Like i said, just because God can use his ability to look ahead doesn’t mean he always would use it. God created Job with free will just as Adam had free will. The bible is full of warning and guidance yes entire books of advice. (like Proverbs!)
Why all this advice and pleas from God to make him happy by making the right choice? Is God that stupid to warn us and give advice while knowing ahead you’re gonna knock over that bank or get pregnant by the quarterback anyway?
What do **you **think?
Please note it was not God that killed Job’s kin, but Satan was willing to go to any length to crush Job’s loyalty. Maybe you should read it over again slowly and see that even at the worst moment Job expressed his faith in resurrection.
Job 14:15
Maybe it’s not in God’s personality to always want to peek into the future, but…have some faith all will turn out alright. (Everybody hates spoilers)
People, have some faith will ya?
Some verses on Christ being an angel way before being a man:
Galatians 4:14 though my condition put you to the test, you did not scorn or despise me, but welcomed me as an angel of God, as Christ Jesus.
New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition
Colossians 1:15
He is the **image **of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation.
*New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition *
Who is the **image **of the invisible God, the firstborn of every creature:
*King James Version *
Please note that i made the word image bold as you all have read that before in Genesis where us humans are described as being creations in God’s image. Think on it.
John 7:28,29 28 herefore Jesus cried out as he was teaching in the temple and said: “YOU both know me and know where I am from. Also, I have not come of my own initiative, but he that sent me is real, and YOU do not know him.29 I know him, because I am a representative from him, and that One sent me forth.”
Now for Jesus claiming they knew him and where he was from is not about him being born in Bethlehem and his post code… The whole Old Testament is full of Messianic prophesies.
You probably know the first one: Genesis 3:15. Read and note that it foretells the snake (Satan) crushing Jesus in the heel and Jesus crushing the snake in the head. A heel or foot injury can cause to fall but is not ultimate or fatal. You can rise from that injury and Jesus was indeed resurrected. The bible mentions the Archangel (or chief of angels) Michael fighting the Dragon or Great Snake identified as Satan. Michael = Jesus but i’ll continue that later in this post.
Many Christians think they don’t need the Old Testament, but we do. It’s quite impossible to understand the identity of the Christ/Messiah without all the prophesy and background of Israel. Jesus didn’t just show up on a whim, the entire combined nation (both Judea and Samaria) were **expecting **the Messiah to be born around the year he was born. Why so? Because they knew their scriptures!
For example if i tell you Jesus fulfilled/ended the Mosaic Law, do you understand?
If i say Jesus and Melchizedek in one sentence, does a bell ring? Hebrews 5:1-10
Do you understand Jesus died on a special religious day, just before the high priest would make the sacrifice to commemorate liberation from Egypt? Do you know what it means that the High Priest himself convicted Jesus and what that means? Can you combine the term Lamb of God combined with the above?
Do you understand Jesus being a superior High Priest that could make a sacrifice that would ** not have to be repeated every year?** (namely his own life)
A sacrifice that was a much greater fulfillment of the liberation from Egypt in Moses’ days.
Just a selection from Hebrews 7:
“23 Furthermore, the former priests were many in number, because they were prevented by death from continuing in office;
24 but he holds his priesthood permanently, because he continues forever.
25 Consequently he is able for all time to save[e] those who approach God through him, since he always lives to make intercession for them.
26 For it was fitting that we should have such a high priest, holy, blameless, undefiled, separated from sinners, and exalted above the heavens.
27 Unlike the other[f] high priests, he has no need to offer sacrifices day after day, first for his own sins, and then for those of the people; this he did once for all when he offered himself.
28 For the law appoints as high priests those who are subject to weakness, but the word of the oath, which came later than the law, appoints a Son who has been made perfect forever.”
Jesus is evidently not God Almighty, i’ll keep saying it. Your own bible tells you exactly who he is and what he does for us. He mediates for us, just like Moses, Aaron, and Israel’s High Priests did. Except Christ being the Son of God, the very first of all angels being a superior priest.
Do you understand why he had to die? Why the word ransom is sometimes used?
Some other posters said i’m on a loser here as it is a matter of faith. I agree, i am on a loser here. I gave my two cents.
The Michael-Jesus Connection:
Jude 1:9 and then 1 Thessalonians 4:16
Revelation 12:7 and then Revelation 19:14-16
2 Thessalonians 1:7; Matthew 16:27; 24:31; 1 Peter 3:22 These verses speak of Michael leading angels and Jesus leading angels. There is only one Archangel in the bible though and the bible does not speak of two armies of angels. Hence Michael=Jesus Christ in his heavenly form.
Matthew 13:41
John 17: 5 So now, Father, glorify me in your own presence with the glory that I had in your presence before the world existed.
New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition
In the entire bible only two names of holy angels are mentioned. Michael and Gabriel. All other angels are not named and when they were asked they said their names were not important.
Now if you read Daniel, Michael is called the prince of Daniel’s people. And the angel speaking to Daniel says he was held up by the (demon) prince of Persia for twenty one days and Michael came to help him. Daniel: 10:13, 20, 21; 12:1
Exodus also speaks of God sending his people an angel to lead them through the wilderness and into the promised land. Compare that to Jude 9 where Michael and the Devil argue about Moses’ body. Ex 23:20, 21, 23; 32:34; 33:2
Revelation 12 mentions Michael and The Christ in the same setting, 12:7 and 12:10. Then in Revelation 19:11-16 Jesus Christ can be identified leading God’s armies as the rider on the white horse, called The Word of God.
Compare John 1:1 The Word of God, or God’s spokesman.
Michael translates “Who is like God?” a fitting name for God’s champion.
Sorry for the delay…been busy,
Ruben.
Oh and by the way… The God of the Old Testament is the same of the New Testament. The word jealous is misunderstood. (Like Oprah totally did.)
When Adam and Eve rebelled, did God kill them on the spot???
NO. So here we, their offspring are still alive to call Him a vengeful mean bastard.
When Cain murdered his innocent younger brother did God kill him on the spot???
NO, Cain unremorseful of his disgusting crime even pleaded upon God’s mercy. Because he knew God!
When the earth was filled with violence and mankind defiled by the Nephilim and their demon fathers did God instantly wipe out mankind?
NO, he gave warning for at least 50 years through Noah and his family whom did not only build but also warned of judgement.
In fact every time one reads the OT it is clear that JHWH gives warning and a way out for those with the right state of heart. That is if you actually read the Old Testament. (all of it) The Mosaic Law even has laws preventing animal cruelty!
God says in Exodus he is a jealous God. But don’t confuse that with jealous like your family or lover. It means demanding exclusive worship. Is that unfair for the Creator of all living things, even the universe, to ask???
Is God wrong and petty to ask his people, those that agreed with loud voices on the mountains when they made the Covenant with JHWH? Is he wrong to ask his people not to worship Baal, Marduk, Dagon, Semiramis? Or Shiva, Vishnu, Buddha the pope or the United Nations?
Read the OT and see that God did not make such claims upon other peoples that had no covenant with him. Why does it even need explaining that the Almighty God would ask to be treated as the Almighty God?
We don’t have to choose His side. But if you do, know that he asks exclusive devotion. If you can’t give that loyalty and don’t like exclusive relations, simply don’t get involved.
You can always serve kings, presidents, clerics, CEOs, companies, countries or societies and see how forgiving they are when you’re even only perceived as disloyal. I hear a certain Bradley is being shown a lot of consideration for his troubled conscience.