Of Jonah who is a type of
Christ: “The shipmaster came to him, and
said to him, What meanest thou, O
sleeper? Arise, call upon thy
God, if so be that God might think upon us, that we
perish not.” (1:6)
The Call of the Caller
from the dead, is Call obeyed, is Call answered, is Call,
returned— returned of the Power over death and grave of the Calling.
“I remembered the LORD:
and my prayer came in unto Thee, into thine holy temple. I will sacrifice unto
Thee with the voice of thanksgiving; I will pay that I vowed. Salvation is of
the LORD.” (2:7,9)
The obedience, the answer,
the return, the Call of the Called from the dead, is of the Power of Him who
called from the dead and grave.
“According that God was
able to raise Him up, even from the dead; from whence also He received Him in
(Truth).” “Therefore doth my Father love me, because I lay down my life, that I
might take it again. No man taketh it from me, but I
lay it down of myself. I have power to lay it down, and I have power to take it
again: This commandment, have I received from my Father.” John 10:17-18.
Jesus obeyed the Father’s
Call when He laid down his life; Jesus obeyed the Father’s Call when He took up
his life again. No man took from Christ his life, nor angel; no man called Him
from the dead again, nor angel. The Cry of Life, the Voice of the Father was
it, that called Jesus Christ both to lay down his life and to take up his life
again.
The Call, the Cry, the
Voice, is the Father’s, or Christ died not for sin, nor rose from the grave for
righteousness.
This is antichrist that
says Christ died not but feigned in the flesh; this is antichrist that says
Christ rose not from the dead, but pretended in the flesh. This is antichrist who
says that not the Father, but a creature, raised Christ from the dead; it is
antichrist that denies the Power of God the Father, of the Son, and of the Holy
Spirit.