There is much misconception and misleading doctrine concerning these puzzling questions in this world today.  However, deep research of the Hebrew and Greek, as well as geneaology, and other ancient writings reveal closer truths than most people realize.  Books and movies of deception, and even television documentaries are leading the masses into a dangerous and destructive mind-set.  People are accepting these lies as if they were following a soap opera.  When, in fact, the Holy Bible provides the truth with proper study and understanding…IF people are willing to take the time, and make the effort to search it out.  Jesus warned us of these deceivers many times, and most are not heeding His critical words.  Jesus and His Purpose has not changed since He ascended to the Father…but we have!  I, truthfully, am astonished at how easily the sheep are blindly led to whatever deceptive doctrine suits their fancy!  Guess what?  God warned about this throughout the Scriptures!  What true knowledge do we really have of Him and His Plan?  In a word…none!  “My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge: because thou hast rejected knowledge, I will also reject thee, that thou shalt be no priest to me: seeing thou hast forgotten the law of thy God, I will also forget thy children.” (Hosea 4: 6).  That is a very severe warning!  Remember, God is the same yesterday, today…and forever.  He will not change, nor will He be mocked.  Did His Son, Jesus, echo this warning?  “Not everyone that sayeth unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven.  Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name?  and in thy name have cast out devils?  and in thy name done many wonderful works?  And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity.”  (Matthew 7; 21-23). 

Contrary to popular belief, God’s love is NOT unconditional…there are many “Ifs” throughout His Word! 

Time and again, in the Scriptures, you will read, “Behold me, behold me“…or “seek my face“.  It is very clear in Jeremiah 4: 21-22, “How long shall I see the standard, and hear the sound of the trumpet?  For my people is foolish, they have not known me; they are sottish children, and they have none understanding:  they are wise to do evil, but to do good they have no knowledge.”  You may have noticed in this blog a plea to save the lives of wolves in this nation.  It has amazed me that those wolves have been leading the sheep to Jesus and the Word!  When Jesus said, as He sent the disciples out to preach the Gospel, “Go your ways: behold, I send you forth as lambs among wolves“, He was denoting men as wolves.  But, God does work in strange and mysterious ways.  He abhors the murdering of His animals, as proven by Isaiah 66: 3, and in Hosea 6: 6, “For I desired mercy, and not sacrifice; and the knowledge of God more than burnt offerings.”  The wolf shall dwell with the lamb on God’s holy mountain, therefore He loves them dearly.  It must have grieved Him terribly when He made the first sacrifice of animals that Adam had named, as a result of the original sin in the Garden of Eden, to provide coverings for Adam and Eve.  That is Genesis 3: 21.  Did God, in the beginning, intend for us to eat the meat, or flesh of animals?  NO!  “Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in the which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed; to you it shall be for meat“.  Genesis 1: 29.  But, since that original sacrifice in the Garden, animals have paid the price for men…as atonement for sin.  And, man still slaughters animals…for profit, for food, and for evil sport.  You can read of the inhumanity and cruelty everywhere. 

 Is this God’s will?  NO!  “He that killeth an ox is as if he slew a MAN; he that sacrificeth a lamb, as if he cut off a dog’s neck…Yea, they have chosen their own ways, and their soul delighteth in their abominations.” (Isaiah 66: 3).  What will God do about these evils?  “I also will choose their delusions, and will bring their fears upon them; because when I called, none did answer; when I spake, they did not hear; but they did evil before mine eyes, and chose that in which I delighted not.”  (Isaiah 66: 4).  Moreover, what about the evils done to mankind?  Do we plead for the widows and the fatherless?  These are very tough times, and the “beginning of sorrows“.  “For the leaders of this people cause them to err; and they that are led of them are destroyed.” (Isaiah 9: 16).  “WOE unto them that decree unrighteous decrees, and that write grievousness which they have prescribed.  To turn aside the needy from judgment, and to take away the right from the poor of my people, that widows may be their prey, and that they may rob the fatherless!” (Isaiah 10: 1-2).  That is a heavy and dangerous WOE from God!  Cruelty and corruption are unacceptable in His eyes, as well as those who do not do HIS will, but selfishly and sinfully pursue their own pleasures and lusts.

So, the Lord sent His Son, Jesus/Yahshua, to be the Salvation of the world.  “Wherefore when he cometh into the world, he saith, Sacrifice and offering thou wouldest not, but a body hast thou prepared me:  In burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin thou hast had no pleasure.  Then said I, Lo, I come (in the volume of the book it is written of me.) to do thy will, O God….He taketh away the first, that he may establish the second.  By the which will we are sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.“  “Having therefore, brethren, boldness to enter into the holiest by the blood of Jesus.  By a new and living way, which he hath consecrated for us, through the vail, that is to say, his flesh.”  (Hebrews 10: 5-20).  “To this end was I born, and for this cause came I into the world, that I should bear witness unto the truth.  Everyone that is of the truth heareth my voice.” (John 18: 37).  “Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets:  I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil.”  (Matthew 5: 17).  The law still applies today, which is the Ten Commandments given by God to Moses!  Did you think those laws were obsolete, and that we will not be judged by them? 

In truth, for what purpose did Jesus/Yahshua come to this earth, and partake of a flesh and blood body?  He came to do the will of Him Who sent Him!   He now sits at the right hand of the Father.  Where is the right hand of the Father?  Attached to His right arm!  “WHO hath believed our report?  And to whom is the arm of the LORD revealed?”  (Isaiah 53: 1).  His arm is His Power.  “Hear, O Israel:  The LORD our God is one LORD: And thou shalt love the LORD thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might.” (Deuteronomy 6: 4-5).  Does this sound like One Who came to the earth to marry, and to beget children?  He tells us to plead for the widows and the fatherless…not to cause them to be that way!  This idea is an insult to God, and especially as He had already divorced the House of Israel!  “And I saw, when for all the causes whereby backsliding Israel committed adultery I had put her away, and given her a bill of divorce; yet her treacherous sister Judah feared not, but went and played the harlot also.” (Jeremiah 3: 8). 

 For Jesus to have married, and even produced a child would have gone completely against His divine purpose for all of mankind!  Of marriage, Jesus told us, “Have ye not read, that he which made them at the beginning made them male and female, And said, For this cause shall a man leave father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife; and they twain shall be one flesh?  Wherefore they are no more twain, but one flesh.  What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder.”  (Matthew 19: 4-6).  A more clear answer lies at the foot of the cross as Jesus gave His life for us.  ”When Jesus therefore saw his mother, and the disciple standing by, whom he loved, he saith unto his mother, Woman, behold thy son!  Then saith he to the disciple, Behold thy mother!  And from that hour that disciple took her unto his own home.” (John 19: 26-27).  God’s law would have mandated that a wife would have been given priority.  But, Jesus clearly addressed His mother!  So much for the DaVinci theory!  Jesus was not married, to Mary Magdalene or anyone else.  He will be though, when He returns to claim His bride…His Church!  “For thy Maker is thine husband; the LORD of hosts is his name; and thy Redeemer the Holy One of Israel; The God of the whole earth shall he be called.” (Isaiah 54: 5). 

In the next post, learn what Jesus actually looked like, long hair and all…proven from Scripture and other ancient texts.  Also, find out if He was, indeed, a vegetarian.  The answers will astound you!  To be continued….