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The Third Angel's Message (1893) - Alonzo T. Jones

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know Jesus Christ, will he get right ideas of created<br />

things, of creation? [Congregation: "No."] He will<br />

not find God there; he will not find the ideas of<br />

God there, because God is manifested in Christ in<br />

creation.<br />

Now further: How did He manifest Himself in<br />

Christ in creation? In creating, we had better say,<br />

perhaps, because we are at the origin of all things<br />

now. How, then, did He manifest Himself in Christ<br />

in creating? Ps. 33:6, 9: "By the word of the Lord<br />

were the heavens made, and all the host of them by<br />

the breath of his mouth." "For he spake, and it was;<br />

he commanded, and it stood fast." I was there.<br />

Heb. 11:3: "Through faith we understand that<br />

the worlds were framed by the word of God, so that<br />

things which are seen were not made of things<br />

which do appear." So far we have found that God<br />

manifested in creation is the first thing in which<br />

what He is can be known. But God is manifested in<br />

creating, in Jesus Christ; and God is manifest in<br />

creating in Jesus Christ, by His word. And that<br />

word by which He created all things has in it the<br />

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