My years of observation of all the various discourse on the being of Jesus has revealed to me the virtually nobody really understands who Jesus is as a being. That will be remedied in the Messianic Manifesto in such a way that Jesus will be understood to be the very source of, and the unity between, Jewish testimony and Christian testimony.
This will unify the faith wholly instead of the present fallacy of their being two religions such as is popularly mischaracterized. The unity will be in understanding who Jesus really is as a being.
You can't really understand a rock star who is a "no show" at the concert.
ReplyDeletejerome: You can't really understand a rock star who is a "no show" at the concert.
ReplyDeletemerk: You can listen to the albums, however. This is interesting because the purported general consensus among observant Jews is that Messiah has not come, even though he was supposed to at around the 4000 year mark of Hebrew history - the time of Yehoshua. However, that Messiah would keep and expound upon Torah consistent with the tradition that has developed up until now, is considered axiomatic to the paradigm, and they also generally haven't given up on the idea. There is a more esoteric approach to Messiah's unerring arrival - without a literal, physical manifestation - Messiah (ben Yosef - suffering servant) is the entirety of Israel/observant Jews (to ANY degree) throughout history being blessed with a spiritual connection to G-d, and this is considered more desirable, for obvious reasons. Xtianity, regarding Messiah, has been very domineering of a personage of debatable identity - thus the varying ideas and beliefs within it. Judaism is more focused on the identity, and one might even relate a teaching from Yehoshua to this mentality - "It's better to cut off your own right hand and enter into life...". This is what is going to keep xtian and Jew separate, for as long as there is a belief or sentiment contrariwise.
V: Christian traditions about Jesus tend to elevate him to the status of Jesus being God. On the other extreme some Jewish people believe Jesus was the illegitimate child of Mary. Some call him merely a prophet. Some say he was just an enlightened man in touch with some concept like "Christ consciousness". Pretty mush the full spectrum of ideas has been expressed, yet I have never found anyone who put forward the doctrine ot Jesus being the "Appearance of the Glory of the Lord". Yet this is exactly who Jesus is as an identifiable being.
ReplyDeleteHere is a scriptural example of on of the appearances of the "Appearance of the Glory of the Lord":
"Eze 1:26 And above the firmament that [was] over their heads [was] the likeness of a throne, as the appearance of a sapphire stone: and upon the likeness of the throne [was] the likeness as the appearance of a man above upon it.
Eze 1:27 And I saw as the colour of amber, as the appearance of fire round about within it, from the appearance of his loins even upward, and from the appearance of his loins even downward, I saw as it were the appearance of fire, and it had brightness round about.
Eze 1:28 As the appearance of the bow that is in the cloud in the day of rain, so [was] the appearance of the brightness round about. This [was] the appearance of the likeness of the glory of the LORD. And when I saw [it], I fell upon my face, and I heard a voice of one that spake."
V: This passage is from the King James version, which is the only version I have found which doesn't mangle the description of the "Appearance of the Glory of the Lord". From this description the prophet is outlining characteristics of what he is witnessing:
A man in the sky on a throne.
A throne within a cloud like structure.
A burning cloud the color of amber.
A man waist deep within the cloud.
A throne the color of sapphire.
These are some basic element of the many characteristic descriptions of the "Appearance of the Glory of the Lord". Such descriptions are found throughout the OT. But in the NT we see some of the same things being described by the followers of Jesus, but not in the sense of having witnessed the appearance. Instead the followers of Jesus tend to speak of this event in the future sense, as the "Return of Jesus", coming int he clouds of glory. The connection between Jesus coming in the clouds and the ancient's descriptions of the "Glory of the Lord" is a major profound unifying realization that bears on every aspect of the theology of the faith. It is the same single Being who appears to people in the "Cloud of the Glory". And the being is Jesus.
This represent the very same hope between the Ancient Hebrews and contemporary Christians. That hope is to encounter the "Presence of the Glory" and for the "Glory" to be with them. The Hebrews hoped for the presence of the Lord in the Cloud to come to them and be with them, which is exactly the same hope of believers and followers of Jesus have, which is to have the Being who comes upon the cloud to come to them and abide with them.
This is who Jesus really is.
The evidence suggests that the lyrics credited to Jehovah were written by Bob Dylan.
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