The Church of God

Who is She?

"My dove, my undefiled is but one; she is the only one of her mother, she is the choice one of her that bare her" (Song of Solomon 6:9)

In the midst of the great apostasy of the last days, God has a true Bride. She is "called, chosen, and faithful." The Church of God is the worldwide, divine institution of believers committed to accepting the whole Bible rightly divided as their rule of faith, practice, government, and discipline, as the Holy Ghost has revealed it in the Scripture. Established by Christ in 28 A.D. and arising from the Dark Ages in 1903, The Church of God is committed to fulfilling the four-fold purpose of Her divine creation.

Information taken from: The Church of God

I was met by a couple of nice guys from the Church of God a couple of days ago. I mean, they were really nice guys. One was originally from Korea, while the other gentleman really didn't speak at all. I noticed several things. First they had this belief that God, Jesus, and the Holy Spirit really aren't a Trinity, although they will say that they do. They described it as one person doing carrying three different titles, ignoring that Jesus acknowledged both God and the Holy Spirit... and that God acknowledged his Son and so forth. They also introduce a new 'person' to the mix and that is the Mother. So, there is the heavenly Father, the heavenly Mother, the Son, and the Holy Spirit, however, God is at least the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit... and could be the heavenly Mother. Probably is, although the bride is referenced to being Jerusalem and the church, which we discussed, but it really did get as clear as mud as to the point they were trying to make. So, I look at this scripture as to why Jerusalem is important in the book of Revelation: Matthew 5:33-37 “Again, you have heard that it was said to the people long ago, ‘Do not break your oath, but keep the oaths you have made to the Lord.’ But I tell you, Do not swear at all: either by heaven, for it is God’s throne; or by the earth, for it is his footstool; or by Jerusalem, for it is the city of the Great King.And do not swear by your head, for you cannot make even one hair white or black. Simply let your ‘Yes’ be ‘Yes,’ and your ‘No,’ ‘No’; anything beyond this comes from the evil one. Does this make Jerusalem a player alongside the Trinity? No! The Great King is from Jerusalem. Which great king? David? Solomon? Christ? You know, I don't know. I am not going to pretend to act like I know, but what I am sure is that the bride (which I know is the church, the body of Christ) is something that is not directly apart of the Trinity and really shouldn't be considered an equal, even though disciples are brothers with Christ, thus indicating a certain quality of equality (but that is for a WHOLE different discussion). I believe that the Jerusalem in Revelation is mentioned as now (or, as the Bible was written), Jerusalem was the center for the Jews, a religious center, everything in the Jewish world came from Jerusalem. And so in Revelation, a new Jerusalem means something like a new center for information, a new center of knowledge to learn and respond to instead of what the norm has been for them and their lives. Now I could be way off base, but it could also be in the context that they were in heaven, and the bride is the body of Christ, could it be that this new Jerusalem, this bride were the people who did the will of God and Christ on Earth? That, to me, makes the most sense.The bride isn't a 'person' or 'being' unless you are talking about the bride of Christ, the body of Christ, his church. And as far as the mother, the only mother in the Bible (well, actually, there are a whole bunch of mothers in there) is Mary, the mother of Christ. But there's also John the Baptist's mom, Samson's mom, etc. etc. etc.