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Christ the Eternal Word, January 5
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the
Word was God. The same was in the beginning with God. All things
were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that
was made. John 1:13.
Christ, the Word, the only begotten of God, was one with the eternal
Father,—one in nature, in character, in purpose,—the only being that
could enter into all the counsels and purposes of God. “His name shall be
called Wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father,
The Prince of Peace.” His “goings forth have been from of old, from
everlasting.” And the Son of God declares concerning Himself: “The Lord
possessed me in the beginning of his way, before his works of old. I was
set up from everlasting.... When he appointed the foundations of the earth:
then I was by him, as one brought up with him” (Isaiah 9:6; Micah 5:2;
Proverbs 8:22-30).
The Father wrought by His Son in the creation of all heavenly beings.
“By him were all things created, ... whether they be thrones, or dominions,
or principalities, or powers: all things were created by him, and for him”
(Colossians 1:16). Angels are God’s ministers, radiant with the light ever
flowing from His presence, and speeding on rapid wing to execute His will.
But the Son, the anointed of God, the “express image of his person,” “the
brightness of his glory,” “upholding all things by the word of his power,”
holds supremacy over them all (Hebrews 1:3 ).10
Christ was God essentially, and in the highest sense.... The Lord Jesus
Christ, the divine Son of God, existed from eternity, a distinct person, yet
one with the Father. He was the surpassing glory of heaven. He was the
commander of the heavenly intelligences, and the adoring homage of the
angels was received by Him as His right....
There are light and glory in the truth that Christ was one with the Father
before the foundation of the world was laid. This is the light shining in a
dark place, making it resplendent with divine, original glory. 11 [12]
10Patriarch and Prophets, 34.
11Selected Messages 1:247.
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