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Numbers 23:19 Is Jesus God INCARNATE?
Did the Son of God BECOME FLESH?
***What Does Numbers 23:19 TRULY mean?
Here is Numbers 23:19 from the KJV. “God is not a man, that he should lie; neither the son of man, that he should repent: hath he said, and shall he not do it? or hath he spoken, and shall he not make it good?”
Notice that Yahweh says through His prophet Balaam that God is NOT a MAN and NEITHER is God the Son of MAN.
Has not Yahweh SPOKEN? Shall Yahweh not do that which He prophesied? Has Yahweh prophesied and shall not perform His spoken word?
A prophet is a MEDIATOR. And Balaam is mediating BETWEEN God and Balak, which means WASTER!
And Satan is called or described as the WASTER in the Bible!
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What Does Numbers 23:19 TRULY Mean?
Did Almighty God BECOME the Son of MAN?
Is Jesus Almighty God Himself in the Flesh?
Church TRADITION teaches that John 1:1,14 means God Himself BECAME flesh.
The Oneness Pentecostal Christians “interpret” Hebrews 10:5 that Almighty God the Father “manifested” Himself a “BODY” of flesh to dwell in.
And thus, they wrongly conclude that Jesus is the Father Himself in the flesh.
Trinitarian Christians interpret that a pre-existing God the Son became flesh.
But what does the Bible ITSELF teach us?
All Christians agree that Almighty God is NOT a LIAR and that it is IMPOSSIBLE for God to lie, according to Hebrews 6:18, and Titus 1:2.
And thus, if man says or teaches things that contradict what God has said in His word, then THAT man makes God to be a liar. Let God be TRUE and every MAN a LIAR, says Romans 3:4.
But yet, some Trinitarian Christians try to explain AWAY verses of Scripture like Numbers 23:19, 1 Samuel 15:29, and Hosea 11:9.
So then, as with every “interpretation” of any and every verse of Scripture, there is a possibility of that interpretation of being WRONG!
And thus, we must STUDY to show ourselves approved unto God, rightly dividing the word of God so as not to be ashamed.
Before we read Numbers 23:19 in its context, let us read the “Trinitarian interpretation” from a Trinitarian website, Got Questions, in order to COMPARE their interpretation to the Biblical Unitarian interpretation.
The comments in parenthesis in Times Roman font and the emphasis are mine.
“...We must also consider what the Old Testament is really saying about God when it says He is not a human being.
The point being made in Numbers 23:19, 1 Samuel 15:29, and Hosea 11:9 is that God does not lie.
He is not fickle. His emotions do not change His eternal purposes. This is unlike fallen humanity, who cannot see the big picture, who often breaks promises, and whose feelings often cloud discernment.
In other words, the statements that God is not a man are contrasting one aspect of God’s nature with a corresponding part of man’s. Saying, “God is not a man,” has nothing to do with whether or not God can ever exist in the flesh. (I changed this link to the passage of Scripture in 2 Corinthians 5:16-21.
For you see, Biblical Unitarians teach what the Bible ITSELF teaches, which is that God DWELT in the flesh of Jesus who was made to become Deity after the cross and resurrection)
The Old Testament references to God being unlike man do not apply to Jesus’ particular type of humanity.
All they are telling us is that God is not a man as we think of men. It’s a contrast, not a restriction.
There is nothing that logically prevents God from becoming a man in a whole new way—in fact, redemption requires this, and redemption was God’s plan from before the foundation of the world (Revelation 13:8).
Thus, it can be said that God knew He would become a man before Numbers 23:19 was even penned! (And it can ALSO be said that God KNEW that His enemy the WASTER would deceive Christians to wrongly teach that God Himself BECAME a man before Numbers 23:19 was ever penned!
For you see, Balaam is speaking a parable to Balak which means WASTER. And Satan is the WASTER who accuses the brethren)
If we consider the Old Testament in isolation, which is the Jewish perspective, we shall not likely “prove” that Jesus Christ was man, God, Messiah, and Savior—although the indicators are all there (see Isaiah 53, for example).
Christians see the foreshadowing of the God-man in the Old Testament because the New Testament revelation helps interpret the Old Testament references (e.g., Matthew 2:15; cf. Hosea 11:1).”
Or more CORRECTLY, Christians should see the FORESHADOWING of a MAN BECOMING a God under and subject to his God and Father who MADE him to become a Lord, a King, and a God AFTER the cross and resurrection, according to Acts 2:36 and many other passages of Scripture.
Now, in the quote from Trinitarian article that we just read, that Trintarian writer said that a fallen man cannot see or understand the BIG PICTURE.
And I say that some Trinitarians are blinded to the BIG PICTURE of the true gospel of Jesus Christ.
For you see, some Trinitarian Christians teach that people MUST believe that God Himself died on the cross as a REQUIREMENT to be saved. Let us read that part of the quote again.
“There is nothing that logically prevents God from becoming a man in a whole new way—in fact, redemption requires this, and redemption was God’s plan from before the foundation of the world (Revelation 13:8)”
And thus, due to the fact that Trianitarian Christians are wrongly taught that they MUST believe that God Himself BECAME a MAN, is why some feel that they have to try to explain AWAY clear verses of Scripture that clearly and plainly say that God is NOT a MAN and NEITHER is God the Son of MAN.
Here is another quote from a different article on the same website at Got Questions.org.
The article is called Is Jesus God in the Flesh?
The emphasis is mine.
“His divine nature made Him fit for the work of Redeemer; His human body allowed Him to shed the blood necessary to redeem.
No human being with a sin nature could pay such a debt.
No one else could meet the requirements to become the sacrifice for the sins of the whole world (Matthew 26:28; 1 John 2:2).
If Jesus were merely a good man as some claim, then He had a sin nature and was not perfect.
In that case, His death and resurrection would have no power to save anyone.
Because Jesus was God in the flesh, He alone could pay the debt we owed to God.
His victory over death and the grave won the victory for everyone who puts their trust in Him (John 1:12; 1 Corinthians 15:3-4, 17).”
But yet, nowhere in the Bible ITSELF does Jesus or any of his Apostles or disciples teach anything that even HINTS that ONLY Almighty God Himself can die for our sins.
Rather, the Bible itself teaches us that because of Jesus we believe in God who not only raised Jesus from the dead but also GAVE him GLORY or GLORIED him.
1 Peter 1:21,25 from the New International Version.
“Through him (The now GLORIED Son of MAN Jesus after the cross and resurrection) you believe in God, who raised him from the dead and GLORIFIED him, and so your faith and hope are in God…
…1 Peter 1:25. But the word of the Lord endures for ever. And this is the word which by the gospel is preached unto you.”
So then, for all of my readers who sincerely believe that God Himself BECAME FLESH, here is the TRUE sound Biblical BIG PICTURE of what Numbers 23:19 TRULY means in the LIGHT of the WHOLE word of Almighty God. Let us now read the context of Numbers 23:28.
I will quote one verse at a time with my comments between each verse and as few as possible comments in parenthesis within the verses.
Numbers 23:17-23.
“And when he (Balaam) came to him (Speaking of Balak, the King of Moab), behold, he stood by his burnt offering, and the princes of Moab with him. And Balak said unto him, What has the LORD spoken?”
In verse 17, we learn that Balaam is a prophet of Yahweh who is MEDIATING between God and the princes of Moab who stand WITH Balak their king whose name means WASTER.
So then, the BIG PICTURE of Numbers 23:19 is foreshadowing the MEDIATOR in Galatians 3:20 who is NOT one of the princes of the fallen angels or the fallen Elohim.
For you see, the name Balaam means NOT of the “people”. And the Hebrew word for people in this context is speaking of the attendants or the TROOPS.
In other words, Balaam is a FIGURE of the Prophet Jesus who will JUDGE the fallen angels and who is NOT an ANGEL.
And the angels are the people of God BEFORE God created MAN and the Son of MAN. And Balak is a FIGURE of Satan, the king over the fallen angels.
That is the BIG PICTURE of Numbers 23:19!
“Numbers 23:18. And he (Balaam, a figure of Jesus as a mediator) took up his parable, and said, Rise up, Balak,(A figure of Satan being the king over the fallen angels) and hear; hearken unto me, (Yahweh’s MEDIATOR) you son of Zippor:”
The name Zippor means little bird, fowls of the air. And the passage of Scripture brought to my remembrance when I read the meaning today is the parable of the sower sowing the seed of God’s word found in Luke 8:5-18, Matthew 13:3-23, and Mark 4:1-20.
And in Mark 4:13, Jesus said, if we do not UNDERSTAND this parable, then how can we understand all of the OTHER parables.
So then, it was God’s ENEMY, the wicked one, Satan, the WASTER that is pictured as a BIRD who ate the seed of God’s word that fell by the wayside.
And it is the Son of MAN, Jesus, who sows the seed of God’s word. And Jesus will be the MEDIATOR of not just man, but also a meditator between the fallen angels and Yahweh the Creator, according to Galatians 3:20.
And thus, Yahweh chose for His mediator to NOT be and ANGEL, and NEITHER for His mediator to be HIMSELF.
And that is WHY Yahweh said that He is NOT an extant, speaking of His people the angels.
And NEITHER is God the Son of MAN, speaking of Almighty God the Creator NOT being His Messiah, Jesus.
“Numbers 23:19. God is NOT a man, (Speaking of Yahweh NOT being one of the ANGELS. For you see, this is a DIFFERENT Hebrew word than “Adam”, which mean human being) that He should LIE; NEITHER (Is Yahweh) the Son of MAN, (Speaking of Jesus) that He should REPENT: (Or that Yahweh should have to REPENT if He was a LIAR) has He said, and shall He not do it? Or has He spoken, and shall He not make it good?”
Now, to me, God INTENDS His words in Numbers 23:19 to literally mean that God is NOT an ANGEL, and NEITHER is God a HUMAN being, the Son of MAN, Jesus, His Messiah.
And thus, God would be a LIAR and have need to REPENT if God Himself BECAME the Son of MAN, Jesus, if this is not the God intended meaning of Numbers 23:19.
Notice the CONTEXT, God is NOT COMPARING Himself to man as some Trinitarian apologists try to EXPLAIN AWAY this verse of Scripture.
The context is saying that what God has prophesied is what God will bring to pass.
And according to Psalm 75:6,7, God will CUT DOWN one and PROMOTE ANOTHER to take his place.
Psalm 75:6,7.
“For PROMOTION comes neither from the east, nor from the west, nor from the south.
Psalm 75:7. But God is the JUDGE: He puts down one, and SETS up ANOTHER.”
Notice that NORTH is not mentioned in verse 6. And that is because the City of God is on the sides of the NORTH and promotion to become a God only comes from Yahweh.
Also, notice that God is the JUDGE, and according to Acts 17:29-31, the Godhead, or the HEAD God with JUDGE the world BY the MAN whom He ORDAINED and raised from the DEAD.
In other words, Yahweh PROMOTED or HIGHLY EXALTED the Son of MAN, Jesus, to be SEATED at His right hand on His throne to rule as God over the whole earth during the world to come.
And Yahweh did that in order to JUDGE Lucifer and the fallen angel BY the MAN, Jesus Christ ruling in RIGHTEOUSNESS without any wars for 1000 years.
For you see, Acts 17:29-31 clearly states as a FACT that the Godhead, or the HEAD God will JUDGE the world BY the MAN whom He ORDAINED and raised from the DEAD.
“Numbers 23:20. Behold, I (Balaam, the FIGURE of Jesus speaking to Balak, the FIGURE of Satan, saying I) have received commandment to bless: and He has blessed; and I cannot reverse it.”
Again, Balaam is a figure of the Prophet, Jesus, who only spoke what Yahweh put in his mouth to speak, according to the prophecy in Deuteronomy 18:15-18 and the fulfillment in John 7:14, John 14:24, and John 17:14 just to name a few.
And what Yahweh prophesied Yahweh will bring to pass and we as servants and prophets of Yahweh cannot change the JUDGMENT that God has ORDAINED.
“Numbers 23:21. He (Yahweh) has NOT beheld iniquity in Jacob, (Who is a FIGURE of Jesus) neither has He seen perverseness in Israel: (Which means, he shall RULE as God, speaking of Jesus ruling as God during the world to come) the LORD his God is WITH him, (SINGULAR) and the shout of a king is among them.”
The name Jacob means SUPPLANTER and the word supplanter means someone who takes the place of another, usually in a position of power.
It also means to supersede and replace. And supersede means to SURPASS or to be greater than or better than the one they replace.
And the Son of MAN, Jesus, OBTAINED a more excellent NAME than the angels, according to Hebrews 1:4.
Again, Jacob is a FIGURE of Jesus replacing Lucifer, who unlike Jesus, tried to take by force of WAR to be equal with God to be a king over the angels like God.
The name Israel means he shall rule as God. And Yahweh MADE His human Son to become a Lord, a God and a King to rule over the whole earth during the world to come.
And God did that BECAUSE His human Son loved righteousness and hated evil, according to Hebrews 1:8,9, Philippians 2:8-11, and John 5:27.
Now, John 5:27 SPECIFICALLY says BECAUSE he was the Son of MAN.
And thus, if God BECAME a MAN who was FULLY God at the SAME time having TWO natures at the SAME time during the days of his FLESH, one divine, and one human, as Trinitarian Christians dogmatically demand, then God would be a LIAR and He would have to REPENT for lying.
And thus, Satan can accuse those Trinitarian brethren as being his witnesses that God LIED.
Let me explain what I mean by all Trinitarian and Oneness Pentecostal Christians actually being WITNESSES on the side of Satan.
You see, other than Jesus being a faithful and TRUTHFUL WITNESS for Almighty God the Creator,, WHO else can be a faithful and TRUTHFUL WITNESS for Yahweh to say what Yahweh says about Himself in Numbers 23:19?
For you see, Satan has all of the Trinitarian Christiians and the Oneness Pentecostal Christians on his SIDE by saying or by CONFESSING their BELIEF that God Himself became a MAN.
And thus, God can NOT use Trinitarian Christians and Oneness Pentecostal Christians as being His TRUTHFUL WITNESSES, because they wrongly CONFESS on the earth that God Himself BECAME FLESH.
In fact, they dogmatically demand that ONLY Almighty God Himself can die on the cross for our sins.
And to me, their CONFESSION of faith CONTRADICTS what Numbers 23:19 clearly states as a FACT with no interpretation needed.
But yet, Trinitarian apologists deceive Trinitarian Christians to REMAIN witnesses on the side of Satan by trying to explain AWAY the true sound Biblical meaning of Numbers 23:19 in order to hold fast to God Himself BECOMING flesh.
However, that is NOT what God did! God did NOT BECOME His Son! John 1:14 clearly states as a fact that the word was MADE flesh.
In other words, God CREATED man and the Son of MAN a little LOWER or inferior to the angels BECAUSE of His ENEMIES, according to Psalm 8:1-6.
“Numbers 23:22. God brought them out of Egypt; (Which is a figure or type of the world) he has as it were the strength of an unicorn.”
The simplistic meaning of the word “unicorn” is ONE horn. And the word “horn” in the Bible speaks of Yahweh as the ONE SUPREME power and authority.
So, to me, this is a figure of the rapture of the church being brought out of the world.
And the Hebrew word translated as “God” in verse 22 is the Hebrew word “El” the same Hebrew word used in the PROPHECY in Isaiah 9:6,7 that says, his NAME shall be CALLED the Mighty God or the Mighty El.
And Jesus was given a NEW NAME after the cross and resurrection to me MADE a lord, a King, and a God under and subject to his God and Father, according to Acts 2:36 and many other passages of Scripture.
Please be sure to read the two-part Bible Study called D-23. What is the NEW NAME of Jesus? Part 1.
Keep in mind that the children of Israel wanted a King over them to be like the other nations, according to 1 Samuel 8:4-22.
Plus, they were also afraid of Yahweh’s voice, according to Exodus 20:18-21. They wanted Moses to hear from Yahweh and then tell them what to do and they would obey Moses.
Now, Moses is a figure of Jesus, and according to Deuteronomy 18:15-19 and John 12:49,50, every word Jesus spoke were the words of Yahweh who put those words into the mouth of His Prophet, Jesus.
Also, the word “unicorn” means to rise and be lifted up to have STRENGTH like the bull or an ox, which by the way is the pictagram of Yahweh.
The ENEMY counterfeits God, and thus, Satan seduces the children of Israel to make idols of bulls to worship him as their god.
Thus, it was Satan and the fallen angel that are actually being worshiped through those IDOLS, according to Psalm 106:37, 1 Corinthians 10:20,21, 1 Timothy 4:1-4, Colossians 2:18-23, and Revelation 9:20.
“Numbers 23:23. Surely there is no enchantment against Jacob, neither is there any divination against Israel: according to this time it shall be said of Jacob and of Israel, What has God wrought!”
Or more CORRECTLY translated. What? A God is MADE!
In other words, What! Has Yahweh CREATED a God to be PROMOTED to rule as God over the earth during the world to come to replace me His anointed Cherub, Lucifer! This is Yahweh’s doing and it is marvelous in our eyes!
Again, the name Jacob means supplanter which means he will replace someone in a position of power. And Israel means he shall rule as God.
And in Isaiah 43:1-7, Yahweh said that He CREATED His NAME, Jacob, and Israel for His GLORY!
So, to me, for any Christian, whether a Trinitarian Christian or a Oneness Pentecostal Christian, to TRY to argue that God did NOT INTEND His words in Numbers 22:19 to mean exactly what they say, which is God is NOT a man, and NEITHER is God the Son of MAN, is simply trying to explain away that verse of Scripture so that they can cling to their man-made doctrines.
In other words, for any Christian to argue that this verse simply means that God is just COMPARING Himself to man as Him NOT being a liar like men are liars, then that Christian is simply trying to EXPLAIN AWAY the TRUTH of the gospel of Jesus ANOINTED, in order to cling to their own man-made doctrine of the Trinity that took over three hundred years to form.
So again, I implore you to TRULY consider the FACTS.
If Numbers 23:19 means what it states as a FACT, then ALL of the Trinitarian Christiians and the Oneness Pentecostal Christians on the SIDE Satan as his WITNESSES by saying or by CONFESSING their BELIEF that God Himself became a MAN.
And thus, God can NOT use Trinitarian Christians and Oneness Pentecostal Christians as being His TRUTHFUL WITNESSES, because they wrongly CONFESS on the earth that God Himself BECAME FLESH.
In fact, they dogmatically demand that ONLY Almighty God Himself can die on the cross for our sins.
And, to me, their CONFESSION of faith CONTRADICTS what Numbers 23:19 clearly states as a FACT with no interpretation needed.
But yet, Trinitarian apologist deceive Trinitarian Christians to REMAIN witnesses on the side of Satan by trying to explain AWAY the true sound Biblical meaning of Numbers 23:19 in order to hold fast their own personal INTERPRETATION of John 1:1-14 to mean that God Himself BECAME flesh.
However, that is NOT what God did! God did NOT BECOME His own Son!
And neither did a Divine being named the Word come down from heaven and incarnate himself to become flesh.
John 1:14 clearly states as a fact that the word was MADE flesh.
So please read all of the studies that I have written on John 1:1-14 under the subject heading menu list called ** D-0. The Biblical Jesus** Biblical Unitarian VIEW of Jesus!
And also, I encourage you to read part 2 of this study where I go through the verse references that are quoted in the Trinitarian article called How can Jesus be God, when Numbers 23:19 says that God is not a man or a son of man? | GotQuestions.org in order to TRY to support their doctrine of the Trinity.
For you see, every one of those verses actually PROVE that Jesus is NOT Almighty God Himself in the flesh.
So, to continue reading part 2, please click on the title called Numbers 23:19 The TRINITARIAN Interpretation!
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? **.
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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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