A CRYSTALLIZATION-STUDY
OF THE GOSPEL OF JOHN

Message One

An Introductory Word

1. Two views concerning Christ:
1. The physical view according to the synoptic Gospels—Matthew, Mark, and Luke.
2. The mystical view according to the Gospel of John.
2. Three periods of Christ:
1. The Christ in the flesh in the four Gospels for thirty-three and a half years, from His incarnation to His death.
2. The Christ as the Spirit (the pneumatic Christ) in Acts and twenty-one Epistles (from Romans to Jude), from the resurrection of Christ to the beginning of the degradation of the church in about A.D. 60, before the martyrdom of Paul, who wrote his Second Epistle to Timothy in about A.D. 67, with many points related to the degradation.
3. The Christ as the seven Spirits (the sevenfold intensified Spirit) in Revelation, from the degradation of the church to eternity.
3. The Gospel of John is a record of Christ living as a physical person but having His being all the way mystical; hence, a mystical record.