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Selected Messages Book 1
Christ’s Pre-existence
But while God’s Word speaks of the humanity of Christ when
upon this earth, it also speaks decidedly regarding His pre-existence.
The Word existed as a divine being, even as the eternal Son of God,
in union and oneness with His Father. From everlasting He was the
Mediator of the covenant, the one in whom all nations of the earth,
both Jews and Gentiles, if they accepted Him, were to be blessed. “The
Word was with God, and the Word was God” (
John 1:1
). Before men
or angels were created, the Word was with God, and was God.
The world was made by Him, “and without him was not any thing
made that was made” (
John 1:3
). If Christ made all things, He existed
before all things. The words spoken in regard to this are so decisive
that no one need be left in doubt. Christ was God essentially, and in
the highest sense. He was with God from all eternity, God over all,
blessed forevermore.
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.
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This was no robbery of God. “The Lord possessed me in the beginning
of his way,” He declares, “before his works of old. I was set up from
everlasting, from the beginning, or ever the earth was. When there
were no depths, I was brought forth; when there were no fountains
abounding with water. Before the mountains were settled, before the
hills was I brought forth: while as yet he had not made the earth,
nor the fields, nor the highest part of the dust of the world. When he
prepared the heavens, I was there: when he set a compass upon the
face of the depth” (
Proverbs 8:22-27
).
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. This truth, infinitely mysterious in itself, explains other myste-
rious and otherwise unexplainable truths, while it is enshrined in light,
unapproachable and incomprehensible.
“Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever thou hadst
formed the earth and the world, even from everlasting to everlasting,
thou art God” (
Psalm 90:2
). “The people which sat in darkness saw