way. God makes an unceasing effort to regenerate us and save us, but he
cannot do it unless we prepare ourselves as a vessel, leveling a pathway for
God [Isaiah 40 : 3 – 4 ] and opening the door [Revelation 3 : 20 ]. A suitor
cannot enter his beloved’s bedroom before she becomes his bride—she
locks the door and keeps the key with her. After she has become a bride,
though, she gives her bridegroom the key. [ 3 ] Even for all God’s omnipo-
tence, he could not have redeemed humankind unless he had become
human. He could not have made his human nature divine unless it was
first like a human being as an infant and then like a human being as a
child. Later his human nature also needed to form itself into a vessel and
a dwelling place for his Father to enter, which he did by fulfilling every-
thing in the Word, meaning all the laws of the divine design in it. The
more he completed this process, the more he united himself to the Father
and the Father united himself to him.
“However, these are just a few points I bring up for the sake of illustra-
tion, so that you can see that divine omnipotence exists within the divine
design and follows that design in its governing called providence. Con-
stantly and to eternity divine omnipotence acts in accordance with the laws
of its own design. God cannot act against them or change even the tip of
one letter of them, because he isthe divine design along with all its laws.”
[ 4 ] After I finished speaking, a bright, golden-colored light flowed in
through the roof and formed angel guardians flying in the air. The red-
ness in the light lit up the temples of some of the people, but only toward
the backs of their heads, not yet near their foreheads, because they were
muttering, “We still don’t know what omnipotence is.”
“It will be revealed,” I said, “but only after the things I have already
said gain more light in you.”
The third memorable occurrence.Far away I saw a large crowd of peo- 74
ple wearing hats. Some had hats covered in silk; they belonged to the
ecclesiastical class. Some had hats whose rims were decorated with
golden bands; they belonged to the class of ordinary citizens. Both
groups were educated and scholarly. I also saw some people wearing caps;
they were uneducated.
I moved in the direction of these people and heard them talking with
each other about limitless divine power. They were saying, “If divine
power followed laws that were created as part of the divine design, it
would be limited, not unlimited. It would be power, but not all power.
Anyone can see that no compulsion by law could force omnipotence to
act this way and not that way. When we think about omnipotence and at
the same time about laws of the divine design that omnipotence would be
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