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"Of Whom as concerning the flesh Christ came, Who is over all, God blessed for ever.
Amen" (Rom. 9: 5).
The Creator is "blessed for ever. Amen". The Son of God is "over all, God blessed
for ever. Amen".
Again the reader is turned, not to the Father, but to the Son. The reference in
I Pet. 4: 19 links "the faithful Creator" with "God" and so leaves the question of the
Father and the Son untouched. Turning to the N.T. for specific teaching concerning the
Person of the Creator, we note that the A.V. of Eph. 3: 9 speaks of the mystery `which
had been hid in God Who created all things by Jesus Christ', but the R.V. omits the
words `by Jesus Christ' and this is the unanimous opinion of all textual critics. Whatever
we have discovered therefore through the testimony of the O.T. will apply here, namely,
the God Who created all things is Jehovah, the Kinsman Redeemer of His people. It is
axiomatic, that He Who built ALL THINGS is God (Heb. 3: 4), and we will keep this
fact before us as we continue our search. The ascription of praise to Him Who created all
things is given by the living ones (wrongly called `beasts') in Rev. 4: to the One Who
sat upon the rainbow circled Throne. To Him the four living ones that had six wings
about him, cried "Holy, Holy, Holy, LORD GOD Almighty, which was, and is, and is to
come" (Rev. 4: 8). Isaiah saw a vision in the Temple and in it the seraphim, each having
six wings, cried "Holy, Holy, Holy, is the LORD of hosts: the whole earth is full of His
glory" (Isa. 6: 2, 3) and John says that in this vision, Isaiah said these things "when he
saw His glory and spake of Him" (John 12: 41). The other titles in Rev. 4: "Lord God
Almighty" and He "which was, and is, and is to come" we must leave for a future
consideration, but the reader can find these passages for himself.
Again in Rev. 14:, the terms of `the everlasting gospel' include the worship of Him
that made heaven and earth, and the sea, and the fountains of waters. Here, no other title
is given to the Creator than "God" (Rev. 14: 7). In Acts 17: the God that made the
world and all things therein, in Whom all live and move and have their being, is the Lord
that men should seek "if haply they might feel after Him and find Him"
(Acts 17: 24-28).
We must defer an examination of these words until we have
compelled our survey of the references to the Creator in the N.T. Up till now the
references use the titles "Lord, God and Almighty", without any specific indication as to
whether the Father or the Son is directly intended.
We now come to passages where the reference to Christ is specific.
"In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
The same was in the beginning with God. ALL THINGS were made by Him; and
without Him was NOT ANY THING made that was made . . . . . He was in the world,
and the WORLD was made by Him, and the world knew Him not" (John 1: 1-10).
Here we have explicit, unambiguous, exclusive testimony. The creation of `all
things', the Maker of `the world' is He Who in the fullness of time was made flesh, and
tabernacled among us, Whose glory was:
"The glory as of the only begotten of the Father" (John 1: 14).