Decoding Scripture and Mysteries

Jesus is the interpretive key that unlocks the Hebrew Scriptures, Bible prophecy, and the Mysteries of God.

Jesus is the one who unveils the Mysteries of God. Only he is qualified to reveal the nature of the “unseen God.” In him, all the promises of God find their substance. He is the interpretive key that unlocks the Hebrew Scriptures and provides the correct understanding of Bible prophecy.

Jesus of Nazareth is the center of Apostolic Tradition that is preserved for us in the Greek New Testament. Moreover, the proclamation of “Christ Crucified” is the true “power and wisdom of God,” and there is no true knowledge of the Father without him - (1 Corinthians 1:18-24).

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The Prologue of John’s Gospel presents Jesus as the ‘Logos’, the unfiltered expression of the Living God. The Creative Word of God was embodied in the flesh and blood man of Nazareth for all men to see, and he is now the place where men behold the Divine Glory:

• “And the Word became flesh and tabernacled among us. And we beheld his glory, the glory as of an only begotten from the Father, full of grace and truth” – (John 1:14).

Everlasting truth and light are unveiled in God’s “only born Son.” Moses “gave the Law,” but Jesus, as the Living Word, manifested grace and truth. He alone has seen God, and therefore, only he is qualified to interpret his Father.

• “For of his fullness, we all received, even grace for grace. For the law was given through Moses. Grace and truth came through Jesus Christ. No man has seen God at any time; the only born Son who is in the bosom of the Father, he interprets” - (John 1:16-18).

In the final Greek clause of John 1:18, the verb translated as “interprets” has no direct or indirect object. The statement is open-ended. Quite simply, Jesus interprets everything about God.

Likewise, according to the Letter to the Hebrews, the Word of God spoken in His Son is His complete word. In contrast, the various words spoken previously “in the prophets” were partial and incomplete – “In many parts and in many ways.” God has spoken with great finality in and through His Son – (Hebrews 1:1).

Unlike the prophets and Levitical priests who came before him, Jesus “achieved the purification of sins” and sat down on the Divine Throne, thereby inheriting the “name” that is vastly superior to that of angels, Moses, Aaron, or any other predecessor - (Hebrews 1:1-4).

THE LAMB REVEALS

In the Book of Revelation, Jesus is the slain Lamb who is worthy to open “the scroll sealed with seven seals.” The Crucified Christ unveils and executes the scroll’s contents, a process that will conclude with the descent of the Holy City, New Jerusalem, and “the new heaven and new earth” – (Revelation 21:1-2).

All creation pronounced the Lamb worthy to receive power, glory, and authority because “by his death, he redeemed men and women from every nation to become a Kingdom of Priests for God.” He achieved victory over sin, Satan, and Death through his sacrificial death and resurrection, and therefore, he possesses all authority, even over the realm of the dead - (Revelation 5:6-12).

• “I am the Living one; and I was dead, and behold, I am alive for evermore, and I have the keys of death and of Hades” - (Revelation 1:18).

The Book of Revelation is the “revelation of Jesus Christ.” He is the one to whom it belongs, and he gives it to his servants to show them “what things must soon come to pass.” He interprets and applies the visions and symbols of the Book for his churches.

For example, the “one like a Son of Man” explained that “the seven golden lampstands” represent the seven “assemblies of Asia,” and the “seven stars” held in his right hand symbolize “seven messengers” - (Revelation 1:20).

None of the events recorded in Revelation occurred without Christ’s knowledge and authorization. Even the “Beast from the Sea” could not launch its war against the churches until the time determined by the Lamb - (Revelation 1:1, 1:17-20, 13:7-10 – “It was given to him…”).

The Lamb is “the Faithful Witness and the Firstborn of the Dead,” allusions to his sacrificial death and bodily resurrection; therefore, Jesus is the Master Key that unlocks everything. whether prophecies or the mysteries of God:

• “Now to him who is able to establish you according to my gospel and the preaching of Jesus Christ, according to the revelation of the mystery which has been kept in silence through times everlasting, but now is manifested, and by the scriptures of the prophets, according to the commandment of the everlasting God is made known unto all the nations unto obedience of faith, to the only wise God, through Jesus Christ, to whom be the glory forever. Amen” – (Romans 16:25-27).

Jesus, the Lamb of God, is the true and greater Tabernacle in whom the glory of God resides forevermore, the inaugurator of the promised New Covenant, the once-for-all sacrifice for sin, the one who overcame sin and death, and the Ruler of the Cosmos and “the Kings of the Earth.”

The substance prefigured in the Mosaic Legislation and the Hebrew Bible is found in the “Crucified Messiah,” the rock-solid “power and wisdom of God,” and in him alone. all the promises of God receive their “Yea!” and “Amen!”. What came before constituted “types and shadows” – (2 Corinthians 1:20, Colossians 2:17, Hebrews 8:5, 10:1).

God cannot be known apart from His Son. Everyone who has seen and comprehended the Crucified Messiah has “seen his Father.” Jesus Christ is “the way, the truth, and the life,” and no man or woman sees or comes to the Father apart from him - (John 14:6).

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SEE ALSO:

• Unveiling the Invisible God - (Jesus unlocks the Hebrew Scriptures, reveals the Divine nature, and manifests the redemptive purposes of the God of Israel)

• Jesus is the Key - (Jesus is the key that unlocks the Hebrew Scriptures and reveals the nature and redemptive purposes of the God of Israel)

• Jesus Interprets - (Jesus, the Word made flesh, is the interpretive key that opens the Hebrew Scriptures and reveals the Father)

• Desbloqueando A Escritura - (Jesus é a chave interpretativa que abre as Escrituras Hebraicas, a profecia bíblica e os Mistérios de Deus.)