Where did it all begin? We know
that his father was God and his mother was Mary. But did it all start at birth
for Jesus? Or did he have an existence before he was born to Mary in Bethlehem?
Let us see what Jesus said about it:
Then said
the Jews unto him, Thou art not yet fifty years old, and hast thou seen
Abraham? Jesus said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Before Abraham
was, I am. Then took they up
stones to cast at him: but Jesus hid himself, and went out of the temple, going
through the midst of them, and so passed by. (John 8:58-59)
The Jews
told Jesus that he was too young to have known Abraham, let alone God! Jesus then
shocked them, by saying that before Abraham was he, Jehovah (I Am). The Jews saw this as the worst possible blasphemy, that he claimed to be Jehovah! And it would have
been... if it in deed wasn't the truth! They
just had to kill him!
By this
announcement made by Jesus, we come to understand that Jesus is the very God of
the Old Testament. Jesus explained that he is the Jehovah of the creation. He
is the Jehovah that gave the commandments. He Is the Jehovah that revealed
himself to all the holy prophets. He is the Jehovah that does everything that
his Father commands him to do.
The
complete Circle. Look at the beauty of this:
- He created a world for man to
live upon.
- He created man to live upon
it.
- He gave unto man the
commandments to lead them right.
- He is the righteous judge who
pronounces a just sentence upon the children of men, and makes sure that a
fitting punishment is inflicted upon the sinners.
- He is also the savior,
pleading with the sinner to repent, so that he doesn’t have to punish us.
- And he even takes upon him
every pain of this world, so that we can be delivered from suffering.
- He is the advocate with the
Father, pleading our case before him.
- On top of it all, the real
Jesus wants us to co-inherit everything that he has been given by the
Father, just as if we were never guilty at all. Such a generosity has
never been known.
The
Anointed One. The Master is often referred to as Christ, or
the Messiah. These words both mean the Anointed One. Anointed by whom? Anointed
to what?
The only one who can anoint someone of such high standing to
something, is someone of a yet higher standing, which leaves only one; The
anointer could have been no other than the Father of the anointee.
Kings are
anointed. It would make perfect sense if Christ was anointed King of Kings.
Priests are anointed. It would make equal sense if he was anointed Chief High
Priest. But it would not be surprising if there were even greater, holier and
more unspeakable callings to which he was anointed by his loving and tender
Father.
We shall
look for the real Jesus, to know him, in order to find eternal life. We shall
find what Jesus explained. And when it is hard to see Jesus in clear
perspective, we will make sure that you can see Jesus explained clearly on this
site.