No one has seen God at any time. If we love one another, God abides in us, and His love has been perfected in us. 1 John 4:12
Here is a verse for us today to test our faith. I'm going after that first sentence there and the man who wrote it to a group he called his little children and to us by way of the Bible. John, the one who wrote down, or would write down the Revelation from Patmos and saw the One seated on the throne. But wait, what about this statement from our Lord Jesus in John 14:9, "He who has seen Me has seen the Father"? Did we get our apostles and disciples confused somehow? John, the Revelator as he is sometimes known, wrote all of these scriptures, did he not? Yes, the scholars of the Word believe John did this. So, contradiction at last? Maybe not so fast there.
John wrote in this letter of testing the spirits. It would seem that those to whom John wrote were under attack by spirits claiming to be God, and even showing themselves so as to deceive by way of false prophets. Perhaps a different translation from the context of what John wrote might be, "Not one of you is seeing God in these visions you tell me about." And John would be the one to know having seen Jesus as his rabbi for about three years, glorified on the mountain, risen from the dead, and was of course present when Jesus made the statement to Philip about seeing the Father.
John may seem a bit baffling to us in between his writings, but God always has it all under His control.
Have a glorious day in Jesus!
Bucky
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