Sunday, 9 August 2015

JESUS CHRIST, and the prophet Elijah.

In the past God spoke to our ancestors many times and in many ways ... but in these last days he has spoken to us through his Son.
Jesus Christ is the one through whom God created the universe, the one whom God has chosen to possess all things at the end.   Heb.1:1-2
The Son was made greater than the angels ... What are the angels, then? They are spirits who serve God and are sent by Him to help those who are to receive salvation.   Heb.1:14
Elijah, one of the foremost prophets of Israel, was used by God as a pillar of strength for true worship in a time when the spiritual and moral condition of the world had fallen to an alarmingly low state.
The symbolic journey of the prophet and his work was prophetic of the things to come in Jesus' day with also a yet later fulfillment which the same Jesus will carry it out in his second journey to this world.
In Heb.3 the scripture says, "The message given to our ancestors by the angels was shown to be true, and anyone who did not follow it or obey it received the punishment he deserved.
How, then, shall we escape if we pay no attention to such a great salvation? ...
God has not placed the angels as rulers over the new world to come ... instead God made man "ruler over all things;" this clearly includes everything. We do not, however, see man ruling over all things now. But we do see Jesus, who for a little while was made lower than the angels, so that through the power of God's grace he should die for everyone. We see him now crowned with the spirit of glory and the spirit of honor because of the death he suffered. It was perfectly right that God , who creates and preserves all things, should make Jesus perfect through suffering, in order to bring many to share his glory. For Jesus is the one who leads them to salvation. He is the one who purifies people from their sins, and both he and those who are made pure all have the same Father. ... Since the children, as jesus calls them, are people of flesh and blood Jesus himself became like them and shared their human nature.
Jesus did this so that through his death he might destroy the Devil, who has the power over death, and in this way set free those who were slaves all their lives because of their fear of death.
For it is clear that it is not the angels that Jesus helps. Instead, as the scripture says, "He helps the descendants of Abraham." This means that Jesus had to become like his brothers in every way, in order to be their faithful and merciful High Priest in his service to God, so that the people's sins would be forgiven. And because he himself was tempted and suffered, now he can help those who are tempted."
When Elijah was informed about the Queen Jezebel's vow of putting him to death, he fled in fear that his life would be ended by the hand of the evil doers. Jesus took that power away from the Devil.
Elijah's forty-day journey ended at Horeb where God showed him the difference in merely expressions of his active force manifested in an awe-inspiring display in a wind, an earthquake and a fire and the power held by He himself. God showed Elijah that he was not alone in his fight because God had 7,000 who had not bowed to the power of the Devil. Time after Elijah must transfer the mantle of his power to Elisha in order to fulfill God's plan of salvation for all of us who wants to be saved for eternity.

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