Meet a Man Called Messiah Jesus

Meet a Man Called Messiah Jesus

We Christians should be very clear about the identity of the one to whom we claim loyalty.
Our textbook, the Bible, introduces him with delight, simplicity, and meticulous care. Before you have completed reading the first chapter of Matthew and Luke, you will have learned that Jesus is the Messiah (Christ), the King of Israel, the King of the Jews, the Son of God (which is a synonym for the King of Israel: John 1:49).
You will have learned that Jesus is the biological son of Mary, the legal son of Joseph, and of course the Son of God, by creative miracle. The reason for him being the Son of God is spelled out with matchless clarity and simplicity in Luke 1:35: It is “because of” — “precisely for this reason” (dio kai) — that God became his Father by miracle in Mary. That seems to be so reasonable and just what we expect for the origin of the second Adam, the head of the new creation.

Luke 1:35 is the definitive and decisive, lifechanging text for defining how, why and when Jesus originates as the Son of God. To miss this angelic definition of Jesus is to miss the core of the whole NT, indeed the whole Bible. It wasn’t long after Bible times that the Son of God of Luke and the NT was transformed into a figure barely recognizable as the Jesus of history. He was lifted out of history and given a new and confusing identity.

Scholars have conducted a never-ending “quest for the historical Jesus,” implying that he was lost! But the quest had been successfully undertaken by Matthew and Luke and the rest of the NT writers! No need to look further. Jesus is there in the opening chapters of the NT. He is the Messiah and the supernaturally procreated Son of God.

Jesus is also the descendant of Judah (Heb. 7:14). He is of the tribe of Judah. He is also ... of Adam, and of Eve (as the seed of the woman). Move two chapters ahead in Luke to find that Jesus is the son of Adam who was the son of God (Luke 3:38). As a child from the womb of Mary Jesus is the uniquely begotten man, the Son of Man, the Messiah, King of Israel. He is also of course the walking embodiment of God’s preplanned wisdom and word (John 1:1, 14).

But Jesus is not “God the Son,” making two Gods. A 17th-century orthodox bishop and theologian, Thomas Ken, was rightly puzzled by the amazing definition which the Church by then had long held as traditional —the idea that Jesus was the “eternally generated Son.” He mused: “Strange generation this! Father and Son co-eternal. Two distinct and yet but one.”

Matthew and Luke, and especially Mary, would have been aghast at such non-biblical, philosophical jargon and, one might ask, ought we not to be asking questions about how and where our church got its creed and its definition of Jesus? Is all that language about “essence” and “Persons” really intelligible by scriptural standards? ...

A wonderful title for Jesus can be discovered before you have completed Luke 1. According to Elizabeth, Jesus is “my lord.” Elizabeth hailed Mary as “the mother of my lord” (Luke 1:43). She is not “the mother of my GOD” (!) as later misdescribed in post-biblical theology. And “my lord” is derived from the most interesting of all titles, the one found in Psalm 110:1 where God (the YHVH of the Hebrew Bible) addressed an inspired oracle through David to “my lord” (adoni). His instructions were that this descendant of David was to sit at the right hand of the One God, until his enemies are subdued under his feet. This text provides the golden key to the constitution and plot for the whole Bible!
That is why it is quoted more often than any OT text in the NT.
That “my lord” of Psalm 110:1 is the very same “man of My right hand” of Psalm 80:17, “the man whom God has made strong for Himself.”

The one at the right hand of God
is the supremely exalted man Messiah,
not a second God! 

Psalm 110:1 was the subject of Jesus’ master-question. With this verse he stumped all his opponents.

Another stellar text describing who the real Jesus is is found in Deuteronomy 18:15-18. This verse is cited by Peter (Acts 3:22) and Stephen (Acts 7:37, as he died at the hands of hostile Jews): God promised to produce from the ranks of Israel a prophet like Moses. He was to be God’s final word to the world, and any who did not yield to him and his teachings would be rooted out from among the people. God would hold them accountable for refusing the words of His final agent, the Son of God, Jesus.

This is the biblical identity of Jesus as Messiah. With this list of titles for the great central personage of the biblical drama, you can move forward from Matthew 1 to an intelligent reading of the great biblical drama. Your destiny is bound up with the Messiah, who died for the sins of the world, and you are invited to rule on earth with him in his coming Kingdom. It will be wise to drop titles like “God the Son” (making a second God) and omit from your thinking any myths about “going to heaven when you die.” That will prove to be a disastrous diversion from the plot of the real and only biblical story.

The Messiah Jesus is going to return from heaven to the earth, which will be renewed and become the scene of the very first successful world government, the Kingdom of God, with headquarters in Jerusalem. “May His Kingdom come!”

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Shouting from the Rooftops! by Robin Todd

Shouting from the Rooftops! by Robin Todd


Hello everyone. I’m not sure what is drawing to a close more quickly — my own life or this present world order.

My name is Robin Todd and I am a (rapidly aging) singer and witness for the one God of the Bible. As this age draws to a close and the return of the Messiah Jesus is imminent, it is my purpose to proclaim the one true Gospel of God and Jesus once again to this dark world of religious confusion, beginning right here in my home town area of Lacey, Washington, and extending out to whoever in the world will listen. What I have to bring you in word and song, I bring in the worship of Yahweh, the One true God, and in His miraculously begotten and now exalted human Son, Jesus of Nazareth.

At the foundation of this age God had prepared the Kingdom for us (Matt. 25:34), and invited us to go take possession of it — rule over it (Gen. 1:28). The Father considered that His physical human children, made in His image, were truly good enough to successfully administer the affairs of His creation while spiritually maturing in relationship with Him.

However, we did not take possession of that Kingdom because we didn’t believe that God was right — that we really had what it takes to do so. We wrongly perceived that our carbon-based bodies and minds were not good enough, and only through exercising the intellectual and spiritual capacities of a non-physical, so-called “immortal soul,” would we be considered worthy in God’s sight (see the Satanic deception in Gen. 3:4-5). Problem is, there is no such thing as an “immortal soul.”
It was an invention of the devil designed to denigrate and shame the physical human being made in the image of the One and Only immortal God.

And so we, the children of God, have lived in constant fear of rejection by our Father, afraid that we don’t have what it takes to please Him. And from that fearful posture we have become jealous, envious, covetous, greedy, hateful, and spiteful competing siblings, growing up to be fathers and mothers who pass this fear along to our children. Each one of us lacks the confidence and faith in our Creator’s heart and His assessment of us — a Father who from the beginning has stood ready to convey nothing but grace and patience, if we would only believe Him and His final revelation in His Son Jesus.

Our original misperception about our Father and our relationship to Him, cleverly engineered by satanic deception, has subsequently led to dysfunctional relationships between fathers and their children down through human history. Coupled with modern science and technology, the human family is headed for extinction. But there is a way out, even now, if we will begin to take seriously the issue of believing the TRUTH, i.e. what is true, and give up on the lies we may have been taught (2 Thess. 2:10 says it all!).

Beginning once again with Abraham, God has made belief in the message of a coming Kingdom of God and our inheritance of it, the foundation of our relationship with Him and our healing and salvation. Abraham believed, along with Isaac, Jacob, Joshua, Caleb, David, the prophets, Jesus, the apostles, and others. Jesus came to confirm the promises made to the fathers (Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob; see Rom. 15:8). He is the cornerstone of the entire Kingdom plan. Therefore, if we are Christ’s, we are Abraham’s seed and heirs according to the
promise (Gal. 3:29).

Contrary to the religions of this age God declares through the Gospel of the coming Kingdom and the things concerning Jesus, that physical human beings are, in fact, good enough to inherit and successfully administer His Kingdom on earth. It is our God-given destiny. Our identity is to rule in His coming Kingdom with and under Jesus, the Anointed One. We don’t need an immortal soul to be valuable and lovable to our Father (contrary to the satanic lie of Genesis 3 which set the foundation of this world’s religious system). We are lovable and “justified” solely by His grace as a Father toward His children.

In like manner, the idea that Jesus is the incarnation of a pre-existent God person is designed by the enemy of the One God and Father, to once again convince us that being human is not good enough. It is biblically incorrect and is a systematic attempt to destroy the innocent, childlike mind God gave human beings. This belief and teaching is a major weapon wielded by mankind’s enemy to hold men and women captive to sin.

The biblical truth is that Jesus was a miraculously begotten, carbon-based human being born of the line of David. He is not God, but is the Son of God; and as God’s agent he has functional equality with Him. He has been given authority to rule and to judge by the One and Only God.

We must begin our walk with the One God by believing in His Kingdom message and in His Son Jesus who is the King of that Kingdom. If we do, we are standing under the new covenant that God makes with His children, and the blood of Jesus which ratifies that covenant cleanses us from sins we committed through our previous disbelief.

Therefore first I urge the religions of this world, Hinduism, Buddhism, Taoism, Jainism, Theosophy, orthodox Christianity, and any other mystery-based systems of belief, to come back to the faith of the fathers, prophets, Jesus, his apostles, and subsequent disciples. Physical human beings made of the dust of the ground are in themselves inherently valuable and lovable in the eyes of God. It is only through the resurrection and subsequent glorification of our physical bodies that we shall receive immortality. Reject the immortal soul doctrine immediately and fully embrace your humanity, as Jesus himself did. Believe in the good news of the coming Kingdom of God prepared for you from the foundation of the world, as Jesus himself did and about which he specifically preached.

Secondly, I plead with Judaism to recognize Jesus of Nazareth as the man and Messiah appointed by the One God of Israel to usher in the soon to come Kingdom on this earth. The hearts of the fathers, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, cry out to the children of Israel through this exalted man, to return to the faith they had in the promises made to them by the ultimate Father. It is by the grace of a loving and accepting God and Father that we are saved through this faith. Jesus is the perfect example of this faith in God’s grace and promises. Therefore there is no other name by which we must be saved. Remembering the law of Moses in a new spiritual light can give further insight into how important believing in the Gospel of the kingdom of God is to our health and salvation.

And finally, I urge Islam to also confess that Jesus of Nazareth is the Messiah appointed by the One God. He is the one we have been waiting for to come and rule the earth from Jerusalem and lead all men back to God, who is the Father of us all. ...

For more info on this subject and for contact info concerning Robin Todd please proceed to the source article which is at Shouting from the Rooftops!

Jesus Is Still a Human Being

Jesus Is Still a Human Being

by dividingword

Eph 4:4-6  “There is one body and one Spirit, just as you were called to the one hope of your calling, one Lord [i.e. Jesus], one faith, one baptism, one God and Father of all, who is above all and through all and in all.”

Peter says, “God has made him [i.e. Jesus] both Lord and Messiah, this Jesus whom you crucified.” And that Jesus is Lord of all. (Acts 2:36, 10:36)

Paul confirms this truth in 1 Cor. 8:4, “…that there is no God but one.”
(1 Cor. 8:6)  “…for us there is one God, the Father, from whom are all things and for whom we exist, and one Lord, Jesus Christ, through whom are all things and through whom we exist.”

There is only ONE GOD, the Father.And ONE Lord, Jesus the Christ, the Son of the Father [2 John 3]

Very simple!

Hence, “…every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.” (Phil 2:11)

Scriptures are clear over and over again that there is a distinction between the ONE GOD and his human son, Christ Jesus, who is the one Lord.

ONE GOD, ONE man!

“For there is one God; there is also one mediator between God and humankind,
Christ Jesus, himself human.”  (1 Tim. 2:5)

Jesus is still a human being in his resurrected body!  Jesus is a man, not God.

This is simple truth.

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Jesus Is Still a Human Being

Paul Agrees with Jesus that Jesus is Not God

Paul Agrees with Jesus that Jesus is Not God

by dividingword

Many all over the world take a few passages of what Jesus said to make him say that he proclaimed to be God when he never did, and they also take a few passages from Paul claiming he did the same thing when he did not. 

Both Jesus and Paul said there is only one true God.

Jesus praying,

“And this is everlasting life, that they may KNOW YOU, THE ONLY TRUE GOD, and Jesus Christ, whom You have sent.” John 17:3

And Paul said,

“Hence, as to the eating of food offered to idols, we know that “no idol in the world really exists,” and that “there is NO GOD BUT ONE.” Indeed, even though there may be so-called gods in heaven or on earth—as in fact there are many gods and many lords— yet for us there is ONE GOD, THE FATHER, from whom are all things and for whom we exist, and one Lord, Jesus Christ, through whom are all things and through whom we exist.” 1 Cor. 8:4-6

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Paul Agrees with Jesus that Jesus is Not God

1 John 5:20 “Jesus The Only True God?”

1 John 5:20 “Jesus The Only True God?”

“And we know that the Son of God is come, and hath given us understanding, that we may know him that is true, and we are in him that is true, even his Son Jesus Christ.
This is the true God and eternal life.”

Trinitarians insist that the antecedent to the word “this” refers back to Christ in the previous sentence. They need to be consistent in their rule of interpretation, but they know they cannot because they will see the implications of using their own standard all the time.

Example,

“For many deceivers are entered into the world, who confess not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh. THIS is a deceiver and an antichrist” (2 John 1:7). 

By using the logic of the trinitarian ruling, they would have to say Christ is a deceiver and an antichrist!

Another,

“Who is the liar but the one who denies that Jesus is the Christ? THIS is the antichrist, the one who denies the Father and the Son” (1 John 2:22).

What we end up with is absurd if we use trinitarian logic, that Christ is the antichrist and Christ denies the Father and the Son!

Looking at the context of 1 John chapter 5 – it is about God the Father who alone is the TRUE GOD. The Son comes to give us understanding so that we might know “HIM” [God] who is true.

Who is the “true God?”

2 Chron. 15:3 “Now for a long season Israel was without the TRUE GOD, and without a teaching priest, and without law:”

Jer. 10:10 “But YAHWEH IS THE TRUE GOD; he is the living God, and an everlasting King: at his wrath the earth trembleth, and the nations are not able to abide his indignation.”

John 17:1 “These words spake Jesus, and lifted up his eyes to heaven, and said, Father ...”
John 17:3 “And this is everlasting life, that they may KNOW YOU, the ONLY TRUE GOD, and Jesus Christ, whom You have sent.”

1 Thess. 1:9 “For they themselves report concerning us what manner of entering in we had unto you; and how ye turned unto God from idols, to serve a living and TRUE GOD.”
1 Thess. 1:10 “And to wait for his Son from heaven, whom he raised from the dead, even Jesus ...”

1 John 5:20 And we know that the Son of God is come, and hath given us an understanding, that we know him [GOD] that IS TRUE, and we are in him [GOD] that IS TRUE, even in his Son Jesus Christ. This is the TRUE GOD, and eternal life.

Reading the context of 1 John chapter 5 and the whole counsel of scripture, there is no doubt that God the Father is the ONLY TRUE GOD. We know Him [GOD the Father] and we are in Him [GOD the Father], just the same as Jesus is in union with GOD, the Father, who is the only true God.

John does not say Jesus the Messiah is the only true God. Trinitarians use John and wickedly twist his own words to try and prove an idolatrous trinity doctrine never taught by him.

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1 John 5:20 “Jesus The Only True God?”

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