By Evangelist Elder Elvis Abenga
Hebrews 7:1-3 KJV "
For this Melchisedec, king of Salem, priest of the Most High GOD, who
met Abraham returning from the slaughter of the kings, and blessed him;
To whom also Abraham gave a tenth part of all; first being by
interpretation King of righteousness, and after that also King of Salem,
which is King of peace; without father, without mother, without
descent, having neither beginning of days, nor end of life; but made
like unto the Son of GOD; abideth a priest continually."From the above quotation from the BIBLE, we see the BIBLE in Hebrews 7:3 letting us know that Melchisedec was made like unto the Son of GOD in the following ways:
1.Without Father, mother or descent
2. Without beginning of days (no beginning)
3. Without end of life (no end)
4. A continual priest
This leads us to one inevitable conclusion, that the Son of GOD has no beginning nor end and no descent.
The terminology 'Son of GOD' has often been used to being an illusion that CHRIST, being the Son of GOD, must have had a begining for Him to be trully be a 'Son' of GOD. Nothing would be further from the truth. The above analogy given in Hebrews 7:1-3 shows us that the Son of GOD has neither begining nor end.
To further illustrate this concept, we see Isaiah giving a prophecy 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, Counsellor, the Mighty GOD, The Everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace."
So, CHRIST, the child being prophesied to be born, is called "Everlasting Father!". Everlasting, means without a beginning nor an end. According to the Noah Webster 1828 dictionary, entails both an eternal past, and an eternal future.
A good example of the use of this word in the context of GOD is in Psalm 90:2 where the BIBLE says "Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever thou hadst formed the earth and the world, even from everlasting to everlasting, thou art GOD."
Apart from that, Isaiah also refers to the child being prophesied (CHRIST) as Mighty GOD! How can a child be GOD? This is what the BIBLE refers to in 1 Timothy 3:16 as the 'Mystery of godliness'
1 Timothy 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 on unto the Gentiles, believed on in the world, received up into glory."
It would be a vain thing, for we as humans to try by ourselves to understand that which the BIBLE clearly calls a great mystery. All we simply need to know is that according to the wording of 1 Timothy 3:16, GOD was manifest in the flesh. How that happened....we need not bother to try and understand cause it is a mystery.
GOD the Father, also refers to GOD the Son as GOD! See Hebrews 1:8
Hebrews 1:8 KJV " But unto the Son he saith, Thy throne, O GOD, is for ever and ever: a sceptre of righteousness is the sceptre of thy kingdom."
So if the Father is GOD, and He refers the Son as GOD, what does that mean?
John 10:30 "I and my Father are one." says CHRIST JESUS. The exact way in which they are one, remains to be a mystery.
The pen of inspiration has the following to say:
" The LORD JESUS, who is the image of the invinsible GOD, gave His own life to save perishing man, and, oh, what light, what power, He brings with Him! In Him dwells all the fullness of the Godhead, bodily.Oh what a mystery!" ( 1 SM 402.4)
Colossians 2:9 " For in him dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead bodilty"
We have a glimpse of the kind of oneness of the Godhead in the book of John 17:21.
John 17:21 "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."
Has this oneness ever existed before? The answer is yes!
Genesis 11:6 " And the LORD said, Behold, the people is one, and they have all one language, and this they begin to do: and now nothing will be restrained from them, which they have imagined to do."
This oneness that existed in the building of the tower of Babel, was a oneness of purpose and goal and a oneness of intent and method of achieving that purpose and goal.
This offers us just but a glimpse of the oneness that CHRIST prays for the church, the oneness of the Godhead. Unity of purpose, intent, method and goal.
And, as I conclude this treatise, I ask a question to the reader,....
If CHRIST was indeed created, and a kind of 'lessor' being compared to GOD the Father, wouldn't it diminish the value of the sacrifice of the cross? Wouldn't it appear that GOD simply created someone to die for man, instead of Him dying on the cross personally?
Isn't it mind blowing that we are asked in Matthew 28:19 to baptize in the Name of the Father, Son and Holy Ghost?
GOD bless you bretheren as you ponder on this.
Happy Sabbath.
Yours in CHRIST's service
Elvis Abenga
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