A Conversation within The Triune Godhead

 

If one has wondered about the eternal thought process of the Triune Godhead as to how mankind came about, then this explores the concept of creation in the mind of God. Why did He create? When did He create? How did He create? And why did He allow evil to come into being? It’s short, but a start and a reasonable approach. The setting will be from the perspective that God had not created anything, yet. The Godhead is about to act, and creation will begin.

 

A Conversation within The Triune Godhead:

 

We shall mark a place in eternity, and we will call it “Time”.

 

Time will be the stage where we shall display the creation of space and matter that will manifest the glory of the Godhead. The very purpose of carving this place in eternity is to designate a hint of our infinite breadth, length, height, and depth of being to a creation where and in whom we entrust our glorious riches. Though time will elapse, and its platform will be sequential and linear, we will remain everlastingly the same. We will see ages pass, yet it is ever now. The entire span of time and all its proceedings will be as one glance from our sovereign rule over it. I AM—the Great Unchangeable, ever present.

 

In it, our glory will expand beneath our feet into an infinitude of heavens with wonderous systems, galaxies, and planets. They will be perfectly balanced and intricately placed, though always in motion, roaring with brilliance, billowing with energy, and bursting with starkness and clarity framed by thick darkness. In time, we will create myriads of living beings that will tend to duties assigned and be messengers to herald our intent. We shall call them angels. They will behold the glories of creation as we speak it into existence.

 

It is unto the Son that all these things will be created. He will speak with the power of His word and there will be these heavens. He will bring into existence from nothing - things that are visible and invisible. There will be thrones, dominions, rulers, and authorities—all things will be created through Him and for Him. He will be before all these things, and in Him all things will hold together.

 

This creation from His spoken word will continue to expand outward from the epicenter of the most glorious display of Our nature and power. Our abode will always be above the heavens, but the dominion of our presence will be set on a globe that has an intricate foundation of dirt, water, air, teaming with living creatures.

 

The Son will hang this most beautiful blue sphere of land and sea within its own orchestrated system of sister planets. It will be the center of the universe. It will rotate around a dense ball of gas that will sustain thriving life with light and heat and will be that which seconds and seasons will be measured. Yes, this great expanse of galaxies and myriads of systems and life on one sole planet will be created in a chronological order, and we will stretch the period of all creation into a time of six (24-hour) days. And on the final sixth day, at the apex of our glory, we will touch and form dirt on this most beautiful planet and breath into it a living soul – a man. Human. This man shall live forever as an infinite soul. We shall call it eternal life because his origin is from the Eternal God. It has forever been our desire to commune with him and to share our dominion with him always. Time will be the threshold for this to come about. It will be so.

 

This man will be a being that is like us. We will embed Our image in him in that he will be able to comprehend the Divine. We will put in him an eternal pursuit that only We can fill. We will dwell with him in the midst of a splendid garden where we will commune him and he will have dominion.

Then, we will make from his body a companion suitable for himself where they will both enjoy companionship and unity that will be similar to ours.

  

They will be man and woman. We will encompass them with our glory that they may experience eternal significance and unconditional security. They will be the very persons in whom we have always desired to display our nature and to fill with awe and wonder of a Creator that simply wishes to commune and give. They will be satisfied and rejoice in our glory, and we will unfold the boundlessness of our eternal attributes as time is elapsed. The more we display our glory, the greater will be their satisfaction.

 

There are, however, mysteries of our nature that will not be known to them until they reject our entreaties. They will suffer and We will sacrifice. We shall ordain one of our highest angelic beings, Lucifer, to raise a rebellion against us in the heavens, yet we shall cast him and his defiant troop like lighting from our presence and commit them to the realms beneath our feet. Lucifer will be the beguiler to instigate the fall of mankind. He will be our tool to bring about the fullest measure of our glory. And he will be the trigger that will initiate our Triune Covenant of Redemption that has been hidden in eternity past.

 

The beguiler will tempt the woman to usurp the Godhead and disobey their Creator. The man will follow, and they will openly rebel and defy us and choose instead to be like us without us. Then, they will think that The Triune Godhead is just like them.

 

All that was good and holy we will curse, and this man and all mankind after him will know separation, corruption, suffering and death. It will be just. We will number his days in his physical state where he will then stand before the throne of the Eternal One and give account for his defiance. It will be appointed unto man to die once and then will come his judgment. He will be without excuse for his rebellion. He will be judged and give account of every word, thought and deed transgressed in the flesh. He will bow the knee and freely confess that he is not the king and will concur with his transgressions and will be sentenced to an eternal separation together with Lucifer and his evil horde. Hell is what we will name it, The lake of fire. It will be an echo of our holiness for all eternity. 

 

Then will come our Covenant of Redemption in time and space, as we have ordained from eternity past. The Uncreated One, The Eternal One, who in the beginning existed already, who is with God; distinct from God and yet is God. He is the One who will create everything that will exist, and nothing will come into existence that He did not create. He is life itself and gives that life, and He is Light. God the Son, the second person of the Trinity, will become flesh, and dwell among mankind, and they will behold His glory, glory as of the only begotten from the Father, full of grace and truth. His essence will not undergo a change when it becomes united with manhood. There will be an assumption of a perfect human nature. He will be sinless and impeccable. He will become the God-Man. He will be God to fully satisfy the eternal death that man has conveyed upon himself. And he will be Man to fully pay the debt incurred by mankind. He will suffer in the flesh, fulfill all righteousness and then bear upon Himself the very judgment that mankind deserves.

 

He will gird Himself with mortal clay, the essence of His divinity will not be changed, His flesh will not become God, nor will God become flesh by a real actual change of nature. The Godhead will still be the same. He will humble himself, still existing as God, taking the form of a bondservant, and being made in the likeness of men. That which is emptied of Himself is only the effulgence of His visible brilliance. He will submit Himself to the limitations of time and space. All at the same time, never surrendering His eternal mode of existence. 

Even as an infant in swaddling garments, He will still be the infinite God who is holding together every element in the universe by the power of His might. He will still know all things, be ever present throughout his universe and all-powerful to act.

 

God the Spirit will bring about the conception of the Son in the womb of a young woman who will remain a virgin until his birth. He will become an infant in a foul animal troth. He will be the same when He is a babe in the manger, as he was when He stretched the curtains of heaven. He will be the self-same God that holds the world upon His everlasting shoulders. He will never change in His essence, not even by His incarnation; He remains everlastingly, eternally, the one unchanging God with whom there is no variableness, neither the shadow of a change. God the Spirit will impel him, sustain him and commune with him.

 

For the world’s redemption, God the Son, will enter into history, the eternal will come into time, the kingdom of heaven will invade the realm of earth, it will be the greatest of all events. God the Son, the second person of the Trinity, will become incarnate. Our eternal Covenant of Redemption will commence.

 

He will be put to death, crucified, by those whom He came to save, and He will resurrect three days later. He shall then, in his resurrected body, return to the realms above and be seated at the right hand of the Father.

 

From before time, we preordained the fall of the apex of our creation that we might demonstrate the summit of our glory. We shall display the ultimate medley of our nature in attributes that can only be realized in the darkest abyss of the human soul.

 

The Godhead will not abandon the corrupt soul of all mankind to eternal death. We will call an elect many and redeem them at our cost. And as many that have been appointed to eternal life will believe. Each one we have chosen before the foundation of the world, should be holy and blameless before Us. 

We have destined them in love to be our sons through God the Son, according to the purpose of our will, to the praise of our glorious grace which he will freely bestow on them. 

In the Son they will have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of their trespasses, according to the riches of his grace which he will lavish upon them. For We will make known to them in all wisdom and insight the mystery of our will, according to our purpose which we will set forth in the Son who will be their Redeemer. This plan will be for the fulness of time, to unite all things in him, things in heaven and things on earth. In him, according to the purpose of him who accomplishes all things according to the counsel of his will, for all those who hope in Son will have been destined and appointed to live for the praise of his glory.

The fullness of the Godhead will be in eternal solidarity and on display. The Father will appoint the elect; God the Spirit will regenerate them from spiritual death to eternal life and sustain them with his powerful indwelling and they will be given to the Son. 

 

And the Holy Spirit will seal them. This sealing will be the guarantee of their inheritance until they acquire possession of an eternal presence with the Son, to the praise of his glory.

 

The Throne of Judgment before the Eternal One need not be the end of mankind. From eternity past, these whom we will predestine, we will also call; and these whom we call, we will also justify; and these whom we will justify, we will also glorify. Not one will be lost. 

Not one will be snatched from the Father’s hand. All of these elect will be given to the Son as a magnificent tribute. The elect will be those who repent and believe in the account to be revealed. 

They will become members of the household of God, and the Son himself will be the cornerstone, in whom the whole structure is joined together and grows into a holy temple in the Lord; in whom will become a dwelling place of God in the Spirit. This will be called the church, the body of the Redeemer.

All of this will be accomplished by God the Father, through the Spirit and in the Son when he shall raise him from the dead and make him sit at his right hand in the heavenly places, far above all rule and authority and power and dominion, and above every name that is named, not only in that coming age but also in that which is to come; and he will put all things under his feet and will make him the head over all things for the church, which will be his body, the fulness of him who fills all in all.

 

The boundlessness of our nature will not be seen until all this has come to pass. Our sacrificial love, faithfulness, forgiveness, mercy, longsuffering, grace, and certainly our justice will not be enjoyed by the elect until the Son has demonstrated all these attributes in his flesh. The uncreated One, the Creator, the eternal One, preexistent, coexistent with God, self-existent will become a mere man. 

 

He will suffer temptation as did man in the garden, yet he will not fall. He will suffer hunger, pain, loneliness, rejection, and sleeplessness. He will endure the elements that he created. And ultimately, he will suffer death in the most excruciating, humiliating manner by those whom he will create. He will rise from the grave and ascend to his realm of glory. The elect will not have a Redeemer and Savior who cannot sympathize with their weaknesses, but one who will be tempted in all things as they will be, yet he will be without sin. He can and will only sympathize with the state of fallen mankind as far as His own sinless experience. His experience will be in like manner to their nature - human nature, not in like manner to their depravity. He is and will always be impeccable. They will draw near with confidence to his throne of grace, so that they may receive mercy and find grace to help in time of need. 

 

The Son will call out twelve men from whom he is among and who are common among them all and we will set upon their shoulders the glorious honor to go into this fallen world and proclaim the good tidings of a Savior. God The Spirit will come upon them in exceptional and exclusive power such that none have ever seen nor will ever see again. The Son is Lord of all, abounding in riches for all who call on Him; for whoever will call on the name of the Son will be saved. It will be heralded throughout many ages, "Repent and believe in the Gospel". And as the ages unfold, the elect will repent and believe the Gospel. It will be granted unto them to not only believe but to suffer for the sake of the Son. In their providential adversity, their weakness will dimmish as the indwelling Spirit provides strength in their time of need. They will be transformed into the image of their Redeemer, glory upon glory, so that when they are glorified, they will be crowned with an eternal, incomprehensible weight of glory which could only have been gained through their suffering in the flesh. Through their darkest times, the Son will be their greatest treasure. When they are like Him in their eternal state, they will cherish Him beyond what they could ever imagine. It will be union as a Groom and His bride.

 

These twelve men, indwelt with God the Holy Spirit, will breathe through them the words of eternal life that will be written in a book and distributed throughout the whole world. This book is our whole counsel from eons past to things to come. It will be universal, absolute truth. The book will begin with our creation and its order and purpose. 

 

Then it will reveal our sovereign and providential rule and how it shall come to pass the redemption of mankind. We will record in it our Covenant of Grace with mankind. The last entry will reveal the end of time and the consummation of the ages. The last of the twelve will record a vision in it of the Son, the Lamb. The Lamb will be standing, and he will bear the marks and scars that he received unto his death. His resurrected body will forever be in the state as that of a lamb that was slain. The true mind of sacrificial love of the ever-boundless eternal one forever restrained in the body of a man who was mutilated, torn, and killed by those he came to be a ransom is finally revealed for all creation to behold. The height of our nature will no longer be a mystery confined in eternity. It will be manifest in time. 

 

The last disciple will also record in the final book what he sees around the throne of the Lamb. 

He will hear the voice of many angels around the throne and the living creatures and the elders; and the number of them will be myriads of myriads, and thousands of thousands, saying with a loud voice, “Worthy is the Lamb that was slain to receive power and riches and wisdom and might and honor and glory and blessing.”

 

The redeemed will worship the lamb that was slain until their time is cast to depart their temporal dwelling. Then they will be changed into his likeness at the resurrection foretold in the book. They will join the myriads above.

 

We will bring time to a close, yet we will not close the end of mankind. We will begin an eternal fellowship and union with those who are the saints purchased by the Son and there will be a new heavens and a new earth. The saints, redeemed and restored, will gather around the throne and will forever bask in the glory of the Triune Godhead, and we will fill their hearts with our glory as it has always been meant to be from eternity past. They will forever sing,

 

Hallelujah, Hallelujah, Hallelujah, Hallelujah, Hallelujah

For the Lord God omnipotent reigneth.

King of kings and Lord of lords
And He shall reign forever and ever
Forever and ever.

Hallelujah, Hallelujah, Hallelujah, Hallelujah. 

 

 

(Contributions from Spurgeon, FF Bruce, Macarthur)