The Revelation of Christ Hidden as a secret and mystery of GOD, part 5

Over the past month or two I have been looking at Deuteronomy 18:15-22 as the bases of the revelation of Christ's spirit being restored in man by mans receptiveness after his rebirthing as required in the universal law. There are in the ending of Jesus' ministry two areas where He opens up the old scriptures that reveal Him as speaking of Him. These are found in Luke 24: 27 and John 1: 45 each of which state this, using the ESV translation, first Deuteronomy 18:15-22 and then the thoughts of Luke's and John's synoptic gospels. After sharing these I will list the passages as listed in three of my study Bibles, one of which I used elsewhere in the course of this study, with the fulfilled new testament counter parts listed. I will list first the particular passages for Luke and John only. Keep this one thing in mind, GOD has to follow His own universal laws when doing anything concerning His creation. For all is done in order and harmony with this law. Now, How is it that all ties with the question asked of me by the LORD the evening of August 14th of 2007? This question is found in Matthew 11:29, from which we find, I have shared repeatedly in this blog, 'Are you ready to take My yoke upon you and learn of Me?' Everything from beginning to its end is the revelation of Christ restored to mans being as given in Genesis 3:15, which as we will soon see speaks also of Christ, in accord to the law of the universe. Then I will share a post written by Norman Grubbs.


Deuteronomy 18:15-22 "The LORD your God will raise up for you a prophet like me from among you, from your brothers—it is to him you shall listen— just as you desired of the LORD your God at Horeb on the day of the assembly, when you said, 'Let me not hear again the voice of the LORD my God or see this great fire any more, lest I die.' And the LORD said to me, 'They are right in what they have spoken. I will raise up for them a prophet like you from among their brothers. And I will put My words in his mouth, and he shall speak to them all that I command him. And whoever will not listen to My words that he shall speak in My name, I Myself will require it of him. But the prophet who presumes to speak a word in my name that I have not commanded him to speak, or who speaks in the name of other gods, that same prophet shall die.' And if you say in your heart, 'How may we know the word that the LORD has not spoken?'— when a prophet speaks in the name of the LORD, if the word does not come to pass or come true, that is a word that the LORD has not spoken; the prophet has spoken it presumptuously. You need not be afraid of him.


Luke 24:13-27 "That very day two of them were going to a village named Emmaus, about seven miles from Jerusalem, and as they were talking with each other about all these things that had happened. While they were talking and discussing together, Jesus Himself drew near and went with them. But their eyes were kept from recognizing him. And He said to them, "What is this conversation that you are holding with each other as you walk?" And they stood still, looking sad. Then one of them, named Cleopas, answered him, "Are you the only visitor to Jerusalem who does not know the things that have happened there in these days?" And He said to them, "What things?" And they said to him, "Concerning Jesus of Nazareth, a man who was a prophet mighty in deed and word before God and all the people, and how our chief priests and rulers delivered him up to be condemned to death, and crucified him. For we had hoped that he was the one to redeem Israel. Yes, and besides all this, it is now the third day since these things happened. Moreover, some women of our company amazed us. They were at the tomb early in the morning, and when they did not find his body, they came back saying that they had even seen a vision of angels, who said that he was alive. Some of those who were with us went to the tomb and found it just as the women had said, but him they did not see." And He said to them, "O foolish ones, and slow of heart to believe all that the prophets have spoken! Was it not necessary that the Christ should suffer these things and enter into his glory?" And beginning with Moses and all the Prophets, He interpreted to them in all the Scriptures the things concerning Himself."


John 1:43-51 "The next day Jesus decided to go to Galilee. He found Philip and said to him, "Follow Me." Now Philip was from Bethsaida, the city of Andrew and Peter. Philip found Nathanael and said to him, "We have found Him of whom Moses in the Law and also the prophets wrote, Jesus of Nazareth, the son of Joseph." Nathanael said to him, "Can anything good come out of Nazareth?" Philip said to him, "Come and see." Jesus saw Nathanael coming toward Him and said of him, "Behold, an Israelite indeed, in whom there is no deceit!" Nathanael said to him, "How do you know me?" Jesus answered him, "Before Philip called you, when you were under the fig tree, I saw you." Nathanael answered him, "Rabbi, You are the Son of God! You are the King of Israel!" Jesus answered him, "Because I said to you, 'I saw you under the fig tree,' do you believe? You will see greater things than these." And He said to him, "Truly, truly, I say to you, you will see heaven opened, and the angels of God ascending and descending on the Son of Man."


Before continuing on with this post I want to share today's meditation done by Pastor Hoekstra in the daily thought in my e-Sword program which states this:
  

"Exceedingly Great and Precious Promises"
By Pastor Robert Heokstra


"By which have been given to us exceedingly great and precious promises... And He said to them, "Follow Me, and I will make you fishers of men." (2Peter 1:4 and Matthew 4:19)


"As we have seen, faith is the only proper response to the promises of God. Let us now return to individual consideration of God's wonderful promises. They are so wonderful that the scriptures describe them as "exceedingly great and precious." The promises of God (which are deserving of our trust) are "exceedingly great." They are far beyond magnificent. The root of this word gives us our English prefix, "mega" (as in "mega-bomb" or "mega-celebrity"). The promises of God are also "precious." They are priceless. They are beyond what any human or temporal treasure could ever secure.

One of God's "exceedingly great and precious promises" is linked to Jesus' call to discipleship. This call was an invitation to come and pursue after Him. "And He said to them, 'Follow Me' ." The Lord Jesus wants people to develop a life with Him. He wants us to build a relationship with Him. For all who will humbly focus their days on earth in a quest after Him, Jesus makes this magnificent promise. "I will make you." As we follow after Him, we can count on His fulfilling the promise to remake us. These men He addressed were "fishers of fish." Jesus promised to make them "fishers of men." "From now on you will catch men" (Luke 5:10). 

The critical point is that Jesus would be the one changing these men. In this situation, He speaks of changing them from those who caught fish (for a temporal fishing business) to those who would catch men (for the eternal kingdom of God). Yet, in every situation, He is the one to rely upon for a changed life. It is amazing what people (even believers of Jesus Christ) will do to try to change their lives. They will sign up for every new program that comes through town (or is offered over national television or new religious program). They will commit themselves to years of humanistic, speculative therapy and religious theory. They will follow gurus to every continent on earth. They will even make endless lists of promises to God to do their level best to be better or try harder. Yet, all of this is to no avail. God's plan for transformation of life is to believe His promises. Among which is, "I will make you." God wants to be the cause that produces the effect of a transformed life. "For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus" (Ephesian 2:10 and before the foundation of the world was laid as being found in Genesis 1: 26-27 and 2:6-7...Ephesians 4:24).

Yes, by the grace of God, transformation of life is available by faith in the promises of God. If we are willing to humbly pursue after a developing relationship with the LORD of life, He promises to make us into what He wants us to be."

Now for the scriptures of Moses and the Prophets which Jesus spoke of:

Luke 24: 26-27 and John 1:45 "Was it not necessary that the Christ should suffer these things and enter into his glory?" And beginning with Moses and all the Prophets, He interpreted to them in all the Scriptures the things concerning Himself."

John 1:45 "Philip found Nathanael and said to him, "We have found him of whom Moses in the Law and also the prophets wrote, Jesus of Nazareth, the son of Joseph."

Genesis 3:15 (8-19), 22:18 (15-19), 26:4 (1-5), 49:10 (8-12);
Numbers 21:9 (4-9);
Deuteronomy 18:15 (15-22);
Psalm 2; 16:9 (5-11), 22, 132:11 (10-12);
Isaiah 7:14 (10-16), 9:6-7 (1-7), 40:10 (9-11), 50:6 (4-11), 53;
Jeremiah 23:5 (5-6), 33:14-15 (14-18);
Ezekiel 34:23 (23-24), 37:25 (24-28);
Daniel 9:24 (24-27);
Micah 5:2 (1-6), 7:20 (14-20);
Zechariah 6:12 (9-15), 9:9 (1-10);
Malachi 3:1 (1-4), 4:2 (1-3);
Matthew 21:5 (1-11), 27:11 (11-14);
Mark 15:2 (1-5);
Luke 24:26-27 (13-27);
John 1:45 (46-52)

Now for Norman Grubbs thought on Romans 7 and Paul's struggle of the redeemed man and his old man that was held in deception.

ROMANS 6-8
By Norman P. Grubb

"COMING HONEST"

"Paul's main point then, in Romans 6 and 7 has been to expose how we were deluded by Satan into thinking that we were self-operating selves. In actuality, however, it was Satan expressing his self-for-self (sin) nature as us. Then Paul tells us at length how God sent the Law (in the man Jesus as the Word) with its requirements to expose us when we come honest. We first had to learn that we had not kept the Law as lost sinners, and then that we could never keep it because we have never been independent self-relying selves. We were deceived by Satan to think we were, but actually we were only expressers of Satan's self-for-self nature.

In unfolding the value of the Law in Romans 7, Paul makes a unique contribution to exposing and removing the main blockage to effective Christian living. At last, in our agony and desperation at our failures, light dawns within us. We are then capable of seeing that the evil was not in our beautiful, God-created humanity, but in the lie of the independent self (sin dwelling in us). Through Calvary, we now move in by faith to see and recognize that it is He, the Spirit of Truth, expressing Himself in our vessels - branch containers - in us and by us, in place of that evil one.

So by faith in the revealed fact, we find ourselves free just to be our human selves with no fears or condemnations. Through the Spirit's certain inner witness, we are expressers of Him: Christ in us as us. And now, after a brief Law interlude, we go into chapter 8 of Romans, not as in our walking-Satan forms, but walking as Christ's…"more than conquerors”."