The Old Testament went out when Jesus replaced laws & judgment with grace - 'Love God & love your neighbors'.

GOD’S 7 FUNCTIONS

Many Christians concentrate on JUST Jesus the passive Lamb. This is the ‘turn-the-other-cheek’ love sinners ‘love-your-enemy’ aspect and function of God’s personality. JESUS should be the center of our life.

BUT, we should not forget that God has 6 other sides, some very tough, a total of 7, the Bible number of completion:

1. God's FIRST function was to set up a TRINITY - FATHER, Jesus the only begotten SON to deal with humankind, and the HOLY SPIRIT to help with it’s truth-seeking power, which Jesus when He ascended made sure the new church leaders received on Pentecost.

2. His SECOND function was as CREATOR. Jesus created the heavens and the earth and every living entity on land and in the seas. Look at the colorful fish and birds, the miracle of our human body, the beauty of our eyes, our lips.

3. His THIRD function, Jesus came as a cloud of fire inside a sanctuary, an UNSEEN theocratic LEADER on earth using a rod of iron. Jesus was UNSEEN LEADER through most of the Old Testament. These were destructive years as His people, brought out of Egypt across the Red Sea into the desert for 40 years, were then led into the promised land led by Joshua. Many were killed who backslid out of the camp of Jesus, turning against His subordinate leaders.

4. God's FOURTH function was for Jesus to walk the earth as a sinless human, whose parents were Mary and the HOLY SPIRIT, to save sinners and to destroy the works of the devil, as a ‘sacrificial LAMB’.

5. His FIFTH function is Jesus as High PRIEST, the only one in the Order of Melchisidec. Jesus is now the only intercessor between us and God the Father, there are no others, (no Pope, no Priest).

6. His SIXTH function will be as JUDGE. Jesus will judge each one life according to what is in our hearts, and we will not be able to hide anything from Him.

The final Day of Atonement is when all His JUDGMENTS for everybody will be set in concrete. He completes His separation of "wheat", or righteous, from "chaff", those to be burned to ashes. At a WHITE THRONE JUDGMENT 1,000 years after the judgment of the righteous, sinners, after seeing their life’s mistakes, will not exist any more.

7. God's SEVENTH function will be to return triumphantly as KING of Kings. Jesus will be KING of a sinless earth once more for an eternity.

So God has tough sides. As Theocratic UNSEEN LEADER in the desert, He demanded obedience or else. As JUDGE He will decide those who will become ashes under the feet of His righteous followers.

As KING He will watch as sinners and the devil, everyone not written in the Book of Life, are thrown into the Lake of Fire to burn up, no longer to exist.

The God of the Old Testament is the same as the God of the New Testament. He does not change. One-fourth of the New Testament is Old Testament almost verbatim.

Jesus was a part of God from the very beginning before creation.

We should not ignore any of His 7 functions:

• 1.The FATHER/SON JESUS/HOLY SPIRIT parts of the TRINITY
• 2.CREATOR
• 3.UNSEEN LEADER
• 4.LAMB
• 5.PRIEST (replaced by the HOLY SPIRIT on earth)
• 6.JUDGE
• 7.KING
  

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