A little known secret in the understanding of the Scriptures (in my understanding of them, anyway) is the Milta. Milta (also Miltha) is the Aramaic word translated as Logos in the Greek. Aramaic is the original language Jesus and John lived, thought and spoke in. John uses the word milta three times in John 1:1. I believe John learned of the Milta from Jesus. I also believe that Milta and Logos are unequal concepts. True, they both mean word, idea, logic, reason, expression, &c., but I do not believe that the popular conceptualization of the Logos includes the manifestation of an essential connotation of a thing; the Manifestation of a thing from its conceptual beginning to its physically existent, substantive end; the WHOLE of this act. A milta is the "thing" of an idea; the idea's whole becoming. It is the manifestation of an idea from Alpha to Omega, from Aleph to Tav, from the idea's initial conceptualization to its mature, complete and presently existent end. If you would, the Milta is the universe: all its history from God's concept of it before the Big Bang to its final, fully expanded cold state. 'Logos' isn't wrong; it just isn't completely right. How could it be? There is no other word for milta.
The Milta (a word now reserved for Christ, the Messiah of the Jews only) is a big thing. The Milta is not a substitute FOR God, but is the actual Manifestation OF God. One God exists in both unmanifest and manifest modes. What has this to do with the Gospel preached by T. L. Osborn? The unsubstantive God, the ineffable No-thing, is still becoming manifest, and the Milta encapsulates the evolution of God (the four stages postulated in Dr. Osborn' teachings) from God's assumption of being manifest (stage one) to the substantive end of his being manifest (stage four). God is working from A to Z in the Milta, and isn't completely there yet. The Milta is in progress. This life is part and parcel to the process. Our lives' objective is stage four: our being the Milta.
Osborn enumerates the four stages of the Milta:
1) God's creation (our origin in God).
2) Satan's deception.
3) Christ's substitution (His death and resurrection and what that means).
4) Our restoration or salvation (the reality of His Life today in believers).
The Message That Works, pgs. 18 and 20.
The universe is being created (see Genesis 1:1-2 Alexander) FOR the Milta. I.e., the universe is to BE the Manifestation of the Ineffable. In a sense it already is, for neither is complete as yet. The Ineffable is also the Milta, himself manifest, and until the Milta is complete, the Ineffable is also incomplete. HIS NATURE HAS TO BE GENERATED IN US TO GENUINELY BE OURS.
So in our ignorance from being born into this dimension, for the transition wipes out memory of who and what we are, we fall unto Satan's deception and the creation of our own self-lordship (stage two).
The Milta manifested in Christ Jesus provides the way to the final stage: the recapitulation of the missed Way (the Ineffable's lordship over us). That recapitulation (the saying again, but correctly and with opposite effect) adhered to by the man the Milta manifested in merits reward (John 19:30 Alexander), the euaggelion promised by God in Daniel 9:24, the eternal righteousness (stage three).
This euaggelion (our acknowledging/recognizing the LORD lordship over our lives) now saves us. Our sin-debt is paid. In repentance and humility before God we surrender and submit ourselves to HIS lordship, using His life to fulfill HIS purposes. We are forgiven and properly receive the Holy Ghost as the director of our lives. We are become citizens and agents of the universal body of the Milta (stage four).
Up until the time Christ came preaching "Repent and believe in the euaggelion" (Mark 1:15), the word euaggelion had always meant the MESSENGER'S REWARD for bringing glad tidings. I.e, a euaggelion was "the REWARD to the DELIVERER of glad tidings given by the RECEIVERS of the message." My point is that I believe Jesus was telling his followers to believe in the REWARD God had promised them in Daniel 9:24--the ushering in of the Eternal Righteousness, the completion of the Milta BY THE GIFT, THE SUBMISSION OF THEIR SELF-LORDSHIP TO HIM. "Seventy seventies shall rest upon your nation and upon the town you revere, so as the obligations may be concluded and the sins may be curtailed, so that the abominations shall be abandoned, and that they may usher in the eternal righteousness, such as the vision and the prophets may be fulfilled, and to the Anointed One we may commit our blessings" (Daniel 9:24 Alexander, footnotes incorporated).
"The Anointed One" in other translations refers to the Holy of Holies in the Temple. I believe it refers actually to the completed Milta, the Christ, the Messiah who became eternal: the same yesterday, today, and forever.
