One who purges, mediates, appeases, and intercedes. Because he is the
same as the Son of God from eternity, there are two persons that are dis-
tinct from each other. And because the two of them are in heaven, the
one sitting on the other’s right-hand side, there has to be a third who car-
ries out in the world the decisions the other two made in heaven.”
[ 3 ] When they finished I kept quiet, but I was thinking to myself,
“What idiocy! They have no idea what the Word means by mediation.”
Then the Lord commanded three angels to come down from heaven
and become connected to me so that I could draw on deep perception as I
talked to the spirits who had the idea of three gods, particularly on the top-
ics of mediation, intercession, appeasement, and ritual purging. The spirits
I was talking to attribute those activities to the second person, the Son, but
only after he became human. Yet he became human many ages after cre-
ation. In the meantime those four means of salvation did not exist: God
the Father had not been appeased, the human race had not been ritually
purged, and no one had been sent from heaven to intercede or mediate.
[ 4 ] Then I spoke to them from the inspiration that came over me at
that point. I said, “Come near, all who are able, and hear what the Word
means by mediation, intercession, ritual purging, and appeasement.
They are four activities attributed to the grace of the one God in his
human manifestation.
“No human being can ever get close to God the Father. Neither can
God the Father get close to any human being. He is infinite. He is in his
underlying reality, which is Jehovah. If he came close to any of us with
that underlying reality he would consume us the way fire consumes a
piece of wood and leaves nothing but ashes. This is clear from what God
said to Moses when Moses wanted to see him: God said that no one can
see him and live (Exodus 33 : 20 ). The Lord says, ‘No one has ever seen
God except the Son, who is close to the Father’s heart’ (John 1 : 18 ;
Matthew 11 : 27 ). The Lord also says, ‘No one has heard the voice of the
Father or seen what he looks like’ (John 5 : 37 ).
“Admittedly, we read that Moses saw Jehovah eye to eye and spoke
with him face to face [Exodus 33 : 11 ; Deuteronomy 34 : 10 ]; but an angel
was involved as an intermediary. The same with Abraham and Gideon.
“Now, because this is the true nature of God the Father, it pleased
him to take on a human manifestation and give people access through it
so that he could hear them and talk to them. This human manifestation
is what is called the Son of God. This is what mediates, intercedes,
appeases, and ritually purges.
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