Christ’s Preexistance
- Isaiah 45:
- 21 Tell ye, and bring
them near; yea, let them take counsel together: who hath declared
this from ancient time? who hath told it from that time?have
notI the Lord?and there is no God else beside
me;a just God and aSaviour;there is none beside me.
- 22 Look unto me, and be ye
saved,all the ends of the earth: for I am God,and there is none
else.
- NOTE:
- Because of words like
“Lord,” “Saviour,” and “Look unto me, and be ye
saved” it is apparent that this is talking about Christ.
- Micah 5:
- 2 But thou,
BethlehemEphratah, though thou be little among the
thousands of Judah, yet out of thee shall he comeforth
unto me that is to be ruler in Israel; whose goings forth have
been from of old, from everlasting.
- NOTE:
- Christ was born in Bethlehem, so
it is apparent that this is referring to Christ. Also, in Matthew 2:5-6,
the New Testament applies this prophecy to the event of Christ’s
birth.
- John 1:
- 1 IN the beginning
was the Word,and the Word was with God, and the
Word was God.
- 2 The
same was in the beginning with God.
- 3 All things were made by him;
and without him was not any thing made that was made.
- 4 In him was life; and the life was the
light of men.
- 14 And the Word was
made flesh, and dwelt among us,(and we beheld his
glory,the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of
grace and truth.
- 15 John bare
witness of him,and cried, saying, This was he of whom I spake,
He that cometh after me is preferred before me:for he was before
me.
- NOTE:
- It is apparent that the
“Word” is Christ because He was indeed made flesh and dwelled
among us and yet He was in the beginning with God and was God.
- John the Baptist was born before Christ but
he states that “he” (Christ) was before him.
- John 6:
- 38 For I came down
from heaven,not to do mine own will, but the will of him that
sent me.
- 62 What and if ye shall see
the Son of manascend upwhere he was before?
- NOTE:
- Christ is “the Son of
man” that ascended to Heaven “where He was before” He
came.
- John 8:
- 58 Jesus
saidunto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Before
Abraham was, I am.
- NOTE:
- Christ stated that He existed
before Abraham.
- John 17:
- 1 THESE words spake
Jesus,and lifted up his eyes to heaven, and said, Father, the
hour is come; glorify thy Son, that thy Son also may glorify thee:
- 5 And now, O Father, glorify thou me
with thine own selfwith the glory which I had with thee before the
world was.
- NOTE:
- Christ had Glory with His Father
“before the world” existed.
- Colossians 1:
- 13 Who hath delivered
us from the power of darkness, and hath translated us into the kingdom
of his dear Son:
- 15
Who is the image of the invisible God,the firstborn of every
creature:
- 16 Forby him were
all things created, that are in heaven, and that are in earth, visible
and invisible, whether they be thrones, or dominions, or principalities,
or powers: all things were created by him, and for him:
- 17 Andhe is before all
things,and by him all things consist.
- NOTE:
- If Christ created all things, then
He had to have existed before anything.
- 2 Timothy 1:
- 9 Who hath saved
us,and called us with an holy calling, not according to our
works, but according to his own purpose and grace, which was given
usin Christ Jesus before the world began,
- Hebrews 1:
- 8 But unto the Son
he saith,Thy throne, O God, is for ever and ever:a
sceptre of righteousness is the sceptre of thy kingdom.
- 9 Thou hast loved righteousness, and hated
iniquity; therefore God, even thy God, hath anointed thee with the oil
of gladness above thy fellows.
- 10 And,
Thou, Lord,in the beginninghast laid the
foundation of the earth;and the heavens are the works of thine
hands:
- NOTE:
- Christ was there in the beginning
to create this earth and all the stars in the heavens.
- Psalms 90:
- 2 Before the
mountains were brought forth, or ever thou hadst formed the earth and
the world, even from everlasting to everlasting,thou art God.
- NOTE:
- That this is talking about Christ
becomes apparent when compared with Hebrews 1:8-10 above, which makes it
clear that the Son formed the earth.
- Revelation 22:
- 3 I am
Alphaand Omega,the beginningand the end,the
firstand the last.
- NOTE:
- “Everlasting to
everlasting.” It is real hard to comprehend just how long from
eternal past to eternal future is. Amen? To have no beginning and to
have no ending is not part of our experience here in this life. We are
promised that in Christ we can have no ending, but unlike Christ we will
always have had a beginning.
- Before Christ came to this earth to die for
you and me He was God. Oh what amazing love that He would even care
about you and me!!! Amen?
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