<TITLE>07. Par 55-61</TITLE>L-55   What do we find Him to be? We found Him to be the Great Jehovah God made manifest in flesh. We found Him to--to be not a prophet, but the fulness of the Godhead bodily. He was Jehovah made flesh. And the body, Jesus, only tabernacled Him. God dwelling in man. God being reconciled to man, through man, by the virgin birth of His own Son. And Jehovah, the Spirit, dwelt in Him.

L-56 Now, how many remembers the teaching about the Godhead, how we went back and found God like the great rainbow with all the different Spirit, how It was? And then the Logos went out of God, which become the theophany, and that was in the form of a man. And Moses seen It pass by, in the cleft of the rock. And then that theophany was made absolutely human flesh, Christ.
And how we find out that we, through His grace, have Eternal Life. Now, the word forever is "for a distance; for a space of time." It said, in the Bible, "Forever and forever," a conjunction. But forever only means "a time." But Eternal means forever. And only everything that had a beginning has an end, but things which had no beginning has no end. So God had no beginning and He has no end.

L-57   And so, therefore, Melchisedec, the great Priest, like a man, He had no beginning and He has no end. And when we, through that theophany, that, we were made in the image of God before the world was ever made; when that theophany has been made flesh and dwelt among us, then, through His death, we ourselves receive His Spirit and we have no end; Eternal Life; not Angels, but men and women. Oh, I... Somehow, if I could only get it in a way that my--my audience would catch it! You will never be an Angel. God made Angels, but God made man. And what God does is off of God, which is as Eternal as God is. And man is just as Eternal as his Creator, because he was made from Eternity.

L-58   But sin has an end, suffering has an end. Therefore, there cannot be an Eternal hell. There's a hell, fire and brimstone, we know that, but there's no Eternal hell. There's only one type of Eternal Life and that belongs to God. If you're to suffer forever, you got Eternal Life. Hell has an end, it may be billions of years, but it'll finally come to an end.

L-59 The Bible doesn't say, anywhere, that they suffered Eternally, said, "Forever and forever." Jonah thought he was in the belly of the whale "forever," too. Forever has a distance or a time limit. But Eternal is perpetual, it has no beginning or end. It's like a ring, a circle. And as our time moves on, we're only in revolving around the great motives of God.

L-60   God's motive was to make man in His image, to fellowship with Him. And He made him a tangible being. Now, sin brought us into a place of--of--of corruption, but that never stops the program of God. And, sinner friend, today, if you're not born again of the Spirit of God, you have an end somewhere. And your end is chaos, in ruin, and suffering and misery. But to you who have believed on the Lord Jesus, and accepted the same as your personal Saviour, it's just as Eternal as God is Eternal. You have no end, "I give unto them Eternal Zoe, God's own Life, and they will never perish or come into the judgment even, but has passed from death unto Life." That's what He was. That's what He come for.

L-61   Now, Jesus, in His coming, of His priesthood, did not come just for a sympathy's sake. Many people teach it like that, that He come, saying, "Well, maybe if I suffer, I will be a--a--a pitiful sight and people will surely come to Me." That's an error. There's no Scripture for that.
For, every person that ever will be saved, God knew them before the world was ever formed. The Bible said so. "God is not willing now that anybody should perish." He wants them all to come to repentance. But, being God, by foreknowledge He knew it.


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