Unveiling the mysteries of Christ's divine essence, we sit down with an esteemed theologian to dissect the profound concept of Jesus as the ultimate deity. Prepare to be captivated as we unravel the New Testament's explicit declarations, particularly in Revelation 1:5-8, about Jesus's grand titles—each a thread revealing the tapestry of His godly nature. Your spiritual understanding is set to deepen, as we navigate the paradox of Jesus's full humanity intertwined with His complete divinity, akin to an avatar representing the divine within the confines of space-time. Through Brother Branham's enlightening perspective, we'll confront the necessity of recognizing Christ's supreme deity to truly embrace the richness of the Christian doctrine.
This episode promises an enriching journey through the complex identity of Jesus, challenging traditional Trinitarian views by emphasizing the oneness of Christ with God. Not as separate entities but as one singular personification, we delve into how the fullness of God resided bodily within Jesus, making Him not only an emissary of the Divine but the embodiment of it. Lean in as we parse through Brother Branham's compelling insights, illustrating Jesus's unique dual nature and its implication on the oneness of God and Jesus. Be ready to leave with an elevated appreciation for the one true God incarnate—Jesus Christ, whose name and authority eclipse all others.
Unveiling the mysteries of Christ's divine essence, we sit down with an esteemed theologian to dissect the profound concept of Jesus as the ultimate deity. Prepare to be captivated as we unravel the New Testament's explicit declarations, particularly in Revelation 1:5-8, about Jesus's grand titles—each a thread revealing the tapestry of His godly nature. Your spiritual understanding is set to deepen, as we navigate the paradox of Jesus's full humanity intertwined with His complete divinity, akin to an avatar representing the divine within the confines of space-time. Through Brother Branham's enlightening perspective, we'll confront the necessity of recognizing Christ's supreme deity to truly embrace the richness of the Christian doctrine.
This episode promises an enriching journey through the complex identity of Jesus, challenging traditional Trinitarian views by emphasizing the oneness of Christ with God. Not as separate entities but as one singular personification, we delve into how the fullness of God resided bodily within Jesus, making Him not only an emissary of the Divine but the embodiment of it. Lean in as we parse through Brother Branham's compelling insights, illustrating Jesus's unique dual nature and its implication on the oneness of God and Jesus. Be ready to leave with an elevated appreciation for the one true God incarnate—Jesus Christ, whose name and authority eclipse all others.
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Jesus Christ is God. One of the most important doctrines of the New Testament is the teaching about who Jesus Christ is. He was not merely a prophet, not merely a man, but he is God. This is the first and most important doctrine the supreme deity of Jesus Christ, revelation 1, verses 5 through 8. And from Jesus Christ, who is the faithful witness in 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 and hath made us kings and priests unto God and his Father. To him be glory and dominion for ever and ever. Amen. Behold, he cometh with clouds, and every eye shall see him, and they also which pierced him and all kindres of the earth shall wail because of him. Even so, amen. 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.
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Verse 5 gives us the identity of the speaker and the titles are as follows Faithful witness, first begotten of the dead, prince of the kings of the earth, alpha and Omega, beginning and the ending. The Lord which is, which was and which is to come. The Almighty. The Almighty always refers to supreme deity. These are all titles of one and the same person, the Lord Jesus Christ, making him the only person of the Godhead. There are not three persons, who are all God, making three gods. Notice verse 6 tells us that Jesus Christ made us to God and his Father. If you examine any other translation in the Greek itself, you see that it says he made us priests and kings unto his God and Father. As the human son of God, he had a God and Father, just as you and I do. But he was more than a man. He was God in the form of a man. He is the unchangeable God, the Almighty God, the invisible spirit, jehovah veiled in human flesh. Think of it this way.
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I want to use an illustration. I exist completely independently of the virtual computer world. I am not a program and I'm not bytes and digits. In order to relate to the virtual world, I create an avatar that represents me in what I do. For all intents and purpose, the avatar is me. That avatar is me entering a virtual world. At the same time, it isn't me at all because I'm outside of and completely independent of that virtual world. Yet it completely represents me in the virtual world. So it is with Jesus Christ. God independently exists out of space and time. In order to express himself in space-time, he created a man that completely and perfectly represents him. That man is the Son of God and is fully submitted to his almighty and self-existent Father. And that man is the exact representation of God. He is God in space-time.
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Let us review several major statements made by Brother Branham regarding this subject. Oh my, how I like to preach the deity, the supreme deity, of Jesus Christ. And in this marvelous teaching here of Saint Paul, in the backgrounds in the former chapters, he has specifically been dealing with the supreme deity of the Lord Jesus and who he was. Christ was God made so that men could feel him and touch him and and fellowship with him. Christ, the Lord Jesus, was the body that God dwelt in. God was made flesh and dwelt among us.
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First Timothy 3.16. Without controversy, great is the mystery of godliness, for God was manifested in flesh. The great Jehovah came down and was made tangible by living in the body of his own son, declaring and reconciling the world to himself. God was nothing, christ was nothing short of God and God was nothing short of Christ. The two together made the Godhead bodily made a little lower than angels so that he could suffer. Angels cannot suffer. Jesus was the tabernacle that God dwelt in.
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The greatest of all the revelations is the deity, the supreme deity, of our Lord Jesus Christ. You can't get to first base until you believe that and walk out. That's what Peter said. Repent and then see the deity Be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of your sins, and then you're ready to go in the Spirit. The first thing you have to know is the deity of Christ. The evening light has come, god vindicating himself. What is it? It is the facts that God and Christ are one. The white how many seen it? The white wig upon him, as we talked in Revelation 1, see the supreme deity, supreme authority. No other vice, nor other God, nor other. Nothing In him dwells the fullness of the Godhead bodily.
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As Brother Branham expressed on many occasions, the Jehovah of the Old Testament is the Jesus of the New. So in the message we believe in and teach the supreme deity of Jesus Christ, we teach that God himself changed his mask and came in the form of Jesus Christ. It is also clear that Brother Branham told us that Jesus was not his own father and that Jesus and God are not one, like your finger is one. Brother Branham taught us that Jesus is both God and man. Brother Branham says I said you just failed to see who the man is. He was both God and man and as a man, weeping when he was weeping for their sorrow. But when he stood and said Lazarus, come forth, and a man had been dead four days, stood on his feet again, that was more than a man.
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I want to pull out various points in the above quotes to clarify the reality of this truth that he is the supreme deity. 1. Christ was God, made so that we could feel and fellowship with him. 2. Jesus was the body that God dwelt in. 3. The great Jehovah, god, came down and lived in the body of his own son. 4. God was nothing short of Christ and Christ was nothing short of God. 5. The two together made the God head bodily. 6. Jesus was both God and man.
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Next, we need to show forth that we teach exactly as the oneness and Trinitarians do, in that Jesus is both God and man, but we teach that he is God and he is a man in a different sense than the oneness and the Trinitarian Oneness teach that the second person of the God head was born in human flesh. He purposely limited himself to become fully man so that his deity was completely submitted to being fully human. Thus he had to be anointed with the Holy Spirit to receive power for his ministry. He was totally reliant on the Father to be led For the oneness teaching. The Father, who always covers all space and time, as a spirit, came down and was born as a man, fully submitting his divine nature to be the nature of a man. God did not seek to exist outside of this humanity, but was rather limited in nature and in fact was himself God. The Father simply changed titles to become the Son.
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The teaching and viewpoint of the message is distinct from each of these doctrines. In fact, the understanding within the oneness doctrine and the Trinity doctrine varies as to how the divine nature interacted with the human nature, depending on what specific church tradition they come from. Jesus Christ is the supreme deity. He is both God and man. How is he God and how is he man? Notice what Brother Branham states as he clarifies the details within the quote In the Sermon on Hebrews.
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Jesus was the body that God dwelt in. The two together made the God head, bodily. Which two, god and Jesus? The Father is the spirit and Son is the body. So the God head is the spirit or the Father and the body is Jesus or the Son. Brother Branham says John 4 says that God is a spirit and he had to make a spirit man and he brought it down. Now there's deity cannot be seen. Deity is the supernatural. Therefore, jesus is not in the God head, but the God head is in Jesus. Brother Branham says the man, the body, was not deity, but deity was in the body. Deity is a similar word to the God head. The God head or deity revealed in Jesus Christ. He is not the God head or the deity. Rather, the deity or the God head dwells in him.
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Note these two quotes from Brother Branham. Shows us when the deity, the God head, came to dwell in the Lord Jesus. Now watch when Jesus come. Watch what he did to prove himself to be that Messiah that anointed one. One day after he had received the Father had come down and dwelt in him in the form of a dove coming down from heaven, saying this is my beloved Son, in whom I am pleased to dwell in. That's the reason he said I and my Father are one. My Father dwelleth in me. It's not me that doeth the works, it's my Father that dwelleth in me.
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John Bear records seeing that the Spirit of God like a dove descending, a voice coming from it saying this is my beloved Son, in whom I am pleased to dwell. See, and he dwelt in him, the Spirit of God like a dove descended and a voice from heaven, which was above him, saying this is my beloved Son, in whom I am pleased to dwell. Really, the right translation they got the verb before the adverb like all the foreigner is this is my beloved Son, in whom I am pleased to dwell in, or whom I am pleased to dwell In whom I am pleased to dwell. That was God coming into Jesus and in him was the fullness of the Godhead bodily. The next question that we need to answer is was the body merely a body and that which animated it was Almighty God, or was the body in fact fully human, with his own distinct will?
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Let's examine what brother Branham says. It's the Holy Ghost, the Creator himself, god, the father, in the form of a spirit, called Holy Ghost because it was upon the body, called Jesus his son, that he created Jesus. The body. That's the reason it had to die To bring his, to bring his son to the earth. He chose a virgin knowing, not a man. Neither did she have any sperm discharge or anything else when the Holy Ghost overshadowed her Because God, in his immaculate, infinite way, created in her Soul, body and spirit of Jesus Christ. That's right. He was the virgin born son of God.
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When we have examined the entire Reality of the manhood and deity of Jesus Christ, the picture becomes more and more clear. It's not just a simple and basic thing to say the supreme deity of Jesus Christ and then allow our minds and hearts to shut down to anything else brother Branham says. As believers, our hearts of understanding should say amen to every word and not just the ones that we like or pick and choose. It is very, very clear that brother Branham taught us that Jesus Christ is God, not a second person or a third person, but the only person. In the first quote we read that God created the body called Jesus his son. This could lead us to the idea that Jesus was merely a body housing the spirit of God, but the prophet continues on as he speaks and tells us that God created within the virgin the body, soul and spirit of Jesus Christ. He was the virgin born son of God. Christ just completely surrendered his life to God. He gave himself as a public servant to the people.
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Luke 22, 42, saying father, if thou be willing, remove this cup for me. Nevertheless, not my will, but thine be done. John 5, 30 I Can, of my known self, do nothing, as I hear, I judge and my judgment is just because I seek not my own will, but the will of the father which has sent me. John 6, 38, for I came down from heaven not to do my own will, but the will of him that sent me. Brother Branham says now the Messiah is here. We just have to yield ourselves to him and he will work the works of the father through us. Now, when he was here, he didn't claim to heal people. He said I don't do not, no healing I only. The father that dwells in me does the works and I don't do anything until he shows me. First the father shows me what to do, then I go do it. How many knows that? He said, saint John 519. He did I see a vision first, then the Father does it.
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Christ had a will as a distinct human being, but he made the choice to submit and surrender his will to the will of the Father. As a man he was made up of a human spirit, a human body and a human soul. Brother Branham says the Spirit left him in the Garden of Gethsemane. He had to die. A man, remember friends, he didn't have to do that. That was God. God anointed that flesh, which was human flesh, and he didn't. If he'd have went up there as God, he'd never have died. That kind of death Can't kill God. 1st Timothy 2.5. For there is one God and one mediator between God and men the man, christ Jesus.
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We see, based on these scriptures and quotes, that the Lord Jesus was clearly a man, fully human and virgin born, that had to surrender his will to the Father. As Brother Branham states, he had to die. A man Can't kill God. And yet we also know the following.
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Brother Branham says Now but Jesus was not the blood of a Jew nor a Gentile. He was a creative blood by Jehovah himself. He was the blood of God. The Bible said we're saved by the blood of God, not by the blood of a Jew or the blood of a Gentile. It would all be sex, but this was the blood of God. This is a wonderful truth. We are saved by the blood of God.
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Now, you can't kill God, and Jesus died as a man. So how can we reconcile these thoughts? Where did the life of Jesus come from? It didn't come from Mary, it came directly from God. God was his father. I am the blood of Jim DeMars because he is my father, and so Jesus Christ could be none other than the blood of God. He holds within himself the very DNA of God. The life of God came forth and was born through a virgin. We call that man that was born the Son of God. The supreme deity of Jesus Christ shows us that he is the DNA of God and that God indwelt him in fullness. This points us to the fact that he is the image of the invisible God and that no man has seen God at any time, but the only begotten Son, which is in the bosom of the Father. He hath declared him.
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I mentioned before that Jesus Christ is not a second or third person, but was the person or the only person of God. Let's review what Brother Brandom says about it the mystery of who. Jesus Christ is. Not a third person, not the second person, not the third person, but the person of God. All these other mysteries of God will be revealed, because it is written here in this book and revealed to the end time generation. Now, if Jesus knew who he was, he was a predestinated creature of time. You believe that Jesus the body. He knew that he was predestinated Word, the person of God that was to stand in that day to be the sacrifice of force, sin. And he knew his adversary, jesus. No man has seen God at any time, but the only begotten of the Father has declared him. See, in other words, god was identified, the person of God was identified in the body, the Lord Jesus Christ. So he was the expressed image of God, or God expressing himself through an image. See, through an image man. God expressed himself to us and he was God, not a third person or second person, he was the person, god. He was God himself identifying himself. So we could feel him.
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For Timothy 3.16, without controversy, that's argument. Great is the mystery of godliness, for God was manifest, that are made known in the flesh. Isn't that wonderful God? And we could never understand God as he moved through a pillar of fire and so forth, as he did. But we understand him when he become one of us. See, when he became man.
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Yes, they misunderstood him. They didn't know who he was. That's what the matter today People trying to make him something that he isn't. He's not just a man, he's God in a man. No third person, he's the only person. Yes, sir, well, sure they misunderstood him.
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Well, if you turn the picture like this and look, you can probably see it from the audience. It's Christ. See his eyes, looking here, just as perfect as it could be, wearing the white wig of supreme deity and judge of all heavens and earth. Can you see his eyes, nose, his mouth? Just turn the picture from this, the way they had it, this way, the way it's supposed to be, and you can. You see it? He is supreme judge. There's none other but him, and that is a perfect identification, again, a vindication that this message is the truth. This is the truth, it is true.
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And making him not a third person but the only person. But when you can make it to him that this is this Jesus is God, jehovah, god, not a second person or a third person, it's the same person all the time making himself manifest. He said before Abraham was, I am, I am, was the one that met Moses in the pillar of fire, in a burning bush. Yes, sir, he was God made flesh, not a third person. The same person in a different office, not three gods, three offices of one God, correctly God. All the fullness, all the Godhead bodily was in this person, jesus Christ. He was God and God alone, not a third person or a second person or a first person, but the person God veiled in human flesh. End quote.
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Along with telling us that Jesus is the person of God or the only person in the Godhead, let's notice the descriptions that are provided in these statements. One the person of God. Two a predestinated creature of time, the predestinated word to stand as the person of God, the person of God identified in the visible, expressed image of God, our Lord Jesus Christ, the only person. Four God became man. Five Jesus is God in a man, not a third person or second person. Six the white wig cloud picture showing he is the supreme deity, the supreme judge. Not a second person, but the only person. Seven Jesus is Jehovah God, the same person all the time. Eight the same person, in a different office, from pillar of fire to flesh, the I AM. Nine all the Godhead bodily was in this person, the person God veiled in human flesh.
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When we look at, see and take everything into consideration, we see that Jesus Christ had a will that he submitted to his father. We also see that the very father that was in him was so identified in the visible body of his son that it was God himself made flesh. The only person of God shows us that Jesus Christ is the invisible expression. Each time we read these statements fullness of the Godhead, bodily. God was manifest in the flesh, god veiled in human flesh. God became man, etc. We have God, the invisible spirit that covers all space and time, taking upon himself a form. The bodily or body is the Son of God. Jesus Christ, the flesh, the body, the man is Jesus Christ, the Son of God.
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Brother Branham taught the supreme deity of Jesus Christ. However, he did not teach it in the same as the oneness or the Trinitarians. He had a distinct way of teaching it. According to the Bible, the Lord Jesus Christ is the name above all names. The name of the father and of the Son and of the Holy Ghost is the Lord Jesus Christ. The Father gave his name to the Son and the Father sends his spirit in the Son's name. It's all in the name of Jesus Christ. He's the only visible manifestation of the invisible God, that is, he is the only person of the Godhead.