We are now entering into John 14 where the Lord Jesus discloses GOD's plain to redeem His Creation, namely humanity in the whole, not a fragment or a fragmential port or part. That's right the world, also called an ocean or sea, of humanity as it is better known as in scripture, the kingdom realm of humanity. Each wonder (miracle) that Jesus did revealed His names of title under the old testament as Yehovah. Jesus as the Christ will soon be the Redeemer, Love child of GOD. As mans religions work to cause distress and opposition, by way of a fallen and wrong ideology of wrong mindset. A mindset set on the "I-am-not" tree; the tree of knowledge of good and evil. Okay, Jesus is about to bring to humanity a new and living way, where as the Word put on mans flesh now takes on it's own life regenesised in receptiveness, awakened humanity.
John 14:1-8 (Jesus is speaking) "'Let not your heart be troubled: ye believe in God, believe also in me. In my Father's house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you. And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself; that where I am, there ye may be also. And whither I go ye know, and the way ye know.' Thomas saith unto him, "Lord, we know not whither thou goest; and how can we know the way?" Jesus saith to him, 'I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me. If ye had known me, ye should have known my Father also: and from henceforth ye know him, and have seen him.' Philip saith to him, "Lord, shew us the Father, and it sufficeth us." (KJV)
John 14:1-8 (Jesus is speaking) "'Let not your hearts be troubled. Believe in God; believe also in me. In my Father's house are many rooms. If it were not so, would I have told you that I go to prepare a place for you? And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and will take you to myself, that where I am you may be also. And you know the way to where I am going.' Thomas said to him, "Lord, we do not know where you are going. How can we know the way?" Jesus said to him, 'I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me. If you had known me, you would have known my Father also. From now on you do know him and have seen him.' Philip said to him, "Lord, show us the Father, and it is enough for us." (ESV)
John 14:1-8 (Jesus is speaking) "'Set your troubled hearts at ease by letting your belief [1]conclude in GOD as you rest your confidence in me. (The preposition [1] eis, means a point reached in conclusion.) What makes my Father's house home, is your place in it! If this was not the ultimate conclusion of my mission why would I even bother to do what I am about to do if it was not to prepare a place for you? I have come to persuade you of a place of seamless union where you belong. (Look at John 8:35-36 The difference between the slave and the son is that the slave only works there, for the son the father's house is home! With the freedom found in sonship there is [1]no pretense! [Free indeed! The word, [1]ontoos, indeed is the opposite to what is pretended.] What Jesus is about to accomplish in his death and resurrection will forever shift the tide of mans religious works and pretense and performance from the typical slave-mentality to the freedom and reality of sonship! ) The proportions of what I will accomplish are astronomically astonishing! I will [1]prepare a highway for you, just as in the Oriental custom, where people would go before a king to level the roads to make it possible for royalty to journey with ease and comfort. By [2]fully identifying myself with you I will fully identify you with me so that you may be completely at home where I am! (Jesus sees the full scope of his work: by submitting himself to our judgment and hellish fury, he would enter or due death and gloom of hell and thereby strip every principality and dominion of its judgment and power-play over the human race, Colossians 2:14-15. The word [1]hetoimazo suggests a leveling of the road to make it passable for kings! [Isaiah 40:3-5] The word [2]paralambano, carries two components, para, a preposition indicating close proximity, a thing proceeding from a sphere of influence, with a suggestion of union of place of residence, to have sprung from its author and giver, originating from, denoting the point from which an action originates, intimate connection; and lammbano, to comprehend, grasp, to identify with. He would lead us in his triumphant procession on high out of our darkness into his marvelous light, where we may now participate in the union of the ages - "and take you to myself so that you may be where I am, face to face with the Father!" Hosea 6:2; Ephesians 4:8; Colossians 1:13, John 1:12. Look at John 1:18 Until this moment GOD remained invisible to humanity; now the authentic, incarnate begotten Son, the blueprint of our design who represents the innermost of our being of GOD, the Son who is in the bosom of the Father, brings him into full view! He is the official authority qualified to announce GOD! He is our guide who accurately declares and interprets the invisible GOD within us.) In fact, you [1]have always known this way and where all this is leading me and where I am taking you. (The word, oidate, is the prefect active tense of eido [Strong's G1492, know, with the base G3708 and G3700], to see; to perceive. The Perfect tense denotes an action which is completed in the past, but the effects of which are regarded as continuing into the present. Jesus here appeals to the different level of knowing - not a mere academic knowing but a deeper inner knowing, a remembering like in Psalm 22:27.) Thomas said, "No, we don't get it; we have no idea where you are going with this - how could we possibly have known the way?" Jesus said, 'My I-am-ness [mirrored in you] is your way; this is your truth and also your life! Every single person can now come face to face with the Father entirely because of my doing. If you had known me for who I really am, you would have immediately have recognized my Father in me. Now, with me bringing you back face to face with the Father, you will certainly know him and [1]become fully acquainted with him. (The word [1]horao [G3708] implies encounter.) Phillip said to him, "Lord, [1]show us the father, then we will be satisfied." ([1]Aorist imperative - denoting aspect, not tense; once and for all.)
With our next study I will, the LORD willing, pick things back up with verse 8 again. A thing that I have not done before...!
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