Sees God the Son

​Thoughts on Davidic Kingship.

This week we start a new section on Seeing God the Son - Jehovah/Yeshua - under the heading of Married Exaltation. And when we talk of Seeing God, we are referring to Seeing God the Son in mortality and not God the Father. Of all the topics we have reviewed so far, this is the most important. The reason this topic is so important is because Seeing God stands as a witness of a tangible relationship with God for those who have received the knowledge to know God in a personal and intimate way. This is why the scriptures are critical, because writers of the scriptures are sharing their testimonies that they have seen God and then by following their lives and reading their words we can develop a knowledge about how we can see God for ourselves.  In this review, we'll consider a reliable method to start our study to come to know God, then we’ll introduce three key topics under seeing God that will finish out our review of Married Exaltation.

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The Process of Perfection
Our Process of Perfection looks like this:

                                                                     Individual Salvation
                                                                             Born Again
​            ​                                           (Redemption / Sanctification)
     Born of the Blood / Born of the Water > Keeps the Commandments > Born of God/Spirit

                                                                       Married Exaltation
                                                                    Going Onto Perfection
                       Becoming Perfect > Reaches the Full Stature of Messiah > Sees God the Son

Isaiah, A Prophet for Our Day
When we look at the scriptures, is there any one Biblical writer who has seen God and for whom God has seemingly designated for our day?  Dr. Gileadi makes this assertion,

"What sets the Book of Isaiah apart from all other prophetic writings is its all-inclusiveness in depicting an end-time scenario. Even more comprehensive in portraying the end of the world than apocalyptic writings such as Daniel and Revelation, it spells out a great confluence of events humanity is about to experience. Using Israel’s ancient history as a foreshadowing of the end of the world, it predicts the future by drawing on events of the past. Only a prophet–poet with extraordinary literary skills could have predicted “the end” based on ancient beginnings (Isaiah 46:10). Only a visionary who saw both time periods could have crafted this prophetic masterpiece."

"While the Book of Isaiah’s apocalyptic message accords with Jewish tradition, and while its literary features reveal its twofold relevance—to Isaiah’s day and to the end-time—it still requires uncommon faith to believe that it is a handbook for our day. For one thing, it may mean discarding much or all of what we thought we knew before. Isaiah foresees just such confusion when he speaks of the deaf “hearing” and the blind “seeing” the words of his book. Only then—in a day when barely a few “disciples” would know its true message (Isaiah 8:16)—would “those who erred in spirit gain understanding and those who murmured accept instruction” (Isaiah 29:18, 24)." (The Book of Isaiah—A Blueprint of Our Time, http://www.isaiahexplained.com/resources/overviews-of-the-prophecy-of-isaiah)

So it seems reasonable that God has designated Isaiah for our day - those who will see the Endtime events unfold.  Additionally, Isaiah has also seen God (Isaiah 6:1). But equally important, Isaiah set out a pathway to God so that we can successfully navigate Endtime events and meet the Lord.​  Speaking to this pathway to God, Dr. Gileadi comments,

"People depicted in the Book of Isaiah are more than characters who feature incidentally in ancient and end-time events. They additionally typify spiritual categories discernible by how they relate to Israel’s God. Each informs us who we are from his perspective—what defines us." (Isaiah's Seven Spiritual Levels of Humanity, http://www.isaiahexplained.com/resources/isaiahs-seven-spiritual-levels-of-humanity)

In the year of King Uzziah’s death, I saw my Lord seated on a throne, highly exalted, the skirt of his robe filling the sanctuary.  Isaiah 6:1

Seeing God the Son
One of the geniuses about Isaiah is that Isaiah doesn't withhold a pathway to God. He lays it out before us in his writings, but Isaiah does it in such a way that humans can't corrupt it.   Because Isaiah sets out his writings in such a perplexing and puzzling way, the Book of Isaiah has come down to us in a faithful version of his original text.  The challenge for us is to see how Isaiah categorizes the various types of people in the scriptures and how they achieved that level of righteousness or wickedness of which Dr. Gileadi has provided a functional framework in his book Isaiah Decoded.

When we get to the Son/Daugher/Elect category, the last section of becoming God's Elect includes passing a test of loyalty and receiving that sure knowledge that our election has been made certain.  And that sure knowledge is reached by standing in the presence of God the Son Himself even Jehovah-Yeshua.  In this last section of becoming God's Elect, we will consider three topics - A Baptism of Fire, having one's Calling and Election made Sure and Knowing God.


A Baptism of Fire
Like the Baptism of Fire when we considered being Born Again, the Baptism of Fire is test of loyalty, but this time the test is more demanding.

Calling and Election made Sure
Whenever we enter into a covenant with God, it is first a temporary and conditional arrangement until we have proven our loyalty.  Once we have passed the Baptism of Fire here - a test of loyalty, our covenant with God becomes permanent and unconditional.

Knowing God
The crowning event of becoming God's Elect is receiving the assurance and the presence of God Himself - the Apostle John refers to Yeshua as another comforter - John 14:18.​