The Son Becomes God – Chapter 8, Part 2

​This week we’ll continue our review of chapter 8 in Isaiah Decoded – The God of Israel, King of Zion. Last week we introduced the process of transformation on how the Son becomes a new creation of the Father, the Most High God. This process included the Son becoming God, Administering the Father’s Plan to Exalt Humanity, and the Son becoming an Eternal Father. This week we’ll consider how the Son becomes God.

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Review
Last week we saw that the Son became like His father by becoming God, Administering the Father’s Plan to Exalt Humanity, and becoming an Eternal Father.

​The Son Becomes a New Creation of the Father

Seraphim/Angel

Obtains the Status of God >

Administers the Father’s plan to exalt Humanity >

​Becomes an Eternal Father >

​A Most High God – The Father

The Son Becomes God
We also saw last week that the Son became a god by becoming the Father’s firstborn son. When we look at the Son becoming a god, three aspects emerge – the Son becomes one with the Father, the Son does what the Father does, and obtains the power of the Father.

Seraphim/Angel	Obtains the Status of God >	Administers the Father’s plan to exalt Humanity >	​Becomes an Eternal Father >	​A Most High God – The Father
​Enters into conditional and temporary covenant to be a Most High God	​Has One Mind and Heart with the Father   Does what the Father Does   Obtains the Father’s Power

The Son has One Mind and One Heart with the Father
In chapter 7, we read that Seraphim/Angels became one with the Father by receiving knowledge that spans heaven/eternity and earth, which made them powerful teachers of God’s Word. The Son also has this knowledge but His oneness goes beyond this to include being of one mind and one heart with the Father. We see this concept in the scriptures of being of one mind and one heart.
 
“The community of believers was of one heart and mind, and no one claimed that any of his possessions was his own, but they had everything in common.” – Acts 4:32
 
“Fulfil ye my joy, that ye be likeminded, having the same love, being of one accord, of one mind.” – Phil 2:2
 
“Finally, all of you, be of one mind, sympathetic, loving toward one another, compassionate, humble.” – 1 Peter 3:8
 
“For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, saith the Lord; I will put my laws into their mind, and write them in their hearts: and I will be to them a God, and they shall be to me a people:” - Hebrews 8:10
 
“I and my Father are one.” – John 10:30
 
“That they all may be one; as thou, Father, art in me, and I in thee, that they also may be one in us: that the world may believe that thou hast sent me.” – John 17:21
 
Dr. Gileadi –
 
“Finally, Jesus’ eloquent prayer for his disciples, that they would be “one” with him as he was “one” with the Father, affirms the idea of oneness as unity rather than singleness (see Figure 116). (John 17:6–23.)” “The oneness Jesus taught is grounded in the love of God, apart from whom no unity exists. The whole purpose of Jesus’ last great discourse is that his disciples might be “in” him as he is “in” the Father. (John 14:6–16:33.) The oneness of God, and oneness with God, thus embodies the very plurality that the term “God” contains” – P. 277, 278
 
“The setting in which Moses declares God’s oneness to Israel is not at Sinai, where God gave the law, but just before Israel enters the Promised Land. (Deuteronomy 4–7.) Moses warns against the gods of the nations whose lands Israel will inherit and the gods of the nations nearby: “Fear Jehovah your God, serve him, and take oaths in his name. Don’t go after other gods, the gods of the people around you.” (Deuteronomy 6:13–14.) Using this “teaching moment,” Moses commands Israel to “love Jehovah your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might.” (Deuteronomy 6:5.) By so doing, God’s people will be one with God as he is one, and also one with each other.” – P. 278

But with the Father and the Son, this oneness of mind and heart is founded in the Father's plan to save and exalt humanity. 

But with the Father and the Son, this oneness of mind and heart

​ is founded in the Father’s plan to save and exalt humanity.

​The Son Does what the Father Does
The logical result of the mind and heart is action. We see in the Son that becoming like the Father is that Son does what the Father does.
 
“Then answered Jesus and said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, The Son can do nothing of himself, but what he seeth the Father do: for what things soever he doeth, these also doeth the Son likewise. For the Father loveth the Son, and sheweth him all things that himself doeth: and he will shew him greater works than these, that ye may marvel.”  - John 5:19, 20
 
“As the Father knoweth me, even so know I the Father: and I lay down my life for the sheep.” – John 10:15
 
Dr. Gileadi -
 
“God doesn’t do the kinds of things we do just to make himself more accessible to us. Rather, we grow into his image and likeness by doing the kinds of things he does.” “Our highest role model for “loyalty” to God and “compliance” with his will is the Son’s loyalty to the Most High God and compliance with his will in redeeming humanity from evil.” – P. 289
 
“As we pass through “ruin” and “rebirth,” “suffering” and “salvation,” and so forth when we ascend, God continues to deliver us through trials and tribulations. But more is required of us than before. We begin to resemble Israel’s God—Jesus Christ—in our descent and ascent phases, the higher we ascend. On his own path to “exaltation,” Jesus said he did nothing but what he had seen the Father do. (John 5:19.)” – P. 303
 
 
The Son Receives the Father’s Power
Our last aspect of the Son becoming God, is that the Son obtains the Father’s power to exalt humanity. This power not only includes the miracles that we saw with God’s Seraphim/Angles but now includes the power to create the physical universe, was Adam’s physical father – Gen. 2, administer the Father’s plan to exalt humanity, and abolish death.
 
“In the beginning was the Word [the Son], and the Word was with God [the Father], and the Word was God. The same [the Son] was in the beginning with God [the Father]. All things [physical] were made by him [the Son]; and without him [the Son] was not any thing [physical] made that was made." - John 1:1-3
 
“Then the eleven disciples went away into Galilee, into a mountain where Jesus had appointed them. And when they saw him, they worshipped him: but some doubted. And Jesus came and spake unto them, saying, All power is given unto me in heaven and in earth. Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost: Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you: and, lo, I am with you alway, even unto the end of the world. Amen.” - Matt 28:16-20

“But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name:” - John 1:12
  
“These words spake Jesus, and lifted up his eyes to heaven, and said, Father, the hour is come; glorify thy Son, that thy Son also may glorify thee: As thou hast given him power over all flesh, that he should give eternal life to as many as thou hast given him.” - John 17:1, 2
 
Dr. Gileadi –
 
“[Yehovah’s] “foreordination” before the earth was created—to fulfill the role of suffering Savior—implies that God’s plan for the “salvation” and “exaltation” of his children was conceived far in advance. As [Yehovah] was to reverse the consequences of Adam’s and Eve’s transgression, we can know that the Fall was an integral part of God’s design (see Figure 114).” – P. 272
 
“In effect, a key to understanding God’s creation, and the whole of life—the nature of God, and our relationship to him--is God’s re-creation of us as we ascend to heaven. It explains how Adam and Eve came into being, why they could be called our first parents, and why there was a Fall. It accounts for the existence of lower life forms and how these increase in intelligence as they live out their lives.” – P.273
 
“Persons on the seraph level may do miracles such as raising the dead, but they cannot abolish death, which was a consequence of Adam’s and Eve’s transgression. Only God can do that.” – P. 286