“JESUS CHRIST - A MAN APPROVED OF GOD (Acts 2:22)”
Miracle #21-
Matt
14:24-27,28-31,32-33;
Mark 6:47-50,51-52; John 6:16-19,20-21
Dear
Reader, among many others, there are three
lessons from this miracle:
1.
Death bed conversions and distractions
2.
De-materialisation
3.
Two or three witnesses
1.
Death bed conversions
Dear
Reader, if ever there was an argument against
death bed conversions, this is it … you know “I’ll ask Jesus to save me
with my
last breath … when I’m flat on my back.”
No
they won’t!
They’ll have too much else going on!
Put
it this way, the disciples had just witnessed
the feeding of the 5,000 with five loaves and two small fishes, yet a
few hours
later that same night, they took their eyes off their belief that
Christ could
save them … that he could still the wind and the waves.
And
how easy Dear Reader, in distracting
circumstances, we have all been outside of ‘the same boat’ as Peter, in
with
taking our eyes off the Lord in boisterous circumstances
(Matthew
14:30).
2.
De-materialisation
Viewers
of Science Fiction movies will be familiar
with the term of “Beam me up, Scottie!” whereby the speaker’s body
would be
de-materialised, go through the ceiling, through outer space, to then
‘come
back together’ on another planet.
In
walking on the water, Christ had de-materialised
himself, by changing his physical body into another physical body …
somehow
‘lighter’ than the water. But yes, it was just as ‘solid’ as his
previous body
as he reached out and grabbed Peter by the hand (Matthew 14:31).
This
change in Christ’s atomic body structure would
be again repeated in the upper room (John 20:19).
Miracles
cannot be explained by science … just as
the miracle of creation can never be scientifically explained. Put it
this way,
creation must happen first before the laws of physics come into being.
3.
Two or three witnesses
In
the mouth of two witnesses (Matthew
18:16) … we have a reprise, a re-enactment, a repeat, of Christ
in a
previous miracle, physically inside of the boat, stilling
the wind
(Mark 4:35-38,39-41); and with this second witness of Christ, being outside
of the boat, stilling the wind, and in addition, with a
ten-point
degree of difficulty … that of walking on the tempest waves.
We
notice that he constrains and ‘forces’
his disciple to row out into the Sea of Galilee. Why? As with the
feeding of
the 5,000, he knew what he was going to do in advance … to prove to
them, a second
time, his power over the weather … that he was God in the flesh
(1Timothy
3:16).
As
we have stated before, Satan is the god of this
world (2 Corinthians 4:4) but Christ is the God over creation. Endemic
in
religion today, and with horrific consequences, is the false
belief that
Satan is more powerful that God, and has sway over the elements.
Now
Dear Reader, may we now add a third witness?
“Your
honour, I’d like to call to the stand the third
witness … God … who will attest to his power over the wind.”
“Yes
God, if you would … please take the stand.”
God
begins “May I remind the courtroom of the
following…”
1.
MY wind asswaged the waters Noah
in the ark and (Genesis 8:1)
2.
MY wind causes famine
(Genesis 41:6)
3.
MY wind brings locusts and
then takes them away (Exodus 10:13, 19)
4.
MY wind has Moses crossing the Red
Sea (Exodus 14:21)
5.
MY wind brings the quails
(Numbers 11:31)
6.
MY wind rents mountains and
breaks rocks (1 Kings 19:11)
As
we have said before, surely Israel would put two
and two together, that they might consider, that this man, Christ,
was God
in the flesh, with HIS power-over-the-wind demonstrations … TWICE!
… supported by a THIRD from the Old Testament (Matthew 18:16).
Unfortunately,
this spiritual mathematics would not
be possible for Israel at this stage, as according to prophecy
… hearing
they hear not, and seeing they see not (Matthew 13:13; Isaiah
6:10).
Not
until Israel is in the tribulation, will God
allow them, the revelation of this metaphysical arithmetic,
he so generously affords to those
who are not his people (Matthew 13:13; Zechariah 12:10; Romans 9:25).
Harley
Hitchcock
This
website’s front page is:
www.
“JESUS
CHRIST - A MAN APPROVED OF GOD (Acts 2:22)”
Miracle #22-
John
6:16-19,20-21
Positive
thinking, weather control, translation,
the meaning of time