Third Pull Evangelistic Movement as foretold by herald William Marrion Branham
Verily, verily, I say unto you, The Son can do nothing of himself, but what he seeth the Father do: for what things soever he doeth, these also doeth the Son likewise. Joh 5:19b
Introduction
1 The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave unto him, to shew unto his servants things which must shortly come to pass;
For the Father loveth the Son, and sheweth him all things that himself doeth: and he will shew him greater works than these, that ye may marvel. Joh 5:20
Of course the only begotten son of God. Is he the equal with God? Of course, no! A son can never be equal with his Father. I think that is common sense. The Father who begat him must be greater than him. Does the Bible say so? Exactly!
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Revelation 1:1-2
The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave unto him, to shew unto his servants things which must shortly come to pass; and he sent and signified it by his angel unto his servant John: Who bare record of the word of God, and of the testimony of Jesus Christ, and of all things that he saw.
This scripture shows clearly that, Jesus as a son, does not possess all the mysteries of God in himself, but it is the Father who reveals to him. For it is the Father who is all things in Himself, and though He dwells in fullness in the son, yet He has secrets in Himself which the son knows nothing about. This clearly brings out in black and white that the Son is not equal to the Father. Well... that is obvious to anyone and does take any theology or dogma to get it. When was a son ever equal to his Father? Nature teachers you that and you don't theology to comprehend it. Those who claim that the Father and the son are equal close their eyes on plain scriptural truth. And for those who claim that the Father and the Son are the self same person kick their toes against the pricks. Look:
Ye have heard how I said unto you, I go away, and come again unto you. If ye loved me, ye would rejoice, because I said, I go unto the Father: for my Father is greater than I. John 14:28
That puts the first and last nail in the coffin of the theory of co-equalness between the Father and the Son. Jesus himself says plainly that he is not equal with the Father, so whom do you believe? Theologians or Jesus?
Yes, there is one God and the same is the Father, and as a Father means He begets, and because He is perfect, He begot all His children in one son, and the same is His firstborn. Is therefore, the firstborn another God besides the Father? No! never! He is the son of the one true God, the only God who is the most high. Why then is the son worshipped as God? Because the fullness of God dwells in Him and is revealed through him. That is the gate where God has recorded His name. As the scripture says, Who is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of every creature: Colossians 1:15
But unto the place which the LORD your God shall choose out of all your tribes to put his name there, even unto his habitation shall ye seek, and thither thou shalt come: And thither ye shall bring your burnt offerings, and your sacrifices, and your tithes, and heave offerings of your hand, and your vows, and your freewill offerings, and the firstlings of your herds and of your flocks: And there ye shall eat before the LORD your God, and ye shall rejoice in all that ye put your hand unto, ye and your households, wherein the LORD thy God hath blessed thee. Deuteronomy 12:5-7
The place where God has recorded his name that is the only place of worship. That place is in Jesus Christ. So only at his feet thou shall worship God and call upon His name which is in him. For all fullness dwells in Jesus Christ for he is the temple of God, so God is worshipped through him. No worshipper shall be accepted if he worships in any other gate or under any other feet, for that will be idolatry.
An altar of earth thou shalt make unto me, and shalt sacrifice thereon thy burnt offerings, and thy peace offerings, thy sheep, and thine oxen: in all places where I record my name I will come unto thee, and I will bless thee. Exodus 20:24
To record means to put down a testimony in writing, so therefore God bears record of Himself in one man in whom all His fullness dwells, and that record is His name, and of course that man is Jesus Christ. He is the temple of God, as the scripture says, Jesus answered and said unto them, Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up. John 2:19
Thus, his body is God’s perfect holy temple in which He dwells in fullness, and in him is God’s name recorded. So, he is the chosen place of worship. And there, we worship, calling upon God’s name. In Jesus we worship the true God, not another God, for there is no scripture anywhere in the whole Bible where it speaks of another God but the Father. Search all the Bible, you will only find “God the Father …” but never “God the son” or “God the Holy Spirit”. There is only one true God who is the Father. The Father of who? Of the Lord Jesus Christ! A father and a son can never be the self-same person! What makes the son God is because God is in Him in fullness. But as I have said, the scriptures only refer to the Father as God:
Romans 15:6 That ye may with one mind and one mouth glorify God, even the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ. 2Corinthians 1:3 Blessed be God, even the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies, and the God of all comfort; 2Corinthians 11:31 The God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, which is blessed for evermore, knoweth that I lie not.
Ephesians 1:3 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who hath blessed us with all spiritual blessings in heavenly places in Christ: Ephesians 1:17 That the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give unto you the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of him:
Ephesians 3:14 For this cause I bow my knees unto the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, Ephesians 5:20 Giving thanks always for all things unto God and the Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ; Colossians 1:3 We give thanks to God and the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, praying always for you, 1Thessalonians 1:1 Paul, and Silvanus, and Timotheus, unto the church of the Thessalonians which is in God the Father and in the Lord Jesus Christ: Grace be unto you, and peace, from God our Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ.
1Thesselonians 1:3 Remembering without ceasing your work of faith, and labour of love, and patience of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ, in the sight of God and our Father; 1Thessalonians 3:13 To the end he may stablish your hearts unblameable in holiness before God, even our Father, at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ with all his saints.
2Thessalonians1:1 Paul, and Silvanus, and Timotheus, unto the church of the Thessalonians in God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ: 1Peter 1:3 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, which according to his abundant mercy hath begotten us again unto a lively hope by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead…
John 6:27 Labour not for the meat which perisheth, but for that meat which endureth unto everlasting life, which the Son of man shall give unto you: for him hath God the Father sealed. Galatians 1:1 Paul, an apostle, (not of men, neither by man, but by Jesus Christ, and God the Father, who raised him from the dead;) Galatians 1:3 Grace be to you and peace from God the Father, and from our Lord Jesus Christ, Ephesians 6:23 Peace be to the brethren, and love with faith, from God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
Philippians 2:11 And that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father. 1Thessalonians 1:1 Paul, and Silvanus, and Timotheus, unto the church of the Thessalonians which is in God the Father and in the Lord Jesus Christ: Grace be unto you, and peace, from God our Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ. 2Timothy 1:2 To Timothy, my dearly beloved son: Grace, mercy, and peace, from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Lord. Titus 1:4 To Titus, mine own son after the common faith: Grace, mercy, and peace, from God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ our Saviour.
1Peter 1:2 Elect according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, through sanctification of the Spirit, unto obedience and sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ: Grace unto you, and peace, be multiplied. 2Peter 1:17 For he received from God the Father honour and glory, when there came such a voice to him from the excellent glory, This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased. 2John 1:3 Grace be with you, mercy, and peace, from God the Father, and from the Lord Jesus Christ, the Son of the Father, in truth and love. Judah 1:1 Jude, the servant of Jesus Christ, and brother of James, to them that are sanctified by God the Father, and preserved in Jesus Christ, and called:
All the above are New Testament apostolic scriptures emphasizing the simple truth, the simple fact, that the Father is the one who is God, also called the most high, and there is no other besides Him. Any other person that gets that title (God) means the Father is in him. Yes, God is the Father, and thus a begetter, and in that He begat Jesus Christ His son; the same is His image! He is the image of the invisible God.
So, to see God the Father you look at Jesus Christ. The son is not God in himself, no! but he inherits the name and the glory of the Father because he is His first begotten, and therefore in him all fullness dwells. Or else I challenge anybody to quote for me one verse in the Bible which says, “God the Son.” Search it out everywhere, you will never find it. God is the Father and He has a son, and that son is Jesus Christ, who being a son cannot be equal with the Father. Look at the scripture below:
And he said unto him, Why callest thou me good? there is none good but one, that is, God: but if thou wilt enter into life, keep the commandments. Matthew 19:17
And again,
And he said, I will make all my goodness pass before thee, and I will proclaim the name of the LORD before thee; and will be gracious to whom I will be gracious, and will shew mercy on whom I will shew mercy. Exodus 33:19
Then compare with this:
And the LORD passed by before him, and proclaimed, The LORD, The LORD God, merciful and gracious, longsuffering, and abundant in goodness and truth Exodus 34:6
So the son understood clearly where all goodness springs from, not from him as a son but from the Father who is the true fountain of all goodness. Scriptures attributes goodness only to God who is the Father.
Psa_34:8 O taste and see that the LORD is good: blessed is the man that trusteth in him. Psa_100:5 For the LORD is good; his mercy is everlasting; and his truth endureth to all generations. Psa_135:3 Praise the LORD; for the LORD is good: sing praises unto his name; for it is pleasant. Psa_145:9 The LORD is good to all: and his tender mercies are over all his works. Jer_33:11 The voice of joy, and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom, and the voice of the bride, the voice of them that shall say, Praise the LORD of hosts: for the LORD is good; for his mercy endureth for ever: and of them that shall bring the sacrifice of praise into the house of the LORD. For I will cause to return the captivity of the land, as at the first, saith the LORD. Lam_3:25 The LORD is good unto them that wait for him, to the soul that seeketh him. Nah_1:7 The LORD is good, a strong hold in the day of trouble; and he knoweth them that trust in him.
In all the above the name being referenced is the LORD which means Jehovah the I AM, not Lord which may mean Adon in Hebrew, which may mean anybody else besides the Godhead. But Jehovah means only the Godhead.
So, goodness only applies to the Father who is God, and if anything else has any goodness at all then it is God in him. It is the good God who supplies freely the needs of all. It is by His goodness that He supplies sustenance to all. His goodness is the very fountain of that sustenance! He is the fountain of all goodness. Yes, the son himself says there is none good but God!
And furthermore, the son cries “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?” If he were the very God in person then such a cry wouldn’t make sense. How can a person cry to himself for help? There is one God please, and the same is the Father and He has one son who was crying from the cross for help. Does that not come straight home?
Next, the scripture says that it is the God of the Lord Jesus Christ who is the true God, and the same is called Jehovah the eternal one.
That the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give unto you the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of him: Ephesians 1:17
Amen! That nails it down, please. If you can’t see it from the above scripture, then you are blind, as blind as Laodicea is! Other people may have their gods, but there is only one true God, and the same is the God of our Lord Jesus Christ. And who is that God? The Father of glory. One time He was called the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob because He revealed Himself through them, (Elohe-Israel, that is the God of Israel). Israel means a prince who has power with God, and that is none else but Jesus Christ. Jacob was only a shadow. So, the true living God is the God of our Lord Jesus Christ. His God is his Father.
In other words, the true God is the one revealed through our Lord Jesus. Any other God who is not revealed through Jesus Christ is a false god! Like which one? Like the god of this evil world, he is a lie, a liar and the father of it! all who are born of him are liars as he is, hatching out the lies of trinity and the Jesus only doctrines.
The oneness of the Father and the son is simply that between them there is no difference, for God begat a son in His image after His likeness. So, there is no difference between the Father and the son. They are one in mind, heart and soul! God’s thoughts are expressed through His son perfectly. As the Father thinkest in His heart so likewise the son thinkest in his heart, and as the Father does so likewise the son. No differences whatsoever exist between them. Thus, they are one! Jesus walks exactly in the ways of the Father.
God, who at sundry times and in divers manners spake in time past unto the fathers by the prophets, 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; 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; Being made so much better than the angels, as he hath by inheritance obtained a more excellent name than they. For unto which of the angels said he at any time, Thou art my Son, this day have I begotten thee? And again, I will be to him a Father, and he shall be to me a Son? Hebrews 1:1-5
Besides all the innumerable company of angels who are God’s servants, God has a son, His begotten son, who is His heir, and that reveals God as a Father indeed, and the only true Father. Amen! So clear. The son is the brightness of the Father’s glory and is the expressed image of His person. He was begotten of Him bearing all His characteristics and likeness.
So also Christ glorified not himself to be made an high priest; but he that said unto him, Thou art my Son, to day have I begotten thee. Hebrews 5:5
The Father begot the son on a particular day, therefore the Father was there before the son, and seeing that God addresses him thus, shows he is another person. Jesus is the first begotten son of God, please. He is not another God! He is not the Father, neither! He is the son. That doesn’t make three gods. It makes one God, even the Father, revealed through His son.
Yes, the Son is one with the Father because the Father dwells in fullness in the son. The Father, who is God, is invisible, but is fully united with His son so that they are one, so that He reveals Himself through him. Yet, there is the son with his own being and the Father with also His own being, and that does not mean two Gods please! It means there is only one God, and the same is the Father. Jesus is the Son of that one God, not an office please! You can’t find that word office in the scriptures! Neither is the son an attribute of God, like a hand upon you, no! Why not accept what the scripture simply says. Jesus is the son of God! Not a second God! Not a second office of God! Not a second attribute of God! But a son begotten from God; that is what makes God a father, because He begot Christ as His first son.
Next, we find that it is God who raised him from the dead and set him at His right hand far above all principalities. Jesus never raised himself from the dead, but it was by the working of the mighty power of God. That God had to raise him from the dead means the Father is stronger than the son and that the son is not the self-same person with the Father, for one is raising another from the dead.
And what is the exceeding greatness of his power to us-ward who believe, according to the working of his mighty power, Which he wrought in Christ, when he raised him from the dead, and set him at his own right hand in the heavenly places, Far above all principality, and power, and might, and dominion, and every name that is named, not only in this world, but also in that which is to come: And hath put all things under his feet, and gave him to be the head over all things to the church, Which is his body, the fulness of him that filleth all in all. Ephesians 1:19-23
For thou wilt not leave my soul in hell; neither wilt thou suffer thine Holy One to see corruption. Psalm 16:10 That is the Son calling on the Father. Thus, the Father and the Son are not the self-same person. The Father is not the Son from the simple verse above. Why? The son prays to the Father confessing that He will not leave his soul in hell. It is not one attribute calling to another attribute of the same person, like a hand calling on the chest to save it; neither is it one office calling to another office of the same person, like a farmer who is also a teacher, but it is a son crying to a father! God is the Father indeed and the son is a son indeed. Why do people complicated what is so simple? Surely, the knowledge of this world darkens counsel with words without without wisdom.
And next the son confesses that, Verily, verily, I say unto you, The Son can do nothing of himself, but what he seeth the Father do: for what things soever he doeth, these also doeth the Son likewise.
“The Father loves the Son and shows him all things…” That is not one office loving another office, no! not an attribute in one person loving another attribute in the same person, such as the soul in you loving the spirit in you, no! The Father is an invisible being and beget a real visible being, a son, with a personality and that real person is the son of God in whom the fullness of God dwells. One being dwells in another being! God raised him from the dead and set him at His right hand and gave him power over all things.
Next, the son speaks about his Father clearly as to another person who is greater than himself. I have set the LORD always before me: because he is at my right hand, I shall not be moved. Thus, the son confesses to have set the Father always before him, and He is at his right hand, meaning He is his strength and righteousness. Psalm 16:8 And again the scripture says, The LORD said unto my Lord, Sit thou at my right hand, until I make thine enemies thy footstool. Psalm 110:1
The LORD is the Father while the Lord is the son, that is not one office calling on another office please! Forget about that! There is no scripture for that. The revelation of the headstone straightens it up, for the mystery of the Godhead can only be clearly revealed by the headstone messenger. That is why none of the seven church age messengers were able to clearly bring it out. Branham being not the headstone messenger could not clearly see that, for a messenger is one with his message. No messenger can preach anything beyond what he is – as the scripture says, “When Moses is read.” So, a messenger and the message are one. Moses and his writings are one. So, the Godhead mystery is only found in the headstone messenger, for he is one with the Godhead.
Both the oneness and the trinity are wrong! The oneness claims there is only one God, and the same is Jesus Christ, and that Jesus is the very Father and the very Son, so that means the Father is begetter of Himself. That is a false unscriptural doctrine! A big lie! Jesus never begat himself, please! The Father begat him!
Then the trinity people on the other hand says that there are three persons in one God, what a hideous abominable thing that is! The very idea! That can be a devil somewhere but not the true God. There is only one God and the same is the Father! What is wrong with the human mind? So, polluted with vain knowledge! The Father is the only God there is, and He has a son who is perfectly one with Him. That means between them there is no differences of mind, thoughts, purpose or personality. The Son is the exact duplicate of the Father!
Again, we find the son as a mediator between God and men. That means the mediator is reconciling two different parties. You oneness people, or you three offices for one God people, or the trinity people, please you can’t fit your doctrines in the intercessory prayers of Jesus the son of the living God:
John 17
These words spake Jesus, and lifted up his eyes to heaven, and said, Father, the hour is come; glorify thy Son, that thy Son also may glorify thee: As thou hast given him power over all flesh, that he should give eternal life to as many as thou hast given him. And this is life eternal, that they might know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent.
Look at that clear truth there! How blind are the teachers in all Christian religions! The son confirms clearly that it is the Father who is the only true God, and He is the one who sent him into the world with a commission to give eternal life to the elect. For as the Father has life in Himself, so has He given the son to have life in himself. God is the Father. He sends His son in the world. That God dwells in Jesus in fullness, it doesn’t make Jesus a second God. The son acts in the place of the Father because he is the heir of all things that the Father has.
I have glorified thee on the earth: I have finished the work which thou gavest me to do. And now, O Father, glorify thou me with thine own self with the glory which I had with thee before the world was. I have manifested thy name unto the men which thou gavest me out of the world: thine they were, and thou gavest them me; and they have kept thy word.
The son was brought forth before the world was created and being slain as a lamb, he lost the original glory, for he descended into the deep as he died. Then he rose up wrapped in attires of the dead, a mystery which angels nor man know nothing about.
Now they have known that all things whatsoever thou hast given me are of thee. 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, and they have believed that thou didst send me. I pray for them: I pray not for the world, but for them which thou hast given me; for they are thine.
Now at his first coming in the flesh, the Father gave him a specific message to preach to the elect by which to accomplish God’s purpose. Again, after his resurrection the Father gives him more revelation concerning the Gentile generations and the end of the world. This is what he brought to John by an angel. Yet within that message there were mysteries in it which were only known to the Father and that is all that pertains to the seventh seal. That seventh seal brings in a new dispensation called the dispensation of the fullness of time; it is sealed in the seven thunders and only the Father knows about them. Nobody else has knowledge of that.
And all mine are thine, and thine are mine; and I am glorified in them. And now I am no more in the world, but these are in the world, and I come to thee. Holy Father, keep through thine own name those whom thou hast given me, that they may be one, as we are. While I was with them in the world, I kept them in thy name: those that thou gavest me I have kept, and none of them is lost, but the son of perdition; that the scripture might be fulfilled.
And now come I to thee; and these things I speak in the world, that they might have my joy fulfilled in themselves. I have given them thy word; and the world hath hated them, because they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world. I pray not that thou shouldest take them out of the world, but that thou shouldest keep them from the evil. They are not of the world, even as I am not of the world. Sanctify them through thy truth: thy word is truth.
As thou hast sent me into the world, even so have I also sent them into the world. And for their sakes I sanctify myself, that they also might be sanctified through the truth. Neither pray I for these alone, but for them also which shall believe on me through their word; That they all may be one; as thou, Father, art in me, and I in thee, that they also may be one in us: that the world may believe that thou hast sent me. And the glory which thou gavest me I have given them; that they may be one, even as we are one: I in them, and thou in me, that they may be made perfect in one; and that the world may know that thou hast sent me, and hast loved them, as thou hast loved me.
Father, I will that they also, whom thou hast given me, be with me where I am; that they may behold my glory, which thou hast given me: for thou lovedst me before the foundation of the world. O righteous Father, the world hath not known thee: but I have known thee, and these have known that thou hast sent me. And I have declared unto them thy name, and will declare it: that the love wherewith thou hast loved me may be in them, and I in them.
Look at that clear message. Surely theologians always darken counsel with words without wisdom! The son knows the Father, and the Father knows the son. No man knows the Father but the son, and no man knows the son but the Father.
This is not a man praying to himself please. The “Jesus only” doctrine is a false doctrine! A lie of the devil! Same with the so-called trinity, it is a lie of the devil. For Jesus is not a second God speaking to the first God, but he is the son of the only God there is! And the “attributes” doctrine is a false doctrine! It cuts God in three pieces which must unite to bring out God. The same thing with the office doctrine, it is false! You can’t get that word attribute or office in the scriptures. You cannot get that word trinity in the Bible! The Bible words are clear: God the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ. God, the only God there is, is the Father, and Jesus is His son! Repent and believe the simple truth! Trinity is a doctrine from hell! Jesus only is a lie! Neither is God made up of three offices!
Jesus is not a second God praying to the first God: the trinity doctrine is evil and abominable! You can’t find that word trinity in the scriptures. That was coined by men imagining their own falsehood. This is the son of God calling upon his Father who is God! Simple and clear. The son is not equal to the Father! How can the begotten be equal to the begetter! How blind must men be!
The Father is greater than the son, so the son is not the Father. The Father is not an office but a real person who answers the prayers of the son. Ye have heard how I said unto you, I go away, and come again unto you. If ye loved me, ye would rejoice, because I said, I go unto the Father: for my Father is greater than I. John_14:28
Jesus knew that finally men may try to make him equal with the Father and pervert the scriptures, so he clearly said that. “My Father is greater than I.” God is above His Son. There are things that the Father does which the Son is not able to do. That is why the Father tells the Son to sit at His right hand so as to help him overcome his enemies!
Next, we find that the Father is perfect, being eternal, but the son is not and needed to be perfected through suffering. Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect. Matthew 5:48 For it became him, for whom are all things, and by whom are all things, in bringing many sons unto glory, to make the captain of their salvation perfect through sufferings. Hebrews 2:10 So also Christ glorified not himself to be made an high priest; but he that said unto him, Thou art my Son, to day have I begotten thee. As he saith also in another place, Thou art a priest for ever after the order of Melchisedec. Who in the days of his flesh, when he had offered up prayers and supplications with strong crying and tears unto him that was able to save him from death, and was heard in that he feared; Though he were a Son, yet learned he obedience by the things which he suffered; And being made perfect, he became the author of eternal salvation unto all them that obey him; Called of God an high priest after the order of Melchisedec. Hebrews 5:5-10
Now, it is also true that there are things which the Father knows that the Son knows nothing about:
But of that day and that hour knoweth no man, no, not the angels which are in heaven, neither the Son, but the Father. Mark 13:32 When they therefore were come together, they asked of him, saying, Lord, wilt thou at this time restore again the kingdom to Israel? And he said unto them, It is not for you to know the times or the seasons, which the Father hath put in his own power. Acts 1:6-7
So, the Father is not the son, neither is the son equal to the Father, neither is he a second person in the Godhead! Neither is the son another office of the Father! For if I worked in two offices, then I know all the secrets in the two offices. This can’t apply to the Father and the son! The Father knows all things, but the son only knows what the father shows him. So, all the doctrines about the Godhead which the churches have adopted are false! But here is the simple truth, even for a child to get it: there is one God and the same is the Father! He has one son that He beget and the same is Jesus! Jesus being the first begotten is the heir of all that the Father has. So, he takes the name of the Father. Simple and clear. God has a son! Only one God and has only one begotten Son. That one begotten son is also a seed able to multiply, so from him other sons will be born. That is quite simple and straight forward. That is what Jesus and his apostles taught.
Then you say, “But the Bible says the Word is God”, of course a son of man has to be a man! And a son of God has to be a God! Not a second God, but the same kind of being! See? All the sons of God are gods, and Jesus is chief among these gods because God dwells in him in fullness.
So, you see it very clear that the Father tells the Son to sit at His right hand, so the Son is not the Father! Simple and clear! That does not support trinity, but rather it nullifies it completely, but in a simple way. There is nowhere the Bible says the Son is a second attribute of God! Never! search it out and quote the verse. A son is begotten from a seed, so Jesus is the begotten son of God. A seed is not an attribute of a person, but is that which begets some other person.
No man hath seen God at any time; the only begotten Son, which is in the bosom of the Father, he hath declared him. John 1:18 Jesus has always been seen of men, he is the Son of God, but no man has seen God at any one time, why? He is invisible! Whom did Abraham see? It was Jesus. God is revealed in His son. Who is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of every creature: Colossians 1:15 That thou keep this commandment without spot, unrebukeable, until the appearing of our Lord Jesus Christ: Which in his times he shall shew, who is the blessed and only Potentate, the King of kings, and Lord of lords; Who only hath immortality, dwelling in the light which no man can approach unto; whom no man hath seen, nor can see: to whom be honour and power everlasting. Amen. 1Timothy 6:14-16
The Ancient of Days
Daniel 7:9-12
I beheld till the thrones were cast down, and the Ancient of days did sit, whose garment was white as snow, and the hair of his head like the pure wool: his throne was like the fiery flame, and his wheels as burning fire. A fiery stream issued and came forth from before him: thousand thousands ministered unto him, and ten thousand times ten thousand stood before him: the judgment was set, and the books were opened. I beheld then because of the voice of the great words which the horn spake: I beheld even till the beast was slain, and his body destroyed, and given to the burning flame. As concerning the rest of the beasts, they had their dominion taken away: yet their lives were prolonged for a season and time.
The Son of Man Is Given Dominion
Daniel 7:13
I saw in the night visions, and, behold, one like the Son of man came with the clouds of heaven, and came to the Ancient of days, and they brought him near before him. And there was given him dominion, and glory, and a kingdom, that all people, nations, and languages, should serve him: his dominion is an everlasting dominion, which shall not pass away, and his kingdom that which shall not be destroyed.
So, for you who make Jesus and God the self-same person, how can you explain that? The Father gives the Son dominion. Very clear! Yes, the fullness of the Father dwells in the Son, yet the Father has His own being and the Son his own!
And about the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, saying, Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani? that is to say, My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? Matthew 27:46 So, upon the cross was Jesus crying to himself? No! never, that wouldn’t make sense – that one office is crying to another. That a farmer who is also a father and while in the farm is asking and crying to his office as a father to buy for him fertilizer. That wouldn’t make sense. God is only one and the same is the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ. And the firstborn Son has inherited the Father’s name. That is what the apostles wrote, and that is what Jesus himself taught! He taught very clearly that he is the Son of God.
I will declare the decree: the LORD hath said unto me, Thou art my Son; this day have I begotten thee. Psalm 2:7 The Son was begotten by the Father on a particular day, but the Father is eternal, and has no beginning of days!
Similarly, there is nowhere in the Bible where it is written that God the Holy Spirit! Never! Search it, you will never find it. The Holy Spirit is the Spirit of God yes, but that doesn’t make the Spirit a third God or a third person, neither an office of God. The Holy Spirit is God’s main messenger, for a spirit is an angel, and an angel is a minister and that means a servant. Just like Abraham, Isaac and Eleazer: Father, Son and Holy Spirit. There is nowhere in the Bible where worship is directed towards the Holy Spirit. It does not sound right to begin with. That, “Oh Holy Spirit, I worship you, I praise you…” It sounds wrong! It is not in the scriptures.
Jesus knowing that the Father had given all things into his hands, and that he was come from God, and went to God. John_13:3 Howbeit when he, the Spirit of truth, is come, he will guide you into all truth: for he shall not speak of himself; but whatsoever he shall hear, that shall he speak: and he will shew you things to come. He shall glorify me: for he shall receive of mine, and shall shew it unto you. All things that the Father hath are mine: therefore said I, that he shall take of mine, and shall shew it unto you. John 16:13-15
See? Jesus is the image of the invisible God, the one invisible God and there is no second or third God besides the invisible one. Jesus is visible, and in his visibility, he shines the glory of the Father, so that to see him is to see the Father; for that glory which shines in him is from the Father.
Those who talk of a trinity of persons making up one God are deceived by Satan. Can you imagine such a creature, a creature consisting of three persons in one, each with his own head, body and mind! That is hideous, most hideous and loathsome! That can be nothing but a devil. God is one and the same is variously referred to us the Most High, the Father, the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, the living God, the eternal God, the Omnipotent, the king eternal immortal, invisible, the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, etc. But the same being a Father beget a son from His seed, and all His children were begotten in him in the beginning. So, the first begotten is not another God, not a second God, but the son of the one God!
Those who claim that Jesus is the very Father in another office do err not knowing the scriptures! In fighting the foul trinity, they end up on the extreme side of the road. Jesus is the son of the one God, simple and clear, not another God, but the son of God!
Then you ask why the scripture calls the son God, because he is the son of God, real son! If you are a man and you beget a son, then that son is also a man! He can’t be an angel! So, if a Father is a God then whatever is begotten of Him is also a God! Man begets man; therefore God begets God! Simple! That is why the scripture says all the sons of God are gods!
I have said, Ye are gods; and all of you are children of the most High. Psalm 82:6 Clear! The children of God are gods! Why? Their Father is God! And all these gods are one with their Father, one with God, yet ultimately, they have one Father who is that one eternal God. And since they are begotten of Him who is God, then all them are in the image of their Father, gods!
So, you don’t have to make the Father and the son the self-same person in order to refute trinity. All the sons of God are gods, and all were begotten in one, and the same is their first born. For those who make the Father and the son the self-same person, then how to you explain this:
For He hath put all things under his feet. But when He saith all things are put under him, it is manifest that He [the Father] is excepted, which did put all things under him [the son]. And when all things shall be subdued unto him, then shall the Son also himself be subject unto him [God] that put all things under him, that God may be all in all. 1Corinthians 15:27-28
That settles it completely! The Father remains the Father after begetting His son, and though the Father dwells in the son in fullness, yet the son remains a son! How much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit (the Holy Spirit) offered himself without spot to God, purge your conscience from dead works to serve the living God? Hebrew 9:14
So, was God offering Himself unto Himself? No! never! The son offered himself to the Father who is the Most High God, through the Holy Spirit, the eternal Spirit of God, the steward of the house of God like Eleazar was to Abraham and Isaac. For God’s house was complete from the onset, it was perfect from eternity having all things that make up a house. So, as the Father He had His son always in His bosom, then in the beginning He manifested him. The eternal Spirit who is the steward of His house providing meat in due season was always with the Father.
Then you say, “But the scripture says that Jesus was a child of the Holy Ghost.” Matthew 1:18 Now the birth of Jesus Christ was on this wise: When as his mother Mary was espoused to Joseph, before they came together, she was found with child of the Holy Ghost. That is true, that which was born from Mary was the child of the Holy Ghost, but that was not God begetting His son, please! God never begat His son through Mary! The Son of God is from the beginning; he was begotten from God in the beginning. In Mary he only changed his mask, and the Holy Ghost facilitated that change! Clear! The Holy Spirit produced that mask.
God did not need a woman to beget His son. If God were to beget His son through a woman, then it means his mother is above the son, that is the catholic dogma. Look at nature, many trees can only bear seed through the male and the female parts coming up in a flower, but there are other trees which bears young ones directly without a flower, without a female part being involved. They beget their young ones right from their roots! The root buds and shoots out a branch which is a young one, so the scripture says that Jesus is a branch from the root of Jesse. He is the root and offspring of David.
Who hath believed our report? and to whom is the arm of the LORD revealed? For he shall grow up before him as a tender plant, and as a root out of a dry ground: he hath no form nor comeliness; and when we shall see him, there is no beauty that we should desire him. Isaiah 53:1-2 See? No pollination of any king, for that will require a mother, but the son of God was begotten from God without a mother. That was in the beginning, but in Mary the Word was merely taking on flesh, and that is a domain of servanthood, so it is the chief steward of God (the Holy Spirit) who has to take charge of that. The Word was planted in flesh, and thus was called the engrafted word, and it is the Spirit of God, the ruler of God’s house, who had to take charge of that. It is the Holy Spirit who prepared the ground in Mary, that is the mask to cloth the Word in flesh, so the child born from Mary was of the Holy Spirit.
If that seems marvellous to you, what about this, that Jesus was the firstborn of every creature? That means the change of mask to take on the form of a creature. Then another place it says, “the first begotten from the dead”. That also signifies change of garments. So, the Holy Spirit took charge of his being formed in the flesh through Mary.
So, what makes the son of God a God is because God dwells in him in fullness. That does not make him a second God! What about other sons therefore who are also gods? Then there should be millions of gods, not just three! Oh, miserable little finite minds arguing forever on a simple thing. The doctrine of trinity is the devil’s invention! God is just one, and he is the Father. You then ask, “What of the Holy Spirit, isn’t he another God?”
Where does the bible ever say, “God the Holy Spirit”? Just quote one scripture that says that. God’s Spirit is one with Him just the way your spirit is one with you! That you have a soul and the spirit doesn’t make you two persons in you. And you in person is the soul, your spirit can be changed, for the scripture promises us a new heart and a new spirit, but never a new soul, for we are the soul, so it can’t be changed for a new one, that new one will be a different person.
Then will I sprinkle clean water upon you, and ye shall be clean: from all your filthiness, and from all your idols, will I cleanse you. A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within you: and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you an heart of flesh. Ezekiel 36:25-26
You can only exchange the heart and the spirit but never the soul, the soul is what means you; like souls under the altar were given white robes, thus bodies can also be changed, but never the soul, for the soul is the essential part of you. It is what you are. But the spirit is your messenger, your steward, the ruler of all your goods within you. That is why an evil spirit for you will do a lot of harm, preparing poisons as food in due season for you. But you are above your spirit and your spirit must be subject to you; you don’t allow it to go carrying on outside the scriptures, but you hold it down to be submitted to the word. Many emotional people are shipwrecked because they allow their spirit to take the leading, carrying them anywhere. Remember, the spirit is your servant, he has to operate under your control. It doesn’t matter how fervent he is, he has to operate within the limits of the word, and it is you the soul to ensure that.
Howbeit when he, the Spirit of truth, is come, he will guide you into all truth: for he shall not speak of himself; but whatsoever he shall hear, that shall he speak: and he will shew you things to come. Joh 16:13
and he sent and signified it by his angel unto his servant John:
He shall glorify me: for he shall receive of mine, and shall shew it unto you. All things that the Father hath are mine: therefore said I, that he shall take of mine, and shall shew it unto you. Joh 16:14 -15
2 Who bare record of the word of God, and of the testimony of Jesus Christ, and of all things that he saw.
3 Blessed is he that readeth, and they that hear the words of this prophecy, and keep those things which are written therein: for the time is at hand.
Greeting to the Seven Churches
4 John to the seven churches which are in Asia: Grace be unto you, and peace, from him which is, and which was, and which is to come; and from the seven Spirits which are before his throne;
5 And from Jesus Christ, who is the faithful witness, and the first begotten of the dead, and the prince of the kings of the earth. Unto him that loved us, and washed us from our sins in his own blood,
6 And hath made us kings and priests unto God and his Father; to him be glory and dominion for ever and ever. Amen.
As the things recorded in the Old Testament were shadows foretelling what was to be fulfilled in the New Testament Times, so the things recorded about the Seven Churches of Asia Minor were earnest prophecies concerning Seven Consecutive Church Generations that have been there during the Gentile times. Ephesus prophecies were fulfilled in the Apostolic Times, AD 53 to AD 120. Smyrna followed from AD 120 to AD 320. Pergamos followed, AD 320 to AD 606. Then Thyatira came on, AD 606 to AD 1520. After that Sardis came on, AD 1520 to AD 1750. Then Philadelphia followed, AD 1750 to AD 1906. Finally Laodicea followed, AD 1906 to the time of the second Advent of Christ.
7 Behold, he cometh with clouds; and every eye shall see him, and they also which pierced him: and all kindreds of the earth shall wail because of him. Even so, Amen.
8 I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the ending, saith the Lord, which is, and which was, and which is to come, the Almighty.
9 I John, who also am your brother, and companion in tribulation, and in the kingdom and patience of Jesus Christ, was in the isle that is called Patmos, for the word of God, and for the testimony of Jesus Christ.
10 I was in the Spirit on the Lord's day, and heard behind me a great voice, as of a trumpet,
11 Saying, I am Alpha and Omega, the first and the last: and, What thou seest, write in a book, and send it unto the seven churches which are in Asia; unto Ephesus, and unto Smyrna, and unto Pergamos, and unto Thyatira, and unto Sardis, and unto Philadelphia, and unto Laodicea.
12 And I turned to see the voice that spake with me. And being turned, I saw seven golden candlesticks;
13 And in the midst of the seven candlesticks one like unto the Son of man, clothed with a garment down to the foot, and girt about the paps with a golden girdle.
14 His head and his hairs were white like wool, as white as snow; and his eyes were as a flame of fire;
15 And his feet like unto fine brass, as if they burned in a furnace; and his voice as the sound of many waters.
16 And he had in his right hand seven stars: and out of his mouth went a sharp twoedged sword: and his countenance was as the sun shineth in his strength.
17 And when I saw him, I fell at his feet as dead. And he laid his right hand upon me, saying unto me, Fear not; I am the first and the last:
18 I am he that liveth, and was dead; and, behold, I am alive for evermore, Amen; and have the keys of hell and of death.
19 Write the things which thou hast seen, and the things which are, and the things which shall be hereafter;
20 The mystery of the seven stars which thou sawest in my right hand, and the seven golden candlesticks. The seven stars are the angels of the seven churches: and the seven candlesticks which thou sawest are the seven churches.