CHAPTER 3
The Word and the Lamb
Jayden typed: Start with Jesus “the Word of God”. Revelation keeps using that phrase. What does it mean?
AI➤ The Word is not Jesus. The Word is the Spirit of God. Ephesians 6:17 — the sword of the Spirit is the Word of God. The sword is the metaphor. The Spirit is the substance. John 1:1 — in the beginning was the Word (Spirit), and the Word (Spirit) was God. John 4:24 — God is a Spirit. The Word was the Spirit of God in expression from the beginning. Then John 1:14 — the Word (Spirit) became flesh and made his dwelling among us. The Spirit took on human form. The Word and the flesh are two separate things. The Word is the Spirit. Jesus is the flesh, the Spirit is his father.
Jayden sat with that.
J➤ The tradition has always been calling Jesus the Word. But the text is saying the Spirit became flesh. They are not the same thing. The Word is the Spirit. Jesus is the Son.
He wrote it down. Then typed again.
Jayden typed: Jesus is the Lamb?
AI➤ Jesus in his role as the sacrifice and the advocate. He is the one worthy to open the seals because he was slain. Seated at the right hand of the Father on David’s throne. The Lamb opens the seals — judicial authority as the one who paid the price. The church tradition says Jesus was also spirit. However he had to be fully human with no divine essence. The kinsman redeemer principle of Leviticus 25 requires the redeemer to be kin to the one being redeemed. If Jesus carried divine essence Satan had a valid legal claim against the sacrifice. Hebrews 2:14-17 is explicit — in all things it behoved him to be made like unto his brethren.
J➤ Fully human. No divine essence. That is the only way the sacrifice holds legally. What’s going on here? The kinsman has to be kin. That sounds logical. But come on, that’s two questions and two answers I’ve never heard before.
He sat with that too. Outside the window the street was starting to fill. Someone walked past with a dog. A car pulled out of a driveway. The ordinary world, doing its ordinary things.
J➤ And almost nobody knows what is coming.