Rev 1:5 and from Jesus Christ, who is the faithful witness, the firstborn from the dead, and the ruler of the kings of the earth.
To him who loves us and has freed us from our sins by his blood,
The word faithful includes the idea of being true and of not deviating from that truth. Father and Son give witness and testify to the same truth and God is true.
John 8:18 I am He who testifies about Myself, and the Father who sent Me testifies about Me.”
Because He became one of us, He entered the land of the dead, for we were all dead in our sins. When Adam and Eve were expelled from the presence of the Lord they had lost their heavenly garments and found themselves naked. God clothed them in animal skins to cover their nakedness. It is in this nakedness we find ourselves today, covered by animal skins. But His love would not leave us there. He came among us and preached the word that would offer life, that we might return.
Isaiah 55:4 See, I have made him a witness to the peoples,
a ruler and commander of the peoples
Hebrews 2:17 For this reason he had to be made like them, fully human in every way, in order that he might become a merciful and faithful high priest in service to God, and that he might make atonement for the sins of the people.
Col 1:8-20 And he is the head of the body, the church; he is the beginning and the firstborn from among the dead, so that in everything he might have the supremacy. 19 For God was pleased to have all his fullness dwell in him, 20 and through him to reconcile to himself all things, whether things on earth or things in heaven, by making peace through his blood, shed on the cross.
We have been freed to enter His peace and live in His house forever.
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