We are looking into our victory over the worlds religious system as a pseudo-system that speaks of delay and future events only and knows not the GOD of our origin. Nor the secret of the cross and all that happened there at that time in human history. This proved by the events that took place forty days later, in accord to biblical Jewish prophetic prophecy as a future event of promise.
1John 5:5-12 "Who is he that overcometh the world, but he that believeth that Jesus is the Son of God? This is he that came by water and blood, even Jesus Christ; not by water only, but by water and blood. And it is the Spirit that beareth witness, because the Spirit is truth. For there are three that bear record in heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost: and these three are one. And there are three that bear witness in earth, the Spirit, and the water, and the blood: and these three agree in one. If we receive the witness of men, the witness of God is greater: for this is the witness of God which he hath testified of his Son. He that believeth on the Son of God hath the witness in himself: he that believeth not God hath made him a liar; because he believeth not the record that God gave of his Son. And this is the record, that God hath given to us eternal life, and this life is in his Son. He that hath the Son hath life; and he that hath not the Son of God hath not life." (KJV)
1John 5:5-12 "Who is it that overcomes the world except the one who believes that Jesus is the Son of God? This is he who came by water and blood—Jesus Christ; not by the water only but by the water and the blood. And the Spirit is the one who testifies, because the Spirit is the truth. For there are three that testify: the Spirit and the water and the blood; and these three agree. If we receive the testimony of men, the testimony of God is greater, for this is the testimony of God that he has borne concerning his Son. Whoever believes in the Son of God has the testimony in himself. Whoever does not believe God has made him a liar, because he has not believed in the testimony that God has borne concerning his Son. And this is the testimony, that God gave us eternal life, and this life is in his Son. Whoever has the Son has life; whoever does not have the Son of God does not have life." (ESV)
1John 5:5-12"This is the ultimate victory: the certainty that the human Jesus is the divine Son of GOD; (and the resurrected ascended through the door of eternity now open: that he is indeed the incarnate Christ-and the central theme of both the Word that was before time was as well as the key to understanding all of Scripture. He is the Savior of the world. Look at Luke 24:27 and John 1:1-3, 5:39-40, and Revelation 3:8) This is he who was to come; he arrived in our flesh via his mother's womb - [1]by water and blood - Jesus Christ. And in his ministry as the Christ, he was not only borne witness to by John the Baptist [2]in the prophetic baptism of water, but he went all the way into his baptism of death, [2]in his shed blood, where he died humanity's death. and it is the Spirit that bears witness according to her own being, which is truth! (Note the change of the preposition [1, G1223] διά by, used in the sense of accompaniment, also of instrumentality, i.e., by, through, by means of, for [2, G1722] ἐν in, clearly pointing to his baptism in water and then in his shed blood! No wonder John writes, "He was not only revealed in water; But also in blood!" If humanity's eternal life salvation could be secured only in the incarnation of the Christ and his 3 years of ministry, then his death and resurrection would be irrelevant.
Look at John's reference to Jesus' moment of realizing that the hour has come for the son of man to be glorified in the single grain of wheat, falling into the ground, not to abide alone, but to bear much fruit, in John 12:24. Then he says, in John 12:27, "Now is my soul troubled. And what shall I say? 'Father, save me from this hour?' No, for this purpose I have come to this hour!'"
Also John 1:32-34, And John the Baptist bore witness, "I saw the Spirit descend as a dove from heaven, and it remained on him. I myself did not know him; But he who sent me to baptize in water said to me, 'He on whom you see the Spirit descend and remain, this is he who baptizes in the Holy Spirit.' And I have seen and have borne witness that this is the Son of GOD." ) There are three witnesses, the Spirit and the water and the blood; And these three [1]agree as one! (καί [1]εἰσί τρεῖς, τρία μαρτυρέω ἐν; the word, [1, G1526] eis, translated into, indicates the point reached; the one does not distract from the other.
The only Greek manuscripts in any form which support the word, "in heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Spirit, and these three are one; and there are three that bear witness in earth," are the Montfortianus of Dublin, copied evidently from the modern Latin Vulgate; the Ravianus, copied from the Complutensian Polyglot; A manuscript at Naples, with the words added in the Margin by a recent hand; Ottobonianus, 298, of the fifteenth century, the Greek of which is a mere translation of the accompanying Latin. All the old versions omit the words.) Now if it is reasonable for us to be readily persuaded by the evidence that people may lay out before us, how much more certainty is there in the evidence that GOD has so compellingly borne witness to concerning his Son! (To go back to the very beginning is to find the Word already present there; Face to face with GOD; This Word, and Holy Spirit, and these three are One (Eloyim or Elohim, being plural in makeup); This Word, translated into the prophetic promise in Scripture and pointing to the messiah Redeemer for centuries, the Logos, finally became our flesh and forever divided human history into a BC and AD. The heavens declare his glory, night to night exhibits the giant solar testimony that is mathematically precise, revealing that GOD knew before time was the exact moment he would enter our history as a man, and the exact moment the Jewish Messiah would expire on the cross and be raised again from the dead! No one has ever known GOD as Father; Jesus, the humble brother of the human race, he has revealed him in the most articulate language as our Father. "'If you have seen me, you have seen Father!'" John 14:9. "'In that day, you will know that as I am in my Father, so you are in me, and I am in you!'" John 14:20. The Holy Spirit now endorses in us what happened to us when Jesus died and was raised, and now echoes from within our spirit, "Abba Father!") Whoever shares in the same persuasion concerning the Son of GOD, has GOD'S testimony confirmed within themselves; He who rejects what GOD believes concerning Jesus sets himself up against this testimony of GOD and makes GOD out to be a liar. The evidence is clear, GOD has [1]given us back the eternal life that we had lost, the life of the ages, which is the life of our design; This is the same life on exhibit and mirrored in his Son. (The word, [1, G1325] didomi can also mean to return something that already belongs to the person.) To [1]mirror-echo the Son is to mirror-echo life; Those who ignore this [1]inner resonance concerning the Son, miss out on the very life of their design! (The word, [1, G2192, here translated hath or has] echo, means to hold, like sound is held in an echo; To resonate.) (The Mirror, with editing.)
Now may our LORD GOD increase our understanding of His presence within US all.
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