UNDERSTANDING THE GODHEAD

 \Jesus was judged harshly. Among other things, the chief priests created false witnesses, or at least those with poor understanding. Jesus did say that He was able to destroy the Temple of God and build it in three days. (Mat 26:61), but He did not say that He was God; He said that He would be God’s right hand of power (Mat 26:64).  They found two select witnesses who said those things. That is not uncommon even to this day. Many people, even the former U.S. President, have had false accusers with axes to grind!

Jesus harmed nobody but He had a reputation. He seemed arrogant to those who were appalled that His claim to fame was to sit alongside their Jewish God.

Now for some critical analysis: Later, after Jesus had spoken, “He was received up into heaven, and sat on the right hand of God” (Mark 16:19). Stephen, as Luke wrote it, said it a little differently, he “saw the glory of God, and Jesus standing on the right hand of God” (Acts 7:55).

“Glory” in that passage is brightness or even an exalted state. On the other hand, Jesus would be God’s right hand of power (Mat 26:54). Power is in the Greek, dynamis; in English it would be dynamics. Dynamics are forces in motion. The Glory of God is His Dynamics, or Goodness.

Would Jesus be standing or sitting at the right hand of the power of God? Josephus revealed the meaning of the right hand of power. Contextually, it is neither sitting nor standing; it is established.

For instance, Vespasian Caesar established his son, Titus, to be his right hand of power. Titus neither sat nor stood in a positional relationship to Caesar, but in the absence of Caesar, was effectively Caesar; he was authorized.

Josephus, even when Titus was a general, called him ‘Caesar’ because he had the power of his father. That was the same relationship between Jesus and His Father in heaven. Jesus was not God in the same sense of the gods of Rome who sat or stood alongside their father, Zeus, but Jesus would really sit on the Throne of God, not beside His Father, but the Power of God in Him!

I hate to upset theologians, but there were not three ‘Persons’ of the Godhead — the Holy Trinity. The Holy Spirit is the ‘Power’ of God, Jesus the ‘Person’ of God, and the Father, the ‘Glory’ of God.

In an earlier commentary about the ‘God Coin,’ if the Godhead was a coin, then the ‘heads’ would be Jesus, the backside or ‘tails’ the invisible Father, and the dynamics of a coin spinning, the Holy Ghost. The coin would be neither heads nor tails so long as the coin was spinning; only when it stopped would the ‘God Coin’ be seen as heads or tails.

In the Old Testament era, the coin stopped at ‘tails’ and the Jews beheld the Father. When Jesus came, the coin stopped on ‘heads,’ and albeit the Jews wanted to see the tails, the spin of the coin stopped at heads.

The Jews thought the coin was rigged (out or balance, or not established), and rejected the truth that the heads was as much God as the tails! They failed to see that even when the coin was spinning in Dynamics, as in the Book of Acts, that the Spin was as much God as either heads or tails.

Christians saw God a little differently; when they were all gathered in one accord, “Suddenly there came a sound from heaven as of a rushing mighty wind, and it filled all the house where they were sitting” (Acts 2:2). After Jesus had ascended, the Holy Ghost descended, and the ‘God Coin’ was not stopped; the spinning continued because of the Power of God within the God Coin. The early Christians were not able to see the Invisible Father nor the visible Jesus — the tails nor the heads, but the Power of God — His Divine Dynamics giving off virtue. The “rushing mighty wind” of Acts 2:2 was the ‘spin’ of the God Coin — the Power of God.

Jesus neither sat nor stood beside the Father, but Father God and Jesus in motion were the Dynamics in the Power of the God Coin that I have presented.

The God Coin is the Image of God; all three of them, in one Coin. Only the heads could be seen during the ministry of Jesus, and only the backside could be seen by Moses: “I (god) will take away Mine hand, and you shall see my back parts: but my Face shall not be seen” (Exod 33:23).

God passed by (Exod 33:22). He was in motion, like in Acts as fire (Acts 2:2). God was stopped right in front of the eyes of Moses before in motion. God took away His hand and just like on my God Coin, Moses got tails.

God was up to His established methods with Jesus. “Behold, a virgin shall be with child, and shall bring forth a son, and they shall call his name Emmanuel, which being interpreted is, God with us” (Mat 1:23).

The Holy Spirit was with Mary and suddenly, the Spirit was stopped. That Spirit was the spin of the God Coin again. Mary saw nothing but felt a Presence within. Then the Spirit was stopped by the Father and Mary would see Jesus when she brought forth a son.

The Godhead was revealed. God stopped the God Coin at Mary, and God the Father got honorable mention, but she saw God as the son, she beheld Him. The Holy Trinity appears to the world however and whenever it is when God puts his Hand on the Dynamic God Coin; hence releasing the virtue, or good Dynamics of His Power, for all to see Him in their own manner.

The Jews, even the chief priests, saw the God Coin stopped, but they only saw the Person of God, even failing to see that He was Yahweh God.

Because Jesus lost virtue during His miracles, Christians could see that the man, Jesus, was indeed Yahweh in Person as the Name implies (Emmanuel) — ‘God With Us.’

Not coincidentally, but by God’s design, the Roman Coin was much the same. Vespasian, the father, was Caesar who was not there in Judea but was the known power far away in Rome. Titus was the son of Vespasian who while in Judea was the ‘face’ of Caesar. Behind the scenes the second son was Domitian, the operative for Caesar who made things happen, literally running the empire on behalf of Caesar. Then at the Triumph of Caesar in Rome, the Roman godhead was exposed. There was Vespasian, Titus, and Domitian; all welcomed by the citizens of Rome as Caesars! One after the other in the process of time, they all became Caesars with Domitian, the acting ‘ghost’ of Vespasian, who was finally beheld as the last Caesar.

(These three were the three persons of the Roman Triumvir (my term), but the Holy Trinity was one Person of three different substances: Face, Mind, and Spirit.

When Jesus died, he declared it finished. Just as with the Flavian dynasty when Domitian finally was revealed as Caesar, as he acted all along, when Jesus gave up the Holy Ghost, His Ghost was revealed as ‘Caesar; He was King of kings and Lord of lords, as well.

The Caesar Coin had the face of Caesar as king of kings on the front, and on the backside, ‘Pontifex Maximus’ as the Lord of their college of lords. In other words, perhaps for the Jews to understand the Godhead, God made the Roman government in the image of the Godhead!

Lastly, it was reported that Jesus said that He would tear down the temple and build it back in three days. The Jews believed it was Herod’s Temple that He would tear down. As it turned out, the Jews — three groups of malefactors — tore down Herod’s Temple. It was the Jews that should have been on trial.

The ‘Temple’ of which Jesus spoke was the Godhead. It was torn asunder at the crucifixion. God, it seemed, was not there, and the Holy Ghost fled from the ‘vessel’ of Jesus. The Godhead was revealed as God was torn apart. The Godhead was built afresh when after three days, it was restored with the Resurrection; when the Ghost of Jesus was reunited with the Body of God and soon sat on the throne as the Power of God.

Silly people! They did not understand what they were doing. It was really the Jews that tore down the Temple of God — the Godhead — and Jesus that built it back! Perhaps the Christians understood that it was the Jews that would tear down their own temple in 70 A.D. and that it was Titus who even tried to save the Temple from destruction in the same manner that the acting Caesar, Pilate, tried to save the Godhead — the real Temple of God — from destruction.

Now for some science; the structure of the Godhead follows the same rules as 'Quantum Strangeness' __ 'Christian Peculiarism.'

(picture credit; Cambridge Coaching; "Quantum Strangeness")