Perspective is an interesting thing. There are many times when what we see is only the result of what we don’t see. When we look at a forest of Aspen trees, we seldom think about the fact that all those trees exist on one root system. Aspen trees spring up from their rhizomes, not from seeds. When one tree dies the root systems throw several shoots to compensate for the dying tree. What we don’t see is the network of roots, which from one single tree can run over one hundred to one hundred and thirty feet from the original tree, to sprout another tree. The network of roots and shoots is so complex and diverse that it is nearly impossible to kill off an aspen forest. The root system survives weather events, forest fires, and insects. Jesus is the original tree, and his root system is working underground to bring eternal life to humans. But Jesus is not divided, Jesus is always the logos of light and life. Yet in our human weakness we have allowed our enemies to graft in ideas that are not accurate and cause church divisions. The enemy tampers with the roots. What do we know about our world and what do we really know about Jesus? What is our personal perspective?
Even though there is a list of rules that our enemy has to abide by, we generally do not point them out. We live with those rules in place but do not think about them. We know that Drakōn was created with the intended purpose of sparring or sporting with the angels. He is a one and only original, created in the beginning. We know that he has amassed a group of fallen sons of God from various tribes, such as angels, cherubim, seraphim, ophanim, incorporeals, etc. We know that those tribes had their own age or period of time. If we understand Revelation 4 we know that those tribes do not intermingle genetically, nor do they procreate among themselves. One of the broken rules was the procreation of angels and of the Grigori with manfaced before the flood. This broken rule caused the intervention of the Elohim on earth and since that time the Elohim has intervened many times because of it.
Another rule seems to be that the enemy cannot exterminate all of Christianity or all Christian believers. Christians have been around for two thousand years. Also the Holy Spirit dwells with and in manfaced. The Holy Spirit being part of the Elohim is greater than the created enemies and cannot be extinguished from the earth. It would seem that the Holy Spirit is able to keep written records of the age of manfaced at least somewhat preserved for our learning.
It would also appear that each tribe of the sons of God have an age, a beginning and an ending. As we know, in the kingdom of heaven we will be like the angels, meaning that we will not marry. By this we know when our age ends on the earth, we will have a different existence with different boundaries.
We also know that free will is extended to all sons of God. By the transgressions of the angels (2 Peter 2:4, angels sinned) they were allowed the freedom to sin or not sin. They were not controlled like puppets. Their sin affected the tribe of manfaced. Yet as Ephesians tells us, manfaced is the plan that reveals the multifaceted wisdom of the Elohim to the fallen sons of God. We do not know the full extent of our part in this plan, but what we do know is that we are created in the image and likeness of the Elohim, and that the Holy Spirit dwells within the believer in Christ. We also know that all things were created by him, Jesus Christ, and for him, and he is before all things, and that by him all things consist.
John helps us understand Jesus. He explains that Jesus was in the origin and that he is the logos.
John 1:1 G1722 In G746 the beginning G1510.7.3 was G3588 the G3056 word, G2532 and G3588 the G3056 word G1510.7.3 was G4314 with G3588 G2316 God, G2532 and G2316 [4God G1510.7.3 3was G3588 1the G3056 2word].
746 LSJ Gloss:ἀρχή a beginning, origin, first cause
Dodson:ἀρχή ruler, beginning
(a) rule (kingly or magisterial), (b) plur: in a quasi-personal sense, almost: rulers, magistrates, (c) beginning.
TBESG:ἀρχή beginning
G:N-F
ἀρχή, -ῆς, ἡ
[in LXX for קֶדֶם, רֹאשׁ, רֹאשׁ, etc. ;]
__1. beginning, origin;
__(a) absol., of the beginning of all things: of God as the Eternal, the First Cause, Rev.21:6 (cf.
__(b) relatively: Heb.7:3; ἀ. ὠδίνων,
__2. an extremity, a corner:
__3. sovereignty, principality, rule (cf. DB, i, 616 f.):
Thayer:
1) beginning, origin
2) the person or thing that commences, the first person or thing in a series, the leader
3) that by which anything begins to be, the origin, the active cause
4) the extremity of a thing
4a) of the corners of a sail
5) the first place, principality, rule, magistracy
5a) of angels and demons
ἀρχή
archē ar-khay' From G756; (properly abstract) a commencement, or (concrete) chief (in various applications of order, time, place or rank) KJV Usage: beginning, corner, (at the, the) first (estate), magistrate, power, principality, principle, rule.
3056 LSJ Gloss:λόγος the word
Dodson:λόγος a word, speech, divine utterance, analogy.
TBESG:λόγος word
G:N-M
λόγος, -ου, ὁ (< λέγω)
[in LXX chiefly for דָּבָר, also for מִלָּה ,אֵמֶר, etc. ;]
__I. Of that by which the inward thought is expressed, Lat. oratio, sermo, vox, verbum.
__1. a word, not in the grammatical sense of a mere name (ἔπος, ὄνομα, ῥῆμα), but a word as embodying a conception or idea
__2. a saying, statement, declaration: Mat.19:22 (T om.),
__3. speech, discourse:
__4. subject-matter, hence, teaching, doctrine:
__5. a story, tale, narrative:
__II. Of the inward thought itself, Lat. ratio.
__1. reason,
__(a) of the mental faculty (Hdt., Plat., al.): κατὰ λόγον, Act.18:14;
__(b) a reason, cause: τίνι λόγῳ, Act.10:29; παρεκτὸς λόγου πορνείας,
__2. account,
__(a) regard: Act.20:24, Rec.;
__(b) reckoning:
__3. proportion, analogy: Php.2:16 (Field, Notes, 193 f.).
__III. ὁ λ., the Divine Word or Logos:
Thayer:
1) of speech
1a) a word, uttered by a living voice, embodies a conception or idea
1b) what someone has said
1b1) a word
1b2) the sayings of God
1b3) decree, mandate or order
1b4) of the moral precepts given by God
1b5) Old Testament prophecy given by the
λόγος
logos log'-os From G3004; something said (including the thought); by implication a topic (subject of discourse), also reasoning (the mental faculty) or motive; by extension a computation; specifically (with the article in John) the Divine Expression (that is, Christ)
“In the origin of all things was divine utterance. And the narrative was with the Elohim and the Elohim was the living voice.”
Let’s look at this first statement. Each of the tribes of the sons of God must have had an age of their own. So in the origin of all things was divine utterance. As manfaced was created from the dust of the ground, all other sons of God were created as well. The narrative or the plan of all things was with the Elohim. The Elohim was the living voice.
Just a reminder, the word Elohim is a plural (“im” at the end of a word means three or more). We know that there is the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit, which comprise the Elohim. This is what we should “think” when we see the word Elohim or Theos. This should be our perspective regarding the word Elohim.
John 1:2 G3778 This one G1510.7.3 was G1722 in G746 the beginning G4314 with G3588 G2316 God.
“He was in the origin with the Elohim.”
Who was in the origin with the Elohim? Jesus who is Yahweh Elohim our Messiah. Every time we see Yahweh or Yahweh Elohim we should “think” Jesus Christ our Messiah. Paul notes him this way.
Col 1:15 Who is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of every creature:
Col 1:16 For by him were all things created, that are in heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible, whether they be thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers: all things were created by him, and for him:
Col 1:17 And he is before all things, and by him all things consist.
Col 1:18 And he is the head of the body, the church: who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead; that in all things he might have the preeminence.
Col 1:19 For it pleased the Father that in him should all fulness dwell;
Col 1:20 And, having made peace through the blood of his cross, by him to reconcile all things unto himself; by him, I say, whether they be things in earth, or things in heaven.
Jesus was in the origin. Which age or which beginning? From the first age of created spiritual beings through to our age. What we want to keep in mind is that the earth is old, but manfaced or humanity is young. The earth has had many ages, and every nine to eleven thousand years there is an ice age that starts a new civilization. Humans are only six thousand years old or so. Who was before humans? Angels? Cherubim? Seraphim? We don’t know exactly, but we do know that the other sons of God exist, therefore they must have had a time period for their race before entering the kingdom of heaven. Now they gather around the throne of the Most High.
John 1:3 G3956 All G1223 through G1473 him G1096 existed, G2532 and G5565 apart from G1473 him G1096 existed G3761 not even G1520 one thing G3739 which G1096 exists.
Everything by means of Him came into being and without Him came into being not even one that came into being.
Paul explained this as well. Nothing came into being without Jesus. There are some religious groups that attempt to erase Jesus Christ. This would be one of the defiled roots in the root system of Satanas. Not one thing came into being without Jesus Christ.
When we ask people to give us opposites, such as light/dark, big/small, people seem to equate devil/God. That is an impossibility. The devil, Drakōn is a created being, just as Satanas is a created being. Neither are equal to the Elohim. Neither are equal to Jesus Christ. Does anyone really think Drakōn and Satanas didn’t know who they were dealing with when Jesus came to earth as a human? They had certain rules that they had to abide by, but they intentionally killed Jesus the Messiah. Had they known that by his death he would redeem all of manfaced, they never would have crucified him. It was by his death that Jesus could go into death and Hades and take back the keys to that realm, which Satanas overtook when he deceived the adam. In their eagerness to enslave manfaced, they didn’t realize that they could not enslave their creator, that Jesus would overcome their plan by following the rules, living sinless. The rules state that he had to be the perfect sacrifice for manfaced. Therefore, because he was sinless, he overcame death and hades.
John 1:4 G1722 In G1473 him G2222 was life, G1510.7.3 G2532 and G3588 the G2222 life G1510.7.3 was G3588 the G5457 light G3588 G444 of men.
5457 Dodson:φῶςlight, a source of light light, a source of light, radiance.
TBESG:φῶς light
G:N-N
φῶς (Att.. contr. from φάος; < φάω), genitive, φωτός, τό,
[in LXX chiefly for אוֹר ;]
light (opp. to τὸ σκότος, ἡ σκοτία):
__(a) of God:
__(b) of spiritual truth and its effects on the lives of men:
__(with) of the spiritual understanding: τ. φ. τὸ ἐν σοί,
__(d) adverbially, of that which is open to view (opp. to ἐν τ. σκοτίᾳ): ἐν τ. φ.
Thayer:
1) light
1a) the light
1a1) emitted by a lamp
1a2) a heavenly light such as surrounds angels when they appear on earth
1b) anything emitting light
1b1) a star
1b2) fire because it is light and sheds light
1b3) a lamp or torch
1c) light, i.e brightness
1c1) of a lamp
2) metaph.
2a) God is light because light has the extremely delicate, subtle, pure, brilliant quality
2b) of truth and its knowledge, together with the spiritual purity associated with it
2c) that which is exposed to the view of all, openly, publicly
2d) reason, mind
2d1) the power of understanding esp. moral and spiritual truth
For Synonyms see entry G5817
φῶς
phōs foce From an obsolete φάω phaō (to shine or make manifest, especially by rays; compare G5316 and G5346); luminousness (in the widest application, natural or artificial, abstract or concrete, literal or figurative)
KJV Usage: fire, light.
“In Him life was and the life was the radiance manfaced.”
In Jesus Christ was life. The name of Jesus is powerful because it brings life to things that are dead. This life was the rays or illumination of manfaced. Manfaced became illuminated, and filled with radiance when manfaced believed on Jesus as Messiah and Lord and that he rose up on the third day. This is why manfaced is hated by the fallen sons of God more than any other of the sons of God. We are the reflection of the image and likeness of the Elohim and all they see when they look at us is the Elohim. Just as Aspen trees glow in the sunlight, manfaced glows with the radiance of the Elohim. Isn’t this why Satanas must work in the dark, underground, to attack us?
John 1:5 G2532 And G3588 the G5457 light G1722 in G3588 the G4653 darkness G5316 appears, G2532 and G3588 the G4653 darkness G1473 [2it G3756 3not G2638 1overtook].
4653 LSJ Gloss:σκοτία darkness, gloom
Dodson:σκοτία darkness darkness; fig: spiritual darkness.
TBESG:σκοτία darkness
G:N-F
σκοτία, -ας, ἡ
[in LXX: Job.28:3 (אֹפֶל), Mic.3:6 (חָשַׁךְ), Isa.16:3 * ;]
in late writers = σκότος,
darkness:
__(a) of secrecy (opp. to ἐν τ. φωτί):
__(b) of spiritual darkness:
Thayer:
1) darkness
2) the darkness due to want of light
3) metaph. used of ignorance of divine things, and its associated wickedness, and the resultant misery in hell
σκοτία
skotia
skot-ee'-ah
From G4655; dimness, obscurity (literally or figuratively)
KJV Usage: dark (-ness).
“And the radiance in the obscurity brings to light and the obscurity He not downward look upon.”
Radiance in the obscure darkness overrides the obscure darkness. Once a light is turned on, the darkness is overtaken or overcome. We understand this from our limited perspective of earthly electricity. But take the thirty thousand foot view. One light eliminates a dark space. We see this when we fly in an airplane at night. Light and dark do not coexist. This is a better bumpersticker than the idea of “coexist”. There is no coexistence between light and dark.
Perspective is important here. We may think that we can turn the darkness into light but we cannot. The darkness has to come into the light to become light. Darkness cannot truly transform into light on its own. But let’s think about this. Satanas transforms himself into an angel of light. He is not truly an angel of light but he pretends to be an angel of light in order to gather followers. If he were truly light then he would be life as well, yet he is not life he is death. If we remember back to Satanas’s downfall, he was a reflection of the radiance of the Elohim. All the beautiful gem stones were not Satanas, but they reflected the radiance of the Elohim onto Satanas. Without the Elohim’s radiance Satanas is not beautiful. He’s more like an annoying flickering fluorescent light bulb, fake and ugly.
Jesus Christ does not downward look on the darkness. The word katalambanō means kata, “downward”, and lambanō, “look upon”. Jesus isn’t looking at the darkness, he sees the light. The darkness/obscurity he does not downward look upon. We can say that the fallen sons of God have been removed from his sight. He is not worried or concerned for the sons of God who rebelled. While he knows their schemes and plans to usurp His Creation, Jesus is not looking at the fallen sons of God, he is looking at us, we are a reflection of Him. Jesus is not fretting or biting his finger nails in worried anticipation of how this age will end, he made the way for anyone who wants to live eternally.
If you were a rebel and wanted to attempt to overthrow the Creator’s creation, you would look for ways to get the creatures of that creation to turn away from the Creator on their own. What would you introduce? Behaviors that turn the creature’s eyes from the light to the darkness. Would you want the darkness to look less dark? Would you want the creatures to trust the darkness? Would you find ways to entice the creatures to the dark side? Paul warns us:
Ephesians 5:6 G3367 [2not one G1473 3of you G538 1Let] be deceived G2756 with empty G3056 words! G1223 [2on account of G3778 3these things G1063 1for] G2064 comes G3588 the G3709 wrath G3588 G2316 of God G1909 upon G3588 the G5207 sons G3588 G543 of disobedience.
7 G3361 Do not G3767 then G1096 become G4830 joint-partners G1473 with them!
8 G1510.7.5 For you were G1063 G4218 at some time or other G4655 darkness, G3568 but now G1161 G5457 light G1722 in G2962 the Lord -- G5613 [2as G5043 3children G5457 4of light G4043 1walk]!
Paul makes things clear, but what happens when people are deceived by empty words and become joint partners with the darkness? Isn’t this what happened with the Pharisees in the first century? Instead our perspective here is to walk as children of light in Jesus Christ.
Colossians 2:20 G1487 If G3767 then G599 you died G4862 with G3588 the G5547 Christ G575 from G3588 the G4747 elements G3588 of the G2889 world, G5100 why G5613 as G2198 living G1722 in G2889 the world G1379 do you subject yourselves to decrees?
1379 LSJ Gloss:δογματίζω to decree
Dodson:δογματίζω I subject to regulations, decree I subject to regulations, decree; mid: I subject myself to regulations, am decree-ridden.
TBESG:δογματίζω to decree
G:V
δογματίζω
[in LXX: Est.3:9 (כָּתַב ni.)
to decree. Mid., to subject oneself to an ordinance: Col.2:20.†
(AS)
Thayer:
1) to decree, command, enjoin, lay down an ordinance
δογματίζω
dogmatizō dog-mat-id'-zo From G1378; to prescribe by statute, that is, (reflexively) to submit to ceremonial rule KJV Usage: be subject to ordinances.
Paul asks a great question. Why are we subjecting ourselves to religious dogma? Paul explains.
Colossians 2:21 G3361 that is, You should not G680 lightly touch, G3366 nor G1089 should you taste, G3366 nor G2345 should you touch,
22 G3739 (which things G1510.2.3 are G3956 all G1519 for G5356 corruption G3588 G671 in abuse,) G2596 according to G3588 the G1778 precepts G2532 and G1319 instructions G3588 G444 of men,
Don’t touch, haptomai, don’t eat, geuomai, don’t handle, thigganō, things that are corrupt, consuming downward injunctions and teachings of manfaced. All the rules and ideas that manfaced comes up with to somehow be acceptable to Jesus are simply the nonsense of men. As the Pharisees constantly badgered Jesus about breaking their laws and the traditions that they came up with, we have to be guarded so that we do not fall into the trap of Satanas, constructing a religious organization that has silly rules. Cut these religious dogma’s out of the roots.
Colossians 2:23 G3748 which G1510.2.3 is G3056 communication G3303 then G2192 having G4678 wisdom G1722 in G1479 man made religion, G2532 and G5012 deprivation, G2532 and G857 austerity G4983 of the body, G3756 not G1722 in G5092 any value G5100 G4314 to G4140 fullness G3588 of the G4561 flesh.
1479 LSJ Gloss:ἐθελοθρησκεία will-worship
Dodson:ἐθελοθρησκεία arbitrary worship arbitrary worship, self-imposed worship.
TBESG:ἐθελοθρησκεία self-made religion
G:N-F
ἐθελο-θρησκία (Rec. -εία), -ας, ἡ,
self-imposed worship: Col.2:23 (eccl.; cf. DB, iv, 923a; Cremer, 733).†
Thayer:
1) voluntary, arbitrary worship
1a) worship which one prescribes and devises for himself, contrary to the contents and nature of faith which ought to be directed to Christ
1b) said of the misdirected zeal and the practice of ascetics
ἐθελοθρησκεία
ethelothrēskeia eth-el-oth-race-ki'-ah From G2309 and G2356; voluntary (arbitrary and unwarranted) piety, that is, sanctimony
KJV Usage: will worship.
These manfaced religious precepts are words of wisdom in man’s religion, that keep humility in mans religion, and severe treatment of the body in man’s religion, that have no worth towards the gratification of the flesh, because it is mans religion. There is no profit to following the religion of manfaced, whatever it might be. The worship of idols, the rules regarding food, or the hierarchical ladder climbing, these are dogmas that crept into the church. We might be the wisest in our denomination, but we may lack a real knowledge of Jesus Christ.
Hebrews 4:12 G2198 [5 is living G1063 1For G3588 2the G3056 3word G3588 G2316 4of God], G2532 and G1756 active, G2532 and G5114 sharper G5228 than G3956 any G3162 [2sword G1366 1double-edged], G2532 and G1338 penetrating G891 as far as G3311 the distribution G5590 of both soul G5037 G2532 and G4151 spirit, G719 also of joints G5037 G2532 and G3452 marrows, G2532 and G2924 is a discerner G1761 of the thinking G2532 and G1771 reflections G2588 of the heart.
Jesus is the logos. The logos is alive and active, sharp like a sword. Jesus the logos passes through until division of soul and spirit. Nothing separates soul and spirit in our age, no doctor, no surgeon, no shaman, no one and no thing. We cannot look at soul and spirit under a microscope. We cannot see soul and spirit on an x-ray or an MRI. Manfaced is a three part being, Spirit, soul, and body. We cannot even detect body and soul with imaging, we only see the body. This tells us something important. We see the physical realm. But we do not see the spiritual realm and the aether of life. Soul life is breath life. Without a soul there is no breath. What scientific method can be used to detect breath life apart from the body? The only way to separate breath life from the body is by killing the body, yet we cannot see the breath life separated from the body, the breath life is unseen. We don’t see the soul separate at death, we see nothing but a dead body. Yet Jesus, the logos, can separate breath life and spirit. Whether it is the Holy Spirit, or the spirit of man, we cannot see spirit. Therefore if we cannot see Spirit and soul, we cannot separate them, only Jesus can.
Marrow is formed in the bones, both red and yellow. Red marrow produces blood stem cells and white blood cells. Yellow marrow is made of fat and contains stem cells that become cartilage, fat or bone cells. If we are speaking of yellow marrow, separating the yellow marrow from the bone cells is not possible because it is bone. But Jesus the logos can separate the joints from the marrow, or the yellow marrow from the bone. Think about the minute process of the formation of yellow marrow into bone, Jesus the logos can separate it.
Jesus the logos can judge critically the inward thoughts and considerations in everyone’s heart. We can assume someone’s intent, or guess regarding someone’s intent, but we don’t see the process of inward thoughts and considerations in another person. Jesus does see the inward thoughts and considerations in people’s hearts.
Jesus, the logos, is very sharp and powerful. This is why we use the name of Jesus when we pray. The name of Jesus is the logos that cuts the enemy from the roots. The aspen forest can overcome the darkness trying to graft itself in, with the powerful name of Jesus the logos of light and life.
Hebrews 4:13 G2532 And G3756 there is not G1510.2.3 G2937 a creation G852 unapparent G1799 before G1473 him; G3956 but all G1161 G1131 are naked G2532 and G5136 laid bare G3588 to G3788 his eyes, G1473 G4314 to G3739 whom G1473 [3 is to us G3588 1the G3056 2reckoning].
2937 LSJ Gloss:κτίσις a founding, foundation
Dodson:κτίσις creation, creature, institution (often of the founding of a city), (a) abstr: creation, (b) concr: creation, creature, institution; always of Divine work, (c) an institution, ordinance.
TBESG:κτίσις creation
G:N-F
κτίσις, -εως, ἡ
(< κτίζω), [in LXX: Psa.104:24 (קִנְיָן), Pro.1:13 A (הוֹן),
Thayer:
1) the act of founding, establishing, building etc
1a) the act of creating, creation
1b) creation i.e. thing created
1b1) of individual things, beings, a creature, a creation
1b1a) anything created
1b1b) after a rabbinical usage (by which a man converted from idolatry to Judaism was called)
1b1c) the sum or aggregate of things created
1c) institution, ordinance
κτίσις
ktisis ktis'-is From G2936; original formation (properly the act; by implication the thing, literally or figuratively) KJV Usage: building, creation, creature, ordinance.
There is not an original formation invisible before the face of Jesus the logos. Every atom, every molecule, every formation of atoms and molecules, is before Jesus’ face. Everything is naked and exposed in Jesus’ sight before the face of Jesus the logos.
The word reckoning here is logos. The last statement reads “towards this them/us the logos”. “All things are naked and exposed His eyes toward them, this the logos.” This is the logos, it is both a super telescope and a mega microscope. The logos, Jesus, sees the origin and the end. Jesus the logos knows all and sees all.
With this in mind, what can the enemies of manfaced do that Jesus doesn’t know about? Not a thing. Jesus who is the logos, knows everything. Therefore, we can ask Jesus what our enemies do and counter their schemes.
Through our last few studies we can see the twisting of the organization known as the Pharisees. We see that after the captivity they had a solid foundation in Jerusalem, but started being swayed by the political tides of the time. Once they separated themselves from the true prophets and Assideans of the day, and aligned with the Hasmoneans, they put themselves in opposition to the precepts of Yahweh Elohim. They allowed a non-Aaronic High Priest into the temple, then they made new religious laws that modified Yahweh’s laws and added to their own gain. They swayed the people with manipulations and intimidations to follow their rules. They had strayed so far from Yahweh Elohim’s instructions that when the Messiah came, they hated him for challenging them. The Pharisees had no prophets, they did not have healing ministry, they did not have spiritual enlightenment via the Holy Spirit. All they had were demands for money, demands for power, and demands for domination over everyone else.
Most of the Pharisees rejected Jesus. Some of the Pharisees who believed on Jesus went into the desert for Essene schooling. While other Pharisees who believed on Jesus simply added Jesus to their rules and religion. But now that Jesus came to earth healing people and redeeming them, the unbelieving Pharisees had to protect their religion. They did so by altering scripture when and where they could. This practice continued after the destruction of the temple in 70 AD in Yeshiva’s near today’s Tel Aviv. As time went on, various rabbi’s interjected their own distortions of the prophecies regarding Jesus. This is why the Masoretic Text is not trustworthy as compared to the Septuagint. So while the enemies of Christ attempted to erase him, he could not possibly be erased. The logos of the Holy Spirit in the old covenant can be found apart from the Masoretes.
The point here is that people can try to change the written logos, but they cannot because it is the living logos. The living logos will lead us where we need to go. Yet we have allowed skewed religions of man to dominate the way that we learn about Jesus Christ. We allow traditions and rules and the dogmas of men supremacy over our lives. This brings obscurity into our perspective. Instead Jesus is light and life, the living word. He is un-erasable. This needs to be our perspective when we bring light into the darkness. The darkness cannot consume Jesus the light.
1 Joh 1:1 G3739 Which G1510.7.3 was G575 from G746 the beginning, G3739 which G191 we have heard, G3739 which G3708 we have seen G3588 with G3788 our eyes, G1473 G3739 which G2300 we were spectators of, G2532 and G3588 G5495 our hands G1473 G5584 handled G4012 concerning G3588 the G3056 word G3588 of the G2222 life;
3739
ὅς, ἥ, ὅ
hos hē ho hos, hay, ho Probably a primary word (or perhaps a form of the article G3588); the relative (sometimes demonstrative) pronoun, who, which, what, that KJV Usage: one, (an-, the) other, some, that, what, which, who (-m, -se), etc. See also G3757.
“Who was from origin, who heard, who look upon our eyes, who gaze at, and our hands handled, concerning the logos of the life.”
The word hos can be translated “who” instead of “which”. Who is the who that John is speaking of? Jesus Christ. Jesus the logos was from the origin. Now if we put both of John’s writings together, his gospel and this letter, we see that John is identifying Jesus as part of the Elohim in the beginning and also someone who he was able to physically hear, see, and touch. He was not just a spirit, he was flesh, and he is the logos of life. As we know, some strange doctrines crept into the early church that Jesus was just a spirit when he came. John is telling us that Jesus came in physical form, with a physical voice, and a physical body, which they could touch.
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Life was made manifest or made apparent, John and the disciples saw this and he testifies to this. John announces that perpetual life, who was with the Father, was made apparent or manifest.
As some people tried to claim that Jesus came in the form of a spirit, John is telling us that he did not. However, now Jesus is in a spiritual form who we can have fellowship with. This association is available because, for the believer, it is Christ in them, the hope of glory.
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“Who seen and heard, bring a report you in that place and you have association in the midst of us and but the association the ours in the midst of the Father and in the midst of the his Son Jesus Christ.”
John is saying that people should have association with him and the disciples and their association is with the Father and Jesus Christ. This means that eventually you will associate with Jesus Christ if you associate with John. This is always the goal of discipleship, bringing people to Jesus and letting them fellowship with Him. Man’s religions do the opposite. They claim that they are the only ones with the special secret knowledge of Jesus and everyone must got through them as mediators. This is not true. It is an obscure religious dogma. Our perspective is that we can fellowship with Jesus just like everyone else. We have no need of mediators.
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John’s joy is complete because of these things. People no longer had to abide by the Pharisaical false religion, but could associate with Jesus Christ themselves. Jesus the logos is perpetual life, and for everyone.
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“And this is the divine assurance or promise, who heard from and report you, because the Elohim is radiance, or light, and obscurity or darkness in him is not nothing.”
John heard from Jesus, and is reporting that the Elohim is radiance and there is definitely no obscurity in him. This should be what we see when we think of Jesus our Messiah. Our perspective is that Jesus is light and life, the living logos, and the root system of the church is nourished by the logos of Yahweh Elohim. Jesus is not looking at the darkness. He is not concerned about their schemes and plans, because he has redeemed us. It is our job to expose with the light of the logos, the schemes and plans of the enemies of Jesus so that others may fare well. It is our pleasure to associate with Jesus the Messiah, and we can disciple others into that same fellowship. There is no dogma’s of men or religious rituals that we are supposed to follow. We simply follow the logos who was from the origin and is perpetual. There is no created being that can overtake the Creator. And any created being attempting to look like light and life will eventually be exposed as darkness because there is no life in darkness. There is no living logos in the obscurity. We are the radiance of the Elohim. This should be our perspective.
