He Speaks Beyond The Book Without Contradiction

The light source is like the Father.
The halo is like the Holy Spirit.
The reflection is like the Son.
The water is like the entrance into Him.

The New Testament (the collection of the testimony that Messiah appeared on earth and established His kingdom... and more) is the starting point of the faith revealed from Above.

Sadly, some people interpret the Gospel and letters as a closed and 'fixed' work.

Meaning, if an idea or concept cannot be found in the Gospel / letters, then it is not kosher.

If a certain phrase or order of words are not exactly similar to what is written, then such words are questionable.

It is quite the suspicious, religious, and Pharisaical approach to things spiritual and only discerned by the Spirit.

Has God stopped working in the lives of His chosen or ceased speaking through those being brought heavenward?

Consider this:

“When you are brought before synagogues, rulers and authorities, do not worry about how you will defend yourselves or what you will say, for the Holy Spirit will teach you at that time what you should say.” 

- Luke 12: 11-12

Notice that the Holy Spirit will likely begin to speak on behalf of the believer, while the believer is the passive vessel (as is evidenced by the prophets of old and the manner mysteries were uttered unbeknownst to the speaker).

The believer will give an answer not previously known to them... they are not guessing, but the Holy Spirit will speak through them and on their behalf.

Consider how this experience would make those who only knew the Old Testament feel.

They may call 'heresy' or that they haven't heard such things before.

Consider this:

But the Advocate, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in My Name, will teach you all things and will remind you of everything I have said to you. 

- John 14: 26

The learning of things written was being brought forward by acting on faith in allowing one's heart to speak openly:

Yeshua did many other things as well. If every one of them were written down, I suppose that even the whole world would not have room for the books that would be written. 

- John 21: 25

This verse may speak to what Yeshua did while He walked the earth in the flesh, but it could also speak of the rest of the works of God, since Yeshua is the Lord thy God and it is through the Lord the world came into existence.

I think it can also speak to the experiences of the faithful who have followed Yeshua heavenward - their testimonies written down of the works of God through and around them.

We have about 20 centuries-worth of Christian writings that continually describe the miraculous, the mysterious, the variety of ways God brings forth His will on earth.

Surely, testimonies are measured by the New Covenant (as the New was measured to the Old), yet not all things fit like a puzzle (as the New Covenant revelations didn't literally fit with the Old in terms of man's logical conclusions, since it is the Holy Spirit which concludes and reveals, not a man's logical mind).

Consider this:

Very truly I tell you, whoever believes in Me will do the works I have been doing, and they will do even greater things than these, because I Am going to the Father. 

- John 14: 12

Did only the Apostles in the 1st century do greater works than Messiah?

Or has God gone silent and ceased working?

Surely, greater works have continued... and sadly these works are likely measured as man's endeavors instead of God's will through men of faith.

Summary: in whichever order one reads these verses (and their proper context), one may realize that as faith and experience grew (and continues to grow) in the believer(s), so also their invocations of the things that God has used to overcome the world... even the blood of Christ and the further mysteries not always clear to everyone.

A 'tell' is how the Apostles were quite bold, fearless, and were noticed to have been common men yet had walked with Christ:

When they saw the courage of Peter and John and realized that they were unschooled, ordinary men, they were astonished and they took note that these men had been with Yeshua. But since they could see the man who had been healed standing there with them, there was nothing they could say. 

- Acts 4: 13-14

The disciples stood out and spoke unusual things because the Holy Spirit was now living and working through them.

Those fixated on the old wine couldn't understand the new wine.

Perhaps according to the religious people of their time (that opposed them), the disciples were speaking things not according to what the religious were comfortable with and understood (the writings of the Old Testament), but were speaking new things.

The good news (Gospel) and the teachings of Yeshua sounded dissimilar to the religious minds because they largely had their own ideas or their own understanding of Scripture according to specific religious schools (Pharisees, Sadducees, Essenes, etc.).

Yet the new reality revealed in Messiah and through His Church is not made fully known according to observation (the kingdom is within you - the Holy Spirit).

The Gospel testifies that only the Holy Spirit can clarify what seems confusing to the eyes, minds, and hearts of men.

If the Gospel is like a circle that can only be properly measured and perfectly drawn by the drawing tool of a compass, to explain how Messiah completes a circle to hearts unfamiliar is like describing a circle to people who cannot conceptualize what a circle is.

They only know squares... they are in the sharp-cornered box of religion and unfamiliar with the Spirit's curve (whose bound encompasses all the boxes of religion).

The Holy Spirit is similar to the compass in that it 'draws' out the clear picture of what a circle is.

And just as the Holy Spirit taught the proper understanding of past prophecies, their fulfillment, and the furthering of teachings as shown here...

… explaining and proving that the Messiah had to suffer and rise from the dead. “This Yeshua I am proclaiming to you is the Messiah,” he said . . .  

- Acts 17: 3

... So also does the Holy Spirit continue to further reveal what God has done (and continues to do).

If it was difficult for those without faith to understand Messiah and what His Holy Spirit has established on earth (due to their fixation on the Old Testament and their boxy religion), it is also difficult for those fixated on the New Testament to understand and 'see' what God continues to do through His Holy Spirit on earth and through His faithful children.

There has been much testified to (and written about) regarding how God has continued to move in the past 20+ centuries.

What of the 2nd century developments of the Church and what God had brought through His Holy Spirit?

What of the 3rd century, and the 4th... or the 7th and the 10th, and Today in the 21st?

Let us learn to love one another and learn from one another before judging others according to the 1st century writings of the faith... we may not perceive the work of God in the other 20 centuries.