The Union Resumed

The broken union was, however, short because on the third day after His physical death, Jesus Christ rose from the dead.  Which means that God re-entered His Son,s  undecayed body and became alive for eternity.  God has shown that there is life after death.

After His ascension to heaven, Jesus Christ sits on His Father’s throne (Rev. 3:21), another proof of the union.  What could be seen sitting is the Son but the invisible God abides in Him.  Ten days after His ascension, on that day of Pentecost in Jerusalem around 30 A.D., His Church became a reality.  He also became the High Priest of Christians and the only Mediator between God and men, details of which are discussed in another subject matter.  The GOOD NEWS is that His church is His Body of which all true Christians are members, He being the Head of the Body.  Since the Head resurrected from the dead, it then follows that the Body will also be resurrected as the Head and the Body are one!  If you are a true Christian indeed with your confession through the mouth that Jesus is your Lord and believe that God raised Him from the dead, then you will live with God and the Lord Jesus forever (Romans 10:9)!

When the Union was Broken

The only time the two distinct persons in One Body separated was when, on the Cross, the Son cried “My God, my God, why have you left me behind?”.  Had the Father not left His Son,  Jesus could not have died and believers would still be in their hell-bound sin.  But He had to die to shed blood as the final solution for sin to those who  believe and to put an end to the yearly blood-shedding of animals in the Old Testament to cleanse sins.  This is how God has shown His love to mankind because believers are promised eternal life.  But the Bible says only few will respond positively as shown by the principle of the “wide and narrow gate,” wherein only few will pass through the narrow gate that leads to heaven.

From Angel to Man

When it was time for the Son to fulfill His mission as the Lamb of God to be slaughtered on the Cross to cleanse with His blood the sin of the world once and for all to those who believe, God transformed His angelic body to that of a man.  This is prophesied in Psalms 40:6, saying “Sacrifice and offering you have not desired, but a body you have prepared for me” as quoted in Hebrews 10:5.  So a natural body was formed in the womb of Mary.  Even at this point, the union is still on.  That is the reason for the statement “for that which has been conceived in her is of the Holy Spirit” (Matthew 1:20).  Because of the indwelling Spirit in the body, it was a miraculous conception  on the part of Mary who remained a virgin even after delivering the child until she and Joseph came together and started begetting natural children.

       Another proof that the Son was Angel first is because of His statement “I came down from heaven” (Jn. 3:13).  He was in heaven before He came down to earth.  Also, the transformation is obvious in John 1:14 with the statement “And the Word became flesh.”  It is not God who became man as many believe but the Son of God.

Proofs of the Union

By understanding the doctrine of Theosomatism, many false discernments and interpretations can be avoided.  One example is Exodus, chapter 3.  In verse 3, it says that the Angel of Jehovah appeared to Moses in a burning bush.  But as we get down to verse 6, the Angel says, “I am the God of your Father, the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob.”  How could that be, an angel claiming to be God!  In the Theosomatic Union though, the Angel is not claiming to be God but just speaking the words of God as dictated to Him by the Father, being the Word or Spokesman of the Father.  The same angel earlier appeared to Abraham at the oaks of Mamre, like a man, together with two others (Gen. 18).  Abraham recognized the union that he addressed Him as “Lord.”  Again, in Exodus 20:1, the same Angel appeared to Moses at Mt.Sinai to deliver the Ten Commandments.  This was the testimony of Stephen, the first Christian martyr (Acts 7:38).  But it is written in this Exodus passage that God “spoke.”  Because of the union though, this does not surprise the Theosomatist.  Some proofs of the union are listed below:

1. He who sent me is with me; He has not left me Alone(John 8:29).
2. He who has seen Me has seen the Father (John 14:9).
3. That you may know and understand that  the Father is in Me and I in the Father (Jn.10:38).
4. The words that I say to you I do not speak on my own initiative, but the Father abiding in Me does His works (Jn.14:10).

       The Theosomatic union cannot be ignored without inflicting damage to right understanding.  It  is understood by Paul when he writes that “God was in Christ” (2 Cor. 5:19).  It was recognized by Apostle Thomas when he exclaims “my Lord and my God! (Jn. 20:28).  He addressed  “Lord” to the Son and “God” to the indwelling Father.