Subject: Is the first resurrection, the rapture? |
Bible Note: Hi Tim, Did he or did he not say in Is 43:10, that there is no other god besides him? If he did then how can Jesus be another god? Reply: Tim, there are many gods. But there is only One True GOD, Jehovah. Why wouldn't Jesus be a god? Isn't Satan the god of this world? At Isaiah 43:10. YOU are my witnesses, is the utterance of Jehovah, even my servant whom I have chosen, in order that YOU may know and have faith in me, and that YOU may understand that I am the same One. Before me there was no God formed, and after me there continued to be none. Servant, the anointed God, El Or, and after me there came or, will come, to be none. NWT You are saying that Jesus is GOD ALMIGHTY. Maybe you can answer some of my questions. At Isaiah 53:10 it says, Yet it pleased Jehovah to bruise him, he hath put him to grief. Bruise WHO? HIMSELF? John 1:38 refers to the arm of Jehovah, at Is 53:1, here along with Is 40:10, we have the arm of Jehovah as being the messiah and differenitated from his Father. Jesus can do nothing of himself, but what he seeth the Father doing, John 5:19. As the Father GIVES him knowledge and Revelation, Rev 1:1. But Jesus was even then limited in the knowledge given to him, But of that day or hour KNOWETH NO ONE, not even the angels of heaven, neither the son, but the Father only. Matt 24:36, Mark 13:32 If Jesus was one third of God, and the Father was another third of God, how is it possible that Jesus was ignorant of what another part of his Godhead was doing? If Jesus was simply ignorant in his human nature, then how can he, according to you, see John 20:28, be Almighty God in his human nature at the same time? How can he, according to the creeds, be fully God and fully man at the same time and still not know anymore than the angels? Is it perhaps that he was NOT God, but a representative of God who was simply given the power of agency? Does Matt 28:18 and Hebrews 1:3 say that Jesus is, all powerfull? And Jesus came to them and spake unto them, saying, ALL authority hath been given unto me in heaven and on earth. Matt 28:18. Jesus is GIVEN all authory. Someone who is, all powerful, does not need to be given anything, who being the effulgence of his glory, and the very image of his substance, and upholding all things by the word of his power, when he had made purifications of sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high. If the Scripture is indeed saying that Jesus is, all powerful, it is interesting that he only gets to sit on God's right hand, instead of in his stead. The angels sit at God's right hand, 1 Kings 22:19, 2Chron 18:18, and it is often a position of favor, 1 Kings 2:19, Ps 45:9, for royalty, but not one that is the ultimate power. 1 Corinthians 15:24-28, NIV. Then the end will come, when he hands over the Kingdom to God the Father after he has destroyed all dominion, authority and power. For he must reigh until he has putt all his enemies under his feet. The lastenemy is death. For he has put everything under his feet. Now when it says that everything has been put under him, it is clear that this does not include God himself, who put everything under Christ. When he has done this, then the Son himself will be made subject to him who put everything under him, so that God may be all in all. Is Jesus handing over the Kingdom to himself? |