Tag: trinity

  • Unless the Father draws you – Signs

    Unless the Father draws you – Signs

    Signs from God the Father

    Perhaps as one of the multitude hearing the preaching of Jesus you may have missed His relational claim to God as His Father. Even now as one seeing signs on a mountainside and your amazement by the Lord’s miracles, your ears failed to hear His mention of the Father.

    And like those in the crowds who followed Jesus for a time, but later left Him when their path to Heaven became steep and dangerous, you may have asked yourself a question like this:

    Why would I follow Jesus or worship Him instead of God?

    שְׁמַ֖ע יִשְׂרָאֵ֑ל יְהוָ֥ה אֱלֹהֵ֖ינוּ יְהוָ֥ה אֶחָֽד׃

    Deuteronomy 6:4 Masoretic Text

    “You shall love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might.

    Deuteronomy 6:5

    Previously I asked you to “Follow Me” & support my Christian Social Witness by subscribing to new posts. Most will not.

    Why? Same reason that the multitudes did NOT follow Jesus. The Lord asks us to submit to His will in place of our own.

    Today we will show some signs of Jesus and address reactions of those who claimed to believe in God while selfishly opposing to follow the Messiah of Israel.

    Miracles & Signs by Jesus

    The Apostle John outlines several signs and proofs of the Good News that Jesus IS the Son of the Living God. That is to say, Jesus proves to witnesses that God IS His Father and He IS God’s only Son!

    Before hearing (or reading) Jesus’ words about the Father, let’s briefly look at John’s list of proofs witnessed by many in several places.

    Cana, Galilee

    • John 2:7 Jesus said to them, “Fill the waterpots with water.” And they filled them up to the brim. 8 And He said to them, “Draw some out now, and take it to the master of the feast.” And they took it. 9 When the master of the feast had tasted the water that was made wine, and did not know where it came from (but the servants who had drawn the water knew), the master of the feast called the bridegroom…

    Jerusalem, Judea

    • John 2: First Passover—Cleansing the Temple
      • 18 The Jews then said to Him, “What sign do You show us as your authority for doing these things?”
      • 19 Jesus answered them,
      • “Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up.”
      • But He was speaking of the temple of His body.
    • John 2:23 Now when He was in Jerusalem at the Passover, during the feast, many believed in His name when they saw the signs which He did.

    Galilee, along road through Samaria from Jerusalem

    • There was a certain royal official whose son was ill at Capernaum. 47 When this man heard that Jesus had come from Judea into Galilee, he went to him and pleaded with him to come down and heal his son, since he was about to die.

    Jesus told him, “Unless you people see signs and wonders, you will not believe.”

    John 4:48 CSB

    Do you and I tend to require more proof from God?

    (I know sometimes my faith falters.)

    Jesus provides proof of a miracle here even though the Lord lamented that we so often require signs.

    49 “Sir,” the official said to him, “come down before my boy dies.”

    50 “Go,” Jesus told him, “your son will live.”

    A pool by the Sheep Market gate, Jerusalem, Judea

    • John 5: (Most likely during a second Passover) The Healing at Bethesda

    3 Within these [five porches] lay a large number of the disabled—blind, lame, and paralyzed.

    5 One man was there who had been disabled for thirty-eight years. 6 When Jesus saw him lying there and realized he had already been there a long time, he said to him, “Do you want to get well?”

    “Get up,” Jesus told him, “pick up your mat and walk.” Instantly the man got well, picked up his mat, and started to walk.

    Now that day was the Sabbath…

    Son’s Signs through the Father

    “Truly I tell you, the Son is not able to do anything on his own, but only what he sees the Father doing… And just as the Father raises the dead and gives them life, so the Son also gives life to whom he wants.

    John 5:19b,21 CSB

    28 Do not be amazed at this, because a time is coming when all who are in the graves will hear his voice 29 and come out—those who have done good things, to the resurrection of life, but those who have done wicked things, to the resurrection of condemnation.

    To be continued... 
  • A Temporary Throne – 21

    A Temporary Throne – 21

     CHAPTER 21

    Once more, I was carried above the clouds, above the heavens, and into the Place of the THRONE of GOD.

    THE LORD walked to a Place near me and in the midst of the GLORY surrounding THE LORD, I was seated as another THRONE suddenly appeared.

    For an instant I thought I beheld THREE THRONES in a PERFECT CIRCLE, ALL OCCUPIED BY THE LORD.

    Then THE LORD SPOKE to me:

    THE THRONE OF HEAVEN IS WHEREVER I AM SEATED. I AM THE LORD.

    In an instant, I was once more laying prostate and lifeless before the LORD.

    THE THRONE OF HEAVEN IS WHEREVER I AM STANDING. I AM THE LORD.

    As instantly as I had appeared at the feet of the LORD, I was once more seated in THE THRONE and THE LORD stood facing me in Light of His COMPLETE GLORY.

    THE THRONE OF HEAVEN IS WHEREVER I GRANT MY AUTHORITY. I AM THE LORD.

    Once more, THE LORD IS seated in THE THRONE near me, as ONE.

    I AM THE LORD OF COMPLETE LOVE NEAR TO YOU, ROGER.

    To be continued…

    A Temporary Throne is an original work of Roger Harned,

    © Copyright 2013, All Rights Reserved by the author.

  • ‘elohiym

     Genesis 1:1a  In the beginning, God…

    ‘elohiym

     “God,”  ‘elohiym, is plural.

    By definition: masculine noun; plural or plural intensive with a singular meaning.

    GOD created (v.1) GOD moved (v.2) GOD said (v.3) GOD divided (v.4) GOD called (v.5) GOD made (v.7) GOD blessed (v.22).

    These are just a few references to ‘elohiym – GOD: He (plural intensive with a singular meaning) IS ONE and caused.

    In the beginning was the Word and the Word was with God and the Word was God – John 1:1

    Genesis 1:1b HE created the heavens and the earth. 2 The earth was without form and void, and darkness was over the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God was hovering over the face of the waters.

    “And the Spirit of God…”

    Do you see it?

    TRINITY: GOD: ONE: Father, Son, Holy Spirit

    In the beginning HE *they as ONE created.