O Yehowah, how manifold are thy works!
In wisdom hast thou made them all: the earth is full of thy riches. (Psalm 104:24)
And unto the angel of the church of the Laodiceans write;
These things saith the Amen, the faithful and true witness,
the beginning of the creation of God… (Revelation 3:14)
And every creature which is in heaven, and on the earth, and under the earth,
and such as are in the sea, and all that are in them, heard I saying, “Blessing,
and honour, and glory, and power, be unto him that sitteth upon the throne,
and unto the Lamb for ever and ever.” And the four living creatures said, “Amen.”
And the four and twenty elders fell down and worshipped him that liveth for ever and ever. (Revelation 5:13–14)
I once believed that Jehovah was God the Father and Jesus was God the Son,
that they both existed from the beginning, and that although they were distinct persons,
they carried out the same divine work.
I believed that Jehovah merely planned creation while God the Son actually created all things.
I believed that the One who came into the world was the second Person of the Godhead,
who had existed from the beginning, and that He died, rose from the dead, and ascended into heaven.
I also believed that at His second coming, only the Father knows the day and the hour not even the Son.
In this view, the Son Himself will return, yet does not know the time of His own return.
Whenever something in Scripture seemed difficult to understand,
I was taught not to question it but simply to accept it. Since God is a mystery,
the doctrine of the Trinity was said to be beyond human explanation.
Whatever could not be understood was to remain a mystery.
That was the God I once believed in.
But the God revealed in the Scriptures is different. From everlasting to everlasting, there is only one God.
He is the Creator and the Savior, and He Himself came in flesh and blood, died, and rose again.
I abandoned the god I once believed in because that god is not found in the Scriptures.
The Bible declares that Jehovah God, the Everlasting Father, came as a little child and abolished death.
Hallelujah!