<TITLE>16. Par 172-181</TITLE>L-172 Now, remember, this is the revelation, "And whosoever heareth it and don't keep the sayings of this Book, his part will be taken from the Book of Life." Jesus is not revealing Hisself as three gods, but one God and three offices. Oh, it's going to get rich after while when we get into those church ages and see where they lost that. It caused a great split at the Nicene Council. Both of them went off on deep ends.
And they done the same thing in this last days again, just like a Pre-Nicene Council again, 'cause there will be another one. Just as certain as I'm standing here, the Catholic and Protestant churches will unite something together or agree with one another. Look at the archbishop of Canterbury over there now, all those heaping right up together. And there is not a triune God teaching in the Bible. There's one God.
And it's revealed here in the Book of Revelation, that the whole canon of Scriptures might be proven here and Christ set His seal upon it. This is it. If anyone takes away or adds to, the same will be taken out of the Book of Life for him. So approach this not selfishly; approach this with an open heart and an open mind.

L-175 Now, at the Nicene Council, they come to two great decisions on the... Oh, many of them in that day of the early church fathers, they had two extreme views. One of them was a triune God, a trinitarian. And the other one was a--a one God. And they both come into existence and went out on two straight limbs, out like that. The triunity became a place of a three-god person. The oneness became a unitarian, just as far wrong as the other one was. So they both went on limbs, but right in here reveals the Truth.
Jesus could not be His own Father. Neither... If He had a Father outside of the Holy Spirit, then He is a illegitimate child and not... The Holy Ghost conceived Him, and He said God was His Father. So the Holy Ghost and God... That's Matthew 1:18, if... The Holy Ghost and God has to be the same Person or He had two daddy's. And He was called Emmanuel, which is "God with us." He claimed when He was here on earth that He and the Father was One.
I got all the Scriptures written out here so that you could find it if we had this--this question or something.

L-178 Now, when He was manifested here as a threefold office of His Being, "He that was, He that is, He that shall come, the Almighty." Now, there's no three gods there. There's one God.
And in the Nicene Council, to do this, in order to do this, they had to take a trinity, because in the Roman world they had many gods. They prayed to their dead ancestors. (I've got their history right here where we can quote it. See?) They prayed to their dead ancestors; that's the reason they have Saint Cecilia, and Saint Marcus, and Saint, Saint, Saint, Saint, Saint, Saint.
When Apostle Peter said, "There's no other mediator between God and man, but that Man Christ Jesus": One.

L-181 They had to have a trinitarian god, so they... They had Jupiter, Mars, Venus. And it wasn't right to put it all on one God, so they just split it up and made threefold offices of God to be three different gods.
But He plainly says here in the Revelation Who He is, "I am He that was, He that is, and He that is to come, the Almighty." We'll get it a little later here, said, "I am Alpha and Omega (A to Z, the whole--that Greek alphabet.), the Lily of the Valley, the Rose of Sharon, Father, Son, Holy Spirit, He that was, which is, and shall come, the Root and Offspring of David." He's God. God with... I Timothy 3:16, "Without contradiction great is the mystery of godliness: For God was manifested in flesh, seen of angels, believed on in the world, received up into glory." God, not a third person or a prophet, but God Himself made manifest in human form. Now, this is a revelation, remember.


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