Incarnation

Angel to God the Father: Where is He going?

God the Father: To earth in order to become a human just like all those whom I create and love.

A: Why would He do that? Doesn’t the Son want to stay here?

F: Yes, but this is my will . . . our will. We love our creation but my children have lost their way . . . their knowledge of me. He is going so they can know me again . . . up close.

A: I’ve seen what goes on down there! Won’t the Son have a hard time?

F: Certainly! He will have to experience everything my children face. He is taking up their life in it’s entirety, but doing so in obedience and faithfulness, to make humanity holy again . . . just as they were created to be. He is going to become the First Human, a new Adam, to bring my creation back to what I intended from the beginning.

A: You have called many men and women from the beginning to teach your ways, and pardon me saying this, but it hasn’t always gone so well.

F: All that has been done was leading to this. My Son’s life as a mortal human is the final and full expression of my love that will change everything for eternity.

A: He’s becoming mortal? That means he will die!

F: Yes, he must die. The Son will change humanity by taking on himself the whole of the human experience . . . even death. The Rebellious One has taken my children captive through sin and death. The Son will defeat sin and death by going through it, for the whole world’s sake.

A: How will he die?

F: The very ones he gives saving knowledge of me . . . they will kill him by nailing him to a cross, prompted by the Rebellious One. That is how badly they have lost their way. They will not even recognize I Am among them. They love darkness rather than light.

A: Why don’t you prevent them from killing the Son?

F: Always I have given myself to my creation in love. I and the Son are one in this – to give ourselves up in love. We will do this together, to save our beloved children.

A: What do you mean, “give yourself up”?

F: From the beginning of time my children have tried to give offerings to me, sacrifices, to win my favor, even though I did not need those in order to love or forgive them. Now I am making an offering for their sakes, for them . . . my sacrifice to show my eternal love, mercy, and forgiveness. I am doing what they thought they had to do, and this is my free and gracious gift to all.

A:  How will they recognize what you are doing . . . that You are Love?

F: When the Son forgives them from the cross they will see how Love dies with a blessing on His lips. He will have taken all their sin and given back forgiveness, as I have done from the beginning.

A: And then what?

F: Love is life, and always overcomes death. I will raise the Son back to life because the grave is not victorious. His living and dying will become the new, full life of all who trust in him. He will be in them, and they in Him, as He and I are One. The way they live on earth will be like they are in heaven, for they will have passed from death to life.

A: Is that the end?

F: No, simply the beginning of a new heavens and earth within the old – a new age in which my Spirit is poured out on all. I am bringing everything in heaven and earth together in the Son. Life beyond life . . . no one can imagine what else I have in store!

A: I had no idea . . .

F: This is our eternal plan. We’re calling it Good News!