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livetlv and was dead (in the flesh), and behold, I am eilive forevermoie. Amen; and have the keys of hell and of death" (Revelation 1:17-18). As the Fadter incarnate. He was able to say, "I am Alpha and Omega,the begin ning and the ending, saith the Lord, which is, and which was, and which is to come, the Almighty" (Revelation 1:8).
We know God will not share His glory with any earthly being or another god (Isaiah 42:8). God commanded Moses saying "Take heed unto your selves, lest ye forget the covenant of the Lord your God, which He made with you, and make you a graven image, or the likeness of any thing which the Lord thy God hath forbidden thee. For the Lord thy God is a consuming fire, even a jealous God" (Deuteronomy 4:23-24). "Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools, and changed the glory of the uncorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and four footed beasts, and creeping things" (Romans 1:22-23). God will not mingle His holy,divinenaturewithsinfulhumanity. Hesaid,"Formineownsake,even for mine own sake, will I do it: for how should my name be polluted? and I
will not give my glory unto another" (Isaiah 48:11).
God saw "that there was no man, and wondered that there was no inter- cesson therefore His arm (The Word of God) brought salvation unto Him, and His righteousness, it sustained Him. For He put on righteousness as a breastplate, and a helmet of salvation upon His head; and He put on the garments of vengeance for clothing and was clad with zeal as a cloak (Isaiah 59:15-17). God knew that man could not meet the necessary require
ments nor could he be equal to God, so He chose to come by His own Word (arm). He, therefore, made His arm flesh, and put on garments of righN eousness,salvation,vengeance,andzeal,andcametodestroysin. Bythis means. He put off the old man from us and created a new man, Christ. (See
Isaiah 53; Galatians 3:8-27; Ephesians 2:15-20; Ephesians 4:22-24; Colossians 3:9-10; 2:11-14.)
If God had not come by His own Word, which He prepared to be flesh and blood, then the prophecy of Isaiah 26:19 would not have been fulfill^- "Thy dead men shaD live, together with my dead body shall they arise.
Awakeandsingyethatdwellindust: forthydewisasthedewofherbS/ and the earth shall cast out the dead."
Natural man's flesh and blood can never attain unto resurrection and life- However, the flesh and blood of Christ is the Word, and His life and arm can save mankind from sin and eternal death (Revelation 1:8,17-18; Isaiah 25:7- 8). Hear the prophecy of Isaiah 53:1-3, which says, "Who has believed our
report? and to whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed? For He shall
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