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· Did you know there are incidents of Christ appearing to people in the Bible even before He was born in Bethlehem?
· These incidents are called theophanies.
· In Matthew 5:1-6, King Herod was told by the chief priests and scribes that a new king had been born in Bethlehem.
· Jesus’ birth was prophesied by the prophet Micah more than 700 years earlier.
Micah 5:2 predicts Bethlehem as the place of the Messiah’s birth.
Micah 5:2 (NLT) – whose origins are in the distant past,
Micah 5:2 (ESV) – from ancient days.
· Ironically, while Micah referred to a future birth, he referenced an eternity past.
· How is this possible?
· Before Jesus was born to Mary, He existed throughout history in a pre-incarnate state.
· Even though Jesus was not in a human body until the New Testament times, the Bible records many divine interventions of God’s grace and love through Jesus!
What is John teaching?
· The DEITY of Jesus:
o “and the Word was with God” (“with” indicates there was more than one person).
o “and the Word was God.”
· The ETERNITY of Jesus:
· The CREATOR of Jesus
The Pre-incarnate Christ
· Jesus also appeared many times throughout history in many ways:
Jesus is a Burning Bush
· Although it was in the form of a burning bush, It was Jesus who spoke directly to Moses and commissioned him to lead God’s people out of 430 years of Egyptian slavery.
Jesus is a Covenant Promise
· Naturally speaking, Abraham was born about 1,300 years before Christ.
· Supernaturally speaking, Jesus never had a beginning.
· When the Pharisees argued with Jesus regarding who His Father was, they emphatically declared that they were the direct descendants of Abraham.
· In response to this challenge, Jesus replied:
Jesus is a Watering Rock
· During the Exodus from slavery in Egypt, Jesus took care of a million Jews during their trek through the Wilderness on their way to the Promised Land.
· Christ will take care us too, on our journeys through life!
Jesus is a Protecting Angel
· When the time arrived for the children of Israel to take possession of the Promised Land, Jesus was with them in the form of an angel of war, who cleared their enemies from before them.
Tony Cooke:
“How many times had Joshua heard the story of the Great I AM telling Moses to take his shoes off at the burning bush, because he was standing on holy ground?
This appearance of Christ is different in form—here he appears as the Commander of the army of the Lord—and yet Joshua bows before him and worships him.
This could not have been an ordinary angel as only God is to be worshipped, and no holy angel or man of God would have allowed such reverence from Joshua.”
· May we also honor and respect the presence of the Lord in our lives!
Jesus is a Loving Teacher
Jesus is a Sharing Savior
· Jesus wants us to share in the eternal love of God!
Jesus is a Coming King
Throughout the Bible, we see Jesus fulfilling in the New testament the types and shadows of the pre-existence of Jesus represented in the Old Testament.
Though Christ was born as a human at Bethlehem, he always existed with the Father and the Holy Spirit from eternity past.
“Jesus was unique among men in that His birth did not mark His origin, but only His appearance as a man on the stage of time.” - Oswald Sanders
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