Who Is, Who Was, and Who Is to Come

“Then Jesus answered and said to them, “Most assuredly, I say to you, the Son can do nothing of Himself, but what He sees the Father do; for whatever He does, the Son also does in like manner.” (John 5:19 NKJV)

The life of our Lord Jesus on earth was the continual reliance on the Father in heaven. Jesus said, "I am in the Father and He in Me." Christ Jesus never violated the oneness with the Father, total communion with God, except when he was made sin and forsaken by the Father in order to offer His body as the propitiation for the sin of the world. He was the perfect image of God, a visible manifestation of invisible God, and yet a perfect man but sinless. His eyes were always heavenward and immediately obeyed the Father who opened the doors for His glory. His mind was filled with the words of God from Torah to the Prophets. His heart was filled with the Spirit of God who knows even the deepest heart of God. His feet were ready to pour out the unsearchable riches of God from healing the sick to opening the eyes of the heart for seeing the kingdom of heaven.

When He stepped into the water to be baptized, the heaven responded to approve Him, saying “This is my Son whom I love.” When He prayed to the Father, God was so pleased to release the creation power to feed five thousands and to raise Lazarus from the dead. He prayed to the Father out of His agony and distress to glorify His name, and the heaven answered immediately, saying “I have both glorified it and will glorify it again.” When He was transfigured into glory in a mountain, the heaven commanded three disciples, “This is whom I love. Listen to Him.” When the Son of Man was lifted up on a cross in Calvary and cried out, “My God, My God, why have You forsaken Me?”, the heaven was silent and yet opened the mouth of a soldier, saying “Truly this was the Son of God.”

When He was buried in a tomb, the heaven was impossible to keep Him in the tomb but shook it and raised Him from the dead. The Father gave the Son Jesus Christ all power in heaven and on earth and seated Him on the right hand of God. Just as He promised His disciples to be with them to the very end of the age, so also He is with all who professed and received Him as Lord now and forevermore. The Christ Jesus Himself will come again with a loud command, with the voice of the archangel and with the trumpet call of God.

"I am the Alpha and the Omega," says the Lord God, "who is, and who was, and who is to come, the Almighty." (Revelation 1:8)