ARE YOU ONE OF THE WISE VIRGINS?

ARE YOU ONE OF THE WISE VIRGINS?
F O R E W O R D

The anticipated events of His coming describe in His parable of the Ten Virgins foreshadow the urgency of the moment and the need of readiness of every Christians in meeting our Lord Jesus. The crux of the matter lies on the readiness of having enough oil in our lamps as decisive issue whether we would be with Him in His kingdom or not. It is lamentable for those Christians among us who finds themselves lacking of oil for they will find themselves destined not to enter His Kingdom.

Today is an opportune time for us to fill our lamps with oil and have it continually lighted while remaining awake for any eventualities demanding our service. It is for this reason that we need to examine ourselves and be assured that we have sufficient oil to enter the Kingdom of God. There is nothing that could best equip us except the Word of God, especially those prophecies related to His coming and His judgment. Having a precise cognition of events as presented in scriptures bring us in closer estimation of its reality. And from its light we could draw the best preparation for ourselves as an additional oil for our lamps.

The discussion presented here are obviously indispensable truths for every Christians to know while there is still time. It is with hope that we would be found in readiness with lighted lamps and in proper apparel at His coming, together with those whom we shared some of our oil today.

TABLE OF CONTENTS
1. The Midnight Cry
2. The Oil and Light of the Lamp
3. The Foolish Virgins
4. The Wise Virgins
5. The Glorious Meeting

I. The Midnight Cry

Matt. 25:5 The bridegroom was a long time in coming, and they all became drowsy and fell asleep. 6 At midnight the cry rang out, “Here’s the bridegroom! Come out to meet him!
Who will reveal and announce publicly his coming?
Amos 3:7 Surely the Sovereign Lord does nothing without revealing his plan to his servants the prophets.
What kind of Prophet?
Matt. 24:37 As it was in the days of Noah, so it will be at the coming of the Son of man.
2 Pet. 2:5 If he did not spare the ancient world when he brought the flood on its ungodly people, but protected Noah, a preacher of righteousness and seven others.

The prophet is a preacher of righteousness that will announce the coming judgment of God and the way to meet our Lord Jesus. If Noah was the preacher of last days in the first world, even so, this prophet is the preacher for our generation to separate the righteous from the wicked, those who are to inherit the earth from those who are destined to suffer the wrath of God. As it was in the days of Noah, everyone are compelled to make a decision, if they follow they will be save but if not they will surely die in punishment.

In the prophecy of God’s coming or Jesus return prophet Isaiah reveals that it is concurrent with His reign in Zion (the chosen Church). There the watchmen or overseers were full of joy when they see that Jesus returns and begun reigning in the Church to establish it above every churches.

Is. 52:7 How beautiful on the mountains are the feet of those who bring good news, who proclaim peace who bring good tidings, who proclaim salvation, who say to Zion, “Your God reigns!”
8 Listen! Your watchmen lift up their voices, together they shout for joy. When the Lord returns to Zion they will see it with their own eyes.
Isaiah 2:2 In the last days the mountain of the Lord’s temple will be establish as chief among the mountains; it will be raised above the hills, and all nations will stream to it.

Consider the discourse of our Lord Jesus related to his coming to give rewards for his faithful servant. He comes to entrust the faithful servant with obligation to give proper food for all other servants. This faithful servant knows that Jesus comes and assigned him to his new office of responsibility where he must manage the affairs of the church as a whole, nurturing the needs of other workers of different churches to be more equip in divine service. Similarly, he becomes like a prophet or a bishop to expound the Bible truths for the edification of the whole church of God.

Luke 12:42-44 The Lord answered, “Who then is the faithful and wise manager, whom the master puts in charge of his servants to give them their food allowance at the proper time? It will be good for that servant whom the master finds doing so when he returns. I tell you the truth, he will put him in charge of all his possessions.

Hence, the coming of our Lord Jesus is more a personal experience to him, and was made known to other servants who are also watchful in waiting. These other servants will always seek to be guided of new revelations coming from God, knowing his privilege to be within the Kingdom God is at hand. However, those who are not faithful and not watchful may consider such testimonies of God’s coming dubious, and more likely to become unbelievers as was foretold to happened to them. Because He comes in the time they do not expect Him.

Luke 12:45-46 But suppose the servant says to himself, “My master is taking a long time in coming, and he then begins to beat the menservants and maidservants and to eat and drink and get drunk. The master of that servant will come on a day when he does not expect him and at an hour he is not aware of. He will cut him to pieces and assign him a place with the unbelievers.

These event of entrusting authority over other servants from God, is in reality quite ridiculous to other pastors or workers who knows not the mysteries of high calling of God for the prophets and overseers. Since many of them were his colleagues in the vineyard of the Lord, hardly would they readily accept it without much reproach. The same was experience by prophet Jeremiah with his co-workers or with other priests. Jer. 28.

The midnight cry will come first as a testimony of the prophet or chosen pastor that would cause much dissension among church workers and believers, not only because of the impending danger but of new revelations of truth from God that dismantle every false teachings and doctrines of many churches already long establish. Then the Pastor’s divine authority and heavenly anointing be clearly manifest to confirm such truth of revelation is from God. And the church of God will outshines all other churches in glory.

II. The Oil and Light of the Lamp
In the vision given to Prophet Zechariah there is an illustration of golden lampstand with a bowl and two olive trees beside it, wherein the seven lights of the lamp are being provided with golden oil coming from the two olive branches of these trees.
Zec. 4:2-3 He asked me, “What do you see?”I answered, I see a gold lampstand with a bowl at the top and seven lights on it, seven channels to the lights. Also there are two olive trees by it, one on the right of the bowl and the other on its left.”
Zec. 4:11-14 Then I asked the angel,”What ere these two olive trees on the right and the left of the lampstand?” Again I asked him, “What are these two olive branches beside the two gold pipes that pour golden oil?”He replied, “Do you not know what these are?”No, my lord,”I said. So he said, “These are the two who are anointed to (or two who bring oil and ) serve the Lord of all the earth.”
Rev. 11:1-4 I was given a reed like a measuring rod and was told, “Go and measure the temple of God and the altar, and count the worshipers there. But exclude the outer court; do not measure it because it has been given to the Gentiles. They will trample on the holy city for 42 months. And I will give power to my two witnesses and they will prophecy for 1,260 days, clothed in sackcloth. These are the two olive trees and the two lampstands that stand before the Lord of the earth.

These two witnesses will enforce the disciplines of our Lord Jesus in Matthew 5-7 to every followers that they may enter the narrow gate of God’s Kingdom and be with God. The austerity of discipleship teachings of carrying one’s cross in following Jesus as a measuring rod of true righteousness inside the church of God will be exhibited in full light of its glory. As it is written in prophecy of Isaiah the discipline for every followers of THE WORD OF GOD.

Is. 62:10-12 Pass through, pass through the gates! Prepare the way for the people. Build up, build up the highway! Remove the stones. Raise a banner for the nations. The LORD has made proclamation to the ends of the earth: “Say to the Daughter of Zion, “See, your Saviour comes!”See his reward is with him, and his recompense accompanies him.” They will be called the Holy people, the Redeemed of the Lord; and you will be called Sought After, the City No Longer Deserted.”

However, as forecast “many will try to enter and will not be able to”. (Lk. 13:24). Perhaps by reasons of pride and worldly involvements if not unstable in faith and deep rooted iniquities. While others were stumbled in darkness of calumnies incited by those who failed to enter. Because of sharp rebuke against their misdeeds, they in return insinuated discord and hatred. Notwithstanding the grave repercussions of their doings, they imputed these adversities against the prophets. Altogether with other Church leaders who where blind and very much in derision because of their failure to teach the true righteousness, contrive to bring false charges against the two witnesses.

Rev. 11:10 The inhabitants of the earth will gloat them and will celebrate by sending each other gifts, because these two prophets had tormented those who live on the earth.

Those who remain faithful much knowledge were bestowed, until the mysteries of the Kingdom of heaven was unfolded to them and its bounties were entrusted to them. Unlike to other Christians (outer court) outside the disciplines of the church, being feeble in Spirit cannot withstand the persecutions of the world, and therefore they were overcome.

Matt. 13:11 He replied, “The knowledge of the secrets of the kingdom of heaven has been given to you, but not to them.
Matt. 13:13 This is why I speak to them in parables; Though seeing, they do not see, though hearing, they do not hear or understand.

They do not understand that other churches outside are places were the other five virgins seek to buy some oil. Wherein the discipline there cannot bring the right harvest in due season. And perhaps some of them are not real children but rather bastards. The world cannot hate them because they are more with the world than of heaven. Hence, they are more a children of the world than of God.
Jer. 8:20 The harvest is past, the summer has ended, and we are not saved.
Heb. 12:8 If you are not disciplined (and everyone undergoes discipline), then you are illegitimate children and not true sons.
Hos. 5:7 They are unfaithful to the Lord; they give birth to illegitimate children.

As it was their destiny to suffer the wrath of God, being unprepared they remain faithful to their respective churches that imprisons their soul to lack of knowledge. They are comparable to a woman who cannot give a proper birth to their children, their church is full of confusion and without peace, they stumble because of THE WORD OF GOD.

1 Pet. 2:8 and a stone that causes men to stumble and a rock that makes fall.” They stumble because they disobey the message – which is also what they were destined for.
Hos.4:6 So I will destroy your mother – my people are destroyed from lack of knowledge. Because you have rejected knowledge, I also reject you as my priests; because you have ignored the law of your God, I also will ignore your children.
Gal. 4:19 My dear children, for whom I am again in the pains of childbirth until Christ is formed in you…
Mic. 7:4 The best of them is like a brier, the most upright worse than a thorn hedge. The day of your watchmen has come, the day God visits you. Now is the time of your confusion.

III. The Foolish Virgins

Matt. 25:8-13 The foolish ones said to the wise, Give us some of your oil: our lamps are going out.”No they replied; there may not be enough for both of us and you. Instead, go to those who sell oil and buy some for yourselves. But while they were on their way to buy the oil, the bridegroom arrived. The virgins who were ready went in with him to the wedding banquet. And the door went in with him to the wedding banquet. And the door was shut.”Later the others also came. “Sir! Sir! They said. Open the door for us! But he replied, I tell you the truth, I don’t know you. Therefore keep watch, because you do not know the day or the hour.

Their unpreparedness cause them delay to be outside of God’s grace. Their effort of preparations turned futile and their pleadings denied. Should they have known some prophecies about the coming of God somehow they might at least have prepared before the time.

Let us examine our standing in the judgments of the holy scriptures and know the needs of preparations we must have in meeting the Lord. That we may not be found not in proper apparel and be disgrace.

WHO IS COMING?

Isaiah 44:6 Thus, say’s Israel’s King and his redeemer, Yahweh Sabaoth: I am the First and the Last: there is no other God besides me (Jerusalem Bible)
Rev. 4:8 Holy, holy, holy, is the Lord God Almighty who was, and is and is to come.
Rev. 4:11 You are worthy, our Lord and God, to receive glory and honor and power for you created all things, and by your power will they were created and have their being.
Matt. 12:8 For the Son of man is the Lord of the Sabbath.
Rev. 21:6-8 He said to me: It is done. I am the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End. To him who is thirty I will give to drink without cost from the spring of the water of life. He who overcomes will inherit all this, and I will be his God and he will be my son. But the cowardly, the unbelieving, the vile, the murderers, the sexually immoral, those who practice magic arts, the idolaters and all liars – their place will be in the fiery lake of burning sulfur. This is the second death.
Rev. 22: 12-16 Behold, I am coming soon! My reward is with me, and I will give to everyone according to what he has done. I am the Alpha and the Omega, the First and the Last, the Beginning and the End. "Blessed are those who wash their robes, that they may have the right to the tree of life and may go through the gates into the city. Outside are the dogs, those who practice magic arts, the sexually immoral, the murderers, the idolaters and everyone who loves and practices falsehood. “I, Jesus, have sent my angel to give you[a] this testimony for the churches. I am the Root and the Offspring of David, and the bright Morning Star.”

The Lord God Almighty, Yahweh Sabaoth, the Lord of Sabbath, Jesus Christ himself will come as a Father of every Christians that becomes victorious in the great battle of THE WORD OF GOD. He being the Lord of Sabbath will demand worship and obedience to his very words at his coming. Therefore those foolish virgins being unprepared understand not their regular worship every Sunday is an expression of revolt or war against His Kingship and His Chosen Church. They cannot ofcourse be accepted in His Kingdom since their punishment is death.

James 2:10 For whoever keeps the whole law and yet stumbles at just one point is guilty of breaking all of it.
Exo. 31:15 For six days, work is to be done, but the seventh day is a Sabbath of rest, holy to the Lord. Whoever does any work on the Sabbath day must be put to death.

WHY DID HE COMES?

- He comes to save those who believes in Him.
Heb. 9:28 …he will appear a second time, not to bear sin, but to bring salvation to those who are waiting for him.

Assurance of salvation depends upon how will you response at his coming. However, the foolish virgins believes that their oil is enough only to realize at the last moment the danger of having no reserve oil in meeting their master. The same is true to many Christians confessing they are save already without making a serious study on Biblical prophecies; that is why they do not know the time of war, and was taken captive by the deceivers.

- He comes to bring justice to his faithful followers.

Luke 18:8 I tell you, he will see that they get justice and quickly. However when the Son of Man comes, will he find faith on the earth?

The church of God comes bearing his name THE WORD OF GOD fulfilling the mission of giving justice to the oppress, spreads the truth of His words that every Christians be freed from the shackels of their oppressors the blind pastors and teachers of His words. Yet, who are not cowards to free themselves and be not continually deceived. Their faith to be save must be accompanied with their works, otherwise it is not reliable. But, the foolish virgins will still believes salvation is theirs because of their blindness, seeking the intercessions of blind workers not to stumble in the dark. They wait to see the Son of Man without purity of heart and without faith. And perceive not that it is Christ’s spirit that leads his church to victory against their blind leaders.

Isaiah 3:13 -14 The Lord takes his place in court: he rises to judge the people. The Lord enters into judgment against the elders and leaders of his people:”It is you who have ruined my vineyard,”
Isaiah 28:5-6 In that day the Lord Almighty will be a glorious crown, a beautiful wreath for the remnant of his people. He will be a spirit of justice to him who sits in judgment, a source of strength to those who turn back the battle at the gate.”

- He comes to bring the punishment of fire and sword.

Isaiah 66:15-17 Forsee, the Lord will come with fire and with swift chariots of doom to pour out the fury of his anger and his hot rebuke with flames of fire. For the Lord will punish the world by fire and by his sword, and the slain of the Lord shall be many. Those who worship idols that are hidden behind a tree in the garden, feasting there on pork and mouse and all forbidden meat – they will come to an evil end, say Jehovah. (Living Bible version)
Isaiah 66:16-17 For by fire will Yahweh execute judgment, and by his sword against all mankind. The victims of Yahweh will be many. As for those who sanctify themselves and purify themselves to enter the gardens, following the one in the center (procession of idolatry), who eat the flesh of pigs, reptiles, rats: their deeds and their thoughts shall end all at once – it is Yahweh who speaks. (Jerusalem Bible)

The majority of Christians were unaware that everyone must be found walking in holiness at his coming. Ever since, the time of apostle Paul the grace of God through his works are commanding us to be holy before Him. As apostle Paul’s appeal to them in his writings:

Rom. 14:9-13 For this very reason, Christ died and returned to life so that he might be the Lord of both the dead and the living. You, then why do you judge your brother? Or why do you look down on your brother? For we will all stand before God’s judgment seat. It is written: Äs surely as I live says the Lord, every knee will bow before me, every tongue will confess to God. So then each of us will give account of himself to God. Therefore let us stop passing judgment on one another. Instead, make up your mind not to put any stumbling block or obstacle in your brother’s way.
Rom. 14:20 Do not destroy the work of God for the sake of food. All food is clean, but it is wrong for a man to eat anything that causes someone else to stumble. It is better not to eat meat or drink wine or to do anything else that will cause your brothers to fall.

So as not to cause your brothers to fall let us follow strickly this teaching of not eating meat abominable to God and keep away from intrigues on issues of unclean food that results to disputes. However, those who would like to be among the foolish virgins, will reason out that all food is clean and nothing is it be dread about unclean food on judgment day. They misunderstood the permitted period of God’s grace for the Gentiles in matters of food nor they did follow the advice of apostle Paul while waiting God’s judgment day. Therefore, because of lack of oil, this coming of God is to them a punishment of fire and sword for considering pig, rats and other forbidden meat as clean in the sight of God to be eaten. Perhaps, they regard this passage of Isaiah as something already past. Notwithstanding the following verse is not yet fulfilled.

Isaiah 66:18 And I, because of their actions and their imaginations, am about to come and gather all nations and tongues, and they will come and see my glory.

- He comes to gather the consecrated ones.

Ps. 50 :3-5 Our God comes and will not be silent him, and around him a tempest rages. He summons the heaves above and the earth, that he may judge his people: “Gather to me my consecrated ones, who made a covenant with me by sacrifice.”
Ps.50:14-17 Sacrifice thank offerings to God, fulfill your vows to the Most High and call upon me in the day of trouble: I will deliver you, and you will honor me.” But to the wicked, God says: What right have you to recite my laws or take my covenant on your mouth?

Those who are consecrating themselves to be pure and not eating forbidden meat will gather themselves together and fulfill their vows to serve and honor the Lord with their gifts and thanksgiving. However, the foolish virgins will not join them in consecration instead become more disagreeable and hostile towards their concerns. They will not regard that the words of Isaiah is being fulfilled against them.

Isaiah 66:5 Hear the word of the Lord, you who tremble at his word: “Your brothers who hate you and exclude you because of my name (THE WORD OF GOD) have said, “Let the Lord be glorified that they may see your joy! Yet they will be put to shame.

Hence, THE WORD OF GOD comes to gather and consecrate the saints with their gifts (Exo. 23:15) in celebration of the Feast of Tabernacles in these last days. That they may not be affected of the coming plague which will strike all nations that go against His Chosen Church.

Zec. 14:16-17 Then the survivors from all the nations that have attacked Jerusalem will go up year after year to worship the King, the Lord Almighty, and to celebrate the Feast of Tabernacles. If any peoples of the earth do not go up to Jerusalem to worship the King, the Lord Almighty, they will have no rain.
Zec.14: 12-13 This is the plague with which the Lord will strike all nations that fought against Jerusalem: Their flesh will rot while they are still standing on their feet, their eyes will rot in the socket and their tongues will rot in their mouths. On that day men will be stricken by the Lord with great panic. Each man will seize the hand of another and they will attack each other. (The blast of nuclear explosion and coming widespread violence.)

IV. The Wise Virgins.

- They will leave the blind guides.

Matt. 15:13-14 He replied, Every plant that my heavenly Father has not planted will be pulled up by the roots. Leave them, they are blind guides. If a blind man leads a blind man, both will fall into a pit.

Those Church workers who promotes Sunday worship than Saturday (Sabbath day) are worshiping in vain, because it is but rules taught by men and tradition.

Matt. 15:6-9 Thus you nullify the word of God for the sake of your tradition. You hypocrite! Isaiah was right when he prophesied about you. “These people honor me with their lips but their hearts are far from me. They worship me in vain: their teachings are but rules taught by men.”

- They bring others out of the pit.

Matt. 12:11-12 He said to them,”If any of you has a sheep and it falls into a pit, on the Sabbath, will you not take hold of it and lift it out? How much more valuable is a man than a sheep. Therefore it is lawful to do good on the Sabbath.”
Inviting others for Sabbath day worship and Bible Study, consecrating ourselves for the Lord and honoring this day holy is to bring others out of the pit.

- They bear fruits of the Holy Spirit.

Matt. 7:19-20 Every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire, thus, by their fruit you will recognize them.
Gal. 5:22-23 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self control. Against such things there is no law. Those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the sinful nature.

- They help and share food and clothings and inviting their brothers in their home.

Matt.25:35 For I was hungry and you gave me something to eat. I was thirsty and you gave me something to drink, I was a stranger and you invited me in. I needed clothes and clothed me, I was sick and you looked after me, I was in prison and you came to visit me.
Matt.25:40 The King will reply I tell you the truth, whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers of mine, you did it for me.

- They will follow his prophets

Matt. 13:46 When he found one great value, he went away and sold everything he had and bought it.
Matt. 10:41 Anyone who receives a prophet because he is a prophet will receive a prophets rewards…

Remember prophet Elisha, he is always following prophet Elijah before he was given an authority and power from God. The same is true to Jesus disciples, they were given an authority to judge the whole Israel.

- They come to His (Chosen Church) THE WORD OF GOD

Isaiah 2:2-3 In the last days the mountain of the Lord’s temple will be established as chief among the mountains; it will be raised above the hills, and all nations will stream to it. Many peoples will come and say, Come, let us go up to the mountain of the Lord, to the house of the God of Jacob. He will teach us his ways, so that we may walk in his paths. The law will go out from Zion, the word of the Lord from Jerusalem. (The dwelling place of His Divine presence)

- They are servants of the Lord.

Mal. 3:14-18 “You have said, Ït is futile to serve the God. What did we gain in carrying out his requirements and going about like mourners before the Lord Almighty? But now we call the arrogant blessed. Certainly the evil doers prosper, and even those who challenge God escape.” Then those who feared the Lord talked with each other, and the Lord listened and heard. A scroll of rememberance was written in his presence concerning those who feared the Lord and honored his name.
They will be mine, “says the Lord Almighty, in the day when I make up me treasured possession. I will spare them, just as in compassion a man spares his own son who serves him . And you will again see the distinction between the righteous and the wicked, between those who serve God and those who do not.

The wise virgins knows that they must be found in service as soldiers of THE WORD OF GOD, since those who will not be servants will be numbered with the wicked or be regarded as blind knowing not where to go to meet our Lord. Should they have known the way, they would atleast be helping in gathering.

Matt. 12:30 He who is not with me is against me, and he who does not gather with me scatters.

- They are followers of Truth.

2 Cor. 18:8 For we cannot do anything against truth, but only for the truth.
The wise knows they must be advocates and defender of truth. Should they become advocates of false they are deceivers themselves and commits a sin of idolatry. Thus, those servants who promotes Sunday and remaining faithful to their church are committing a sin of idolatry, honoring the church against truth.

V. The Glorious Meeting

Prov. 4: 18-19 The path of the righteous is like the first gleam of dawn, shining ever brighter till the full light of day. But the way of the wicked is like deep darkness: they do not know what makes them stumble.
Isaiah 60:1-2 Arise, shine for your light has come and the glory of the Lord rises upon you. See, darkness covers the earth and thick darkness is over the peoples, but the Lord rises upon you and his glory appears over you.
Isaiah 62:1-2 For Zion’s sake I will not keep silent for Jerusalem’s sake I will not remain quiet, till her righteousness shines out like the dawn, her salvation like a blazing torch.
Isaiah 54:12-14 I will make your battlements of rubies, your gates of sparking jewels and all your walls of precious stones. All your son’s will be taught by the Lord, and great will be your children’s peace. In righteousness you will be established: Tyranny will be far from you: you will have nothing to fear. Terror will be far removed it will not come near you.
Ps. 91:14 Because he loves me, “says the Lord, I will rescue him, I will protect him for he acknowledges my name.

Our Church THE WORD OF GOD, prepares you for the glorious meeting and provide you more teachings for the coming battle of Armageddon. As it is written, so it must be fulfilled.

Zec. 10:8-9 I will signal for them and gather them in. Surely I will redeem them; they will be as numerous us before. Though I scatter them among the people, yet in distant lands they will remember me. They and their children will survive and they will return.
Zec. 10:12 I will strengthen them in the Lord and in his name they will walk, declares the Lord.
Isaiah 52:2-3 Shake off your dust: rise up, sit enthroned, O Jerusalem. Free yourself from the chains on your neck O captive daughter of Zion. For this is what the Lord says: You were sold for nothing and without money you will be redeemed.
Isaiah 60:3-4 Nations will come to your light and kings to the brightness of your dawn. Lift up your eyes and look about you; All assemble and come to you; your sons come from afar, and your daughters are carried on the arm.
Isaiah 42:16 I will lead the blind by ways they have not known along unfamiliar paths I will guide them; I will turn the darkness into light before them and make the rough places smooth. These are the things I will do: I will not forsake them.
Isaiah 33:10 “Now will I arise, “says the Lord, Now will I be exalted: now will I be lifted up.
Ps. 5:21 Woe to those who are wise in their own eyes and clever in their own sight.
Isaiah 28:13-15 The Lord says: These people comes near to me with their mouth and honor me with their lips but their hearts are far from me. Their worship of me is made up only of rules taught by men. Therefore once more I will astound these people with wonder upon wonder; the wisdom of the wise will perish, the intelligence of the intelligent will vanish. Woe to those who go to great depths to hide their plans from the Lord, who do their work in darkness and think, who sees us? Who will know?
Isaiah 13:4 Listen, a noise on the mountains (churches) like that of a great multitude! Listen an uproar among the kingdoms like nations massing together! The Lord Almighty is mustering an army for war.
Isaiah 49:24-26 Can plunder be taken from the warriors, or captives rescued from the fierce? But this is what the Lord says: “Yes, captives will be taken from warriors, and plunder retrieved from the fierce. I will contend with those who contend with you, and your children I will save.I will make your oppressors eat their own flesh; they will be drunk on their own blood, as with wine. Then all mankind will know that I, the Lord , am your Savior, your Redeemer, the Mighty One of Jacob.

These scriptures will surely come to pass says the Lord Almighty and is now at hand. Every faithful followers must be skillful in using the swords of THE WORD OF GOD, he must not be coward in fighting against false church workers. Let every captives be set free and be part in the triumphant Battle of THE WORD OF GOD.

THE FALLACY OF SUNDAY AS A DAY OF RESURRECTION

The Church as a depository of all truths about our Lord Jesus life and teachings leading us to salvation must always be guided by THE WORD OF GOD to extinguish false teachings that might invade the minds of believers resulting to confusion and suffer lack of discernment which is inimical to our spiritual growth. It is indispensable for every believer to review his own beliefs especially those fundamental truth of the gospel which in these last days become a battle ground for true Christians and false Christians, considering that we must stand before Christ bringing with us the truth of his gospel for our salvation to be judge by Him. As it is written, "There is a judge for the one who rejects me and does not accept my words; that very word which I spoke will condemn him at the last day."Jn. 12:48.

It is widely accepted by most Christians; Roman Catholic, Protestants and Evangelical Churches today that Christ’s resurrection according to accepted traditions since early centuries did occur on Sunday, thus these leads to celebration of Sunday as the Lord’s day. Asserting this day to be more highly esteemed being the day of Christ’s resurrection compared to Sabbath as a day of rest. Hence, it becomes a Christian festival for hundreds of years up to present and all churches applauded it weekly by their worship and gathering every Sunday.

Now in this study, I invite everyone to judge by himself with an open mind and earnestness to learn the messages handed to us by his apostles that we may not be presumptuous in our disposition but rather a firm defender of THE WORD OF GOD as an instrument to expound all its truth for our salvation in these great conflict which is now at hand to happened among churches. It is my prayer that we stand well equipped with these truths to defend our precious life against these false teachers blindly led by their ignorance of the gospel truths.

CRUCIFIXION OF JESUS A DAY BEFORE THE SABBATH DAY OF PASSOVER

Mk 15:42-47 It was Preparation Day (that is, the day before the Sabbath). So as evening approached, Joseph of Arimathea, a prominent member of the Council, who was himself waiting for the kingdom of God, went boldly to Pilate and asked for Jesus' body. Pilate was surprised to hear that he was already dead. Summoning the centurion, he asked him if Jesus had already died. When he learned from the centurion that it was so, he gave the body to Joseph. So Joseph bought some linen cloth, took down the body, wrapped it in the linen, and placed it in a tomb cut out of rock. Then he rolled a stone against the entrance of the tomb. Mary Magdalene and Mary the mother of Joses saw where he was laid.

This preparation day can be either any day of the week since Passover Sabbath or first day of unleavened bread which is a holiday or Sabbath may fall any day of the week. According to the Jewish law it is forbidden to have bodies of the dead remaining unburied at the outset of any Sabbath day or feast day.
Jn. 19:31 Now it was the day of Preparation, and the next day was to be a special Sabbath. Because the Jews did not want the bodies left on the crosses during Sabbath, they asked Pilate to have legs broken and the bodies taken down.
Jn.19:41 At the place where Jesus was crucified, there was a garden, and in the garden a new tomb, in which no one has ever been laid. 42 Because it was the Jewish day of Preparation and since the tomb was nearby, they laid Jesus here.
We should recognize that they count days as period from evening to evening or sunset to sunset.

Lev. 23:32 It is a Sabbath of rest for you, and you must deny yourselves. From the evening of the ninth day of the month until following evening you are to observe your Sabbath.
Gen. 1 “...the evening (night) and the morning (day)...”
Thus Jesus was buried before sunset comes on that day.

THE DAY OF RESURRECTION

Matt. 12:40 For us Jonah was three days and three nights in the belly of huge fish, so the Son of Man will be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth. (72 hours in the grave)
Matt. 27:63 ; Mk.8:31 “...after three days I will rise again” (after 72 hours he will rise again)

If Jesus was buried on Friday afternoon at 5 PM, after three days will fall on anytime after Monday afternoon at 5 PM. So it will not meet the testimony that Jesus was already risen early at dawn on Sunday.

If Jesus was buried on Thursday afternoon at 5 PM, after three days He must rise any time after Sunday at 5 PM. Again it will not agree to the testimony of our Lord Jesus.

If Jesus was buried on Wednesday afternoon at 5 PM, after three days He must rise any time after Saturday at 5 PM. These would fit to Jesus prophecy. Hence, He must have risen on Saturday not on Sunday as most Christian Churches claim.

If we suppose three days and three nights not to be exactly 72 hours by counting back from Sunday early morning before dawn, Sunday, Saturday, and Friday will be the three nights and Saturday, Friday and Thursday will be the three days. The remaining time on Thursday can hardly be regarded as one day if the burial occurs at 5 p.m. since it is only an hour left before evening.

If we suppose the after three days would mean day time only, not exactly twenty four hours for each day. Counting back from Saturday, Friday and Thursday still it would fall on Wednesday as day of burial.

Consider other scriptures:

Matt. 16:21; Lk. 24:7 “On the third day be raise to life...”
The third day would mean anytime during day time of the third day.
If he rise on Sunday the day would start past dawn of early morning and this would mean He was crucified on Thursday afternoon. However according to the gospel of John it was still dark that Mary went to the tomb and found that the body of Jesus was not there.

Jn. 20:1 – 2 Early on the first day of the week, while it was still dark, Mary Magdalene went to the tomb and saw that the stone had been removed from the entrance. So she came running to Simon Peter and the other disciple, the one Jesus loved (John) and said, “They have taken the Lord out of the tomb, and we do not know where they have put him!

The idea that He has risen on third day after dawn of early morning of Sunday is not consistent with the testimony of Mary which happened before dawn, instead it would be on any day time of Saturday. Hence on account of Luke it was announced to them by the angel of the Lord that Jesus had already risen from the dead. Furthermore, we should consider the testimony of John more credible since he is personally present on that early morning event with Peter and Mary Magdalene.

If he rise on Saturday the day would be anytime during day time even it is after 5 PM. And the passage that He rose from the dead on third day is still valid considering it is still day time even it is already after 72 hours (three days). Even there is no one have seen that he had already risen on that hour before evening, the prophecy fulfilled accordingly.

If we would refer third day not to mean day time only but any time after the second day, the first two days or 48 hours would end on Friday early morning and the third day would be anytime on the Thursday as a burial day which will be inconsistent to other scriptures mentioning “after three days I will rise again”.

Let us presume that he rose on Saturday evening or Sunday morning before Mary make her visit. The prophecy on the third day will end on Wednesday evening or Thursday morning respectively, making his burial on Thursday. Again this cannot meet the after three days condition of resurrection.

Let us examine Lk: 24:21 the conversation of Cleopas with Jesus.

Lk. 24:20-23 The chief priests and our rulers handed him to be sentenced to death, and they crucified him; but we had hoped that he was the one who was going to redeem Israel. And what is more, it is the third day since all this took place. In addition some of our women amazed us. They went to the tomb early this morning, but didn’t find his body.

In other translation it states, “...and beside all this, today is the third day since these things were done.”

The phrase “since all these took place” or “since these things were done” and “beside all this” refers to all events related to the crucifixion. The verses 18-20 describe the particulars of what happened referred “by all this or these things” to be Christ’s crucifixion and all things related to His burial including the setting of guards to watch over His tomb that happened on Thursday (Sabbath, 1st day of Unleavened Bread of Passover Festival).

Matt. 27:62-65 The next day, the one after the Preparation Day, the chief priests and the Pharisees went to Pilate. “Sir,” they said, “we remember that while he was still alive that deceiver said, “After three days I will rise again.” So give the order for the tomb to be made secure until the third day. Otherwise, his disciples may come and steal the body and tell the people that he has been raised from the dead. This last deception will be worse than the first.” “Take a guard,” Pilate answered. “Go, make the tomb as secure by putting a seal on the stone and posting the guard.”

In other translation; “On the next day, which followed the Day of Preparation, the chief priests and Pharisees gathered together to Pilate, saying, “Sir, we remember, while He was still alive, how that deceiver said, “After three days I will rise.” Therefore command that the tomb be made secure until the third day, lest his disciples come by night and steal Him away, and say to the people, “He has risen from the dead. So the last deception will be worse than the first.”
It was Thursday that this happened and they are to guard the tomb from whole day Thursday with three nights of Thursday, Friday and Saturday. Considering the term is “after three days I will rise again” it must be guarded attentively on Saturday afternoon and after (referring after three days).

The discussion of resurrection happened on Sunday after the visitation of the tomb, is the third day since all this took place or where done as mentioned by Cleopas.
If we are to regard the event of burial on Thursday afternoon the guards were to secure the tomb from whole day Friday with three nights of Friday, Saturday and Sunday. Making Sunday evening the most critical time should nothing happened on the first two evenings. However, early morning of Sunday Mary testified that the tomb was already empty. The testimony of Jesus as known by Pharisees did not come true should he rose not after three days if we start the counting on Thursday afternoon.
Why did Mary Magdalene brought the spices on Sunday morning?
Because it was not allowed to work during Saturday being the Sabbath rest. And perhaps the guards on Friday did not allow them because of the instruction to guard it in three days.

The earthquake and the coming of Angel.

Matt. 28:2-6 And behold there was a great earthquake; for an angel of the Lord descended from heaven, and came and rolled back the stone from the door, and sat on it. His countenance was like lightning, and his clothing as white as snow. And the guards shook for fear of him, and became like dead men. But the angel answered and said to the women, “ Do not be afraid, for I know that you seek Jesus who was crucified.” “He is not here; for He is risen, as He said. Come, see the place where the Lord lay.”

Jesus Christ is not there early in the morning of Sunday. The tomb was opened by the angel to show them that Jesus is already risen and not to be found inside the tomb. This event indicate that he has risen before the stone was opened.

PROPHECY OF PROPHET DANIEL WAS FULFILLED

The prophecy that the Messiah will be cut off “in the middle of the week” did happened; it was Wednesday (fourth day middle of seven days) that Jesus was crucified after his three and a half years of ministry. If we consider the biblical application of “a day for a year” (Ezek. 4:6) to be applied in the prophecy of prophet Daniel regarding the atonement of sin by the Anointed One in Dan.9:24-27.
Therefore, only Wednesday as the day of burial and Saturday as the day of resurrection of our Lord Jesus meets all the conditions of the holy scriptures. Whether we use Hebrew day counting or our present day time counting that ends at 12 evening, Saturday remains the day of resurrection.

Christian festival for resurrection must be celebrated on SATURDAY not Sunday. Saturday should be our regular day of worship in commemorating the resurrection of our Lord Jesus.

WHAT ARE THE BASIS OF SUNDAY WORSHIP CELEBRATION?

The gospel truths tells that “Jesus is risen” was announced by an angel on Sunday, which can also mean “the news of resurrection on Sunday.” But it is only a news of resurrection not “the day of resurrection.” Therefore there is no scriptural basis that he resurrected on Sunday. Since there is no scriptural basis for Sunday celebration it must be discarded in the Christian festivals.
If the scriptural basis of Sunday worship is uncertain, the following verses is more likely the firm grounds for its defence according to the scriptures.

PROPHECY FULFILLED ABOUT THE CHANGE OF THE LAW

Pope John Paul II on his Apostolic Letter Dies Domini writes:
In the first place, therefore, Sunday is the day of rest because it is the day “blessed” by God and “made holy” by him, set apart from the other days to be, among all of them, “the Lord’s Day”. We move from the “Sabbath” to the “first day after the Sabbath”, from the seventh day to the first day: the dies Domini becomes the dies Christi!
“Christians will naturally strive to ensure that civil legislation respects their duty to keep Sunday holy.”

Dan 7:25 He will speak against the Most High and oppress his saints and try to change the set times and laws.

2 Thess. 2:9-12 The coming of the lawless one will be in accordance with the work of Satan displayed in all kinds of counterfeit miracles, signs and wonders, and in every sort of evil that deceives those who are perishing. They perish because they refused to love the truth and so be saved. For this reason God sends them a powerful delusion so that they may believe the lie and so all will be condemned who have not believed the truth but have delighted in wickedness.

1 John 3:4 Everyone who sins breaks the law; in fact, sin is lawlessness.

Matt. 5:17 Do not think that I have come to abolish the law or the Prophets. I have not come to abolish them but to fulfill them. 18 I tell you the truth until heaven and earth disappear, not the smallest letter, not the least stroke of pen, will by any means disappear from the law until everything is accomplished. 19 Anyone who breaks one of the least of these commandments and teaches others to do the same will be called least in the kingdom of heaven, but whoever practices and teaches these commands will be called great in the kingdom of heaven.

Matt. 15:8 These people honor me with their lips; but their hearts are far from me. 9 They worship me in vain, their teachings are but rules taught by man.

John 7:16 Jesus answered, “My teaching is not my own. It comes from him who sent me.17 If anyone choose to do God’s will he will find out whether my teaching comes from God or whether I speak on my own. 18 He who speaks on his own does so to gain honor for himself, but he who works for the honor of the one who sent him is a man of truth there is nothing false about him. 19 Has not Moses given you the law. Yet not one of you keeps the Law.

Rev. 19:19 Then I saw the beast and the kings of the earth and their armies gathered together to make war against the rider on the horse and his army. 20 But the beast was captured, with him the false prophet who had performed the miraculous signs on his behalf. With these signs he had deluded those who had received the mark of the beast and worshiped his image.

Mal. 4:1 “Surely the day is coming; it will burn like a furnace. All the arrogant and every evildoer will be stubble, and that day that is coming will set them on fire,” says the LORD Almighty. “Not a root or a branch will be left to them. 2 But for you who revere my name, the sun of righteousness will rise with healing in its wings. And you will go out and leap like calves released from the stall. 3 Then you will trample down the wicked; they will be ashes “Remember the law of my servant Moses, the decrees and laws I gave him at Horeb for all Israel.

Hos. 4:6 ...my people are destroyed from lack of knowledge. “Because you have rejected knowledge, I reject you as my priests; because you have ignored the law of your God, I also will ignore your children.


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SCRIPTURAL PROOF THAT JESUS IS GOD

"Come now, let us reason together," says the LORD
- Isaiah 1:18
"It is written: Man does not live on bread alone, but
on every word that comes from the mouth of God."
- Matthew 4:4
"...my people are destroyed from lack of knowledge.
Because you have rejected knowledge, I also reject
you as my priests; because you have ignored the
law of your God, I will also ignore your children."
- Hosea 4:6
TABLE OF CONTENTS
I. JESUS TESTIMONY AS GOD IN THE GOSPEL
II. APOSTLES TESTIMONY ON JESUS AS GOD
III. JESUS OWN TESTIMONY THAT HE IS GOD
IN THE BOOK OF REVELATION
IV. JESUS CHRIST DIVINE NAMES AS THE FATHER
AND HIS ATTRIBUTES
V. THE WORD BECAME FLESH
VI. COMMENTARY ON HOLY IMAGES

I. JESUS TESTIMONY AS GOD IN THE GOSPEL
Mt. 5:11 blessed are you when people insult you, persecute you and falsely say all kinds of evil against you because of me. 12 Rejoice and be glad, because great is your reward in heaven, for in the same way they persecuted the prophets who are before you.
The prophets were persecuted because they are saying God's words and defending the truth of God and His laws. Thus, Jesus present himself as God in describing the condition of his servants same as the prophets.
Mt. 5:38 "You have heard that it was said, 'Eye for eye, and tooth for tooth.' 39 But I tell you. Do not resist an evil person. If someone strikes you on the right cheek, turn to him the other also."
This discipline of the Law of Moses regarding fairness in judgement was altered by Jesus to a more self sacrificing attitude of non resistance. It is an accepted truth that no one can alter the Law of Moses except God who commanded it. Jesus is simply acting in his own authority as God.
Mt. 7:21 "Not everyone says, 'Lord, Lord,' will enter the kingdom of heaven, but only he who does the will of my Father who is in heaven. 22 Many will say to me that day 'Lord, Lord did we not prophesy in your name..."
The word "Lord" in original greek word is kurius from another word kuros (supremacy), supreme authority, - God, Lord, master. Hence Jesus refering himself as God in this verse.
Mt. 9:15 Jesus answered; “How can the guests of the bridegroom mourn while he is with them? “The
time will come when the bridegroom will be taken from them; and then they will fast.”

In the Old testament teachings the bridegroom refers no other than God himself (Is. 54:5-10) as a Holy One and redeemer of Israel who is calling them back for his everlasting covenant of peace. This will take place when her sons will be taught by God (is. 54:13). Referring to the believers as the sons of the New Jerusalem.

Mt. 10:37 Anyone who loves his father or mother more than me is not worthy of me; anyone who loves his son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me. 38 and anyone who does not take his cross and follow me is not worthy of me. Whoever finds his life will lose it and whoever losses his life for my sake will find it.

The demand of loving more than his parents or his son or daughter is only assign to God. Not even prophets in O.T. demand such king of loyalty. Abraham and the Levites exemplified this loyalty to God. (Gen 22:10-12, Exo. 32:27-29), Furthermore is to die for someone, this is only justified if it is done for God who alone can bring back the life.

Mt. 11:3 “ Are you the one who was to come, or should we expect someone else? {John’s disciples question). 4 Jesus replied, “ Go back and report to John what you hear and see. The blind receive sight, the lame walk, those who have leprosy are cured, the deaf hear, the dead are raised and good news is preached to the poor. Blessed is the man who does not fall away on account of me.”

Isaiah’s prophecy : Coming of God to heal.
Is. 35:2 …They will see the glory of the LORD, the splendor of our God.
Is. 35:4 …your God will come, he will come with vengeance; with divine retribution he will come to save you.” 5 Then will the eyes of the blind be opened and the ears of the deaf unstopped. 6 Then will the lame leap like a deer, and the mute tongue shout for joy.

Fulfillment according to the Gospel of Luke regarding John the Baptist and God’s coming:
Lk. 3:4 As is written in the book of the words of Isaiah the prophet: “A voice of one calling in the desert,
‘Prepare the way for the Lord, make straight path for him. 5 Very valley shall be filled in every mountain and hill made low. The crooked roads shall become straight the rough ways smooth 6 And all mankind will see God’s salvation.’

This prophecy of healings were all fulfilled in the coming of our Lord Jesus. They did see God in person as prophesied otherwise if he comes in Spirit they cannot see him.

Mt. 11:10 This is the one about whom it is written, “I will send my messenger ahead of you , who will prepare your way before you .”
Jesus altered the wordings of prophecy regarding the coming of God and make it to refer to himself. (read Mal. 2:17-3:1). People are asking where is God and God said He will come as Lord in answer to the demand of the people. Here Jesus directly quoted it to make clear that he is God.

Mal. 2:17 “Where is the God of justice?
Mal. 3:1 “See, I will send my message, who will prepare the way before me. Then suddenly the Lord you are seeking will come to his temple; the messenger of the covenant whom you desire will come,” says the LORD Almighty.
Lk. 1:76 And you, my child, will be called a prophet of the most High; for you will go on before the Lord to prepare the way for him…

Note the use of word that LORD Almighty will come as Lord. Indeed Jesus comes as Lord.
According to John’s testimony he is the voice of one calling in the desert, “Make straight the way for the Lord.” (Jn. 1:23); John is fulfilling the prophecy of Isaiah in chapter 40. Where it is also mentioned in the same chapter the description of the coming of God as a shepherd tending his flock.

Is. 40:9 You who bring good tidings to Jerusalem, lift up your voice with a shout, lift it up do not be afraid; says to the towns of Judah, “Here is your God.” 10 See, the Sovereign Lord comes with power, and his arm rules for him. See, his reward is with him and his recompense accompanies him. He sends his flock like a shepherd: He gathers the lambs in his arms and carries them close to his heart; he gently leads those that have young.

Clearly Jesus fulfilled this prophecy as he is with his disciples.

Mt. 12:6-8 I tell you that one greater than the temple is here. If you had known what these words mean, “I desire mercy, not sacrifice”, you would not have condemned the innocent. For the Son of Man is Lord of the Sabbath.

Jesus quoted the verse from the book of Hosea to give an idea why he said “that one greater than the temple is here”. Examine the verse:
Hos. 6:6 “For I desire mercy, not sacrifice, and acknowledgement of God rather than burnt offerings.”

Hence, he conclude that the Son of Man is the Lord of the Sabbath. Which is also to say he is God and whatever his followers did on Sabbath, he is there who has the right to judge. That not even the Pharisees should question.

Mt. 13:41 The Son of Man will send his angels,, and they will weed out of his kingdom everything that causes sin and who do evil.

Only God has angels and can give orders to the angels.

Mt. 16:19 I will give you the keys of the kingdom of heaven…

No one can give the keys of the kingdom of Heaven, not a prophet nor angel except God.

Mt. 18:20 For where two or three came together in my name, there am I with them.

This is impossible to any man, but nothing is impossible to God.

Mt. 21:13 “It is written”, he said, ‘My house will be called a house of prayer.” But you are making it a den of robbers.”
Jesus confirms in scripture that the temple was his house the very reason he drove out all who were buying and selling there. It is known that this is God’s temple or house of God.

Mt. 22:43 He said to them, “How is then that David, speaking by the Spirit, calls him ‘Lord’? For he says, 44 The Lord said to my Lord: “Sit at my right hand until I put your enemies under your feet.”
Jesus testifying that he is God as David address the Christ as Lord same as God as Lord.

Mt. 23:37 O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, you who kill the prophets and stone those sent to you, how often I have longed to gather your children together, as hen chicks under her wings, but you are not willing.

It is understood that the act of God in sending his prophets is always God’s way of gathering is people to be with him. This very act was testified by Jesus as his very own.

Mt. 24:30 They will see the Son of man coming on the clouds of the sky, with power and glory. 31 And he will send his angels with a loud trumpet call, and they will gather his elect from the four winds, from one end of the heavens to the other.

The last day judgement foretold in Zec. 14:5 and Jude 14 is the coming of God and his angels. This event was interpreted by Jesus as his coming with his angels. Since Jesus made it clear that the Father judges no one because it was already entrusted to him. (Jn. 5:22).

Lk. 4:8 Jesus answered, “It is written: ‘Worship the Lord your God and serve him only.’ “
Lk. 4:12 Jesus answered, “It says: ‘Do not put the Lord your God to the test!”

Jesus commanded Satan to worship the Lord and serve him only. Then rebuke him because Satan is deceiving him by putting him to the test. Hence, Jesus reprimand him that he is the Lord and God that must not put to the test.

Lk. 4:18 The Spirit of the Lord is on me, because he has anointed me to preach the good news to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim freedom for the prisoners and recovery of sight to the blind, to release the oppressed, 19 to proclaim the year of the Lord’s favor.

Jesus is verifying himself as Lord by proving that his spirit is not a spirit of man but a Spirit of God; and as a messenger to prove that the fulfillment of prophecy in mal. 3:1 were the LORD Almighty promised to come as Lord and messenger. Wherein the LORD Almighty gives his answer to the people who are asking, “Where is the God of Justice?” (see verse Mal. 2:17)

Mal. 2:17 “Where is the God of justice?”
Mal. 3:1 “…then suddenly the Lord you are seeking will come to his temple; the messenger of the covenant, whom you desire, will come, says the LORD Almighty.
Lk. 7:48 Then Jesus said to her, “Your sins are forgiven.”

In the Old Testament only God can forgive sins that is why this statement was regarded by the Jews as blasphemy. (Jer. 31:34). Israel was instructed to give sin offerings for the forgiveness of their sins that even the prophets and priests must abide.

Lk. 12:49 I have come to bring fire on the earth and how I wish it were already kindled!

In prophecy it is God would set them on fire.
Is. 27:4 I would set them on fire.
Mal. 4:3 Then you will trample down the wicked; they will be ashes under your feet on the day when I do these things,” says the LORD Almighty

Lk. 8:39 “Return home and tell how much God has done for you.”

Jesus command to spread the good news of healing that he has done as God.

Lk. 9:48 “…and whoever welcomes me welcomes the one who sent me.”
Lk. 10:16 “…but he who rejects me rejects him who sent me”
Jn.13:20 “…whoever accepts me accepts the one who sent me.”
Jn. 15:23 He who hates me hates my Father as well.
Jn. 14:7 If you really knew me you would know my Father as well. From now on, you do know him and have seen him. 9 Anyone who has seen me has seen the Father.

These wordings of our Lord Jesus confirms that he is indeed the Father.

Lk. 18:19 “Why do you call me good?” Jesus answered. “ No one is good-except God alone.

This is not a negative statement for his being God. Instead Jesus further establish the truth of truth of the statement given to address him. Because He is God he indeed alone is good.

Lk. 21:15 For I will give you words and wisdom that none of your adversaries will be able to resist or contradict.
This is the promise of God to all his servant.
Is. 54:17 “…no weapon forged against you will prevail, and you will refute every tongue that accuses you. This is the heritage of the servants of the LORD, and their vindication from me,” declared the LORD.

Lk. 22:20 This cup is the new covenant in my blood, which is poured out for you
Mt. 26:28 This is my blood of the covenant, which is poured out for many for the forgiveness of sins.

Fulfillment of prophecy on God’s new covenant to forgive sins. Jesus as God making the covenant.

Jer. 31:33 “This is the covenant I will make with the house of Israel after that time,” declares the LORD.
Jer. 31:34 …”For I will forgive their wickedness and will remember their sins no more.”

Lk. 23:43 Jesus answered him, “I tell you the truth, to day you will be with me in paradise.”

It is only God can bring the person to the paradise.

Jn. 4:13 “Everyone who drinks this water will be thirsty again, 14 but whoever drinks the water I give him will never thirst. Indeed, the water I give him will become to him a spring of water welling up to eternal life.

Jesus is telling how he will make the prophecy on Isaiah comes true.
Is. 58:11 The LORD will guide you always; he will satisfy your needs in a sunscorched land and will strengthen your frame. You will be like a well-watered garden,like a spring whose water never fails.

Jn. 5:19 “I tell you the truth, the Son can do nothing by himself; he Can only do what he sees his Father is doing, because whatever the Father does the Son also does. 20 For the Father loves the Son and shows him all he does…”
Jn. 5:22 Moreover, the Father judges no one, but has entrusted all judgement to the Son, 23 that all may honor the Son just as they honor the Father. He who does not honor the Son does not honor the Father who sent him.

As a God he explains to them what He has ordained it to the happened that everything should be done according to the fulfillment of His words – the written prophecy about His works and what He will do.
In prophecy this righteous judgement is describes as an arm of the Lord that brings justice that will be laid bare before the nation to see his righteousness and salvation.
Is. 52:8 When the LORD returns to Zion, they will see it with their own eyes.
Is. 52:10 The Lord will lay bare his holy arm in the sight of the nations, and all the end of the earth will see the salvation of our God.
Is. 51:5 And my arm will bring justice to the nations.
Is. 59:15 The LORD looked and was displeased that there was no justice. 16 He saw that there was no one, he was appalled there was no one to intervene; so his own arm worked salvation for him, and his own righteousness sustained him.

As in description it is the arm that will be seen bringing justice, hence Jesus was seen doing the judgement but all this is according to the will of God.

Jn. 5:30 By myself I can do nothing; I judge only as I hear, and my judgement is just, for I seek not to please myself but him who sent me.
Jn. 8:16 But even if I do judge, My judgement is true; for I am not along in it, but I and the Father who sent me.

In prophecy it is the LORD who will reveal himself as an arm of the Lord. Therefore Jesus is the very image of the LORD and his very arm according to scriptures.

Is. 53:1-5 “Who has believed our message and to whom has the arm of the LORD been revealed? He grew up before him like a tender shoot, and like a root out of dry ground. He had no beauty or majesty to attract us to him, nothing in his appearance that we should desire him. He was despised and rejected by men, …surely he took up our infirmities and carried our sorrows, yet we considered him stricken by God, smitten by him, and afflicted. But he was pierced for our transgressions, he was crushed for our iniquities; the punishment that brought us peace was upon him, and by his wounds we are healed. “

Jn. 5:21 For just as the Father raises the dead and gives them life, even so the Son gives life to whom he is pleased to give it.
Jn. 5:26 For as the Father has life in himself, so he has granted the Son to have life in himself.
Jn. 10:28 I give them eternal life, and they shall never perish; no one can snatch them out of my Father’s hand.

Jesus has life in himself, can raised the dead, and can even give an eternal life. Surely these are all an attributes and doings of God. As for the hand of the Lord this refers to as an acts of Jesus saving in the following wordings:
Is. 26:10 Though grace is shown to the wicked, they do not learn righteousness; even in a land of uprightness, they go on doing evil and record not the majesty of the LORD. 11 O LORD, your hand is lifted high, but they d not see. Let them see your zeal for your people and be put to shame;…

Aside from giving eternal life, Jesus can also bring back his own life after death.

Jn. 10:18 No one takes it from me, but I lay it down of my own accord. I have authority to lay it down and authority to take it up again. This command I received from my Father.

This is written in prophecy as an act of God.

Ps. 82:6 “I said, you are “gods”; you are all sons of the Most High. 7 but you will die like mere men; you will fall like every other ruler.” 8 Rise up, O God, judge the earth, for all the nations are your inheritance.

This prophecy of the risen God exactly happened to our Lord Jesus before all authority in heaven and earth was given to him.

Mt. 28:18 All authority in heaven and earth has been given to me.

Jn. 5:32 There is another who testifies in my favor, and I know that his testimony about me is valid. 33 You have sent to John and he has testified to the truth.

One of John’s testimony is that Jesus existed before he was born. Though John is six months older than Jesus. (Lk. 1:36)
Jn. 1:15 “This was he of whom I said, “He who comes after me has surpassed me because he was before me. “
John the beloved further expound this condition of Jesus before he was born in flesh as the Word and God.
Jn. 1:1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God…14 The Word became flesh and made his dwelling among us. We have seen his glory, the glory of the One and Only, who come from the Father, full of grace and truth.

Jn. 5:36 I have testimony weighter than that of John. For the very work of the Father has given me to finish, and which I am doing, testifies that the Father has sent me.

The work of the Father are the wonders that God planned to happen.
Ps. 40:5 “Many, O LORD my God, are the wonders you have done. The things you planned for us, no one can recount to you; were I to speak and tell of them, they would be too many…7 Then I said, :Here I am, I have come-it is written about me in the scroll. 8 I desire to do your will, O my God; your law is within my heart.”

Jn. 5:37 And the Father who sent me has himself testified concerning me.

Heb. 1:8 But thou the Son he says, “Your throne, O God, will last for ever and ever , and righteousness will be the scepter of your kingdom.
Heb. 1:10 He also says, “In the beginning, O Lord, you laid the foundations of the earth, and heavens are the work of your hands.
The Father declares that Jesus is God and Lord as creator of heaven and earth; and the work of he is doing is the work of the Father long been planned.

Jn. 5:43 I have come in my Father’s name, and you do not accept me…

According to Jesus his name is also the name of the Father.
Jn. 17:11 Holy Father protect them by the power of your name – the name you gave me, so that they may be one as we are one.
Mic. 5:4 He will stand and shepherd his flock in the strength of the LORD, in the majesty of the name of the LORD his God.

In prophecy the name of the Lord will be revealed:
Is. 52:6 Therefore my people will know my name; therefore in that day they will know that it is I who foretold it. Yes it is I.
When? Continue reading up to verse 10.

Is. 52:8 When the LORD returns to Zion, they will see it with their own eyes. Burst into songs of joy together, you ruins of Jerusalem, for the LORD has comforted his people, he has redeemed Jerusalem. 10 The LORD will lay bare his holy arm in the sight of all nations, and all the ends of the earth will see the salvation of our God. (Jesus as the arm of the LORD)

Jesus fulfilled this prophecy of revealing his name to all.
Jn. 17:26 I have made you known to them, and will continue to make you known in order that the love you have for me may be in them.
Jn. 8:23 You are from below; I am from above, You are of this world. 24 I told you that you would die in your sins; if you do not believe that I am the one I claim to be (or I am He), you will indeed die in your sins.

Examine how God introduce his name in Exodus:
Ex. 3:14 God said to Moses, “I AM WHO I AM. This is what you are to say to the Israelites: ‘I AM has sent me to you.’”
Jesus – “I am the one I claim to be” Jehovah – “I AM WHO I AM”
Ex. 3:15 God also said to Moses, “Say to the Israelites, The LORD, the God of your fathers – the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob – has sent me to you.’ This is my name forever, the name by which I am to be remembered from generation to generation.
Jn. 17:3 …that they may know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom you have sent.

Jesus in Hebrew is Yehoshua which means Yahweh saves.

Jn. 6:27 Do not work for food that spoils, but for food that endures to eternal life, which the Son of Man will give you. On him God the Father has placed his seal of approval.
Jn. 7:37 If anyone is thirsty, let him come to me and drink. 38 Whoever believes in me, as the scripture has said, streams of living water will flow from within him.

Is. 55:1 Come, all you who are thirsty, come to the waters; and you have no money come, buy and eat! Come, buy wine and milk without money and without cost. 2 Why spend money on what is not bread, and your labor on what does not satisfy? Listen, lsten to me, and eat what is good, and your soul will delight in the richest of fare. 3 Give ear and come to me; hear me, that your soul may live.
Is. 12:2 Behold, God is my salvation, I will trust and not be afraid; For the LORD GOD is my strength and song, and He has become mysalvation. 3 Therefore you will joyously draw water from the springs of salvation.

Jesus personify God in giving eternal life or the springs of salvation.

Jn. 8:12 “I am the light of the world. Whoever follows me will never walk in darkness, but will have the light of life.”

Is. 60:19 The sun will no more be your light by day, nor will the brightness of the moon will shine on you, for the Lord will be your everlasting light, and your God will be your glory.
Is. 60:1 “Arise, shine, for your light has come, and the glory of the LORD rises upon you.

This prophecy is evidently fulfilled through Jesus our Lord as our everlasting light and our glory as the glory of the LORD.
Eph. 5:14 “Wake up, O sleeper, rise from the dead, and Christ will shine on you.
Rom. 13:14 Rather cloth yourselves with the Lord Jesus Christ, and do not think about how to gratify the desires of the sinful nature.

Jn. 8:28 When you lift up the Son of Man, then you will know that I am He, and I do nothing on my own initiative, but I speak these things as the Father taught me.

Jesus is referring to his coming crucifixion as for the fulfillment of prophecy.
Mic. 12:10 “I will pour out on the house of David and on the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the Spirit of grace and supplication, so that they will look on ME whom they have pierced; and they will mourn for Him, as one mourns for only son, and they will weep bitterly over Him like the bitter weeping over his first born.

Note that God is speaking that it is He whom they have pierced.

Jn. 8:51 I tell you the truth, if anyone keeps my word, he will never see death.

In prophecy it is the LORD who will remove death forever.
Is. 25:8 He will swallow up death for all time. And the Lord GOD will wipe tears away from all faces…(He referring to the LORD on verse Is. 25:6)

Jn. 8:58 Truly, truly, I say to you, before Abraham was born, I am.

Jesus testify that he was from eternity as fulfillment of prophecy. In which John the beloved further expound this condition of Jesus as the Word and God. (Jn. 1:14)
Mic. 5:2 From you One will go forth for Me to be ruler in Israel. His going forth are from long ago, from the days of eternity.

Jn. 9:39 For judgement I came into this world, so that those who do not see may see, and that those who see may become blind.

Jesus said these after the blind man was given sight and worshipped him. Here Jesus confirms that he is God to be worship and claims that this man did see because of worshipping him as God. Since in the Old testament teachings it is only God that should be worship.

Jn. 10:4 When he puts forth all his own, he goes ahead of them, and the sheep follow him because they know his voice.
Jn. 10:14 I am the good shepherd, and I know My own and My own know Me.
Jn. 10:16 I have other sheep, which are not of this fold; I must bring them also, and the will hear My voice; and they will become one flock and one shepherd.

Ezek. 34:11 For thus says the LORD God, “Behold, I Myself will search for My sheep and seek them out. 12 As a shepherd cares for his herd in the day when he is among his scattered sheep, so I will care for My sheep and will delver them from all the places to which they were scattered on a cloudy and gloomy day.”
Is. 48:17 Thus says the LORD, your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel, “I am the LORD your God, who teaches you to profit, who leads you in the way you should go.
Mic. 2:12 I will surely assemble all of you, Jacob, I will surely gather the remnant of Israel. I will put them together like sheep in the fold; Like a flock in the midst of its pasture, they will noisy with men. 13 The breaker goes up before them, they break out, pass through the gate and go out by it. So their king goes on before them, and the LORD at their head.

God said that He himself will search for His sheep and picture Himself as a shepherd caring his herd among his scattered sheep on that day. It is only on time of Jesus this event happened where God manifest himself in exact picture of the prophecy, unlike the previous act of God with his prophets. No wonder Jesus said the truth of his relationship with the Father.

Jn. 10:30 “I and the Father are one.”

The word “one” is from Greek word “hice”; the same word in the following verses:
Lk. 17:34 “..one will be taken and the other will be left.”
Jn. 1:40 “One of the two who heard John..”

The meaning of the word one is absolute unlike the use of word in husband and wife relation.
Gen. 2:24 his wife; and they shall become one flesh.
The word “one” is from the Greek word “echad; ekh-awd”
Therefore, it is not that they are one in mission only but also he himself is the very manifestation of the Father.

Jn. 10:33 The Jews answered Him, “ For a good work we do not stone You, but for blasphemy; and because You, being man, made Yourself out to be God.”
Jn. 10:34 Jesus answered them, “Has it not been written in your Law ‘I SAID YOU ARE GOD’? 35 “if He called them gods, to whom the word of God came…
Jesus emphasize that He is the one speaking in the verse quoted in Ps. 82:6 which is the very word of God to his own congregation (read Ps 82:1). Directly Jesus is already revealing Himself as God. But still many even in our time consider him as a mere man like the Jews in his time.

Jn. 11:25 Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life; he who believes in Me will live even if he dies. 26 and everyone who lives and believes in Me will never die. Do you believe this?

Mt. 27:50 And Jesus cried out again with aloud voice, yielded up His spirit. 51 And behold the veil of the temple was torn in two from top to bottom; and the earth shook and the rock were split. 52 The tomb were opened, and many bodies of the saints who had fallen asleep were raised; 53 and coming out of the tombs after His resurrection they entered the holy city and appeared to many.

Ezek. 37:12 “Therefore prophecy and say to them, “Thus says the Lord GOD, “ I will open your graves and cause you to come out of your graves, my people. 14 “I will put My Spirit within you and you will come to life, and I will place you on your own land. Then you will know that I, the LORD, have spoken and done it,” declares the LORD.”

This prophecy was fulfilled soon after Jesus yielded up His spirit and then goes to the world of the dead to bring life.
1 Peter 3:18 “For Christ also died for sins once for all, the just for the unjust, so that He might bring us to God, having put to death in the flesh, but made alive in the spirit; 19 in which also He went and made proclamation to the spirits now in prison.”

Jn. 12:15 On the next day the large crowd who had come to the feast, when they heard that Jesus is coming to Jerusalem, 13 took the branches of the palm trees and went out to meet Him, and began to shout, “Hosanna! BLESSED IS HE WHO COMES IN THE NAME OF THE LORD, even the King of Israel.” 14 Jesus, finding a young donkey, sat on it; as it is written, 15 “FEAR NOT, DAUGHTER OF ZION; BEHOLD YOUR KING IS COMING, SEATED ON A DONKEY’S COLT.”

This event is also the fulfillment of prophecy in Isaiah.
Is. 52 Listen! Your watchmen lift up their voices; together they shout for joy. When the LORD returns to Zion, they will see it with their own eyes.

Jn. 12:28 Father glorify your name! Then a voice came from heaven. I have glorified it, and will glorify it again.

This conversation of Jesus with the Father often find confusion to some Christians to regard Jesus as the Father. Even in other verses wherein the Father is revealing His beloved Son.

Mt. 17:5 This is my Son whom I love; with him I am well pleased. Listen to him! (Notice God in heaven is also with Jesus)

We must understand that the event is the fulfillment of prophecy. God is revealing his arm and his voice.
Is. 53:1 Who has believed our message and to whom has the arm of the LORD been revealed? 2 He grew up before him like a tender shoot, and like a root out of dry ground…(arm of the LORD as Jesus more on the following verses)
Is. 30:30 The LORD will cause men to hear his majestic voice and will make them see his arm coming down…

Futhermore this ways of God is not impossible for Him to perform. In fact in the Old Testament God even revealed himself in THREE PERSONS – as LORD, as angels and as men at the same time event. Read Genesis 18-19.

Gen. 18:1 The LORD appeared to Abraham…
18:2 Abraham looked up and saw three men … (the LORD as three men)
18:3 Where is your wife Sarah? (three men asked)
18:10 Then the LORD said, “The out cry against Sodom and Gamorrah is so great and their sin is so grievous 21
that I will go down and see if what they have done is so bad… (God will go down to see Sodom and
Gamorrah)
18:22 The men turned away and went toward Sodom and Gamorrah…(the two men as the LORD)
18:26 The LORD said, “if I find fifty righteous people…(one men left speaking as LORD)
19:1 The two andels arrived , “ Sodom…(two men as angels)
19:12 The two men said to Lot, “ Do you have anyone else here…(two men as angels)
19:24 Then the LORD rained down burning sulfur on Sodom and Gomorrah-from the LORD out of heavens.
(another from heaven)

God revealing himself in TWO PERSONS.
Heb. 1:8 But about the Son he says, “Your throne O God will last forever and ever.
Heb. 1:10 He also says: “in the beginning O Lord, you laid the foundations of the earth…
Notice that the Father is speaking to his Son calling him God and Lord.

Jn. 12:32 But I, when I am lifted up from the earth, will draw all men to myself.

Jesus as the banner of the LORD to be lifted up:
Is. 11:10 In that day the Root of Jesse will stand as a banner for the peoples; the nations will rally to him, and his place of rest be glorious. 11 In that day their LORD will reach out his hand a second time to reclaim the remnant that is left of his people…12 He will raise a banner for the nations and gather the exiles of Israel; he will assemble the scattered people of Judah from the four quarter of the earth.

Is. 49:22 This is what the Sovereign LORD says: “See, I will beckon to the Gentiles, I will lift up my banner to the peoples: they will bring your son in their arms and carry your daughters on their shoulders.

This act of the LORD on prophecy is to be done by Jesus according to his words.

Jn. 12:45 When he looks at me, he sees the one who sent me.

Jesus was seen as God coming according to prophecy.
Is. 40:9 “Here is your God!” 10 See, the Sovereign LORD comes with power, and his arm rules for him…11 He tends his flock like a shepherd…

Jn. 13: 31 “Now is the Son of Man glorified and God is glorified him.

It is written that he will proclaim that he is God after he revealed his will and saved his people.
Is. 43:12 I have revealed and saved and proclaimed- I, and not some foreign god among you. You are my witnesses,” declares the LORD, “that I am God. 13 Yes, and from ancient days I am He”.
Is. 66:19 “They will proclaim my glory among the nations.

Jn. 14:6 “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me,

Is. 35:8 And a highway will be there: it will be called the Way of Holiness…9 But only the redeemed will walk there and the ransomed of the LORD will return.

Through Jesus we can approach the Father because he ransomed us from our sins that separate us from God. In prophecy it is the LORD who ransomed us.

Jn. 14:11 Believe me when I say that I am in the Father and the Father is in me; or atleast believe…

Is. 45:14 …They will bow down before you and plead with you, saying, “Surely God is with you, and there is no other; there is no other god.” 15 Truly you are a God who hides himself, O God and Savior of Israel.

God hides himself to be a servant in the person of Jesus. He is the only true God and no other.

Jn. 14:14 You may ask me for anything in my name, I will do it.
Nothing is impossible to Jesus, he can do anything as God.

Jn. 14:21 Whoever has my commands and obeys them, he is the one who loves me. He who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I too will love him and show myself to him.

Ps. 25:14 The LORD confides in those who fear him; he makes his covenant known to them,

Jn. 14:23 “If anyone loves me, he will obey my teaching. My Father will love him, and we will come to him and make our home with him.
Is. 57:15 For this is the high and lofty One says – he who lives forever, whose name is holy: “I live in a high and holy place, but also with who is contrite and lowly in spirit.

Jn. 14:27 peace I leave with you; my peace I give you.

The LORD is giving his peace to those who trust him.
Is. 26:3 You will keep in perfect peace him whose mind is steadfast, because he trust in you.

Jn. 14:28 I am going to the Father, for the father is greater than I.
Jn. 17:5 And now, Father, glorify me in your presence with the glory I had with you before the world began.

It is natural that the Father is greater than the son. But this is only part of God’s redeeming act to lead us in his teaching to be his faithful son same as Jesus. However, it is also prophesied that Jesus will also be our Father. This is to reveal to us who he was before the world began.(Jn.17:5)

Is. 9:6 For to us a child is born, to us a son is given, and the government will be on his shoulders. And he will be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.

Rev. 21:6 “It is done. I am the Alpha and the Omega, the beginning and the End…7 He who overcomes will inherit all this; and I will be his God and he will be my son. (Jesus is speaking here; see Rev. 22:13, 16)

Jn. 15:16 You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you to go and bear fruit-fruit that will last. Then the Father will give you whatever you ask in my name.

The calling of disciples is the same as the calling of prophets; it is the LORD that choose who are to be his messengers. (Exo.3:10, Jer. 1:5). Even in asking the Father in the name of Jesus makes himself equal to God. Because only the name of the LORD must be pronounce when we call for help.

Joel 2:32 And everyone who calls on the name of the LORD will be saved; for on Mount Zion and in Jerusalem there will be deliverance, as the LORD has said, among the survivors whom the LORD calls.

In the book of Acts, Peter explained the fulfillment of this prophecy by mentioning that it is Jesus whom God made as Lord and Christ.”(Acts 2:17-36)
Acts 2:36 “Therefore let all Israel be assured of this: God has made this Jesus, whom you crucified, both Lord and Christ.”

Rom. 1:6 Among whom are ye also called of Jesus Christ. (KJV version)
Mt. 28:19…baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit,
(Jesus name is equal in authority with the Father for the salvation of man.)

Jn. 15:26 When the counselor comes whom I will send to you from the Father, the Spirit of truth who goes out from the Father, he will testify about me.

Joel 2:28 “And afterward, I will pour out my Spirit on all people. Your sons and daughters will prophesy, your old men will dream dreams, your young men will see visions. 29 Even on my servants, both men and women, I will pour out my Spirit in those days.

Ezek. 36:27 And I will put my Spirit in you and move you to follow my decrees and be careful to keep my laws.

This pouring of Spirit from the LORD according to Paul is the Spirit of Christ.
Rom. 8:9 You, however, are controlled not by the sinful nature but by the Spirit, if the Spirit of god lives in you. And if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, he does not belong to Christ.

Jesus is revealing himself as God who owns everything in heaven and in earth.

Jn. 16:24 Until now you have not asked for anything in my name. Ask and you will receive, and your joy will be complete.

Prayers is only address to God and not to man or any other gods.

Jn. 17:11 Holy father, protect them by the power of your name – the name you gave me – so that they may be one as we are one.

Jesus testify that his name is the Father’s name and this fulfills the truth of God’s words.
Is. 42:8 “I am the LORD; that is my name! I will not give my glory to another or my praise to idols.”

Jn. 18:36 “My kingdom is not of this world.”
Jn. 18:37 “You are right in saying I am king. In fact, for this reason I was born, and for this reason I was born, and for this I come into this world, to testify to the truth.”

The truth that Jesus is king and his kingdom is not of this world confirms that he is the LORD.
Is. 44:6 “This is what the LORD says – Israel’s King and Redeemer, the LORD Almighty: I am the first and I am the last; apart from me there is no God.

Dan. 4:37 …praise and exalt and glorify the King of heaven, because everything he does is right and all his ways are just.

Jn. 20:28 Thomas said to him, “My Lord and my God!” 29 Then Jesus told him, “Because you have seen me, you have believe; blessed are those who have not seen and yet have believed.”

Jesus accept that he is the Lord and God.

Jn. 21:15 Jesus said, “Feed my lambs.”
Jn. 21:16 Jesus said, “Take care of my sheep.’
Jn. 21:17 Jesus said, “Feed my sheep.”

Ezek. 34:11 “For this is what the Sovereign LORD says: I myself will search for my sheep and look after them.”
Ezek. 34:13 “I will bring them out from the nations and gather them into their own land.

Jn. 10:16 I have other sheep that are not of this sheep pen. I must bring them also. They too will listen to my voice, and there shall be one flock and one shepherd.

Jesus as the Sovereign LORD that owns the sheep.

Jn. 21:22 Jesus answered. “If I want him to remain alive until I return, what is that to you? You must follow me.”

Jesus confirms that he holds the very life of his apostles as the LORD and Savior of Israel.
Is. 43:13 Yes, and from the ancient of days I am He. No one can deliver out of my hand.


II. APOSTLES TESTIMONY THAT JESUS IS GOD

*PETER

Acts 4:12 Salvation is found in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given to men by which we must be saved. (Jesus name as God)

1 Pet. 1:11 spirit of Christ in men… (Jesus in the life of our ancestors)
1 Pet 315 But in your hearts set apart Christ as Lord. (Lord as God)
1 Pet. 3:22 who has gone into heaven and is at God’s right hand - with angels, authorities and powers in submission to him
2 Pet. 1:1 Through the righteousness of our God and Savior Jesus Christ

*THOMAS

Jn. 20:28 “My Lord and my God.”

*JOHN

Jn. 1:1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. 2 He was with God in the beginning. 3 Through him all things were made; without him nothing was made that has been made. 4 In him was life, and the life was the light of men…14 The word became flesh and made his dwelling among us. We have seen his glory of the One and only; who came from the Father, full of grace and truth.
1 Jn 1:1 That which was from the beginning, which we have heard, which we have see with our eyes, which we have looked at and our hands have touched – this we proclaim concerning the Word of Life. 2. The life appeared; we have seen it and testify to it, and we proclaim to you the eternal life, which was with the Father and has appeared to us.
1 Jn. 5:8 …the Father, the Word and the Holy Spirit, and these three are one. (From the late manuscript Vulgate)
1 Jn. 5:20 And we are in him who is true – even his Son Jesus Christ. He is the true God and eternal life.


*PAUL

Rom. 9:5 …Christ, who is God over all, forever praised! Amen.
1 Tim. 1:17 Now to the King eternal, immortal, invisible, the only God, be honor and glory for ever and ever. Amen.
1 Tim. 3:16 He appeared in a body (God appeared in flesh) was vindicated by the Spirit, was seen by the angels, was preached among the nations, was believed on in the world was taken up in glory.
Col. 1:15 He is the image of the invisible God, the first born over all creation. 16 For him all things were created: things in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones, or powers or rulers or authorities; all things were created by him and for him. 17 He is before all things, and in him all things hold together.
Col. 1:19 For God was pleased to have all his fullness dwell in him 20 and through him to reconcile to himself all things…
Col. 3:11 …Christ is all, and is in all.
Phil. 2:6 Who, being in very nature God did not consider equality with god something to be grasped, 7 but made himself nothing, taking the very nature of a servant, being made in human likeness. 8 And being found in appearance as a man, he humbled himself and became obedient to death – even death on the cross. 9 Therefore God exalted him to the highest place and gave him the name above every name. 10 that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth, and every tongue confess that Jesus is Lord, to the
Glory of God the Father.
Eph. 4:10 He who descended is the very one who ascended higher than all the heavens, in order to fill the whole universe.

Heb. 1:8 But about the Son he says” “Your throne O God will last for ever and ever, and righteousness will be the scepter of your kingdom. (Almighty God is speaking.)
Heb.1:10 He also says, “In the beginning, O Lord, you laid the foundations of the earth, and the heavens are the work of your hand.
Heb. 2:10 In bringing many sons of glory, it was fitting that God, for whom and through whom whom everything exists, should make the author of their salvation perfect through suffering.,
Heb. 13:8 Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever.
Acts 20:28 Be shepherds of the church of god, which he bought with his own blood.
Zec. 12:10 they will look on me, the one they have pierced and they will mourn…(LORD)


III. JESUS TESTIMONY THAT HE IS GOD IN THE BOOK OF REVELATION

Rev. 1:7 Look he is coming with the clouds, and every eye will see him, even those who pierced him; and all the people of the earth will mourn because of him. So shall it be! Amen. 8 “I am the Alpha and the Omega,” says the Lord God, “who is, and who was, and who is to come, the Almighty.” (Jesus is introducing himself as God and his coming.)
Rev. 4:8 “Holy, holy, holy is the Lord God Almighty, who was, and is, and is to come.”

Rev. 1:17 “Do not be afraid. I am the First and the Last.
Rev. 2:8 These are the words of him who is the First and the Last, who died and came to life again.
Rev.3:14 These are the words of the Amen, the faithful and true witness, the ruler of God’s creation.

Rev. 4:11 “You are worthy, our Lord and God, to receive glory and honor and power, for you created all things and by your will they were created and have their being.

Rev. 17:14 They will make war against the Lamb, but the Lamb will overcome them because he is Lord of lords and King of kings – and with him will be his called and faithful followers.

Rev. 21:6 “It is done. I am the Alpha and the omega, the beginning and the End. To him who is thirsty I will give to drink without cost from the spring of water of life. 7 He who overcomes will inherit all this, and I will be his God and he will be my son.

Rev. 22:12 “Behold, I am coming soon! My reward is with me, and I will give to everyone according to what he has done. 13 I am the Alpha and the Omega, the First and the Last, the beginning and the End.
Rev. 22:16 “I Jesus, have sent my angel to give you this testimony for the churches.

Hence, to the victorious Jesus is his God and Father. But to those who did not consider him as his God and Father is doubtful to be rewarded with victory.


IV. JESUS CHRIST DIVINE NAMES AS THE FATHER AND HIS ATTRIBUTES

1. The First and the Last Rev. 1: 17, 22:13 Is. 44:6, 48:12-16
2. King Mt. 25:34; Jn. 12:13 Ps. 47:6-7
3. Savior & Redeemer Jn. 4:42 Is. 54:5, 60:16
4. I Am Jn. 8:58 Exo. 3:14
5. Good Shepherd Jn. 10:11, 14 Is. 34:11
6. Master & Lord Jn. 13:13, 20:28 Ps. 95:6
7. God Jn. 20:28, Heb. 1:8 Ps. 50:7
8. Mighty God Is. 9:6
9. Almighty Rev. 1:8
10. Holy One Jn. 4:34 Is. 1:4, 47:4
11. Everlasting Father Is. 9:6
12. Emmanuel Mt. 1:33 Is. 1:14
13. As Creator Heb. 1:8

Rev. 2:23 …he who searches the hearts and mind (omniscient)
Heb. 1:3 …Sustaining all things by his powerful word.(omnipotent)
Phil. 3:21 …who, by the power the power that enables him to bring everything under his control (omnipotent)
Heb. 1:8 …you remain the same, and your years will never end. (immutable)
Heb. 13:8 Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever. (immuatable)
Mt. 18:20 For where two or three come together in my name, there am I with them. (omnipresent)
Rom. 9:11 …give life to your mortal bodies through his spirit who lives in you (omnipresent)
Rev. 1:8 “I am the Alpha and the Omega”, says the Lord God, “who is, and who was, and who is to come, the
Almighty (eternal existence)
Is. 9:6 …everlasting Father (eternal existence)
Col. 1:16 …all things created by him and for him. (creator)
Heb. 1:10 …earth, and the heavens are the work of your hands. (creator)
Jn. 5:22 Moreover, the Father judges no one, but has entrusted all judgement to the Son. (Judge of all
mankind)
As Jehovah of glory. Ps 34:7, 10 with 1 Cor. 2:8, Jas. 2:1
As Jehovah, our righteousness. Jer. 23:5 ,6 with 1 Cor. 1:30
As Jehovah above all Ps. 97:9 with Jn. 3:31
As Jehovah of hosts. Is.6:1-3 with Jn.12:41 Is. 8:13,14 with 1 Pet. 2:8
As Jehovah, the messenger of covenant. Mal 3:1 with Lk. 2:27
Invoked as Jehovah. Joel 2:32 with 1 Cor. 1:2
As God over all. Rom. 9:5
As God the Word. Jn. 1:1
As God the Judge. Eccle. 12:14 with 1 Cor. 4:5, 2 Cor. 5:10, 2 Tim. 4:1
As the Lord of heaven. 1 Cor. 15:47
As the Lord of the Sabbath. Gen. 2:3 with Mt. 12:8
As one with the Father. Jn. 10:30, 38
As sending the Spirit, equally with the Father. Jn. 14:16 with Jn. 15:26
As the source of grace, equally the Father. ! Thess. 3:11; 2 Thess. 2:16-17
As unsearchable, equally with the Father. Prov. 30:4 Mt. 11:14
As supporter and preserver of all things. Neh. 9:6 with Col. 1:17
As possessed of the fullness of the Godhead. Col 2:6
As raising the dead. Jn. 5:21, 6:40, 54
As raising himself from the dead. Jn. 2:19, 21
As Eternal. Is. 9:6, Mic. 5:2, Jn. 1:1, Heb.1:8-10
As Omnipotent. Ps. 45:3, Phil. 3:21, Rev. 1:8
As Omniscient. Jn. 16:30, Jn.21:17
As discerning the thought of the heart. 1 Kings 8:39 with Lk. 5:22, Eze. 11:5 with Jn. 2:24, 25
As unchangeable. Mal. 3:6 with Heb. 1:12, 13:8
As having power to forgive sins. Col. 3:13 with Mk. 2:7, 10
As giver of Pastors to the Church. Jer. 3:15 with Eph. 4:11-13
As Husband of the Church. Is. 54:5 with Eph. 5:25-32
As the object of Divine Worship Acts 7:59, 2 Cor. 12:8-9, Heb. 1:6
As the object of faith. Ps.2:12 with 1 Pet. 2:6, Jer. 17: 5, 7 with Jn. 14:1
As God, he redeems and purify the Church unto himself. Rev. 5:9 with Titus 2:14
As God, He presents the Church to himself. Eph. 5:27 with Jude 24-25
Saints live unto him, as God. Rom. 6:11 and Gal. 2:19 with 2 Cor. 5:15
Acknowledge by his Apostles. Jn. 20:28
Acknowledge by Old Testament Saints. Gen. 17:1, with Gen. 48: 48:15-16, Gen 32:24-30 with Hos. 12:3-5,
Judges 6:22-24, Judges 13:21-22


V. THE WORD BECAME FLESH


In the confession of faith by most Christians today Jesus is truly God and truly man. And it through the wide influence of the Roman Catholic Church teachings resulted from different church councils held during the fourth century which most Reformation churches or protestants agreed to adopt. And it is not without good reasons that these were accepted. However even these reasons must pass the test of Holy Scriptures as to verify its truthfulness.

A REVIEW OF HISTORY FROM CATHECHISM OF THE CATHOLIC CHURCH
(Chapter Two, Art. 3 III-IV)


During the first centuries, the Church had to defend and clarify this truth that Jesus is truly God and truly man against the heresies that falsified it.

465 The first heresies denied not so much Christ's divinity as his true humanity (Gnostic Docetism). From apostolic times the Christian faith has insisted on the true incarnation of God's Son "come in the flesh." But already in the third century, the Church in a council at Antioch had to affirm against Paul of Samosata that Jesus Christ is Son of God by nature and not by adoption. The first ecumenical council of Nicaea in 325 confessed in its Creed that the Son of God is "begotten, not made, of the same substance (homoousios) as the Father," and condemned Arius, who had affirmed that the Son of God "came to be from things that were not" and that he was "from another substance" than that of the Father.

466 The Nestorian heresy regarded Christ as a human person joined to the divine person of God's Son. Opposing this heresy, St. Cyril of Alexandria and the third ecumenical council at Ephesus in 431 confessed "that the Word, uniting to himself in his person the flesh animated by a rational soul, became man." Christ's humanity has no other subject than the divine person of the Son of God, who assumed it and made it his own, from his conception. For this reason the Council of Ephesus proclaimed in 431 that Mary truly became the Mother of God by the human conception of the Son of God in her womb: "Mother of God, not that the nature of the Word or his divinity received the beginning of its existence from the holy Virgin, but that, since the holy body, animated by a rational soul, which the Word of God united to himself according to the hypostasis, was born from her, the Word is said to be born according to the flesh."

467 The Monophysites affirmed that the human nature had ceased to exist as such in Christ when the divine person of God's Son assumed it. Faced with this heresy, the fourth ecumenical council, at Chalcedon in 451, confessed:

Following the holy Fathers, we unanimously teach and confess one and the same Son, our Lord Jesus Christ: the same perfect in divinity and perfect in humanity, the same truly God and truly man, composed of rational soul and body; consubstantial with the Father as to his divinity and consubstantial with us as to his humanity; "like us in all things but sin." He was begotten from the Father before all ages as to his divinity and in these last days, for us and for our salvation, was born as to his humanity of the virgin Mary, the Mother of God.

We confess that one and the same Christ, Lord, and only-begotten Son, is to be acknowledged in two natures without confusion, change, division, or separation. The distinction between the natures was never abolished by their union, but rather the character proper to each of the two natures was preserved as they came together in one person (prosopon) and one hypostasis.

468 After the Council of Chalcedon, some made of Christ's human nature a kind of personal subject. Against them, the fifth ecumenical council at Constantinople in 553 confessed that "there is but one hypostasis [or person], which is our Lord Jesus Christ, one of the Trinity." Thus everything in Christ's human nature is to be attributed to his divine person as its proper subject, not only his miracles but also his sufferings and even his death: "He who was crucified in the flesh, our Lord Jesus Christ, is true God, Lord of glory, and one of the Holy Trinity.

469 The Church thus confesses that Jesus is inseparably true God and true man. He is truly the Son of God who, without ceasing to be God and Lord, became a man and our brother:

"What he was, he remained and what he was not, he assumed," sings the Roman Liturgy. And the liturgy of St. John Chrysostom proclaims and sings: "O only-begotten Son and Word of God, immortal being, you who deigned for our salvation to become incarnate of the holy Mother of God and ever-virgin Mary, you who without change became man and were crucified, O Christ our God, you who by your death have crushed death, you who are one of the Holy Trinity, glorified with the Father and the Holy Spirit, save us!"

IV. HOW IS THE SON OF GOD MAN?

470 Because "human nature was assumed, not absorbed," in the mysterious union of the Incarnation, the Church was led over the course of centuries to confess the full reality of Christ's human soul, with its operations of intellect and will, and of his human body. In parallel fashion, she had to recall on each occasion that Christ's human nature belongs, as his own, to the divine person of the Son of God, who assumed it. Everything that Christ is and does in this nature derives from "one of the Trinity." The Son of God therefore communicates to his humanity his own personal mode of existence in the Trinity. In his soul as in his body, Christ thus expresses humanly the divine ways of the Trinity:

The Son of God . . . worked with human hands; he thought with a human mind. He acted with a human will, and with a human heart he loved. Born of the Virgin Mary, he has truly been made one of us, like to us in all things except sin.

Christ's soul and his human knowledge


471 Apollinarius of Laodicaea asserted that in Christ the divine Word had replaced the soul or spirit. Against this error the Church confessed that the eternal Son also assumed a rational, human soul.

472 This human soul that the Son of God assumed is endowed with a true human knowledge. As such, this knowledge could not in itself be unlimited: it was exercised in the historical conditions of his existence in space and time. This is why the Son of God could, when he became man, "increase in wisdom and in stature, and in favor with God and man," and would even have to inquire for himself about what one in the human condition can learn only from experience. This corresponded to the reality of his voluntary emptying of himself, taking "the form of a slave."

473 But at the same time, this truly human knowledge of God's Son expressed the divine life of his person. "The human nature of God's Son, not by itself but by its union with the Word, knew and showed forth in itself everything that pertains to God." Such is first of all the case with the intimate and immediate knowledge that the Son of God made man has of his Father. The Son in his human knowledge also showed the divine penetration he had into the secret thoughts of human hearts.

474 By its union to the divine wisdom in the person of the Word incarnate, Christ enjoyed in his human knowledge the fullness of understanding of the eternal plans he had come to reveal. What he admitted to not knowing in this area, he elsewhere declared himself not sent to reveal.

Christ's human will


475 Similarly, at the sixth ecumenical council, Constantinople III in 681, the Church confessed that Christ possesses two wills and two natural operations, divine and human. They are not opposed to each other, but cooperate in such a way that the Word made flesh willed humanly in obedience to his Father all that he had decided divinely with the Father and the Holy Spirit for our salvation. Christ's human will "does not resist or oppose but rather submits to his divine and almighty will."

Christ's true body


476 Since the Word became flesh in assuming a true humanity, Christ's body was finite. Therefore the human face of Jesus can be portrayed; at the seventh ecumenical council (Nicaea II in 787) the Church recognized its representation in holy images to be legitimate.

477 At the same time the Church has always acknowledged that in the body of Jesus "we see our God made visible and so are caught up in love of the God we cannot see." The individual characteristics of Christ's body express the divine person of God's Son. He has made the features of his human body his own, to the point that they can be venerated when portrayed in a holy image, for the believer "who venerates the icon is venerating in it the person of the one depicted."

PERSONAL COMMENTARY ON THE HUMANITY OF JESUS
(Cathecism of the Catholic Church)

Council of Ephesus in 431 “that the Word, uniting to himself in his person the flesh animated by the rational soul became man.”

The Word being God from the beginning can bring anything into existence by his own will and power. True to his plan to come in person he made himself to become flesh. Being perfect he demands nothing outside himself to be united in his person for him to become flesh. As the scriptures says, “the Word became flesh.” The flesh itself is the very Word made manifest; therefore he is God in flesh.

This council in consequent reasoning proclaimed that Mary truly become the mother of God, “not that the nature of the Word or his divinity received the beginning of its existence from the holy Virgin, but that, since the holy body, animated by a rational soul which the Word of God united to himself according to the hypostasis, was born from her, the word is said to be born according to the flesh.”

True enough that Mary was addressed by Elizabeth, “mother of my Lord” while being filled with Holy Spirit (Lk. 1:42); it is a false notion to presume that the Word cannot by himself become flesh apart from outside source; being he himself is God. Mary is therefore a mother of our lord in sole reason that the Word that became flesh proceeded out of her or to be born in human likeness.

The child is therefore God in physical manifestation. Not a man with a Spirit of God nor God in the flesh of man like ourselves. Unlike our flesh that came from dust and tainted with sin. It is because the flesh mentioned is the Word that was God prior to its physical manifestation.

Col. 1:15 He is the image of the invisible God.
Col. 1:19 For God was pleased to have all his fullness dwell in him…
Phil. 2:6 Who, being in very nature God, did not consider equality with God something to be grasped.7 but made himself nothing, taking the nature of a servant, being made in human likeness. 8 And being found in appearance as a man, he humbled himself and became obedient to death – even on the cross.

Council at Chalcedon in 451 AD., confessed: “Our Lord Jesus Christ: the same perfect in divinity and perfect in humanity the same truly God and truly man, composed of rational soul and body; consubstantial with the Father as to his divinity
and consubstantial with us as to his; like us in all things but sin.” Further mentioned that “Jesus is to be acknowledged in two natures without confusion, change, division or separation.”

Their premises for this confession is that Jesus is truly man. If we are to think of Jesus like ourselves as man we are greatly mistaken. In scriptures man like ourselves is from the dust and belong to this world.

Gen. 2:7 the LORD God formed the man from the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man become a living being.

Jn. 8:23 But he continued. “You are from below; I am from above. You are of this world; I am not of this world.

However, unlike ourselves Jesus is from heaven. Paul clearly differentiate him as the last Adam, and the second man from heaven.

1 Cor. 15:45 So it is written: “The first man Adam became a living being”; the last Adam, a life giving spirit.
1 Cor. 15: 47 The first man was of dust of the earth, the second man from heaven.

The term “man from heaven” must be understood as “God in human likeness” always in the very nature of God as Paul himself describe him in Phil. 2:6.

SCRIPTURAL PROOF THAT JESUS IS NOT A MAN LIKE OURSELVES

Num. 23:19 God is not a man, that he should lie, nor a son of man, that he should change his mind. Does he speak and then not act? Does he promise and not fulfill?

Hos. 11:9 For I am God, and not a man – the Holy One among you. (Acts 3:14, Lk. 4:34)
Mal. 3:6 I the LORD do not change.
Heb. 13:8 Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever.

At the sixth ecumenical council, Constantinople III in 681 A.D. confessed that Christ possesses two wills and two natural operations, divine and human. However, if we examine carefully the scriptures, it will show that Jesus always have one nature and one will.

Num. 23:19 God is not a man that he should lie, nor a son of man, that he should change his mind. Does he speak and then not act? Does he promise and not fulfill?
Heb. 1:3 The son is the radiance of God’s glory and exact representation of his being, sustaining all things by his powerful word.
Col. 1:19 For God was pleased to have all his fullness dwell in him.
Phil. 2:6 Who, being in the very nature of God…7 but made himself nothing, taking the very nature of a servant, being made in human likeness. 8 And being found in appearance as a man.

very nature of a servant – not a nature of man
found in appearance as man – this is how the beholder see him, not on what exactly he is.

Lk. 22:42 “Father’ if you are willing, take this cup from me; yet not my will, but yours be done.”
Jn. 14:31 but the world must learn that I love the Father and that I do exactly what my Father has commanded me.

Clearly, Jesus has only one nature and that is God in physical manifestation and one will – to do exactly what his Father has commanded.

As to his humanity they claimed that “The Son of God worked with human hands, thought with human mind and acted with human will and loved with human heart.” But this is contrary to what is revealed in the Holy Scriptures.

Is. 42: 13 The LORD will march out like a mighty man, like a warrior he will stir up his zeal; with a shout he will raise the battle cry and will triumph over his enemies.
Is. 52: When the Lord returns to Zion, they will see it with their own eyes. (cont. to verse 10) 10 The LORD will lay bare his holy arm in the sight of all nations…

Jn. 3:12 I have spoken to you of earthly things and you do not believe; how then will you believe if I speak of heavenly things? 13 No one has ever gone into heaven except the one who come from heaven – the Son of Man.

That the LORD march out like a mighty man or bare his holy arm in his physical manifestation for us to behold him as what happened to Jesus. Surely this will be the body of the LORD himself. And if Jesus thinks of heavenly things surely it is never man’s ability, only he the Lord that is from heaven can explain all things from heaven. If the body is the body of the LORD even so the heart and mind must also be of the LORD.


VI. COMMENTARY ON HOLY IMAGES

he Council of Nicaea II, in 787 A.D. recognized the representation of Christ’s body in holy images to be legitimate. And acknowledged that in the body of Jesus “we see our God made visible and so are caught up in love of the God we cannot see.

In truth even ourselves do not wish to have a picture that is not an exact copy of our face and body and even of our clothes then someone publicly expose it with our name written on it. Perhaps getting him on jail is not enough for the disgrace and humiliation he did to us. If this insult us how much more it is to God. Is this how we are to love him after dying for us to be save and even decided that in due time we will be like him as partakers of his divine nature and holiness.

In the Holy Scriptures all these what they called “holy images” are all abominations to the LORD. And those who adore them are regarded as fools and blinds and worse is they are destined to suffer the wrath of God.

Deu. 7:25 The images of their gods you are to burn in the fire. Do not covet the silver and gold on them, and do not take it for yourselves, or you will be snared by it, for it is detestable to the LORD your God.
Rom. 1:22 Although they claimed to be wise, they become fools 23 and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images made to look like mortal man and birds and animals and reptiles.

Eze. 5:11 Therefore as surely as I live, declares the Sovereign LORD, because you have defiled my Sanctuary with all your vile images and detestable practices, I myself withdraw my favor : I will not look at you with pity or spare you.

Deu. 4:15 You saw no form of any kind the day the LORD spoke to you at Horeb out of fire. Therefore watch yourselves very carefully, 16 so that you do not become corrupt and make for yourselves an idol, an image of any shape, whether formed like a man or a woman, 17 or like any animal on earth or any bird that flies in the air, 18 or like any creature that moves along the ground or any fish in the waters below.

Exo. 20:4 You shall not make for yourself an idol in the form of anything in heaven above or on the earth beneath or in the waters below. 5 You shall not bow down to them or worship them; for I, the LORD your God, am a jealous God, punishing the children for the sin of the fathers to the third and fourth generations of those who hate me, 6 but showing love to a thousand generations of those who love me and keep my commandments. (2nd of the Ten Commandments)

These images or idols can never represent the Holy God. It is an insult to represent God with something that has no life – blind, dumb and made of wood and stone. Even ourselves are not worthy as servants if we are not faithful, how much more in representation of him.



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AN OPEN LETTER


Dear Brothers and Sisters in Christ,

Greetings! May the peace and love of our Lord Jesus be with you all.

It is my prayers that you be with me in spreading the Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ. With this writing of mine I encourage you to be a part in sharing His words. May the truth revealed here enlightened you more to behold the glory of our Lord Jesus. And may this truth be a means of blessings to you and lead you unto salvation.

Thank you and God bless you.

Yours truly,

Bro. Danelix