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E NTERING INTO G OD ’ S S ABBATH R EST

Angel in one person. Those two natures were mysteriously blended in the one Being. When Christ was referred to as “the Angel,” He really was an angel, just as He really was a man. He did not merely appear in the guise of an angel. In this way the Scriptures clearly demonstrate that Christ’s original begetting did not take place at His birth in Bethlehem. It took place either before or at the same time that the first crea tures were created. The Almighty Trio knew the problem which the tremendous disparity of power between the Creator and the creature would produce. They knew that the only solution was for one of the all-powerful Three, through the process of being begotten, to take the nature and form of a creature. In this way a Connector could maintain that link with the Infinite which would enable the creatures to survive. Christ was the One who willingly took up this lowly position. The second occasion when Christ was begotten was when He was conceived by the Holy Spirit in Mary’s womb. This event is the most familiar and best understood by God’s earthbound chil dren. In studying this wonderful event, we have the advantage that we too are begotten, and therefore know in our own experi ence the principles involved in such a process. We understand that two different lives, male and female, must combine to pro duce a third life, the child, who possesses the life of both par ents. When Christ was begotten into the human family, the lives of God and human were combined. Christ was both God and Man at the same time. He came “to create in himself one new man out of the two, thus making peace.” Ephesians 2:15. This fusing of divinity with humanity is a mystery indeed. When comparing the unbelievable capacities of the Creator to the extremely limited and finite nature of the human being, par ticularly after the entrance of sin, it is incomprehensible how di vinity could be tabernacled in humanity. But the Lord has proved the reality of this, not only by the miracle of Christ’s con ception and birth, but also by His presence in both the burning bush and the wilderness tabernacle. And yet this truth cannot The Connector for Fallen Beings