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NASB | Revelation 3:14 ¶ "To the angel of the church in Laodicea write: ¶ The Amen, the faithful and true Witness, the Beginning of the creation of God, says this: |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | Revelation 3:14 ¶ "To the angel (divine messenger) of the church in Laodicea write: "These are the words of the Amen, the trusted and faithful and true Witness, the Beginning and Origin of God's creation: |
Subject: Jesus Created or Creator??? |
Bible Note: God never suffers. He already knows the beginning to the end. Nothing takes him by surprise, and he is always living as the perfect answer to all our suffering. He is now able to identify with our suffering through the humanity of Christ. That is one reason why mankind needs a mediator between man and God, the humanity of Jesus Christ. Jesus Christ can identify with our weakness. "For we do not have a high priest who cannot sympathize with our weaknesses, but One who has been tempted in all things as we are, yet without sin. " (Hebrews 4:15) God (Deity of Christ) has no weakness. Deity did not, and could not, suffer on the Cross. God is, and always was, being perfect happiness and joy. For God NEVER changes. Jesus (humanity) suffered in our place, not his Deity. Deity is always being the joy that was set before Christ(humanity) as Jesus bore our sins. "...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the author and perfecter of faith, who for the joy set before Him endured the cross, despising the shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God." (Hebrews 12:2) I realize that for some this may be hard to accept at first. For others, it will not be. It is something we are to learn and know about God. He NEVER changes. He now has a policy to express human emotions as a means to communicate with us. For we understand God's policy this way. These expressions are called "anthropopathisms". That means God is attributing to himself traits that he himself does not possess which are used as a means to communicate certain things to finite creatures such as ourselves. God NEVER changes. God is always infinite love and happiness. God is never angry. He never is frustrated. He always sees us as being with him in Eternity as we will be, not as we are now. For what we are now in these bodies is seen by God as being dead and nailed to the cross with Christ. "I have been crucified with Christ; and it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me; and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself up for me." (Galatians 2:20) Grace and peace, Gene |