THE TRUTH (OF GOD) IS IN MAN; THE LIFE IN MAN IS THE MYSTERY OF CHRIST:

Beloved, following is the gracious revelation by the Holy Ghost of the hidden things or mysteries that our Lord Jesus Christ declared or testified through parables, that is, the things from the foundation of the world (MATTHEW 13:34-35).....

In the beginning, God created the Heaven and the Earth. He first created the Kingdom of Heaven before the World. And since God hast loved man from the beginning did He labor six days (accord­ing to God's own Time or celestial Clock) to make him a paradise on earth; as the apostle John wrote, saying. We love Him because He first loved us (1 JOHN 4:19).

And so, our loving God made the land, the seas, the trees, the herb-yielding seed, the fruit-bearing trees, the fishes and sea creatures, the animals and creeping creatures - all for man's need and use.

Likewise, in the firmaments of the heavens, He created the sun and the moon, the planets and the stars to serve as lights, and to divide the night and day, and to be for signs, and seasons and for days and months and years; He also made the birds and all the fowls of the air - again, all for the use and benefit of mankind (GENESIS 1:1-25).

And when He has completely prepared the Dwelling Place, God last made His most beloved Creature, His greatest and most precious Creation, unto whom was the world and all things therein made in the first place, in order to inherit the para­dise He has prepared for him, and to govern the earth -which is no other than Man His self.

Verily and truly, God loved man that for this reason He gave unto him His Own IMAGE and LIKENESS, as it is written, And God said. Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.

So God created man in His own image, in the image of God created He him;
male and female created He them (GENESIS 1:26-27). So now, it was God's will and pleasure that He had made man in His own image and likeness; and because of this image and likeness of God was man appointed to be ruler of the earth, as a god on earth. But before we proceed any further to expound on this image and likeness of God in man, let us behold at this time another sacred mystery: When God said, let US make man in OUR own Image, after OUR Likeness ...

(What do you think, my brother, was God alone?). For if God were Alone, He would have instead said, I will make man in My own Image, after My own Likeness ... (Don't you think so, dear brother?).

Who then was or were His Companions when He created man? According to the revelations of the Holy Ghost through divine visions, When God The Father created the Kingdom of Heaven, he made the spiritual beings like the angels, archangels, cherubims, seraphims, and the rest of the heavenly hosts to be His helpers and also to minister unto men whom He would create on earth.

But before and prior to making any of these Divine Beings, He first made, through His Own Spirit, after His Own Image and Likeness, His Divine Persons, even The Son and The Holy Ghost - and They composed the Three (3) Divine Person­alities of the One and Omnipotent God, the Eternal Life and Light; The Father, being the Godhead of the Holy Trinity or First Family of Godliness. Of a truth, God The Father had with Him his Divine Persons, even The Son and The Holy Ghost, when He created man in their own image, after their own likeness.

Thus Christ, in the divine person as The Son, was already with the Father from the begin­ning, but was manifested in the flesh only in the last times for our glory. This is what Paul wrote about him, saying, Christ was with The Father from the beginning, the Firstborn of every creature, he was before all things, and that all things consist of him, were created by him and for him (COLOS-SIANS 1:14-19).

And so, when our Lord Jesus Christ was praying to The Father in the garden ofGethsamane, he said, And now, 0 Father, glorify Thou me with Thine own self with the glory which I had with Thee before the world was (JOHN 17:5).

Verily, what the Lord Jesus was asking The Father was to give him the same glory he had with The Father already before the world was created, even the glory of The Son who is in the Right Hand of the Throne of God in the Kingdom of Heaven. It is for the same truth that Jesus, when contending with the Jews regarding Abraham, said. You father Abraham rejoiced to see my day: and he saw it, and was glad. Then the Jews said unto him, Thou are not yet fifty years old, and hast thou seen Abraham? Jesus said unto them, Verily, verily I say unto you. Before Abraham was, I am (JOHN 8:56-58).

And Christ also said, I have many things to say and to judge of you: but He that sent me is True; and I speak to the world those things which I have heard of Him. I speak that which I have seen with my Father: and ye do that which ye have seen with your father... But now ye seek to kill me, a man that hath told you the Truth, which I have heard of God: this did not Abraham (JOHN 8:26, 38, 40).

In likewise, the Existence andthree-getherness of the Three (3) Divine Persons in God is also manifested clearly in the holy Scriptures as was earlier discussed: John, the Baptist, testified, saying, I saw the heavens were opened, and the Spirit of God descending like a dove, and lighting upon him (Jesus): and to a Voice from heaven, saying, This is My beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased (MATTHEW 3:16-17). Hearken, my brethren, and consider: The Voice is from The Father, the beloved Son is in the person of Jesus, and That which alighted upon him in the form of a dove is the Holy Ghost or the Holy Spirit.

And again, as we had read earlier, the Lord Jesus said, These things have I spoken unto you, being yet present with you. But the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, whom The Father will send in my name, he shall teach you all things, and bring all things to your remem­brance, whatsoever I have said unto you (JOHN 14:25-26).

It is for this divine cause (whereas the mystery of the Great Works of God the Eternal Life and Spirit and Infinite Power and Light, the One and Omnipotent Lord have been fulfilled through His Divine Persons, Which are The Father as the Godhead and the Creator, The Son as the Redeemer or the Christ and the Bearer of The Word of God, being also the Prophet and the Mouth of God, and lastly, The Holy Ghost or Holy Spirit as the Sanctifier and Comforter who will be given into them that have believed and received the Testimony of Jesus Christ unto The Truth Which is The Word of God, that we may likewise bear witness of The Father and The Son; yes, it is for this divine cause that the Lord Jesus commanded his disciples, saying, Now Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the Name of The Father, and of The Son, and of The Holy Ghost (MATTHEW 28:19).

And the apostle John like­wise testified in the spirit, saying, For there are Three that bear record in Heaven, The Father, The Word (The Son), and The Holy Ghost: and these Three are one. And there are three that bear witness in earth, the spirit, and the water, and the blood: and these three agree in one (1 JOHN 5:7-8).

I now therefore pray, my brethren, that you will take care of this sacred mystery concering the 3 Divine Persons who were conversing in the day God created man. The same has been kept secret so as to safeguard its holiness from people who have no faith and love for God.

THE IMAGE AND LIKENESS OF GOD GIVEN TO MAN: THE I AM OF GOD; THE MYSTERY OF CHRIST: