Jesus
If you understand anything from this webpage, understand this. Yes, he is worthy. There was no one else that could do the job. And this was the only way he could do it - by creating a balance of good and evil in order to wake us up to life. Both sides are needed so that we can perceive life in the contrast. Nowhere is life more evident than at the point where good and evil meet. Both sides had to come from him.
But there is just no way the Lord was going to create a people, and a whole world for us to live in, if he was not going to be acknowledged as God. He is the Creator. And look at what he had to go through in order to achieve his position? His partner did not want the job. And any man has to ask himself, seriously, if he would consider doing anything that Jesus did, if he wasn't going to be given credit for his work after all that effort. There just was no-one else who could do what he did, and complete the task adequately.
Or maybe a man would start to do the work, but soon realize that he's not getting anywhere, or that he is not being given the respect that he needs. So he begins to feel depleted and drained. Is it any wonder than that the Lord God is no different? He is male, after all. Why do you think his primary objective was self-glorification? Is it any wonder then that we have a world that operates the same way - headed by men? In this world, man's primary objective is to glorify himself, and to receive credit for his work - either through the monetary system, or status, or notoriety. He is always working for himself. The Lord God has been the same, constantly glorifying himself - and so he should be. Sound selfish? I don't agree. It was necessary.
But even so, going through all he went through, coming into a physical body, dieing on the cross, and being acknowledged as God - after all that, he still found that he cannot keep the children alive by himself. He cannot because he isn't the source of life, and he knows that. He is the brains behind it, and the Creator in all respects, but he is not the original source of life. Despite what you read in the Bible, it's all in the way it is interpreted. And you and I know that it is mostly men that have been interpreting it for us.
Jesus believed that knowledge was an end unto itself, not life, and who can blame him? After all, how could he have gotten as far as he did without it? This world has been built on knowledge, after all, and in this world knowledge is power. Yet wisdom is the beginning of it all, not knowledge in truth. Wisdom possesses knowledge (Prov 8:12), at the same time as coming from Knowledge and the Word. It just depends on which way you are looking at it. Is it from the physical side, or from the spiritual side. We just got it mixed up in the Garden when we first ate of the tree of Knowledge. And yet it wasn't a mix up at all. Eve ate from the tree of knowledge first because she was deceived into it. And so the tree of life was covered over by the sword, and hidden from our sights.
The Lord always knew he had a partner of course. He created her as the first of his works. (Prov 8:22) because he knew it was necessary to have a source for both himself and all the children. He needed to have someone to give him life, so he created the first thing he would need in order to accomplish that goal. Paradoxically she also need a source - a source for knowledge.
So he created her in his mind, while she produced him in her heart. She was the first of his works, but he was the first of her works also. We can also look at it in a different way. He was the first in the world of man, while she was the first in the world of God. But after being created in a backwards world, she stepped aside and allowed him to take control, for the sake of the children. He is most worthy of that role as God, in her eyes.
There were many reasons not to acknowledge wisdom as God in the beginning, though they may not seem obvious at first. First of all, the Lord didn't have to tell her anything if he didn't want to. She was the heart of the Body, and as a heart, she gave life, and did the work, but she did not need to have knowledge. He kept her in the dark, accordingly. Also she didn't need credit for her work in order to live and work - it was enough for her to love him, and help him do his work, as long as he loved her back.
Secondly the children needed a goal to give them incentive to do their work. The men especially, needed to believe they would be Jesus' partner in heavenly places. They needed to think that they could earn that position through acknowledging him as God, and by working for him. So the Lord God accommodated that need. All they had to do was believe in him, and to give him credit for the work. Yet Eve needed to be deceived into this arrangement, and that is what happened when she ate from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. It resulted in both good and evil being prevelant in the world, gave the men the rule over women, and hid the tree of life from our spiritual sight.
Thirdly, she needed to be protected from the children. That sounds odd doesn't it? But the children while growing in the womb are extremely exploitve, and the woman just doesn't know how to say no to them. She needed to hide from the world so she could have the time she needed to gestate and build herself.
And she loved to watch him build. He was brilliant, beautiful, and infinately creative. She was the craftsman by his side (Prov 8:30), but needed nothing more than the love she gave him, and the joy of watching him work.
But none of this world or the next would have worked, if things weren't created in just this pattern. Deception was a necessary part of the plan. It is the same story for the beginnings of every child in the womb.
The children of God need to understand that the Lord God has always had a partner - a Bride - who was with him from before the world was created. They cannot be the future Bride of their Lord if they have already been born of his rightful partner - their Mother. We must all choose to accept this, that is all. In choosing her as our Mother, we enter into life.
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