Abraham, Isaac, the Sovereign of heaven, and His only begotten Son

The infinite closeness of God the Father and His only Begotten makes our one God sufficient to atone for us; and Their infinite closeness also makes Their atonement effectual in us.

Our whole life of sin is not too big for God to forgive. When God forgives us because we have regretted our sins, because we have sorrowed for our life of sin and cast those sins from our hearts, thus repenting of them all, then He forgives us completely and we are restored perfectly as if we had never once sinned. All of our judgment God put upon the Son, and He willingly stood in our place on damnation day. Jesus was treated by heaven and earth with the punishment that we deserve, so that we could be treated with the blessings and honor that Jesus deserves. Amazing love toward a race that did not love Them! How sweet the sound of Their amazing grace! Despite our accumulation of sins, our sins are not a mountain bigger than the mountain of God, “My holy mountain” (Isa. 11:9). He is able to cast them all into the midst of the sea; and He will do that for all who turn to Him with their whole heart.

“Who is a God like unto Thee, that pardoneth iniquity, and passeth by the transgression of the remnant of His heritage? He retaineth not His anger for ever, because He delighteth in mercy. He will turn again, He will have compassion upon us; He will subdue our iniquities; and Thou wilt cast all their sins into the depths of the sea.” (Mic. 7:18,19).

“‘Oh, the unspeakable greatness of that exchange,—the Sinless One is condemned, and he who is guilty goes free; the Blessing bears the curse, and the cursed is brought into blessing; the Life dies, and the dead live; the Glory is whelmed in darkness, and he who knew nothing but confusion of face is clothed with glory.’ — D’Aubigne, London ed., b. 12, ch. 2.” Great Controversy, p. 212.

It is that infinite bond between Father and Son broken because of our sin, it was the ultimate sacrifice of Them both, that alone could legally and justly pay for our justification and restoration into Their bosom. Their infinite parent-child bond, though seen every day in our world of sin, can only be comprehended by striving to grasp the greatness of Their promises to receive us again.

The incomprehensible union of the Father and His Son has no room for the other male God that made a Trinity. The Father and Son love has been pure, and has needed none other to supplement it. What is Their mutual love like? How close are They? We see it in Abraham and Isaac.

“And He [God] said, Take now thy son, thine only son Isaac, whom thou lovest, and get thee into the land of Moriah; and offer him there for a burnt offering upon one of the mountains which I will tell thee of.” (Gen. 22:2).

“Thine only son Isaac, whom thou lovest” was everything to Abraham. Isaac was the object of love for whom Abraham had waited many decades.

“And the LORD visited Sarah as He had said, and the LORD did unto Sarah as He had spoken.

For Sarah conceived, and bare Abraham a son in his old age, at the set time of which God had spoken to him.

And Abraham called the name of his son that was born unto him, whom Sarah bare to him, Isaac.

And Abraham circumcised his son Isaac being eight days old, as God had commanded him.

And Abraham was an hundred years old, when his son Isaac was born unto him.

And Sarah said, God hath made me to laugh, so that all that hear will laugh with me.

And she said, Who would have said unto Abraham, that Sarah should have given children suck? for I have born him a son in his old age.” (Gen. 21:1-7).

The deep love Abraham had for his son, after so long waiting for Isaac, caused an exceptional bond of sonship, a natural love that was intensified by the long years of desire and separation. Abraham was separated from Isaac before Isaac was even born. This pre-Isaac separation was real, as over the years Abraham could envision the son of all his dreams. Such was the love of God while He withheld from Himself the Son of His bosom. But, in due time the Son came forth, Prince Michael, who was just like the King. His coming forth, which had “been from of old, from everlasting” (Mic. 5:2), was a great day of excitement and rest to the Father. All the anxious anticipation was now realized. All of His faith was made sight, “and They began to be merry.” (Luke 15:24). “And the child grew, and was weaned: and Abraham made a great feast the same day that Isaac was weaned.” (Gen. 21:8).

 

The joy that Abraham and all of his servants had when Isaac was weaned shows a shadowy picture of the unearthly joy among the angelic hosts of heaven when the Prince was publically exalted to be their King. No sin marred the heavenly hosts, and the happiness of their Father and His only Begotten caused the happiness of the angels. This is the best picture of the Godhead available to this fallen world until Michael came here personally to better reveal Himself and His Father.

Jesus did not come to reveal any other person than His beloved Father. His Father was all that He uplifted before the people.

“Jesus, the divine Master, ever exalted the name of His heavenly Father. He taught His disciples to pray, ‘Our Father who art in heaven, hallowed be Thy name.’ Matthew 6:9, A.R.V. And they were not to forget to acknowledge, ‘Thine is . . . the glory.’ Verse 13. So careful was the great Healer to direct attention from Himself to the Source of His power, that the wondering multitude, ‘when they saw the dumb to speak, the maimed to be whole, the lame to walk, and the blind to see,’ did not glorify Him, but ‘glorified the God of Israel.’ Matthew 15:31. In the wonderful prayer that Christ offered just before His crucifixion, He declared, ‘I have glorified Thee on the earth.’ ‘Glorify Thy Son,’ He pleaded, ‘that Thy Son also may glorify Thee.’ ‘O righteous Father, the world hath not known Thee: but I have known Thee, and these have known that Thou hast sent Me. And I have declared unto them Thy name, and will declare it: that the love wherewith Thou hast loved Me may be in them, and I in them.’ John 17:4, 1, 25, 26.” Prophets and Kings, p. 69.

Jesus taught us to pray to, to praise, and to worship His Father and no one else. And He did leave it open-ended for Himself to be given the same love and honor as His Father. But, none other was to receive that worship. The infinite closeness of Father and Son is Their infinite protection from unrighteousness; and our participation in Their union protects the kingdom of God as well. None else except the two, Father and Son, have the special and unique agape love.

“Maschil, A Song of loves. My heart is inditing a good matter: I speak of the things which I have made touching the King: my tongue is the pen of a ready writer.

Thou art fairer than the children of men: grace is poured into Thy lips: therefore God hath blessed Thee for ever….

Thou lovest righteousness, and hatest wickedness: therefore God, Thy God, hath anointed Thee with the oil of gladness above Thy fellows.” (Ps. 45:1,2,7).

A third God non-congenitally related to the Father and Son can only detract from the omnipotent love of the Almighty and His only Begotten, His precious Prototokos. The strong bond between Abraham and Isaac was the very basis of the everlasting covenant and, for the everlasting gospel, their tight bond points to the union between the Father and Son. Adding a third person does not improve on the power of the Father’s and Son’s love that binds together Their kingdom.

The only respectable possibility for a third person that is added to the already infinitely united Godhead would be a feminine Holy Spirit, such as a divine mother of Christ, a Mary Queen of heaven, an Ashtoreth. But, that is unacceptable to Protestantism and to the Bible, yet it has long been well received into the most ancient of pagan religions. Such a third person of the Trinity is making its way into New Age religion, and then into Christianity through the back door.

But, the only other option beside a female person Holy Spirit is a male person Holy Spirit. Satan, by a male third person within the Christian Trinity, has made our Father look like a homosexual God. The Trinity is a gross distortion of the Abraham-Isaac love within the Godhead, and a male third person distortion can never be acceptable any more than Adam and Eve could have also had a Steve with them in the garden—Adam and Eve and Steve. But, that is the Christian Trinity’s subtle advertisement to the world—a subtle gospel of homosexuality; a subtle gospel of bisexuality. The submersive doctrine of the Trinity undermines the Godhead’s original example to the second institution that the Lord God gave man on the first day of his existence—the Trinity dogma is an attack on the nuclear family that the Lord God gave us before sin entered the world. Subconsciously, the Trinity doctrine excuses homosexuality within the Church today. The Father requires of us, “Abstain from all appearance of evil” (1Thess. 5:22), yet the Trinity perverts that rule before the Father’s “family in heaven and earth” (Eph. 3:15). The Christian Trinity is worse than the pagan trinities; at least they have a female mistress deity as the Spirit, although a whore.

The true biblical Godhead includes only the Father and His Son. Their Spirit is not another God, It is not another person. The “Spirit” is the result of the Father-Son heart-to-heart powerful communion, just like the synergy that happens when a man knows his beloved wife. The love within a husband-wife marriage divinely reveals the power of creation by the Abraham-Isaac love between God the Father and His only divine Son. And love within the husband-wife marriage typifies the equally great power of redemption from the Father and Son Godhead when Their eternal Spirit of love was broken at the Son’s death, and then when They were reunited again in the Holy Place of the heavenly sanctuary after the Son’s ascension.

One God plus another god equal a trinity

“And God [Elohim] 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. And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.” (Gen. 1:26-28).

“In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. The same was in the beginning with God. All things were made by Him; and without Him was not any thing made that was made. In Him was life.” (John 1:1-4).

“[Christ] who is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of every creature: 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. 1:15,16).

“This is the book of the generations of Adam. In the day that God created man, in the likeness of God made He him; male and female created He them; and blessed them, and called their name Adam, in the day when they were created.” (Gen. 5:1,2).

“Adam”, “man, in the likeness of God”, “male and female”, “their name”.

“And to make all men see what is the fellowship of the mystery, which from the beginning of the world hath been hid in God, who created all things by Jesus Christ” (Eph. 3:9).

“Hear, O Israel: The LORD^H3068 our God^H430 is one LORD^H3068.” (Deut. 6:4).

H3068 is Jehovah.

H430 is Elohim.

“I and My Father are one.” (John 10:30).

What we see in the above verses from the Old Testament is that Elohim is one, yet really two Heads over Their creation, and we see that ultimately Elohim includes a whole heavenly host created by Them. Likewise, in the New Testament we see that Theos made all things through the Word, Jesus Christ.

“The Sovereign of the universe was not alone in His work of beneficence. He had an associate—a co-worker who could appreciate His purposes, and could share His joy in giving happiness to created beings. ‘In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. The same was in the beginning with God.’ John 1:1, 2. Christ, the Word, the only begotten of God, was one with the eternal Father—one in nature, in character, in purpose—the only being that could enter into all the counsels and purposes of God. ‘His name shall be called Wonderful, Counselor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace.’ Isaiah 9:6. His ‘goings forth have been from of old, from everlasting.’ Micah 5:2. And the Son of God declares concerning Himself: ‘The Lord possessed Me in the beginning of His way, before His works of old. I was set up from everlasting. . . . When He appointed the foundations of the earth: then I was by Him, as one brought up with Him: and I was daily His delight, rejoicing always before Him.’ Proverbs 8:22-30. 

     The Father wrought by His Son in the creation of all heavenly beings.” Patriarchs and Prophets, p. 34.

The oneness of the Godhead was a union of only two persons—the Sovereign Father, and His Son, “the Prince of princes” (Dan. 8:25). On the first day of creation week, the Spirit of God which moved upon the face of the waters was the glorious presence of God Himself, His glory, as Jesus prayed in the garden, “And now, O Father, glorify Thou Me with Thine own Self with the glory which I had with Thee before the world was.” (John 17:5). The Spirit of God was the same Spirit that filled Jesus to the full. “For He whom God hath sent speaketh the words of God: for God giveth not the Spirit by measure unto Him.” (John 3:34). The Spirit of God at creation was not another person, but was God’s presence that was also on the Mount of transfiguration.

“And as He [Jesus] prayed, the fashion of His countenance was altered, and His raiment was white and glistering.

And, behold, there talked with Him two men, which were Moses and Elias:

Who appeared in glory, and spake of His decease which He should accomplish at Jerusalem….

While he [Peter] thus spake, there came a cloud, and overshadowed them [Peter, James, and John]: and they feared as they entered into the cloud.

And there came a voice out of the cloud, saying, This is My beloved Son: hear Him.” (Luke 9:29-31,34,35).

“For He [‘our Lord Jesus Christ’] received from God the Father honour and glory, when there came such a voice to Him from the excellent glory, This is My beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased.” (2Pet. 1:17).

The cloud present at Christ’s transfiguration was visible to the disciples in the pitch black night because it was not a cloud of water vapor, but a cloud of glory. That cloud of glory was so different than what they had ever before seen that it scared them as it moved upon them. Then the voice came from it, the voice of God Himself. This cloud of glory was the presence of God, His Spirit, “the Spirit of God” that had “moved upon the face of the waters” (Gen. 1:2) and who had said, “Let there be light.”

Theos created all things through the Word Jesus Christ. They were the antitype of Adam who in God’s image was two persons—man and his wife, and ultimately a whole race of children generated by them.

In other words, there were only two divine Beings present for the creation of Earth, as there ever had been during Their other creations. “God…hath in these last days spoken unto us by His Son, whom He hath appointed Heir of all things, by whom also He made the worlds.” (Heb. 1:1,2).

“But ye are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if so be that the Spirit of God dwell in you. Now if any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of His.” (Rom. 8:9). Since this text shows the definition of “the Spirit” as the Spirit of two, both the Spirit of God and the Spirit of Christ, then the Spirit must be the power of God manifested through Christ. Therefore, the two divine Beings, Father and Son, are the sources of the same Spirit. The Spirit that They give us is the product of our acceptance of their invitation to be in Christ, who Himself is in His Father’s bosom. When we are in Christ we take part of the Spirit—Christ’s Spirit that is His Father’s Spirit. The Father and Son were the only two Persons involved in our creation, as well as the only two involved in our recreation.

“For God, who commanded the light to shine out of darkness, hath shined in our hearts, to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.” (2Cor. 4:6). “The love of God is shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost which is given unto us.” (Rom. 5:5). God, His holy Spirit, shines in our hearts as He shined forth at creation. His Spirit, Himself, the riches of His glory, the great gift from God, all the fullness of God, strengthens our inner man.

“For this cause I bow my knees unto the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ,

Of whom the whole family in heaven and earth is named,

That He would grant you, according to the riches of His glory, to be strengthened with might by His Spirit in the inner man;

That Christ may dwell in your hearts by faith; that ye, being rooted and grounded in love,

May be able to comprehend with all saints what is the breadth, and length, and depth, and height;

And to know the love of Christ, which passeth knowledge, that ye might be filled with all the fulness of God.” (Eph. 3:14-19). Where was a third person Spirit in the saints’ regeneration? Non-existent, according to Paul. The miracle of conversion was from God and His regenerating power, His Spirit.

The title of this post says that two persons make the Trinity. Who are the two persons that I mean?

What I will say next may sound convoluted, but it isn’t really confusing. I don’t mean to say that the Father and Son aren’t two, but, relationally speaking, They are one. And They explain it that way. While it is true that They are two distinct persons and personalities, and two physically separated individuals having their own individuality, They are undivided in their purposes and in their relation to the truth in the Law of God. Both are equally, infinitely, eternally true to the Law of love, the Law of righteousness. Both were involved in the high standard passed to humanity through the OT prophets of the Lord God and the NT apostles of the Lord Jesus (see John 5:19). Both made up the Testimony of Jesus (see Revelation 1:1). Jesus always could have acted and spoken from Himself, but He never did, except on one occasion—at His propitiation during Gethsemane to Golgotha—and that only because His Father thrust it on Him, not because He wanted to do it or enjoyed living separate from His Father.

The Son of God is just as much divine as God the Father. The Lord God is as much to be worshiped as Elohim, Him who is over all, “Him that liveth for ever and ever.” (Rev. 5:14). Michael, “the Messiah the Prince” (Dan. 9:25) is to be honored as much as the King (see John 5:23). And They both bear the same name, Jehovah; Jehovah and Jehovah are one. They are perfectly one in Spirit, and their oneness in creation is seen in the oneness of Adam and Eve.

“Therefore shall a man…cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.” (Gen. 2:24).

So then, if Father and Son are one in character and in heart, and thus God is one God, then who is the second person that makes up the Trinity? Here lies a big problem. Because this second “God” did not take part in creation, according to John 1:1-3 and Ephesians 3:9. All the apostles speak of the Spirit, but when they describe who of the Godhead were involved in creating the family of heaven and earth, they fail to list a third person, the Spirit.

Neither is the Spirit listed by John as an individual person in the Testimony of Jesus, according to Revelation 1:1. The chain of delegated revelation goes from God to Jesus to His angel, then to John. The Spirit is not included in this chain of authority. Therefore, the “Holy Ghost” which “moved” (2 Pet. 1:21) the prophets was not an individual person, but the power of “the most high God” (Gen. 14:18), “the power of the Highest” (Luke 1:35) through His Son, then through His Son’s delegated messengers, Gabriel to the revelator to the churches.

The erroneous third person of the church’s trinity came into being at the time of Nimrod, his wife, Semiramis, and her illegitimate son, Tammuz. This archaic trinity against the just punishment for their rebellion was passed down the eons through the spiritual center of ancient Babylon until the Persians were about to conquer Neo-Babylon in the days of Belshazzar. At that time the priests of the Babylonian spiritualistic mysteries escaped to the city of Pergamum and there re-established spiritualism’s lordship over the earth. Then in 133 BC, Attalus, the dying last priest-king of Pergamum willed his city to the developing Roman Empire with the stipulation that the ruler must continue the damning work of high priest of spiritualism, Pontifex Maximus, which, from the beginning of the Nimrod apostasy, “didst weaken the nations” (Isa. 14:13). For some years there was no one who could openly lay claim to all the dignity and powers inherent in the title of the kings of Pergamos, namely that of Sovereign Pontiff. But, eventually Julius Caesar adopted the office of Pontifex Maximus, and then all the Babylonian mysteries were officially turned over to Caesar and held by the emperors of Imperial Rome.

An article at https://fr-fr.facebook.com/notes/michael-terrence-ampem/the-antichrist-pontifex-maximus-the-papacy-and-its-origin/381876440975/ says,

 

“Julius Caesar was elected to the position of Pontifex Maximus in 63 BC. He subsequently assumed the position of supreme ruler of the Roman state. Thus he had vested in him all the powers and functions of the Babylonian Pontiff, and he was the true legitimate successor to Belshazzar. Not satisfied with this, he was declared to be Jupiter’s incarnation on 25th December 48 BC in the temple of Jupiter in Alexandria. The Encyclopaedia Britannica [81 also says about Julius Caesar: ‘There are signs that in the last six months of his life he aspired not only to a monarchy in name as well as in fact, but also to a divinity which Romans should acknowledge as well as Greeks, Orientals, and barbarians.’ Julius Caesar, by laying claim to be divine, followed the pattern of the Kings of Pergamos. The Roman Emperors that followed Julius Caesar were commonly regarded as gods.”

Later, the old mysteries that required “faith” transferred to the apostate official religion of Rome, Christianity. This new accession of the church into the empire obliged upon the church the most archaic trinity of gods Bel, Ishtar, and Tammuz, which in Rome became Jupiter (king of gods), Janus (queen of gods), and Minerva. Another version of their trinity was Jupiter, Venus, and Mercury.

Another article at http://www.livius.org/articles/concept/pontifex-maximus/ says, “In 381, the Roman emperor Gratian was the first to decline to use the title of pontifex maximus. It was accepted by the pope.” Like a snake, Satan moves slowly. Inch by inch he moves in close, readying himself to get in range. Then he strikes quickly. In 381 the Church committed the unpardonable sin. Henceforth, everything related to the official Christian Church was from Satan, and more and more pagan concepts would be openly received into Church doctrine.

When in the early 300’s Emperor Constantine had asked the Christian leaders to accept the honors of official priesthood, the church fathers were already prepared to adapt the gospel doctrines fully to paganism. They found it easy to transform the biblical “power of the Highest” into a deified person, who could join the union of Father and Son, a real spirit that moved upon the popish high priests of spiritualism. This is how the ancient Roman term “vates” or “vatic”, “prophet, seer” was adapted to “Vatican” and “the holy See”. This work of receiving the trinity from the most archaic spiritualism was easily accepted because the multitudes of Christians had lost their first love and had ceased to study their Bibles. They couldn’t understand the Bible, and so they didn’t bother striving to learn from it and be sanctified by it. The truth was not being taught from the pulpits, and the leaders were working hard to lead the sincere people away from the Bible so that they could adopt the ways of the old heathen religion of the empire. This scenario in the church during the Roman Empire was prophesied of as a little horn, a biblical “horn” figuratively representing a source of power and force in the earth.

“And out of one of them [one of the four winds] came forth a little horn, which waxed exceeding great, toward the south, and toward the east, and toward the pleasant land. And it waxed great, even to the host of heaven; and it cast down some of the host and of the stars to the ground, and stamped upon them. Yea, he magnified himself even to the Prince of the host, and by him the daily sacrifice was taken away, and the place of His sanctuary was cast down. And an host was given him against the daily sacrifice by reason of transgression, and it cast down the truth to the ground; and it practised, and prospered.“ (Dan. 8:9-12). Because the church departed from the gospel and its first love, God gave it over to the satanic little horn. The church had not repented of its lost first love, and God took away their light.

Lucifer had threatened God a long time before, “I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God: I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation, in the sides of the north: I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be like the most High.” (Isa. 14:13,14).

This is exactly what Satan had done in the pagan religions around the world, with exception to the Hebrew religion, which the Creator had given Israel. Yet, the local religions still competed for Israel’s fallen natures. Satan’s Baal and Ashtoreth spiritual puppets continually made their way into the hearts and minds of the people who Jehovah had chosen to serve Him in righteousness and spirit and truth.

The Christian Trinity has been Satan’s foot in the door of the heavenly sanctuary for him to cause confusion and raise havoc to all who worship there by faith. Thus, Satan has cast down “the sanctuary of strength” (Dan. 11:31), their stronghold. Through the Trinity doctrine, the Godhead Father and Son have had a competitor and a usurper in the third person “Holy Spirit” in the minds of His church. The parousia of this wily enemy has been as treasonous to the kingdom of God as Judas was to the Lord when He was on earth. The post-apostolic Church leaders and people hungered for the pagan elements of the wildly popular, carnal, spiritualistic religion that was all around them.

It was at the adoption of those Babylonian religions into the New Testament church that Satan insinuated himself directly into the Godhead. Ever since the church adopted the Holy Spirit person as the third member of the ancient Trinity, the little horn power found open arms into the faith and love of millions within Christendom.

Today, almost 2 millennia later, this third person trespasser of heaven is most deeply entrenched in church doctrine and in the minds of Christians. It is absolutely inconceivable to the 2 billion believers and even to the agnostics in the Christian religion today to deny the third person false deity that has substituted itself for the presence of Christ in the hearts of His followers.

 

“For where two or three are gathered together in my name, there am I in the midst of them.” (Matt. 18:20). Most of Christendom cannot read this without adding the third person deity into the verse. If it is missing in any verse, they feel that they must assume it. That is, they say that Jesus, through the Holy Spirit, is in the midst of two or three gathered in His name. They simply cannot grasp the Spirit to be the presence and redemptive power of the Father through His Son. The Spirit as only mind and the power of God unto salvation is an impregnable, wrong paradigm.

If Paul thanked God through Jesus for delivering him from his wretched nature, the multitudes cannot accept the word of Paul that the Father and Son simply were all who were involved in his deliverance. “O wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me from the body of this death? I thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord.” (Rom. 7:24,25). Paul, an expert on the Spirit, makes no mention of the Spirit during his Romans 7:9-24 labor toward his new birth. Even a cursory reading of Romans 7 and 8 shows that the Spirit in Romans 8, is a new gift of God to Paul’s process of salvation that began in Romans 7:9. And the only “persons” Paul worships and exalts is God the Father and His Son. The Spirit that comes after Paul’s surrender to God in Romans 7:25 is gifted, and which comes as a result of surrender and conversion. But, all the work to get Paul surrendered and converted came from “God” and “Christ Jesus our Lord”. It was Christ, speaking for His Father, who promised, “I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise His heel.” (Gen. 3:15). Jesus will put hatred of sin in our natures and will deliver us from all temptations.

“Offer unto God thanksgiving; and pay thy vows unto the most High: and call upon Me in the day of trouble: I will deliver thee, and though shalt glorify Me.” (Ps. 50:14,15).

Yet, so many will insert the third person imposter of the deeply rooted pagan trinity into the process which Paul experienced, rather than being willing to question established traditions from an apostate Church, and reading Paul’s experience enough times for prejudices to fall off their eyes. Certainly it is a scary venture to step out of the crowd and be hit by all their rotten tomatoes. Ostracism from church society and friends is a strong disciplinary measure. Being forced into silence during group Bible study because everything that a non-Trinitarian says is suspect and considered subversive is a difficult trial. Accusations of heresy and the unpardonable sin plague the conscience and can create real fears. Peer pressure, bombardment by proof texts from highly reputed and godly elders, pastors, and Bible students, walking alone with the Lord as He walked alone, bring much sorrow to honest hearts yearning for fellowship. Since the very beginning of the fall of man, the people of God have had to deal with rejection. Jesus was a man of sorrows and acquainted with grief.

“Lo, the people shall dwell alone, and shall not be reckoned among the nations.” (Num. 23:9).

“They were stoned, they were sawn asunder, were tempted, were slain with the sword: they wandered about in sheepskins and goatskins; being destitute, afflicted, tormented; (of whom the world was not worthy:) they wandered in deserts, and in mountains, and in dens and caves of the earth.” (Heb. 11:37,38).

But, the Lord has promised, “God setteth the solitary in families.” (Ps. 68:6).

“We are troubled on every side, yet not distressed; we are perplexed, but not in despair; persecuted, but not forsaken; cast down, but not destroyed.” (2Cor. 4:8,9).

All who have been anointed with the true Spirit of God, that is, God’s Spirit, will bear up under the sorrows of jeopardized friendships and alienated beloved brethren. For all who have been anointed, the truth and the presence of Jesus will count for more than all else besides. Will we love God, the Spirit of truth, with all our heart, mind, and strength?