THE SON OF THE ALMIGHTY - Out of the Book?: "The Gospel of the Kingdom To Come"

If the Father is not given his legitimate place as the Creator, God, and Father of the Son, the Son is also deprived of his posi­tion as Mediator, by reason of which the relationship within the heavenly family itself, as well as its relation to man, is violated. As it is degrading for a natural father to be placed below his son, and to have the son honored as the father of the family, so is God's honor degraded by lowering him and attributing to the Son the Father's omnipotence and glory.

Satan has always endeavored to set aside the Word of God; he began in Paradise and then succeeded in accomplishing his ends. When the Son of God was revealed in the world, and was believed and obeyed by the new restored Israel, Satan began his endeavors to usurp the throne of Christ; and in this he was also successful. Paul says, during his struggle to hinder these satanic endeavors, that Satan transforms himself "into an angel of light," and that his ministers are also "transformed as the ministers of righteousness." (2 Cor. 11:14, 15.) He also describes what Satan, as "another Jesus," accomplishes in the house of God: "For I am jealous over you with godly jealousy: for I have espoused you to one husband, that I may present you as a chaste virgin to Christ. But I fear, lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled Eve through his subtilty, so your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ. For if he that cometh preacheth another Jesus, whom we have not preached, or if ye receive another spirit, which ye have not received, or another gospel, which ye have not accepted, ye might well bear with him."—2 Cor. 11:2-4.

From this it will be seen that the voice of the serpent had be­guiled the spiritual Eve, in spite of Paul's strenuous efforts to keep the virgin—the church—chaste for her espoused Husband. Even before the eyewitnesses of Jesus had had time to die, these believers were blinded to such an extent that they were able to tolerate "another gospel," "another spirit," and pay homage to the father of lie connected therewith—"another Jesus."

The usurper gradually assumed the throne of the Son of truth. Falsehood was gradually mixed with truth, and now the trinity of the old Chaldean sun cult brazenly sits among the people on the throne of the Father and the Son. In order to reveal the difference between the Son of the Highest and "another Jesus," we shall ex­amine the doctrine of the two births—the natural and the spiritual —such as they are described in the Word of God and in history.