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Philippians 2:5-7
Have this attitude in yourselves which was also in Christ Yahshua, who, although He existed in the
form of God, did not regard equality with God a thing to be grasped, but emptied Himself, taking
the form of a bond-servant, and being made in the likeness of men.

When the time came for the redemption of man to take place, Yahweh prepared a different body for
His Son. It was a body like unto our own.

Hebrews 10:5
Therefore, when He comes into the world, He says,"Sacrifice and offering You have not desired,
but a body You have prepared for Me...”

From the beginning of the creation the Son existed in the form of God. His was a celestial body. He
was the heavenly vision of the invisible God. As the Son, Yahshua was granted the wisdom,
character, and power of God the Father. By exercise of these attributes, and in subjection to the
Father, the Son created all things.

If you are able to receive these things, you can then understand what is meant when the Bible
describes Yahshua as “the only begotten of the Father.” In a sense we can say that all things have
come forth from the Father. Yet, only one being was the direct generation, the monogenes, of the
Father. This is the Son, the firstborn, the preeminent One of all creation.

Adam came forth from God, but he is not a direct generation of the Father. He was formed by the
Son through whom all things both visible and invisible were made. The angels came forth from God,
but neither were they directly generated by the Father. It was the Son who created principalities and
powers, thrones and dominions. All things were created by Him and for Him.

It has been granted to mankind to become sons of God, yet there will only ever be one who is the
only begotten Son of the Father. He issued forth at the very beginning of the creation. He is before
all things, and through Him all things consist and hold together. Glory and honor belong to the Son
of God!