Likewise:
Deity of Jesus
Jesus
"Truly, truly, I say to you, before Abraham was born, I am," (
John 8:58).
Paul
"For in Him all the fullness of Deity dwells in bodily form," (
Col. 2:9).
Joh:18:36:
Jesus answered,
My kingdom is not of this world:
if my kingdom were of this world,
then would my servants fight,
that I should not be delivered to the Jews:
but now is my kingdom not from hence.
2Co:12:2:
I knew a man in Christ above fourteen years ago,
(whether in the body,
I cannot tell;
or whether out of the body,
I cannot tell:
God knoweth
such an one caught up to the third heaven.
Heb:12:22-26:
But ye are come unto mount Sion,
and unto the city of the living God,
the heavenly Jerusalem,
and to an innumerable company of angels,
To the general assembly and church of the firstborn,
which are written in heaven,
and to God the Judge of all,
and to the spirits of just men made perfect,
And to Jesus the mediator of the new covenant,
and to the blood of sprinkling,
that speaketh better things than that of Abel.
See that ye refuse not him that speaketh.
For if they escaped not who refused him that spake on earth,
much more shall not we escape,
if we turn away from him that speaketh from heaven:
Whose voice then shook the earth:
but now he hath promised,
saying,
Yet once more I shake not the earth only,
but also heaven.
The witness of creation in Ge:1 was by God and the Holy Spirit, the witness below is that of Christ. Unlike the Holy Angels that are also at the GWT event Christ was born perfect. The ban on marriages before then was to protect any child born before that time from ending up in the lake. Being perfected they can be given in marriage in their new Heaven and have a child that is also born perfected.
The people that reside in New Jerusalem are not given in marriage during the time of the new earth. The courtyard at the beginning is like a blades of grass and the harvest that elevates mankind into the 3rd heaven is when this earth would be full of people if they were the size of a blade of grass. That transition would have the ones from New Jerusalem be given in marriage and they would have one child that is also born perfected. The others have 100 children that enter with them so they are not given in marriage in the 3rd heaven.
Proverb:8:22-36:
The LORD possessed me in the beginning of his way,
before his works of old.
I was set up from everlasting,
from the beginning,
or ever the earth was.
When there were no depths,
I was brought forth;
when there were no fountains abounding with water.
Before the mountains were settled,
before the hills was I brought forth:
While as yet he had not made the earth,
nor the fields,
nor the highest part of the dust of the world.
When he prepared the heavens,
I was there: when he set a compass upon the face of the depth:
When he established the clouds above:
when he strengthened the fountains of the deep:
When he gave to the sea his decree,
that the waters should not pass his commandment: when he appointed the foundations of the earth:
Then I was by him,
as one brought up with him:
and I was daily his delight,
rejoicing always before him;
Rejoicing in the habitable part of his earth;
and my delights were with the sons of men.
Now therefore hearken unto me,
O ye children:
for blessed are they that keep my ways.
Hear instruction,
and be wise,
and refuse it not.
Blessed is the man that heareth me,
watching daily at my gates,
waiting at the posts of my doors.
For whoso findeth me findeth life,
and shall obtain favour of the LORD.
But he that sinneth against me wrongeth his own soul:
all they that hate me love death.
John the Baptist was the last Prophet called by God and as such when John is mentioning who the message is from he is referencing Ge:1:1. In that chapter it was God who spoke, in the NT God was speaking through John the Baptist and through Jesus in the 3 1/2 years before the cross.
Joh:1:1-4:
In the beginning was the Word,
and the Word was with God,
and the Word was God.
The same was in the beginning with God.
All things were made by him;
and without him was not any thing made that was made.
In him was life;
and the life was the light of men.
1Jo:5:7:
For there are three that bear record in heaven,
the Father,
the Word,
and the Holy Ghost:
and these three are one.
1Co:15:27:
For he hath put all things under his feet.
But when he saith all things are put under him,
it is manifest that he is excepted,
which did put all things under him.
Forgiveness
Jesus
"For if you forgive men for their transgressions, your heavenly Father will also forgive you," (
Matt. 6:14).
Paul
"And be kind to one another, tender-hearted, forgiving each other, just as God in Christ also has forgiven you," (
Eph. 4:32).
M't:18:21-22:
Then came Peter to him,
and said,
Lord,
how oft shall my brother sin against me,
and I forgive him?
till seven times?
Jesus saith unto him,
I say not unto thee,
Until seven times:
but,
Until seventy times seven.
1Co:5:9-13:
I wrote unto you in an epistle not to company with fornicators:
Yet not altogether with the fornicators of this world,
or with the covetous,
or extortioners,
or with idolaters;
for then must ye needs go out of the world.
But now I have written unto you not to keep company,
if any man that is called a brother be a fornicator,
or covetous,
or an idolater,
or a railer,
or a drunkard,
or an extortioner;
with such an one no not to eat.
For what have I to do to judge them also that are without?
do not ye judge them that are within?
But them that are without God judgeth.
Therefore put away from among yourselves that wicked person.
The get gathered the same way you were gathered, they are not lost if you aren't the one that collects them.
Jesus - The Way
Jesus
"Jesus said to him, "I am the Way, and the Truth, and the Life; no one comes to the Father, but through Me," (
John 14:6).
Paul
"For there is one God, and one mediator also between God and men, the man Christ Jesus," (
1 Tim. 2:5).
Hebrews:12 is about the GWT so it doesn't come any more detailed than that.
All gone to sleep.
Ho:2:18:
And in that day will I make a covenant for them with the beasts of the field,
and with the fowls of heaven,
and with the creeping things of the ground:
and I will break the bow and the sword and the battle out of the earth,
and
will make them to lie down safely.
Ho:4:3:
Therefore shall the land mourn,
and every one that dwelleth therein shall languish,
with the beasts of the field,
and with the fowls of heaven;
yea,
the fishes of the sea also
shall be taken away.