"Jesus Christ said to John in relation to the Laodicean church, in effect, "tell the angel of the Laodicean church that I am the arche of the creation of God". Now the reason that was done was because, in the Laodicean church, the argument was to arise both in the church and in the era that Christ was not the arche of the creation of God."  [1]

 

Brethren, we today are living in that era of the Laodicean ecclesia when it will be denied that Jesus Christ had a pre-existence before He came in the world through the womb of Mary. The Radical Unitarians, i.e. those who deny the pre-existence of Christ beyond Mary claim that this was not Christ but a notional form of the power of God as His divine utterance. This is contrary to what the spirit said to John in [Rev.3:13-14], and the transcendent revelations given to Paul directly from Christ [Eph.3:8-11]

 

Let us read the Greek graphon propheetikon] "prophetic scriptures" Paul's prison epistle written to the Nations with his complete explanation of the pre-existent Christ in accord with the purpose of the eons, which He makes in "the" Christ Jesus, our Lord.[Eph.3:11]

 

 

"...To me, less than the least of all saints, was granted this "the" grace: to bring the evangel [Gr. EUANGGELION, well message] of the [Gr. ANEXICHNIASTON, UN-OUT-TRACEable] untraceable riches of the Christ, and to enlighten all as to what is the administration of the secret, "the" which has been concealed from the eons in "the" God, "the" Who creates "the" all, that now [in 62.A.D.] may be made known to the sovereignties and the authorities among the celestials, through the ecclesia the multifarious wisdom of "the" God,  IN ACCORD WITH THE PURPOSE OF THE EONS, WHICH HE MAKES IN "THE" CHRIST JESUS, OUR "THE" LORD..." [Eph.3"8-11]

 

 This transcendent truth given to us through our beloved brother Paul has been replaced with the error of the Radical Unitarians, that it was not Christ Jesus, our Lord through Whom "the" God created the eons, but simply a notional form of the power of God as His divine utterance.

 

However, the apostle John explains this view in greater detail, which would preclude this interpretation of the Radical Unitarians of the notional form of the power of God as His utterance. Let us turn to John and see how he testifies and clearly states the fact of His pre-existence before his appearance in the flesh.

 

"...There came to be a man commissioned by God His name was John. This one came for a testimony, that he should be testifying concerning the light, that all should be believing through it. Not he was the light, but he came that he should be testifying concerning the light. It was the true light - which is enlightening every man  coming into the world.

 

In the world, He was, and the world came into being through Him, and the world knew Him not.

 To his own He came, and those who are His own accepted Him not. Yet whoever obtained Him, to them he gives the right to become children of God, to those who are believing in His name, who were begotten, not of bloods, neither of the will of the flesh, neither of the will of a man, but of God..."

The logos became flesh and tabernacled among us:

"The pre-existence of Christ is clearly implied in the statement that the Word became flesh. The Word had not assumed a human form before; now it becomes a human being. In this way grace and truth came into being through Jesus Christ. The divine expressions of the Hebrew scriptures now converge in the Man. His previous place is further confirmed by John, when he insists that he was before him, though as to flesh, he was after him." [2]

And the Word became flesh and tabernacles among us, and we gaze at His glory, a glory as of an only begotten from the Father, full of grace and truth.The Radical Unitarians attempt to place this text as an example of the notional power of God becoming flesh rather than a being becoming flesh. The apostle Paul said he was graced by God to reveal the transcendant revelations of the riches of Christ, one of which  confirms Christ Jesus was inherently in the form of God, yet He [Christ Jesus] deems it not pillaging "the" to be equal with God, nevertheless empties Himself, taking the form of a slave, was found in the fashion as a human. [Phil.2:5-8]

John the Baptist spoke of Jesus Christ as being before him:

John bare witness of him, and cried, saying, This was he of whom I spake, He that cometh after me is preferred before me: for he was before me.  And of his fullness have all we received, and grace for grace.  For the law was given by Moses, but grace and truth came by Jesus Christ.  No man hath seen God at any time; the only begotten Son, which is in the bosom of the Father, he hath declared him. [John 1:15-18. KJV)

"John clearly says Christ was before him. Yet John we know was six months older than Christ and it was physically impossible for Christ to have been before him. Thus, John speaks of a pre-existence. This pre-existence was as a god, an elohim, or theoi, as we know from the ancient texts and was altered in the Receptus." [3]

 The Concordant Literal renders the texts as:

John is testifying concerning Him and has cried, saying, "This was He of Whom I said, "He Who is coming after me, has come to be in front of me, for He was first before me." for of that which fills him we all obtained, and grace for grace. For the law through Moses was given; grace and truth came through Jesus Christ. God no one has ever seen. The only-begotten God, Who is in the bosom of the Father, He unfolds Him.

The Writer of the Book of Hebrews declares the eons were created by Christ:

"...By many portions and many modes, of old, "the" God speaking to the fathers in the prophets, in the last of these days speaks to us in a Son, Whom He appoints enjoyer of the allotment of all, through Whom He also makes the eons..." [Heb.1:1-2]

 Radical Unitarians tell us that the words "God speaking to the fathers in the prophets, in the last days speaks to us in a Son proves the Son never pre-existed but only makes His appearance after His physical birth. But, take notice of the words that follow, "through Whom He also makes the eons." This immediately discredits their assumption. The context is that the same One that spoke to the fathers in the prophets is the same One that appeared as the Son and He is the same One through Whom God makes the eons.

The Messiah declared his pre-existence also in a number of texts:

 

"In [John 5:37], we see that the Father sent Christ and Christ declares that no man has seen God or heard His voice at any time. So, the two witnesses of John declare that no one has seen God, yet the term elohim is used of the being that spoke to the patriarchs and the prophets of the Old Testament. If this being was not the one true God, who was it?  We will see that it could only have been Christ, but it was called consistently and clearly throughout the Old Testament the Angel of Yahovah and we will find evidence in the New Testament of this terminology also." [4]

Let us contrast [John.1:-3] with Col.1:15-17] and [Rev.3:13-14, 21:6, 22:13.]

"....In the beginning was the word, and the word was toward "the" God, and God was the word. This was in the beginning toward "the" God. All came into being through it, and apart from it not even one thing came into being which has come into being...." [John.1:1-3]

"...Who is the Image of the invisible "the" God, Firstborn of every creature, for in him is "the" all created, "the" that in heavens and "the" that on the earth, the visible and the invisible, whether thrones, or Lordships, or sovereignties, or authorities, "the" all is created through Him and for Him, and He is before all, and "the all has its cohesion in Him..." [Col.1:15-17]

"...Who has an ear, let him hear what "the spirit" is saying to the ecclesia's. And to the messenger of the ecclesia in Laodicea write: Now this is saying the Amen, the Faithful and "the" True "the" Witness, and "the" God's "the creative "the " [Gr. arche] Original..."  [Rev.3:13-14]

 "...And He said unto me, "I have become the Alpha and the Omega, the Origin and the consummation..." [Rev.21:6]

"...I am the Alpha and the Omega, the First and the Last, the Origin and the Consummation.." [Rev.22:13]