In the Spirit's Power - William W. Prescott

God?
Christ the Branch
Christ was the very revelation of God, the life
of God in the earth. In Zech. 6:12 the prophet says
of Him: “Behold the man whose name is the
Branch; and He shall grow up out of His place [not
in the wrong place, but where He is; He will grow
up out of His place], and He shall build the temple
of the Lord.” Christ is here spoken of as the
branch, and He was the branch of God. But His
root was in heaven; and in being the branch of God
to this world, He is, in another sense, the arm of
God. God was in heaven, but He was reaching
down in Jesus Christ to get hold of the world. As
the branch, Christ grew as the branch, in order to
be something visible to the world. God is in clouds
and darkness; but He wanted to reveal Himself to a
world that had been cut off by sin, so Christ came
as a branch of Himself.
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