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And: "At the beginning, O Lord (O Son), you established the earth, and the heavens are the works of your hands. They will perish, but you remain; and they will all grow old like a garment. You will roll them up like a cloak, and like a garment they will be changed. But you are the same, and your years will have no end." (Heb 1:10-12, NAB, emphasis mine)
And: “At the beginning, O Lord (O Son), you established the earth, and the heavens are the works of your hands. They will perish, but you remain; and they will all grow old like a garment. You will roll them up like a cloak, and like a garment they will be changed. But you are the same, and your years will have no end.” (Heb 1:10-12, NAB, emphasis mine)
In the Old Testament people were puzzled as to who the Creator is.
Some thought it was the Father who created them:
  • Have we not all the one Father? Has not the one God created us? Why then do we break faith with each other, violating the covenant of our fathers? (Mal 2:10, New American Bible)
Note:
Jesus Christ is also referred to as the Father:
  • For a child is born to us, a son is given us; upon his shoulder dominion rests. They name him Wonder-Counselor, God-Hero, Father-Forever, Prince of Peace. (Isa 9:5, NAB)
  • What accord has Christ with Beliar? Or what has a believer in common with an unbeliever? What agreement has the temple of God with idols? For we are the temple of the living God; as God said: “I will live with them and move among them (Emmanuel, cf Mt 1:23), and I will be their God and they shall be my people. Therefore, come forth from them and be separate,” says the Lord, “and touch nothing unclean; then I will receive you and I will be a father to you, and you shall be sons and daughters to me, says the Lord Almighty (cf Rv 1:7-8).”  (2Cor 6:15-18, NAB, emphasis mine)
Some were not sure whether the Creator is the Father or His Son:
  • The words of Agur, son of Jakeh the Massaite: The pronouncement of mortal man: “I am not God; I am not God, that I should prevail. Why, I am the most stupid of men, and have not even human intelligence; Neither have I learned wisdom, nor have I the knowledge of the Holy One. Who has gone up to heaven and come down again– who has cupped the wind in his hands?  Who has bound up the waters in a cloak– who has marked out all the ends of the earth?  What is his name, what is his son’s name, if you know it?”  (Pro 30:1-4, NAB)
Note:
  1. Jesus Christ is the Holy One of God (cf Mk 1:24; Lk 4:34; Jn 6:69; Rv 16:5).
  2. It was Jesus Christ who has gone up to heaven and come down again:
  • No one has gone up to heaven except the one who has come down from heaven, the Son of Man. (Jn 3:13, NAB)
  1. It was Jesus Christ who made the heavens and the earth with His own hands:
  • And: “At the beginning, O Lord (O Son), you established the earth, and the heavens are the works of your hands. They will perish, but you remain; and they will all grow old like a garment.  You will roll them up like a cloak, and like a garment they will be changed.  But you are the same, and your years will have no end.”  (Heb 1:10-12, NAB, emphasis mine)
While some are totally in the dark as to who created them:
  • Ashes his heart is! more worthless than earth is his hope, and more ignoble than clay his life; Because he knew not the one who fashioned him, and breathed into him a quickening soul, and infused a vital spirit. (Wisdom 15:10-11, NAB)
Note:
  1. Jesus Christ is the Author of life and Source of all God’s creation:
  • The author of life you put to death, but God raised him from the dead; of this we are witnesses. (Acts 3:15, NAB)
  • “To the angel of the church in Laodicea, write this:” ‘The Amen, the faithful and true witness, the source of God’s creation, says this:’ (Rv 3:14, NAB)
  1. Jesus Christ is the life-giving Spirit:
  • So, too, it is written, “The first man, Adam, became a living being,” the last Adam a life-giving spirit. (1Cor 15:45, NAB)
  1. Jesus Christ is the breather and baptizer of the Holy Spirit:
  • The LORD God formed man out of the clay of the ground and blew into his nostrils the breath of life, and so man became a living being. (Gen 2:7, NAB)
  • And when he had said this, he breathed on them and said to them, “Receive the holy Spirit.” (Jn 20:22, NAB)
  • John was clothed in camel’s hair, with a leather belt around his waist. He fed on locusts and wild honey. And this is what he proclaimed: “One mightier than I is coming after me. I am not worthy to stoop and loosen the thongs of his sandals.  I have baptized you with water; he will baptize you with the Holy Spirit.”  (Mk 1:6-8, NAB)
 In the New Testament the Creator was revealed in three ways: the Creator was God the Father through Jesus Christ; Jesus Christ was the Creator Himself; and, God the Father and Jesus Christ are the one Creator because they are one Lord God Almighty.
The Creator was God the Father through Jesus Christ:
  1. All things were made and came into existence through the Son also known as the Word (Christ):
  • In the beginning [before all time] was the Word (Christ), and the Word was with God, and the Word was God Himself. He was present originally with God. All things were made and came into existence through Him; and without Him was not even one thing made that has come into being.  (Jn 1:1-3, Amplified Bible)
  1. The world was made through Jesus Christ:
  • He came into the world, and though the world was made through Him, the world did not recognize Him [did not know Him]. (Jn 1:10, AMP)
  1. All things in heaven and on earth were created in Jesus Christ:
  • He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation. For in him were created all things in heaven and on earth, the visible and the invisible, whether thrones or dominions or principalities or powers; all things were created through him and for him. He is before all things, and in him all things hold together.  (Col 1:15-17, NAB)
  1. God the Father created the universe through Jesus Christ:
  • In times past, God spoke in partial and various ways to our ancestors through the prophets; in these last days, he spoke to us through a son, whom he made heir of all things and through whom he created the universe, (Heb 1:1-2, NAB)
  1. All things are through Jesus Christ:
  • Yet for us there is one God, the Father, from whom all things are and for whom we exist, and one Lord, Jesus Christ, through whom all things are and through whom we exist. (1Cor 8:6, NAB)
  1. God created all things which he accomplished in Jesus Christ:
  • To me, the very least of all the holy ones, this grace was given, to preach to the Gentiles the inscrutable riches of Christ, and to bring to light (for all) what is the plan of the mystery hidden from ages past in God who created all things, so that the manifold wisdom of God might now be made known through the church to the principalities and authorities in the heavens. This was according to the eternal purpose that he accomplished in Christ Jesus our Lord, in whom we have boldness of speech and confidence of access through faith in him. (Eph 3:8-12, NAB)
 Jesus Christ was the Creator Himself:
  1. God the Father said Jesus Christ established the earth, and the heavens are the works of His hands:
  • But of the Son: “Your throne, O God (Son), stands forever and ever; and a righteous scepter is the scepter of your kingdom. You loved justice and hated wickedness; therefore God (Son), your God (Father), anointed you (made you Christ) with the oil of gladness above your companions”; and: “At the beginning, O Lord (Son), you established the earth, and the heavens are the works of your hands. They will perish, but you remain; and they will all grow old like a garment.  You will roll them up like a cloak, and like a garment they will be changed.  But you are the same, and your years will have no end.”  (Heb 1:8-12, NAB, emphasis mine)
  1. Jesus Christ is the Author of life:
  • The author of life you put to death, but God raised him from the dead; of this we are witnesses.  (Acts 3:15, NAB)
  1. Jesus Christ is the source of God’s creation:
  • “To the angel of the church in Laodicea, write this:” ‘The Amen, the faithful and true witness, the source of God’s creation, says this:’ (Rv 3:14, NAB)
  1. Being the Author of life (cf Acts 3:15) Jesus Christ is also the Creator of life:
  • He said in reply, “Have you not read that from the beginning the Creator ‘made them male and female’ (Mt 19:4, NAB)
Just to cite a few of the numerous proofs that Jesus Christ is the Creator of life:
  • In the beginning [before all time] was the Word (Christ), and the Word was with God, and the Word was God Himself. He was present originally with God. All things were made and came into existence through Him; and without Him was not even one thing made that has come into being.  In Him was Life, and the Life was the Light of men.  (Jn 1:1-4, AMP)
  • He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation. For in him were created all things in heaven and on earth, the visible and the invisible, whether thrones or dominions or principalities or powers; all things were created through him and for him. (Col 1:15-16, NAB)
God the Father and Jesus Christ are the one Creator because they are one Lord God Almighty:
God the Father and Jesus Christ are one Creator because Jesus said they are one:
  • “The Father and I are one.” (Jn 10:30, NAB)
This truth of God was inconspicuously written in The Book of Revelation.
In Revelation chapter 4, the spirit of John was caught up into heaven where he heard the trumpet-like voice of Jesus Christ (cf Rv 1:10, 4:1), and John saw only one central throne and a singular sitter, in front of which are the seven spirits of God.
Who was seated in the central throne with the seven spirits?
According to John, He is the Lord God Almighty who was pierced and who is to come:
  • John, to the seven churches in Asia: grace to you and peace from him who is and who was and who is to come, and from the seven spirits before his throne, and from Jesus Christ, the faithful witness, the firstborn of the dead and ruler of the kings of the earth. To him who loves us and has freed us from our sins by his blood, who has made us into a kingdom, priests for his God and Father, to him be glory and power forever (and ever). Amen. Behold, he is coming amid the clouds, and every eye will see him, even those who pierced him. All the peoples of the earth will lament him.  Yes. Amen.  “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.”  (Rv 1:4-8, NAB)
Who is the Lord God Almighty who was pierced and who is to come?
The Lord God Almighty who was pierced and who is to come is none other than Jesus Christ:
  • But when they came to Jesus and saw that he was already dead, they did not break his legs, but one soldier thrust his lance into his side, and immediately blood and water flowed out. An eyewitness has testified, and his testimony is true; he knows that he is speaking the truth, so that you also may (come to) believe. For this happened so that the scripture passage might be fulfilled: “Not a bone of it will be broken.”  And again another passage says: “They will look upon him whom they have pierced.”  (Jn 19:33-37, NAB)
  • The one who gives this testimony says, “Yes, I am coming soon.” Amen! Come, Lord Jesus! (Rv 22:20, NAB)
Who has the seven spirits of God?
It was Jesus Christ (the Lamb) who has the seven spirits of God:
  • “To the angel of the church in Sardis, write this:” ‘The one who has the seven spirits of God and the seven stars says this: “I know your works, that you have the reputation of being alive, but you are dead.” (Rv 3:1, NAB)
  • Then I saw standing in the midst of the throne and the four living creatures and the elders, a Lamb that seemed to have been slain. He had seven horns and seven eyes; these are the (seven) spirits of God sent out into the whole world. (Rv 5:6, NAB)
Is the Lamb the one seated on the central throne?
In Revelation 5, the Lamb was standing in the midst of the central throne while His Father sat on the throne:
  • He (the Lamb) came and received the scroll from the right hand of the one who sat on the throne. (Rv 5:7, NAB, emphasis mine)
However, John clarified that the singular central throne in heaven is the one and only throne of God the Father and the Lamb (His Son Jesus Christ) because they are one (cf Jn 10:30):
  • Then the angel showed me the river of life-giving water, sparkling like crystal, flowing from the throne of God and of the Lamb down the middle of its street. On either side of the river grew the tree of life that produces fruit twelve times a year, once each month; the leaves of the trees serve as medicine for the nations. Nothing accursed will be found there anymore. The throne of God and of the Lamb will be in it, and his servants will worship him. (Rv 22:1-3, NAB)
Note the singular form of “the throne of God and of the Lamb” mentioned twice for emphasis.
Thus said, the one seated on the throne is therefore God the Father and the Lamb (His Son Jesus Christ) who are one (cf Jn 10:30), and they are worshipped and praised as the makers of the heavens and the earth.
Here are some of the accounts of John who was graced with a vision of heavenly worship and activities:
  • After this I had a vision of an open door to heaven, and I heard the trumpetlike voice that had spoken to me before, saying, “Come up here and I will show you what must happen afterwards.” At once I was caught up in spirit. A throne was there in heaven, and on the throne sat one whose appearance sparkled like jasper and carnelian. Around the throne was a halo as brilliant as an emerald. Surrounding the throne I saw twenty-four other thrones on which twenty-four elders sat, dressed in white garments and with gold crowns on their heads.  From the throne came flashes of lightning, rumblings, and peals of thunder.  Seven flaming torches burned in front of the throne, which are the seven spirits of God.  In front of the throne was something that resembled a sea of glass like crystal.  In the center and around the throne, there were four living creatures covered with eyes in front and in back.  The first creature resembled a lion, the second was like a calf, the third had a face like that of a human being, and the fourth looked like an eagle in flight.  The four living creatures, each of them with six wings, were covered with eyes inside and out. Day and night they do not stop exclaiming: “Holy, holy, holy is the Lord God almighty, who was, and who is, and who is to come.”  Whenever the living creatures give glory and honor and thanks to the one who sits on the throne, who lives forever and ever, the twenty-four elders fall down before the one who sits on the throne and worship him, who lives forever and ever. They throw down their crowns before the throne, exclaiming: “Worthy are you, Lord our God, to receive glory and honor and power, for you created all things; because of your will they came to be and were created.”  (Rv 4:1-11, NAB)
  • I saw a scroll in the right hand of the one who sat on the throne. It had writing on both sides and was sealed with seven seals. Then I saw a mighty angel who proclaimed in a loud voice, “Who is worthy to open the scroll and break its seals?” But no one in heaven or on earth or under the earth was able to open the scroll or to examine it.  I shed many tears because no one was found worthy to open the scroll or to examine it.  One of the elders said to me, “Do not weep. The lion of the tribe of Judah, the root of David, has triumphed, enabling him to open the scroll with its seven seals.”  Then I saw standing in the midst of the throne and the four living creatures and the elders, a Lamb that seemed to have been slain. He had seven horns and seven eyes; these are the (seven) spirits of God sent out into the whole world.  He came and received the scroll from the right hand of the one who sat on the throne.  When he took it, the four living creatures and the twenty-four elders fell down before the Lamb. Each of the elders held a harp and gold bowls filled with incense, which are the prayers of the holy ones.  They sang a new hymn: “Worthy are you to receive the scroll and to break open its seals, for you were slain and with your blood you purchased for God those from every tribe and tongue, people and nation.  You made them a kingdom and priests for our God, and they will reign on earth.”  I looked again and heard the voices of many angels who surrounded the throne and the living creatures and the elders. They were countless in number, and they cried out in a loud voice: “Worthy is the Lamb that was slain to receive power and riches, wisdom and strength, honor and glory and blessing.”  Then I heard every creature in heaven and on earth and under the earth and in the sea, everything in the universe, cry out: “To the one who sits on the throne and to the Lamb be blessing and honor, glory and might, forever and ever.”  The four living creatures answered, “Amen,” and the elders fell down and worshiped.  (Rv 5:1-14, NAB)
  • After this I had a vision of a great multitude, which no one could count, from every nation, race, people, and tongue. They stood before the throne and before the Lamb, wearing white robes and holding palm branches in their hands. They cried out in a loud voice: “Salvation comes from our God, who is seated on the throne, and from the Lamb.” All the angels stood around the throne and around the elders and the four living creatures. They prostrated themselves before the throne, worshiped God, and exclaimed: “Amen. Blessing and glory, wisdom and thanksgiving, honor, power, and might be to our God forever and ever. Amen.”  Then one of the elders spoke up and said to me, “Who are these wearing white robes, and where did they come from?”  I said to him, “My lord, you are the one who knows.” He said to me, “These are the ones who have survived the time of great distress; they have washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the Lamb.  “For this reason they stand before God’s throne and worship him day and night in his temple.  The one who sits on the throne will shelter them.  They will not hunger or thirst anymore, nor will the sun or any heat strike them.  For the Lamb who is in the center of the throne will shepherd them and lead them to springs of life-giving water, and God will wipe away every tear from their eyes.”  (Rv 7:9-17, NAB)
  • Then I looked and there was the Lamb standing on Mount Zion, and with him a hundred and forty-four thousand who had his name and his Father’s name written on their foreheads. I heard a sound from heaven like the sound of rushing water or a loud peal of thunder. The sound I heard was like that of harpists playing their harps. They were singing (what seemed to be) a new hymn before the throne, before the four living creatures and the elders. No one could learn this hymn except the hundred and forty-four thousand who had been ransomed from the earth.  These are they who were not defiled with women; they are virgins and these are the ones who follow the Lamb wherever he goes. They have been ransomed as the firstfruits of the human race for God and the Lamb.  On their lips no deceit has been found; they are unblemished.  Then I saw another angel flying high overhead, with everlasting good news to announce to those who dwell on earth, to every nation, tribe, tongue, and people.  He said in a loud voice, “Fear God and give him glory, for his time has come to sit in judgment. Worship him who made heaven and earth and sea and springs of water.”  (Rv 14:1-7, NAB)
Who is the one God whom we should fear and give glory to, who will come to sit in judgment, and who made heaven and earth and sea and springs of water?
That one God is God the Father and His Son Jesus Christ who are one (cf Jn 10:30), having one throne and one Judgment Seat:
  • Why then do you judge your brother? Or you, why do you look down on your brother? For we shall all stand before the judgment seat of God; (Rom 14:10, NAB)
  • For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, so that each one may receive recompense, according to what he did in the body, whether good or evil. (2Cor 5:10, NAB)
Therefore, God the Father and Jesus Christ are the one Creator who made heaven and earth and everything on it because they are one Lord God Almighty who occupy the one and only central throne in heaven and who was pierced and coming soon to sit in His Judgment Seat!
How can Jesus Christ who was born only a little more than two thousand years ago in Bethlehem create the billions of years-old-world from heaven?
What was born 2,014 years ago is the Humanity of Jesus Christ which is composed of His uncreated Spirit, His divine Soul and His holy Body because all human beings are composed of spirit, soul and body in accordance with what was written:
  • May the God of peace himself make you perfectly holy and may you entirely, spirit, soul, and body, be preserved blameless for the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. (1Thes 5:23, NAB)
The Divinity of Jesus Christ, which is His uncreated Spirit, was coeternal with God the Father, who is uncreated Spirit Himself, because the uncreated Spirit of Jesus Christ came out from the uncreated Spirit of God the Father:
  • For the Father himself loveth you, because you have loved me, and have believed that I came out from God. I came forth from the Father, and am come into the world: again I leave the world, and I go to the Father. His disciples say to him: Behold, now thou speakest plainly, and speakest no proverb.  Now we know that thou knowest all things, and thou needest not that any man should ask thee. By this we believe that thou camest forth from God.  (Jn 16:27-30, DRV)
What does Jesus Christ meant by His declarations, “I came out from God” and “I came forth from the Father”?
Jesus Christ means that from all eternity before He was begotten, He was in the bosom of the Father:
  • No man has ever seen God at any time; the only unique Son, or the only begotten God, Who is in the bosom [in the intimate presence] of the Father, He has declared Him [He has revealed Him and brought Him out where He can be seen; He has interpreted Him and He has made Him known]. (Jn 1:18, AMP)
Then God the Father decided to bring out Jesus Christ from His bosom, that is, to beget Him before the world began:
  • “Yours is princely power from the day of your birth. In holy splendor before the daystar, like the dew I begot you.” (Ps 110:3, NAB)
NAB Footnote on Ps 110:3: Before the daystar: possibly an expression for before the world began (Prov 8:22).
Thus, the Divinity of Jesus Christ which is His uncreated Spirit came out from the uncreated Spirit of God the Father.  That is why Jesus Christ said, “The Father and I are one (Jn 10:30)” because they are one uncreated Spirit, one God.  Jesus Christ is uncreated Spirit from uncreated Spirit, Almighty God from Almighty God.
After centillions upon centillions of years have elapsed from that day in eternity when God the Father brought out Jesus Christ from His bosom, and after Jesus Christ created the whole world and mingled with the chosen people of God in the Old Testament, God the Father sent Jesus Christ, who is in the form of God who is uncreated Spirit, to Mary to be made of her and become a human being, that is, in the form of a servant, like the rest us humankind:
  • Now I say, as long as the heir is a child, he differeth nothing from a servant, though he be lord of all; But is under tutors and governors until the time appointed by the father: So we also, when we were children, were serving under the elements of the world. But when the fulness of the time was come, God sent his Son, made of a woman, made under the law: That he might redeem them who were under the law: that we might receive the adoption of sons. (Gal 4:1-5, DRV)
  • But Mary said to the angel, “How can this be, since I have no relations with a man?” And the angel said to her in reply, “The Holy Spirit will come upon you, and the power of the Most High will overshadow you. Therefore the child to be born will be called holy, the Son of God. And behold, Elizabeth, your relative, has also conceived a son in her old age, and this is the sixth month for her who was called barren; for nothing will be impossible for God.”  Mary said, “Behold, I am the handmaid of the Lord. May it be done to me according to your word.” Then the angel departed from her.  (Lk 1:34-38, NAB)
  • But we do see Jesus “crowned with glory and honor” because he suffered death, he who “for a little while” was made “lower than the angels,” that by the grace of God he might taste death for everyone. For it was fitting that he, for whom and through whom all things exist, in bringing many children to glory, should make the leader to their salvation perfect through suffering. (Heb 2:9-10, NAB)
  • Now since the children share in blood and flesh, he likewise shared in them (Jesus partakes of the blood and flesh of Mary who made Him into a human being in her womb), that through death he might destroy the one who has the power of death, that is, the devil, and free those who through fear of death had been subject to slavery all their life. (Heb 2:14-15, NAB, emphasis mine)
  • Have among yourselves the same attitude that is also yours in Christ Jesus, Who, though he was in the form of God, did not regard equality with God something to be grasped. Rather, he emptied himself, taking the form of a slave, coming in human likeness; and found human in appearance, he humbled himself, becoming obedient to death, even death on a cross. (Phil 2:5-8, NAB)
Before Jesus Christ was arrested and eventually crucified, He reminisced when He was with God the Father in heaven before He was sent to create the world and everything on it:
  • When Jesus had said this, he raised his eyes to heaven and said, “Father, the hour has come. Give glory to your son, so that your son may glorify you, just as you gave him authority over all people, so that he may give eternal life to all you gave him. Now this is eternal life, that they should know you, the only true God, and the one whom you sent, Jesus Christ. I glorified you on earth by accomplishing the work that you gave me to do.  Now glorify me, Father, with you, with the glory that I had with you before the world began.  (Jn 17:1-5, NAB)
Therefore, it was the eternal uncreated Spirit of Jesus Christ who was God who created all things that were made:
  • In the beginning [before all time] was the Word (Christ), and the Word was with God, and the Word was God Himself. He was present originally with God. All things were made and came into existence through Him; and without Him was not even one thing made that has come into being.  (Jn 1:1-3, AMP)
  • Giving thanks to the Father, who has made you fit to share in the inheritance of the holy ones in light. He delivered us from the power of darkness and transferred us to the kingdom of his beloved Son, in whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins. He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation.  For in him were created all things in heaven and on earth, the visible and the invisible, whether thrones or dominions or principalities or powers; all things were created through him and for him.  He is before all things, and in him all things hold together.  (Col 1:12-17, NAB)
  • But of the Son: “Your throne, O God (O Son), stands forever and ever; and a righteous scepter is the scepter of your kingdom. You loved justice and hated wickedness; therefore God (therefore Son), your God (your Father), anointed you (made Christ) with the oil of gladness above your companions”; and: “At the beginning, O Lord (O Son), you established the earth, and the heavens are the works of your hands. They will perish, but you remain; and they will all grow old like a garment.  You will roll them up like a cloak, and like a garment they will be changed.  But you are the same, and your years will have no end.” (Heb 1:8-12, NAB, emphasis mine)
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