I was reading the gospel of Luke and I noticed something.
Luke 1:16-17, "16And many of the children of Israel shall he turn to the Lord their God. 17And he shall go before him in the spirit and power of Elias, to turn the hearts of the fathers to the children, and the disobedient to the wisdom of the just; to make ready a people prepared for the Lord."
Who is the "Lord their God" in verse 16? The answer is given in verse 17, "And he shall go before him". "Him" who? The Lord the God. It is the person who is going to come after John. Jesus Christ, Lord the God.
Malachi 3:1, "Behold, I(God) will send my messenger(John the Baptist), and he shall prepare the way before me(God): and the Lord, whom ye seek(God), shall suddenly come to his temple(His, meaning it still talks about God), even the messenger of the covenant(Jesus), whom ye delight in: behold, he shall come, saith the LORD of hosts".
I was thinking lately what a huge honor gave us, the people, the Almighty God. The infinite God who is over anything in the universe, visible and invisible, visited us down in our world. The imortal God, whom our visible universe of 15 billion light years wide is too small for him, who knows every single little detail about all those billions and billions of people who have lived so far on earth, whom no human words can describe Him, became a man, He ate our food, He drunk our drinks, He slept on our beds, He walked on our soil, He even felt the little stones under His feet when He walked on earth barefoot, He saw our faces, talked to us face to face, laughed together with us, with our jokes, He felt pain in His body, maybe He got sick and ill sometimes , felt fever, He became tired, exhausted, hungry, thirsty, happy, sad, anything that a man goes through His life. He saw His body becoming a man from a baby, He was a teenager sometime like us, He was shaving, cut His hair. Unbelievable, God came down into our world. God Himself.
We are christians so we have become accustomed to that as we have been tought all that since we were kids. But just think about it. God Himself. The Almighty God.
And not only that. He was mocked at, got was spitted onto His face, was laughted at. People sweared at Him. Beated Him. Pulled His hair away. And at the end they punished Him by executing Him with a torturous death, on a cross, like the worst criminals. Punished Him for what? Did he do something bad? And still He didn't give up. He could had stop His torture on the cross if He wanted, but He didn't stop it. Why?
And here comes the most astonishing thing. Because He is love and He loves us and does not want us to be lost in eternity. So the Almighty God sacrificed Himself for us, the "less than nothing, the soil, the dust". Whow.
There are many verses in the scriptures that show the divinity of Jesus Christ. People often get confused when they come to verses that show the human nature of Jesus, like He was praying to God, So they ask, was He praying to Himself? No, He was praying to Father God. But there are also verses that show His divine nature. Because His a Son of Man (human) but also a Son of God (God). One person, two natures. Jesus walked on earth as a human being. He left His glory and power in Heaven and became like one of us. He walked like us, He ate like us, He drunk like us, He slept like us, He prayed like us. He gave us examples how to behave in any instance in our life.
John 2:19, "Jesus answered and said unto them, Destroy this temple, and in three days I (pay attention to that "I") will raise it up."
Luke 1:16-17, "16And many of the children of Israel shall he turn to the Lord their God. 17And he shall go before him in the spirit and power of Elias, to turn the hearts of the fathers to the children, and the disobedient to the wisdom of the just; to make ready a people prepared for the Lord."
Who is the "Lord their God" in verse 16? The answer is given in verse 17, "And he shall go before him". "Him" who? The Lord the God. It is the person who is going to come after John. Jesus Christ, Lord the God.
Malachi 3:1, "Behold, I(God) will send my messenger(John the Baptist), and he shall prepare the way before me(God): and the Lord, whom ye seek(God), shall suddenly come to his temple(His, meaning it still talks about God), even the messenger of the covenant(Jesus), whom ye delight in: behold, he shall come, saith the LORD of hosts".
I have used Malachi 3:1 and associated it with Matthew 11:14,
Matthew 3:3,
Luke 3:3-4
and Isaiah 40:3-5.
but I overlooked Luke 1:16-17.
Thanks and God bless.
I was thinking lately what a huge honor gave us, the people, the Almighty God. The infinite God who is over anything in the universe, visible and invisible, visited us down in our world. The imortal God, whom our visible universe of 15 billion light years wide is too small for him, who knows every single little detail about all those billions and billions of people who have lived so far on earth, whom no human words can describe Him, became a man, He ate our food, He drunk our drinks, He slept on our beds, He walked on our soil, He even felt the little stones under His feet when He walked on earth barefoot, He saw our faces, talked to us face to face, laughed together with us, with our jokes, He felt pain in His body, maybe He got sick and ill sometimes , felt fever, He became tired, exhausted, hungry, thirsty, happy, sad, anything that a man goes through His life. He saw His body becoming a man from a baby, He was a teenager sometime like us, He was shaving, cut His hair. Unbelievable, God came down into our world. God Himself.
We are christians so we have become accustomed to that as we have been tought all that since we were kids. But just think about it. God Himself. The Almighty God.
And not only that. He was mocked at, got was spitted onto His face, was laughted at. People sweared at Him. Beated Him. Pulled His hair away. And at the end they punished Him by executing Him with a torturous death, on a cross, like the worst criminals. Punished Him for what? Did he do something bad? And still He didn't give up. He could had stop His torture on the cross if He wanted, but He didn't stop it. Why?
And here comes the most astonishing thing. Because He is love and He loves us and does not want us to be lost in eternity. So the Almighty God sacrificed Himself for us, the "less than nothing, the soil, the dust". Whow.
There are many verses in the scriptures that show the divinity of Jesus Christ. People often get confused when they come to verses that show the human nature of Jesus, like He was praying to God, So they ask, was He praying to Himself? No, He was praying to Father God. But there are also verses that show His divine nature. Because His a Son of Man (human) but also a Son of God (God). One person, two natures. Jesus walked on earth as a human being. He left His glory and power in Heaven and became like one of us. He walked like us, He ate like us, He drunk like us, He slept like us, He prayed like us. He gave us examples how to behave in any instance in our life.
John 2:19, "Jesus answered and said unto them, Destroy this temple, and in three days I (pay attention to that "I") will raise it up."
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