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FAQ # 196
QUESTION 196
: If the son is not pre-existent,
then the role of the son will cease, if so, when and isn’t that an erroneous
doctrine?
One writer said, “he took a temporary position as a servant.” Yet his
priesthood is forever which is used to imply the role of the son will
not cease. If the role of the son will not cease why then is his position
as a servant to us temporary? Don’t you know priests are servants, not
only to God but also to men? But again, our carnal minds seem to want
to word a mystery. When the role of the son will cease means that we will
become that priest. Christ “hath made us…priests unto God” (Rev 1:6, 5:10).
As Christ is begotten as his first born, so will we be (James 1:18). Christ
is a typification of us in the glorified form. The priestly role that
Christ came to fulfill was to be a mediator between God and us, another
mystery explained earlier in chapter 7 (“JESUS?”). In the resurrection,
we are eternally join to God when "all things shall be subdued unto
him, then shall the Son also himself be subject unto him that put all
things under him, that God may be all in all" (1 Cor 15:28). Therefore, what will the need be for
a mediator any more? You won the case, lawyers (mediators) and prosecutors
(devils) are not needed any more. That’s why one verse says that by “by
one offering he hath perfected for ever them that are sanctified” (Heb
10:14). In other words, he became a Priest for that moment of sanctifying
us. What a Priest did was offer sacrifices unto God periodically for us
to be cleanse, but he did it one time and retired. By this one offering
of his life, he established your scapegoat or point of mediation that
you can never loose a case ever again. You are “sanctified…forever.” No
more Priest needed. That is the beauty and blessedness of Christ. Hence,
when you see him in glory, you’ll see and recognize his as The Father.
That’s the reason he told his disciples, “the time cometh, when I shall
no more speak unto you in proverbs, but I shall shew you plainly of the
Father. At that day ye shall ask in my name: and I say not unto you, that
I will pray the Father for you” (John 16:25-26). Because they’ll know
he is the father.
One person concluded:
“How long will this arrangement
for the transfer of information from the Father to the Son be necessary?
When will his absolute deity, his ultimate inheritance of all names, titles
and prerogatives of deity be complete?
Answer: The subordinate position,
sonship, continues until every enemy is destroyed, that is, all is saved.
The prophetic scripture clearly tells us this:
Psalms 110:1 The LORD said
unto my Lord, Sit thou at my right hand, UNTIL I make thine enemies thy
footstool. [until satan and his angels are banished to the lake of fire
forever and all that were to be save is saved.]
The
word "until" in the above text is clear indication that the
subordinate position, the "right-hand position," is not a permanent
position. There will be a shift in position, a moving from the right-hand
place to another place. One does not move from the right-hand place to
the left-hand place. That would be a demotion. One does not move from
the right-hand place to a position under the throne. That would be a humiliation.
There is only one imaginable move from the right-hand place to the very
throne itself. Of course, there is no actual move in space as the anthropomorphic
expression, "right-hand," would cause us to conceive. Rather
than a space-position move, there will be an authority-position move.
The son will inherit the Father's throne, the Father's prerogatives and
the Father's identity. He will be revealed as God, all and in all” (R.
Sabin).
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