“WHAT DID JESUS LOOK LIKE?”
Dear
Reader, ever heard the phrase “A picture is worth a thousand words?”
… WELL
THAT’S THE PROBLEM!
Firstly,
once you have a picture in your mind of what Jesus looked like, you won’t
have to read the Bible … you’ll have your substitute doctrine in a
picture
… you know the Hippie Jesus with long straggly hair (ah! the
gospels) …
the Catholic tormented Jesus on the cross that is always being
crucified
… the modernistic impression of Jesus being abstract but
representing
the ethereal goodness of the universe … Our Lady of Guatemala
is a totem
that is worshipped and the mediator between God and man … and so on … you see? No Bible reading needed
here!
Foremost,
having a picture of Jesus limits him to a physical
image … the Jewish
image, whereas Christ has now risen, and gone back to heaven … a God
that cannot
be contained as an image … and conforming him to a picture contains
him.
And this
is
the problem … we’ve all heard … “I’ve read the Bible” or “I know Jesus”
or “I
don’t need doctrine or the Bible to confuse me!” … WHY! I HAVE A
PICTURE OF
JESUS IN MY HAND!
But
Israels’ history has been different, because they are the most stubborn
and unbelieving race on earth, and they needed all the help
that God
could give them.
Being such
a
God rejecting nation, God had to spoon-feed them for approximately
4,000 years
… you know … miracles every second day, oppositional armies
destroyed
over-night, food dropping out of the sky for forty years in the
desert,
the Red Sea drying up so they could cross over and so on and so
on.
God gave
Israel
more miracles than hundreds of Flash Gordon’s and his super powers and
his
super speed.
Why, they
even had Christ show up in the flesh, and do his stuff
in front
of their very eyes … healings, exorcisms, mass feedings with loaves and
fishes,
coin in a fish’s mouth … and the list went on such that there were not
enough
books that should be written in the world to contain his life (John
21:25).
Such that,
Israel saw him in the flesh … not only for his three year ministry …
but his
whole life … from a twelve year old doing his Father’s business in the
temple (Luke
2:49)!
But here’s
the thing Dear Reader, Israel put him on the cross because they WOULD
NOT
BELIEVE HIS WORDS.
So we can
see God’s plan … that by a foolish nation … the Gentiles … God has set
out to
anger them with jealousy (Romans 10:19) … that the Gentiles will not
only
not need a picture of Jesus, but they would simply believe his
written
words in the Bible.
How about
that for a double whammy!
“But why
all this” you might be saying?
Simples
Dear Reader, to show that God is love … that he has the promise
and the
commitment, to rescue Israel on the mountains at Armageddon … a
nation
that rejected God Jehovah in the desert and God the Son with
Christ on
earth … with all the attendant miracles and deliverances!
That the Goy
… a Jewish term for the dull, insensitive, stupid and heartless
Gentile
… without pictures, but just the written words of God … would SIMPLY
BELIEVE!
And this
Dear Reader, is why we today do not have a picture of Jesus …
that while
the Jew waits for their imaginary ‘real’ Jesus to appear for the first
time,
God has given his written words of salvation … not his picture
… to the
whole world … who will believe it (Psalm 138:2).
Why no
picture of Jesus today?
1. To increase
the Jews’ rebellion, anger and ultimate shame
toward Jesus
Christ … first demonstrated in the Book of Acts (Acts 2:38)
2. For God
to demonstrate his everlasting commitment of love toward a
rejecting
Israel (Revelation chapter 19)
3. As God
is a Spirit (John 4:24), a picture merely limits God to
one physical
aspect of his life on earth, with his kingdom of heaven doctrine of the
Sermon
on the Mount (Matthew chapters 5-7).
4. A
picture of Christ does not reveal Paul’s kingdom of God
salvation
doctrine, that is to be believed on, for the world today.
5. A
picture of Christ only shows that he was a man approved of God
for
Israel, with signs wonders and miracles … that he was sent from God
(Acts
2:22).
Harley
Hitchcock
July 2024
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