We know not only from the character and nature of our All Holy God, and from what He has chosen to reveal to us through the prophets and Apostles, the martyrs of the Church, the holy saints, the appearances of The Blessed Virgin Mary, and the words of our Lord Jesus The Christ, that we truly live forever in the presence of the Holy Trinity if we are gifted that grace upon death by God Almighty, Jesus Christ.

This article is not about soteriology, and the ins and outs of how we are saved, justified, sanctified, etc. (although I may touch on those subjects in the future.) This article is covering the fact that Scripture does teach we truly live forever in God’s glory, and are present and able to interact with the creation on earth, specifically the people who ask our intercession, that the saints in heaven pray for us, and truly care for each and every one of us, that the prophets did ask the intercession of the saints in the Bible, that Jesus did teach the communion of saints, in a future article stay tuned because God willing I will go over the fact that it is completely biblical and honest to history to pay veneration and honor to images, icons, statues of the holy saints, angels, martyrs, and most of all to the crucifix of our Lord.

But just keep in mind throughout this article, many of the objections to the communion of the saints presuppose the idea that every single doctrine the Christian faithful must follow has to be found in the Bible. I would ask them in response, where is that clause found in the Bible? And where does the Bible say explicitly that every single teaching of the Apostles was written down? In fact, St. John the Apostle says something to the opposite effect:

John 21:25 Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition

But there are also many other things which Jesus did; which, if they were written every one, the world itself, I think, would not be able to contain the books that should be written.

That is why as Catholics, we hold to Sacred Scripture and Sacred Tradition together. They are inseparable because each are guided by The Holy Spirit.

“It is clear therefore that, in the supremely wise arrangement of God, sacred Tradition, Sacred Scripture and the Magisterium of the Church are so connected and associated that one of them cannot stand without the others. Working together, each in its own way, under the action of the one Holy Spirit, they all contribute effectively to the salvation of souls.” — CCC 95

I am going to start with a text that is not usually cited in the discussions about whether Scripture teaches the communion of the saints, but I think it is a very obvious doctrine within the Old and New Testament that any reader who is genuinely open to asking the Spirit to guide them, and not already hostile to the idea that the saints are alive in heaven and encouraging us to finish the race, can exegete from the text.

1 Kings 18:36-38 English Standard Version

And at the time of the offering of the oblation, Elijah the prophet came near and said, “O LORD, God of Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, let it be known this day that you are God in Israel, and that I am your servant, and that I have done all these things at your word. Answer me, O LORD, answer me, that this people may know that you, O LORD, are God, and that you have turned their hearts back.” Then the fire of the LORD fell and consumed the burnt offering and the wood and the stones and the dust, and licked up the water that was in the trench.

The plain reading of the passage above is usually just Elijah the prophet praying, God answering, prophets of Baal being put to shame by our God — and yes, that is happening — but there is more to be drawn from this passage than meets the eye. Notice how in the first verse Elijah invokes the names of “Abraham, Isaac, and Israel.” Now why didn’t he just say Jacob? If the Old Testament prophets invoking the names of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and other patriarchs, along with the name of The Holy Trinity when sealing oaths, making covenants, and asking The LORD to forgive us our sins, is arbitrary, then why didn’t Elijah just mindlessly say Jacob? He consciously switched out the name Jacob with the name Israel to invoke the covenant and the promises made to the tribe of Israel and to Jacob on the day he wrestled with God at Peniel (“Face of God”).

Genesis 32:27-30 English Standard Version

And he said to him, “What is your name?” And he said, “Jacob.” Then he said, “Your name shall no longer be called Jacob, but Israel, for you have striven with God and with men, and have prevailed.” Then Jacob asked him, “Please tell me your name.” But he said, “Why is it that you ask my name?” And there he blessed him. So Jacob called the name of the place Peniel, saying, “For I have seen God face to face, and yet my life has been delivered.”

Genesis 35:11-12 English Standard Version

And God said to him, “I am God Almighty: be fruitful and multiply. A nation and a company of nations shall come from you, and kings shall come from your own body. The land that I gave to Abraham and Isaac I will give to you, and I will give the land to your offspring after you.”

These are the promises the prophet Elijah knows that our God does not go back on, because the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, the God of Israel, the God of Moses, the God of Sarah, the God of Elizabeth, and of all the holy angels in heaven, does not go back on His promises.

Micah 7:20 English Standard Version

You will show faithfulness to Jacob and steadfast love to Abraham, as you have sworn to our fathers from the days of old.

This can only make sense if there is an active covenant that was sworn to Jacob and Abraham that the prophet Micah is prayerfully invoking in this passage. He is conversing with God talking about a coming Redeemer, presupposing that Abraham and Jacob are alive at peace in Abraham’s bosom awaiting the steadfast love and mercy sworn to them, and praying that Christ will fulfill the prophecy of The Harrowing of Hades, which was fully fulfilled, because our God keeps His promises.

Ephesians 4:8-10 English Standard Version

Therefore it says,

“When he ascended on high he led a host of captives, and he gave gifts to men.”

(In saying, “He ascended,” what does it mean but that he had also descended into the lower regions, the earth? He who descended is the one who also ascended far above all the heavens, that he might fill all things.)

Deuteronomy 9:26-27 English Standard Version

And I prayed to the LORD, ‘O LORD God, do not destroy your people and your heritage, whom you have redeemed through your greatness, whom you have brought out of Egypt with a mighty hand. Remember your servants, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. Do not regard the stubbornness of this people, or their wickedness or their sin.

St. Moses is specifically calling on the piety of the previous patriarchs who have already passed away, and are in the presence of God, to reflect on the Israelites positively, so that God will take mercy on them after they have sinned against the LORD by committing idolatry. I have heard people compare appealing to the saints in heaven for intercessory prayers as similar to a form of idolatry, but how is that so if St. Moses is appealing to the already perfected patriarchs for intercession while asking God to forgive Israel for the sin of idolatry? that wouldn’t make much sense if Moses thought communion of saints was idolatrous.

St. Moses could have skipped verse 27 entirely and just prayed directly to God without asking the intercession of the patriarchs at all, but he didn’t. He valued and honored the past servants of The LORD, just as we do, even going as far as to beg the LORD: please don’t count it against them, LORD — remember your servants — we strive to be as holy as them.

Matthew 22:31-32 English Standard Version

And as for the resurrection of the dead, have you not read what was said to you by God: ‘I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob’? He is not God of the dead, but of the living.

Luke 20:34-38 English Standard Version

And Jesus said to them, “The sons of this age marry and are given in marriage, but those who are considered worthy to attain to that age and to the resurrection from the dead neither marry nor are given in marriage, for they cannot die anymore, because they are equal to angels and are sons of God, being sons of the resurrection. But that the dead are raised, even Moses showed, in the passage about the bush, where he calls the Lord the God of Abraham and the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob. Now he is not God of the dead, but of the living, for all live to him.”

The Sadducees, who did not believe we would be resurrected bodily to live forever with The LORD, came to Jesus trying to test Him and use the Law of Moses against Him. Jesus, who has all knowledge and is not bound by the constraints of time in His essence since He is eternal God, was easily able to refute this argument by showing them from Scripture that Moses referred to The Lord in the Bush — who was the pre-Incarnate Christ (see my article “The Angel of The LORD is The Divine Son of God”) — as The God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. This presupposes that Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob are at peace in the perfected beauty of God’s presence, since He is not the God of the dead but the God of the living. So Jesus Himself knows the saints are alive in heaven and have an effect on us, and He explicitly taught it.

Jesus also explained how in heaven we have no longer any need to procreate since we no longer die. We no longer have a need to multiply. We are like the holy angels, and we are now perfected in the family of God, with our wills permanently ordered towards Him.

James 5:16 Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition

Confess therefore your sins one to another: and pray one for another, that you may be saved. For the continual prayer of a just man availeth much.

1 Peter 3:7 Revised Standard Version

Likewise you husbands, live considerately with your wives, bestowing honor on the woman as the weaker sex, since you are joint heirs of the grace of life, in order that your prayers may not be hindered.

If we are encouraged by Saint James to pray for each other, and if a sin against our loved ones — such as mistreating our wives — can hinder our prayers, then it only logically follows that those who are truly alive and perfected in heaven, without any sin in the presence of God, have prayers that are much more effective and righteous than ours.

Revelation 6:9-10 English Standard Version

When he opened the fifth seal, I saw under the altar the souls of those who had been slain for the word of God and for the witness they had borne. They cried out with a loud voice, “O Sovereign Lord, holy and true, how long before you will judge and avenge our blood on those who dwell on the earth?”

Here we see something beautiful: the holy martyrs in heaven crying out and praying to the Sovereign Lord, holy and true, for justice for all the martyrs who have died in the name of The LORD. They are described as under the altar, which the Fathers saw as theologically significant, because in the Levitical sacrificial system the blood of the animal being sacrificed was poured out at the base of the altar (Leviticus 4:7), and the same word in the Greek for “slain” (esphagmenon) is used in Revelation 5:6 for The Lamb having been “slain,” linking the sacrifice of the holy martyrs to the precious blood of the Lord Jesus Christ.

Genesis 4:10 English Standard Version

And the LORD said, “What have you done? The voice of your brother’s blood is crying to me from the ground.”

Hebrews 12:22-24 English Standard Version

But you have come to Mount Zion and to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to innumerable angels in festal gathering, and to the assembly of the firstborn who are enrolled in heaven, and to God, the judge of all, and to the spirits of the righteous made perfect, and to Jesus, the mediator of a new covenant, and to the sprinkled blood that speaks a better word than the blood of Abel.

The Lord Jesus Christ fulfills all prophecy (Revelation 19:10). As you can see, the blood of the martyrs cries out for justice, cries out for us to be our brother’s keeper (Genesis 4:9), and for us to love our neighbor (Leviticus 19:18), and pray for our enemy.

Matthew 5:44-45 English Standard Version

But I say to you, Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, so that you may be sons of your Father who is in heaven. For he makes his sun rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the just and on the unjust.

The saints in heaven are perfectly in union with The Holy Trinity through grace, in a manner that the human mind — which has not yet been blessed to enter within that union — cannot fully comprehend. Knowing this, since the Lamb desires the salvation of all men (1 Timothy 2:3-4), would not the saints be praying for the salvation of all mankind as well, since they are all holy and we are sinners?

Revelation 14:4 English Standard Version

It is these who have not defiled themselves with women, for they are virgins. It is these who follow the Lamb wherever he goes. These have been redeemed from mankind as firstfruits for God and the Lamb.

“Although it is written concerning them, Revelation 14:4, ‘They follow the Lamb, wherever he goes.’ If the Lamb is present everywhere, the same must be believed respecting those who are with the Lamb. And while the devil and the demons wander through the whole world, and with only too great speed present themselves everywhere; are martyrs, after the shedding of their blood, to be kept out of sight shut up in a coffin, from whence they cannot escape? You say, in your pamphlet, that so long as we are alive we can pray for one another; but once we die, the prayer of no person for another can be heard, and all the more because the martyrs, though they cry for the avenging of their blood (Revelation 6:10), have never been able to obtain their request. If Apostles and martyrs while still in the body can pray for others, when they ought still to be anxious for themselves, how much more must they do so when once they have won their crowns, overcome, and triumphed? A single man, Moses, oft wins pardon from God for six hundred thousand armed men; and Stephen, the follower of his Lord and the first Christian martyr, entreats pardon for his persecutors (Acts 7:59-60); and when once they have entered on their life with Christ, shall they have less power than before? The Apostle Paul says that two hundred and seventy-six souls were given to him in the ship (Acts 27:37); and when, after his dissolution, he has begun to be with Christ, must he shut his mouth, and be unable to say a word for those who throughout the whole world have believed in his Gospel?” — St. Jerome, Against Vigilantius, Section 6.

So we can see that St. Jerome is implying that in Revelation 14:4, since the saints “follow the Lamb wherever he goes” — not from their own divine power, and not becoming divine by nature, but by participating in the divine life of Christ through grace (2 Peter 1:4, 1 John 3:2) — they are always able to hear our prayers through the grace and omniscience of God.

“The witnesses who have preceded us into the kingdom, especially those whom the Church recognizes as saints, share in the living tradition of prayer by the example of their lives, the transmission of their writings, and their prayer today. They contemplate God, praise him and constantly care for those whom they have left on earth. When they entered into the joy of their Master, they were ‘put in charge of many things.’ Their intercession is their most exalted service to God’s plan. We can and should ask them to intercede for us and for the whole world.” — CCC 2683

St. Jerome also makes a good point that St. Paul was a holy martyr for the very Gospel he fiercely defended throughout his ministry, and ultimately ended up dying for. And Vigilantius — who St. Jerome was writing to at the time — and other modern sects who deny the communion of the saints, while simultaneously believing in the Bible, have the nerve to tell St. Paul (who is now sinless in heaven) he has to shut his mouth and not pray for those most in need of Christ’s mercy? God forbid!

Luke 15:7 English Standard Version

Just so, I tell you, there will be more joy in heaven over one sinner who repents than over ninety-nine righteous persons who need no repentance.

Hebrews 12:1 Revised Standard Version

Therefore, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us also lay aside every weight, and sin which clings so closely, and let us run with perseverance the race that is set before us.

I am extremely comforted knowing that The Holy Spirit is uniting The Church on earth with The Church in heaven. The thought of the Blessed Theotokos, The Mother of God, praying for me day and night — for my conversion to Catholicism, to finding Christ Jesus my Lord, to giving up a life of sin and constant rejection of godly endeavors — and when I finally chose to submit to God and live a life of perpetual repentance, I close my eyes and imagine the “joy in heaven” among the “cloud of witnesses.” Glory be to The Father of our Lord Jesus Christ.

Revelation 8:3-5 Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition

And another angel came, and stood before the altar, having a golden censer; and there was given to him much incense, that he should offer of the prayers of all saints upon the golden altar, which is before the throne of God. And the smoke of the incense of the prayers of the saints ascended up before God from the hand of the angel. And the angel took the censer, and filled it with the fire of the altar, and cast it on the earth, and there were thunders and voices and lightnings, and a great earthquake.

Revelation 5:8 English Standard Version

And when he had taken the scroll, the four living creatures and the twenty-four elders fell down before the Lamb, each holding a harp, and golden bowls full of incense, which are the prayers of the saints.

Here we clearly see, as explicit as it gets, the prayers of the saints being brought before the Lamb, who is the only one worthy to take the scroll from Him who sits on the Throne, The Father Almighty, and they all fell down and worshipped. The prayers of the saints ascend to God through the intercession of the holy angels (within the context of this verse).

Tobit 12:12-15 New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised Catholic Edition

So now, when you and Sarah prayed, it was I who brought and read the record of your prayer before the glory of the Lord, and likewise whenever you buried the dead. And that time when you did not hesitate to get up and leave your dinner to go and bury the dead, I was sent to you to test you. And at the same time God sent me to heal you and Sarah your daughter-in-law. I am Raphael, one of the seven angels who stand ready and enter before the glory of the Lord.

Our Lord Jesus hears our prayers because He is omniscient God in His essence and not bound by any constraints of creation. His mediation of the covenant and our prayers is essential for any other participation or communion to exist at all. Our prayers and petitions are only efficacious through faithfulness and union in Christ Jesus — without Him we are nothing.

Psalm 139:4 Legacy Standard Bible

Even before there is a word on my tongue, Behold, O Yahweh, You know it all.

Psalm 141:2 English Standard Version

Let my prayer be counted as incense before you, and the lifting up of my hands as the evening sacrifice!

Revelation 4:8 English Standard Version

And the four living creatures, each of them with six wings, are full of eyes all around and within, and day and night they never cease to say,

“Holy, holy, holy, is the Lord God Almighty, who was and is and is to come!”

The LORD knows what we will ask before we ask it, but He delights when we ask it anyway. The saints delight when we ask for their prayers as well, because they are holy and desire our salvation. The four living creatures represent the four Gospels of The Lord, or in some traditions, the four covenants given to man (Noahic, Abrahamic, Mosaic, New Covenant Gospel), and they have many other interpretations that I won’t go into in this post.

The nations and all creation praise the LORD unceasingly, repeatedly, over and over again, day and night, singing “Holy, holy, holy.” So know that when we sing the Sanctus in the Mass — “Holy, Holy, Holy Lord God of hosts. Heaven and earth are full of your glory.” — the Blessed Mother of God, the holy martyrs, and all the holy angels and saints in heaven are singing along with us praises to “the Lord God Almighty, who was and is and is to come!” Blessed is He who comes in the name of The Lord, Hosanna in the highest! Hosanna Son of David! (Matthew 21:9).

“Do not weep, for I shall be more useful to you after my death and I shall help you then more effectively than during my life.” — CCC 494

“I want to spend my heaven in doing good on earth.” — CCC 495

“It is not merely by the title of example that we cherish the memory of those in heaven; we seek, rather, that by this devotion to the exercise of fraternal charity the union of the whole Church in the Spirit may be strengthened. Exactly as Christian communion among our fellow pilgrims brings us closer to Christ, so our communion with the saints joins us to Christ, from whom as from its fountain and head issues all grace, and the life of the People of God itself.” — CCC 957

“Intercession is a prayer of petition which leads us to pray as Jesus did. He is the one intercessor with the Father on behalf of all men, especially sinners. He is ‘able for all time to save those who draw near to God through him, since he always lives to make intercession for them.’ The Holy Spirit ‘himself intercedes for us… and intercedes for the saints according to the will of God.’” — CCC 2634

We love you Jesus.

I am extremely grateful to the living God and Lord of all creation Jesus Christ that He has provided me with the boldness to proclaim His Gospel, and the ability to do so freely by allowing me to live since the LORD knows I am a sinner, and a dog without Jesus. Luckily He took flesh as the Virgin born Savior known as the Godman in order to redeem us all, Hallelujah!

In my first Youtube video “Jesus Is The God of The Old Testament”, I presented a two part syllogism for the deity of Christ:

P1. Universal and eschatological judgment belongs to YHWH alone — the one true God of Israel — (Psalm 50:1-6)

P2. Universal and eschatological judgment belongs to The Son, Jesus Christ, as his own divine authority. (John 5:21-29)

C. Therefore The Son, Jesus Christ, is YHWH — the one true God of Israel.

I decided to dive further into these two passages on this blog and answer some possible objections since I said I would in the video, and also because the Judge the Living and the Dead Discourse speaks to the divine sovereignty, authority, omniscience, and degree of reverence we are meant to have for Jesus, just as we have for The Spirit and The Father Almighty.

Psalm 50:1-6 Legacy Standard Bible

God Himself Is Judge

A Psalm of Asaph.

50 The Mighty One, God, Yahweh, has spoken, And called the earth from the rising of the sun to its setting. 2 Out of Zion, the perfection of beauty, God has shone forth. 3 May our God come and not be silent; Fire devours before Him, And a storm whirls around Him. 4 He calls the heavens above, And the earth, to render justice to His people: 5 “Gather My holy ones to Me, Those who have cut a covenant with Me by sacrifice.” 6 And the heavens declare His righteousness, For God Himself is judge. Selah.

(V.1) When the name of The LORD is invoked in this manner, with the triple divine designation (El Elohim Yahweh), you know that judgment, or a sovereign decree is about to follow. I only cite the first six verses of the Psalm for my argument, but many of the Church fathers believed since this Psalm is so strikingly similar to John 5’s judgment discourse, and since they believed the Old Testament theophanies were mainly The Son revealing The Father to creation (John 14:9), that it is the pre-incarnate Divine Son of God Himself who begins speaking in verse 7, “I Am God, your God”:

The Lord, the God of gods, has spoken Psalm 49:1. But in speaking, He has done what? He has called the earth from the rising of the sun unto the going down. He that has called the world from the rising of the sun unto the going down, is Our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, the Word made Flesh, John 1:14 – St. Augustine (Exposition on Psalm 50)

The Lord Jesus Christ then took it upon Himself to take flesh for our salvation, after warning us of His second coming many times in the Hebrew Bible (Isaiah 11:1-10).

Psalm 50:1 Legacy Standard Bible

God Himself Is Judge

A Psalm of Asaph.

50 The Mighty One, God, Yahweh, has spoken, And called the earth from the rising of the sun to its setting.

Matthew 28:18-19 Legacy Standard Bible

18 And Jesus came up and spoke to them, saying, “All authority has been given to Me in heaven and on earth. 19 Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit,

We see that our Lord calls all nations from all ends of the earth to be baptized in the name of The Holy Trinity because He desires the salvation of all men. ALL authority in heaven AND on earth has been given to Jesus, not some or part.

Psalm 50:2 Legacy Standard Bible

2 Out of Zion, the perfection of beauty, God has shone forth.

Matthew 17:1-2 Legacy Standard Bible

The Transfiguration

17 And six days later Jesus brought with Him Peter and James and John his brother, and led them up on a high mountain by themselves. 2 And He was transfigured before them; and His face shone like the sun, and His garments became as white as light.

Luke 9:31 Legacy Standard Bible

31 who, appearing in glory, were speaking of His departure which He was about to fulfill at Jerusalem.

Hebrews 12:22-24 Legacy Standard Bible

22 But you have come to Mount Zion and to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to myriads of angels, 23 to the festal gathering and assembly of the firstborn who are enrolled in heaven, and to God, the Judge of all, and to the spirits of the righteous made perfect, 24 and to Jesus, the mediator of a new covenant, and to the sprinkled blood, which speaks better than the blood of Abel.

Asaph would have written this Psalm in the Davidic era (1 Chronicles 15:16-17) 1000 BC, all the way to Hebrews in around 65 AD, and we are yet to see the day of The LORD that will come like a thief in the night (Matthew 24:43-44).

Numbers 6:24-26 Legacy Standard Bible

²⁴ Yahweh bless you, and keep you;

²⁵ Yahweh make His face shine on you,
And be gracious to you;

²⁶ Yahweh lift up His face on you,
And give you peace.’

Psalm 67:1-3

Legacy Standard Bible

Cause Your Face to Shine upon Us

For the choir director. With stringed instruments. A Psalm. A Song.

67 

God be gracious to us and bless us,
And cause His face to shine upon us— Selah.

2 

That Your way may be known on the earth,
Your salvation among all nations.

3 

Let the peoples praise You, O God;
Let all the peoples praise You.

Wait didn’t Jesus’s face (who is God Almighty) shine on them in glory in the Transfiguration? It is Jesus who’s salvation came to all nations, let all the people’s praise You, O God – The Mishnah — Tamid 5:1 – records that the Aaronic blessing formula in Numbers 6:24-26 was used as the official blessing of Israel daily in the Temple and “recited in the form of a prayer” for 1,400 years of worship and to this very day we still use this formula to pronounce blessings and worship our God.

And In 1979 at Ketef Hinnom in Jerusalem — a tomb site dating to approximately 600 BC — two tiny silver scrolls were discovered. When unrolled they contained the Aaronic Blessing of Numbers 6:24-26 — the oldest known inscription of any biblical text ever found.

it is easy to take for granted or forget to take into account that the Bible was put together across time in 73 different books, 3 different ancient languages that are far more sophisticated than the average languages you hear spoken today, by many authors who did not all know each other, but they do now perfected in the presence of God. They are having “festal gathering and assembly” and “the spirits of the righteous made perfect”, I ask all the holy saints and angels to pray for the reader and their families.

Psalm 50:3 Legacy Standard Bible

3 May our God come and not be silent; Fire devours before Him, And a storm whirls around Him.

Acts 2:1-4 Legacy Standard Bible

The Holy Spirit Comes at Pentecost

2 And when the day of Pentecost had fully come, they were all together in one place. 2 And suddenly there came from heaven a noise like a violent rushing wind, and it filled the whole house where they were sitting. 3 And there appeared to them tongues like fire distributing themselves, and they rested on each one of them. 4 And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak with other tongues, as the Spirit was giving them utterance.

Acts 2:33 Legacy Standard Bible

33 Therefore having been exalted to the right hand of God, and having received from the Father the promise of the Holy Spirit, He has poured out this which you both see and hear.

Revelation 19:11-15 Legacy Standard Bible

The Rider on a White Horse

11 Then I saw heaven opened, and behold, a white horse, and He who sits on it is called Faithful and True, and in righteousness He judges and wages war. 12 His eyes are a flame of fire, and on His head are many diadems; having a name written on Him which no one knows except Himself, 13 and being clothed with a garment dipped in blood, His name is also called The Word of God. 14 And the armies which are in heaven, clothed in fine linen, white and clean, were following Him on white horses. 15 And from His mouth comes a sharp sword, so that with it He may strike down the nations, and He will rule them with a rod of iron; and He treads the wine press of the wrath of the rage of God, the Almighty.

Here we can see that God consistently shows Himself as a devouring fire, a whirling tempest (Isaiah 29:6), a strong wind, and a force to be reckoned with. He inspires awe and reverence to the highest degree possible. The Holy Spirit here rests on the apostles and the Holy Mother of God, in order to initiate the mission of the Church, and sanctify the new converts to the faith, further strengthening the mission of Christ.

The LORD who comes to judge will come with eyes a flame of fire, with many diadems, His name is The Word of God (John 1:1). He comes to judge justly, He comes with His reward, He is coming quickly.

Isaiah 40:10 Legacy Standard Bible

10 Behold, Lord Yahweh will come with strength, With His arm ruling for Him. Behold, His reward is with Him And His recompense before Him.

Revelation 22:12 Legacy Standard Bible

12 “Behold, I am coming quickly, and My reward is with Me, to render to every man according to his work.

I do not want to drift too far off into Revelation or the prophet Isaiah because I would be writing for centuries. We can see here that Adonai YHWH is coming with His arm ruling for Him, rendering each man for his work. What we do in this life matters, come to the love of the Holy Trinity and cry out to Jesus, He will always answer an open heart (John 10:27), and an open mind (Matthew 7:7-8). You must be willing to seek Him and not harden your heart to resisting sin and the evils of this world.

Psalm 50:4 Legacy Standard Bible

4 He calls the heavens above, And the earth, to render justice to His people:

Matthew 25:31-32 Legacy Standard Bible

The Final Judgment

31 “But when the Son of Man comes in His glory, and all the angels with Him, then He will sit on His glorious throne. 32 And all the nations will be gathered before Him; and He will separate them from one another, as the shepherd separates the sheep from the goats;

All the nations will be gathered before the Lord Jesus for just judgment. I know the objection is coming already, how can He judge justly, and how does Jesus have all knowledge as His divine attribute if Mark 13:32, and Matthew 24:36, says The Son does not know the hour?

Mark 2:5-8 Legacy Standard Bible

5 And Jesus seeing their faith said to the paralytic, “Child, your sins are forgiven.” 6 But some of the scribes were sitting there and reasoning in their hearts, 7 “Why does this man speak that way? He is blaspheming; who can forgive sins but God alone?” 8 Immediately Jesus, aware in His spirit that they were reasoning that way within themselves, said to them, “Why are you reasoning about these things in your hearts?

Mark 11:2-6 Legacy Standard Bible

2 and said to them, “Go into the village opposite you, and immediately as you enter it, you will find a colt tied there, on which no one yet has ever sat; untie it and bring it here. 3 And if anyone says to you, ‘Why are you doing this?’ you say, ‘The Lord has need of it’; and immediately he will send it back here.” 4 And they went away and found a colt tied at the door, outside in the street; and they untied it. 5 And some of the bystanders were saying to them, “What are you doing, untying the colt?” 6 And they spoke to them just as Jesus had told them, and they gave them permission.

Mark 13:2 Legacy Standard Bible

2 And Jesus said to him, “Do you see these great buildings? Not one stone will be left upon another which will not be torn down.”

And where is now that great city, the metropolis of the Jewish nation? which was fortified by so many walls round about; which had so many fortresses, and large towers to defend it; which could hardly contain the instruments prepared for the war; and which had so many ten thousands of men to fight for it? Where is this city that was believed to have God himself inhabiting therein? It is now demolished to the very foundations: and hath nothing but that monument of it preserved; I mean the camp of those that hath destroyed it: which still dwells upon its ruins. Some unfortunate old men also lie upon the ashes of the temple; and a few women are there preserved alive by the enemy, for our bitter shame and reproach. Now who is there that revolves these things in his mind, and yet is able to bear the sight of the sun? though he might live out of danger? Who is there so much his country’s enemy, or so unmanly, and so desirous of living, as not to repent that he is still alive? And I cannot but wish that we had all died, before we had seen that holy city demolished by the hands of our enemies; or the foundations of our holy temple dug up after so profane a manner. But since we had a generous hope that deluded us; as if we might perhaps have been able to avenge ourselves on our enemies on that account: though it be now become vanity, and hath left us alone in this distress; let us make haste to die bravely. – Josephus (Jewish War VII.8.6-7)

The promises of Jesus come true. The promises of His love and eternal life (John 14:1-6), and His promises of just judgment for evil and sin will come true as we saw in 70 AD with the destruction of the Temple. The evangelist St. Mark makes it extremely clear before 13:32 that Jesus the Christ has all knowledge in His essence in the very same Gospel, confirmed by extrabiblical hostile sources to Christianity that have no reason whatsoever to support the Christian narrative. Every single Church father dates Matthew and Mark before the destruction of the Temple in Jerusalem. Jesus, who is God in the flesh, describes the destruction in rigorous detail and gets it right not by some stroke of luck, but because He created this universe and every creature in it, that means the sun, the moon, the stars, He gives life and He takes it. When they crucified our Lord, He was making a mockery of the devil (Colossians 2:15). He was warning His own followers, you will be hated by all nations because of His name (Mark 13:13).

Matthew 23:37-38 Legacy Standard Bible

Lament over Jerusalem

37 “Jerusalem, Jerusalem, who kills the prophets and stones those who are sent to her! How often I wanted to gather your children together, the way a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, and you did not want it. 38 Behold, your house is being left to you desolate!

Matthew 24:1-2 Legacy Standard Bible

Signs of Christ’s Return

24 And coming out from the temple, Jesus was going along, and His disciples came up to point out the temple buildings to Him. 2 And He answered and said to them, “Do you not see all these things? Truly I say to you, not one stone here will be left upon another, which will not be torn down.”

Matthew 24:15-16 Legacy Standard Bible

Abomination of Desolation and the Tribulation

15 “Therefore when you see the abomination of desolation which was spoken of through Daniel the prophet, standing in the holy place (let the reader understand), 16 then those who are in Judea must flee to the mountains.

Matthew 24:17-21 Legacy Standard Bible

17 Whoever is on the housetop must not go down to get the things out that are in his house. 18 And whoever is in the field must not turn back to get his garment. 19 But woe to those who are pregnant and to those who are nursing babies in those days! 20 But pray that your flight will not be in the winter, or on a Sabbath. 21 For then there will be a great tribulation, such as has not occurred since the beginning of the world until now, nor ever will.

Matthew 9:4 Legacy Standard Bible

4 And Jesus knowing their thoughts said, “Why are you thinking evil in your hearts?

Well, we see throughout these two Gospels that the authors have made it painstakingly clear that Jesus is all knowing. As Apostolic Christians we believe that Jesus Christ is true God, true man, so when we encounter passages in Scripture that seem to be attributing humanity, such as eating, sleeping, lack of knowledge, growing in wisdom, fatigue, etc. We know that these things must be attributed to His human nature. Since:

Colossians 2:9 Legacy Standard Bible

9 For in Him all the fullness of Deity dwells bodily,

Colossians 2:2-3 Legacy Standard Bible

2 so that their hearts may be encouraged, having been held together in love, even unto all the wealth of the full assurance of understanding, unto the full knowledge of God’s mystery, that is, Christ Himself, 3 in whom are hidden all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge.

We know that each person of The Holy Trinity is distinct, I know that may be hard to grasp, but only The Son took flesh for our salvation so only The Son is limited in knowledge within His human nature, which is distinct from the divine nature without confusion or mixture, neither nature being altered by the other, but both perfectly coexist within the hypostatic union of the Divine person of the Son of God Jesus Christ (Constantinople III 680-681 AD).

It is very interesting that Jesus also reassures the readers in Matthew just 7 verses later that the “thief” is coming in the night and KNOWS the hour. In the parable the head of the house is us, we do not know the hour, Our Lord is the thief who comes in the night, it is extremely clear. Our Lord is also the Son of Man who knows the hour. This is an asymmetrical parable that makes no sense at all if both parties in the parable lack the knowledge of the hour, in fact only the thief knowing the hour is what makes the owners ignorance so dangerous. We are having our house broken into, not God Almighty. Jesus is telling us: within my human nature I truly have taken on limitations because I love you, and I would do anything for my beloved creation even though you have done nothing to deserve it, but do not forget that I am Creator, and you are creature. We see this when He says “Do not marvel at this” (John 5:28) because all authority to judge has been given to the Son of Man, a slight nod (but obvious connection) to the Son of Man coming and judging the entire world at an hour we will not expect.

Matthew 24:42-44 Legacy Standard Bible

Be Ready for His Coming

42 “Therefore stay awake, for you do not know which day your Lord is coming. 43 But be sure of this, that if the head of the house had known at what time of the night the thief was coming, he would have stayed awake and would not have allowed his house to be broken into. 44 For this reason you also must be ready; for the Son of Man is coming at an hour when you do not think He will.

And do not worry about referring to Christ as a thief, it is just an idiom/parable, because He confirms this interpretation of the parable and so does St. Peter.

Revelation 3:3 Legacy Standard Bible

3 So remember what you have received and heard; and keep it, and repent. Therefore if you do not wake up, I will come like a thief, and you will not know at what hour I will come to you.

2 Peter 3:10 Legacy Standard Bible

10 But the day of the Lord will come like a thief, in which the heavens will pass away with a roar and the elements will be destroyed with intense heat, and the earth and its works will be found out.

Daniel 7:13-14 Legacy Standard Bible

The Son of Man

13 “I kept looking in the night visions, And behold, with the clouds of heaven One like a Son of Man was coming, And He came up to the Ancient of Days And came near before Him. 14 And to Him was given dominion, Glory, and a kingdom, That all the peoples, nations, and men of every tongue Might serve Him. His dominion is an everlasting dominion Which will not be taken away; And His kingdom is one Which will not be destroyed.

John 5:27-28 Legacy Standard Bible

27 and He gave Him authority to execute judgment, because He is the Son of Man. 28 Do not marvel at this; for an hour is coming, in which all who are in the tombs will hear His voice,

Jesus is saying “Do not marvel at this” because if they had truly understood the prophet Daniel, they would know that the Lord Jesus was the fully divine Messiah there to fulfill the Davidic throne and provide the everlasting kingdom that St. Daniel had told them about.

Daniel 7:27 Legacy Standard Bible

27 Then the reign, the dominion, and the greatness of all the kingdoms under the whole heaven will be given to the people of the saints of the Highest One; His kingdom will be an everlasting kingdom, and all the dominions will serve and obey Him.’

So, after that very long breakdown of this beautifully simple two part syllogism (argument) for the deity of Jesus Christ, I will restate it for His glory and hope that we properly cleared up the Mark 13:32 objection. There are also other layers to interpreting the passages that I did not dive into in this article but I may in the future or in a future video pertaining to the Monarchia of The Father.

Psalm 50:6 Legacy Standard Bible

6 And the heavens declare His righteousness, For God Himself is judge. Selah.

John 5:21-22 Legacy Standard Bible

21 For just as the Father raises the dead and gives them life, even so the Son also gives life to whom He wishes. 22 For not even the Father judges anyone, but He has given all judgment to the Son,

John 5:28 Legacy Standard Bible

²⁸ Do not marvel at this; for an hour is coming, in which all who are in the tombs will hear His voice,

P1. Universal and eschatological judgment belongs to YHWH alone — the one true God of Israel — (Psalm 50:1-6)

P2. Universal and eschatological judgment belongs to The Son, Jesus Christ, as his own divine authority. (John 5:21-29)

C. Therefore The Son, Jesus Christ, is YHWH — the one true God of Israel.

Jesus Christ is Lord.

St. Paul Is A Trinitarian

Jeremiah 9:23-24 Legacy Standard Bible

23 Thus says Yahweh, “Let not a wise man boast in his wisdom, and let not the mighty man boast in his might; let not a rich man boast in his riches, 24 but let him who boasts boast in this, that he understands and knows Me, that I am Yahweh who shows lovingkindness, justice, and righteousness on earth; for I delight in these things,” declares Yahweh.

Galatians 6:14-15 Legacy Standard Bible

14 But may it never be that I would boast, except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, through which the world has been crucified to me, and I to the world. 15 For neither is circumcision anything, nor uncircumcision, but a new creation.

This is very interesting, taking into account the texts inspired by The Spirit of the living God above, and the fact that St. Paul was a first-century Pharisee by blood (Philippians 3:5, Acts 23:6). From reading his epistles, we can tell he knew his Tanakh in and out. Why would Saul, the killer of Christians (Acts 26:10-11), go from ruthlessly denying the deity of Our Lord, to boasting in the crucifixion and death of a Jew?

Philippians 3:3 Legacy Standard Bible

3 For we are the circumcision, who worship in the Spirit of God and boast in Christ Jesus and put no confidence in the flesh,

But wait, the Old Testament says to make our boast in YHWH/LORD, God of Israel (Psalm 34:2), and that YHWH’s glory by nature will be shared with no creature (2 Corinthians 4:6, Isaiah 42:8), so is St. Paul, the Hebrew Apostle of Christ Jesus, blaspheming? No! He knows in his very being that the Christ who appeared to him on the Damascus Road (Acts 9:1-9) and gave him continuous revelation throughout the Book of Acts (Acts 18:9-10), is YHWH God of the Hebrew Scriptures in the flesh. Of course St. Paul is going to worship the Lord Jesus Christ and encourage others to do the same; he is just being honest to the fulfillment of prophecy and reality itself. We worship in the Spirit of God, because The Spirit is God (John 4:23-24).

1 Corinthians 8:12

Legacy Standard Bible 12 And in that way, by sinning against the brothers and wounding their conscience when it is weak, you sin against Christ.

Please go read 1 Corinthians 8 and take into account the context of the chapter. This chapter is about the sin of idolatry, turning against The One Sovereign LORD to worship an idol, replacing God with your own pride, or passions, or adultery (or spiritual adultery), etc. When we commit this sin, we sin against Jesus Christ? St. Paul is a Hebrew monotheist, believing in One God, although from these texts, Paul clearly does not only believe God is one person.

1 Corinthians 8:6 Legacy Standard Bible

6 Yet for us there is one God, the Father, from whom are all things and we exist for Him, and one Lord, Jesus Christ, by whom are all things, and we exist through Him.

Here we see earlier in the same chapter that St. Paul glorifies The God and Father of Our Lord Jesus Christ, while explaining to the Corinthians that His only Begotten Son is not just the Messiah (John 4:25-26), not only risen and incorruptible (John 20:24-29), and ascended to Heaven (Luke 24:50-51), but is that same God and LORD, uncreated in essence, outside of all creation because “we exist THROUGH HIM,” and “BY WHOM are ALL things,” not some things.

St. Paul not only teaches that Jesus is the One God of the Old Testament in essence, distinct from The Father in person, but by nature of Jesus being The living Christ, and The Spirit being The Anointing, he shows that every attribution of divinity to Jesus is an attribution of divinity to The Holy Spirit.

Acts 10:38 Legacy Standard Bible

38 You know of Jesus of Nazareth, how God anointed Him with the Holy Spirit and with power, and how He went about doing good and healing all who were oppressed by the devil, for God was with Him.

“Christ” is the English translation of “Christos,” which is the Greek translation of “Mashiach” (Messiah), the Hebrew term for “Anointed One.” This is not to be confused with the heresy of adoptionism. Christ did not receive The Spirit at His Baptism; He was always in perfect union with The Father and The Spirit by the nature of the mystery of The Holy Trinity.

2 Corinthians 3:17-18 Legacy Standard Bible

17 Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom. 18 But we all, with unveiled face, beholding as in a mirror the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image from glory to glory, just as from the Lord, the Spirit.

But wait, I thought Jesus was the One Lord, St. Paul? At the time of St. Paul, this is how a Greek-speaking monotheistic Jew would express that YHWH was One, by using “Kyrios.” He is expressing the same word used for “LORD” in the Shema (Deuteronomy 6:4) from the Greek Septuagint, which is the translation of the Hebrew Scriptures that the apostles used, and read, and quoted from, and applying it to The Holy Spirit. Therefore, we see that The Spirit is of the very same essence as Jesus Christ, who is YHWH God, consubstantial with The Father. The Spirit is also given the very same glory as The LORD, who The LORD says He will give to no other. He is transforming us (Titus 2:11-13), guiding us (Psalm 51:10-12), conforming us to the witness of The Son of God Incarnate (Luke 9:23), like the Lord Jesus said He would (John 15:26).

I ask Him to grant us all the gift of the understanding of His Scriptures, to His glory. To lead you, the reader, God willing to The Catholic Church. To be baptized in The Spirit of living waters (John 3:5), washed and regenerated, to receive Holy Communion, and love The Holy Trinity for the rest of your life.

2 Corinthians 3:6 Legacy Standard Bible

6 Who also made us sufficient as ministers of a new covenant, not of the letter but of the Spirit; for the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life.

Christ is Lord.

Who is David’s Lord?

Psalm 110:1 King James Version

110 The LORD said unto my Lord, Sit thou at my right hand, until I make thine enemies thy footstool.

What exactly is king David filled with The Holy Spirit in around 1000BC writing here? The author and speaker in the verse is David, but YHWH God is giving the oracle to David’s “Lord” (and uncreated God). Chronologically in Israel David was the greatest king, above any prophet or priest (1 Samuel 18:14,16, 2 Samuel 5:10). So then who is David referring to as his Lord? Also we see that YHWH is telling this Lord to sit at His own right hand. In this post we will be showing that there is only one Lord worthy of sitting at the right hand of The Father.

Matthew 22:41-46 Revised Standard Version

The Question about David’s Son

41 Now while the Pharisees were gathered together, Jesus asked them a question, 42 saying, “What do you think of the Christ? Whose son is he?” They said to him, “The son of David.” 43 He said to them, “How is it then that David, inspired by the Spirit, calls him Lord, saying,

44 ‘The Lord said to my Lord, Sit at my right hand, till I put thy enemies under thy feet’?

45 If David thus calls him Lord, how is he his son?” 46 And no one was able to answer him a word, nor from that day did any one dare to ask him any more questions.

Mark 12:35-37 Revised Standard Version

The Question about David’s Son

35 And as Jesus taught in the temple, he said, “How can the scribes say that the Christ is the son of David? 36 David himself, inspired by the Holy Spirit, declared,

‘The Lord said to my Lord, Sit at my right hand, till I put thy enemies under thy feet.’

37 David himself calls him Lord; so how is he his son?” And the great throng heard him gladly.

Luke 20:41-44 Revised Standard Version

The Question about David’s Son

41 But he said to them, “How can they say that the Christ is David’s son? 42 For David himself says in the Book of Psalms,

‘The Lord said to my Lord, Sit at my right hand, 43 till I make thy enemies a stool for thy feet.’

44 David thus calls him Lord; so how is he his son?”

Lord Jesus, who solidifies the fact that king David was indeed filled with The Spirit of prophecy when speaking this verse, is making the argument that in Hebrew culture fathers do not call sons their Lords, superiors call inferiors their servants, not vice versa, so how then is Messiah only the son of David? Jesus is arguing that He is the pre-existent, eternal second person of The Holy Trinity, the divine Son of God that took flesh for our salvation, simultaneously David’s descendent and his divine Lord. The Pharisees question Jesus on the law, and the scriptures, while not understanding that He is the very God that gave it to them (Exodus 23:20-23, See my post on Angel of The LORD) and upholds all justice.

Daniel 7:13-14 Revised Standard Version

13 I saw in the night visions,

and behold, with the clouds of heaven there came one like a son of man, and he came to the Ancient of Days and was presented before him. 14 And to him was given dominion and glory and kingdom, that all peoples, nations, and languages should serve him; his dominion is an everlasting dominion, which shall not pass away, and his kingdom one that shall not be destroyed.

Mark 14:60-62 Revised Standard Version

60 And the high priest stood up in the midst, and asked Jesus, “Have you no answer to make? What is it that these men testify against you?” 61 But he was silent and made no answer. Again the high priest asked him, “Are you the Christ, the Son of the Blessed?” 62 And Jesus said, “I am; and you will see the Son of man seated at the right hand of Power, and coming with the clouds of heaven.”

The Lord Jesus Christ is being questioned by the Sanhedrin, He responds to their question about His messianic role with a clear response of “egō eimi”, which is the same phrase used in the Septuagint in Exodus 3:14 for the revealing of the Covenant name “I AM WHO I AM”, and many other passages in the LXX. He has decided to further reveal that the prophecies of the Old Testament scriptures all find their fulfillment in Him “For the testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy.” (Revelation 19:10). I am not going to get too deep into the son of man in this post but I do want to home in on the anointed Jesus sitting at the “right hand” on high.

Acts 2:33-36 Legacy Standard Bible

33 Therefore having been exalted to the right hand of God, and having received from the Father the promise of the Holy Spirit, He has poured out this which you both see and hear. 34 For David did not ascend into the heavens, but he himself says:

‘The Lord said to my Lord, “Sit at My right hand, 35 Until I put Your enemies as a footstool for Your feet.”‘

36 Therefore let all the house of Israel know for certain that God has made Him both Lord and Christ—this Jesus whom you crucified.”

Isaiah 61:1 Legacy Standard Bible

Exaltation of the Afflicted

61 The Spirit of Lord Yahweh is upon me Because Yahweh has anointed me To bring good news to the afflicted; He has sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, To proclaim release to captives And freedom to prisoners,

Zechariah 12:10 Legacy Standard Bible

Mourning for the Pierced One

10 “And I will pour out on the house of David and on the inhabitants of Jerusalem the Spirit of grace and of supplication, so that they will look on Me whom they have pierced; and they will mourn for Him, as one mourns for an only son, and they will weep bitterly over Him like the bitter weeping over a firstborn.

Alright let’s take a look at the passages above and ask the Spirit of the living God to guide us, referring to The Catholic Church in case you have any questions, everything I write on this blog is my personal opinion as a layman.

In St. Peter’s sermon at Pentecost he breaks down that Jesus was crucified, died, and was buried, and God raised Him up just as the scriptures attested to (Psalm 16:10, Hosea 6:1-2), exalting Him to His right hand on high, quoting Psalm 110:1 he makes the clever but obvious argument that David did not ascend to the heavens to sit at the right hand of God, and Jesus Christ did. (Acts 1:9-11) Therefore confirming Jesus of Nazareth as The Christ of God. “The Spirit of grace and of supplication” was poured out on Jerusalem as well (Ephesians 6:18-20), and filled all of the Apostles when Jesus breathed the Holy Spirit on them.

John 20:21-23 Revised Standard Version

21 Jesus said to them again, “Peace be with you. As the Father has sent me, even so I send you.” 22 And when he had said this, he breathed on them, and said to them, “Receive the Holy Spirit. 23 If you forgive the sins of any, they are forgiven; if you retain the sins of any, they are retained.”

The “ME” who was “PIERCED” in Zechariah 12:10 is YHWH, since the LORD is the speaker in the verse. The Spirit poured out is The Holy Spirit, the one pouring out the Spirit of grace is the Lord Jesus Christ, who was pierced, died, and was buried, then was raised to sit at the right hand of God The Father on high.

Hebrews 1:13 Revised Standard Version

13 But to what angel has he ever said, “Sit at my right hand till I make thy enemies a stool for thy feet”?

The speaker is God The Father, quoting Psalm 110:1 to the glory of His only Son Jesus, asking a rhetorical question, that He answered earlier in the chapter. There is no created angel in heaven He would ever exalt, or any creature for that matter, to the level of His Son, because by the nature of Jesus being equal with the Father and Spirit in essence as Most High God, (and fully human) this privilege could only ever be given within the relations of The Godhead. I will be diving deeper into Hebrews 1 in a future post God willing.

Hebrews 1:3 Revised Standard Version

3 He reflects the glory of God and bears the very stamp of his nature, upholding the universe by his word of power. When he had made purification for sins, he sat down at the right hand of the Majesty on high,

He bears the same nature as the Father. The Father’s nature is uncreated, therefore The Son’s nature is uncreated, therefore The Spirit’s nature is uncreated. We believe in One God in three distinct persons distinguished by their relations. We see throughout the Hebrew scriptures that YHWH gives His glory to no other by nature (Isaiah 42:8, 48:11), although here the author of Hebrews and The Holy Ghost inspiring him happily give it to Jesus Christ the Son of God.

Hebrews 1:4-6 King James Version

4 Being made so much better than the angels, as he hath by inheritance obtained a more excellent name than they.

5 For unto which of the angels said he at any time, Thou art my Son, this day have I begotten thee? And again, I will be to him a Father, and he shall be to me a Son?

6 And again, when he bringeth in the firstbegotten into the world, he saith, And let all the angels of God worship him.

1 Peter 3:22 Revised Standard Version

22 who has gone into heaven and is at the right hand of God, with angels, authorities, and powers subject to him.

Acts 7:55-60 Revised Standard Version

55 But he, full of the Holy Spirit, gazed into heaven and saw the glory of God, and Jesus standing at the right hand of God; 56 and he said, “Behold, I see the heavens opened, and the Son of man standing at the right hand of God.” 57 But they cried out with a loud voice and stopped their ears and rushed together upon him. 58 Then they cast him out of the city and stoned him; and the witnesses laid down their garments at the feet of a young man named Saul. 59 And as they were stoning Stephen, he prayed, “Lord Jesus, receive my spirit.” 60 And he knelt down and cried with a loud voice, “Lord, do not hold this sin against them.” And when he had said this, he fell asleep.

Lord, I beg you receive our souls when it is our time to go like you received the soul of the holy martyr St. Stephen. As you can see Jesus is currently at the right hand of The Father interceding and mediating for all souls, upon death we are immediately judged by Him (John 5:22). This passage is truly another testament to the divinity of Jesus, since no man who didn’t believe Jesus was God Almighty, capable of receiving his spirit, would cry out asking Him to receive it.

Psalm 31:5 Revised Standard Version

5 Into thy hand I commit my spirit; thou hast redeemed me, O LORD, faithful God.

Luke 23:46 Revised Standard Version

46 Then Jesus, crying with a loud voice, said, “Father, into thy hands I commit my spirit!” And having said this he breathed his last.

Well here we see that it is YHWH (LORD) God who receives souls? But we just showed that the holy scriptures attribute the entrusting of souls to Jesus, the Christ and only begotten Son of God. This seems to be a pattern where we continuously see actions that are only attributed to YHWH God of the Old Testament, attributed to Jesus Christ. Most likely because He is the God of the Old Testament in the flesh. Jesus entrusts His own spirit to The Father, He descends into Hades (1 Peter 4:6), then Jesus is exalted to the position of eternal High Priest and Mediator of The New Covenant, ruling and reigning for eternity. We look forward to His coming, where He will judge the living and the dead.

Psalm 110:4 Revised Standard Version

4 The LORD has sworn and will not change his mind, “You are a priest for ever after the order of Melchiz′edek.”

Romans 8:34 Revised Standard Version

34 who is to condemn? Is it Christ Jesus, who died, yes, who was raised from the dead, who is at the right hand of God, who indeed intercedes for us?

Ephesians 1:20-22 Revised Standard Version

20 which he accomplished in Christ when he raised him from the dead and made him sit at his right hand in the heavenly places, 21 far above all rule and authority and power and dominion, and above every name that is named, not only in this age but also in that which is to come; 22 and he has put all things under his feet and has made him the head over all things for the church,

If all things (all creation) is under Lord Jesus, and under His rule, His authority, and all things are governed by His command, then by definition as Sovereign LORD, His essence must be uncreated and outside of all time, space, and matter. Sustaining every breath we take and allowing us to live.

Psalm 110:1 King James Version

110 The LORD said unto my Lord, Sit thou at my right hand, until I make thine enemies thy footstool.

Colossians 3:1 King James Version

3 If ye then be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God.

St. Paul urges us to be risen with the Lord Jesus and washed of all sin, cleansed and regenerated by The Spirit of living waters (John 3:5). I think we have thoroughly established the answer to the question at the beginning of the post, “Who is David’s Lord?”, I will let the scripture answer the question for me. If you have made it this far into the post I thank you for reading and you are very brave. Glory to Jesus.

Matthew 28:18 Revised Standard Version

18 And Jesus came and said to them, “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me.

Philippians 2:9-11 Revised Standard Version

9 Therefore God has highly exalted him and bestowed on him the name which is above every name, 10 that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth, 11 and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.

Malachi (My Messenger) Chapter Three Verse One

This verse is so beautiful and echoes throughout the holy scriptures on so many different levels showing that Jesus Christ is Lord and God who instituted the New Covenant in his Blood for the forgiveness of sins. Since the Bible is supernaturally inspired by The Holy Ghost there is no possible way I could cover every cross reference and prophetic fulfillment but I will pray the same Spirit fills me to cover the topic properly and glorify Him.

Malachi 3:1 King James Version

3 Behold, I will send my messenger, and he shall prepare the way before me: and the Lord, whom ye seek, shall suddenly come to his temple, even the messenger of the covenant, whom ye delight in: behold, he shall come, saith the LORD of hosts.

The speaker in this verse contextually is YHWH or the LORD, and “my messenger” is the forerunner and last prophet of the Old Covenant, St. John The Baptist, sent to proclaim God’s Christ to the world and preach repentance.

Mark 1:1-3 Legacy Standard Bible

The Preaching of John the Baptist

1 The beginning of the gospel of Jesus Christ, the Son of God.

2 As it is written in Isaiah the prophet:

“Behold, I send My messenger ahead of You, Who will prepare Your way; 3 The voice of one crying in the wilderness, ‘Make ready the way of the Lord, Make His paths straight.’”

Romans 1:1 Legacy Standard Bible

The Gospel Exalted

1 Paul, a slave of Christ Jesus, called as an apostle, having been set apart for the gospel of God,

Is it the Gospel of Jesus Christ, The Son of God? or the Gospel of God? (Isaiah 52:7) It is both, and the phrases are used synonymously throughout the New Testament because they recognized Jesus as God. Jesus also confirmed that the Gospel (“good news”), is the bringing to memorial of the events of His life and ministry on earth along with His deity and anointing.

Matthew 26:6-13 Legacy Standard Bible

The Costly Perfume

6 Now when Jesus was in Bethany, at the home of Simon the leper, 7 a woman came to Him with an alabaster jar of very costly perfume, and she poured it on His head as He reclined at the table. 8 But when the disciples saw this, they were indignant, saying, “Why this waste? 9 For this perfume might have been sold for a high price and the money given to the poor.” 10 But Jesus, aware of this, said to them, “Why do you bother the woman? For she has done a good work to Me. 11 For you always have the poor with you; but you do not always have Me. 12 For when she poured this perfume on My body, she did it to prepare Me for burial. 13 Truly I say to you, wherever this gospel is proclaimed in the whole world, what this woman has done will also be spoken of in memory of her.”

Isaiah 40:3-5 Revised Standard Version

³ A voice cries:
“In the wilderness prepare the way of the LORD,
    Make straight in the desert a highway for our God.
⁴ Every valley shall be lifted up,
    and every mountain and hill be made low;
the uneven ground shall become level,
    and the rough places a plain.
⁵ And the glory of the LORD shall be revealed,
    and all flesh shall see it together,
    for the mouth of the LORD has spoken.”

John 1:14-15 Revised Standard Version

¹⁴ And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, full of grace and truth; we have beheld his glory, glory as of the only Son from the Father. ¹⁵ (John bore witness to him, and cried, “This was he of whom I said, ‘He who comes after me ranks before me, for he was before me.’”)

John the Baptist “CRIED” out, proclaiming the glory of the Lamb, who comes to take away the sin of the world (John 1:29), the prophet Isaiah knows the King Messiah having His way prepared for Him is YHWH. Isaiah continuously writes about this LORD’s anointed being sent to suffer on our behalf, and redeem the human race for their sins.

Jeremiah 31:33 Legacy Standard Bible

33 “But this is the covenant which I will cut with the house of Israel after those days,” declares Yahweh: “I will put My law within them, and on their heart I will write it; and I will be their God, and they shall be My people.

The Lord (Psalm 110:1) having His way prepared for Him by John The Baptist, who prepares the road for the mal’ak habberit — the Messenger of the Covenant — Christ Himself, who is also the prophetic embodiment of the new covenant and able to fulfill all laws, and forgive all sins with His salvific Blood, since He is the truth (John 14:6) in His very essence by nature of being God.

Matthew 26:26-28 Legacy Standard Bible

The Lord’s Supper

26 Now while they were eating, Jesus took some bread, and after a blessing, He broke it. And giving it to the disciples, He said, “Take, eat; this is My body.” 27 And when He had taken a cup and given thanks, He gave it to them, saying, “Drink from it, all of you; 28 for this is My blood of the covenant, which is poured out for many for forgiveness of sins.

Matthew 11:10-11 Legacy Standard Bible

10 This is the one about whom it is written,

‘Behold, I send My messenger ahead of You, Who will prepare Your way before You.’

11 Truly I say to you, among those born of women there has not arisen anyone greater than John the Baptist! Yet the one who is least in the kingdom of heaven is greater than he.

Jesus quotes Malachi 3:1, and Isaiah 40:3, solidifying the fact that He is indeed the Lord God Almighty and the Messiah of the covenant sent to reconcile mankind and teach us humility and self-giving love.

Matthew 21:14-16 Legacy Standard Bible

14 And the blind and the lame came to Him in the temple, and He healed them. 15 But when the chief priests and the scribes saw the marvelous things which He had done, and the children who were shouting in the temple, saying, “Hosanna to the Son of David,” they became indignant 16 and said to Him, “Do You hear what these children are saying?” And Jesus said to them, “Yes; have you never read, ‘Out of the mouth of infants and nursing babies You have prepared praise for Yourself’?”

Psalm 8:1-2 King James Version

8 O LORD, our Lord, how excellent is thy name in all the earth! who hast set thy glory above the heavens.

2 Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings hast thou ordained strength because of thine enemies, that thou mightest still the enemy and the avenger.

Malachi 3:1 Revised Standard Version

The Coming Messenger

3 “Behold, I send my messenger to prepare the way before me, and the Lord whom you seek will suddenly come to his temple; the messenger of the covenant in whom you delight, behold, he is coming, says the LORD of hosts.

It’s interesting the speaker is YHWH in Malachi 3:1, He makes it clear the way being prepared is for “ME”, but He also says the Lord of the covenant who is coming owns the temple that He is coming to…”suddenly come to HIS temple”…isn’t the temple owned by God? (Matthew 21:12) where we worship The One Sovereign God? As we can see in the passages above Christ came to the temple after His triumphant entry into Jerusalem doing miracles of healing, and the crowds and children began praising Him, begging salvation “Hosanna” (Psalm 118:25-26), the Jews questioned this because they believed Jesus was merely a man making Himself out to be God and took this to be blasphemy. Jesus responds by quoting Psalm 8:1-2, a psalm about The Father giving His Christ who is equal in essence, begotten not made, complete and utter dominion over all creation for eternity, so no wonder the children cannot help but praise The Lord Jesus! I would too. (Psalm 8:5-6)

Isaiah 25:9 Revised Standard Version

9 It will be said on that day, “Lo, this is our God; we have waited for him, that he might save us. This is the Lord; we have waited for him; let us be glad and rejoice in his salvation.”

Luke 2:30-32 Revised Standard Version

30 for mine eyes have seen thy salvation 31 which thou hast prepared in the presence of all peoples, 32 a Light for revelation to the Gentiles, and for glory to thy people Israel.”

Isaiah 42:6 Revised Standard Version

6 “I am the LORD, I have called you in righteousness, I have taken you by the hand and kept you; I have given you as a covenant to the people, a light to the nations,

I don’t want to go on too long because this verse truly echos throughout the entire New and Old Testament and I never get tired of it. As we can see Jesus is the God of the Covenant that took flesh in the Holy Theotokos for our salvation, because He loves each and every one of us personally (Isaiah 43:1, John 10:3) not because we did anything to earn it.

“Of a truth, soon and suddenly shall His will be accomplished, as the Scripture also bears witness, saying, ‘Speedily will He come, and will not tarry; and, The Lord shall suddenly come to His temple, even the Holy One, for whom you look.’”

— Clement of Rome, Letter to the Corinthians, Ch. 23 (c. 96 AD), citing Malachi 3:1.

Christ is Lord.

Moses Knew Jesus Personally

The Lord has chosen to reveal Himself to us in many ways. Blessed are we to try and exegete meaning from the words inspired by The Holy Spirit, holding to the traditions of the holy men who came before us. Everything I write on this blog is my personal opinion feel free to take it or leave it. (1 Peter 3:15)

The Angel of the LORD “Mal’ak Yahweh” (Lexicon :: Strong’s H4397 – mal’āḵ) means a messenger (of YHWH), i.e., a prophet, priest, teacher, or ambassador, etc.

Angelos (ἄγγελος) in the Greek lexicon means a messenger, envoy, or agent (Strong’s G32).

The Angel (Malak) of the LORD first appeared, then “God called to him from the midst of the bush and said, “Moses, Moses!” And he said, “Here I am.” (Exodus 3:2–4). We can contrast Moses’s perfectly obedient response to God’s call with Adam’s response to the Divine Son of God’s call in the Garden of Eden.

Genesis 3:8–10 Legacy Standard Bible

8 Then they heard the sound of Yahweh God walking in the garden in the cool of the day, and the man and his wife hid themselves from the presence of Yahweh God in the midst of the trees of the garden.
9 Yahweh God called to the man and said to him, “Where are you?”
10 And he said, “I heard the sound of You in the garden, and I was afraid because I was naked; so I hid.”

Acts 7:30–35 Legacy Standard Bible

30 “And after forty years had passed, an angel appeared to him in the wilderness of Mount Sinai, in the flame of a burning bush.
31 When Moses saw it, he was marveling at the sight; and as he approached to look more closely, there came the voice of the Lord:
32 ‘I am the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham and Isaac and Jacob.’ Moses trembled with fear and would not dare to look.
33 But the Lord said to him, ‘Remove the sandals from your feet, for the place on which you are standing is holy ground.
34 I have surely seen the oppression of My people in Egypt and have heard their groans, and I have come down to deliver them; come now, and I will send you to Egypt.’

35 “This Moses whom they disowned, saying, ‘Who made you a ruler and a judge?’ is the one whom God sent to be both a ruler and a deliverer with the help of the angel who appeared to him in the bush.

As we can see in Acts 7, the very first holy martyr of the Church, St. Stephen, died making the argument that this Angel who appeared to Moses out of the flame of the bush was distinct from the Father, yet sent by the Father to redeem us as ruler, judge, and deliverer, temporarily granting the prophet Moses this authority and using him as an instrument of God to guide the Israelites through the wilderness by His mediating grace. Now just as the Israelites wanted to turn against Moses out of envy and pride (Numbers 16:1–3), the Sanhedrin rejected the incarnate Son of God and Messiah begotten by the Father, who appeared to Moses in the midst of the bush as messenger (Acts 7:52).

Acts 7:38 Legacy Standard Bible

38 This is the one who, in the congregation in the wilderness, was with the angel who was speaking to him on Mount Sinai and with our fathers; the one who received living oracles to pass on to you.

Let’s bring it back to the text at hand now that we have established the Angel calling to the prophet Moses out of the bush is distinct from the Father Almighty but also referred to as YHWH God, since the speaker is consistently the Angel throughout the chapter, which the holy martyr St. Stephen attested to in Acts 7.

Exodus 3:5–6 Legacy Standard Bible

5 Then He said, “Do not come near here. Remove your sandals from your feet, for the place on which you are standing is holy ground.”
6 He said also, “I am the God of your father, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.” Then Moses hid his face, for he was afraid to look at God.

The Lord Jesus also plainly makes the point that it was He who was speaking to Moses out of the bush pre-incarnate. The Sadducees did not believe in the resurrection of the body, and Jesus refutes them by bringing up that God who appeared to Moses in the bush was not only God but the God of the patriarchs who were alive in Abraham’s bosom, fully at peace (Wisdom 3:1–5, Isaiah 40:11, Luke 23:43) in the presence of God. After realizing the communion of saints was apparent and that we truly live forever with God, they dared not question Him again (Luke 20:40).

Luke 20:37–38 Legacy Standard Bible

37 But that the dead are raised, even Moses showed in the passage about the burning bush, where he calls the Lord the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.
38 Now He is not the God of the dead but of the living; for all live to Him.”

We also see that in Exodus 3:5 God makes Moses cast off his sandals and proclaims the ground holy, something that we see again in the Book of the Prophet Joshua from the Commander of the LORD’s Host.

Joshua 5:13–6:2 Legacy Standard Bible

Commander of Yahweh’s Host

13 Now it happened when Joshua was by Jericho, that he lifted up his eyes and looked, and behold, a man was standing opposite him with his sword drawn in his hand, and Joshua went to him and said to him, “Are you for us or for our adversaries?”
14 He said, “No! Rather I indeed come now as commander of the host of Yahweh.” And Joshua fell on his face to the earth and bowed down and said to him, “What has my lord to say to his slave?”
15 The commander of the host of Yahweh said to Joshua, “Remove your sandals from your feet, for the place where you are standing is holy.” And Joshua did so.

The Destruction of Jericho

6 Now Jericho was tightly shut because of the sons of Israel; no one went out, and no one came in.
2 And Yahweh said to Joshua, “See, I have given Jericho into your hand, with its king and the valiant warriors.

Now we see that Joshua the son of Nun fell prostrate to worship this commander of the LORD’s hosts, but interestingly, this commander did not rebuke him like the angel whom St. John the Apostle attempted to worship did, and redirected him toward the sole worship of the one holy Triune God. So why does this commander and messenger accept worship, but created spirit beings refuse it? It is because the commander in Joshua 5, and the Angel in the bush, are both the same LORD and God in essence.

Revelation 19:10 Legacy Standard Bible

10 Then I fell at his feet to worship him. But he said to me, “Do not do that! I am a fellow slave with you and your brothers who have the witness of Jesus. Worship God! For the witness of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy.”

We also see that in Joshua 6:2 the text has not indicated any change in speaker; chapter separations and verse numbers do not exist in the original text. The Commander of the LORD’s Host is the same Yahweh God who spoke to Moses out of the bush, who spoke to Joshua, who took flesh in the Holy Virgin Mary in Nazareth (Luke 1:35). St. Justin Martyr argues in depth in Chapters 59–61 (Dialogue with Trypho) that this Angel who appeared to Moses was God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, yet distinct from God the Father Almighty, namely, His Son, the pre-incarnate Logos.

“Justin: Permit me, further, to show you from the book of Exodus how this same One, who is both Angel, and God, and Lord, and man, and who appeared in human form to Abraham and Isaac, appeared in a flame of fire from the bush, and conversed with Moses.”

“Have you perceived, sirs, that this very God whom Moses speaks of as an Angel that talked to him in the flame of fire, declares to Moses that He is the God of Abraham, of Isaac, and of Jacob?”

The great St. Irenaeus of Lyons makes a similar argument that the Word (Logos) of God reveals and declares the Father to all creation (Hebrews 1:3, John 1:18) in Against Heresies, Book 3, Chapter 6, Paragraph 2, and this is an exegetical position on Exodus 3 that we could argue from the writings of many of the early Church fathers, not just these two giants of the faith.

Adversus Haereses III.6.2

“For the Son, who is the Word of God, arranged these things beforehand from the beginning, shaping and forming and doing all things, since He also is the true God; and He it is who spake with Moses, and showed Himself to the patriarchs, and was seen, and conversed with men, while the Father was invisible and had no dealings with them, and could not be seen. But to Moses He said: ‘I am the God of thy father, the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.’ He makes clear that He is the one God and Father of all, and also that He is the One who spoke with the patriarchs.”

Revelation 19:11–16 Legacy Standard Bible

The Rider on a White Horse

11 Then I saw heaven opened, and behold, a white horse, and He who sits on it is called Faithful and True, and in righteousness He judges and wages war.
12 His eyes are a flame of fire, and on His head are many diadems, having a name written on Him which no one knows except Himself,
13 and being clothed with a garment dipped in blood, His name is also called The Word of God.
14 And the armies which are in heaven, clothed in fine linen, white and clean, were following Him on white horses.
15 And from His mouth comes a sharp sword, so that with it He may strike down the nations, and He will rule them with a rod of iron; and He treads the wine press of the wrath of the rage of God, the Almighty.
16 And He has on His garment and on His thigh a name written, “KING OF KINGS, AND LORD OF LORDS.”

There can only be one Commander of the LORD’s Host because they are Yahweh’s armies, and the only one who can possibly command them is Yahweh Himself. To be the LORD of Hosts you must command the angelic host, the stellar host (Genesis 2:1), the earthly armies (Isaiah 13:4), the cosmic host, and all of creation itself. Since all of creation cries out praising the Lord Jesus, we know that He is this very LORD and commander who commanded Joshua to remove his sandals for the ground was holy, and the very same LORD and living God who called to Moses out of the midst of the bush and commanded Moses to remove his sandals, proclaiming the ground holy ground.

Luke 19:38–40 Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition

38 saying, “Blessed is the King who comes in the name of the Lord! Peace in heaven and glory in the highest!”
39 And some of the Pharisees in the multitude said to him, “Teacher, rebuke your disciples.”
40 He answered, “I tell you, if these were silent, the very stones would cry out.”

Matthew 26:53 Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition

53 Do you think that I cannot appeal to my Father, and he will at once send me more than twelve legions of angels?

Exodus 3:12–16 Legacy Standard Bible

12 And He said, “Certainly I will be with you, and this shall be the sign to you that it is I who have sent you: when you have brought the people out of Egypt, you shall serve God at this mountain.”

13 Then Moses said to God, “Behold, I am about to come to the sons of Israel, and I will say to them, ‘The God of your fathers has sent me to you.’ And they will say to me, ‘What is His name?’ What shall I say to them?”
14 And God said to Moses, “I AM WHO I AM”; and He said, “Thus you shall say to the sons of Israel, ‘I AM has sent me to you.’”
15 And God furthermore said to Moses, “Thus you shall say to the sons of Israel, ‘Yahweh, the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, has sent me to you.’ This is My name forever, and this is My memorial name from generation to generation.
16 Go and gather the elders of Israel together and say to them, ‘Yahweh, the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, has appeared to me, saying, “I indeed care about you and what has been done to you in Egypt.”’

Deuteronomy 4:15 Legacy Standard Bible

15 “So keep your souls very carefully, since you did not see any form on the day Yahweh spoke to you at Horeb from the midst of the fire.”

If the Angel of the LORD was appearing only through created manifestations or “mediums,” Moses would not have said he saw no form (from YHWH) in the midst of the fire. The LORD can truly appear in the Old Testament without His essence taking up space, just like Jesus Christ (YHWH) can truly be present in the Eucharist at thousands of Masses every morning (Body, Blood, Soul, and Divinity) without His divine essence needing to be spatially present.

Deuteronomy 5:24–26 Legacy Standard Bible

24 And you said, ‘Behold, Yahweh our God has shown us His glory and His greatness, and we have heard His voice from the midst of the fire; we have seen today that God speaks with man, yet he lives.
25 So now then why should we die? For this great fire will consume us; if we hear the voice of Yahweh our God any longer, then we will die.
26 For who is there of all flesh who has heard the voice of the living God speaking from the midst of the fire, as we have, and lived?

The Israelites and Moses seem to be fully aware that it was the living God who spoke to them out of the bush, along with many other previous theophanies/Christophanies that I will be writing about in depth on this blog, that attest to the divinity of the second person of the Holy Trinity, the only begotten eternal Son of the Father Almighty, our Lord Jesus Christ pre-incarnate. Don’t believe me, believe our Lord, who claims that the writings of the prophet Moses attest to Him.

John 5:45–47 Legacy Standard Bible

45 Do not think that I will accuse you to the Father; the one who accuses you is Moses, in whom you have set your hope.
46 For if you believed Moses, you would believe Me, for he wrote about Me.
47 But if you do not believe his writings, how will you believe My words?”

I am not making the argument that Jesus Christ is a celestial spirit creature with wings, as we established at the beginning of this post the definition of “Mal’ak” (Hebrew) along with “Angelos” (Greek) simply means messenger.

Hebrews 1:6 King James Version

6 And again, when he bringeth in the firstbegotten into the world, he saith, And let all the angels of God worship him.

Now I am arguing that the faith we practice today has been delivered and revealed through the revelation of the divine Son of God Jesus Christ perpetually throughout time, not only after He took flesh in the all-holy Virgin, but He also appeared to Abraham (John 8:56–58), Isaac (Genesis 22:11–12), Jacob (Genesis 32:24–32), Moses, and many patriarchs. This same Angel of the LORD (distinguished from created angels by context) appearing continuously throughout the 46-book Hebrew Bible is the Logos spoken of in John 1:1:

“In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word WAS God.”

Sealing the promises and glory of His divinity, role as divine redeemer of mankind (Colossians 2:15), everlasting dominion and kingship (Daniel 7:13–14), high priest and eternal mediator/intercessor for all (1 Timothy 2:1–5), lovingly desiring the salvation of all men, and perpetually revealing the Father to His beloved creation. Jesus is the Christ who is Lord, true God and YHWH God, although distinct from the Father, and the Father distinct from the Holy Spirit, and the Spirit distinct from the Son, although one God—He Is the same One Living God who told Moses to remove his sandals and proclaimed the ground holy, and He is the same God who proclaims the altar holy at Mass. I implore you to come to the loving embrace of the Holy Trinity, and come to Mass, and cry out to the Father Almighty with the spirit of a child. Have mercy on us.

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