Today's modern preachers don't teach what Jesus taught the Jews ; for the Jews didn't take Jesus to be teaching that He was one person and the Father was another person who 'agree' in one purpose , etc. But they took up stones to stone Him: Jn. 10 : 33, "For a good work we stone thee not ; but for blasphemy ; and
because that thou being a man, MAKEST THYSELF GOD." They knew Jesus was teaching He was GOD ALMIGHTY.
When Jesus said unto the man in Mark 2 : 5 and Luke 5 : 20, "Man, thy sins are forgiven thee." The Jews asked the question , " Who can forgive sins , but God alone ? ". But Jesus answered in Luke 5 : 24 , " But that ye may know that the Son of man ( for Jesus was both God and man ) hath power upon earth to forgive sins , ( He said unto the sick of the palsy, ) I say unto thee , Arise, and take up thy couch, and go into thine house."
Matt. 11: 2 - 6, "Now when John ( The Baptist ) had heard in the prison the works of Christ , he sent two of his disciples , And ( they ) said unto him ( JESUS ) , Art thou he that should come, or do we look for another ? Jesus answered and said unto them, Go and shew John again those things which ye do hear and see: The blind receive their sight, and the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, and the deaf hear, the dead are raised up, and the poor have the gospel preached to them. And blessed is he, whosoever shall not be offended in me."
WHO WAS THAT ONE PERSON JOHN HAD BEEN LOOKING FOR TO COME ? Isa. 40 : 1 - 31 . ( Isa. 35 : 1 - 10 , " BEHOLD, YOUR GOD WILL COME " ) . John knew GOD was coming to do the same works Jesus Christ was doing . Therefore , when John heard of the works Jesus was doing he knew that HIS GOD HAD COME , and there was not another to look for. ( Titus 2:11-14 ).
Rev. 1:17-18, JESUS declared HIMSELF to be THE FIRST & THE LAST ( Not the second ). ~ Rev. 1: 8 , 11 "I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the ending, saith the Lord ( JESUS ) , which is , and which was , and which is to come , THE ALMIGHTY." (Acts 4 : 10 -12).
God has given us over 4 5 6 Prophecies that point to HIS MESSIANIC MANIFESTATION. Over 3 2 1 are separate, and unmistakable. The probability of only 20 being fulfilled in JUST ONE MAN is 1 Quadrillion, 125 Trillion To 1 . Jesus fulfilled them all, except those yet to come. |