The Truth About the Man Jesus the Christ: The Way Back

Chapter One

The God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob Is Jesus Christ

This Chapter like the rest of this book recognises the greatest source of risk of failing to accept the word of God and therefore being at the verge of losing salvation due to insufficient knowledge of the word of God. There are millions upon millions of people who have sought the word even to a point of entering the church and being Church officials but have been dissatisfied and left to pursue other avenues of religion which can calm the longing for the knowledge of the meaning of this life. Some unfortunately have died in that state.

In these days, it will be difficulty by apocalyptic design to come to the full knowledge of God just regularly attending Church service. These are times when the church is fully asleep in the light while the world is sleeping in the dark. A time when many churches and denominations have walled themselves in a sectarian set of teachings and have selectively locked their Church doors on ‘any more’ light even if coming from the very bible they use every day and profess to believe. It is a sad time when as a result of malnourishment of the believers as touching the word, they have believed anything even what God has hated and have ‘sanctified’ it by flavouring it with the name of Jesus Christ.

This chapter definitely takes advantage and for granted of the fact that you the reader are familiar with Jesus Christ. It is also assumed you know basic Old Testament and New Testament stories. In this chapter, we will take a close and literal look at the God of Abraham, of Isaac and of Jacob. It will be very important to do this as this is the true God and the theme of this entire book.

God, the one true God has chosen to be remembered by these three gentlemen by all and in all generations. Exodus 3:15 (KJV).

Recent preachers have also started saying God of this one and that other. I have particularly heard of God of Oyedepo. Bishop David Oyedepo is an internationally renowned anointed preacher of the word of God. You may have heard of another equally anointed preacher being used as a memorial of God. It is wrong. This is one matter to be left to the election of God. The only other man who God temporarily used as his memorial was David the King of Israel. God has specifically elected Abraham, Isaac and Jacob as His memorial ‘unto all generations.’ You will testify to the power that attends prayers which begin with O God of Abraham, God of Isaac and God of Jacob. Ever wondered why? It is because this is an unambiguous calling of Jehovah the God of Israel.

Many deities of various world religions are acclaimed to have created the earth. Many deities are said by their adherents and worshippers to be living in heaven but there is no other who identifies himself with Abraham, Isaac and Jacob but Jehovah! Many worshippers of these deities make unceasing claim to the effect that their gods are the same as the God of Israel. Drawing from this, attempts are being made to find common grounds between the worship of these gods and that of Almighty God Jehovah.

Abraham was Isaac’s father and Jacob was the son of Isaac. Practically, Jacob is Abraham’s grandson. God chose Abram of the land of Ur of the Chaldeans who He later called Abraham to be through whom all families of the earth were to be blessed in accordance to the promise of the seed he made to Adam and Eve. Genesis 12:3 (KJV) This blessing is a good topic for later. It is the most important part of all that one can say about God. This blessing will be repeatedly urged on the reader in all chapters of this book.

Like all blessings, this blessing can be received thankfully or it can be despised and lost. The reward for this blessing is eternal life or life everlasting. There is no point in reading this book unless of course you at the end of it all receive the said blessing. This book does not only beg the reader to receive this blessing but point them to various wiles and traps set in the path of the blessed that make the receiver of this blessings subtly choked out of it. Many for following and trusting to the majority have lost this free blessing while happily thinking they have received it.

Impartation of this blessing to the inhabitants of the earth is the main or core thing God does nowadays! Dispensing this great and free blessing is the only commission God has given his church to carry out. It is to be carried to all nations of the world. The invitation must go to all. Many attempts are being made through secular political powers and religio-political setups to thwart this urgent and most important task of all who have heard.

Now, this God is identified and identifies Himself clearly and fully during the life of Jacob. Jacob speaks thus of Him ‘God, before whom my fathers Abraham and Isaac did walk, the God which fed me all my life long unto this day. The Angel which redeemed me from all evil..’ Genesis 48:15,16 (KJV).

Here Jacob describes his God as ‘the Angel.’

The same Angel appears to Jacob in a dream and says ‘I am the God of Bethel, where thou anointedst the pillar.’ Genesis 31:11-13 (KJV). Alas the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob was an Angel.

Normally, an angel would not dare call himself God. It would be blasphemous. He would quickly pass from being an Angel of God to being an Angel of Satan. One would be committing idolatry if they knelt and worshipped an Angel from God. This Angel however seems different. He calls himself God and is called God. He commands worship and is worshipped. This is undoubtedly worthy of awesome note.

This Angel is legitimately God! Whereas it is said God gave Moses the Oracles including the Ten Commandments (Exodus 20:1), we are also told that it is actually this Angel who gave Moses the law. Acts 7:38.

When this Angel appears to Joshua at Jericho as a man of war, He identifies himself as the ‘Captain of the hosts of the Lord’ whereupon Joshua falls to the ground and worships him un-rebuked. Joshua 5:13,14 (KJV). Joshua knew that this is the God who led the hosts of Israel from Egypt through the wilderness to the Promised Land as a cloud by day and as a pillar of fire by night. Moreover Joshua knew God as the Lord of hosts. In saying he was the captain of the hosts of the Lord the angel was saying he was the Lord of hosts. This is a well-known name of Jehovah. He was the same God who delivered the children of Israel from the hands of pharaoh and the host of Egypt with signs and wonders. The servant of God, who was familiar with his God, fell to the ground prostrate and worshipped. He was surely in the presence of the Almighty God of Israel.

Notice that the same words of instruction he used to Moses when he found him in the wilderness of Midian herding Jethro’s sheep, he in this instance uses to Joshua also ‘remove your shoes from your feet for the ground where you are standing is holy!’

The Angel, many centuries later, appears to a Danite man Manoah and his wife to tell them they would have a son (Samson) who would begin to deliver God’s people Israel from their enemies the Philistines. When the Angel had gone and appeared no more to them, Manoah said to his wife, ‘we shall surely die because we have seen God.’ Judges 13:21,22 (KJV). Of course they did not die because as the wife said it was not God’s intention to kill them.

But that the angel they had seen was God was neither in question nor in any doubt.

The children of Israel knew that their God was an Angel. He appeared to them as such! He was an angel, an arch angel.

Not only did the children of Israel and Judah know that a particular Angel was their God, they also fully knew the same Angel to be ‘the Son of God.’ They preached him as such wherever they went. They also accompanied their preaching with such a dutifully accurate description of him that when Nebuchadnezzar the Emperor of Babylon saw him he immediately recognised him obviously from the many narratives the captives from Judah had given Nebuchadnezzar of the God of their fathers. Daniel 3:24,25 (KJV). The description of their God must have been an academic heritage of the sons of the law of Israel.

One would obviously ask how we determine that this is one Angel and not many angels idolatrously being called God by apostates of Israel and Judah.

We know it is one angel because we are told by arch angel Gabriel in Daniel 10:21 that no one else holds with him in these matters but Michael the Prince of the Children of Israel. Of the two, obviously Gabriel has not performed redemptive functions. These functions belong to God. They belong to the Son of God. Moreover, Gabriel twice states very precisely that Michael is the Prince (Angel) who stands for ‘thy people’ (Israel). This means the name of the Angel who had always led the children of Israel and had appeared to them at different locations, in various situation and many points in time is Michael. This is the angel we have been talking about. Therefore the Angel who called himself God and was called God is Michael.

This is where the popular thinking that God indiscriminately sent Angels to the earth ought to come to an end. It is a stronghold of the devil. It opens up many to receive Angels of evil with all sorts of names. Many well-known bible preaching, tongue speaking and miracle performing Church leaders have been under inspiration of named angels.

This is unfortunate as this cannot be. God is a God of order! No Angel has disclosed what their name is apart from Gabriel. It would appear it is not lawful for angels to disclose their names except for Gabriel. Even the son of God when pressed to disclose his name refused the request from Manoah saying it was secret. From the way it is phrased, the implication was that Manoah was supposed to know that it is a secret. All the children of Israel probably ought to have known it.

So now it is apparent that in the Old Testament, either the Son of God came or the Son sent Gabriel.

When Gabriel came he did so as a messenger only. When the Angel of the Lord who is ‘the Son of God’ came, He did so as a redeemer and deliverer not only of His people Israel but at times of His Angel Gabriel also (Daniel 10:13.) In this verse we are told that Gabriel was withstood by the prince of Babylon apparently Satan for some weeks until Michael came to assist.

You will also notice that at other times this Angel is also called the Angel of the covenant.

Another widely popular and yet very erroneous thought is that God of the Old Testament is the Father while the Son is of the New Testament. This thought is the fuel of much idolatry. It has birthed many false religions some with Christian outlook yet devoid of the Son therefore imparting death to its devout adherents as no one can claim to be worshipping the father in frog leap, bypass or even ignorance of the Son.

God is one. The Father and the Son are one. The Father is in the Son and the Son is in the Father. It does help if one knows that the Word of God is the Son of God. This is neither figurative nor symbolic. It is literal. How can the word not be in the father and the father in the word?

The Father has always manifested to His creation through His Son. Through His son, God has through all ages demonstrated His profound wisdom and immense power. With His Son, God shares His blessed name, His eternal throne and His exceedingly great glory.

The God therefore of the Old Testament is the same as the God of the New Testament, the Son of God! The Jews well recognised that the son of God was the one who was the God of their fore fathers that is why when Jesus said he was the son of God, they quickly charged him with blasphemy because here was a man from galilee saying, by implication, he brought out their fore fathers from slavery in Egypt with a mighty hand and gave them the land which they now possessed. There before them was a young man whose by his own claim the whole earth and the heavens above are. And boy did his estate tie up with his claims?

Are we then saying Michael the Arch Angel is God? We are not only saying that, we are also saying Michael and Jesus Christ are one and the same person, the Son of God and therefore God!

In Daniel 12 verse 1, Gabriel states clearly that Michael will in the last days deliver the righteous living in that passaged called ‘the children of thy people’ from a great tribulation. He shall also at that end of time call to everlasting life those righteous that sleep in the dust. The rest he will call to shame and everlasting contempt.

You see, Michael is here depicted as the redeemer, the resurrection and the Judge. Only Jesus Christ is the redeemer, the resurrection and the Judge! Michael as you can well see is Jesus Christ.

There are only three names of Angels in the entire Bible Michael, Gabriel and Lucifer. One Angel is called and calls himself God. His name is Michael. The name itself means he who is what God is. Another is not called God at all but he calls himself God and demands worship by coercion and deceit. For that, he is reserved for eternal destruction. His name is Lucifer. The third is the messenger of God Gabriel. Gabriel does not appear until the time of Daniel. He does not claim to be God but comes from the presence of God.

From the foregoing you can see that the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob is Jesus Christ the Son of God. The God of the Old Testament is the Son of God Jesus Christ.

Consider what the Lord Jesus Christ says to the Jewish leaders ‘Search the scriptures for in them ye think ye have eternal life and they are they which testify of me.’ John 5:39 (KJV)

When the Lord uttered these words there was no written collection of scripture we now refer to as the New Testament. So the scriptures the Lord talked about were parchments of scrolls of the Old Testament. Hence Moses, the Prophets and Psalms all have Jesus Christ as their theme. They all talk about Jesus Christ and his mighty works and wonders in the past and the future.

It will again be necessary to break another stronghold on which is wrongly premised many more ‘Christian’ teachings which profess to be Christian. This is the view that God the Father is Jehovah while the Son is Jesus. Look, like has been said before, the father shares His name with His Son. The Lord himself says he came in the name of the Father. The Father is Jehovah and so is the Son. In any case Jesus is a Greek rendering of the Jewish name Jehoshua popularly written and shortened Joshua whose express meaning is Jehovah-saved.

You will also wish to take note that whereas it was promised that the voice will cry in the wilderness ‘prepare ye the way of Jehovah,’ the way was prepared rather for Jesus Christ. So, Jesus Christ is Jehovah.

You see, God does nothing but by His word. His word is embodied and has life. His relationship with His word is that of the father and his son. God calls His Word His Son. Because wherever he wants to do anything he sends his Word, his Word he sometimes refers to him as his Servant. His Word is his Servant.

He interacts with His creation on equal terms by His Word who is His Son. In other words by His Son, God does not pass as being superior to His creation. The son of God is Jesus Christ! This is the great attribute of God, humility!

Can you now see where Lucifer could have got the idea that he can be as God? He looked the same as his Creator, may be even better.

His God was as much an Angel as he (Lucifer) was so he thought if Michael could be worshipped, why not him? Therefore he began to develop pride because of the exceeding beauty his Creator had graciously bestowed on him. He also used the great influence of his position and the great wisdom his Creator gave him for sedition. The success of his program of stirring rebellion against God among the Angels is quantified as a third of the Angels. He managed to convince a third of the angels of God to rebel against a God they could all undoubtedly see as being good.

Now angels are highly intelligent form of life who had direct encounter with God. They are more intelligent than us human beings. Moreover they witnessed God creating heaven and earth and all that is in them. The bible says they shouted for joy at the completion of it all yet Satan somehow convinced them that this God you see is no good. He also clearly made them believe that he could do better than God and that they would be better off without God. They would, according to him, be freer and happier with him at the throne.

We have a chance to laugh at the folly of Lucifer in thinking he was equal to the son of God just because he was an angel as well as the Son of God was and probably he looked better than him who unknown to him was his Creator.

We should not forget that man has exhibited the same spirit in the presence of the Son of God. The Jewish leaders who probably looked better and more prosperous than the Son of God denied and despised the Son of God just because he was as much human as they were. They looked at him with spite because in his immense wisdom he designed for this great work to strip himself of all power and wealth. If he had made himself wealthy, the poor would have been looking at salvation as being expensive and a preserve of the well to do. The rich would have been justifying themselves as saved pointing to the wealth they had accrued.

Wealth was going to be a prerequisite for salvation. He would have shut out the poor from the invitation to the blessing of eternal life.

Many people today, esteeming their fellow men to have made so much contribution to their lives and the lives of others, have placed those people higher than the Son of God and have relegated him to a rate sometimes much lower than third in their lives. Much academics, wealthy and power have they placed above the teachings of God. Some even entertain the thought that Jesus is a myth. Not even in the most ardent Jewish ridicule of Jesus Christ has his historicity come in dispute.

Jesus did not come to build hospitals, universities and related show of prosperity that we would adore him for them. Not that he could not but that he would freely do the most important thing he came for without creating confusion. He was also well capable of marrying and raising a family but he did not. He could not afford to be famed for any other thing other than salvation of men. It would bring a lot of confusion.

If he had married and had children can you imagine the idolising his biological descendants would be showered with in all ages up to today? Many would even think there was salvific merit in marrying his descendants. Naturally his off springs would have even thought they were already saved having been born from his lineage.

As God he had already determined he would destroy the earth and create a new one. Alongside this, he did not plan to create new human beings. He had purposed to redeem mankind so that man could inherit this new earth.

His only preoccupation when he lived on earth was therefore to redeem mankind from the impending destruction. To lay down his life a ransom so that if we believe in him, we may partake of his life and all his