Yesterday on social media I asked people in general this question:
Jesus is said to have
been a poor man. Was He really? Jesus is said to have spoken only Aramaic as a
common man. Is that true? Think on the picture scholars have painted. Have they
sketched a false picture?
How many times have you heard that Jesus was “just a poor carpenter?” Was He? What other misconceptions do we have?
The first account that we have of
Jesus is at His birth: “She,” referring to Mary, “brought forth her firstborn
son, and wrapped him in swaddling clothes, and laid him in a manger; because
there was no room for them in the inn” (Luke 2:7). The Book of Luke says
the most about the infancy of Jesus, but John said the most.
God was “born” in Bethlehem; not
in a biological sense but “Jesus was born,” gennao in the Greek, “in
Bethlehem of Judaea in the days of Herod the king” (Mat 2:1). Jesus was literally
sprung off from some divine genes as the “Son of God,” son being
genetic. In other words, the birth of Jesus is the genetics (Genome) of God
engendered within the child in the womb of Mary.
As the “last Adam” (1 Cor 15:45) Jesus was endowed with the “quickening Spirit” of God. Jesus was genetically of God. John clarified that birth:
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God; the same was in the beginning with God. All things were made by Him; and without Him was not anything made that was made. In Him was life (the quickening Spirit of God); and the life was the light of men… And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, and we beheld His glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father, full of grace and truth. (John 1:1-4,14)
As the only begotten (monogenes),
Jesus was the Sole Being of God’s kind (Thayer’s Greek Lexicon).
In other words, Jesus is the very Image of God and as such was like Adam, but
that would be the last time God would need to generate anymore Adams.
Point made: Jesus is God and
along with that notoriety, God called His physical Image, “Jesus” (Mat 1:25)
and to make that clear, God in the flesh of an Adam, was also called “Emanuel”
— God with us. (Mat 1:23).
Theologians write of Jesus as if
He is just a man with the Spirit of God in Him. That is not the case, Jesus was
the walking, talking, critical thinker that encountered Adam in the Garden: “They
heard the Voice of the Lord God walking in the garden in the cool of the day”
(Gen 3:8).
The shepherds had sensed the
Voice of God in the person of Jesus, so they came to investigate. Indeed, God Himself
was imbued within the flesh of Jesus. He was the “Word” from the Garden of Eden
who spoke to them.
What makes a god? Any existence
that creates makes One True God.
Jeremiah wrote to the Jews, “The
Lord is the true God; He is the living God, and an everlasting king” (Jer 10:10).
The wise men knew those words. They came to honor the newborn king! Jesus was born
king of the Jews but even more so, king of Adam’s kind back before time began.
He was the “king” in the Garden of Eden and the wise men brought Him part of a
king’s bounty: gold, frankincense, and myrrh. (Mat 2:11).
Jesus was born, not only a baby, but a king. The baptism of Jesus was a sort of coronation. When the Image of God came onto Jesus in bodily shape, the Voice said, “You are My beloved Son; in you I AM well pleased (Luke 3:22). Jesus was not the biological “Son” of God but the genetic “Son” or “Gens” in the Latin:
In ancient Rome, a gens was a legally defined unit of society. It represented a collection of people related through a common ancestor by birth, marriage, or adoption, sharing the same nomen gentilicium (family name). (Latin Is Simple)
Jesus was of the family, or
genetics, of God. Yahweh was in Him at His coming. Although Yahweh
still could not be seen, He could be detected by good virtue.
At the baptism of Jesus, God was revealed
to be in Him. The same thing happened at the transfiguration. The first time He
stood in the water and the last time on the firm mountain. God revealed to
mankind that it was Jesus who “divided the waters from the waters” (Gen 1:6).
Those “waters” were figurative the “semen” of God
So, it is established, Jesus was
not just a human being but had the very Genome of God within the genome of Adam’s
kind. He was both the “son of man” and the “Son of God“ genetically.
As the “Word” Jesus created all
things. While Matthew gave the genealogy of the son of man, Luke went one step
further; he gave the genealogy of both man and God, going back to Adam and God.
John cut to the chase; his genealogy went directly to God, the Living Word, also
known as the “Quickening Spirit.”
So, as God, like Yahweh,
Jesus was creative. He was a mighty, mighty God in a needy, needy land.
Jesus, when he healed, lost virtue (Luke 6:19. In the Greek, that was “Dynamos”
or Dynamic in English. That Good Dynamic, is Yahweh, as only
God is good (Luke 18:19, etc). That Dynamic is that Jesus has the Power of
God in Him.
He certainly was not just a man
but Almighty God who spoke good things, even from the beginning. The Jews
thought that Jesus was just a good man, but He was a Good God. They worshipped an invisible
God but because they could not see His invisibility, they failed to see Him in
Jesus. In like manner, Christians still focus on Jesus as a poor carpenter than
King of kings and Lord of lords — a Caesar-type.
Christians are blinded in another
manner; they see Jesus as a man but not as the Holy Ghost — the very Image of
God — in Him. As such, Jesus is much short-changed.
Theologians limit the dynamics of Jesus to the real, scientific world. Some believe that it was Joseph that taught Jesus the things of God while they sojourned in Egypt. Not so, Jesus taught Joseph, just as He taught the wisest of men in the Temple.
The child grew, and waxed strong in Spirit (of God), and was in the deserts till the day of His shewing unto Israel. (Luke 1:80)
As His body grew, so did the phantom
Spirit of God within Him. God made Jesus more virtuous (Dynamic) as He grew,
just as the Spirit of God imbues babes in Christ to make mature Christians. The
Power of God grew in Jesus and when He matured, there He was — teaching in the Temple.
“And the child grew, and waxed strong in spirit, filled with wisdom: and the grace of God was upon Him” (Luke 2:40). Joseph had not taught Jesus anything. He was God; God grew in Him as Jesus grew in the flesh. As Jesus matured; He became wiser, not from anyone else, but because the Word in Him enlarged to the point that Jesus was wiser than the doctors:
After three days they (Joseph and Mary) found Him in the temple, sitting in the midst of the doctors, both hearing them, and asking them questions. And all that heard Him were astonished at His understanding and answers… And He said unto them, “How is it that you sought me? wist you not that I must be about my Father's business?” (Luke 2:46-47, 49)
Joseph was the supposed
father of Jesus (Luke 3:23). Jesus denied to the doctors that Joseph was
His father. He would have explained His miraculous birth to the so-called “doctors”
(philosophers) and perhaps they believed Him because of His wisdom.
Jesus was about His Father’s
business. Was Jesus a mere carpenter? Jesus was explaining who His “Pater”
(Progenitor) was; albeit that He was of the gens of God; that Yahweh
was His Genome within His flesh.
Joseph’s business was some type
of tradesmen; it could be carpenter, mason, jeweler, or about anything that
required skill. Where translated “carpenter” the Greek word is “tekton.”
His supposed father’s
business was some skilled trade. His real Father’s (Yahweh) business was
more creative. He made all things, just as John wrote.
Point made: Jesus was not
a mere carpenter but a creative “astrophysicist” who knew all things about all
things. He had within His mind the Thoughts of God just as Isaiah had written, “’For
My thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my Ways,’ said the
Lord.” Perhaps Jesus was telling the philosophers His real business; as
an omniscient “Technician,” He was telling them how He created all things, and
that He had come to regenerate in the manner that He had generated in the
begging; that Yahweh, the phantom Image, was in Him. They were amazed as
I am!
So far, Jesus is not who they
thought He was: (1) He was not the son of Joseph, (2) Joseph did not apprentice
Him, (3) Jesus knew all things, (4) and that He is the Son (Genome) of Yahweh.
Joseph wandered where Jesus might be. God knew that He was in His House, safe
and sound as well as He was believed! He was among those who had come to trust Him.
(They would have understood that Jesus was born, not only king of Judea, but
King of all the things that Yahweh had made as only true heir to the entire
Estate of God.
Now add to that; Jesus was not in the business of Joseph, but in the business of regenerating as His Father had. He would alter the genes of those who might be born again or engendered from God above (John 3:7). Jesus was more so a "bio-geneticist" than a mere carpenter, so herein are many trades, not just one. We will find another of His Father's business was ruling the world and saving mankind.
Note that the vocation of Jesus was not necessarily sawing, but the business of His Father; in Genesis 1:1 (creating) is literally "cutting firm things" like the so-called "trees" of the Garden; literally firm things in general, not just trees (from the Hebrew).
Now let’s address the poverty of
Jesus. He was given three gifts at His birth from kings from the East. The
custom was for kings to give extravagant gifts at the birth of their fellow
kings. Herod may have been jealous and intimidated for several reasons; among
them that not his sons would be king of Judea, but that along with Jesus came treasures
of great value ostensibly from the vault of God. (More on that next; to be
continued).
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