Grailhunter
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He even said His Father is greater than He is. But that don't mean that Jesus is not God either. That was Jesus walking out His message of, Be Humble and take the servants position, wash his feet! It's a Father-Son thing. Are we subserviant to our Dads on earth? Yes, I was and he was greater than me because I was the son. But I, as Family had the entire support of the entire family unit (except for squabbles with my brothers, lol) at the worst of times and in the best of times. Family is Family.
For all practical purposes literally and figuretively, Jesus is very much God because He is the only begotten Son of the Father God. When you mess with a man's family, you're messing with the entire Family.
You notice that Biker gang kids dont get picked on in school? Thats because they know that they might have 100 family members show up and beat their head in!
The larger issue imo is that...is Jesus YOUR Lord.
I don't mean is He your Savior...is He your Lord?
Jesus Before the Sanhedrin
The final result of Yeshua revealing who He was….
Finally two came forward and declared, “This fellow said, ‘I am able to destroy the temple of God and rebuild it in three days.’” Then the high priest stood up and said to Jesus, “Are you not going to answer? What is this testimony that these men are bringing against you?” But Jesus remained silent. The high priest said to him, “I charge you under oath by the living God: Tell us if you are the Messiah, the Son of God.” “You have said so,” Jesus replied. “But I say to all of you: From now on you will see the Son of Man sitting at the right hand of the Mighty One and coming on the clouds of heaven.” Then the high priest tore his clothes and said, “He has spoken blasphemy! Why do we need any more witnesses? Look, now you have heard the blasphemy. What do you think?” “He is worthy of death,” they answered. Then they spit in his face and struck him with their fists. Others slapped him and said, “Prophesy to us, Messiah. Who hit you?”
Matthew 26:60-68
Yeshua kept silent about who He was because if He said it to the Jews this is what would happen….the end of His ministry and a ruling of execution because that is what their beliefs told them to do. In their beliefs for someone to say they were a God or the Son of God was one of their worst blasphemies.
The Jews did not believe that the Messiah would be a God. They believed He would be a human warlord king that would destroy their oppressors and establish a kingdom that would last forever and put them in power and the Mosaic Law would be the rule of the land forever.
The Jews were behind the eight ball because nothing like this happened. So what Yeshua was and what He did was nothing like what they were expecting from the Messiah. They were not expecting a God Messiah that was peaceful and preaching love and forgiveness. They were looking for a warlord…..not the Lord.
In fact the Jews were looking at some of their Jewish military leaders during the Maccabean Revolt as possible Messiahs.
When Yeshua would heal people sometimes He would tell them to keep it a secret. It is one of the reasons that some scholars call Yeshua the Secret Messiah.
But Peter knew…
“Christ” said to them, “But who do you say that I am?” Simon Peter answered, “You are the Christ, the Son of the living God.” Matthew 15:15-16 Keep in mind that Christ means Messiah….it is not His last name.
Nor did Christ make a big deal of He being a King because that would have sparked a Roman response.
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