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Love of JESUS, Hope of Heaven, and Faith in the Word of God.
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THE ONE TRUE GOD formerly called The Only Wise God
by Oden Hetrick The Most High, Everywhere Present, and Sovereign Spirit of Holiness is the One True God of the Bible. It is because of His Blinding, Glorious Brightness that He cannot be seen. It is because He is 'Unknowable' that He must reveal Himself. (Genesis 14:19; 1 Timothy 1:17) In the Bible, God calls Himself 'One.'
'There is one God,
'Hear, O Israel, While echad means 'one,' it also includes a unity of oneness. For example, when a group of people agree together, it is said they are of one (echad) mind. The disciples in the upper room were of one (echad) accord. But when it comes to God, we are not speaking about many gods being in unity, but, about the many ways this 'one' God reveals Himself to men. The most difficult thing for mortal man to understand about the One True God is His Invisible, Spiritual, Presence in every place at the same time, both in Heaven (the spiritual realm) and on Earth (the physical realm). Mortal men tend to compare the Most High God to physical men, both by their idols and their imaginations. And their multiple 'one-place-at-a-time-god-person' blinds them to any knowledge of the One True God. But suppose we do desire to know this One True Unknowable God. We begin by searching the Bible. There, we find in Romans 1:20 that the visible things created by God, prove that there is an invisible Creator. If we are to believe in the Invisible God, we must believe that He is, and that He rewards those who diligently seek Him (Hebrews 11:6). The Bible tells us that 'Faith comes by hearing the Word of God' (Romans 10:17). Therefore, we will let the Bible give us the faith to believe in this One True God. As we continue to search the Bible for the Only Wise God, we find that this 'Invisible, Unknowable God' has already given us His Name, but we are not paying attention. In Matthew 27:46, Jesus calls the Most High, Unknown, and Almighty God by the name of 'Eli,' pronounced A-lee or El-ee. This is His secret name, and it is hidden in other names and words, such as electricity, Joel, Elijah, Emmanuel, etc. As we continue in this article the name Eli will refer to the God described in paragraph one. Suppose you were endowed with brightness that blinded people. How would you befriend them? You would reduce your bright glory, and that is exactly what Eli did in order to appear on the Throne of Heaven as visible to saints and angels. Our Father in Heaven is not another god, or another spirit besides Eli. He is Eli Himself, appearing in reduced glory so He can be seen and known. Eli is God. He can appear in more than one place at a time, and still be only one God. In His Throne of Heaven revelation, Eli calls Himself YHVH (Lord) or Yahweh (Exodus 3:14-15). But Eli's revelation continues; He must also reveal Himself to mortal beings on earth. This He did by reducing His glory even further and making for Himself a special physical body. This body could not be corrupted in the grave, and this body contained blood that can still wash the sins from every seeking soul. When Jesus said, 'Eli, Eli, why have You forsaken me?' He was showing to us that His body was actually the vessel wherein Eli the Most High and Most Intimate God revealed Himself on Earth - Emmanuel (God with us). So Eli, the Eternal Almighty Spirit, is the same Spirit who revealed Himself as Father in Heaven, and the same Spirit Who visited Earth in the body of Jesus. In this earthly manifestation, Eli called Himself Yahshua (God is Salvation). See also Mathew 1:23 - Immanuel. But the story does not end here. Eli is the same Spirit who reduced His glory even further to live in His saints. Now 'If that same Spirit (Eli) who raised Christ from the dead dwell in you, He shall quicken your mortal body' (Romans 8:11). This shows us that Eli, in reducing amounts of glory, is revealed in the Father, and in the Son, and in the saints. Eli is not a third-rate human-like god-person. Eli, the Only True God, is described in paragraph one of this article. There is no other Most High God, but Eli. Is the glory of Eli truly too bright to be seen by men? As we have said, He reduced His glory to be seen in Heaven, in form like a man. But it is really we who are like the Father, not the Father like us. And in order to look like God, we must have true holiness. The glory that Eli revealed in His manifestation as the Father, and in His manifestation as the Son, gives light to the whole city of Heaven. However, for Jesus to come to Earth, as we said, the glory that Eli revealed in Jesus must be reduced even further than the glory He revealed in His 'Father' manifestation. There was a time on the Mount of Transfiguration when Eli revealed His glory through Jesus, in a reduced brightness that still allowed His disciples to see Jesus (2 Peter 1:18). But normally, Jesus walked among men as an ordinary man. Eli dwelt in Jesus in a fullness, whereby Jesus is called God.
'And God (Eli) was in Christ But, Eli dwells in saints by an even lesser glory that does not require that we be called gods. However, someday in our glorified bodies, we will shine as Jesus did on the Mount of Transfiguration. Is Eli really invisible? Yes, Eli is really invisible. The only way He can be seen is when He reveals Himself as the Father, and as the Son.
'...and truly Eli also revealed Himself as a pillar of cloud to Moses, and a pillar of fire to the Isrealites in the desert, and as a whirlwind to Job, and as a blinding light to St. Paul on the Damascus road. In Heaven, Eli appears as the river that flows through the city of Heaven, and as the fruit on the Tree of Life that bears twelve manner of fruits.
'O taste and see Eli is a Spirit (John 4:24). Do not be satisfied with physical ideas of God. We have a real and eternal inheritance in Heaven. See you there.
Soon,
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