Chapter II

     Some will maintain that the Old Testament does not teach of the Doctrine of the Father. While the New Testament does today speak more concerning the Father and the Son, there are a number of Old Testament scriptures which do speak of that matter, particularly when one takes the time to look for them and is open minded enough to consider them. Perhaps one such scripture is that which the Lord Jesus Christ himself did reference in his confrontations with the Pharisees of the Sanhedrin. It is a Messianic Psalm of David which identifies the Father and the Son, their relationship to each other and just what would be upon the Son of God due to the Father's blessings. The whole of the short Psalm follows and would be well known and likely to varying degrees understood by the learned Pharisees.

THE LORD said unto my Lord

"THE LORD said unto my Lord, Sit thou at my right hand, until I make thine enemies thy footstool. The LORD shall send the rod of thy strength out of Zion: rule thou in the midst of thine enemies. Thy people shall be willing in the day of thy power, in the beauties of holiness from the womb of the morning: thou hast the dew of thy youth. The LORD hath sworn, and will not repent, Thou art a priest for ever after the order of Melchizedek. The Lord at thy right hand shall strike through kings in the day of his wrath. He shall judge among the heathen, he shall fill the places with the dead bodies; he shall wound the heads over many countries. He shall drink of the brook in the way: therefore shall he lift up the head." ~ Old Testament | Psalms 110:1-7

With David being the 'singer of the psalm', David's Lord would be Jehovah and Jehovah's LORD would be Jehovah's Father. This is consistant with the imagery of the Son of God taking his place at the right hand of his Father and our Father, the Most High God even that Man of Holiness. In rebutal to the Elders of the Jews, Jesus is recorded as referencing this Old Testament scripture in both the gospel of Mark 12:35-37 and Luke 20:41-44. When Jesus began his ministry he had declared himself the Son of God before the Pharisees and thus as he was being questioned and teaching once again in the temple that last week of his mortal life he again challenged the Elders of the Church with that which they would have known, the well known Messianic Psalm of King David. 'How say they that Christ is the Son of David? For David said by the Holy Ghost, "The LORD said to my Lord, Sit thou on my right hand, till I make thine enemies thy footstool." David therefore called him [Jehovah] Lord; and whence is he his son?'

In this Jesus not only identified himself, the Christ, as being the same as David's Lord God Jehovah, but that he Jesus Christ who was the same as Jehovah had a LORD GOD over him, who was his Father who had power over him to call him [Jehovah/Jesus] to sit at His right hand. This the confirming vision of Stephen, and others, does but confirm, that Jesus Christ the Son of God does indeed stand at the right hand of his Father, even the LORD GOD Elohim (Acts 7:51-58, Romans 8:34, Ephesians 1:20, Colossians 3:1, Hebrews 1:3, Hebrews 8:1, Hebrews 10:12, Hebrews 12:2, 1 Peter 3:21-22). And for this, that Jesus, being the Son of God of his own witness did they crucify him. And also for this same testimony of Stephen's vision did they take the Lord's deciple Stephen out and stone him to death also.

And even though the artists do picture it accurately, yet 'Traditional Christianity' of the 'Nicene Creed' make of three into one in mystery that man does not come to know the truth of God which is to come unto eternal life (John 5:39, John 17:3).
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      "Search the scriptures; for in them ye think ye have eternal life: and they are they which testify of me." ~ "And this is life eternal, that they might know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent."

 

Now how does one 'search the scriptures' if they are denied them as was the case established by the Catholic church for hundreds of years? And even now how does one come to know God the Father and Jesus Christ the Son of God if they are hid in the 'incomprehensible mysticism' of the Trinity doctrine? Simply stated in truth is that God the Father, Jesus Christ who is the same as Jehovah of the Old Testament and the Holy Ghost, are three separate and distinct beings joined together in faith, purpose and their work of bring to pass the immortality and eternal life of man. Their unity is in cause and purpose and not in their corpoal natures. And while all such eternal beings share in having that eternal essence of devine intelligence, they are very much three separate and distinct men of holiness of one Godhead.

The Old Testament did teach that God the Father and Jesus/Jehovah the Son were two separate beings though many such plain and precious things have be lost due to the 'filtering' of the cannon through the editing channels of the Jewish leadership who chose to deny the Son of God and to persecute and murder the prophets of God.

God the Father, the Father of Spirits

Another plain and precious truth muddled by the Jewish evolution of the scriptural text is that our Heavenly Father is the Father of all the spirits of man, Jehovah/Jesus included as the Firstborn son.

"Have we not all one father? hath not one God created us? why do we deal treacherously every man against his brother, by profaning the covenant of our fathers?" ~ Old Testament | Malachi 2:10