Christ the Arm/hand of God

God proclaimed in the scriptures that He has created the world by his hands

Isaiah 48:12–13 (NKJV)

12 “Listen to Me, O Jacob, And Israel, My called: I am He, I am the First, I am also the Last.

13 Indeed My hand has laid the foundation of the earth, And My right hand has stretched out the heavens; When I call to them, They stand up together.

Isaiah 66:1–2 (NKJV)

1 Thus says the Lord: “Heaven is My throne, And earth is My footstool. Where is the house that you will build Me? And where is the place of My rest?

2 For all those things My hand has made, And all those things exist,” Says the Lord. “But on this one will I look: On him who is poor and of a contrite spirit, And who trembles at My word.

Isaiah 45:12 (NKJV)

12 I have made the earth, And created man on it. I—My hands—stretched out the heavens, And all their host I have commanded.

God is not speaking here of a literal physical hand, God is a Spirit and he does not have physical hands (John 4:24, Luke 24:39)

God’s hand represents His Word by which he created everything.

Psalm 33:6–9 (NKJV)

6 By the word of the Lord the heavens were made, And all the host of them by the breath of His mouth.

7 He gathers the waters of the sea together as a heap; He lays up the deep in storehouses.

8 Let all the earth fear the Lord; Let all the inhabitants of the world stand in awe of Him.

9 For He spoke, and it was done; He commanded, and it stood fast.

God created everything by the Spoken word.

He spoke things to existence.

The Spoken Word by which he created all things is referred to as the hand of God.

In the New Testament, the spoken Word by which God created became flesh (body), and this flesh was called the Son of God or Christ.

John 1:14 (NKJV)

14 And the Word became 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.

So we can also say that God created the World through his Son or Christ, because he is the Word Of God made flesh.

Hebrews 1:1–2 (NKJV)

1 God, who at various times and in various ways spoke in time past to the fathers by the prophets,

2 has in these last days spoken to us by His Son, whom He has appointed heir of all things, through whom also He made the worlds;

Colossians 1:13–17 (NKJV)

13 He has delivered us from the power of darkness and conveyed us into the kingdom of the Son of His love,

14 in whom we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of sins.

15 He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation.

In The OT, God’s Word was his invisible image, it was by which he was revealed to His people (Deutronomy 4:12), hence they were told not to make any likeness of God becuase they did not see a form only heard the Words.

In the NT When the Word by which revealed himself in the OT was made flesh, The invisible image of God became his visible image.

The Body/flesh became image of the Invisible Spirit that is within, The Son became the image of the Invisible Father.

16 For by Him all things were created that are in heaven and that are on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or principalities or powers. All things were created through Him and for Him.

The Son is the Firstborn of all creation in What sense?

Before God gave to creation he gave birth to the Word, before Light was brought forth to existence, the Word let there be light came forth from God.

In this sense the Son or Christ is the Firstborn over all creation because all things were created by him and through him.

Notice the prepositions “by him”, “through him”, “for Him”.

God created the World through his Word and he is also Word hence it was created by the Word, and it was created for God.

17 And He is before all things, and in Him all things consist.

So, saying That God created the World through Christ or the Son is the same as saying God created the World by his word, Because the Son is the Word made flesh ( the Blood and flesh of God the father).

In the same manner, We can now also conclude that the Arm or hand of God is Christ or the Son of God. That is that Flesh and blood was the Arm or hand of God.

Having this understanding we will gain a much deeper revelation drom the passages of The OT that speak of the arm of God.

Isaiah 52:7–10 (NKJV)

7 How beautiful upon the mountains Are the feet of him who brings good news, Who proclaims peace, Who brings glad tidings of good things, Who proclaims salvation, Who says to Zion, “Your God reigns!”

8 Your watchmen shall lift up their voices, With their voices they shall sing together; For they shall see eye to eye When the Lord brings back Zion.

9 Break forth into joy, sing together, You waste places of Jerusalem! For the Lord has comforted His people, He has redeemed Jerusalem.

10 The Lord has made bare His holy arm In the eyes of all the nations; And all the ends of the earth shall see The salvation of our God.

“made bare” revealed, manifested, made visible

When the Word became flesh, the holy Arm of God was made bare and all the ends of the earth will see the salvation of God.

Luke 2:27–32 (NKJV)

27 So he came by the Spirit into the temple. And when the parents brought in the Child Jesus, to do for Him according to the custom of the law,

28 he took Him up in his arms and blessed God and said:

29 “Lord, now You are letting Your servant depart in peace, According to Your word;

30 For my eyes have seen Your salvation

31 Which You have prepared before the face of all peoples,

32 A light to bring revelation to the Gentiles, And the glory of Your people Israel.”

He was seeing the Holy Arm of God that has been made bare, the salvation of God.

When Jesus was revealed to world and seen of the Gentiles, they were seeing the salvation of God.

Isaiah 40:9–11 (NKJV)

9 O Zion, You who bring good tidings, Get up into the high mountain; O Jerusalem, You who bring good tidings, Lift up your voice with strength, Lift it up, be not afraid; Say to the cities of Judah, “Behold your God!”

10 Behold, the Lord God shall come with a strong hand, And His arm shall rule for Him; Behold, His reward is with Him, And His work before Him.

11 He will feed His flock like a shepherd; He will gather the lambs with His arm, And carry them in His bosom, And gently lead those who are with young.

The good tidings is the Goodnews that God has come in the Flesh “behold your God”, Jesus Christ the Emanuel.

“God will come with a strong Hand”, referring to Christ. God came with a heavenly flesh and blood.

" he will gather the lambs with his arms" referring to the role of Christ through whom God became the great shepherds that gathers the lost unto himself.

John 11:49–52 (NKJV)

49 And one of them, Caiaphas, being high priest that year, said to them, “You know nothing at all,

50 nor do you consider that it is expedient for us that one man should die for the people, and not that the whole nation should perish.”

51 Now this he did not say on his own authority; but being high priest that year he prophesied that Jesus would die for the nation,

52 and not for that nation only, but also that He would gather together in one the children of God who were scattered abroad.

If the arm of the Lord was not revelaed, if God had not come in the flesh, we would not have been gathered unto God, we would be like sheep scattered without a shepherd.

Thanks be to God who has gathered us unto himself by his holy arm.

Hosea 13:4 (NKJV)

4 “Yet I am the Lord your God Ever since the land of Egypt, And you shall know no God but Me; For there is no savior besides Me.

Hosea 13:14 (NKJV)

14 “I will ransom them from the power of the grave; I will redeem them from death. O Death, I will be your plagues! O Grave, I will be your destruction! Pity is hidden from My eyes.

Yahweh himself promises the people of Israel that he will ransom them from death and, redeem them from it.

Note he said He will be the plague to death, and he will be the destruction of grave”

God becames the plague of death and destruction of Grave through his flesh and blood, through Christ.

Hebrews 2:10–16 (NKJV)

10 For it was fitting for Him, for whom are all things and by whom are all things, in bringing many sons to glory, to make the captain of their salvation perfect through sufferings.

11 For both He who sanctifies and those who are being sanctified are all of one, for which reason He is not ashamed to call them brethren,

12 saying: “I will declare Your name to My brethren; In the midst of the assembly I will sing praise to You.”

13 And again: “I will put My trust in Him.” And again: “Here am I and the children whom God has given Me.”

14 Inasmuch then as the children have partaken of flesh and blood, He Himself likewise shared in the same, that through death He might destroy him who had the power of death, that is, the devil,

15 and release those who through fear of death were all their lifetime subject to bondage.

God came with his own flesh and blood to defeat deatha nd him who had power of death.

All of mankind inluding the descendenat of abraham were subject to bondage and death because of the flesh and blood of the first man. (ROMANs 5:12)

Hence when they partake of the flesh and blood of Jesus, When they put on Christ, they overcome death.

16 For indeed He does not give aid to angels, but He does give aid to the seed of Abraham.

God came with his own flesh and blood to halp the seed of Abraham defeat death.

KJV, translates this verse "For verily he took not on him the nature of angels; but he took on him the seed of Abraham"

"the nature of angels" make it seem as if he took on the nature of the seed of Abraham but that word is in italics because it is not in the original greek bible”

In your preface of the Bible, translators will show you that " words or phrases in italics indicate expressions in the original language which require clarification by additional English words". They are additional words used that are not in the original

The literal translation is " he helps" "Interlinear bible"

So God coming with his own flesh and blood to help the seed of Abraham, this was in fulfilment of the Old Testament Scripture

Isaiah 41:8–13 (NKJV)

8 “But you, Israel, are My servant, Jacob whom I have chosen, The descendants of Abraham My friend.

9 You whom I have taken from the ends of the earth, And called from its farthest regions, And said to you, ‘You are My servant, I have chosen you and have not cast you away:

10 Fear not, for I am with you; Be not dismayed, for I am your God. I will strengthen you, Yes, I will help you, I will uphold you with My righteous right hand.’

11 “Behold, all those who were incensed against you Shall be ashamed and disgraced; They shall be as nothing, And those who strive with you shall perish.

12 You shall seek them and not find them— Those who contended with you. Those who war against you Shall be as nothing, As a nonexistent thing.

13 For I, the Lord your God, will hold your right hand, Saying to you, ‘Fear not, I will help you.’

God coming with his own flesh and blood, defeated our enemy death and made the acusation of our accuser as nothing.

Through his flesh and blood , Through Christ, those who contended with us were made us nothing.

Take note of “Help” and “uphold”

To show us even further that his Flesh and blood was not man's but of God. That is no human being had contribution to the flesh and blood of Jesus through which he helps and upholds us in defeating our enemy the devil and thereby having victory over death.

Isaiah 63:4–5 (NKJV)

4 For the day of vengeance is in My heart, And the year of My redeemed has come.

5 I looked, but there was no one to help, And I wondered That there was no one to uphold; Therefore My own arm brought salvation for Me; And My own fury, it sustained Me.

His own flesh and blood brough salvation unto him

His own flesh and blood got him the victory.

Isaiah 59:14–16 (NKJV)

14 Justice is turned back, And righteousness stands afar off; For truth is fallen in the street, And equity cannot enter.

15 So truth fails, And he who departs from evil makes himself a prey. Then the Lord saw it, and it displeased Him That there was no justice.

16 He saw that there was no man, And wondered that there was no intercessor; Therefore His own arm brought salvation for Him; And His own righteousness, it sustained Him.

Psalm 98:1–3 (NKJV)

1 Oh, sing to the Lord a new song! For He has done marvelous things; His right hand and His holy arm have gained Him the victory.

2 The Lord has made known His salvation; His righteousness He has revealed in the sight of the nations.

3 He has remembered His mercy and His faithfulness to the house of Israel; All the ends of the earth have seen the salvation of our God.

Christ is the hope and trust of the Gentiles

Isaiah 51:4–6 (NKJV)

4 “Listen to Me, My people; And give ear to Me, O My nation: For law will proceed from Me, And I will make My justice rest As a light of the peoples.

5 My righteousness is near, My salvation has gone forth, And My arms will judge the peoples; The coastlands will wait upon Me, And on My arm they will trust.

6 Lift up your eyes to the heavens, And look on the earth beneath. For the heavens will vanish away like smoke, The earth will grow old like a garment, And those who dwell in it will die in like manner; But My salvation will be forever, And My righteousness will not be abolished.

The coastland is reffering to the gentiles

So the gentiles will wait on Yahweh, and on His Arm they will truts.

If God did not come with his own flesh and blood, they Gentiles are hopeles..

Without Christ there is no hope for the Gentiles.

The New Covenant is establish through the blood and body of Jesus, of God.

With his body and his blood there is No New Covenant that includes the Gentiles.

Ephesians 2:11–19 (NKJV)

11 Therefore remember that you, once Gentiles in the flesh—who are called Uncircumcision by what is called the Circumcision made in the flesh by hands—

12 that at that time you were without Christ, being aliens from the commonwealth of Israel and strangers from the covenants of promise, having no hope and without God in the world.

13 But now in Christ Jesus you who once were far off have been brought near by the blood of Christ.

14 For He Himself is our peace, who has made both one, and has broken down the middle wall of separation,

15 having abolished in His flesh the enmity, that is, the law of commandments contained in ordinances, so as to create in Himself one new man from the two, thus making peace,

16 and that He might reconcile them both to God in one body through the cross, thereby putting to death the enmity.

17 And He came and preached peace to you who were afar off and to those who were near.

18 For through Him we both have access by one Spirit to the Father.

19 Now, therefore, you are no longer strangers and foreigners, but fellow citizens with the saints and members of the household of God,