Jesus is the Word in Living Form

A spiritual walk through the Bible reveals that the entire Scripture from Genesis to Revelation is a living form of Christ Himself. Sometimes, Jesus Christ is hidden in the mystery of the text, and sometimes He is the text, but He’s always there. He is the Living Word as seen in the opening of Saint John, but he is also the Creator Word in Genesis chapter one. If you will go to the Masoretic text of Genesis chapter one, you will find a strange presence of the “Aleph and the Tau” (first and last letters of the Hebrew alphabet) as untranslated throughout the chapter. I called a Hebrew scholar for information on why the “Aleph and Tau” is untranslated. He said that the presence of these letters cannot be translated because they declare the results as a “direct object of the verb”. Wow! He further informed me that this same untranslatable “Aleph and Tau” shows up in the Old Testament (Genesis to Malachi) five thousand six hundred ninety-nine times.

All of this comes alive when you hear the Son of God emphatically state, “I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the ending, saith the Lord, which is, and which was, and which is to come, the Almighty.” (Revelation 1:8) Alpha and Omega in the Second Testament is the exact translation of “Aleph and Tau” in the First Testament. The Greek language makes no allowance for the untranslatable letters of the Hebrew. Of course, all of this was part of the plan of the Bible. Jesus Christ is hidden in the First Testament, but the five thousand six hundred ninety-nine “Aleph and Tau’s” testify that He is there nonetheless. These are only the mystery presence while He is prophesied about hundreds of times and seen in types and shadows thousands of times. In the Second Testament He is revealed in person so the mystery becomes a full revelation. The two languages Hebrew and Greek were perfectly ordained by God for the transmittal of His eternal “Word.”

We should not think this strange or something out of reach for Bible students. The Son of God spoke to the Jewish scholars and His critics of this absolute truth about Himself and the First Testament. He said, “Search the scriptures; for in them ye think ye have eternal life: and they are they which testify of me. And ye will not come to me, that ye might have life.” (St. John 5:39-40) The entire Word of God was given to us so that the testimony and revelation of Jesus Christ might give us life eternal. God the Father is wonderfully revealed in all of nature, but the Son of God is revealed in the Holy Word. The Romans Road says, “How then shall they call on him in whom they have not believed? and how shall they believe in him of whom they have not heard? and how shall they hear without a preacher? (Romans 10:14) The Gospel gun, anointed, will storm the gates of hell.

A breathtaking presence of the “Word” is clearly revealed in Proverbs 30:4. Solomon wrote, “Who hath ascended up into heaven, or descended? who hath gathered the wind in his fists? who hath bound the waters in a garment? who hath established all the ends of the earth? what is his name, and what is his son’s name, if thou canst tell?” This was a brilliant prophecy of the Son of God hidden in language of beautiful wisdom. It reveals the depth of SolomonÂ’s wisdom and his understanding that God had a Son who would in the fullness of time descend to be revealed in the human family. Saints living in the revelations of the Holy Bible can discover His presence from Genesis to Revelation.

You can know the Son of God. The Holy Spirit was sent to reveal Him to you. It is not enough to know about Him or be fully able to quote or teach His Scriptures. His living presence in your life is the fullness of human joy. It is the combination of truth and Spirit that is the simple secret. No individual that will learn to wait before and in the truths of the Bible, depending wholly on the Spirit to teach his spirit, will be denied. God never reveals Himself from the emotions of man but from the spirit of man. Our entrance point within the realm of acquaintance to Him is in our mind and heart. Jesus said, “Sanctify them through thy truth: thy word is truth.” (St. John 17:17) He was praying to the Father when He spoke these words in His great intercession for us.

He came down, or descended as Solomon suggested, and revealed as Paul stated, “God, … Hath in these last days spoken unto us by his Son…” (Hebrews 1:1a,2a) All of His great presence and ministry among men was that we might know Him, and knowing Him, have everlasting life. He returned to the Father, and the Father thrilled by His conquest, gave Him a name which is above every name. After the Son had been exalted and seated at the Father’s right hand, the Son made a petition to the Father. He asked the Father to send back the Holy Ghost to represent all the fullness of the Son to the church. He is doing that right now.

You have as much of Him as you have waited before Him to receive. Listen in on Christ’s prayer to the Father as it continues, “And the glory which thou gavest me I have given them; that they may be one, even as we are one, And I have declared unto them thy name, and will declare it: that the love wherewith thou hast loved me may be in them, and I in them.” (St. John 17:22,26)

I love it that Christ made that prayer an ongoing prayer. He said, “I have declared unto them thy name, and will declare it…” The Holy Spirit is waiting right in the midst of truth and from that excellent and unbending station, He is revealing Jesus Christ to all “that wait on Him.”