Swanson, J., &
Nave, O. (1994). New Nave's. Oak Harbor: Logos Research
Systems.Response to comment [from other]:
"Rather, I am the one here confessing the Son of God, Israel, before
you all. Exodus 4:22 ... then, urge you all to kiss the Son! Psalm
2:12 KJV. And what do you say happens to me for not confessing
your Greek idea of the Son of God? Does it go well for me when
I confess that I clearly can see Jesus, the Jewish Rabbi that is,
was one of the Son of God?"
The preeminent one, eternally begotten (Ps.
2:7; Heb. 1:5), trinity member (Matt. 28:19), priest-king (Heb. 1:8;
Heb. 5:5, 6).
And thou shalt say
unto Pharaoh, Thus saith the
Lord, Israel is
my son, even my firstborn [Exod. 4:22].
"God did not call the
individual Israelite a son of God, but He did say of the nation,
“Israel is my son, even my firstborn.”"
Kiss the Son, lest
he be angry, and ye perish from the way, when his wrath is
kindled but a little. Blessed are all they that put their trust
in him [Ps. 2:12].
"The late Dr. George
Gill used to tell us in class, “ ‘Kiss the Son’ is the Old
Testament way of saying, ‘… Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ,
and thou shalt be saved …’ (Acts 16:31).” “Kiss the Son.”
Do you remember who
kissed Him? Have you ever noted what our Lord said to Judas
after he kissed Him? The theologians today argue about
predestination and election and predetermination and
foreknowledge, and that this man Judas could not help what he
did since it had been prophesied he would do it. Now I’m going
to let the theologians handle that. I’m just a poor preacher who
doesn’t know very much; so I stay away from those problems and
let the theologians solve them. However, after I listen to them
awhile I have a sneaking feeling they haven’t solved them.
Notice what the Bible says, and it is well to listen to the
Bible rather than to the theologians. Remember at Jesus’
betrayal when Judas led the mob out to apprehend Jesus in the
garden, he said, “I’ll identify him for you by kissing Him.” So
he came to Jesus and kissed Him. Have you noted what Jesus said
to him? “And Jesus said unto him, Friend, wherefore art thou
come? …” (Matt. 26:50). Why did He say that? Didn’t He know why
Judas had kissed Him? Of course He did. Then why did He call him
friend?
What did He mean? Let me suggest this. “Judas, you have just
kissed Me, which has fulfilled prophecy, and has satisfied all
the theologians who are going to come along. Now you are free to
turn and accept Me, free to turn that kiss of betrayal into a
kiss of acceptance. You can do that, Judas. You are a free moral
agent.” And the Spirit of God says, “Kiss the Son. Believe on
the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved.”
My friend, the Spirit
of God today is in the world saying to mankind, “Kiss the Son
before it is too late. Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ before
it is too late.” He is coming some day, and He is going to
establish His kingdom here upon this earth. He is going to rule,
and He is going to put down all rebellion. He will bring peace
and harmony to this little earth.
When I first went to
Nashville, Tennessee, as a pastor, some friends, thinking they
were doing me a favor, called me and said, “We have tickets for
the symphony orchestra that’s coming to town, and we want to
take you as our guest.” Well, I love music, but I know nothing
about it; and I can’t sing it—I always help congregational
singing by keeping quiet. Frankly, I can’t think of anything
more boring than a whole evening of symphony! But I had to go
because they were polite and I wanted to be polite, so I
accepted graciously and went along. I had never been to a thing
like that before, and I was impressed by what I saw. We went in,
took our seats, and in a few moments the musicians began to
drift out from the stage sides. They were in shirt sleeves for
the most part, and each man went up to his instrument and
started tuning it. The fellows with the fiddles too big to put
under their chins sawed back and forth—oh, it sounded terrible.
The fellows with the little ones they put under their chins
squeaked up and down with those. The ones with the horns—oh my,
nothing was in harmony. It was a medley of discordant, confused
noise. Then after they got through with that kind of
disturbance, they all disappeared again—went out through the
wings. Another five minutes went by, when all of a sudden the
lights in the auditorium went off, the lights on the platform
came on, and the musicians walked out. This time they had on
their coats. My, they looked so nice. Each one came out and
stood or sat at his instrument. Then there was a hush in the
auditorium, a spotlight was focused on the wings, and the
conductor stepped out. When he did, there was thunderous
applause for him. He bowed. Then he came up to the podium and
picked up a thin little stick. He turned around again to the
audience and bowed, then turned his back to the audience, lifted
that little stick—total silence came over that auditorium, you
could have heard a pin drop—then he brought that little stick
down. And, my friend, there were goose pimples all over me. I
never heard such music in all my life. Oh, what harmony, what
wonderful harmony there was!
Today I live in a world
where every man is tooting his own little horn. Every little
group wants to be heard. Everybody wants to tell you what he
thinks. Everybody is playing his own little fiddle, and I want
to tell you, it’s a medley of discord. Everything is out of
tune. But one of these days the spotlight is going on, and the
Lord Jesus Christ will come. When He comes to this universe, He
is going to lift His scepter, and everything that is out of tune
with Him is going to be removed. Then when He comes down with
that scepter—oh, the harmony that will be in this universe! I’m
thankful today that I do live in a universe where I can bow to
Him, and I can bring this little instrument of my body, my life,
into tune with Him. I can bow to Him, I can acknowledge Him, I
can make Him my Savior and Lord."
McGee, J. V. (1997, c1981). Thru the Bible commentary.
Based on the Thru the Bible radio program. (electronic
ed.) (2:670-671). Nashville: Thomas Nelson.
Response to comment [from other]: "Christian's
imagined god."
"After the
death and resurrection of Jesus, ‘messiah’ takes on
a specifically Christian meaning as a ‘title’ that
refers only to Jesus. The ‘messiah’ Jesus is the
crucified agent of God, who has died ‘for our sins’
(1 Cor. 15:3). Acts 2:36 speaks of God having made
Jesus ‘both Lord and Christ’ at his
resurrection/exaltation into heaven. In such a
context ‘messiah’ denotes Jesus’ vindication and
exaltation by God. Luke 2:11 links ‘messiah’ with
the christological titles ‘Lord,’ commonly
associated with the risen/exalted Jesus (cf. Rom.
1:4b; Phil. 2:11), and ‘Savior’ in the announcement
of Jesus’ birth. Acts 3:19-22 preserves yet another
early Christian use of ‘messiah’ for Jesus. It
describes his return at the Parousia, a function
elsewhere ascribed to him as ‘Lord’ (1 Thess. 4:17;
1 Cor. 11:26; 16:22).
None of the
uses of ‘messiah’ in Jewish writings of the period
points toward the suffering or death of the person
so designated. The juxtaposition of the confession
that Jesus is ‘messiah’ with the prediction of the
suffering Son of man in Mark 8:27-33 brings out this
difficulty. The ‘suffering servant’ of God (Isa.
52:13-53:12) provided Christians with powerful
images of Jesus’ vocation to suffering. However, the
‘servant’ is not ‘the anointed of God.’ Explicit
acknowledgment of the theme of the ‘suffering
messiah’ occurs in the Lucan writings. The messiah,
according to Scripture, was to suffer before
entering his glory (Luke 24:26, 46; also see Acts
3:18; 17:3; 26:23). Paul can also speak of the
paradox of ‘Christ’ crucified (1 Cor. 1:23; 2:2;
Gal. 3:1), but concern with the expression ‘messiah/christ’
is not part of that reflection. In Paul, as in much
of the rest of the
nt,
‘Christ’ is frequently used as part of Jesus’ name
(see also such passages as Acts 4:10; 8:12).
The
Christian confession that Jesus is ‘messiah’ played
its primary role in Christian debates with Judaism.
This role is evident in the speeches of Acts (Acts
2:31-32; 3:18; 5:42; 8:5; 17:3; 18:5, 28). It is
also evident in the Fourth Gospel. John 1:41
preserves the Aramaic ‘messiah,’ with a translation
for the Greek-speaking reader, in Andrew’s summons
to Peter. Other passages in the Fourth Gospel
represent debates between Johannine Christians and
their Jewish opponents over the claim that Jesus is
messiah. Jesus’ origins are said to disqualify him
by those who do not recognize that his true origin
is ‘from God’ (John 7:41-42). Jesus’ death is said
to disqualify him because the messiah was to have
‘remained forever’ (John 12:34). An uncertain crowd
wonders whether Jesus might be ‘messiah’ (7:26-31;
10:24). Finally, ‘messiah’ is spoken as a confession
of faith in Jesus as Son of God and Savior by those
who are believers (4:29; 11:27; 17:3; 20:31). When
Johannine Christians were excommunicated from the
Jewish synagogue for their faith in Jesus, the
confession ‘Jesus is messiah’ became an identifying
mark of the true Christian (9:22). It retains this
function in the struggle against dissident
Christians reflected in the Johannine Letters (1
John 2:22; 5:1). Justin Martyr’s
Dialogue with Trypho
provides a mid-second-century example of the use of
‘messiah’ in Christian debate with Judaism (35.7;
39.6; 43.8; 47.4; 48.4; 108.2)."
Achtemeier,
P. J., Harper & Row, P., & Society of
Biblical Literature. (1985). Harper's
Bible dictionary. Includes index. (1st
ed.) (631). San Francisco: Harper & Row.
[God barbaric] "...a literal human sacrifice
is barbaric and not at all the way of the
God of Israel. Do you not know that your god
is not the same as the God of Abraham who
proved Himself to not be one of the gods
that required a literal flesh and blood
human sacrifice .. even going so far as to
show that He would not condone it?"
Excerpt, Ronald L.
Dart Born to Win Radio Program: "The whole
idea behind sin offerings in the Bible is
for a man to acknowledge His sin and to
recognize that there is a price to be paid
for it. Now God didn't make a very big deal
out of it. All it took was a little goat [or
lamb]--that, that little fella had to die
because you sinned-- would have an effect on
a normal person, I should think. For the
most part when we do something wrong nothing
happens...at least that's what we think. and
it calls to mind a passage in 'When a crime
is not punished quickly, people feel it is
safe to do wrong.' Ec. 8:11, NLT)." (Archive
Minor Profits #11).
Why do some Jews today wish to reinstate the
sacrificial system? w Yeshua, the lamb of
God, took away the sins of the world. The
types and shadows of the Old Testament
ultimately pointed to Him.
The apostle Paul was a "Jew of Jews". He was
a Pharisee who tortured and murdered
Christians. One day he was knocked off a
donkey and all his religion changed. "But
whatever things were gain to me, those
things I have counted as loss for the sake
of Christ (Phil. 3:7, NASB)." He was not
disobedient to the vision. According to
scripture: Christ was to suffer, die and
rise again. God had done something for man.
Paul presented his case to a crowd. Read
Paul reveals his heart (Acts 22) [http://www.vananne.com/ohjerusalem/Acts%2026.htm].
Paul said "I know you know" King Agrippa.
You can believe in the facts--it depends on
what you do with those facts that is
essential (McGee).
"I did not at all find Jesus written in
any of them and rather that Jesus was being
"written" via that mind into the prophecies.
Care to point out where others have failed
the part in the prophecies that say Jesus is
the fulfillment?"
"Approximately 2500 prophecies appear in the
pages of the Bible, about 2000 of which
already have been fulfilled to the letter—no
errors. (The remaining 500 or so reach into
the future and may be seen unfolding as days
go by.) Since the probability for any one of
these prophecies having been fulfilled by
chance averages less than one in ten
(figured very conservatively) and since the
prophecies are for the most part independent
of one another, the odds for all these
prophecies having been fulfilled by chance
without error is less than one in 102000
(that is 1 with 2000 zeros written after
it)!" Full text:
The Odds
See:
100 Prophecies Fulfilled by Jesus
Response to comment [from a Christian]:
"[C]an one only be saved once they have
obtained a certain level of knowledge? If
so, what is that level?"
Good question.
The Bible does not say that knowledge is the
problem with the world. Sin is
(1Jo 3:4). We belong on the cross.
Christ took our place (Isa 53:5).
Response to comment [from other]:
"Is this the same Paul to have given himself
away in II Corinthians 11:17 KJV?"
You do not consider
the apostle an authority?
I say again, Let no
man think me a fool; if otherwise, yet
as a fool receive me, that I may boast
myself a little.
That which I speak, I
speak it not after the Lord, but as it
were foolishly, in this confidence of
boasting [2 Cor. 11:16–17].
"Paul says he must go
on in this
mindlessness,
and they should indulge him in this."
McGee, J. V. (1997, c1981).
Thru the Bible commentary.
Based on the Thru the Bible
radio program. (electronic ed.)
(5:138). Nashville: Thomas
Nelson.
I have
been arguing against Katie's
position here and elsewhere.
Praise
God. I see that. And
you are doing a fine job.
Confess
Jesus as your Lord & Savior Here