Hypotheses about Lord Christ Jesus
And coming into the parts of Caesarea of Philip, Jesus questioned His disciples, saying, Whom do men say Me the Son of Man to be? (Matthew 16:13 LITV)
And coming into the parts of Caesarea of Philip, Jesus questioned His disciples, saying, Whom do men say Me the Son of Man to be? (Matthew 16:13 LITV)
The question of Matthew 16:13 will not become obsolete as generations are born and then die, because the personage of Jesus turns out to be very elusive to many, yet so real to others. That is because Jesus is a spiritual affair, a revelation to the heart and the mind, not a Being whom intelligence can grasp, even though His evidence is right up on our face. Jesus had confided that those who belong to Him will hear His voice and, therefore, follow behind Him.
As you might gather from John Chapter 10, it is fruitless to look for signs of Jesus down in History as we would for one the great men of Antiquity. In this generation, as in generations past, and in future generations, Jesus will be heard and be found by those who can hear His voice.
Those who can hear His voice will learn who Jesus was before becoming flesh and who He still is. If you truly hear Him and follow Him, you will recognize Him as Jehovah wherever He is mentioned in the whole Bible. You will understand that He is way more awesome than the caliper of any Angel whom He created.
For clarification, I have inserted 'aka Jehovah' in Luke 2:11 to bring attention to the true identity of the
One who has been born as Lord without having done any human thing that would confer to Him the title Lord. Luke 2:11
One who, having been conceived by implantation from Heaven, must have brought the name down with Him, as His mighty Angel (Angel of Jehovah) announced His birth to the shepherds.
One who teaches that there exists only One Lord (LORD) in Heaven.
One who was sought by foreigners from the East as the newly born the King of the Jew, even though no human had crowned Him yet and born from parents who were not kings but carpenters.
One who accepts the title YHWH (Lord) in John 13:13.
Note, furthermore, that the Angel did not announce that a child named Jesus was born, as the mother was told to name Him but as the Lord (Lord). Hence, Jesus, as announced and introduced to humans, could not have been an unknown or hidden or known Angel made flesh.
Suffice to say that to understand the 'aka Jehovah' you just have to ask yourself a simple question and answer it yourself: "before Jesus was incarnated, who was known as the Lord in heaven? Who can come from heaven and bring the unique title 'the Lord' with Him if not the Lord (Jehovah) Himself". If Jesus went back to heaven as another "Lord", then there are two Lords in heaven contrary to the teaching of Jesus that there is only the formerly unknown Father and the Son who is, thus, the de facto Jehovah (lord).
To reiterate it again, keep in mind that, before the advent of Jesus, we know that in heaven there was only one Lord, one God, and one Savior, who was Jehovah God and that the title 'Lord' in our translations translates the name of God YHWH, His titles ADON and ADONAI.
Some respectable Christian denominations teach that Jesus was "a spirit creature in heaven" who had "a special relationship with Jehovah", or the Archangel Michael, or the "Angel of Jehovah", who, having died for us, has become or transformed from being an Angel to become the Son of Jehovah God. The view that Jesus was an Angel is illogical, based on the revelation we have of the Godhead. That teaching is a huge drift of opinions, from the time when Jesus posed the question in Matthew 16:13-16 to His Disciples about the opinion of His countrymen concerning Him to today:
So, considering Jesus's statement to Peter, we learn that knowing who Jesus is requires a revelation from the Godhead. Therefore, there can be no science, no intelligence that can capture or grasp Jesus, even if you would be with Jesus every day. Jesus repeated again the same idea of revelation in Matthew 11:27 and Luke 10:22
It is thus no wonder that even the Christians who call on Jesus's name mistake Him for an Angel, even though some of us are allowed to see the evidence that Jesus is Jehovah God, the Creator of the book of Genesis.
The overwhelming evidence I am presenting to refute the false prophets denying that Jesus is Jehovah God cannot open your minds if your hearts are not ready for Christ to reveal Himself and the Father to you (Luke 10:22).
Only Jesus can open our minds and hearts to salvation. No one else can.
References for the aforementioned modern fallacy about Jesus Christ
Michael is not a title but a name
In all the contexts where Michael is mentioned, Michael stands as the proper name of a specific created Angel and not as a title.
The Seventh Day Adventist (SDA) denomination does hold the same belief as the Watchtower of the Jehovah Witnesses (JW) even though we claim to reject their position because all the Angels were created, as we read in the first chapter of Hebrews. (Charles Taze Russell, the founder of The Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society of Pennsylvania, was formerly a seventh day Adventist). No angel is known as the Word, as God, or as the Creator of all things.
As a young convert to Seventh Day Adventism in Haiti in the 1970's, I was taught that it is the Bible that is the ultimate source of authority and reference in all matters of faith, as it is written in Isaiah 8:20, not any "eminent scholars". As such, biblical doctrines are not validated by any third party or any science besides the Bible.
The Gospel needs more chosen missionaries like the Apostles
Matthew 9:35-38 KJ3
We need to pray that the Father sends us good guidance.
(38) Pray, therefore, to the Lord of the harvest that He send out workers into His harvest.
Let them understand your true Jesus Christ from this website, I pray you, Father, in His name, Amen!
Recommission
Guided by the motto of Isaiah 8:20, I have scoured the mirage in the Bible to unveil and reveal the truth about Jesus's true identity. My research found that the religious denominations who teach that Jesus bore the title of any Angel or that Jesus was an Angel of any sort are in error and, therefore, are considered organizations led by false prophets. The teaching that Jesus existed as an Angel before the incarnation contradicts the Gospel as narrated in the book of John in the first chapter, where Jesus is introduced as the Creator of all things. When we reference the creation works, we do not read that an Angel as the Architect but Jehovah God Himself.
Therefore, we must renew the commission of Acts 1:8 to become witnesses of Jesus Christ, to teach to the world that in Heaven Jesus, as His New Testament title Lord implies, could not have been none other than Jehovah God (John 1; Revelation 1:7-8), who is identified by the same title LORD of the King James Version translation. The bible teaches that there is only one Lord, one Savior, in heaven and on earth, as evidenced by the following passages in Deuteronomy 6:4 and Mark 12:29, and not two lords: one upper case LORD and one lower case Lord.
(Zechariah 14:9 KJV) And the LORD shall be king over all the earth: in that day shall there be one LORD, and his name one.
(1 Corinthians 8:6 KJV) But to us [there is but] one God, the Father, of whom [are] all things, and we in him; and one Lord Jesus Christ, by whom are all things, and we by him.
The Son and the the Father had not been revealed to every religion, as you will come to understand (Matthew 11:27).