and redeemed his people (Col.2:9 above.


I Came Out From Thee

The Lord Jesus, at John 17:8, praying to God the Father declares, "For I have given unto them the words which thou gavest me; and they have received them, and have known surely that I CAME OUT FROM THEE (Jn.1:18 above), and they have believed that thou didst send me."

God the Father brought forth God (Re.1:6 above) out from the Father’s bosom (Jn.1:18 above) His Word (Jn.1:18 above), manifested as His separate self and, likewise, the Spirit of God is brought forth from God the Father's very Holy Spirit, a separate self – ONE God, all God the Father, the triune God!


The Holy Spirit of God the Father

Therefore, what occurred when the Holy Spirit of God the Father came upon Mary, blessed among women (Matt.1:20 above), is that Mary conceived literally, and absolutely, the very Word of God the Father in the flesh, our blessed Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ.


God, the chief corner stone of the church of God

Mary gave birth to God (John 1:1-3, John 1:14, Re.1:6). The stone which the builders refused (Ps.118:22), would become “the head stone of the corner” of the church of God (1 Cor.10:32), Jesus’ living body (Col.1:24). Therefore, Mary would become the mother of the church, Jesus Christ himself being the chief corner stone (Eph.2:20), and we in Him being members in particular (1 Cor.12:27).



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