95-Disputations Ezekiel 1:5 and the Four Gospels

By Michael Andrew Petillo, D.Min., & Reformed Baptist Preacher

“…Within it there were figures resembling four living beings.  And this was their appearance: they had human form…”  (Ezekiel 1:5 NASB).

1.     The four living beings according to tradition referred to the four Gospels in the New Testament Scriptures.

2.     The Triune Majesty is Three Distinct Persons in One Being but there is never a Fourth Member that counsel’s Him.

3.     St. Matthew wrote the Gospel of Matthew for a Jewish audience to demonstrate the identity of the Messiah.

4.     St. Mark wrote the Gospel of Mark for an audience of the profound life of Jesus Christ.

5.     St. Luke wrote the Gospel of Luke for an audience of those who are “seeking” Christ and desire to come to true faith.

6.     St. John wrote the Gospel of John for an audience for true belief because of the divine Incarnate Word.

7.     The visibility of the four creatures is about the glory of the Lord.

8.     Visions are real visible signs of divine revelation that is all-exclusive to the sole 66 Books of the Scriptures.

9.     The Father resembles an earthly father who profoundly cares for His people in Christ Jesus our Lord and Redeemer.

10.                        The Son resembles a child under his father who never ceases to obey in everything that is sinless righteousness in all things.

11.                        The Spirit resembles the dove that is all about bringing the divine gospel of the Father’s eternal Son to His chosen people.

12.                        The glory of the Father is His design of all things.

13.                        The glory of the Son is His unified work of all redemption.

14.                        The glory of the Spirit is His gift of the Father’s Son.

15.                        The Father created this divine vision of the four living creatures.

16.                        The Son created this divine vision of the vision of creatures.

17.                        The Spirit creates the heart to see and the mind to understand.

18.                        The biblical Scriptures are about the authentic and divine revelation of the design of the Father.

19.                        The divine and written Word is all about the Son because He trained four Gospel-writers in His ministry that were eyewitness to His majestic sovereignty as God Incarnate.

20.                        The authentic Word is about the Spirit of God’s gift of His eternal Son by the economic distinction of the Father in His design of salvation to exalt His glory due to exalted innocence of righteousness, sinlessness and perfection from everlasting to everlasting that all things pertaining to this life is because of His holiness in defiance to the evil of Satan, his demons and fallen rebels in rebellion against holiness where Christians are in rebellion of  evil where evildoers are in rebellion of good.

21.                        Jesus Christ in Matthew’s Gospel is the Jewish Messiah according to the genealogy of history where Jesus is the promised Anointed One.

22.                        Jesus Christ was of David’s line to exalt Jesus Christ as the true King of kings over and for all nations, tongues, tribes and peoples.

23.                        Mark’s Gospel introduces John the Baptist’s testimony of God Incarnate as Jesus Christ as the promised Lamb of God.

24.                        Luke’s Gospel introduces the miraculous conception of Jesus Christ because God spoke the incarnation and it was in the Virgin Mother to carry a divine baby to be born in matchless redemption that He provides for His elect people alone.

25.                        John’s Gospel is to declare the aseity of Jesus Christ as the eternal Word in human flesh to live a sinless life and die a death for the redemption of God’s elect people alone.

26.                        God the Son took upon human flesh to enter into His creation as the uncreated, eternal Son of God molded in His mother’s womb by the Father’s design through the Spirit of God.

27.                        The Father did not take human form but God the Son only within the Triune Godhead in human history by the Virgin Mary.

28.                        The Spirit of God did not take human form but only the Second Person of the Trinity took upon human flesh without a sinful nature but with a sinless humanity by the power of the Spirit of God that prevented the corruption of his mother in his nine months of being molded by His own power to save the particular elect sons and daughters of Adam.

29.                        There is a false teaching of a cult that teaches that the Father became man but this is also taught in Mormonism.

30.                        There is a false teaching of a cult that teaches that the Spirit of God became man but this denies the Father’s design in the uniqueness of the incarnation of God the Son.

31.                        God the Son chose to became man and be born of a Virgin to demonstrate His love for us in entering His own creation.

32.                        The Father will not take human form in eternity because it is not His eternal design but to exalt the eternal Son in human form.

33.                        The Spirit will not take human form in eternity but is best under the symbolism that brings the good news of Jesus Christ.

34.                        The Spirit is the dove that preceeds from the Father and the Son.

35.                        It is much like Noah in Old Testament history that hovers over creation and brings back news of life or stays to nurture life so it grows to the glory of God.

36.                        The Spirit of God takes the appearance of a dove to bring a picture of the power of gentleness that brings the dead to life, the life to the death of sin, and the death of sin to life with Jesus.

37.                        Every redeemed elect son or daughter of Adam is human through the spiritual redemption of Jesus Christ.

38.                        Every human person is a human bring created in the image of God but it is a shattered image of God because of the historic fall of Adam that is about original sin.

39.                        The Triune Godhead is one being revealed in three distinct persons.

40.                        We are not saying that the theological term “being” is the same as the term “persons” but we are saying there is “one essence” that is the one “being of God” that has within it the “three distinct persons” that are three individuals within the one nature of God and there is no logical contradiction in this Trinitarian formula that can be proven philosophically or theologically.

41.                        The visions of God are not in the masquerade of Satan.

42.                        The visions of God are by the work of the Spirit of God.

43.                        Are there extra-biblical visions of God now that add divine revelation to the unaddable Bible?  By no means!  There is nothing that compares to the God-breathed Scriptures.

44.                        The donkey before Balaam had more sense than the false prophet who perished in battle but it seems that a donkey has more sense than rational creatures because they groan in a sense of a hyperbole for the new heavens and earth for the glory of Jesus.

45.                        The symbol of Christianity is the Cross of Jesus Christ.

46.                        Some Christians deny the figure of the Christ Child in the nativity scene because of grounds of idolatry.

47.                        Is the humanity of Jesus Christ idolatry without worshiping it but beholding the beauty of God’s handiwork?

48.                        Should we worship the humanity of Jesus Christ?  By no means! 

49.                        What should we do?  How do we understand?  We make a distinction between the human nature and the divine nature, but precisely worship Jesus according to His divine nature but not His human nature because if we worshiped Him in His human nature like a figure of the Christ Child it would be grounds of idolatry.

50.                        Is God committing sin that God the Son became sinless man?  By no means! 

51.                        Real flesh and bone is not sin but sin is our sinful nature.

52.                        Sin is described as the flesh but refers to the total depravity of fallen man not real flesh and bone in a medical sense because all people will get their bodies back whether unto damnation or election at the Last Resurrection at the Last Day.

53.                        The Father’s design created male and female human beings in His image and likeness.

54.                        It does not mean the Father is human nor the Spirit human but the God who walked in the Garden of Eden is a appearance of the pre-Incarnate Christ who walks hand-in-hand with His people.

55.                        The Father is pictured as running to the prodigal son in the Gospel because the Father initiates salvation by the Spirit who is the hound of heaven who brings Jesus’ unified work to His lost children.

56.                        The Father engages in a salvational relationship with His people, but the Father runs to save the lost while Jesus walks with those already saved by the Spirit.

57.                        Walking with Jesus does not add to His unified merit but demonstrates the gift of His people by God.

58.                        God the Spirit enables elect sinners to walk with Jesus like St. Peter in the storm of waters where sometimes we fall through but by the Spirit He enables us to cry “Save me, Lord.”

 

59.                        Jesus saves us from all storms of tribulation in the biblical teaching because of the Scriptural thought of being more than conqueror in life to be the face of Jesus in endures suffering because we suffer not without hope.

60.                        We lay our heads at the cross to imitate the unmatchable.

61.                        The human experience in a post-fall world is a mess of suffering.

62.                        Notice there was a kind of suffering unto loneliness with Adam before God made Eve because it’s not good for man to be alone.

63.                        If it’s not good for a kind of sinless man to be alone, why do you think God shows a vision of four living creatures?  

64.                        Heaven is a place of supernatural visions of God where we will never be alone but fellowship of the saints and angels of God before the Triune Holiness of God.

65.                        We have the promise of God that there will be no suffering in heaven because although Adam was innocent before the fall he did not possess a immutable stand and position of righteousness under God’s oath through His eternal Son but now through Jesus Who is more than hope that we will not suffer loneliness in heaven or any kind of sinful suffering because of God’s fellowship with His people among saints glorified for Jesus’ Name’s sake.

66.                        The Father cannot experience pain because He is unassailable but He condescends in human expression in baby talk to us that teaches us what He wants us to know to edify us, to correct us, and to help us in His design but His wrath is kindled without the Son’s imputation that is a gift of His Hand.

67.                        The Son experiences pain unto a defiance of sin touching His sinless humanity where He weeps when His people disbelieve because of enhanced sin but the unassailable became assailable in His death unto His true and sacred humanity due to His own submission alone to rise over defiance of sin to ascend over the darkness of the abyss of evil.

68.                        The Spirit in human expression is seen as being grieved.

69.                        The Spirit of holiness is grieved for His elect people but He also is unassailable.

70.                        The Triune Majesty is saddened over our disappointment of sin that we have not taken advantage of our human responsibility for radical good to reflect in shattered image of His foredetermined goodness, holiness and bearers of sun light-righteousness imputed by the gift of faith alone through the Spirit and Word.

71.                        Jesus saves us from all storms of tribulation to endure death that is precious in His sight to enter glory for the treasure of heaven that is the gift of His Hand.

72.                        The bodies of human beings of the Last Resurrection at the Last Day will be glorified bodies whether unto destruction for everlasting hell but for the redeemed, glorified bodies unto election for everlasting heaven.

73.                        The damned of the human race will suffer as human beings unto a glorified body of the glory of God’s impeccable justice.

74.                        The elect of the human race will joy as human beings unto a glorified body of the glory of God’s Son alone in His unified work from the Father’s design by the application of the Spirit.

75.                        The human damned sons and daughters of Adam will never experience cruelty, injustice or sin at the God of the Bible in the place of eternal hell.

76.                        The Triune God is just because He must exalt His justice against cosmic treason opposed to His majestic holiness, innocence and sinlessness.

77.                        The human elect sons and daughters of Adam will never experience sinful sorrow, sinful pain or sinful death. 

78.                        I suppose if we want to help those of hell in a sense of hyperbole in Jesus’ Abraham’s bosom in the Gospel we will have a suffering unto immutable sinlessness that are tears of joy because God’s justice in rejoicing that His plan of justice is finally accomplished in the prayer of the saints of accomplishing “how long?” but there will be a spiritual concern to help the unhelpable that somehow fits into God’s plan of perfect righteousness that is most likely an exaggeration to speak of the finality of God’s wrath even among those who are glorified through the glory of the perfected unified merits of the eternal Son alone unto eternal mercy.

79.                        I suppose it is a hyperbole by Jesus in the story to teach us about the inescapable place of hell that does not possess the unified imputed righteousness of Jesus Christ alone.

80.                        The serpent resembles wisdom but godly wisdom does not resemble the father of lies.

81.                        Satan resembles/is a being of evil wisdom.

82.                        Jesus is the serpent lifted up at His Cross that resembles the true sense of the serpent in Old Testament history to be a instrument of divine healing.

83.                        Jesus resembles/is the Lamb of God.

84.                        Jesus resembles/is the Lion of Judah.

85.                        Jesus resembles/is the Lilly of the Valley.

86.                        Is the Father’s design of visions divine revelation? Yes indeed!

87.                        Is the Son’s unified work all-sufficient and all-exclusive?  Most certainly!

88.                        Is the Spirit’s work to provide the gift of Jesus to His chosen a myth?  By no means!

89.                        The elect angels can take human form to accomplish the Father’s design by the command of Jesus the Master by the approbation of the Spirit of God because those are sinless creatures that love the written Word and endlessly sing praises to His Name.

90.                        Fallen angels cannot take human form because of their fall.

91.                        Elect angels who take human form is a hidden work of God that rivals the terminator when concerning the justice of God.

92.                        Is the place of heaven an immaterial place?  What of the bodily presence of King Jesus, Elijah, Moses and Enoch?  

93.                        I think it is biblical to say that heaven is a physical place but it is in another dimension where only God permits who enter the gates of heaven but those outside are residents of hell.

94.                        An incarnation of Satan was THE Antichrist Nero who was a real human person that Beloved John and St. Paul predicted.

95.                        Nero has a designed place by the Father through the Son by the Spirit in the place of hell in close proximity to the justice of His indignant and immediate presence.