My Understanding of The True God - Cathrine Thomas (robert munsch read aloud TXT) 📗

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7. And who can proclaim as I do? Then let him declare and set it in order for me, since I appointed the ancient people. And things that are coming and shall come, let them show these to them.
8. Do not fear, nor be afraid; have I not told you from that time, and declared it? You are my witnesses. Is there a God besides me? Indeed there is no other Rock; I know not one.”
9. Those who make an image, all them are useless, and their precious things shall not profit; they are their own witnesses; they neither see nor know, that they may be ashamed.

If you read the Old Testament, you will see that, according to every book in the Old Testament, there is only one God, the God that created everything. Mankind has gone away from God and God’s Law.

Let’s take an example: in Daniel 9:2 Daniel said that he understood the years specified by the prophet Jeremiah, that He would accomplish seventy years in the desolation of Jerusalem. Jeremiah 29 explains that God told Jeremiah to let the people go from Jerusalem and go to Babylon; because it was going to be a long time, they must even build houses and take wives and pray to the Lord for Babylon’s peace and prosperity.
Jeremiah 29:10-11: For this says the LORD: “After seventy years are completed at Babylon, I will visit you and perform My good word toward you, and cause you to return to this place. For I know the thoughts that I think toward you,” says the LORD, “thoughts of peace and not of evil.”

Let us go back and read these verses again so that we may see that there is only one God.

 

 

Chapter 2: Is Jesus the Messiah/God’s Servant?

In this chapter I am going to deal with reasons why Jesus is not the Messiah, and then prove to you that Jesus existed in the Old Testament.
Jesus is not the Messiah, God’s servant to bring back righteousness, peace, and love.
The Messiah will be someone like Moses: he will bring back righteousness and take his people out of bondage from being slaves. But we have slaves even to date.
Isaiah 53
1 Who would have believed our report? And to whom hath the arm of the LORD been revealed?
(To whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed? Not one of us knows.)
2 For he shot up right forth as a sapling, and as a root out of a dry ground; he had no form nor comeliness, that we should look upon him, nor beauty that we should delight in him.

(You will not even know that he is the Messiah (God’s Servant). We shall not look upon him as the Messiah. He will not be a person of beauty “that we should delight in him”.)
3 He was despised, and forsaken of men, a man of pains, and acquainted with disease, and as one from whom men hide their face: he was despised, and we esteemed him not.
(The word “despised” means strongly disliked, abandoned by men, “a man of pains”, “acquainted” (i.e. he will have good knowledge of disease (sins)) and “as one from whom men hide their face”. “He was despised” (strongly disliked) “and we esteemed” (respected and admired) “him not”.)
4 Surely our diseases he did bear, and our pains he carried; whereas we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted.
(“Our diseases” (sins) “he did bear, and our pains he carried”; ”we did esteem” (respected or admired) “him stricken” (wounded) “smitten of God, and afflicted”. The words “smitten of God” mean he was struck by God, but it is interesting that in the English language in the seventeenth century the word “smitten” could also refer to the strong love he and God had for each other. The word “afflicted” could mean he was affected by diseases.)
5 But he was wounded because of our transgressions, he was crushed because of our iniquities: the chastisement of our welfare was upon him, and with his stripes we were healed.
(He was “wounded” because we went against the law of God, “crushed” because of our sins. The “chastisement” (punishment) he suffered was because of “our welfare”, and “with his stripes we were healed” (by his suffering we were healed). The words ”our transgressions” mean our sins when we broke the Law.)
6 All we like sheep did go astray, we turned every one to his own way; and the LORD hath made to light on him the iniquity of us all.
(This is the ultimate truth: we have “gone astray”, gone our own way, not the Lord’s, but the Lord made him bear the sins of us all.)
7 He was oppressed, though he humbled himself and opened not his mouth; as a lamb that is led to the slaughter, and as a sheep that before her shearers is dumb; yea, he opened not his mouth.
(It is important to note that he “opened not his mouth”: he did not say he was the Messiah or Servant.)
8 By oppression and judgment he was taken away, and with his generation who did reason? for he was cut off out of the land of the living, for the transgression of my people to whom the stroke was due.
(By “oppression” (cruelty) and “judgement he was taken away” (I presume he was put in prison). The words, “with his generation who did reason?” mean that nobody spoke against this injustice against him. He “was cut off out of the land of the living” because of the sin of the people of the Lord, the people “to whom the stroke was due”: the people should have been punished, but he was punished instead.)
9 And they made his grave with the wicked, and with the rich his tomb; although he had done no violence, neither was any deceit in his mouth.
(He was buried with the wicked and the rich at his grave, even though he had done nothing wrong. In contrast, Jesus was crucified because he went around claiming to be the Messiah, the Servant, and a god.)
10 Yet it pleased the LORD to crush him by disease; to see if his soul would offer itself in restitution, that he might see his seed, prolong his days, and that the purpose of the Lord might prosper by his hand:
(The words “it pleased the Lord” could mean that it was God’s purpose to cause him to suffer: he wanted to “see if his soul would offer itself in restitution” (the Lord wanted to see if his soul, i.e. his afterlife, would offer itself to restitute or restore God’s people (his seed) and continue his life among his people so that God’s purpose would prosper or benefit by what he has done.)
11 Of the travail of his soul he shall see to the full, even My servant, who by his knowledge did justify the Righteous One to the many, and their iniquities he did bear.
(This repetition of the word “see” from the previous verse emphasises that God’s Servant will have full understanding of what he had done in justifying the Righteous One, God, and in bearing the iniquities of the people. He will “see to the full” the “travail of his soul”: he will understand why he had to undergo so much suffering. Because of our sins and our changing the Law of God, the Servant, by his actions and suffering, justified “the Righteous One”.)
12 Therefore will I divide him a portion among the great, and he shall divide the spoil with the mighty; because he bared his soul unto death, and was numbered with the transgressors; yet he bore the sin of many, and made intercession for the transgressors.
(The words, “Therefore will I divide him a portion among the great”, remind me that God said to Joseph that Joseph would be given two portions. (It is important to note that God does not say that his Servant will be seated at the right hand of the father.) The Servant “bared his soul unto death”: he poured out his soul all the time he was alive: he was faithful to the Righteous One, God, throughout his life, even though he “was numbered with the transgressors”, i.e. he was considered to be a criminal. Until the day he died, he “bore the sins of many, and made intercession” (i.e. he prayed) for those who had broken God’s Law, “the transgressors”.

 

The servant will be like Moses, who was told by God to gather his people and to lead them.)

Let us now discuss whether Jesus is the Messiah or the Only Beloved Son.

1. Jesus was the son of God, but so are we all children of God. In Jeremiah 31:9 Ephraim is referred to as God’s “firstborn son”.
2. The Christian belief is that Jesus was born as a miracle baby, from a virgin. (The word “virgin” should really be “young woman”.) Or was it that Mary fell pregnant and, because of her royal line, she could have caused shame for her family?
3. Why was Joseph so upset when he took the child Jesus to the fair, and Jesus was so interested in the magic?
4. In the Bible, no one can perform miracles: only God can, Yet Jesus did so many times.
5. Jeremiah 23:34 tells us that the Lord said, “If a prophet or a priest or anyone claims, ‘This is the oracle of the Lord,’ I will punish that man and his household.” Yet Jesus did just that. Anyone who states that the Lord said something is disobeying the Lord’s commandment and will be punished.
6. No one is to claim to be God: even when one is “oppressed and inflicted”, he will “not open his mouth” (Isaiah 53:7).Yet Jesus did.
7. No one is to change the word of God, but Jesus did so.
8. In Zechariah 5:1-4 we are told about the “flying scroll … the curse that goes over the face of the earth”
9. No one is to take God’s name in vain, yet Jesus said, “I am he.” The Messiah will have the spirit of God upon him, and not claim to be God.
10. The Messiah is to bring about changes to mankind, to the benefit of mankind, to the world. It is not a matter of performing miracles. God can perform miracles. He did not need to come in human form. We are living 2000+ years since Jesus entered, and yet mankind is still so evil and wicked. But was that not the reason why Jesus was supposed to come to the earth? He was meant to correct this world, but he has not. This proves that Jesus was not the Messiah.
11. Jesus did not build the third temple. It is only starting to be rebuilt in +2017. In the Bible it says that the third temple will be built in the hardest of times and it will be made out of hewn stones. Why has it taken Jesus +2000 years to rebuild it?
12. Was Jesus anointed by God? No, he was not. He cannot be God, the Son of God, the Messiah, the Servant of God. There is no sense in putting all these together.
13. The Messiah is not meant to die the death of a criminal. He is meant to die a normal death and to be buried with the rich and the wicked by his side. (Isaiah 53:9.)
The following from the Old Testament tells us who the Messiah, God’s servant, really is:

Isaiah 11
1. And there shall come forth a shoot out of the stock of Jesse, and a twig shall grow forth out of his roots.

2. And the spirit of the LORD shall rest upon him, the spirit of wisdom and understanding, the spirit of counsel and might, the spirit of knowledge and of the fear of the LORD.

3. And his delight shall be in the fear of the LORD; and he shall not judge after the sight of