Jesus Is The Unknown God Of Israel And All The Sons Of Adam
Many people that claim to be
religious find it hard to believe that before Jesus was born of Mary he was in
fact God. However, this is nothing new because the Pharisees and other
religious leaders of Jesus day found this fact just as hard to believe back
then. They even attempted to stone him on numerous occasions because of
statements he made alleging himself to be God. "The Jews answered him,
saying, for a good work we stone thee not; but for a blasphemy: and because
that thou being a man, makest thyself God." (John 10:33)
I guess all the uproar has
been over the question: How can God be born of a woman? Supposedly rational
minded people find this impossibility. Never the less, these same people do not
seem to cringe at the idea that God hung the world on nothing (Job 26:7), or that he created man from
dirt, (Genesis 2:7) Even the idea
that Eve was made of one of Adams ribs does not seem such a hard task for the Almighty
God.
Well then, why the rejection
of the idea of Jesus being God, when the entire bible supports it? Before Jesus
came in the flesh the prophet Isaiah wrote that he (Jesus) would be "despised and rejected of men" (Isaiah 53:3) and "for a stone of
stumbling and rock of offence to both the houses of Israel" (Isaiah 8:14). In other words Isaiah
knew that when Jesus came into the world he would not be received graciously,
even though he made the world (John
1:10-11).
What are some of the things Jesus said that support
him being God?
In (John 5:37) he said, "And the father himself, which hath sent
me, hath borne witness of me, ye have neither heard his voice at any time, nor
seen his shape." Well, if no man has heard or seen the father at any time,
who did Moses and the elders of Israel see in (Exodus 24:9-11), where the bible says twice that they saw God?
They saw Jesus, the God of
the Old Testament, the God of Israel and also unbeknown to all the sons of Adam.
Paul clarifies this in (1 Corinthians 10:1-4) when he has let
us know that Jesus was the "Rock" that led the Israelites through the
Red Sea. This is the same rock that Isaiah said many would be offended by. Now,
what was Jesus doing at the Red Sea if his beginning was with Mary? Here is the
explanation; "And the word was made flesh, and dwelt among us." (John
1:14) But prior to that he, (Jesus) was
God with God. That's why (John 1-3)
says, "In the beginning was the word, and the word was with 1=God, and the word was 2=God. The same was in the beginning
with God. All things were made by him; and without him was not anything
made." Jesus is called the Word because he is the spokesman for the Father
or you can say the Godhead. (John 1:10) He
was in the world, and the world was made by him, and the world knew him not. Now
we can under stand why Jesus said: “no man has heard the Father's voice at
anytime.”
What did Jesus mean when he said, "Before Abraham
was, I am?" (John 8:58) here
not only Jesus is telling us that he was in existence before Abraham was, (Who was born over 1,200 years before Jesus
was born of Mary) but he's also telling us that he has always existed.
That's why he said, "Before
Abraham was I am. Furthermore by saying, "I am" He repeated what he
had told Moses at the burning bush by the angel that was in the bush. "And
God said unto Moses, "I AM THAT I AM:" and he said, " thus shalt
say to the children of Israel, I Am hath sent me unto you." (Exodus 3:14) Moses wanted to know
God's name and the Lord told him by the angel "I Am that I Am"
therefore he called himself I AM. This is what he told the people in John the
eighth Chapter. "I AM."
