I started this to bring to light that all of humanity from the Cross forward to this day has within them the ability to communicate with GOD as promised in the Prophets and seen active in Jesus. No longer up until Jesus, through it was spoken of as a future event but with the Resurrection forward that was changed to Now Faith is the substance of that once only spoken of. Now I want to say that like the heel [H6119] of Genesis 3:15, which when translated correctly means the hindrance of religion, as in holding one back. Remember Jesus' telling those around Him that He saw Satan fall as a star to the earth, well today we know this to be the cabal of destruction of human life, is of many similar names and titles such as dragon, snake, liar, murderer, as we have spoken in many of our posting before, available on this site, it consisting of some 2200 postings. I will pick the flow up at verse 43 of John 1 through verse 51. For the sake of space and readability I'll forgo the use of the KJV and ESV comparisons and will use only the new Mirror Study Bible.
John 1:43-51 "The next day Jesus intentionally departed from there (where He met John the Baptizers followers) and went to Galilee. There He met Phillip along the way and asked him to [1]accompany Him. Phillip was from Bethsaida, the hometown of Andrew and Peter. (The word [1 G190 and G1] koloutheo is again used; it comes from a (G1), as particle of union and keleuthos, a road, thus to join on the same road, to accompany.) Phillip immediately went looking for Nathaniel and told him the news! We have found the one Moses wrote about in the Torah and He whom the Prophets announced when they spoke about Jesus, [the Savior] the son of Joseph from Nazareth. (Look at Deuteronomy 18:15, 18, "The LORD your GOD will raise up for up a Prophet like me from among you, from your brethren, Him you shall heed. Deu.18:18, I will raise up for them a Prophet like you from among their brethren; And I will put My words in His mouth, and He shall speak to them all that I command Him." Genesis 49:10, "The scepter shall not depart from Judah, nor the ruler's staff from between His feet, until He comes to whom it belongs; And to Him shall be the obedience of the peoples." Isaiah 7:14, "Therefore the LORD Himself will give you a sign. Behold, a virgin shall conceive and bear a son, and you shall call His name Emmanuel." Also Isaiah 53:1-12; Is. 9:6-7, "For unto us a child is born, unto us a Son is given: and the government shall be upon His shoulders: and His name shall be called Wonderful, Counselor, The mighty GOD, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace. Of the increase of His government and peace there shall be no end, upon the Throne of David, and upon His kingdom, to order it, and to establish it with judgment and with justice from henceforth even foe ever. The zeal of the LORD of hosts will perform this." Daniel 9:24-27; Jeremiah 23:5-6, also John 5:39-40, "You search the Scriptures, because you think that in them you have eternal life; And it is they that bear witness to Me; Yet you refuse to come to Me that you may have life." John 5:46-47, "If you believed Moses, you would believe Me, for he wrote of Me. But if you do not believe his writings, how will you believe My words?") To which Nathaniel answered, "How does Nazareth fit into the picture [equation] of GOD'S promised goodness? Phillip said to him, "Come and see for yourself!" (The 'what good thing?' of Nathaniel refers to Scriptures like Jeremiah 33:14-15, "Behold, the days come, says the LORD, that I will perform that good thing which I have promised. In those days and at that time I will cause a righteous Branch to spring forth for David; And he shall execute justice and righteousness in the land." Also Micah 5:2, "But you, Oh Bethlehem Ephrathah, who are the least among the clans of Judah, from you shall come forth for Me one who is to be ruler in Israel, whose origin is from of old, from ancient days." Nathanael's question seems to imply, that not Nazareth, but Bethlehem, was to be the birthplace of the Messiah.) When Jesus saw Nathaniel approach Him, He made the following observation, 'Now here is a man of Israel, in whom there is no guile!' (Note the wisdom of Jesus, instead of engaging Nathaniel in a doctrinal debate around the Scriptures, He endorsed him!) Nathaniel was surprised! How can you possibly know me if we have never met? Jesus answered him, 'Long before Phillip spoke to you, I saw you under the fig tree!' Nathaniel exclaimed, "Rabbi, you are the Son of GOD! You are the king of Israel!" Jesus said, 'So you believe because I said that I saw you sitting under the fig tree? You haven't seen anything yet!' (By this Jesus does not mean the many miracles he is yet to witness, but rather, that His mission was to introduce us to ourselves again, so that we may know even as we have always been known! We have forgotten what manner of people we are! He knew us before He formed us in our mother's womb! Jame 1:17-18, 23-25. Jeremiah 1:5; 1Cor. 13:12.) Truly I say to you [singular], because of who I am, you [plural, in-You-manity-all the families in heaven and on earth] will surely see this communicated between the heavenly sphere and earth thrown wide [1] open, and the Angelic Shepherd-Messengers of GOD ascending and descending upon the incarnate son of man. Heaven and earth meet in the incarnate one! (In Him every definition of separation and distance is cancelled! Isaiah 55:10-11, "For as the rain and the snow come down from heaven, and return not there without saturating the earth [all human flesh], so shall My words be that go forth from My mouth; They shall not return empty to Me, but shall accomplish that which I purpose, and prosper in the thing for which I send them." The prophetic word are destined to become flesh; Every nook and cranny of human life is saturated in the incarnation! The word [1] G455, aneogota, is in the Perfect Active Participle Accusative Masculine Singular, 2nd Conjugation-form; The one who has led us upwards - from anoigo, from G303 ana, upwards and agoo, to lead! Jesus reminds Nathaniel of Genesis 28:12-14, and Jacob dreamed that there was a ladder set up on the earth, and the top of it reached to heaven; And behold, the Angelic Shepherd-Messengers of GOD were ascending and descending on it! And Jahweh said to him, 'I am Elohim of Abraham, your seed shall be like the dust of the earth, and you shall spread abroad to the west and to the east and to the north and to the south; And in you and your descendants have all the families of the earth been blessed!' See also Ephesians 3:15 also 1:3, "Let's celebrate GOD! He lavishes every blessing heaven has upon us in Christ!" Now see Ephesians 4:8-10, "Scripture confirms that he led us as trophies in His triumphant procession (Mat. 27:51-54) on high; He repossessed His gift (likeness) in human form." Look also at Ephesians 2:6, "We are also elevated in His ascension to be equally welcome in the Throne room of the heavenly realm where we (originated, Gen. 1:26-27) are now seated together with Him in His authority." Quote from the Hebrew text of Psalm 68:18, "lakachta mattanoth baadam, thou has taken gifts in human form, in Adam." [The gifts which Jesus Christ distributes to us He has received in us, in and by virtue of His incarnation. Commentary by Adam Clarke.]
Ephesians 4:9, "The fact that He ascended confirms His victorious descent into the deepest pit of humanity's despair." (look at John 3:3, "No one has ascended into heaven but He who descended from heaven, even the son of man." All humanity originated from above (Gen. 1:26-27); We are authored, from above. [see James 1:17-18.])
Ephesians 4:10, "He now occupies the ultimate rank of authority from the lowest regions where he stooped down to rescue us to the highest authority in the heavens, having executed His mission to the full. (Fallen humanity is fully restored to the authority of the authentic life of our design. [Psalm 139:7-8, "Wither shall I go from thy Spirit? Or whither shall I flee from Your presences? If I ascend to heaven, You are there! If I make my bed in Sheol, You are there!"])
"Jesus has united heaven and earth, the life of GOD and human life in Himself. Just as it was panned before the time of the ages." By Baxter Kruger.)
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