A blurb from my new book about the now hidden things from the Garden of the Lord; things seen then but not all of them perhaps until now:
Generally, “states” are of the same substance that exist in different temperature ranges such as ice, water, and steam. They are all H2O, but at different temperatures, making the molecules bind differently.
In theory, the “Godhead” behaves in that manner, but it is not due to temperature or molecular reaction.
Thermodynamic states exist in one dynamic state at a time. However, spiritual states are not dependent on temperature or molecular structure at all but in the eyes of the beholder. As John wrote, Jesus (the “Word”) pre-existed all other things as God.
Jesus is thought of as a Being with flesh just like ours. Jesus was made manifest in the flesh of a man. Paul said to the Romans about Jesus:
Now to Him that is of power to stablish you according to my gospel, and the preaching of Jesus Christ, according to the revelation of the mystery, which was kept secret since the world began, but now is made manifest, and by the scriptures of the prophets, according to the commandment of the everlasting God, made known to all nations for the obedience of faith; to God only wise, be glory through Jesus Christ forever. (Rom 16:25-27)
Jesus is God in the flesh; and that is the revelation of the mystery of God which was kept secret since the world began. But by that time Jesus was made manifest. His birth was a revealing of God in flesh just as ours.
With that said, Jesus would have had power, form, and substance before the foundation but was revealed in the flesh of a man — the Spirit that was in the first man (1 Cor 15:45).
Yes, all that is above our heads because God is on a much higher plane than our weak minds can perceive.
Jesus came to this world for two reasons: (1) to reveal that God was with us since the beginning, and (2) that He would take on sins for us in the manner of human flesh.
Jesus would have had “flesh” before He obtained raw flesh like ours. Its substance is unknown, but it was the “Glory of God” that covered Him.
Of course, inquiring minds would want to know the substance so let’s just call it “YodYod” (י י), a common abbreviation for Yahweh.
YodYod is “YY” in the English alphabet. In my previous book, On the Origin of Man and the Universe, I surmised that YY-Chromosomal, never existing naturally, might very well represent divine “flesh,” and even its name points toward a phantom-like presence — tselem in the Hebrew. Jesus, as the “Son of God” would have had the covering of God which was chromosomal-like.
To reveal Himself, God would have put on raw flesh like ours so that we could see Him. Therefore, the Godhead: Father, Son, and Holy Ghost are one substance — Yahweh — which humans cannot see, for He is the “Invisible God” (Col 1:15) made visible to mankind and to the other beasts.
He was the same God and the same Godhead — three levels of existence, but with one Divine Entity.
Nothing changed about Jesus with His birth except God molded a new manner of flesh like ours to be His “vessel” (or “Cup;” Mat 26:39). At the baptism of Jesus, His vessel — the flesh of a man/beast — was filled with God entirely in the shape of a man (Luke 3:22).
Jesus was glorified when His raw flesh was torn from Him. Some saw God leaving the body of Jesus at the crucifixion (John 19:30) just as foretold by Jesus (John 7:39).
The “Word” of John chapter one would have been Jesus without human flesh (implied in John 1:14).
The Father, Son, and Holy Ghost were all Yahweh, but viewed differently because mankind comes short of seeing the Glory of God.
Jesus was with whom Jacob wrestled (as discussed before). During the night under different conditions, Jacob saw the same God in different states of Existence.
After Jesus was crucified and resurrected, many saw Jesus differently than before. Sometimes He revealed Himself as a scarred man and at other times as an apparition. It would not be that Jesus changed but that different people saw Him differently. Some saw the Glory of God as He disappeared from one place and reappeared immediately in another place. He revealed to them that He had indeed overcome the world (John 16:33).
Of great importance is the condition that Adam and Eve found themselves after sin — their nature had changed — once having bright eyes to see all things, after sinning their vision dimmed (Adam & Eve: VIII from an earlier chapter.) They could no longer see God, His Glory — the Creation, or even angelic creatures who would later appear to them as in flesh like ours.
Hinted in scripture is that the raw flesh of man carries the genetics of some beast and hence are the vessels in which sin exists.
Jesus had to come in the flesh to sacrifice the vessel in which sin had entered unto the world, all the while maintaining His divine covering. In other words, remove the flesh of Jesus and God would be exposed with a chromosomal-like flesh in bodily shape as Luke wrote about.
The flesh that died at the Resurrection of Jesus would have been transformed by the Angel of the Lord that moved the stone. That “Angel” would have been Jesus and Him glorified, revealing His true Self that had been hidden until that time.
The point to that background is that God is always the same, He is and always has been with us, but mankind has always failed to see Him, even after performing miracles of God while in flesh like ours.
To describe the Holy Trinity as different states of God undermines God. It is mankind that has changed states from originally righteous to wicked. At times, God restored their sight but soon it dimmed and Jesus alluded the people of God multiple times.
Now let’s consider light; John declared, “that God is light, and in Him is no darkness at all” (1 John 1:5).
God is “Existence” — “I AM THAT I AM” from which Yahweh comes.
Dark space contains unseen light. It is either too fast for our eyes and minds to perceive, or it is a frequency that our vision cannot detect.
James Watt Space Telescope (JWST) in 2021 began revealing a vastly different cosmos than our eyes, even with powerful telescopes, had never seen before. JWST saw things with a different lens than common cameras and even our naked eyes. Infrared filters revealed a world out there never seen before.
What JWST revealed is just a fraction of what may exist out there. Indeed, as it turns out, the cosmos is not just billions of luminaries but nearly full of unseen things that radiate light at different frequencies.
Normal people have sensory organs that are limited in range; we can see and hear only certain things.
Scripture explains that, “The Lord has not given you an heart to perceive, and eyes to see, and ears to hear, unto this day” (Deut 29:4), so common men and women are spiritually deaf and blind, unable to see anything beyond material things.
Ezekiel saw it coming, “Son of man, You dwell in the midst of a rebellious house which have eyes to see and see not; they have ears to hear and hear not for they are a rebellious house” (Ezek 12:2). Scripture supports the idea that our nature has been dulled because of the rebellion of sin. There is much going on that would be beyond our perception and JWST proved that:
Scientific estimates suggest that mankind can perceive less than 5% of the physical universe without technology. The remaining 95% is made up of dark matter and dark energy, which are fundamentally invisible to human biology
That does not mention other realms that might exist beyond this one. Mankind is ignorant of nearly all things since science is the study of only material things and energy. Are some now seeing things of another realm with their UFO visions? That remains to be investigated.
Glorious Adamic kind would have been capable of seeing all the cosmos and beyond the Ten Heavens into another realm.
Enoch was given a tour of all the heavens and God beyond them all. Genesis seems to be his story passed down to later writers as previously demonstrated.
What Enoch saw had been there since the beginning, but he was selected to see all things. JWST would pale to what Enoch saw… even beings from other realms. Could it be that alien beings (alien to us) were always with us but went undetected? Could it be that God is revealing just a tiny bit of what has always existed?
Most of us have never seen (for certain) visions in the skies. However, if my interpretation is correct “fowls of the air” would be not creatures from the sky but from the heavens. God seems to have given a select few a vision of what has always been there.
It is not that things have changed but that some men see things beyond the ordinary for God’s purposes. Alien sightings do not reject the truths of scriptures but are supporting evidence that scripture is correct.
For myself, my vision and hearing have gone with age but my understanding vastly improved. Saul experienced the same thing, made blind in vision, him in his new state of Paul could both see and hear things beyond human vision.
By grace, to John the future was revealed after he was transfigured by boiling in oil. We feel sorry for John’s suffering, but in his suffering, he saw things which nobody would see again until it happens.
Even Paul knew a person, perhaps himself, who could not detect the difference in his state of existence:
I knew a man in Christ above fourteen years ago, (whether in the body, I cannot tell; or whether out of the body, I cannot tell: God knows) such an one caught up to the third heaven. (2 Cor 12:2)
Paul was unable to discern the difference between reality and spirituality. All things were real to him. Paul, once blind, could now see things that common men could not see. God and the heavens had not changed, but Paul’s new vision of them had! Has God selected some modern-day people to see things normally not seen?