Gary Hullquist |
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I was living with my parents in Oak Glen, California at the base of Mount San Gregonio, the tallest mountain in the Southern states topping 11,500 feet in elevation. My roommate at La Sierra College and our girl friends (sisters who later became our wives) were spending a 1967 Thanksgiving vacation with their parents at Camp Cedar Falls just a few miles from the San Gregonio trail head. One sunny afternoon us four decided to hike up to Dollar Lake, just an easy 4 mile strole through the woods from the parking lot. There was snow on the ground but it was crusty and melting. Our light jackets and jeans provided plenty of comfort. When we reached the Dollar Lake sign, the snow was getting deeper and the trail, heading down toward the lake, was now icey. At first it was fun sliding down from tree to tree, but it wasn't long before we realized going back up would definitely not be a walk in the park! Our tennis shoes just didn't have the gripping power. What we really needed were clamp-ons with steel teeth that could take a bite into the slippery mountain side. Yes, we could continue sliding down to the lake, but it was in a low spot with sides going up all around it. We decided to try and go back up from tree to tree. Only problem was, they were too far apart. We tried to form a human bridge, climbing up the back of each other, standing on the shoulders, but still couldn't reach anything. Besides, laying on the ground was sucking the warmth right out of us. The sun was getting lower and the prospect of being trapped out there all night set in. We only had a single apple between us. That was soon devoured as we passed it around, each taking a bite, until only a spindly core was left. Now What? Well, what do you do when you're at the end of your rope and you don't even have one? What else is there to do but pray. And it was a serious prayer! Just then, a voice from above, back up on the trail appeared two mountain climbers decked out with ropes, strings of carabiners, ice axes, red-orange parkas, helmets. They were amazing! We had never seen anyone on the trail outfitted to the gills like these guys. They asked us, "Do you need help?" Of course we needed help. We shouted back, "YES! We're stuck down here. Can't get up the trail!" Within a minute or two they hacked out footsteps in the ice, climbed down to us and helped us up the foot-holds. We scrambled up the hillside, helping the ones below until we were all up top. But our rescuers had already left...or disappeared? We had thanked them as they made the steps for us and got us started, but we wanted to thank them again and didn't even get a chance. They were either angels or guided by them. They showed up just when we needed them; they had all the right tools, just what we needed. They were fast, efficient, professional. They didn't scold us for being so foolish. They just came, did their job, and left. Thank you, Father, for saving us! “The angel of the Lord encampeth round about those that fear him and delivereth them.” Psalm 34:7 |
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Cuts Both Ways
1990: Gloria Estefan wrote and recorded the popular song “Cuts Both Ways”
Our love is like a knife that cuts both ways
It's driven deep into my heart each time (ouch!)
That I realize
How it cuts both ways
Can't be together, cannot live apart (both are painful)
We're heading straight into a broken heart
It cuts both ways
Cuts both ways
Human love cuts both ways: It hurts me and it hurts you.
Some kind of love! A love that hurts everyone?
But God's love is also like a knife that cuts both ways. Heb 4:12:
For the Word of God is alive, and powerful, and sharper than any twoedged sword,
piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow,
and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.
God’s twoedged sword that cuts both ways is His Word.
Depending on how we read it can be a BLESSING or a CURSE
Like the mirror of the Law that may reflect the image of the Lawgiver or our own image.
James 1:23 describes this principle.
The hearer of the word who stops there and doesn’t do what the word instructs us to do,
is like looking in a glass or mirror and then walking away and forgetting what you look like.
A real hearer of the word, who then actually does what the word tells us to do,
is like looking through the glass “into the perfect law of liberty” and continuing to look at it, not forgetting what it says but also doing what it says. What do we see when we look?
2Cor 3:18 It’s like beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, (not just seeing our own reflection, but into the glass, into the law and seeing the image of the Lawgiver) until we are changed into the same image, his glory is then reflected in our face (we become a mirror!) and like the face of Moses will shine with the Spirit of the Lord.
The twoedged sword of the Word “divides asunder...soul and spirit.” Separating them.
It was the Word of God who separated the light from the darkness, the waters above from the waters below, the land from the sea. And the Word still divides to both separate and unite.
Cut away from this world, the “third rock from the sun” and unto the Rock that begat us. (Deut 32:18)
His Words of comfort and promise to us, and our words of praise and adoration to Him.
Psalm 149:1,5,6
1 Praise ye the Lord. Sing unto the Lord a new song,
and his praise in the congregation of saints.
2 Let Israel rejoice in him that made him: let the children of Zion be joyful in their King.
3 Let them praise his name in the dance:
let them sing praises unto him with the timbrel and harp.
4 For the Lord taketh pleasure in his people: he will beautify the meek with salvation.
5 Let the saints be joyful in glory: let them sing aloud upon their beds.
6 Let the high praises of God be in their mouth, and a twoedged sword in their hand;
But the scene changes, the words that cut away our chains and fetters to Satan’s slavery,
now cut the other way: a twoedged sword in the hand of the saints...
Psalm 149:7,8,9
7 To execute vengeance upon the heathen, and punishments upon the people;
8 To bind their kings with chains, and their nobles with fetters of iron;
9 To execute upon them the judgment written: this honour have all his saints. Praise ye the Lord.
How readest thou, saints? Shall we take up a sword and execute vengeance?
Yes, the sword of the Word—not the physical sword of Peter, or Simeon, or Levi, or Joab...
Revelation 1:16:
He had "in his right hand seven stars: and out of his mouth went a sharp twoedged sword."
Eph 6:17 It’s the sword of the Spirit (breath), which is the word of...God.
Matt 4:4 Man shall not live by bread alone, but by evey word that proceedeth from the mouth of God."
This Word is life to those who let the sharp twoedged sword circumcise their hearts to cut away the darkness and deceitfulness buried in them; but the same word is “a savor of death unto death” (2Cor 2:16) to those who refuse to “go under the knife” and allow the Divine Surgeon to do His purging work of excision, ablation, and amputation—severing the cords that bind us to the world and the prince of darkness.
Revelation 19:11,12,13,14,15
And I saw heaven opened, and behold a white horse; and he that sat upon him was called Faithful and True, and in righteousness he doth judge and make war.
12 His eyes were as a flame of fire, and on his head were many crowns; and he had a name written, that no man knew, but he himself.
13 And he was clothed with a vesture dipped in blood:and his name is called The Word of God.
14 And the armies which were in heaven followed him upon white horses, clothed in fine linen, white and clean.
15 And out of his mouth goeth a sharp sword, that with it he should smite the nations:
and he shall rule them with a rod of iron: and he treads the winepress of the fierceness and wrath of Almighty God.
The sword proceeds out of his mouth because the sword is the Word of God.
And because He is the Word of God, He says:
Matthew 10:34-35
Think not that I am come to send peace on earth: I came not to send peace, but a sword.
For I am come to set a man at variance against his father, and the daughter against her mother, and the daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law.
The sword is twoedged; it cuts both ways.
A son is separated from his father; A daughter is separated from her mother.
One is cut away from the world—one is cut off from God.
Verse 39:
He that finds his life in this world,
will lose it in the world to come;
He that loses his life in this world for Christ’s sake,
will find it in His Father’s kingdom.
Accept the word or reject the word; Like James and John who forsook all and followed him,
Or like the rich young ruler who walked away saddened by the thought of giving everything away.
Deut 32:39-41
See now that I, even I, am he, and there is no god with me:
I kill, and I make alive; I wound, and I heal:
neither is there any that can deliver out of my hand.
“You can’t have one without the other...”
the “brand plucked from the burning” (Zech 3) is separated, cut off from the burning.
But there are two kinds of burning: Psalm 39:1-3; Prov 26:23,20; Isa 9:18,19; 33:14,15.
40 For I lift up my hand to heaven, and say, I live for ever.
41 If I whet my glittering sword, and mine hand take hold on judgment;
I will render vengeance to mine enemies, and will reward them that hate me.
Prov 8:36 All they that hate me (wisdom) love death.
It cuts both ways: the sword cuts off the enemies of God, and the last enemy is death.
Those that turn to God and seek after His face are cut off from the world by “the great cleaver of truth” Letter 139, 1903
But those who cling to the world will be cut off from God—
same sword, it all depends on where you are when it cuts both ways.
God weeps when He smites with His sword.
Jeremiah 3:20,21
You have dealt treacherously with me, O house of Israel, saith the Lord. (You have departed from your Husband).
A voice was heard upon the high places, weeping and supplications of the children of Israel.
And the voice cries out, “Return, ye backsliding children, and I will heal your backslidings.”
Malachi 3:7
Even from the days of your fathers you are gone away from my ordinances, and have not kept them. Return unto me, and I will return unto you, saith the Lord of hosts.
2 Corinthians 2:14-16
Now thanks be unto God, which always causeth us to triumph in Christ,
and maketh manifest the savour of his knowledge by us in every place.
15 For we are unto God a sweet savour of Christ,
in them that are saved, and in them that perish: (this knowledge cuts both ways)
16 To the one we are the savour of death unto death; (death to an old life)
and to the other the savour of life unto life. (awakening to a new life)
Jesus looked at Peter and it caused him to repent with bitter weeping;
The same look seen by Judas caused him to go and hang himself.
Eze 21:3 And say to the land of Israel, Thus saith the LORD; Behold, I am against thee, and will draw forth my sword out of his sheath, and will cut off from thee the righteous and the wicked.
Eze 21:9 Son of man, prophesy, and say, Thus saith the LORD; Say, A sword, a sword is sharpened, and also furbished:
Eze 21:10 It is sharpened to make a sore slaughter; it is furbished that it may glitter:
Eze 21:11 And he hath given it to be furbished, that it may be handled: this sword is sharpened, and it is furbished, to give it into the hand of the slayer. (King of Babylon verse 19)
Abraham appealed to the “Judge of all the earth” that it would not be right for Him to destroy the righteous with the wicked. Genesis 18:23
“Be it far from thee to do after this manner” Abraham told the Lord (verse 25).
So, finally the Lord agreed to spare Sodom and Gomorrah for ten’s sake.
But, alas, there were only found four…and one of them was really still back in Sodom.
And when the time came for the sword to cut off the righteous and the wicked,
The righteous outside the city were separated from the wicked inside.
The twoedge sword cuts both ways, cutting them off from each other:
on one side there was the savour of life unto life; on the other death unto death.
Then shall he sit upon the throne of his glory and before him shall be gathered all nations:
And he shall separate them one from another: the sheep on his right hand, but the goats on his left. Matt 25:1-3
Why are some goats? Why are some sheep? All we like sheep have gone astray like goats.
But the true sheep hear the voice of the Good Shepherd. They are changed into the same image of the Lamb of God by beholding his character, his image, in the perfect law of liberty.
1888
This date still commands the attention of Adventists today. Seems like each generation takes a crack at it. Church historians spin their own version of what “really” happened in that far western state of Minnesota. It was in a Minneapolis school house where the 90 delegates of a 27 year old church with 27,000 members met, already divided over “The Law in Galatians.”
1888. How can anything that old be of any value (let alone interest) to us today?
Aren’t there more important issues that deserve our time and attention? Like Sunday laws, Prophecy, Terrorism, pandemics, the Papacy, the economy...
The issues today are really no different than those 135 years ago, only the names and terms are different. The Blair Sunday law was being debated in Congress. The Eastern Question of Turkey and the King of the North was on everyone’s mind. The Vatican was publishing alarming Encyclicals. And today, sides are still divided over “The Law in Galatians”.
But there was one thing that all the delegates of that 1888 General Conference session were in total agreement: "There is one God, the Father, and one Lord Jesus Christ" 1Corinthians 8:6, who was His only-begotten divine Son, "whose goings forth was from the days of eternity" Micah 5:2. In this they were united. Five years before Minneapolis, W.H. Littlejohn, a co-editor of the Review and Herald, answered a reader’s question about the creation of Christ.
“You are mistaken in supposing that S.D. Adventists teach that Christ was ever created. They believe, on the contrary, that he was ‘begotten’ of the Father, and that he can properly be called God and worshiped as such... They believe, however, that somewhere in the eternal ages of the past there was a point at which Christ came into existence.” RH April 17, 1883
That same year, C.W. Stone, secretary of the General Conference, wrote in his book,
“The Word then is Christ. The text speaks of His origin. He is the only begotten of the Father. Just how he came into existence the Bible does not inform us any more definitely; but by this expression and several of a similar kind in the Scriptures we may believe that Christ came into existence in a manner different from that in which other beings first appeared; That He sprang from the Father’s being in a way not necessary for us to understand.” C. W. Stone, The Captain of our Salvation, p. 17, 1883
But side issues that were, in the opinion of Ellen White “not vital”, such as ‘the daily,’ ‘the law in Galatians,’ ‘the king of the north,’ were distracting the fledgling church from its central foundations. Sensing the division that was brewing within a growing series of Review and Signs articles, Ellen White counseled the west coast editors, Jones and Waggoner.
It is no small matter for you to come out in the Signs as you have done, and God has plainly revealed that such things should not be done. We must keep before the world a united front. Satan will triumph to see differences among Seventh-day Adventists.” “But how do you think I feel to see our two leading papers in contention?” “...we must have more of Jesus and less of self.” “We are one in faith in the fundamental truths of God’s word.“ 1888 Materials p. 22.2, 25.2, 26.1,2.
Then, suddenly, it was October 1888. As the young physician and Signs of the Times editor, Ellot J. Waggoner, presented the morning devotionals, there was indeed more of Jesus and a rich feeding in the one faith of God’s word. As he spoke, W.W. Prescott, Steven Haskell, Uriah Smith, R.A. Underwood, Ellen White, A.T. Jones, and even George Butler, the General Conference president back home in his sick bed, all took notes on the great theme of Christ and His Righteousness.
How do we know? Because each one echoed Waggoner’s theme in sermons and articles of their own in the following months and years.
When Waggoner said,
“The Word was “in the beginning.” The mind of man cannot grasp the ages that are spanned in this phrase. ...We know that Christ “proceeded forth and came from God” (John 8:42), but it was so far back in the ages of eternity as to be far beyond the grasp of the mind of man.”
R.A. Underwood wrote the following year,
“We are in ignorance of when this was done. We only know that it was in the eternity of the past; before the worlds and all that in them is, were created.” RH Aug 6, Sept 17, 1889
Ellen White wrote,
“The existence of Christ before His incarnation is not measured by figures.” Ellen White, Signs of the Times May 3, 1899
“Christ is declared in the Scriptures to be the Son of God. From all eternity He has sustained this relation to Jehovah. Before the foundations of the world were laid, He, the only begotten Son of God, pledged Himself to become the Redeemer of the human race should men sin.” {Ms22-1905 (March 7, 1904) par. 4}
Uriah Smith later wrote,
“At the earliest epoch when a beginning could be,a period so remote that to finite minds it is essentially eternity,—appeared the Word.” “His beginning was not like that of any other being in the universe. It is set forth in the mysterious expressions, ‘his [God’s] only begotten Son’ (John 3:16; 1 John 4:9), ‘the only begotten of the Father’ (John 1:14), and ‘I proceeded forth and came from God.’ John 8:42.” Looking Unto Jesus 1898
And Steven Haskell penned,
“Back in the ages, which finite mind cannot fathom, the Father and Son were alone in the universe. Christ was the first begotten of the Father, and to Him Jehovah made known the divine plan of Creation.” The Seer of Patmos 1905
When Waggoner said,
“A son always rightfully takes the name of the father; and Christ, as “the only begotten Son of God,” has rightfully the same name. A son, also, is, to a greater or less degree, a reproduction of the father; he has, to some extent, the features and personal characteristics of his father;... and so Christ is the “express image” of the Father’s person. Heb. 1:3. As the Son of the self-existent God, He has by nature all the attributes of Deity.”
Ellen White later wrote,
“Christ, the Word, the only begotten of God, was one with the eternal Father,--one in nature, in character, in purpose” Patriarchs and Prophets p. 34 1890
“...he and the Father were of one substance, possessing the same attributes.” Signs of the Times, Nov. 27, 1893
When Waggoner said,
He is begotten, not created. He is of the substance of the Father, so that in his very nature he is God;” “The angels are sons of God, as was Adam (Job 38:7; Luke 3:38), by creation; Christians are the sons of God by adoption (Rom. 8:14, 15); but Christ is the Son of God by birth.”
Ellen White later wrote,
“‘God so loved the world, that he gave his only-begotten Son,’—not a son by creation, as were the angels, nor a son by adoption, as is the forgiven sinner, but a Son begotten in the express image of the Father’s person, and in all the brightness of his majesty and glory...” Signs of the Times May 30, 1895
“God had promised to give the First-born of heaven to save the sinner.” Desire of Ages p. 51 1898
“In His incarnation He gained in a new sense the title of the Son of God... While the son of a human being, He became the Son of God in a new sense.” Signs of the Times Aug 2, 1905
And what was the old sense? His original existence as the divine and Eternal Son of God.
A.T. Jones wrote,
“He who was born in the form of God took the form of man.” General Conference Bulletin March 4, 1895
“In other words, Jesus Christ was born again. He came from heaven, God’s first-born, to the earth, and was born again.” “He whose goings forth have been from the days of eternity, the first-born of God, was born again, in order that we might be born again.” A.T. Jones RH Aug 1, 1899
W.W. Prescott wrote,
“As Christ was twice born—once in eternity, the only begotten of the Father, and again here in the flesh, thus uniting the divine with the human in that second birth—so we who have been born once already in the flesh, are to have the second birth, being born again of the Spirit” RH April 14, 1896
Uriah Smith wrote,
“Christ is the agent through whom God has created all things, but that the Son came into existence in a different manner, as he is called ‘the only begotten’ of the Father.” Uriah Smith, Daniel and the Revelation 1897 edition, p. 400.
When Waggoner said,
“And since He is the only-begotten Son of God, He is of the very substance and nature of God, and possesses by birth all the attributes of God.” [Philippians 2:6; Hebrews 1:4,6,8] “So He has ‘life in Himself;’ [John 1:4; 5:26] He possesses immortality in His own right, and can confer immortality upon others.” [John 5:21,25; 1John 5:11]
R.A. Underwood wrote,
“we will consider Christ and his work by viewing him as the only being delegated to represent the eternal Father in name, in creating the worlds, and in giving the law;” “For as the Father hath life in himself; so hath he given to the Son to have life in himself.” John 5:26. Whatever construction may be placed upon the first two texts quoted the last one shows clearly that the Son of God received his life, and all his mighty creative power as a gift from the Father.” RH Aug 6, Sept 17, 1889
Ellen White wrote,
“God has sent his Son to communicate his own life to humanity. Christ declares, “I live by the Father,” my life and his being one. “No man hath seen God at any time; the only begotten Son, which is in the bosom of the Father, he hath declared him,” “For as the Father hath life in himself; so hath he given to the Son to have life in himself;” Home Missionary June 1, 1897.11
When Waggoner said,
“While both are of the same nature, the Father is first in the point of time. He (the Father) is also greater in that he had no beginning, while Christ’s personality had a beginning” Signs of the Times Apr. 8, 1889
Ellen White wrote,
“Though sin had produced a gulf between man and his God, divine benevolence provided a plan to bridge that gulf and what material did he use? A part of himself, the brightness of the Father’s glory came to a world all seared and marred with the curse, and in his own divine character, in his own divine body, bridged the gulf, and opened a channel of communication between God and man.” Letter 36a, 1890 to J. S. Washburn
When Waggoner said,
“Christ ‘is in the bosom of the Father;’ being by nature of the very substance of God, and having life in Himself, He is properly called Jehovah, the self-existent One.”
Ellen White wote,
“He came forth from the bosom of the All-wise” {Lt47-1895 (March 21, 1895) par. 14}
“When in the fulness of time the eternal Son of the infinite God came forth from the bosom of His Father to this world” {Lt232-1903 (October 6, 1903) par. 19}
“The Son of God shared the Father’s throne, and the glory of the eternal, self-existent One encircled both.” Patriarchs and Prophets p. 38 1890
“Jehovah, the eternal, self-existent, uncreated One, Himself the source and sustainer of all, is alone entitled to supreme reverence and worship.” Patriarchs and Prophets, p. 305
“Jehovah is the name given to Christ.” Signs of the Times 1899Ma3.18
“God gave His only begotten Son to the world to reveal the Father as supreme in heaven and in earth” {Lt132-1910 (December 1, 1910) par. 6}
When Waggoner said,
“We are mindful of Paul’s words, that ‘to us there is but one God, the Father, of whom are all things, and we in Him; and one Lord Jesus Christ, by whom are all things, and we by Him” 1 Cor. 8:6.
Ellen White explained,
Christ is the One through whom God has at all times revealed Himself to man. “But to us there is but one God, the Father, of whom are all things, and we in Him; and one Lord Jesus Christ, by whom are all things, and we by Him.” 1 Corinthians 8:6. “This is he [Moses], that was in the church in the wilderness with the Angel which spake to him in the Mount Sinai, and with our fathers: who received the lively oracles to give unto us.” Acts 7:38. This Angel was the Angel of God’s presence (Isaiah 63:9), the Angel in whom was the name of the great Jehovah (Exodus 23:20-23). The expression can refer to no other than the Son of God. Patriarchs and Prophets 761.4
Uriah Smith wrote in his 25 Fundamental Principals first printed in a SDA Year Book in 1889,
“There is one God, a personal, spiriual being...everywhere present by His personal representative, the Holy Spirit.” and “There is one Lord Jesus Christ, the Son of the Eternal Father, the one by whom God created all things.”
H. J. Farman wrote,
“The Father bestowed upon the Son the power and honor of a creator, and made him the active agent in the creation of the worlds. Heb. 1:2; Col. 1:15-17; John 1:10. ...God spoke, and the Son performed the work. Compare Heb. 11: 3 with Heb. 1:2” Review and Herald, Jan. 20, 1891
When Waggoner said,
“All things proceed ultimately from God, the Father; even Christ Himself proceeded and came forth from the Father”
Ellen White wrote,
“The statement is made that the devil believed and trembled. He believed that Christ was the Son of God while he was in heaven” {Ms5-1886 (June 19, 1886) par. 10}
“He was not the Father but in Him dwelt all the fullness of the Godhead bodily.” Letter 8a, July 7, 1890, To M. J. Church, 20MR, MR1444
“The Son of God became the Son of man.” Ms45-1892, par. 2
George Butler wrote,
“Sustaining the relation they do as the Father and the only begotten Son, precedence in a certain sense must necessarily be conceded to the Father. This implies superiority in duration and rank.” 1888 Materials p. 1199.1 July 20, 1893
A.T. Jones wrote,
“Let us now consider further how the word was given. It is the word of God proceeding forth and coming from God, just as Jesus Christ, the living Word, proceeded forth and came from God.” General Conference Bulletin, February 24, 1895, ‘The Third Angel’s Message’ p. 318
After traveling the country with Jones and Waggoner, spreading the 1888 message, Ellen White was exiled to Australia where she wrote,
“The Lord in His great mercy sent a most precious message to His people through Elders Waggoner and Jones. This message was to bring more prominently before the world the upliftted Saviour, the sacrifice for the sins of the whole world... Many had lost sight of Jesus. They needed to have their eyes directed to His divine person, His merits, and His changeless love for the human family.” Testimonies to Ministers, p. 91, 92 1895
So, what is the lesson of 1888? Let us not be distracted by divisive side-issues that, while they may be interesting and instructive, are “not vital” unless they direct us to the only true God and Jesus Christ whom He has sent (John 17:3).
“Christ is declared in the Scriptures to be the Son of God. From all eternity He has sustained this relation to Jehovah. Before the foundations of the world were laid, He, the only begotten Son of God, pledged Himself to become the Redeemer of the human race should men sin.” {Ms22-1905 (March 7, 1904) par. 4}
“...he and the Father were of one substance, possessing the same attributes.” Signs of the Times, Nov. 27, 1893
“God had promised to give the First-born of heaven to save the sinner.” Desire of Ages p. 51 1898
“In His incarnation He gained in a new sense the title of the Son of God... While the son of a human being, He became the Son of God in a new sense.” Signs of the Times Aug 2, 1905
And what was the old sense? His original existence as the divine and Eternal Son of God.
“In other words, Jesus Christ was born again. He came from heaven, God’s first-born, to the earth, and was born again.” “He whose goings forth have been from the days of eternity, the first-born of God, was born again, in order that we might be born again.” A.T. Jones RH Aug 1, 1899
“When in the fulness of time the eternal Son of the infinite God came forth from the bosom of His Father to this world” {Lt232-1903 (October 6, 1903) par. 19}
“The Son of God shared the Father’s throne, and the glory of the eternal, self-existent One encircled both.” Patriarchs and Prophets p. 38 1890
“Jehovah, the eternal, self-existent, uncreated One, Himself the source and sustainer of all, is alone entitled to supreme reverence and worship.” Patriarchs and Prophets, p. 305
“Jehovah is the name given to Christ.” Signs of the Times 1899Ma3.18
“God gave His only begotten Son to the world to reveal the Father as supreme in heaven and in earth” {Lt132-1910 (December 1, 1910) par. 6}
“He was not the Father but in Him dwelt all the fullness of the Godhead bodily.” Letter 8a, July 7, 1890, To M. J. Church, 20MR, MR1444
“The Son of God became the Son of man.” Ms45-1892, par. 2