Was Jesus God, or a Priest of the Most High God, or both?
The simple explanation of what the Godhead is could not be explained in simple terms because it is beyond understanding by our human finite minds. What we can say about it is that the Godhead is the totality of all the characteristics and attributes of God that exists in our World, or one could say in the Universe, if even the Universe could contain it.
The Godhead is made up of Jehovah God, our Heavenly Father, His spoken Word that causes all things to occur, His Spirit, which we know as the Holy Spirit which carries the anointing of His will to indwell mankind and however many manifestations He chooses to use to interact with His creation.
The head of the Godhead, to use mere human words, is who we know by the English translation of His name of Jehovah, who is our Heavenly Father and the creator of all that exists in our World. We know this because of His assertion in Exodus 6:3 that Jehovah is His name and in the second chapter of Genesis where it is written that HE, Jehovah was the one who created all things. The word change from the name of God, which is Jehovah, to the word LORD in all capital letters served the devil to obscure from mankind our God’s real name for his evil purposes. Even though, His name being Jehovah is recognized four times in the Old Testament.
Down through the ages God appeared to mankind in many different forms. Some of those were as the man who Abraham called Lord who visited him before the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah; another was as a burning bush who spoke to Moses and in another form as the man Melchizedek who met Abraham after the slaughter of the Kings stated in Genesis 14:18.
It is noted that this man named Melchizedek was a Priest of God and was described by the Apostle Paul as one “without father, without mother, without descent, having neither beginning of days, nor end of life; but made like unto the Son of God; who abides a priest continually.” This man Melchizedek was an Earthly manifestation of God and proceeded from what we are describing as the Godhead.
Then we come to the man Jesus who became the Christ of God and was declared by Jehovah as being a priest forever after the order of Melchisedec. This man Jesus, received more honor from Jehovah His Heavenly Father insomuch as He was the only begotten Son of God because of the way He was conceived. John the Baptist testified of His coming by saying that God revealed to him that when he saw the Spirit descending upon and remaining on a man, that He would receive the Spirit of God without measure and was the Messiah and the Christ of God. Before Jesus was baptized by John He was just a man as other men were, but when He received the fullness of the Spirit of God and became the Christ of God, He became part of the Godhead.
Jesus testified that the Father had given all things into His hand and all power was given unto Him in heaven and in earth which would make Him like a God because He was the Son of God. The only exception to His authority was that He would remain subordinate to His Father Jehovah as is made clear in First Corinthians 15:24-28. Jesus made it clear that the Father Jehovah sent Him down to the Earth to do the Father’s will and when His mission was accomplished, He would return to the Father and remain on the Father’s right hand on His Throne.
Down through the years Jehovah God has sent men at various times to do His will on the Earth. I’m sure there have been many that I am not familiar with, but there was one during my lifetime that I knew and can testify that he was sent by God to accomplish His will for what he was sent for. This man was anointed by God and had the Spirit of God active in his ministry, but unlike Jesus who had the Spirit without measure, this man had just enough of God’s Spirit to accomplish his mission for God. This man was not the Christ of God even though many of the same supernatural signs were evident in his ministry as were in operation in the ministry of Christ.
As it says in First Corinthians 12: 7-11 The manifestation of the Spirit is given to every man to profit with. To one is given by the Spirit the word of wisdom; to another the word of knowledge, To another faith; to another the gifts of healing, to another the working of miracles; to another prophecy; to another discerning of spirits; to another divers kinds of tongues; to another the interpretation of tongues: But all these work because of that same Spirit, dividing to every man severally as he will.
Just as Melchizedek was the expressed image of God, the representation of God under the Old Covenant, Jesus was the same for the New Covenant, but was special as Jehovah God sent His Son who had more Glory than Melchizedek because of His mission that God sent Him to do.
Jehovah God foreordained Jesus before the foundation of the World to be born as a human being. Jehovah God sent His only begotten Son and anointed Him as the Christ. Jehovah God gave Jesus all power in Heaven and on Earth to accomplish His will for mankind. Jehovah God raised Jesus from the dead and set Him at His own right hand. Jehovah God put all things under the feet of Jesus and made Him to be the head over all things to the Church, which is His Body, the fullness of Him that completed all in all which is the Godhead.
Jesus was a man, but when Jehovah God anointed Him and made Him the Christ, all the fullness of the Godhead body was in Him. Even though, Jehovah God, the Heavenly Father, the Creator of the Heavens and the Earth maintains His superiority over His Son and all that was given to Him.
Some have taught that Jehovah of the Old Testament is Jesus of the New Testament. Jesus refuted that possibility by stating throughout the New Testament over forty one times that the Father sent Him to do the Father’s will on Earth. Jesus also made it clear that “He could do nothing of Himself, but the Father that dwelt in Him does the works.”
The Apostle Paul stated in First Timothy chapter three verse 16:
“Without controversy great is the mystery of godliness: God was manifest in the flesh, justified in the Spirit, seen of angels, preached unto the Gentiles, believed on in the world, received up into glory.”
The mystery of godliness and the Godhead body in detail may never be completely understood by man because the concept is beyond man’s ability to fathom.
