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by James Ross Kelly

When God Appeared..


When the people of God experience suffering, Christ suffers with them.

When God’s people cause suffering, Christ suffers in their victims.

When the people of God achieve victory, Christ is the victor.

 When God delivers his people, Christ is the deliverer.

When the people go into exile, Christ goes with them.

When the people of God are led out of exile, Christ leads them.

When the priest offered a sacrifice, Christ was the priest.

When the lamb was sacrificed, Christ was the lamb.

When God appeared, that was Christ.

Jersak, Bradley. A More Christlike Word: Reading Scripture the Emmaus Way (pp. 155-156). Whitaker House. Kindle Edition.

by James Ross Kelly

Jesus Christ, Born of the Jews


!!JesuIn the New Testament, the theme of the descent of the divine Glory to earth continues, but in a radically different key; for, in Christian thought, God comes to dwell among human beings not merely in the awesome but intangible form of the Shekhinah, but as a concrete presence, a living man.

Thus, in the Gospel of Luke, when the angel of the annunciation tells Mary of the conception of Jesus in her womb, his language clearly recalls the cloud of darkness that used to attend the Lord’s entry into his house: ‘The Holy Ghost shall come upon thee, and the power of the Highest shall overshadow thee … ’ (Luke 1:35). The Gospel of John proclaims that, in becoming flesh, the divine Son literally ‘tabernacled’ among us – ‘and we beheld his Glory, the Glory of the only begotten of the Father’ (John 1:14). Jesus likens himself to the Temple. And all three of the Synoptic Gospels (Matthew, Mark and Luke) tell of Christ’s Transfiguration, when the Glory of his divinity briefly became visible through the veil of his humanity.

Bentley Hart, David. The Story of Christianity . Quercus Publishing. Kindle Edition.