Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1921-09-26
Manifestations of God
are Shown In Scripture
SAYS Pentecostal Pastor
The Rev. Joseph Lantz Describes Three Ways
in Which God Manifested Himself
to Sinners Through Christ.

Tracing the scriptural version of
Gods manifestation of His spirit to
man, the Rev. Joseph Lantz of the
Pentecostal Mission Sunday evening
quoted numerous biblical passages to
show the methods by "hicn that mani
| festation was made. Mr.. Lantz describ-
ed three methods, that by which God
manifested himself to the sinner
| through Christ, whom we must accept
as our savior before we may become
| children Of God; that Of bnptis,n by
the Holy Spirit. and the creation of
man in His own image and likeness
and imbuing him with a capacity for
holiness equal to that of God himself.
if man will seek the fulfillment Of his
| own possibilities. Mr.. Lantz spcke in
part as follows:
Bible Only Source.
3'The bible is the only source from
which We can get the correct conccp-
ton of God. From it we learn that
God is spirit The spirit of God moved
upon the face of the waters God is
a spirit (Gen. -; John 4. 24e. What
is spirit! Let the master answer. He
told the affrighted disciples, who shut
themselves in room for fear Of the
Jews, Behold my hands and my feet,
that it is / myself; handle me and see !;
for spirit hath not flesh and bones
as We see me have. luke 24:39D. A
spirit is incorporeal and invisible 1t is
living reality.
God formed man Of the dust OF the
ground, and breathed into his nost.ils
the breath of life Adam heard the
voice of the Lord God walking in the
garden 'Enoch walked with God The
prophet Isaiah said: L saw also the
Lord sitting upon throne, high and
lifted up. and his train filled the
temple The Lord spake unto Moses
face to face, as a man speaseth into
his friend God is represented as
breathing, walking. sitting. speaking,
and appearing as friend.
Easy to Explain.
Eve have two scriptures that seem
ingly contradict the scripture Just
quoted, i. e.. There shall no man see
me. and live No man hath seen God
at any time There is no difficulty N
harmonizing these scriptures with the
others. If you look into a glass you
will see your face. 1t would be true if
you said, 4 saw my face. 1t would
be also true if you said 4 have ne-er
seen my face What you saw was not
your face, but reflection. SO likewise.
No man hath seen God at any time in
his invisible essence What they saw
was manifestation of God.
'The revised version Of the bible
makes a clear distinction between the
angel of the Lord and AN angel Of tie
Lord
"The authorized version does not
make that distinction. The angel of
the Lord 10 clearly identified with the
Lord Jehovah. (Gcn. IS. ITO, ID.
Judges 10, II, 10. R. W 'Manoah said
unto the angel Of the Lord. What is
thy name that when they sayings come
to pass we may do thee honor? And
the angel Of the Lord said unto him.
Why askest thou thus after my name,
seeing it is wonderful? Or. W His
name is wonderful. Compare Isaiah.
90. For unto us child is born. unto
us son is given: ard the government
shall be upon his shoulder; and his
name shall be called ownderful. coun-
sellor, the mighty God, the everlasting
Father, the Prince of Peace
Prophecies Of the Coming.
"These two passages of scriptures
are prophecies Of the coming Christ
before his incarnation, he who is iden-
tical with the angel Of the Lord who
appeared unto ,1anoah and others.
when the fullness Of time came, the
angel of the Lord came down and was
born of the Virgin Mary. He took upon
himself human flesh and became the
Son of God. The old and new tesla
ments declared Christ as the king Of
the Jews. But He came unto his own,
and his own received him not John
1:11). The Jews said to Christ that
they were the seed Of Abraham. and
that he was their father. Then .!esus
said: Your father, -Abraha'a, rajoiced
to see my day; and he saw il. aDl was
glad Then said the Jews unto him.
Thou art not yet 30 years lid, and
hast thou seen Abraham? Jesus said
unto them. Verify. verify, l say unto
you. before Abraham was. l am Then
took they up stones to east ut him:
but Jesus hid himself and went out
of the temple, going through the
midst of them, and so passed by
"They did not understand that he
was in the beginning. and was the
word, and was with God, and was
God (John LID. Christ WIS before
the beginning. He broke through cter
nifty and made beginning. John ] 3;
Gen. 1:1).
John the Baptist Saw.
sWhen John the Baptist was preach
ing in the wilderness, God said unto
GALLEY TWO MANIFESTATION I.