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C-21. WHO Is the TRUE MESSIAH?
The Christians believe that Jesus of Nazareth is the true Messiah. But the Jews and Muslims do not believe that Jesus is the true Messiah. The rest of mankind do not even believe there is a Messiah. What I mean by this is that atheists do not believe that there is any God so they do not believe they need a savior or Messiah to save them. And all other religions of the world have their own god or gods that they worship but their Messiah is their selves, trying to be good enough to attain a higher level of existence in the afterlife. So the only three faiths that are looking for a Messiah are the Christians, the Jews, and the Muslims but yet the Jews and the Muslims REJECT Jesus as being their Messiah.
So this study in God’s word, the Holy Bible, is written first to Christians, to Jews, and to Muslims because all three of these groups of believers use the Holy Bible to learn about their God and the promise of the coming Messiah prophesied to come written in the Bible. But this study and the Holy Bible as well are also written to all of humanity who wants a better life than they have in this present world.
I am going to begin this study in God’s word by making some ASSUMPTIONS. In other words, I am going to start with a THEORY and see if this theory is proven or disproven by the Holy Bible ITSELF. I mean is this not what all the many different Christian church denominations do? Does not each different church denomination use verses of Scripture from the Bible to try and prove that their THEOLOGY is the correct theology? I think all my readers will agree with me on this point.
Let me explain a little further what I mean by this. For example, the Protestants split from the Roman Catholic Church over a difference of opinion on church DOCTRINE. The word doctrine basically means teaching. The Roman Catholic Church leaders were adding doctrines not taught in the Scriptures so some of the leaders in the Catholic Church began to speak out that it was not sound Biblical teaching to add those things and thus began a reformation of church doctrine. The protesters became known as the Protestants but the Protestant Christians KEPT many of the Roman Catholic teachings. In other words, the Protestants did not reform completely so that every church doctrine is sound Biblical teaching.
Then there came a revival and a pouring out of the Holy Spirit to begin what we call the Assemblies of God because at this time there were many accepted church denominations. What I mean by accepted is that Christians accepted those in other church denominations as being Christians so some Christians fellowshipped with other Christians in a different denomination than their own. You could say this another way, try and look at the Assemblies of God as one of the first non-denominational churches where Christians from different denominations came together. But soon after the forming of the Assemblies of God denomination there arose a division in the church where some of the believers in Jesus as the Messiah could no longer accept the doctrine of the Trinity as being sound Biblical teaching. So they split from the Assembly of God Pentecostals to take the church denominational name of Oneness Pentecostals.
So all I am saying is that the many hundreds of different church denominations came about because there were differences of OPINIONS concerning the TEACHINGS of the church. Each church denomination sees something in the Scriptures that leads them to form their own THEORY of what the Bible is TRULY teaching to THEM.
Certainly, we all can agree on this point as well. The Muslims believe what they believe based upon how THEY interpret the Bible but they follow the prophet Muhammad and have other religious books like the Quran. The Jews believe what they believe upon how THEY interpret the Bible and add their own Jewish traditions. And every Christian church denomination believes what they believe on how each one of them INTERPRETS the Bible. The Mormons add their Book of Mormon and other writings and the Jehovah’s witnesses follow the interpretations of the Bible given to them by the Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society.
So, when it comes down to the truth of the matter the Oneness believers argue that what the Trinitarian Christians believe is their own THEORY. And the Trinitarians argue that what the Oneness Christians believe is their own THEORY. And so forth and so on between the many different church denominations.
Now I said all of this to simply ask you, my readers and seekers of the truth of the whole word of God, to humor me and read my THEORY first just as a THEORY presented to you by me having my OWN personal opinion and then we will take a look at what the Bible ITSELF teaches to see if my theory is either proven by the Scriptures or if it is disproven by the Scriptures. After all, is that not what we are taught to do from the Bible ITSELF? Are we not supposed to rightly divide the word of truth? Are we not supposed to search the Scriptures daily to see if what we are being taught is the truth?
So please humor me and read the following list of theories or assumptions and simply accept them for a moment as being POSSIBLE and then we will let the Bible speak for ITSELF.
SECTION 2
LET US ASSUME!
#1. Let us assume that during the days of his flesh that the Son of man Jesus was truly a human being.
#2. Let us assume that this human Jesus was chosen by God to be his Messiah to deliver his people from both bondage of sin and bondage from the enemies of God’s people.
#3. Let us assume that God chose this human named Jesus before he was ever born.
#4. Let us assume that God formed this human being in the womb of a Virgin and God knew him before he formed him in the womb of a human woman to be born the Son of man.
#5. Lets us assume that in the fullness of time that God anointed this human Jesus with his own Holy Spirit and with power to preach what God told him to preach and do what God told him to do.
#6. Lets us assume that this human Jesus did all that God commanded him to do through the eternal Spirit who anointed him with power from on high because God was with this man named Jesus of Nazareth.
#7. Let us assume that God asked this human Jesus if he would do just one more thing for him and that he could choose of his own free will whether or not he would do it or not do it. And then God gave him a promise of something so joyous that if this anointed man by God did what God was asking him to do of his own free will that God would keep his promise to him.
#8. Let us assume that this human Jesus of his own free will to be strengthened by the anointing of the Holy Spirit made the choice to obey God to suffer and die a cruel and shameful death on the cross as God asked him to do so that God could redeem mankind from their sins.
#9. Let us assume that God raised the Son of man from the dead and did not leave his soul in hell as he promised.
#10. Let us assume that God highly exalted the Son of man and gave him eternal life to be having in himself even as God has always had eternal life in himself.
#11. Let us assume that God gave the Son of man a name higher than any other name other than the personal name of God himself.
#12. Let us assume that God granted this same Jesus, whom he has made the Messiah or the savior of mankind, the right to rule for him for 1000 years in the world to come, while God subdued all the enemies of himself and of his now eternal Son under his feet, during the yet future 1000 year reign of the Messiah.
#13. Let us assume that this same Jesus of Nazareth is indeed the TRUE Messiah that God promised to send in all the prophecies written of him in the Holy Bible.
#14. Lets us assume that God also prophesied of his Messiah that he would be called God of the whole earth during his 1000 year reign while he would be ruling for Yahweh during Yahweh’s Sabbath rest.
#15. Lets us assume that this same Jesus will commit the Kingdom back into the hands of God at the end of his 1000 year reign.
#16. Let us assume that God chose that it would be by the foolishness of preaching the true gospel of Jesus Christ to save whosoever of any human being who BELIEVES and hold fast unto the end the true gospel of Jesus Christ.
#17. Let us BELIEVE that the Holy Bible is the ONLY true word of Almighty God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.
So then, if you are a Jew and you believe that the Old Testament is the TRUE inspired word of the ONE TRUE God then this study is for you.
If you are a Muslim and you truly believe the Quran, that teaches you to ask people of the book speaking of the Christians who believe that the WHOLE Bible is the word of truth, then this study is for you.
If you are an atheist or of another religion and you want more to life than what this present world is giving you then this study is for you.
And if you are a Christian, no matter what church denomination you attend or came out of to form your own interpretation of the Scriptures, then this study in God’s word of truth, the Holy Bible, is for you as well.
SECTION 3
LET THE BIBLE SPEAK FOR ITSELF!
We are going to start this study in the Scriptures with the assumption that all Jews, all Muslims, and all Christians do indeed BELIEVE that the Holy Bible is God’s word of truth to all of mankind who will BELIEVE. In other words, #17 should not be an assumption to any Jew, Muslim, or Christian. Either you believe the Bible is true or it is not true. And if you believe the Bible is true, then you will know that there can only be ONE TRUE God who is the ALMIGHTY God over all other gods.
So I will begin with assumption #16 as my first ASSUMPTION and then we will go back and take all the assumptions or theories I proposed in the order that I gave them starting with #1 and so forth. I will then read a verse or verses from the Old Testament prophecies and then the fulfillment of these prophecies by reading a verse or verses from the New Testament and then leave it up to you to believe or not believe.
#17. Let us BELIEVE that the Holy Bible is the ONLY true word of the Almighty God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.
The only people who need to ASSUME that the Bible is the only true word of the only true God are atheists and people of other world religions which are too many to name but you know who you are. Again all Jews, all Muslims, and all Christians of every church denomination and non-denomination should already KNOW beyond any shadow of a doubt the Holy Bible is the inspired word of the Almighty God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.
Please read Exodus 3:15.
“And God said moreover unto Moses, Thus shall you say unto the children of Israel, The LORD God (or Yahweh the God) of your fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, has sent me unto you: this is my name forever, and this is my memorial unto all generations.”
So then, Yahweh or YHWH in Hebrew is God’s name forever. Also notice that nowhere in the Old Testament does it ever say that God is the God of Ishmael. The promises of God, including eternal life in the world to come, were given to the seed of Jacob. Just something every Muslim needs to search out for their self because your eternal life is at stake.
And both Jesus and his disciples QUOTED the Old Testament Scripture and taught about the SAME one and only true God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob in the New Testament.
Matthew 22:32.
“I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob? God is not the God of the dead, but of the living.”
Mark 12:26.
“And as touching the dead, that they rise: have you not read in the book of Moses, how in the bush God spake unto him, saying, I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob?”
Luke 13:28.
“There shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth when YOU shall see Abraham, and Isaac, and Jacob, and all the prophets, IN the kingdom of God, and YOU yourselves thrust out.”
Now, Jesus is speaking to God’s chosen people the Jews here so to all the Jews I say pay attention to what the Scriptures teach. Jesus is warning you and every Muslim as well that just because you believe in the one and only true God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob that this is NOT enough. You must ALSO believe in God’s MESSIAH to enter into the kingdom of God.
Luke 20:37.
“Now that the dead are raised, even Moses showed at the bush, when he calls the Lord the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.”
Acts 3:13.
“The God of Abraham, and of Isaac, and of Jacob, the God of our fathers, has glorified his Son Jesus; whom YOU delivered up, and DENIED him in the presence of Pilate when he was determined to let him go. (The YOU here are ALL the Jews who shouted crucify him and let the murderer Barabus go free. And by ALL the Jews I mean both the Jews of the seed of Jacob and those of the seed of Ishmael who REJECTED Jesus of Nazareth as their Messiah.)
Notice that some of these verses are connected with the resurrection of the dead. This is what proves to anyone with eyes to see and ears to hear, that is truly seeking the truth, that Jesus is the TRUE Messiah. And this is the central core teaching of all the many different Christian church denominations including the Jehovah’s Witnesses and the Mormons.
So the real question becomes not who is the true Messiah but who is the TRUE Jesus?
#1. Is it the Orthodox Christianity Trinitarian view of Jesus who is the true Jesus?
#2. Is it the Oneness Pentecostal Apostolic view of Jesus who is the true Jesus?
#3. Is it the Watch Towers Society of the Jehovah’s Witnesses' view of Jesus who is the true Jesus?
#4. Is it the Church of the Latter-day Saints of Jesus Christ, the Mormons, view of Jesus who is the true Jesus?
#5. Is it another view such as the one I present in this study of Jesus who is the true Jesus?
Keep in mind that ALL five views are simply THEORIES because there are some verses in the Scriptures that contradict at least some part of the first four theories. Otherwise, there would be just one church teaching the same thing in every fellowship in the entire world.
Let us continue this study in God’s word to first see if theory #5 has any verses in the Bible that prove it to be false teaching as well. You see, any teaching that contradicts any verse in the Bible is not SOUND BIBLICAL teaching and should be considered a false teaching. Here is assumption #16 first and then we will go back and start at assumption #1 and so on.
#16. Let us assume that God chose that it would be by the foolishness of preaching the true gospel of Jesus Christ to save whosoever of any human being who BELIEVES and holds fast unto the end the true gospel of Jesus Christ.
Please read Deuteronomy 18:15-19.
“The LORD your God (Or Yahweh your God) will raise up unto you a Prophet from the midst of you, of your brethren, like unto me; unto him, you shall hearken;
16. According to all that you desired of the LORD your God in Horeb in the day of the assembly, saying, Let me not hear again the voice of the LORD my God, neither let me see this great fire anymore, that I die not. (In other words, God prophesied that he would raise up a Prophet from among the children of Israel of the seed of Jacob to speak FOR Yahweh in Yahweh’s behalf. And Yahweh said according to the desire of the children of Israel that heard the voice of Yahweh who did NOT want to hear Yahweh’s voice and be terrified again)
17. And the LORD said unto me, They have well spoken that which they have spoken.
18. I will raise them up a Prophet from among their brethren, like unto you, and will put MY words in HIS mouth; and HE shall speak unto them all that I shall command HIM. (So God’s Messiah will not speak anything but the words of Yahweh himself)
19. And it shall come to pass, that whosoever will NOT hearken unto MY words which HE shall speak in MY name, I will require it of him.”
Here is the fulfillment of this Scripture from the Old Testament found in the New Testament.
Acts 3:18-26.
“But those things, which God before had shown by the mouth of all his prophets, that Christ should suffer, he has so fulfilled.
19. Repent you, therefore, and be converted, that your sins may be blotted out when the times of refreshing shall come from the presence of the Lord;
20. And he shall send Jesus Christ, which before was preached unto you: (but you rejected)
21. Whom the heaven must receive until the times of restitution of all things, which God has spoken by the mouth of all HIS holy prophets since the world began. (So, Muslims must decide if their prophet is Yahweh’s prophet. In other words, if the Muslim’s God Allah is the one and only true God then the Quran should agree completely with the Holy Bible and if it does not then that should tell any Muslim who is honest with himself or herself that Allah is not the true God seeing that the Bible came first and the Quran teaches all Muslims to ask people of the book, speaking of the Bible and Christians, who teach the TRUTH of the bible only and not their traditions of men.)
22. For Moses truly said unto the fathers, A prophet shall the Lord your God raise up unto you of your brethren, like unto me; HIM shall YOU hear in all things whatsoever HE shall say unto you. (That is because Jesus only spoke what Yahweh commanded him to speak. Jesus never testified of himself as being the only true God but rather clearly identified his God and Father as the ONLY true God in John 17:1-3.)
23. And it shall come to pass, that every soul, which will NOT hear that prophet, shall be destroyed from among the people. (So, if you believe what the Bible ITSELF teaches whether you be a Jew, a Muslim, or a Christian you had better believe what God’s Prophet Jesus of Nazareth has spoken and taught his disciples in the New Testament of the Holy Bible.)
24. Yea, and all the prophets from Samuel and those that follow after, as many as have spoken, have likewise foretold of these days.
25. You are the children of the prophets, and of the covenant which God made with our fathers, saying unto Abraham, And in your seed shall all the kindreds of the earth be blessed.
26. Unto you first God, having raised up his Son Jesus, sent him to bless you, in turning away every one of you from his iniquities.”
Now please read where the New Testament teaches us that it is by the foolishness of PREACHING to save those who BELIEVE the true gospel of Jesus Christ.
1 Corinthians 1:18-24.
“For the preaching of the cross is to them that perish foolishness, but unto us which are saved it is the power of God.
19. For it is written, I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and will bring to nothing the understanding of the prudent.
20. Where is the wise? where is the scribe? where is the disputer of this world? hath not God made foolish the wisdom of this world?
21. For after that in the wisdom of God the world by wisdom knew not God, it pleased God by the foolishness of PREACHING to SAVE them that BELIEVE.
22. For the Jews require a sign, and the Greeks seek after wisdom:
23. But we preach Christ crucified, unto the Jews (Those of the seed of Jacob and of the seed of Ishmael) a stumbling block, and unto the Greeks (The Gentiles who turned to other false gods or turned to no God or gods at all) foolishness;
24. But unto them which are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God, and the wisdom of God.”
And it is not just any preaching but rather the preaching of the GOSPEL of Jesus Christ which is this gospel of our salvation that is preached.
Romans 1:16.
“For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ: for IT (the true gospel of Jesus Christ) is the power of God unto salvation to everyone that BELIEVES; to the Jew first, and also to the Greek.”
Ephesians 1:13.
“In whom (speaking of Jesus as the CHRIST, the Messiah, the SON OF the living God, the Prophet who Yahweh himself raised up from the dead) you also trusted, after that you heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation: in whom also after that you BELIEVED, you were sealed with that Holy Spirit of promise,”
So it should be clear to all who are truly seeking the truth of the WHOLE word of God that the New Testament is a part of God’s word of TRUTH because it quotes and explains the prophecies of the Old Testament being fulfilled IN Jesus of Nazareth. Let us now start with assumption #1 and take them in order one by one to see if any of the assumptions I have made contradict any other part of God’s word of TRUTH, the Holy Bible.
#1. Let us assume that during the days of his flesh that the Son of man, Jesus, was truly a human being.
When I say let us assume that Jesus was TRULY a human being I mean that he was fully a human being not having any divine nature during the days of his FLESH from his Virgin birth to his death on the cross. I personally do NOT believe that the Bible ITSELF teaches us that Jesus was fully Almighty God and fully a human being at the same time having two natures, one divine, and one human as Orthodox Christianity teaches.
I myself find nowhere in the Old Testament prophecies of the coming of God’s Messiah that he would be a God/man or that God would become a human being and die for the sins of the world. So then, in truth, the burden is upon all Christian church denominations who teach that Jesus is Yahweh himself, the one and only true God, during the days of his flesh to present the Scriptures and not their church tradition.
Here is just some of my sound Biblical evidence to prove that Jesus was fully a human being chosen and anointed by God as a Prophet of God who God would use as his Messiah.
We have already read from Deuteronomy 18:15-19 where God would raise up a Prophet like unto Moses from among his BRETHREN. And every other prophecy of the coming Messiah speaks of him as being born of a woman and more specifically being born of a Virgin.
Let us read a few prophecies of the coming Messiah. There are over 300 hundred prophecies of God’s Messiah and I list them in the study called “PROPHECIES of JESUS being the MESSIAH!” and “365 PROPHECIES OF JESUS!” So we will only cover a few right now in this study of God’s word.
Please read Jeremiah 31:32.
“How long will you go about, O you backsliding daughter? for the LORD has created a new thing in the earth, A woman shall compass a MAN.”
Nothing here about a son being human and God.
Isaiah 7:14.
“Therefore the Lord himself shall give you a sign; Behold, a virgin shall conceive, (Or a WOMAN shall encompass a MAN child) and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel.”
Nothing here about a human God son being born.
Isaiah 9:6,7.
“For unto us a child is born, unto us, a son is given: (Please notice the ORDER of events. FIRST a child is BORN and THEN a Son is GIVEN and THEN the government shall be on his shoulders which is WHEN he shall have the NAME to be CALLED a mighty God and the Father of everlasting or the Father of eternal life because Yahweh has GIVEN the Son of man this name, power, and authority) and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace.
7. Of the increase of his government and peace there shall be no end, upon the throne of David, and upon his kingdom, to order it, and to establish it with judgment and with justice from henceforth even forever. The zeal of the LORD of hosts will perform this.”
So it is Yahweh who will bring all of this to pass. All of what I just said concerning the human Son was born FIRST and THEN the human Son of MAN was lifted up on the cross does not contradict any verse in the Bible and Jesus himself teaches us that it was the Son of MAN who was lifted up on the cross in John 3:14 and other verses.
John 3:14.
“And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so, must the Son of MAN be lifted up:”
John. 8:28.
“Then said Jesus unto them, When you have lifted up the Son of MAN, then shall you know that I am he (The Messiah, the one prophesied to come, the one God promised that he would not leave my soul in hell or that my body would not see corruption), and that I do nothing of myself; but as my Father has taught me, I speak these things.”
John 12:34.
“The people answered him, We have heard out of the law that Christ abides forever: and how sayest you, The Son of MAN must be lifted up? who is this Son of MAN?”
Let us continue with assumption #2 where the Son of man, Jesus was God’s elect or chosen one even before he was born of a woman.
#2. Let us assume that this human Jesus was chosen by God to be his Messiah to deliver his people from both bondage of sin and bondage from the enemies of God’s people.
Please read Isaiah 42:1-9 which is a prophecy of Jesus being called God’s elect whom God would anoint or put his Spirit upon him.
Isaiah 42:1-9.
“Behold my SERVANT, whom I uphold; mine ELECT, in whom my soul delights; I have put my spirit upon him: he shall bring forth judgment to the Gentiles.
2. He shall not cry, nor lift up, nor cause his voice to be heard in the street.
3. A bruised reed shall he not break, and the smoking flax shall he not quench: he shall bring forth judgment unto truth.
4. He shall not fail nor be discouraged, till he has set judgment in the earth: and the isles shall wait for his law.
5. Thus says God the LORD, he that created the heavens, and stretched them out; he that spread forth the earth, and that which cometh out of it; he that gives breath unto the people upon it, and spirit to them that walk therein:
6. I the LORD have called YOU in righteousness, and will hold your hand, and will keep you, and give YOU for a covenant of the people, for a light of the Gentiles;
7. To open the blind eyes, to bring out the prisoners from the prison, and them that sit in darkness out of the prison house.
8. I am the LORD: that is my name: and my glory will I not give to another, neither my praise to graven images. (This verse does NOT say that God will not give his glory to anyone whatsoever but rather says that God will not give his glory to another one other than his ELECT whom he has chosen to glorify)
9. Behold, the former things are come to pass, and NEW THINGS do I declare: before they spring forth I tell you of them.”
Compare the NEW THINGS that God declares with the prophecy of Jesus is Jeremiah 31:23 where God prophesied of creating a NEW THING in the earth which was a woman will compass a MAN.
Now let us read the words of Jesus quoting Isaiah that God had ANOINTED him to open blind eyes and to preach the acceptable year of the Lord saying to the Jews at the very beginning of his ministry that this Scripture is fulfilled in their ears.
Luke 4:14-21.
“And Jesus returned in the power of the Spirit into Galilee: and there went out a fame of him through all the region roundabout.
15. And he taught in their synagogues, being glorified of all.
16. And he came to Nazareth, where he had been brought up: and, as his custom was, he went into the synagogue on the Sabbath day, and stood up for to read.
17. And there was delivered unto him the book of the prophet Isaiah. And when he had opened the book, he found the place where it was written,
18. The Spirit of the Lord is upon me because he has anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor; he has sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised,
19. To preach the acceptable year of the Lord.
20. And he closed the book, and he gave it again to the minister, and sat down. And the eyes of all them that were in the synagogue were fastened on him.
21. And he began to say unto them, This day is this scripture fulfilled in your ears.”
Jesus is teaching us that “I am HE” I am the one whom the Scriptures have foretold. I am the Messiah, the one prophesied to come. This day is this particular Scripture fulfilled where Yahweh has ANOINTED me and SENT me out into the world to preach deliverance and to preach the acceptable year of the Lord. So, all the “I am” and “I am he” verses are speaking of Jesus saying that he is the Messiah and NOT that he is Yahweh himself the great I am that I am based upon Exodus 3:14.
All of this will be made even clearer as you continue this study in God’s word. Let us move on to assumption #3 to see if God knew Jesus before he was born.
#3. Let us assume that God chose the human whom Mary was told by the angel Gabriel to name Jesus before he was ever born.
This should go without saying for all Christians who know right well that in God’s mind and plan his Messiah was slain from before the foundation of the world. But for all the Jews and Muslims who are reading this study in the Holy Bible, please read the fulfillment first and then we will read a couple of prophecies.
Revelation 13:8.
“And all that dwell upon the earth shall worship him, whose names are not written in the book of life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world.”
Isaiah 53:7-9.
“He was oppressed, and he was afflicted, yet he opened not his mouth: he is brought as a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before her shearers is dumb, so he opened not his mouth.
8. He was taken from prison and from judgment: and who shall declare his generation? for he was cut off out of the land of the living: for the transgression of my people was he stricken.
9. And he made his grave with the wicked, and with the rich in his death; because he had done no violence, neither was any deceit in his mouth.”
Daniel 9:26 teaches us that the Messiah was cut off or slain not for himself. And when you read all of Isaiah chapter 53 you can clearly see that Jesus was God’s Lamb slain on the cross for the sin of the people. So, certainly, God knew who his Messiah would be before he was born because God prophesied so many details about his Messiah and Jesus has fulfilled every one concerning his FIRST coming. And since Jesus fulfilled ever one of the prophecies concerning his FIRST coming, you can rest assured that Jesus will indeed fulfill every prophecy concerning his SECOND coming. Let us move on to the next assumption.
#4. Let us assume that God formed this human being in the womb of a Virgin and God knew him before he formed him in the womb of a human woman to be born the Son of man.
We already read Jeremiah 31:32 where a woman would compass a MAN and God spoke of that prophecy as God CREATING a NEW THING in the earth but we will read it again.
Jeremiah 31:32.
“How long will you go about, O you backsliding daughter? for the LORD has created a new thing in the earth, A woman shall compass a MAN.”
Now let us read Jeremiah 1:5.
“Before I FORMED YOU in the belly I knew YOU; and before you came forth out of the womb I sanctified you, and I ordained you a prophet unto the NATIONS.”
Please notice that Jeremiah was only a prophet to the one nation Israel and Jesus the Messiah was ordained a prophet to all nations. Let us continue and read verses 9 and 10.
Jeremiah 1:9,10.
“Then the LORD put forth his hand and touched my mouth. And the LORD said unto me, Behold, I have put my words in your mouth. (This agrees with Deuteronomy 18:15-19 where God prophesied he would put his words into the mouth of his Prophet who all Christians agree is speaking of Jesus of Nazareth our Messiah. Even though Jeremiah is indeed a prophet he is PROPHESYING of the yet coming Prophet Jesus who will come again to rule over the nations as the King of kings and the Lord of lords.)
10. See, I have this day set thee OVER the NATIONS and OVER the kingdoms, to root out, and to pull down, and to destroy, and to throw down, to build, and to plant.”
Now please read Isaiah 49:1-8.
“Listen, O isles, unto me; and hearken, you people, from far; The LORD has called me from the womb; from the bowels of my mother has he made mention of my name.
2. And he has made my mouth like a sharp sword; in the shadow of his hand has he hid me, and made me a polished shaft; in his quiver has he hid me; (The Messiah was kept secret until after the cross and there are many hidden prophecies concerning him throughout the Old Testament)
3. And said unto me, You are my servant, O Israel, in whom I will be glorified. (God hid prophecies of his Messiah in the scriptures by calling him Israel but if you keep reading you will see that this whole passage is speaking of God’s Messiah who we as Christians know to be Jesus of Nazareth)
4. Then I said, I have labored in vain, I have spent my strength for naught, and in vain: yet surely my judgment is with the LORD and my work with my God.
5. And now, says the LORD that formed me from the womb to be his servant, to bring Jacob again to him, Though Israel be not gathered, (Jacob is symbolically speaking of the church who ARE Christ at his coming and the house of Israel will NOT receive eternal life at that time to enter into the city of God. Jesus said that the first shall be last and the last shall be first and that when Israel sees Abraham and all the prophets enter the kingdom and they themselves being cast out they will mourn for their Messiah.) yet shall I be glorious in the eyes of the LORD, and my God shall be my strength.
6. And he said, It is a light thing that thou shouldest be my servant to raise up the tribes of Jacob, and to restore the preserved of Israel: I will also give YOU for a light to the Gentiles, that YOU mayest be my salvation unto the end of the earth.
7. Thus says the LORD, the Redeemer of Israel, and HIS Holy One, to him whom man despises, to him whom the nation abhors, to a servant of rulers, Kings shall see and arise, princes also shall worship, because of the LORD that is faithful, AND the Holy One of Israel, and he shall choose YOU.
8. Thus says the LORD, In an acceptable time, have I heard YOU, and in a day of salvation have I helped YOU: and I will preserve YOU, and give YOU for a covenant of the people, to establish the earth, to cause to inherit the desolate heritages;”
Almighty God Yahweh prophesied his Messiah into existence by his spoken words to his prophets who then prophesied God’s word and wrote them down for us to read and understand that his Messiah was a MAN, a human being ANOINTED by God to be the savior to redeem mankind back to himself. Let us move on to the next assumption.
#5. Lets us assume that in the fullness of time that God anointed this human Jesus with his own Holy Spirit and with power to preach what God told him to preach and do what God told him to do.
We already read in Isaiah 42:1 that God prophesied to put his Spirit upon his chosen one or upon his elect. Now let us read where Jesus quotes the prophet Isaiah that tells the Jews and us that this Scripture was fulfilled in their ears.
Please read Luke 4:13-21 which is right after the baptism of Jesus and the Holy Spirit descending upon him to REMAIN and Jesus was led into the wilderness by the Spirit to be tempted of the devil.
Luke 4:13-21.
“And when the devil had ended all the temptation, he departed from him for a season.
14. And Jesus returned in the power of the Spirit into Galilee: and there went out a fame of him through all the region roundabout.
15. And he taught in their synagogues, being glorified of all.
16. And he came to Nazareth, where he had been brought up: and, as his custom was, he went into the synagogue on the Sabbath day, and stood up for to read.
17. And there was delivered unto him the book of the prophet Isaiah. And when he had opened the book, he found the place where it was written,
18. The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he has ANOINTED me to preach the gospel to the poor; he has SENT me (AFTER he has ANOINTED me) to heal the brokenhearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised,
19. To preach the acceptable year of the Lord.
20. And he closed the book, and he gave it again to the minister and sat down. And the eyes of all them that were in the synagogue were fastened on him.
21. And he BEGAN to say unto them, This day is this scripture fulfilled in your ears.”
So Jesus BEGAN to tell the Jews at the very BEGINNING of his ministry that he was the CHRIST prophesied to come. Now let us read a prophecy in Psalm 89 of the Messiah, God’s servant, the Holy One of Israel where God speaks IN VISION TO his Holy One of Israel.
Psalm 89:18-27.
“ For the LORD is our defense, AND the Holy One of Israel is our king.
19. Then YOU (Yahweh) spake IN VISION TO YOUR holy one, and said, I have laid help upon one that is mighty; I have exalted one chosen out of the people. (So God has in view in his plan of salvation to GIVE a VISION TO his coming Messiah to be one chosen out from among the people. And to whom he will lay HELP upon speaking of ANOINTING him with the Holy Spirit and with power and for him to be his FIRSTBORN Son and to EXALT his FIRSTBORN Son to be King higher than the kings of the earth.)
20. I have found David my servant; with my holy oil have I anointed him:
21. With whom my hand (My Holy Spirit) shall be established: mine arm (My word, my promises to him) also shall strengthen him.
22. The enemy shall not exact upon him; nor the son of wickedness afflict him.
23. And I will beat down his foes before his face, and plague them that hate him.
24. But my faithfulness and my mercy shall be with him: and in my name shall his horn be exalted.
25. I will set his hand also in the sea, and his right hand in the rivers.
26. He shall cry unto me, Thou art my father, my God, and the rock of my salvation.
27. .” Also, I will make him my FIRSTBORN, higher than the kings of the earth
Please read verse 27 from the Bible in Basic English.
“And I will make him the first of my sons, most high over the kings of the earth.”
Right NOW Jesus is the ONLY eternally begotten Son of God the firstborn from the dead, the firstborn among MANY BRETHREN. So at the second coming of God’s firstborn Son, we who ARE Christ’s at his coming will be added to the FIRSTFRUITS of God along with His Son Jesus to be eternal sons and daughters of God as well. We will be made kings and priests unto God but Jesus will be our King over us while Yahweh will be THE ETERNAL King over Jesus.
Let us move on to assumption number 6 which assumes that God was WITH his Messiah rather than his Messiah being God Almighty himself.
#6. Lets us assume that this human Jesus did all that God commanded him to do through the eternal Spirit who anointed him with power from on high because God was with this man named Jesus of Nazareth.
Let us read a prophecy first where Yahweh will be WITH his Messiah.
Isaiah 41:4.
“Who has wrought and done it, calling the generations from the beginning? I the LORD (Or I Yahweh), the first, and WITH the last; I am he.”
Here is Isaiah 41:4 from the Lexham English Bible.
“Who has accomplished and done [this], calling the generations from [the] {beginning}? I, Yahweh, [am] first; and I [am] the one WITH [the] last.”
Now let us read the fulfillment of Yahweh being WITH his Messiah as opposed to being the Son of God himself.
John 16:32.
“Behold, the hour comes, yea, is now come, that you shall be scattered, every man to his own, and shall leave me alone: and yet I am NOT ALONE, because the Father is WITH me.”
Now to me, it makes no sense to say that Yahweh the Father is the Son when the Bible ITSELF clearly teaches us that Yahweh the Father was WITH his Son Jesus his Messiah.
Please read Acts 10:38.
“How God ANOINTED Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Ghost and with power: who went about doing good and healing all that were oppressed of the devil; FOR God was WITH him.”
Let us move on to the next assumption.
#7. Let us assume that God asked this human Jesus if he would do just one more thing for him and he could choose whether or not he would do it or not do it. And then God gave him a promise of something so joyous that if this man did what God was asking him to do, of his own free will, that God would keep his promise to him.
We have already read part of Isaiah chapter 53 which is a prophecy of the suffering Messiah being led as a lamb to the slaughter and the sins of the people being laid upon him. And we know that Jesus knew that the Scripture spoke of him. So now let us read where God gave Jesus a VISION and spoke to him of the death he should die.
Please read Luke 9:28-31.
“And it came to pass about an eight days after these sayings, he took Peter and John and James and went up into a mountain to pray.
29. And as he prayed, the fashion of his countenance was altered, and his raiment was white and glistering.
30. And, behold, there talked with him two men, which were Moses and Elias:
31. Who appeared in glory, and spake of his DECEASE which he should accomplish at Jerusalem.”
Matthew 16:21.
“From that time forth began Jesus to show unto his disciples, how that he must go unto Jerusalem, and suffer many things of the elders and chief priests and scribes, and be killed, and be raised again the third day.”
Matthew 17:9.
“And as they came down from the mountain, Jesus charged them, saying, Tell the VISION to no man, until the Son of MAN has risen again from the dead”.
Let us move to the next assumption.
#8. Let us assume that this human Jesus of his own free will, being strengthened by the Holy Spirit, made the choice to obey God to suffer and die a cruel and shameful death on the cross as God asked him to do so that God could redeem mankind from their sins.
Psalm 40:6-8.
“Sacrifice and offering you did not desire; mine ears have you opened: burnt offering and sin offering have you not required.
7. Then said I, Lo, I come: in the volume of the book it is written of me,
8. I delight to do YOUR will, O my God: yea, your law is within my heart.”
Jesus understood by the Holy Spirit dwelling in him that Isaiah 53 spoke of him as the lamb led to the slaughter and that the sins of the people would be laid upon him and by his stripes, all who believe would be healed.
Jesus prayed in the garden asking God if there might be another way but then brought his OWN will into the obedience of his Father’s WILL to suffer and die on the cross.
Now, while it was his Father’s WILL, Jesus did, indeed, have his OWN will and Jesus could have done his own will and not suffered and died on the cross for our sins.
Please read John 10:15-18.
“As the Father knows me, even so, know I the Father: and I lay down my life for the sheep.
16. And other sheep I have, which are not of this fold: them also I must bring, and they shall hear my voice, and there shall be one fold, and one shepherd.
17. Therefore does my Father loves me, because I lay down my life, that I might take it again.
18. No man taketh it from me, but I lay it down of myself. I have the power to lay it down, and I have the power to take it again. This commandment have I received of my Father.”
Here is verse 18 from the Young’s Literal Translation.
“no one does take it from me, but I lay it down of myself; authority I have to lay it down, and authority I have again to take it (Or again the Father gave me the authority to take it or keep it and NOT lay it down); this command I received from my Father.”
Another meaning of the Greek word translated as “take” means to hold which means to KEEP in one’s own possession. So in truth, the Father gave the Son of man, Jesus, the option to either lay his own life down of his own free will for the sins of the people or he could keep his life but it was the Father’s WILL or desire that he lay down his life for the sins of the world so that whosoever believes on him might be saved.
#9. Let us assume that God raised the Son of man from the dead and did not leave his soul in hell as he promised.
Old Testament prophecy is found in Psalm 16:7-11.
“I will bless the LORD, who has given me counsel: my reins also instruct me in the night seasons.
8. I have set the LORD always before me: because he is at my right hand, I shall not be moved.
9. Therefore my heart is glad, and my glory rejoices: my flesh also shall rest in hope.
10. For YOU (Yahweh) will not leave MY SOUL in hell; neither will YOU suffer YOUR Holy One to see corruption.
11. YOU will show me the path of life: in YOUR presence is the fullness of joy; at YOUR right hand there are pleasures forevermore.”
Jesus had his OWN SOUL and Yahweh promised his Messiah that he would not leave his soul in hell or suffer his Holy One to see corruption.
Now let us read the fulfillment of this prophecy written to God’s Messiah, his Holy One of Israel.
Acts 13:32-38.
“And we declare unto you glad tidings, how that the promise which was made unto the fathers,
33. God has fulfilled the same unto us their children, in that he has raised up Jesus again; as it is also written in the second psalm, You are my Son, this day have I begotten you. (This is when the Son of MAN, Jesus, BECAME God’s ETERNALLY begotten Son. It was AFTER the cross that God GAVE the Son of MAN the divine nature of immortality to be alive forevermore.)
34. And as concerning that he raised him up from the dead, now no more to return to corruption, he said on this wise, I will give you the sure mercies of David.
35. Wherefore he says also in another psalm, YOU shalt not suffer YOUR Holy One to see corruption.
36. For David, after he had served his own generation by the will of God, fell on sleep, and was laid unto his fathers, and saw corruption: (In other words, King David’s body saw corruption and therefore this is a hidden prophecy referring to God’s Messiah as being his servant David by analogy. There are many hidden prophecies of Jesus where it SEEMS like God is talking to King David but in truth Yahweh is speaking to his Messiah Jesus.)
37. But he, whom God raised again, saw no corruption.
38. Be it known unto you therefore, men and brethren, that through this MAN is preached unto you the forgiveness of sins:”
Let us move on to the next assumption.
#10. Let us assume that God highly exalted the Son of man and gave him eternal life to be having in himself even as God has always had eternal life in himself.
Now just like Psalm 2 and Psalm 16 have hidden prophecies of God’s Messiah so does Psalm 89. Let us read the prophecy of where God promises to EXALT his firstborn to be made higher than the kings of the earth. I know that we have already read this verse but I feel it is worth covering again because some Trinitarians and Oneness believers insist that this Psalm is not a prophecy of Jesus but rather it is speaking only of King David.
Let us again read the prophecy in Psalm 89 of the Messiah, God’s servant, the Holy One of Israel, where God speaks IN VISION TO his Holy One of Israel.
Psalm 89:18-27.
“ For the LORD is our defense, AND the Holy One of Israel is our king.
19. Then YOU (Yahweh) spake IN VISION TO YOUR holy one, and said, I have laid help upon one that is mighty; I have exalted one chosen out of the people. (So God has in view in his plan of salvation to give a VISION TO his coming Messiah to be one chosen out from among the people. And to whom he will lay HELP upon speaking of ANOINTING him with the Holy Spirit and with power and for him to be his FIRSTBORN Son and to EXALT his FIRSTBORN Son to be King higher than the kings of the earth.)
20. I have found David my servant; with my holy oil have I anointed him:
21. With whom my hand (My Holy Spirit) shall be established: mine arm (My word, my promises to him) also shall strengthen him.
22. The enemy shall not exact upon him, nor the son of wickedness afflict him.
23. And I will beat down his foes before his face, and plague them that hate him.
24. But my faithfulness and my mercy shall be with him: and in my name shall his horn be exalted.
25. I will set his hand also in the sea, and his right hand in the rivers.
26. He shall cry unto me, Thou art my father, my God, and the rock of my salvation.
27. ALSO, I will make him my FIRSTBORN, higher than the kings of the earth.”
Please read verse 27 from the Bible in Basic English.
“And I will make him the first of my sons, most high over the kings of the earth.”
Right NOW Jesus is the ONLY eternally begotten Son of God, the firstborn from the dead, the firstborn among MANY BRETHREN. So, at the second coming of God’s firstborn Son, we who ARE Christ’s at his coming will be added to the FIRSTFRUITS of God along with his Son Jesus to be eternal sons and daughters of God as well. We will be made kings and priests unto God but Jesus will be our King over us while Yahweh will be THE ETERNAL King over Jesus.
Now let us read the fulfillment of the prophecy where God highly exalts the Son of MAN, Jesus because he became obedient to do all the Father’s will even to suffer and die on the cross.
Philippians 2:8-11.
“And being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross.
9. WHEREFORE (Or for this very reason of becoming obedient even unto death on the cross) God also has HIGHLY EXALTED him, and given him a name which is above every name:
10. That at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of things in heaven, and things in earth, and things under the earth;
11. And that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, TO the glory OF God the Father.”
To me, God has clearly exalted the Son of MAN who was truly fully a human being during the days of his flesh not having any divine nature, of divine power of his OWN, but rather it was the eternal Holy Spirit who DWELT IN the Son of MAN who empowered him to live his life without sin and do the mighty works that men saw him do for God was WITH him by dwelling IN him. Let us move on to the next assumption.
#11. Let us assume that God gave the Son of man a name higher than any other name other than the personal name of God himself.
We just read Philippians 2:8-11 where God GAVE the Son of man a NAME higher than every other name so that at the name of Jesus every knee shall bow and every tongue confess that he is Lord TO the glory OF the Father. But we also see in Revelation that God has given him a NEW name which only Jesus knows.
Revelation 3:12.
“Him that overcomes will I make a pillar in the temple of my God, and he shall go no more out: and I will write upon him the name of my God, and the name of the city of my God, which is new Jerusalem, which comes down out of heaven from my God: and I will write upon him my NEW name.”
Now we are not specifically told what Jesus’ NEW name is but there is a PROPHECY of God’s Messiah being called by the NAME “Our LORD our RIGHTEOUSNESS” in the world to come. And the Hebrew word translated as LORD in all caps is the Tetragrammaton YHWH which we know and the personal name of Almighty God himself as Yahweh. So it appears that Jesus will be called by the NAME “Yahweh our RIGHTEOUSNESS” in the world to come.
Please read Jeremiah 23:5-8.
“Behold, the days come, says the LORD, that I (Yahweh) will raise unto David a righteous Branch, and a King shall reign and prosper, and shall execute judgment and justice in the earth.
6. In HIS days (The days of Messiah Jesus) Judah shall be saved, and Israel shall dwell safely: and this is HIS NAME whereby he shall be called, THE LORD OUR RIGHTEOUSNESS.
7. Therefore, behold, the days come, says the LORD, that they shall no more say, The LORD lives, which brought up the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt;
8 But, The LORD lives, which brought up and which led the seed of the house of Israel out of the north country, and from all countries whither I had driven them, and they shall dwell in their own land.”
Now please read Zechariah 14:9 which is a little misleading in the King James Version.
Zechariah 14:9.
“And the LORD shall be king over all the earth: in that day shall there be one LORD, and his name one.”
Now, the way I myself understand this verse in the light of the rest of God’s word is that Jesus shall be a King for Yahweh, to become one with Yahweh and his NAME shall be one with Yahweh. In other words, like Pharaoh exalted Joseph as a Pharaoh second only to Pharaoh himself so did Yahweh highly exalt the Son of man above even the angels to be second in command giving him all authority and power as the King of kings and Lord of lords vested in the ONE NAME, Yahweh. And it is Yahweh himself who stands behind his OWN name to make sure every knee bows to his Son Jesus to the glory OF the Father.
Let us move on to the next assumption.
#12. Let us assume that God granted this same Jesus, whom he has made the Messiah or the savior of mankind, the right to rule for him for 1000 years in the world to come, while God subdues all the enemies of himself and of his now eternal Son under his feet during the yet future 1000 year reign of the Messiah.
Now the prophecies concerning the reign of Jesus are translated as “forever” in the King James Bible but the Hebrew word also means AGE.
In Daniel 7:12 we see the rest of the beast which I believe refers to the Muslims who will have their lives prolonged for a season and a time which to me speaks of the 1000 year reign of Jesus.
Psalm 90:4 teaches us that one day is as a thousand years to the Lord.
“For a thousand years in thy sight are but as yesterday when it is past, and as a watch in the night.”
And the DAY of the Lord’s WRATH can be seen as part of God’s wrath being poured out at both the beginning of just before the 1000 year long day of the Lord and at the end of the 1000 year long day of the Lord with a 1000 year reign of peace and no war in between the first and last half of God’s wrath.
And we see that the GENERATIONS of Israel in the world to come are 1000.
Psalm 105:8-11.
“He has remembered his covenant forever, the word which he commanded to a thousand generations. (Or to a thousand years, generations. Or generations to a thousand speaking of mortal generations in the future to a thousand years)
9. Which covenant he made with Abraham, and his oath unto Isaac;
10. And confirmed the same unto Jacob for a law, and to Israel for an everlasting covenant:
11. Saying, Unto you will I give the land of Canaan, the lot of your inheritance:
12. When they were but a few men in number; yea, very few, and strangers in it.”
See also Deuteronomy 7:9 and 1 Chronicles 16:15. Now, these are vague and unclear references to the 1000 year reign of Jesus which is revealed to Jesus by Yahweh the Father. Then revealed to us in the book of Revelation chapter 20.
Revelation 20:1-15.
“And I saw an angel come down from heaven, having the key of the bottomless pit and a great chain in his hand.
2. And he laid hold on the dragon, that old serpent, which is the Devil, and Satan, and bound him a thousand years,
3. And cast him into the bottomless pit, and shut him up, and set a seal upon him, that he should deceive the nations no more, till the thousand years should be fulfilled: and after that he must be loosed a little season.
4. And I saw thrones, and they sat upon them, and judgment was given unto them: and I saw the souls of them that were beheaded for the witness of Jesus, and for the word of God, and which had not worshipped the beast, neither his image, neither had received his mark upon their foreheads, or in their hands; and they lived and reigned with Christ a thousand years.
5. But the rest of the dead lived not again until the thousand years were finished. This is the first resurrection.
6. Blessed and holy is he that hath part in the first resurrection: on such the second death hath no power, but they shall be priests of God and of Christ and shall reign with him a thousand years.
7. And when the thousand years are expired, Satan shall be loosed out of his prison,
8. And shall go out to deceive the nations which are in the four quarters of the earth, Gog and Magog, to gather them together to battle: the number of whom is as the sand of the sea.
9. And they went up on the breadth of the earth and compassed the camp of the saints about, and the beloved city: and fire came down from God out of heaven and devoured them.
10. And the devil that deceived them was cast into the lake of fire and brimstone, where the beast and the false prophet are and shall be tormented day and night forever and ever.
11. And I saw a great white throne, and him that sat on it, from whose face the earth and the heaven fled away; and there was found no place for them.
12. And I saw the dead, small and great, stand before God; and the books were opened: and another book was opened, which is the book of life: and the dead were judged out of those things which were written in the books, according to their works.
13. And the sea gave up the dead which was in it, and death and hell delivered up the dead which was in them: and they were judged every man according to their works.
14. And death and hell were cast into the lake of fire. This is the second death.
15. And whosoever was not found written in the book of life was cast into the lake of fire.”
The main thing that I want you to see is that Almighty God the Father will grant Jesus to sit on his Father’s throne.
Please read Revelation 3:21.
“To him that overcomes will I grant to sit with me in my throne, even as I also overcame, and am set down WITH my Father in HIS throne.”
So Jesus will be ruling FOR Yahweh during the seventh 1000 year long day of Yahweh’s Sabbath rest. That is why Jesus is called the Lord of the Sabbath. Let us move on to the next assumption.
#13. Let us assume that this same Jesus of Nazareth is indeed the TRUE Messiah that God promised to send in all the prophecies written of him in the Holy Bible.
Now, most every Christian knows that Jesus has fulfilled every one of the prophecies of God’s coming Messiah that refers to his FIRST coming and we fully believe that Jesus will fulfill the rest of the prophecies. Such as, him being a mighty warrior to deliver his people and restore the kingdom of Israel at his SECOND coming. What the Jews who REJECTED Jesus as their Messiah have failed to see was the Messiah’s TWO separate comings. They have not discerned that God would turn to the Gentiles to provoke them to jealousy and that God promised that he would turn to them a SECOND TIME.
To all the Jews reading this study who have rejected Jesus as your Messiah please read Isaiah 11:10-12.
“And in that day there shall be a root of Jesse, which shall stand for an ensign of the people; to it shall the Gentiles seek: and his rest shall be glorious.
11. And it shall come to pass in that DAY (Speaking of the day of Yahweh’s WRATH, the DAY of the Lord), that the Lord shall set his hand again the SECOND TIME to recover the remnant of his people, which shall be left, from Assyria, and from Egypt, and from Pathros, and from Cush, and from Elam, and from Shinar, and from Hamath, and from the islands of the sea.
12. And he shall set up an ensign for the nations, and shall assemble the outcasts of Israel, and gather together the dispersed of Judah from the four corners of the earth.”
And to all Muslims who fight against God’s people, Israel, be warned that this Messiah Jesus will fight against those who fight against his people Israel.
Please read Zechariah 14:2-3.
“For I will gather all nations against Jerusalem to battle, and the city shall be taken, and the houses rifled, and the women ravished, and half of the city shall go forth into captivity, and the residue of the people shall not be cut off from the city.
3. Then shall the LORD go forth, and fight against those nations, as when he fought in the day of battle.”
And God names those nations in Psalm 83:3-8.
“They have taken crafty counsel against your people and consulted against your hidden ones.
4. They have said, Come, and let us cut them off from being a nation; that the name of Israel may be no more in remembrance.
5. For they have consulted together with one consent: they are confederate against you:
6. The tabernacles of Edom, and the Ishmaelites; of Moab, and the Hagarenes;
7. Gebal, and Ammon, and Amalek; the Philistines with the inhabitants of Tyre;
8. Assur also is joined with them: they have holpen the children of Lot. Selah”
All of these nations are now occupied by Islamic Muslims who are seeking to become a confederate to wipe out the nation of Israel and as many Christians as they can in that part of the world. So those who fight against God’s people Israel will find themselves fighting against Almighty God himself and his Messiah, Jesus of Nazareth. Let us move on to the next assumption.
#14. Lets us assume that God also prophesied of his Messiah that he would be called God of the whole earth during his 1000 year reign while he will be ruling for Yahweh during Yahweh’s Sabbath rest.
Here is the Old Testament PROPHECY.
Isaiah 54:4.
“For YOUR Maker is your husband; the LORD of hosts is his name; AND your Redeemer the Holy One of Israel; The God of the whole earth shall he be called.”
Yahweh highly exalted his Messiah, the Son of MAN, Jesus to become a God to rule FOR Yahweh in the world to come. Jesus has the Father Yahweh as HIS God over him.
Please read Hebrews 1:9.
“You have loved righteousness, and hated iniquity; THEREFORE (Or for this very reason of you loving righteousness and hated iniquity) God, even YOUR God, has anointed you with the oil of gladness above your fellows.”
There are many verses that clearly teach us that Almighty God the Father is the God OF his Son Jesus. So while Jesus is given the TITLE as being a God this does not make Jesus to be the one true and only Almighty God who alone is the Father.
Another prophecy of Jesus ruling FOR Yahweh in the world to come is Isaiah 20:10.
“Behold, the Lord GOD will come with strong hand, and his arm shall rule FOR him: behold, his reward is with him, and his work before him.”
And John 12:36-41 teaches us that Jesus is the arm of the Lord.
“While you have light, believe in the light, that ye may be the children of light. These things spake Jesus, and departed, and did hide himself from them.
37. But though he had done so many miracles before them, yet they believed not on him:
38. That the saying of Isaiah the prophet might be fulfilled, which he spake, Lord, who has believed our report? and to whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed?
39. Therefore they could not believe, because that Isaiah said again,
40. He has blinded their eyes, and hardened their heart; that they should not see with their eyes, nor understand with their heart, and be converted, and I should heal them.
41. These things said Isaiah, when he saw his glory, and spake of HIM.”
Or Isaiah the prophet spake of God’s yet coming Messiah who we as Christians know as Jesus our Lord and savior, who Yahweh raised up from among his people, the Jews, and who the Jews REJECT and had crucified. Let us move to the next assumption.
#15. Lets us assume that this same Jesus will commit the kingdom back into the hands of God at the end of his 1000 year reign.
Please read 1 Corinthians 15:23-28.
“But every man in his own order: Christ the firstfruits; afterward they that are Christ's at his coming.
24. Then comes the end, when he (Jesus, the true Messiah) shall have delivered up the kingdom TO God, EVEN the FATHER; when he (Yahweh, the ONLY true God) shall have put down all rule and all authority and power.
25. For he (Jesus, the Messiah) must reign, TILL he (Yahweh, the Father) hath put all enemies under his feet.
26. The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death.
27. For he hath put all things under his feet. But when he saith all things are put under him, it is manifest that he is excepted, which did put all things under him.
28. And when all things shall be subdued unto him, then shall the Son also himself be subject unto him that put all things under him, that God may be all in all.”
Now, there are several prophecies of Yahweh himself putting all things under the feet of his Messiah but I myself have not found any prophecies of Jesus committing the kingdom back into his Father hands. This could be something that I missed and it is there but I have not seen it as yet. The fact is that we are not really told much at all about the ages to come after the 1000 year reign of Jesus in either the Old Testament or in the New Testament.
All we know for sure is that all the wicked will be destroyed in the lake of fire never to rise again and God himself creates a new heaven and a new earth wherein righteousness dwells forever.
So in conclusion I ask all my readers to consider all the assumptions that I brought forth along with the sound Biblical evidence of not one prophecy prophesying that Yahweh himself would become a human being and remain the fully Almighty God having two natures at the same time, one divine and one human as both the doctrine of Oneness and the doctrine of the Trinity teaches.
Ask yourself these two questions:
#1. To all my Oneness readers. Why would an already eternal Almighty God who owns everything give himself an inheritance to inherit what he already owns?
#2. To all my Trinitarian readers. Why would God give himself, as in, the Father giving to his Son an inheritance of what they already both owned, to inherit?
And keep in mind that the Son inherits the earth and not the entire universe. Jesus was made in the IMAGE OF Yahweh to rule in BEHALF OF Yahweh while Yahweh rests on his Sabbath day as prophesied in Genesis 2:1-3. Please read the LITERAL translation.
Genesis 2:1-3 from the LITERAL translation.
“And they are BEING FINISHED the heavens and the earth and all the host of them.
2. And he IS FINISHING Elohim IN SEVENTH day work of him which he did and he IS CEASING IN DAY the SEVENTH from all of work which he did.
3. And he is blessing Elohim day of seventh and he is making holy HIM (The Holy One of Israel his Messiah) that IN HIM he ceased from all work of him which he created Elohim to do of.”
Has Yahweh finished creating the new heavens and the new earth yet? Has God finished his NEW creation created in Jesus Christ yet? Has God finished performing his word or plan of salvation yet? NO! He has not. God has not yet rested a single day and his Sabbath rest is yet future in the Seventh 1000 year long day of the Lord wherein Jesus will be the Lord of the Sabbath to rule FOR Yahweh while he rests IN the seventh day.
Thanks for reading, and may God bless you richly as you continue to seek the TRUTH of the WHOLE word of Almighty God.
And to me, the truth concerning who Jesus TRULY is, according to the Bible ITSELF, is the Biblical Unitarian view of Jesus.
Once Christians, Jews, Muslims, and even atheists understand the REASON that Yahweh CREATED the Son of MAN, Jesus, was to have DOMINION over the work of Yahweh’s hands.
And after you understand that the REASON that Yahweh did that is to STILL His ENEMIES, Satan and the fallen angels.
Then you can understand that God made His human Son to become “a” Lord, “a” King, and “a” God, under and subject to his God and Father in order to JUDGE Satan and the fallen angels.
For a deeper understanding of this WAR that Lucifer and one third of the angels waged against the throne of Almighty God, please read the studies under the subject category called ** Q-0 Why Are We Here? Is God at WAR? **.
More studies are coming in this SHORTER Biblical Unitarian view of who Jesus is according to the WHOLE word of God.
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Thanks again for reading, and may God bless you richly as you continue to seek the TRUTH of the WHOLE word of Almighty God.
And to me, the truth concerning who Jesus TRULY is, according to the Bible ITSELF, is the Biblical Unitarian view of Jesus.
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