In bodily form
In a mysterious way, Jesus shared like parted bread, his life and experiences to his apostles and disciples, even to those who had witnessed his works; and nowadays with the manifestation of the Holy Spirit through experiences of its presence in the congregation that we may gain enlightenment by the message we get from the scriptures that would benefit the body of Christ which is the church.
It is the great gift of God that we are seen working together for the improvement of our knowledge about the scriptures and the manifestation of the gifts of the Spirit, as we are drawn in this end times. It is also a must that we should unveil the truth about the mystery of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ through insights in illumined rays that we may be clarified of the things that puzzles us.
Despite of the misfortunes coming our way, our understanding must be opened that God is not the source of all the evil that we face now because God is the lover of justice. It is with these key words that we are formed according to his image and likeness, not only with the application of the presence of the Spirit, but by the legacy of the good placed in every human heart.
Though Jesus was called the Son of the Most High (Luke 1:32), he is merged with the Father that you can hardly differentiate one from the other. Bible scholars for example have two interpretations on who is the almighty in Revelation 1:8 written as follows: “I am the Alpha and the Omega,” says the Lord God, “the one who is and who was and who is to come, the almighty.” One struggles that it is Jesus; the other was saying it was the Father.
Again, we struggle with the Holy Scriptures if we only use knowledge. It has to be coupled with enlightenment from the Holy Spirit. If we move before the scripture text we’ve just read, in verse seven, we read, “Behold, he is coming amid the clouds, and every eye will see him, even those who pierced him.”
Somehow in I Thessalonians 4:16, it says, “For the Lord himself, with a word of command, with the voice of the archangel and with the trumpet of God, will come down from heaven, and the dead in Christ will rise first.” If we look further in Zechariah 14:4, it is written, “That then his feet shall rest upon the Mount of Olives, which is opposite
Jerusalem to the east.”
Of course the Father cannot be seen because he is a pure act and a pure spirit, and it needs a being or a creation for him to be manifested in human form, and that being that proceeds from the act of the Father is the Christ where in him God is manifested in human form or manifested bodily or in flesh. “For in him (Jesus) dwells the whole fullness of the deity bodily (Colossians 2:9).”
Still in the deliberation on God who is the Father in heaven being a pure spirit, it says, “No one has ever seen God. The only Son, God, who is at the Father’s side, has revealed him (John 1:18).” It only clearly attests that the spirit of the Father (Isaiah 11:2), who is the Holy Ghost dwells in the heart of Jesus secluded in his bodily form making the Trinity possible with the spirit of the Father that is the Holy Ghost present as an active force in the body of Jesus, called the Son of the Most High, making him the one whom the Father rejoices of him with whom all fullness dwell (Colossians 1:19) for he is the image of the invisible God, the first born of all creation (Colossians 1:15).
Accordingly, being a God in human form, he shall say, “I am no prophet, I am the tiller of the soil, for I have owned land since my youth.” And if anyone asks him, “What are these wounds on your chest?” he shall answer, “With these I was wounded in the house of my dear ones” (Zechariah 13:5-6).
These were the same enlightenment spoken by Paul to the Ephesians how that by mystery it was made known to him by revelation, as he have written briefly earlier. When you read this you can understand his insight into the mystery of Christ (Ephesians 3:3-4). It follows; that he then wrote his letter to the Colossians explaining the mystery how Christ being the creation was possessed of the spirit of the Father who is the Holy Ghost, making him (Jesus) both man and God.
Just for the sake of sharing the experience, I remember how I was furious in Sebaste flaming with hot temper as I preached about the end of the world warning them to repent as I am possessed with a mighty spirit, wherever it comes seemingly with me as a shouting prophet with strange husky loud voice when in truth I’m just an ordinary man with the fire of God’s word coming from my mouth which completely took me away from reality. That was November or December of 1991.
In the same way, I was also reminded how I had endured writing hundreds of love letters since 1993, with free stationeries even envelopes, writing even some of the letters right in the stationeries in clear handwriting. This is also the reason why I had poor handwriting later because I never did refuse anyone before who ask of me to write a love letter even if I already endure the pain in my fingers.
-Jyotisman Nearu Upendra
