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FAQ # 237
QUESTION 237 : Didn’t Rom 14:11 said, “For it is written,
As I live, saith the Lord, every knee shall bow to me, and every tongue
shall confess to God.” In other words, every knee shall bow to me Jesus
and they shall confess before God the father, a separate person. Or, every
knee shall bow before us – Jesus and God the father – two separate persons.
Isn’t that so?
No! You have to read
into this verse with a predisposition of this "distinct persons in
the Godhead" theory or trinitarian dogma, to get this conclusion.
Sorry to say, many persons are fed this erroneous theory from it first
came into Christendom via pagan influences of the Apologists (E.g. Justin
Martyr).
However, this verse gave no such implications. One,
it clearly meant that ‘every knee shall bow to me and every tongue confess
to me, who is your God.’ Rather than repeating the ‘me, who is your’,
one would just say ‘God’, because the persons to whom he spoke to had
the inherent knowledge that Jesus is the very God the father of heaven;
these were early Christians not yet influenced by pagan apologist thought.
So when he said, “confess to God,” they knew he was talking of the same
“me,” who is Jesus Christ.
Secondly, he wasn’t quoting Jesus or speaking off the
top of his head, but was quoting from the scriptures. At this time there
was no official New Testament, so he was quoting from the Old Testament;
as he always does. We should now find that Old Testament scripture he
used and quoted; and most often he didn’t quote word for word but paraphrased.
That Old Testament scripture is Isaiah 45:23 and it reads, “I have
sworn by myself, the word is gone out of my mouth in righteousness, and
shall not return, That unto me every knee shall bow, every tongue shall
swear.” Notice that God the father said this, yet by the revelation of
the spirit, Paul attributed the same to Jesus Christ, for he knew, as
all then, that Jesus Christ was the very God the Father of Heaven. To
tie it in with Rom 14:11, he even said in the previous verse, “for
we shall all stand before the judgment seat of Christ. [BECAUSE] For
it is written, As I live, saith the Lord, every knee…” (Rom 14:10).
Thirdly, in Philippians 2:10 he blatantly tells us
“that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of things in
heaven, and things in earth, and things under the earth.” God will not
share his glory as GOD (Isa 42:8), hence if all the galaxies bow before
someone it has to be God the Father, and if this is attributed to Christ,
it means Christ is God the Father who came in flesh. Anything else is
paganism. Then to make sure that paganism is not thought of (a man being
worshipped as God), the next verse said, “every tongue should confess
that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father” (verse 11).
In other words, it is not a man being worshipped when you worship Christ,
but rather you are worshipping God the father, but he is “enclosed” as
Christ; so go ahead and worship Christ the savior, for he is God the father.
You’re not giving the glory to another, it is the father himself. It also
said, “that Jesus Christ is Lord,” the “Lord” there is translated from
the Greek ‘Kurios’, but precedes it under the sacred name delusion, and
should actually be ‘Adonai’ or more precisely, Yahovah. Yahovah is the
name of God, so in essence it should be saying, “every tongue should confess
that Jesus Christ is Yahovah (or Yah).” It can’t get any clearer than
that!
Answer
Notes: 1. Something is key that
many don’t know and because of that have produced endless errors. That
is, the bible is an Encoded book and can only be Decoded by the one who
Encoded it – GOD. I first learnt this procedure and terms in a Communication
class at BCC and from the Text. We learnt that a person encodes a message
then sends it and it is decoded by the receiver. For instance, I write
an email and send it to you through a “secure”
encryption engine. You open the email and read it. If an arbitrary citizen
(most often computer illiterate) intercepts the email before it reaches
the decoder, then what he will see is gibberish like some alien language
that cannot be read, because it is scrambled by the encryption engine,
only to be read by the receiver. The bible is somewhat like that, unless
you get the decoded meanings from the Lord, you simply cannot see or understand
it. Unfortunately what many do when they reach this bump of confusion,
they apply their meanings to it, rather than say like the Ethiopian Eunuch,
“Understandest thou what thou readest? And he said, How can I, except
some man should guide me?” (Acts 8:30-31). Hence, the understanding of
the bible cannot be figured out or deciphered by any means; it has to
be decoded to you by God, through the Holy Spirit, to them that are baptized
there with. For instance, let me give you one trillionth (1/1,000,000,000,000)
of the encoding. One verse or chapter can have one, all, or any combination
of the following:
1.
Contextual Meaning – Face value of what is read and that in itself is good;
it also give factual meanings (e.g. “A man ran,” a man did run).
2.
Spiritual Meaning – Deeper contextual meaning, it usually looks like an
abstract analogy but correct. (e.g. A fig tree dries up, so will you dry
up if…).
3.
Personal Meaning – In that God uses it as a touch to your situation and
it fits so perfectly, you think it was specifically written for you. In
relation to you, it cannot necessarily be taught, because personal meanings
will be different for everyone. Psalms 23 is one such verse, though it
has contextual, spiritual, prophetic, dual and triple meanings.
4.
Prophetic Meaning – Encoded future event (e.g. “in the days of these kings
shall the God of heaven set up a kingdom, which shall never be destroyed”
- Dan 2:44, which spoke of Christ’s Kingdom 2000 years ago.).
5.
Dual Prophetic Meaning – Same Encoded future events, but one thing speak of
prophecy of two different things at different times (e.g. The prophet
Ethan spoke the same thing of David that is spoken of Christ in Ps. 89:26-27).
6.
Triple Prophetic Meaning
– Same Encoded future events, but one thing or chapter of prophecy speak
of three different things that will occur at three different times (e.g.
Isaiah 45 spoke of freedom. But we later found out that that freedom was
the Jew’s actual exile from Babylon by the decree of King Cyrus; probably
prophesied before his birth and his actual name was even mentioned. But
then later we found out that that freedom was for the Gentiles and Jews
through the crucifixion of the Messiah – verse 24. But there seems to
be another freedom it speaks of, to be decoded publicly when it happens.)
That’s
only 1,000,000,000,000th of how encoded the word is. For the
true of the matter, in this small demonstration, is that all the above
would be in a chapter several times over each other or even in a single
verse. How can you then decipher what needs to be deciphered from the
word, except it be given from above? Even worst, the rest of the trillion
encoded method hasn’t even been brought into play and you have other things
that make it even harder to decipher meanings of truth. Example, interpolations,
multiple translations and interpretations, and many more deterrents in
decoding the word. For instance, look at this mix up,
"To show at a glance the different ideas of the date
of the creation, it may be interesting to note the following, that is,
from Creation to 1894 we have these many years passed.
According to Ussher, 5,898; Hales, 7,305; Zunz (Hebrew
reckoning), 5,882; Septuagint (Perowne), 7,305; Rabbinical, 5,654; Panodorus,
7,387; Anianus, 7,395; Constantinopolitan, 7,403; Eusebius, 7,093; Scaliger,
5,844; Dionysius (from whom we take our Christian era), 7,388; Maximus,
7,395; Syncellus and Theophanes, 7,395; Julius Africanus, 7,395; Jackson,
7,320" {Source: Sword Searcher 4.3, www.SwordSearcher.com,
Easton Bible Dictionary}.
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