Is Jesus a false prophet

I read your text where you shared that you have a clear image in your mind of what the phrase “the Son of Man coming in his kingdom” really means. Further, whatever it means, it didn’t happen during the life time of those present so therefore you must declare Jesus a false prophet. I hope I am reading you correctly.

Your idea of Jesus being a false prophet got me thinking about what the one-page graph of the Bible would look like if Jesus was a false prophet. I put red lines though all the things that would not be possible without Jesus being the Son of God – the chart would be empty!

This is the short list of what it seemed to mean …

• ·       Jesus was not the Son of God as he claimed
• ·       There could be no creation, no Adam and Eve
• ·       Without Jesus there is no payment for sin
• ·       Without Jesus we are not declared right with God
• ·       Without Jesus there can be no trinity – God Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.
• ·       Without the trinity there is no God, no God that the Bible describes.

For me, the preponderance of historical evidence does not permit me to look the Son of God in the eye and say, “You are a false prophet.”

The people that he was talking to didn’t see him that way.

The people that came in the generation following didn’t see him as a false prophet.

The Christians that Nero burned as street lights died because Jesus was Son of God.

The Christians that went to the lions worshipped a Son of God.

The church of God has flourished for 2,000 years, with everyone reading the Gospel of Matthew, and everyone worshiping the Son of God.

The church started with 120 people in an upper room and today there are three billion that have read Matthew 16 and that don’t see Jesus as a false prophet.

I’m pleading with you to consider, just consider, that perhaps there is some truth about ‘coming in his kingdom’ that we don’t yet understand. And that because we don’t understand it does not make it wrong.

If we must understand everything about our God, then God is no bigger than we are – we are as smart, and knowledgeable as God. I don’t know about you, but I for one don’t want a God that is not bigger than my understanding. I am like King David when he looked at the stars in the sky and asked, “What is man that you are interested in him?” Why in all of the universe has God picked out planet earth – I don’t know, but I like it.

Why am I me? I don’t understand it, but I can rest in the love of a God that does know and that has plans for me and everyone – a plan that is always satisfying to me.

When I consider what Jesus did:

• ·       He read from Isaiah and claimed it to be about him Luke 4:14-21
• ·       He healed the sick
• ·       Gave sight to the blind
• ·       Comforted the broken hearted
• ·       Raised the dead
• ·       Walked on water
• ·       Claimed to be the Son of God
• ·        Predicted he’d die and raise in three days – and he did
• ·       “Jesus also did many other things. If they were all written down, I suppose the whole world could not contain the books that would be written.” (Joh 21:25 NLT)

For me, I must worship him as God, and accept him for who he claims to be! And I'm glad I don't and can't understand it all. That means the best is yet to come!