Category Jesus Christ

Jesus is the most important and significant Person in all of history. His one life has influenced the entire world, and changed the course of human events for all time.

The articles in this section are intended to answer the questions: Who is Jesus Christ? How do we know who He is? What is His role in history, in the world, and in men’s lives? How can we know Jesus and why would we want to?

Another Presentation of Zechariah 2:1-13 – Who is YHWH?

Zech 2:1-13:    “…another angel …said unto [the first angel that spoke to Z] run, speak to [Z] saying Jerusalem shall be inhabited as towns without walls…” “For thus says the LORD (YHWH) of hosts, “After the glory has he sent me to the nations who spoiled you, for he who touches you touches the apple of His eye. For behold, I will shake mine hand upon them and they shall be a spoil to their servants, and you shall know that the LORD of hosts has sent me. Sing and rejoice O daughter of Zion, for lo, I come and I will dwell in the midst of you,” says the LORD …and many nations shall be joined to the LORD in that day, and shall be my people, and I will dwell in the midst of you and you shall know that the LORD of hosts has sent me to you...

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Did John the Baptist Believe that Jesus was God?

Yes, John the Baptist believed and knew that Jesus Christ was almighty God.

In the beginning of his ministry, John declared, “Repent for the kingdom of heaven is at hand!” Matthew confirmed that John was “he of whom Isaiah the prophet spoke saying, ‘The voice of one crying in the wilderness, “Prepare the way of YHWH; make His paths straight!”‘” John quoted God’s words through Isaiah the prophet that the One whose way was to be prepared, was YHWH, the almighty God.

Indeed, John told the crowds, including the religious hypocrites who came comparably to those God described to Ezekiel in 33:32, that He Who was coming after John, was mightier, that He would judge and punish, and that John as God’s prophet was unworthy to carry His shoes...

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On What Day Was Jesus Crucified?

Increasingly, Christians are debating whether the traditional belief is incorrect that Jesus was crucified on Friday. Some have embraced Wednesday, often resorting to what they have heard from others concerning the Jewish name of the day of the week. Others embrace Thursday in an attempt to reconcile the sole reference to “three days and three nights” in Matthew 12:40, where Jesus states, “For as Jonas was three days and three nights in the whale’s belly; so shall the Son of man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.”

If we follow only the Bible, and begin with clear statements within the text, we can determine the necessary answer correctly and without resorting to speculative ideas about what may have been expected from Jewish traditions.

Firstly, the Jews co...

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John 5:37-43” “I have come in the name of My Father, and you do not receive Me. If another comes in his own name, that one you will receive.”

John 5:37-43:

And the One sending Me, Father Himself, has witnessed concerning Me. Neither His voice (sound) have you ever heard nor (a) glimpse of Him have you seen. And His word you have not abiding in you, that Whom He commissioned, This (one) you believe not. You search the Scriptures, that you suppose in them to have eternal life, and those are the testifiers (testifying ones) concerning Me! And you are not willing to come to Me that you may have life. Glory from people I receive not. However, I have known you, that you have not the love of God in yourselves. I have come in the name of My Father, and you do not receive Me. If another comes in his own name, that one you shall receive.”

“I have come in My Father’s name, and you do not receive Me...

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Destroy This Temple and I Will Raise It Up in Three Days – John 2:19-21

John 2:19-21  Jesus answered and said to them, ‘Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up.’ Then said the Jews, ‘Forty-six years was this temple in building, and will You rear it up in three days?’

But He spoke of the temple of His body.

The depth of these two simple sentences cannot be exaggerated.

The temple – dwelling place – is the body. Christ, the fullness of God, dwelt in human flesh from conception.[1] His body was not God; God is not flesh, but spirit, yet He took up residence in an human body in order to bring us salvation.

Though men would “destroy” the body of Christ, they could never destroy Him personally. The eternal God can never die, having power over life and death...

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Jesus in YHWH in Zechariah

Jesus Christ is the second member of the triune God. God is a single corporate entity with three unique and individual members, revealed to mankind as the Father, Jesus Christ the Son, and the Holy Spirit. Old and New Testaments demonstrate this trinity within the godhead.Read More

God’s Revelation of the Trinity of the Godhead in Isaiah 48

Isaiah 48:12-16

 Hearken unto me, O Jacob and Israel, My called! I am He; I am the first, I also am the last.

Mine hand also laid the foundation of the earth, and My right hand stretched out the heavens; I call to them, they stand up together.

All ye, assemble yourselves, and hear; which among them hath declared these things? The LORD hath loved him: he will do his pleasure on Babylon, and his arm shall be on the Chaldeans.

I; I, have spoken; yea, I have called him: I have brought him, and he shall make his way prosperous.

Come near unto me; hear this: I have not spoken in secret from the beginning; from the time that it was, there am I: and now the Lord GOD, and his Spirit, hath sent me.”

Perhaps the most doctrinally-important portion of the book of Isaiah, demonstrates the plurality...

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Understanding the Trinity of God

We believe in one God, of three divine persons. Because we often say, “God … He”, we give the impression that God is a single person, which is incorrect.

“God” is one object, or organization or corporation (in the general sense) of three unique Persons Who are identical in nature, while individual and distinct in identity.

Within the corporation of God is perfect unity; each member bears the fullness of the godhead [1] none lack anything of deity. (Colossians 2:9 For in him (Jesus Christ) dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead bodily.) They are perfectly united in relationship, in will, and in purpose; there is no conflict, animosity, or disagreement whatsoever among them.

The members of the godhead are mutually deferential; the Son submits to the Father[2], and the Holy Spirit ...

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Isaiah 7 to 9 – Notes on Messiah and YHWH

Throughout the Bible, God personally demonstrates that Jesus Christ, the Messiah of God, is also God Almighty along with the one we know as God the Father. In Isaiah 7, the LORD God Almighty identifies the Child to be born as "God with us", and in Isaiah 8, God declares that YHWH will be that "stone of stumbling" and "rock of offence" that the New Testament declares is the Lord Jesus Christ, affirming that Jesus Christ is indeed God.Read More

Evangelical is the New Rome

I had an eureka moment one morning as I was thinking with some frustration about the reality of “church”:  go to a place to sit with other people for an hour as some fellow tells you what to think about God, the Bible, and your faith, with no opportunity permitted to question, challenge, correct, or rebuke. Sit down – stand up – sing this – pray that – hear what I’m telling you, that God told me to say and don’t question it, even when you know I’m lying.

And I realized more consciously that we suffer from Rome...

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