The King of Glory

The Holy Bible: King James Version (Chapter 1: 1-5)

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. 2 The same was in the beginning with God. 3 All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made. 4 In him was life; and the life was the light of men.

5 And the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not.

The King of Glory

That’s what I want to talk about, The King of Glory. I would like to lay a foundation that expresses the coming of the King. The Old Testament as a whole was a revealing of God to His people. You find a people few in number, without any military skills, grow mighty in a world shrouded in violence. The Bible is a book of hard times, filled with people going thru hard times. That might be why so many can’t relate to it nowadays. For some of us we can understand that the struggle is real, and we have made it this far leaning on His everlasting arm. He has carried us thru times when our money looked funny, and our do wrong wouldn’t do right.

They were he least among the nations, and a simple people sent to go poses a land promised to them. They had no means to do what was required, and yet there is a mighty God that shows up, and shows out, and carries them. I am so thankful that it is also a book in which we find that Mighty God, is a God of deliverance and a God of another chance as He makes Himself known time after time again.

The Old Testament does not only speak of future, but of the past and present as well. The present is where we find the struggles of Gods people that let us see our own frailties. Nevertheless my brothers and sisters it is the past where we find the answers to our future. The past, namely the book of Genesis, is where we find the fall of man, and the first prophecy of the coming of the King of Glory. Genesis 3:15 “And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel.”

This is specifically speaking of a virgin birth, but even more it speaks of in vitro fertilization. In Vitro refers to a scientific method in which a procedure is performed outside of a living organism. In vitro is Latin for “within the glass.” When something is performed in vitro, it happens outside of a living organism. invitro fertilizatiom would in essence be a test tube baby, and why would it be so important that it was in vitro vs in vivo, or performed within the living organism. The reason being if Jesus was born with either Mary or Joseph’s dna He would have inherited the sin that caused man to fall. Thus inheriting the original sin, and more importantly the sin nature of fallen man, how he lived would not have mattered because He would not be sinless, at best He could just sin less than others. Mary was blessed to be a surrogate mother, but she contributed no dna. He was all God born just like a mere man. Scripture records that He was found in the form of a bond servant.

In nature a virgin birth is not an impossibility, but it is yet an anomaly, because it happens. In the natural when it happens the offspring will be female, because a woman has two X chromosomes, and only the man provides the Y chromosome.

That was a prophecy partially fulfilled in the birth of Jesus Matthew 1:23 “Behold, a virgin shall be with child, and shall bring forth a son, and they shall call his name Emmanuel, which being interpreted is, God with us.”

we find a two fold witness that testify about God, and the coming of the King of Glory. scripture and the miracle of the virgin birth. just as throughout His life Jesus would say my works testify of who I am even if you believe not. Psalm 138:2 “I will worship toward thy holy temple, And praise thy name for thy lovingkindness and for thy truth: For thou hast magnified thy word above all thy name.” Herbert Lockyer ask and answers the question we all are thinking like this.

All the Messianic Prophecies of the Bible (A. The Twofold Word (Living and Written))

Why has God exalted the Scripture thus? Is it not because it unveils and magnifies His Son who came as the revelation of God’s inner Self? In His Incarnation, Jesus became the Word incarnate: “The Word was made flesh and dwelt among men,” and it is only in the written Word that His whole character and commission have been revealed.

Jesus is found in Word, that is in the letter of scripture, and the word is found in Him, because He lives. Because of the identity of the written Word with the Logos, or the living Word, faith in the infallibility of the former is essential to the revelation and authority of the latter. I can stand on God’s word, because Jesus walks, He talks, He moved just as men do, He hungered, He slept, and He even wept. He is the inescapable problem of higher criticism.

thus John interested in recording the Deity of Jesus begins with John 1:1–3 “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 any thing made that was made.”

From Malachi to Matthew 400 hundred years of silence, and then when the silence is broken we have the fulfillment of prophecy. The prophecy that Old Testament saints had been looking for from a far off. During that 400 hundred years there may not have been a prophet but there were conquest, and struggles. Judas Maccabean and the Maccabean dynasty showed up, and they are important because they took back the Temple and restored worship. The annals of time have it around the 21st day of the month of Chislev. In Hebrew, Hanukkah means “dedication,” and the holiday marks the rededication of the Temple in Jerusalem in the 2nd century BC, According to tradition, during the rededication of the Holy Temple (the Second Temple) in Jerusalem at the time of the Maccabean revolt, a small quantity of oil used to light the Temple's menorah somehow miraculously burned for eight days. Hanukkah commemorates this event.

The month and time that this took place would have been around the time we celebrate Christmas. Now we know that Jesus was not born on the day n which we celebrate, but there are enough reasons that we can come to this day.……. every President was not born on Presidents’ Day, but we celebrate it that none the less.……

Yet even if you say that he resurrection is more important: if He had not came He could not have died and got up.