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WHO IS “THE BECOMING FATHER”? Many throughout history have used the term “persons” to express God’s different dimensions, or roles, or positions. Really, Christianity (and Judaism before it) is a monotheistic faith – belief in ONE GOD. It is not a polytheistic faith – belief in MANY GODS. Christian doctrines written by consecrated lovers of God trying to understand His nature and eternal Godhead have shed light – in part – on His character. However, these same doctrines have unfortunately served as dividing walls, keeping apart blood-bought, Spirit-baptized people of God who pursue, love, serve, and seek to know the same God – Who is, in reality and fullness, their Divine Father! Without going into too much detail on this page (for I explain it thoroughly throughout my book The Becoming Father), suffice it to say that I will use words such as “dimensions”, “roles”, “positions”, “relationships”, “facets”, and “aspects” – maybe some others – to express God’s different works, or what some commonly call His “persons”. His Dimensions / Roles / Positions / Relationships / Facets / Aspects are:
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THE SPIRIT OF GOD / HOLY GHOST / CHRIST; and JESUS, the SON OF GOD. Indeed, there is God the Father, and there is The Spirit of God (Who is GOD'S OWN SPIRIT), and there is The Word Who became flesh, Jesus the Son, the resurrected God-man Who became the firstborn Son among many brethren (Gr. "adelphos", God-given relationships, or literally born of the same father from the same womb), Who is now at the right hand of the Father in heaven. Now, God the Father IS GOD! God the Spirit, or Husband, IS GOD! God the Son, Jesus, IS GOD!
But you will find that these are actually different dimensions of God, which require us to grow into different levels of relationship with Him. We must come into each level of relationship in order to know Him all the way as "The Becoming Father"! Now GOD BEGAN AS FATHER. Not as Husband/Blesser/Empowerer, not as Son/Savior/Redeemer, but as Father. The completeness of Who He is, is Father. God is called the God and Father of all beings all throughout the Bible:
Jesus Himself, Who was God in the flesh on the earth, always referred to, prayed to, and pointed to His Father in heaven, Who is God, the Father of all beings. He is The God and Father of all! GOD BEGAN AS FATHER – not as Husband, not as Son, but as Father. All throughout the Word of God and time, GOD’S PRIMARY AND ULTIMATE GOAL HAS BEEN FOR HIM TO BE FATHER, not just Husband, and not just Son. The reason for God saving people (through Jesus the Son), and blessing and empowering people, and drawing them into becoming the "Bride of Christ" (through the Husband/Spirit of God/Holy Ghost/Christ), IS FOR THE ULTIMATE PURPOSE OF HIM BECOMING AND BEING THEIR FATHER! So, in reality, when you look out through Christianity, what you see is that many have God in the dimension of the Son. Others go further and receive God in the dimension of Husband. But they need to allow God to be their Father and to truly become His family!
Through the pages of Genesis and into the Book of Exodus, we see that Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob only knew God in part. But then we come to Moses. Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob did not know God in the dimension that Moses knew Him. In truth, they didn’t have to – they operated from father to son in a spiritual and biological way. Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob dealt with biological family, except for Abraham when he came out of Haran with “…the souls that they had gotten in Haran…” (Genesis 12:5), who were not his own biological family. (Over time, processes, and fathering formation, those souls that came out of Haran did become “like-souled” with Abraham and were later called “trained servants, born in his own house…” (Genesis 14:14) “Born” in the Hebrew (the original language in which the Old Testament was written) means “homeborn”, like a child or son of his very own…) So they dealt from father to son in a spiritual/domestic/biological way. Abraham had established the ways of God well in his household:
Moses, on the other hand, was not so fortunate. He was going to have to deal with a nation of 2-3 million people (according to most scholars) who were not his direct biological family, and who had been under the influence of the Egyptians for generations. He would have to deal with the mixed multitude that came with Israelites up out of Egypt. He would also have to confront Pharaoh, the leader of Egypt, a prominent but pagan nation of the world. Moses found himself unable to deal with Pharaoh, the mixed multitude, and the 2-3 million Israelites who had lost Fatherhood while in Egypt. Moses was going to have to reinstate God’s Fatherhood back into these people! To enable Moses for this task, God had to give him a revelation of His Fatherhood - of God Himself as Father - literally, of Himself as "The Becoming Father"! This was the dimension of God that had not been known by Moses' fathers, but the dimension that God had always been trying to bring forth to mankind. With this immense commission on his shoulders, Moses said unto God,
GOD’S RESPONSE TO MOSES WAS THE FIRST STEP IN THE REVEALING OF HIMSELF AS “THE BECOMING FATHER”...
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