The facts in Lesson about God apply to the Lord Jesus Christ in His pre-incarnate state as a spirit-being, for He is one of the three separate and distinct spirit-beings making the deity or Godhead. Until about 2,000 years ago the second person of the deity had the same kind of Spirit body, personal soul, and spirit that the Father and the Holy Spirit still have. At that time one of the three divine persons of the Trinity took human form to redeem the world. This is what has made the difference between the members of the Godhead during the last 2,000 years. The following study concerns the person of the Lord Jesus Christ as the manifestation of the invisible God among men:

I. The Pre-Existence of Jesus Christ
The Bible declares that the person we now know as Jesus Christ was one of the three divine persons of the deity and that as God He had no beginning. It is this time before He became a man that we refer to as His pre-existence. Technically, there is no such thing as existence before Him as God, but He existed before He became a man. Micah 5:1-2 speaks of Him as existing from all eternity. John speaks of Him as existing in the very beginning with the Father (Jn. 1:1-5). Jesus speaks of Himself as being before Abraham and before the world was created (Jn. 8:58; 17:5, 24). Paul speaks of Him as existing before all things and as the Creator and Upholder of all things (Col. 1:15-18; Heb. 1:1-3, 8; 2:10). God the Father created all things by Him (Eph. 3:9) and the Holy Spirit (Gen. 1:2).

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