So simple… “The Word.” So complex… “The Word.” So creative… “The Word.” So graceful… “The Word.”
For many “The Word” is simply
speech, and for some, a figure of speech, and to others the “Image” of
God that speaks.
Paul saw through the darkness as
John had before him. He wrote, “Christ, who is the image of God, should shine
unto them” (2 Cor 4:4), speaking of those whose mind the world has blinded. So,
The Word unblinds the lost and makes them see the truth. Hence, The Word is the
revealer of truth so that the minds of the lost can become aware of things
unseen.
“Faith is the substance of things
hoped for, the evidence of things not seen” (Heb 11:1). Therefore, The Word is the
bearer of faith. He reveals things that are unseen. Christ reveals the unseen
God, and as Jesus told Philip who asked of Jesus, “Show us the Father,” “He
that hath seen me hath seen the Father” (John 14:9).
Therefore, The Word is the invisible
Father God revealed to mankind as the Son of God, or as John said it, “The
Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us” (John 1:14). Hence, the gospels are a revelation
to mankind so that we can see God!
“The Word” is Jesus who is the
fleshly Image of God, not a lifeless idol, but an Image full of Life.
In modern times cartoonists and
movie makers animate 2-D images to make them real figures that can entertain
and present to the audience messages that writers want to purvey.
Not to be disrespectful, among
other things, God animated the Image of Himself in the likeness of man
to present a message, not of entertainment, but contentment (joy) to the
audience of the world. The message is in His Name.
God called His Figurine, “Jesus”
and He could speak, perform miracles, present truth and wisdom, and perform virtuous
acts. The Word came as a messenger of God — God Himself — to present the
greatest story ever told!
No other messenger (angel) would
do; it was work that God wanted to do Himself because He so loved the world
(John 3:16). Ultimately, the perfect sacrifice for the sins of His creatures, He
would bear the sins of all of them, and be the only acceptable sacrifice for
all sins that are past (Rom 3:25) — from Adam to Judas and everybody in
between.
When John wrote, “In the
beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God” (John
1:1), it paralleled what Moses wrote so long ago, “In the beginning God created
the heaven and the earth” (Gen 1:1), and furthermore, as John said it, “All
things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made” (John
1:3).
Where it was translated that
Jesus was a “carpenter,” the exact word in the Greek is “tekton” – “an artificer”
“In the beginning” (en arche) is
the origin of all things. The English word, “archeology” comes from the Greek, arkhaiologia,
and means the “study of ancient things.” The Word was The
Ancient Thing to be studied. In the Greek, “The Word” is “Logos.” As you
can readily see, the “logia” in arkhaiologia is akin to The Logos — “The
Word” in the Greek.
Scripture therefore is about
archeology and learning the knowledge about “The Ancient Thing.”
Since He was holy as God is holy,
then scripture is the knowledge of “The Ancient Holy Thing,” The Word.
Peter wrote, “But as He which
hath called you is holy, so be ye holy in all manner of conversation (word)” (1
Pet 1:15). So, Jesus is Holy.
Holy is “hagios” in the
Greek is an “awful thing” (ibid). How could it be that holy one is an “awful
thing?” According to Strong’s Lexicon, it is because hagios is a sacred
thing. “Sacred” is not debased in any manner
Mankind was debased by the Wicked
One and became depraved; hence there is no depravity, or guile, in the Holy
One. Lucifer failed in his attempt to debase Jesus, so Jesus, The Word, was
without sin.
Those with sin (iniquity) in them
are the normal thing, so to the world, The Holy One would be an “Awful Thing.”
If you do not think that to be true, just look at how the world views Christ
and holy Christians. Rather than glorious beings, they are hideous, even as
hags!
The Word, or Logos, as
John wrote, was there in the beginning. He was not created an Image like Adam,
but was God exposed. Jesus is the “Ultimate Reality” that philosophers seek but
do not find. He was the Arche (Beginning) and will be the Ending (Telos)
(Rev 1:8). The ending is when it is finished.
Therein is a clue to the identity
of Jesus. At His crucifixion, his last “Word” was “It is finished” (Teleo;
John 19:30). The last thing that Jesus did was acknowledge that He was “The
Ending” — that He was God, just as Longinus, the centurion, declared “Truly
this man was the Son of God” (Mark 15:39).
The Word came to finish God’s ultimate
purpose, to love the world (John 3:16) by making Himself the Supreme Sacrifice.
Jesus died on the Cross, but all the Godhead suffered thereon. God was there in
all three of His substances — in Mind, In Body, and in Spirit. Jesus was merely
the vessel that carried God’s full Identity. That “vessel” was the “cup” that
He could not pass to another (Mat 26:39).
Jesus was the “silver chalice” that
people seek to this day. He was the Cup that carried the very blood of God
within the Body of God.
The Word was the Genome (Identity
of that One Kind) of God that was imbued within an Image like man’s to pass
along the genes of God to those willing to stand still long enough to take them
in; in the same manner as the repentant thief who was nailed still so that
he could do nothing to save himself!
The Word, therefore, is more than
speech, but God speaking to mankind. All that speech was about how to be
regenerated, as in the beginning at the generation — to be made a glorious
image again as mankind was before Lucifer deflowered them.
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