Page 4 - THE REVELATION OF THE THIRD HEAVEN and THE MEAT OF THE WORD

with, the Word (2 Thes 3:1, 14) as defined in the Word (2 Tim 3:16, Rev 22:18-
19).

The Word is God (John 1:1, 12:48, 1 Pet 1:23) and is therefore alive (1 Pet 1:23),
Christ is the one Word (John 1:14, 12:48), and therefore shares all the attributes of
God one of which is that His Mind can not be known (Romans 11:33-36, 1 Cor
13:9) except to the extent that the Holy Ghost reveals it (1 Cor 2: 11-16). The mind
of Christ is the necessary understanding that a Christian needs in order to obey
Christ and is given by the Holy Ghost to the spirit of a Christian (1 Cor 2:16, 1
John 1:8, 3:6). The Word can never be fully understood (Job 36:26, 1 Cor 2:11).
Since its message is Salvation (John 1:4), and this is a mystery (Eph 5:32, Col 4:3,
1 Tim 3:9), it too is a Mystery (Isaiah 40:28). Nonetheless Christians should have
a sufficiently detailed and coherent understanding of the Word, which provides the
necessary understanding (1 Cor 2:14-16, 2 Pet 1:20), such that they know the right
doctrine on all major issues (Jer 31:33-4, 1 Cor 2:14-15, 2 Cor 13:11, Heb 8:10-
13). The Word, as God, judges all those who refuse Christ (John 12:48). The
Word is active and interactive with its reader or hearer, analysing the reader along
the way (Heb 4:12).

The Word is a Person (Rev 19:11-13). The Person concerned is Christ, God the
Son (John 1:14, Rev 19:16), for the Word is infused with the blood of the Lamb
(Rev 19:13). This is what is meant by the Word being with God and being God
(John 1:1). That is God the Son, Christ, the Word, was with God as the three
Persons of the Trinity are One and yet with each other, which is a mystery (Gen
1:26, 11:7, the word 'us'). It is God the Son, Christ, that is the Word and as the
Word was made flesh (John 1:14). As a person the Word is a living being (1 Pet
1:23).

Whilst the Word is a Person, it is not a separate, distinct Person unlike the Father,
Son and Holy Ghost which are three Persons in One. This is shown by the Word
not being named, although it is its own name (Rev 19:13), in Matthew 28:19
conjoined with the statement that the Father, the Word and the Holy Ghost are
three and yet one (1 John 5:7). The personal identity of the Word is as Christ (John
1:1, 14). The Word became human flesh to dwell among us and be tempted like us,
the Word-in-the-flesh (John 1:14, Heb 4:15), with the Incarnation (John 1:14), but
Christ has always been human, with flesh (Psalms 22:16-17 - which describes the
future agony on the cross, whilst Phil 3:21 and1 Timothy 2:5 make the point that
Christ’s flesh body is eternal and sinless), and Christ will always be human as well
as God (Mal 3:6, 1 Cor 15:45, 47, Phil 3:21, 1 Tim 2:5, Heb 7:24) and in flesh
(Mal 3:6, John 1:14, 1 Tim 3:16).