Bible Review V15: October 1916 - March 1918 - Iapsop.com

1917 SEEING GOD 315
and likeness of God the Father who rules in the heavens.
"But unto the Son he saith, Thy throne, 0 God, is for
ever and ever."
For God the Son is not a person, but is
a body of the saints of the Most High, that shall take
the kingdom and the dominion under the whole heaven.
(Dan. vii. 27.)
It was one of these Elohim who, at the building of
the tower of Babel, was referred to in the words, "And
the LORD came down to see the city and the tower
. . . _ .
which the children of men builded, and the LORD said,
let us go down and there confound
their language." (Gen. xi. 5-7.) Also at. the time of
'the destruction of Sodom it was evidently a personality
who spoke _saying, "And the LORD said, because the
cry of Sodom and Gomorrah is great, and because their
sin is very grievous: I will go down now, and see whether
they have done altogether according to the cry of it,
which is come unto me; and if not, I will know." (Gen.
xviii. 20, 215 It is very evident that God the All-pervading
Spirit could hardly use the expressions, "I will
go down," and, "Let us go down." Likewise it is very
reasonable to assume that whenever God is manifested
as a personality that speaks or is spoken of we are to understand
that it is one of the Elohim.
The term Elohim isa Hebrew word meaning Gods.
It has not been so translated, apparently because the
translators failed to grasp the idea of God
the Creator
as a body of Intelligences, being in perfect unity, and
therefore, to be spoken of as ONE.
God the Father, being a body of Intelligences in the
form of men, have in the past appeared, and in the present
do appear, and in the future will appear to men as
msn-men glorified beyond all expression, for they are
Gods. And it is of these, the Elohim, who have appeared
to the Patriarchs and the prophets of God in the form of