Bible Questions Answered:
“Jesus doesn't
know the hour of the rapture, so how could he be god knowing anything
else....”
Natsue/ Niiza,
Japan (Saitama Perfecture)
Bible Answer:
Bible Texts:
Mark 13:31-33 KJV
31 Heaven and
earth shall pass away: but My words shall not pass away.
32 But of that
day and that hour knoweth no man, no, not the angels which are in
heaven, neither The Son, but The Father.
33 Take ye
heed, watch and pray: for ye know not when the time is.
Our Lord in coming
to earth to be mankind's Passover Lamb, divested Himself of all His
Divine glory, and riches He had with The Father, and Holy Spirit,
before creation. His Omnipotence, Omnipresence, and Omniscience, as a
Man, He laid aside, His Divinity to become our Savior.
Divest:
To strip or
deprive (someone or something), especially of property or rights;
dispossess.
(Dictionary.Com)
Kenosis:
The doctrine that
Christ relinquished His divine attributes so as to experience human
suffering.
(Dictionary.Com)
II Corinthians 8:9 KJV
For ye know the
grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that, though He was rich, yet for
your sake He became poor, that ye through His poverty might be rich.
Philippians 2:5-11 NLT
5 You must have
the same attitude that Christ Jesus had.
6 Though He was
God, He did not think of equality with God as something to cling to.
7 Instead, He
gave up His divine privileges; He took the humble position of a slave
and was born as a human being. When He appeared in human form,
8 He humbled
Himself in obedience to God and died a criminal’s death on a cross.
9 Therefore,
God elevated Him to the place of Highest Honor and gave Him the name
above all other names,
10 that at the
name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under
the earth,
11 and every
tongue declare that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God The
Father.
By reading Mark 13:32, we may not infer that Christ's earthly
knowledge was not great knowledge.
John 2:24,25 KJV
24 But Jesus
did not commit Himself unto them, because He knew all men,
25 And needed
not that any should testify of man: for He knew what was in man.
John 16:29,30 KJV
29 His
disciples said unto Him, Lo, now speakest thou plainly, and speakest
no proverb.
30 Now are we
sure that thou knowest all things, and needest not that any man
should ask thee: by this we believe that thou camest forth from God.
John 21:17 KJV
He saith unto
him the third time, Simon, son of Jonas, lovest thou Me? Peter was
grieved because He said unto him the third time, Lovest thou Me? And
he said unto Him, Lord, thou knowest all things; thou knowest that I
love thee. Jesus saith unto him, Feed My sheep.
Acts 1:24 KJV
(Matthias chosen as an Apostle.)
And they
prayed, and said, Thou, Lord, which knowest the hearts of all men,
shew whether of these two thou hast chosen,
In The Lord's
intercessory prayer, He asked The Father...
John 17:5 KJV
And now, O
Father, glorify thou Me with thine own self with the glory which I
had with thee before the world was.
The resurrected
Savior's glory with The Father has been fully restored, and our Great
High Priest, intercedes for us, to The Father.
Hebrews
4:14-16 NLT (Christ Is Our High Priest)
14 So then,
since we have A Great High Priest who has entered heaven,
Jesus The Son
Of God, let us hold firmly to what we believe.
15 This High
Priest of ours understands our weaknesses, for He faced all of the
same testings we do, yet He did not sin.
16 So let us
come boldly to The Throne Of Our Gracious God. There we will receive
His mercy, and we will find grace to help us when we need it most.
Prayer:
Nehemiah 9:17 KJV
"...but thou art a God ready to
pardon, gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and of great
kindness..."
Matthew 10:32
KJV
Everyone who acknowledges Me
publicly here on earth, I will also acknowledge before My Father in
heaven.
John 1;12,13 KJV
12 But as many as received Him, to
them gave He power to become the sons of God, even to them that
believe on His name:
13 Which were born, not of blood,
nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.
