HOW DOES GOD REVEAL HIMSELF?
Joh 4:24 God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth.
Joh 1:18 No man hath seen God at any time; the only begotten Son, which is in the bosom of the Father, he hath declared him.
1Ti 6:16 Who only hath immortality, dwelling in the light which no man can approach unto; whom no man hath seen, nor can see: to whom be honour and power everlasting. Amen.
Col 1:15 Who is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of every creature:
Based upon the scriptures above, it is fairly easy to conclude that God, being a Spirit, can NOT be seen. Spirits are invisible. Not only is he a Spirit, but he is an ETERNAL Spirit, meaning he has exists outside of time and space. Time and space are his creation, thus he exists outside of his creation.
This will get real deep so please pay attention and pray that if what I am saying is the truth, that the Lord would reveal himself to you in a great way!
Before anything ever was, God was all alone. You could say that he was not yet "God" since the word means an object of worship, and there was nothing to worship him. But for all of eternity it was IN HIM to be God thus, technically, eternally he IS God. Understand?
Anyways, God had no way to express who he was. How could he be known as a creator if 1) there was no one by whom to be “known”, 2) He had not yet created anything?
We all know how he created, and that was through his WORD. Now hear me: God existed forever alone with only his THOUGHTS. Being eternal, he always knows the beginning from the end. Everything you and I would ever say or do, he already knows. Because he knows that his thoughts are true, then before he even created us, we were just as real to him.
So in His “mind” his thoughts “were” (were is past tense, which doesn’t make sense when speaking of an eternal being, but it is easier to understand instead of me saying his thoughts “are” when I am referring to before this point of time J) always with him. All of creation was (is) REAL inside his thoughts. In order for His thoughts to be expressed, he had to SPEAK them.
I may be repeating some things and I apologize but this is really hard to do over text because I cannot tell what is and is not being comprehended.
God the Father always was (is). When he SPOKE, he expressed what was INSIDE. It was ((is) You get the point now? Okay I’m done) who he WAS. But it was never expressed until he SPOKE! When he spoke, his THOUGHTS were expressed AS his WORD!
THAT!!! Is the relationship between the Father and the Son!! God the Father simply is God. The Son of God is God expressed! This shows why Jesus cannot be coequal and coeternal. There is no such thing as an eternal word! EVERY word has to start out as a THOUGHT! And there is NO way we can know what the thought is unless it is SPOKEN! That is why Jesus said “no man can come to the Father, but by me!” He was the WORD expressed, IN FLESH! We cannot know the Father (God’s eternal thoughts, his being) unless we receive his Son (the word, expressing the thought). Also, there can be no such thing as “eternal sonship.” To be a son you have to have been begotten! To be a Father you have to have begotten something! God does not use these words to describe Himself by accident, Brothers and Sister!
You can see somebody for 8 hours a day, 5 days a week, 52 weeks a year, etc and never KNOW who they ARE unless they SPEAK to you! You can guess! “Oh that man is big and strong looking, I bet he is a real tough guy”, then he talks to you, (expressing who he is) and you find out that he is a big teddy bear! Lol.
This is the same with God. If we claim to know who He is, but reject his Son (his Word) we are fooled! It is impossible.