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Who is the Logos?
According to Isa. 57:15 he is the high and lofty One that inhabits eternity. He is above,
beyond and outside of time. Also he is omnipresent meaning he can dwell in as many places at
once as he desires to and that he is not limited to one body like humans are. He does not dwell in
a body, he is not a man. Jesus said, 'God is a Spirit.' John 4:24. A spirit hath not flesh and bones.
He is eternal Spirit. " No man hath seen God at any time; the only begotten Son, which is in the
bosom of the Father, he hath declared him." John 1:18. I Timothy 6:16 tells us t hat no man has
seen nor can see God. He is an invisible Spirit. The same scripture also tells us that God alone has
immortality. To be immortal means that you cannot die nor can you be killed. God is a Spirit and
cannot be caught and killed. "Then went up Moses, and Aaron, Nadab, and Abihu, and seventy of
the elders of Israel: And they saw the God of Israel: and [there was] under his feet as it were a
paved work of a sapphire stone, and as it were the body of heaven in [his] clearness. And upon
the nobles of the children of Israel he laid not his hand: also they saw God, and did eat and
drink." Exodus 24:9 -11. In one scripture it says 'they saw the God of Israel' and in another verse
it says 'no man has seen God at any time.' This seems like a direct contrad iction, but in reality it
is not. In God's essential being he is an eternal, omniscient, omnipotent, omnipresent, invisible
Spirit and he is ONE. No man has ever seen him in his essential being neither can you see him,
but you are able to see the temporary ways he has made himself visible. Men have seen God in
his self-revelation. He came to Abraham in the form of Melchisidec, the priest without a father,
mother, beginning of days or end of life. Genesis 14:17-20, Hebrews 7:1-11. He also came to
Abraham in the form of a prophet in the plains of Mamre. Genesis 18. Jehovah appeared to
Moses in the form of an angel in a flame of fire out of the midst of a bush that was not consumed
by the fire. Exodus 3:2. He led the children of Israel to the promised land by a pillar of fire during
the night and a pillar of cloud during the day. Exodus 13:21-22. He also came down and entered
into Solomon's temple of God in the form of fire and it was said that 'the glory of Jehovah filled
the temple.' 2 Chronicles 7:1 -3. Many other ways did God appear unto men. They were all
temporary manifestations. God did not have a closet up in heaven where he kept different
costumes. The purpose of the manifestations were in order reveal himself to his elect. The
different attributes or (thoughts concerning himself) he expressed were a part of his being.
We can certainly see that John 1:1 is not speaking of a second person of God, but rather
of God revealing his own thoughts. The logos is the self-revelation of the Almighty Invisible
Spirit. Many interpret these verses to say 'in the beginning was Jesus and Jesus was with God and
Jesus was God.' However, take this to 1 John 1:1 -2 in the light of the truth of the oneness of God.
"That which was from the beginning, which we have heard, which we have seen with our eyes,
which we have looked upon, and our hands have handled, of the Word of life; (For the life was
manifested, and we have seen [it], and bear witness, and shew unto you that eternal life, which
was with the Father, and was manifested unto us;)." The word God in John 1:1 can be replaced
with the Father. We see it as saying this, 'In the beginning was the word and the word was with
the Father and the word was the Father.' If we replace the word with Jesus or Son we then get a
Jesus only doctrine of God. However, the truth of the matter is that the word or logos is God's
self-revelation and not a second person of the Trinity. "So shall my word be that goeth forth out
of my mouth: it shall not return unto me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it
shall prosper [in the thing] whereto I sent it." Isaiah 55:11. The word of Go d is his revelation of
himself and not a second person of the Godhead. The Old and New Testaments do not speak of
several persons of God, but they speak of the one true God who moves and works in different
ways to reveal himself.
He worked through angels, temporary theophanies, spiritual manifestations like a fire and
a cloud, a whirlwind, prophets, kings, priests, even a hand that wrote on a wall in Babylon. He
also by supernatural intervention created a little embryo in the womb of virgin of Israel, of the
tribe of Judah and the seed of David. This child was born and named Jesus, he was the Son of
God. He was anointed of God and was the perfect man whom God used to express himself. Now,
he works through his Church, the body of Christ to manifest himself. All these manifestations are
the word/revelation of God being made known. It's not thousands of words of God, but it's the
word of God. It's God's plan, purpose, mind, thoughts and counsel revealed or expressed to
mankind. The word was God the Father's rev elation not Jesus Christ, but the same word became
flesh and tabernacled among us in the person of Jesus Christ. Jesus is the word made manifest in
flesh. The word was expressed temporarily through the different theophanies God used during in
the Old Testament Scriptures, but the word became a man in Jesus of Nazareth. He became the permanent tabernacle and manifestation of the word of God. Whatever means God uses to
express himself is the word or logos of God.
The LOGOS is not one for one with Jesus. 'The word was God' not the Son of God, but Jesus was the flesh and tabernacle of the LOGOS. I John 1:1 tells us that the LOGOS is ETERNAL LIFE. Jesus tells us that the Father has life IN himself and has GIVEN to the Son to have life in himself. He has given the same eternal life to all children of God. The LOGOS is the anointing that emanated from Yahweh in the beginning. It could take the form of the Spiritual or Word Body of the Almighty Spirit who covered all space and time. The LOGOS took other forms like the pillar of fire and cloud or the shekinah glory. That same LOGOS came in Spirit form, like a dove, and took up Its Tabernacle in Jesus when he was anointed at his baptism.
Though the LOGOS is not the Son of God himself, the life/spirit of Sonship is in the
LOGOS. Like a SEED, all other seeds that come forth will come from that one ORIGINAL
SEED. The Son of God was typed/revealed in the OT times in the LOGOS; Melchisidec, the
Angel of the Covenant, The PROPHET coming to Abraham in the days of Lot, etc. That spirit of
Sonship was expressed in the LOGOS during the OT, but it was simply the manifestation of God
and it 'was God', there was no distinct individual called the Son of God during t hose times. The
Father-Son relationship was not yet in existence. The relationship was still a plan in the mind of
the Father, but when Jesus was born the spirit of Sonship came forth from the LOGOS and was
breathed into Jesus just as the breath or spirit of life was breathed into Adam. Then that Father-
Son relationship began to be fulfilled. If the ORIGINAL SEED is the LOGOS and all seeds come from the ORIGINAL. Therefore all of the Bride of Christ are predestinated seeds and come forth from that one ORIGINAL SEED, the LOGOS. We were all glorified with Christ Jesus in the
LOGOS before the foundation of the world. All seeds come from the ORIGINAL SEED. Jesus is
the 'firstborn' Son and the elected Bride -Church are his 'many brethren.']
About the Author Author Jason DeMars is the founder of Present Truth Ministries, a ministry dedicated to proclaiming the message that William Branham proclaimed and was vindicated in the sight of Islam and all religions.
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