Gwen Frangs / Templemore, Ireland / 26 November 2022
Many Christians believe that Jesus was present in the Old Testament as a man, but that cannot be true because the Bible teaches that Jesus was ‘begotten’. If we look at the meaning of the word ‘begotten’ in https://biblehub.com/hebrew/3205.htm. You will see that the word is derived from the word meaning ‘to bear, bring forth, beget’. The word translated ‘begotten’ in Psalm 2:7 means that the Son of Man was begotten. Psalm 2 also makes it clear that the Son of Man was only begotten after there were already nations on the earth:
7 I will tell of the decree:
Psalm 2:7-8 ESV
The Lord said to me, “You are my Son;
today I have begotten you.
8 Ask of me, and I will make the nations your heritage,
and the ends of the earth your possession.
There were no nations present at the creation, because they had not been created yet, therefore the Son of Man could not have been begotten before the creation.
In Zechariah 3, the second last book of the Old Testament, the Father is speaking through the Holy Spirit about the Branch. In verse 8 Yahweh says: ‘I Am bringing forth My Servant the Branch….’ Zechariah 3:8. He is describing a future event. He is not describing something that had happened in the past prior to creation. The Son was begotten only at the beginning of the New Testament when Mary became pregnant with Him, as a result of the Holy Spirit overshadowing her. When the Holy Spirit took up residence in the body that the Father had prepared for Him, the Son was begotten:
5 Therefore, when Christ came into the world, he said:
“Sacrifice and offering you did not desire,
Hebrews 10:5-7
but a body you prepared for me;
6 with burnt offerings and sin offerings
you were not pleased.
7 Then I said, ‘Here I am—it is written about me in the scroll—
I have come to do your will, my God.’”[a]
The Son did not exist as a man prior to that point. The speaker in the verse makes it clear that He sees Himself as separate from the body that was prepared. In other words He is not the body. He is in the body. In the course of this article we will see that the speaker is the Holy Spirit.
In Isaiah 63 we are told that the Holy Spirit is an angel called the Angel of His presence:
8 He said, “Surely they are my people,
Isaiah 63:8-10 NIV
children who will be true to me”;
and so he became their Savior.
9 In all their distress he too was distressed,
and the angel of his presence saved them.[a]
In his love and mercy he redeemed them;
he lifted them up and carried them
all the days of old.
10 Yet they rebelled
and grieved his Holy Spirit.
So he turned and became their enemy
and he himself fought against them.
It may seem strange to think that the Holy Spirit is an angel, but according to the Bible angels are spirits:
14 Are not all angels ministering spirits sent to serve those who will inherit salvation?
Hebrews 1:14 NIV
In Genesis 48 Jacob called the Angel Who appeared to him at Luz, El Shaddai (Genesis 48:15-16 ; Genesis 48:3 – El Shaddai is incorrectly translated as ‘God Almighty’).
In Exodus 6:2-3 God the Father says that He appeared to the Patriarchs in El Shaddai:
2 And God said to Moses, “I am Yahweh—‘the Lord.’ 3 I appeared to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob in El-Shaddai but I did not reveal my name, Yahweh, to them.
Exodus 6:2-3
The preposition on the word ‘el’ in the Hebrew is prep-b, meaning ‘in.’
This is the reason why Jesus, the incarnate Holy Spirit, spoke about the Father living within Him.
Paul was speaking about the Holy Spirit becoming incarnate as Jesus when he wrote:
5 Have this mind among yourselves, which is yours in Christ Jesus,[a]6 who, though he was in the form of God, did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped,[b]7 but emptied himself, by taking the form of a servant,[c] being born in the likeness of men. 8 And being found in human form, he humbled himself by becoming obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross.
Philippians 2:5-8 ESV
Numbers 12:7-8 speaks about the Angel of His Presence meeting with Moses:
Not so with My servant Moses. He is faithful in all My house. I speak with him face to Face and even plainly and not in dark sayings and he sees the form of Yahweh….
Numbers 12:7;8 Interlinear
The Holy Spirit was the ‘form’ of God in the Old Testament. We know this because Jesus said that no one had ever seen the Father and Jesus had not yet been begotten. Therefore, every time that God was seen in the Old Testament, it was the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit is the very special angel within Whom the Father dwells. That is why He is called ‘the Angel of His Presence’ because the Father was present within Him. He was called the Angel of Yahweh because Yahweh was present within Him. The Holy Spirit was sent by Yahweh to minister to a number of people in the Old Testament. These people all said that they had seen God after they had encountered the Holy Spirit:
- In Genesis 16:13 Hagar calls the Angel of Yahweh, God.
- In Genesis 48:15-16 Jacob calls this same Angel, God.
- In Judges 13:22, Manoah calls the Angel of Yahweh, God.
- In Exodus 3, when the Angel of Yahweh appears as fire in a bush, He is referred to as God by the author, both in verses 4 and 6.
- In Genesis 22:12 the Angel of Yahweh calls Himself God.
- In Zechariah 12:8, God the Father calls the Angel, God.
- Hosea calls the Angel, God in Hosea 12:4-5.
The Holy Spirit is called the Word of God in Genesis 15:
After this, the word of the Lord came to Abram in a vision:
“Do not be afraid, Abram.
I am your shield,[a]
your very great reward.[b]”2 But Abram said, “Sovereign Lord, what can you give me since I remain childless and the one who will inherit[c] my estate is Eliezer of Damascus?” 3 And Abram said, “You have given me no children; so a servant in my household will be my heir.”
4 Then the word of the Lord came to him: “This man will not be your heir, but a son who is your own flesh and blood will be your heir.” 5 He took him outside and said, “Look up at the sky and count the stars—if indeed you can count them.” Then he said to him, “So shall your offspring[d] be.”
Genesis 15:1-5 NIV
It was the Word of God, the Holy Spirit, Who became flesh and dwelt among us.
In Isaiah 63:11 the Holy Spirit is called ‘the Shepherd of His flock’:
11 Then his people recalled[a] the days of old,
Isaiah 63:13 NIV
the days of Moses and his people—
where is he who brought them through the sea,
with the shepherd of his flock?
Where is he who set
his Holy Spirit among them,
12 who sent his glorious arm of power
to be at Moses’ right hand,
who divided the waters before them,
to gain for himself everlasting renown,
13 who led them through the depths?
Like a horse in open country,
they did not stumble;
The New Testament teaches that this Good Shepherd, the Holy Spirit, became incarnate as Jesus Christ.
In Acts 16 we are told:
Paul and his companions travelled throughout the region of Phrygia and Galatia, having been kept by the Holy Spirit from preaching the word in the province of Asia. When they came to the border of Mysia, they tried to enter Bithynia, but the Spirit of Jesus would not allow them to .
Acts 16:6-7
We see here that the apostle Luke calls the Holy Spirit the Spirit of Jesus.
As Christians we know that the Holy Spirit was in the prophets in the Old Testament so that they could prophesy. In 1 Peter 1:10-11 the apostle Peter refers to the Holy Spirit as the Spirit of Christ:
10 Concerning this salvation, the prophets, who spoke of the grace that was to come to you, searched intently and with the greatest care, 11 trying to find out the time and circumstances to which the Spirit of Christ in them was pointing when he predicted the sufferings of the Messiah and the glories that would follow.
1 Peter 1:10-11 NIV
In Romans, Paul says: ‘But you are not in the flesh; you are in the Spirit, since the Spirit of God dwells in you. Anyone who does not have the Spirit of Christ does not belong to him. But if Christ is in you, though the body is dead because of sin, the Spirit is life because of righteousness.’ (Romans 8:9, 10 NRSV).
Paul refers to ‘the spirit of Christ’ as ‘the Spirit of God’. We know that ‘the Spirit of God’ is the Holy Spirit. Therefore, it follows that the spirit of Christ is the Holy Spirit.
As Christians we know that the Holy Spirit is living in us and that we are the temple of the Holy Spirit (1 Corinthians 6:19). However, the apostle Paul tells us that it is Jesus Who is living in us. The apostle Paul called this a mystery:
24 Now I rejoice in what I am suffering for you, and I fill up in my flesh what is still lacking in regard to Christ’s afflictions, for the sake of his body, which is the church. 25 I have become its servant by the commission God gave me to present to you the word of God in its fullness— 26 the mystery that has been kept hidden for ages and generations, but is now disclosed to the Lord’s people. 27 To them God has chosen to make known among the Gentiles the glorious riches of this mystery, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory.
Colossians 1:24-27
Jesus Himself told the disciples at the Last Supper that He would be coming and living in them. In John 14:18-20 He says:
18 I will not leave you as orphans; I will come to you. 19 Before long, the world will not see me anymore, but you will see me. Because I live, you also will live. 20 On that day you will realize that I am in my Father, and you are in me, and I am in you.
John 14:18-20
In John 17:22-26 He says:
22 I have given them the glory that you gave me, that they may be one as we are one— 23 I in them and you in me—so that they may be brought to complete unity. Then the world will know that you sent me and have loved them even as you have loved me.
24 “Father, I want those you have given me to be with me where I am, and to see my glory, the glory you have given me because you loved me before the creation of the world.
25 “Righteous Father, though the world does not know you, I know you, and they know that you have sent me. 26 I have made you[a] known to them, and will continue to make you known in order that the love you have for me may be in them and that I myself may be in them.”
John 17:22-26
In John 14:23 Jesus makes it clear that if we obey His commandments that both Himself and the Father will come and live in us:
Jesus replied, “Anyone who loves me will obey my teaching. My Father will love them, and we will come to them and make our home with them.
John 14:23
The only way that Jesus can live within the believer is in the form of a spirit.
The apostle Paul taught that Jesus is the Holy Spirit because he writes in 1 Corinthians 3:17:
Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom.
2 Corinthians 3:17
Therefore, according to the Bible the Spirit of Jesus is the Holy Spirit. His body and soul were those of a human being, but His Spirit is the Holy Spirit. This is the glorious mystery that the Holy Spirit, Who is living within us, is Jesus Himself. Years ago I asked the Holy Spirit what I should call Him because I thought it seemed very formal to call Him Holy Spirit. The answer came back as clear as anything. He said: ‘Jesus.’ This is why in churches you hear people say that Jesus is living in them and you hear people say that they are the temple of the Holy Spirit. They are saying exactly the same thing, because the spirit of Jesus is the Holy Spirit.
However, a number of scriptures in John 14 and 15 in which Jesus promises to send the Holy Spirit would seem to render it entirely impossible that Jesus is the Holy Spirit:
16 And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another advocate to help you and be with you forever—
John 14:16
26 But the Advocate, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, will teach you all things and will remind you of everything I have said to you.
John 14:26
26 “When the Advocate comes, whom I will send to you from the Father—the Spirit of truth who goes out from the Father—he will testify about me.
John 15:26
It would seem that Jesus is indicating that the Holy Spirit is an Individual entirely separate and different from Himself. However, a similar thing occurs when Jesus refers to the Son of Man.
“The Son of Man will send forth His angels, and they will gather out of His kingdom all stumbling blocks, and those who commit lawlessness.”
Matt. 13:41
“The Son of Man is going to be delivered into the hands of men and they shall kill Him, and He will be raised on the third day.”
Matt. 17:22-23
“Truly I say to you, that you who have followed Me, in the regeneration when the Son of Man will sit on His glorious throne, you also shall sit upon twelve thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel.”
Matt. 19:28
“Behold, we are going up to Jerusalem; and the Son of Man will be delivered to the chief priests and scribes, and they will condemn Him to death, and will hand Him over to the Gentiles to mock and scourge and crucify Him, and on the third day He will be raised up.”
Matt. 20:18-19
“But when the Son of Man comes in His glory, and all the angels with Him, then He will sit on His glorious throne.”
Matt. 25:31
When Jesus refers to the Son of Man in these scriptures it also seems like He is referring to an entirely different person from Himself. However, in Matthew 16:15 Jesus identifies Himself to be the Son of Man:
13 When Jesus came to the region of Caesarea Philippi, he asked his disciples, “Who do people say the Son of Man is?”
14 They replied, “Some say John the Baptist; others say Elijah; and still others, Jeremiah or one of the prophets.”
15 “But what about you?” he asked. “Who do you say I am?”
16 Simon Peter answered, “You are the Messiah, the Son of the living God.”
17 Jesus replied, “Blessed are you, Simon son of Jonah, for this was not revealed to you by flesh and blood, but by my Father in heaven.
Matthew 16:13-17
It is clear from verse 15 that Jesus is Himself the Son of Man and that there is no separate or different Son of Man.
It would seem that in the verses in John 14 and 15 in which Jesus refers to the Holy Spirit in the third person that He is doing the same thing as when He referred to Himself as the Son of Man in the third person.
Although He speaks of Himself as the Holy Spirit in the third person, He indicates in John 14, that He Himself is the Holy Spirit. For example, in John 14:7 Jesus tells the disciples that the Holy Spirit lives with them:
17 the Spirit of truth. The world cannot accept him, because it neither sees him nor knows him. But you know him, for he lives with you…..
John 14:17
As the Holy Spirit only came on Pentecost and Jesus was the One Who was living with them at that time and the One that they knew, this indicates that Jesus Himself is the incarnate Holy Spirit.
In John 14:18-20 He says:
18 I will not leave you as orphans; I will come to you. 19 Before long, the world will not see me anymore, but you will see me. Because I live, you also will live. 20 On that day you will realize that I am in my Father, and you are in me, and I am in you.
John 14:18-20
Notice that at the end of verse 20 He tells them that He will be in them. Obviously there is no way that He could come and physically climb inside of them to live in them. The only way that He could be in them would be in the form of a Spirit.
In Colossians 1 the apostle Paul distinguishes between Jesus’ physical body and the church as Jesus’ body:
22 But now he has reconciled you by Christ’s physical body through death to present you holy in his sight, without blemish and free from accusation—
Colossians 1:22
24 Now I rejoice in what I am suffering for you, and I fill up in my flesh what is still lacking in regard to Christ’s afflictions, for the sake of his body, which is the church.
Colossians 1:24
It is clear that Paul understands Jesus to be living inside the church as the Holy Spirit and that the Church is His body.
We know as Christians that the Holy Spirit is the One Who is in us. We are the temple of the Holy Spirit. In verse 18 Jesus is telling the disciples that He will come to them. This happened on the day of Pentecost when the Holy Spirit came down and filled the disciples. He tells them that He will come to them in a way that the world cannot see Him. The world cannot see Jesus living in a Christian as the Holy Spirit.
The fact that the Holy Spirit appeared as a dove at the baptism of Jesus also makes it seem impossible that Jesus could be the incarnate Holy Spirit. However, in the Bible the Holy Spirit appeared on a number of occasions in more than one form. In Genesis 15:17-21 He appeared as a smoking firepot and a blazing torch:
17 When the sun had set and darkness had fallen, a smoking firepot with a blazing torch appeared and passed between the pieces. 18 On that day the Lord made a covenant with Abram and said, “To your descendants I give this land, from the Wadi[a] of Egypt to the great river, the Euphrates— 19 the land of the Kenites, Kenizzites, Kadmonites, 20 Hittites, Perizzites, Rephaites, 21 Amorites, Canaanites, Girgashites and Jebusites.”
Genesis 15:17-21 NIV
In Ezekiel 1:26-28 He appeared as a fiery man and a rainbow:
26 Above the vault over their heads was what looked like a throne of lapis lazuli, and high above on the throne was a figure like that of a man. 27 I saw that from what appeared to be his waist up he looked like glowing metal, as if full of fire, and that from there down he looked like fire; and brilliant light surrounded him. 28 Like the appearance of a rainbow in the clouds on a rainy day, so was the radiance around him.
This was the appearance of the likeness of the glory of the Lord. When I saw it, I fell facedown, and I heard the voice of one speaking.
Ezekiel 1:26-28 NIV
The appearance of the rainbow is described by Ezekiel as ‘the appearance of the likeness of the glory of the Lord’. In Ezekiel 8:4 the fiery man is described as the Glory of God. Therefore, when it says that the rainbow is the appearance of the likeness of the glory of the Lord’ it is saying that the rainbow is another form of the Holy Spirit. On the Day of Pentecost He appeared as both a mighty wind and tongues of fire.
The Holy Spirit appeared as a dove at Jesus’ baptism, even though Jesus was Himself the incarnation of the Holy Spirit, because the dove was a symbol of a sin offering. The Jewish people could offer doves as sin offerings if they couldn’t afford a lamb or a bull. Seeing a dove would immediately make them think of a sin offering. At Jesus’ baptism, John the Baptist testified that Jesus, the incarnate Holy Spirit, was the Lamb of God and the Holy Spirit appeared as a dove, symbolizing that it was the Holy Spirit Who was going to be offered as a sin offering.
In Colossians 1:12-20 Paul described the Son of God:
12 and giving joyful thanks to the Father, who has qualified you[f] to share in the inheritance of his holy people in the kingdom of light. 13 For he has rescued us from the dominion of darkness and brought us into the kingdom of the Son he loves, 14 in whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins.
15 The Son is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation. 16 For in him all things were created: things in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or powers or rulers or authorities; all things have been created through him and into him. 17 He is before all things, and in him all things hold together. 18 And he is the head of the body, the church; he is the beginning and the firstborn from among the dead, so that in everything he might have the supremacy. 19 For God was pleased to have all his fullness dwell in him, 20 and through him to reconcile to himself all things, whether things on earth or things in heaven, by making peace through his blood, shed on the cross.
Colossians 1:12-20
In verses 15-18 Paul is clearly describing Jesus as He pre-existed as the Holy Spirit. Then In verses 18-20, Paul is describing the Holy Spirit after He became incarnate as Jesus. In verse 16 Paul says that all things were created through the Son. The Old Testament makes it clear that God used the Holy Spirit to create everything:
The Spirit of God has made me;
Job 33:4 NIV
the breath of the Almighty gives me life.
All creatures look to you
Psalm 104:27-30 NIV
to give them their food at the proper time.
28 When you give it to them,
they gather it up;
when you open your hand,
they are satisfied with good things.
29 When you hide your face,
they are terrified;
when you take away their breath,
they die and return to the dust.
30 When you send your Spirit,
they are created,
and you renew the face of the ground.
Clearly, the Son is the Holy Spirit incarnate or Paul would have been contradicting the Old Testament by teaching that the Son had created everything. The apostle Paul was fully aware that Jesus’ spirit was the Holy Spirit. In Galatians, Paul says: ‘And because you Gentiles have become his children, God has sent the spirit of his Son into your hearts, and now you can call God your dear Father’ (Galatians 4:6 NLT).
Paul identified Jesus as the Angel of Yahweh, the Holy Spirit, in 1 Corinthians 10:9 when he wrote:
9 We should not test Christ,[a] as some of them did—and were killed by snakes.
1 Corinthians 10:9 NIV
The apostle Paul knew that the form of God Who appeared to Moses was the Holy Spirit, the Angel of His Presence, Who was accompanying the Israelites in the wilderness.
If one reads the account of some of the Israelites being killed with snakes in Numbers 21:4-9 in the original Hebrew, the text says that it was Yahweh Who killed the Israelites with the snakes. So, why would Paul be linking Jesus with this incident? He does this because he knew that in Exodus 23 Yahweh tells Moses that the Angel of Yahweh will go with the Israelites:
20 “See, I am sending an angel ahead of you to guard you along the way and to bring you to the place I have prepared. 21 Pay attention to him and listen to what he says. Do not rebel against him; he will not forgive your rebellion, since my Name is in him. 22 If you listen carefully to what he says and do all that I say, I will be an enemy to your enemies and will oppose those who oppose you. 23 My angel will go ahead of you and bring you into the land of the Amorites, Hittites, Perizzites, Canaanites, Hivites and Jebusites, and I will wipe them out.
Exodus 20:20-23 NIV
Paul knew that the Angel’s name was Yahweh because God the Father told Moses that the Angel was also called Yahweh. He also knew that in Exodus 33, Yahweh tells Moses that He Himself will not be in the midst of the Israelites on this journey because He might kill them on the way:
Then the Lord said to Moses, “Leave this place, you and the people you brought up out of Egypt, and go up to the land I promised on oath to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, saying, ‘I will give it to your descendants.’ 2 I will send an angel before you and drive out the Canaanites, Amorites, Hittites, Perizzites, Hivites and Jebusites. 3 Go up to the land flowing with milk and honey. But I will not go with you, because you are a stiff-necked people and I might destroy you on the way.”
Exodus 33:1-4
If one reads these verses in the original Hebrew, Yahweh actually says to Moses that He will not go up in the midst of the Israelites (Exodus 33:3 Interlinear Bible). Therefore, Paul knew that Yahweh, the Father, Who is an invisible spirit, was not in the midst of the Israelites on the journey. The Father was not present in the midst of the Israelites in the form of an omnipresent Spirit because He did not want to kill them. It was the Angel of Yahweh Who was with them. This is confirmed in Judges 2:1:
2 The angel of the Lord went up from Gilgal to Bokim and said, “I brought you up out of Egypt and led you into the land I swore to give to your ancestors. I said, ‘I will never break my covenant with you.
Judges 2:1
Paul identified this Angel as Christ in 1 Corinthians 10:9 because he understood that Jesus was the incarnate Angel of Yahweh. He understood that Jesus’ spirit was the Angel of Yahweh. We have human spirits, but Jesus didn’t have a human spirit. His spirit was the Holy Spirit, the Angel of Yahweh.
The apostle John also had the revelation that Jesus was the Holy Spirit incarnate. In John 1:1-3 we are told:
In the beginning was the Word and the Word was with God and God was the Word. He was in the beginning with God. All things through Him came into being and without Him came into being not even one thing that has come into being.
John 1:1-3
John describes how Jesus breathed the Holy Spirit into the disciples: ‘Then he breathed on them and said, “Receive the Holy Spirit” ‘(John 20:22 CEV).
In the Book of Revelation John sees the spirit of Jesus, the Holy Spirit, on the island of Patmos. In Revelation 1:13 the apostle John says that he sees One like the Son of Man. It does not say that he sees the Son of Man:
12 And I turned to see the voice that spake with me. And being turned, I saw seven golden candlesticks;
13 And in the midst of the seven candlesticks one like unto the Son of man, clothed with a garment down to the foot, and girt about the paps with a golden girdle.
14 His head and his hairs were white like wool, as white as snow; and his eyes were as a flame of fire;
15 And his feet like unto fine brass, as if they burned in a furnace; and his voice as the sound of many waters.
16 And he had in his right hand seven stars: and out of his mouth went a sharp two edged sword: and his countenance was as the sun shineth in his strength.
Revelations 1:12-16 NIV
It must be remembered that John was the beloved disciple. If he had seen Jesus in the vision, his reaction would have been different. They would probably have been hugging each other with joy. Instead John falls down in terror when he sees this Person, Who is like the Son of Man, but isn’t the Son of Man:
When I saw him, I fell at his feet as though dead. Then he placed his right hand on me and said: “Do not be afraid. I am the First and the Last.
Revelation 1:17 NIV
This is because the Person that John sees is the Holy Spirit. We know that this is the Holy Spirit because we are told in Revelations 2 verses 1 and 7 that it is the Holy Spirit:
2 “To the angel[a] of the church in Ephesus write:
These are the words of him who holds the seven stars in his right hand and walks among the seven golden lampstands.
Revelation 2:1 NIV
7 Whoever has ears, let them hear what the Spirit says to the churches.
Revelation 2:7a NIV
Also, Revelation 2:12 says:
“To the angel of the church in Pergamum write:
These are the words of him who has the sharp, double-edged sword.
Revelation 2:12 NIV
Ephesians 6:17 says that the sword belongs to the Holy Spirit:
Take the helmet of salvation and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God.
Ephesians 6:17 NIV
Therefore, in the Book of Revelation it is revealed to John that the spirit of Jesus is the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit then reveals to him what is to come, just as Jesus said that He would do:
13 But when he, the Spirit of truth, comes, he will guide you into all the truth. He will not speak on his own; he will speak only what he hears, and he will tell you what is yet to come.
John 16:13 NIV
In Revelation 1 and 2 the apostle John is seeing the Holy Spirit as He was before He became incarnate as the Son of Man. He was seeing the Holy Spirit as He appeared in the Old Testament as El Shaddai, the Ancient of Days:
9 “As I looked,
“thrones were set in place,
Daniel 7:9-10 NIV
and the Ancient of Days took his seat.
His clothing was as white as snow;
the hair of his head was white like wool.
His throne was flaming with fire,
and its wheels were all ablaze.
10 A river of fire was flowing,
coming out from before him.
Thousands upon thousands attended him;
ten thousand times ten thousand stood before him.
The court was seated,
and the books were opened.
We read in Revelation 20:20-22 that the Holy Spirit says:
20 Here I am! I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, I will come in and eat with that person, and they with me.
21 To the one who is victorious, I will give the right to sit with me on my throne, just as I was victorious and sat down with my Father on his throne. 22 Whoever has ears, let them hear what the Spirit says to the churches.”
Revelation 3:20-22 NIV
He is saying this because He is the spirit of Jesus and He is asking to come and live in people’s hearts. He is asking people to become a part of His temple.
Therefore, the Bible makes it clear that Jesus’ spirit is the Holy Spirit and that the Holy Spirit became incarnate as Jesus. The fusion between the Angel, that is the Holy Spirit and the human body of Jesus, begot a entirely unique Being Who is called the Son of God. The Son of God is superior to the angels:
1 In the past God spoke to our ancestors through the prophets at many times and in various ways, 2 but in these last days he has spoken to us by his Son, whom he appointed heir of all things, and through whom also he made the universe. 3 The Son is the radiance of God’s glory and the exact representation of his being, sustaining all things by his powerful word. After he had provided purification for sins, he sat down at the right hand of the Majesty in heaven. 4 So he became as much superior to the angels as the name he has inherited is superior to theirs.
5 For to which of the angels did God ever say,
“You are my Son;
today I have become your Father”[a]?Or again,
“I will be his Father,
and he will be my Son”[b]?6 And again, when God brings his firstborn into the world, he says,
“Let all God’s angels worship him.”[c]
7 In speaking of the angels he says,
“He makes his angels spirits,
and his servants flames of fire.”[d]8 But about the Son he says,
“Your throne, O God, will last for ever and ever;
a scepter of justice will be the scepter of your kingdom.
9 You have loved righteousness and hated wickedness;
therefore God, your God, has set you above your companions
by anointing you with the oil of joy.”[e]10 He also says,
“In the beginning, Lord, you laid the foundations of the earth,
and the heavens are the work of your hands.
11 They will perish, but you remain;
they will all wear out like a garment.
12 You will roll them up like a robe;
like a garment they will be changed.
But you remain the same,
and your years will never end.”[f]13 To which of the angels did God ever say,
“Sit at my right hand
until I make your enemies
a footstool for your feet”[g]?14 Are not all angels ministering spirits sent to serve those who will inherit salvation?
Hebrews 1
The author of the letter to the Hebrews points out that the Holy Spirit is Jesus’ spirit when he says that God made the universe through the Son. He would have been well aware of the fact that the Old Testament teaches that the Father created everything through the Holy Spirit. In verse 3, the author tells us that the Son is the radiance of God’s glory. Again He is pointing to the fact that the Son is the incarnation of the Holy Spirit, because the Holy Spirit is called the Glory of God. By saying that the Son is the exact representation of God’s being, the author again tells us that the Son is the incarnate Holy Spirit because the Angel of Yahweh is the image of God that people saw in the Old Testament and He was also called Yahweh. As you will recall, when people saw the Angel, they said that they had seen God. As a fusion of angel and man, the Son of God is destined to reconcile all things in Heaven and on Earth to the Father. He has been given the name that is above all other names.