What is God's Agape Love

Proverbs 1:7 states:

"The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge. But fools despise wisdom and instruction" (emphasis added).

Proverbs 9:10 further explains this particular knowledge and wisdom:

"The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom, and the knowledge of the Holy One is understanding" (emphasis added).

Jesus confirms the importance of having a correct knowledge of the true God, and it is His will that all of us might know the only true God from the false god:

"And this is life eternal, that they may know You, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom You have sent" (John 17:3; emphasis added).

At the present time, our knowledge of the Creator is skewed, for we view Him through the lens of sin and Satan’s lies. Further, our human understanding of His character has been perverted by six thousand years of estrangement. A true knowledge of God can best be acquired as we go back to the very beginning, to the time when a flawless knowledge of His character existed.

The cross reveals God’s eternal, unchangeable character as it was from eternity. Jesus Christ on the cross gives us the revelation of God as He was from the beginning because He was the Lamb that was slain from the foundation of the world (Revelation 13:8).

Who is the ultimate revealer, the perfect revelation of God: the Old Testament or Jesus Christ? Jesus Christ, for,He indeed was foreordained before the foundation of the world, but was manifest in these last times for you who through Him believe in God, who raised Him from the dead and gave Him glory, so that your faith and hope are in God (1 Peter 1:20, 21). 

Whoever transgresses [GOES AHEAD] and does not abide in the doctrine of Christ does not have God. He who abides in the doctrine of Christ has both the Father and the Son. If anyone comes to you and does not bring this doctrine, do not receive him into your house nor greet him; for he who greets him shares in his evil deeds (2 John 9-11; emphasis added).

For what purpose was the Son of God manifested? The apostle John tells us that He was manifested so that He might destroy the works of the devil (1 John 3:8).

From eternity, before the foundation of the world, Jesus Christ already had in Him what was manifested at His first advent. What is it that was manifested in Him two thousand years ago and that has direct application to us who are living at the end of this age, these last days?

At His first advent Jesus Christ gave the perfect revelation of God’s character, a revelation that was nonexistent in its fullness until then. For those of us who are living at the end of time and who passionately desire to know God with no defilement whatsoever, we are to believe in God through no one else but Jesus Christ. That is the only way anyone can know Him.

We, who through Him believe in God, will know with certainty that God is agape love and that He is not, as some believe, a manslayer, or one who kills.