3 knowing this first: that scoffers will come in the last days, walking according to their own lusts,
4 and saying, "Where is the promise of His coming? For since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of creation." How are we to know who is truly speaking for God? I believe that if we are to listen to someone who says they are speaking for God they should have the credentials for us to believe them. Having said this I present to you One who has all the credentials needed for you to be able to trust in His words. He is found in God's word in: Hebrews 1:1-2 (NKJV)
1 God, who at various times and in various ways spoke in time past to the fathers by the prophets,
2 has in these last days spoken to us by His Son, whom He has appointed heir of all things, through whom also He made the worlds;
This scripture says that in the days of the Old Testament God spoke to us by the prophets. Such as Isaiah, Daniel, Zachariah, Malachi, Ezekiel, and etc. But in these last days God has spoken to us through His Son, Jesus Christ. Think of how Jesus is superior to the O. T. prophets as great as they were. None of them were given the full and complete revelation of God. He gave each of them a part of the revelation of who He is and His plan for mankind. None of them could fully receive, understand or explain it all. They had incomplete revelation of God, but God has spoken to us in these last days through Jesus Christ who has and is the complete revelation of God to mankind. John chapter 1 says Jesus "is the living word of God." Look at more reasons why Jesus is superior to the prophets. In verse 2 (above) God has appointed Jesus Christ His Son as heir of all things, not some but all. Also God made the world through Jesus. Look at these verses in Hebrews 1:3 (NKJV)
3 who being the brightness of His glory and the express image of His person, and upholding all things by the word of His power, when He had by Himself purged our sins, sat down at the right hand of the Majesty on high, Jesus is the brightness of God's glory, that is, Jesus is all the brilliance, radiance, splendor, and light of God's Being. Image means substance. Jesus Christ is the very substance, Being, Person, and embodiment of God.
Jesus upholds all things by the power of His word. Jesus, God's Son is controlling the world and moving it forward to a climatic moment of renewal and recreation. The bible calls this the "great day of redemption." He simply speaks and the laws He sets in motion hold the world together.
Jesus is superior because He, by Himself, has purged our sins. John 3:15-16 (NKJV)
15 Whoever believes in Him should not perish but have eternal life.16 For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life.
John 14:6 (NKJV)
6 Jesus said to him, "I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me. Jesus now sits at the right hand of the Majesty on high, having become so much better than the angels, and has by inheritance obtained a more excellent name than they. Philippians 2:9-11 (NKJV)
9 Therefore God also has highly exalted Him and given Him the name which is above every name,
10 that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of those in heaven, and of those on earth, and of those under the earth,
11 and that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father. I believe these scriptures show us and the world why we should listen to Him and then obey His words.
INVITATION: Jesus is speaking to everyone who is reading this article right now. He is saying, "Do you know me as your personal Savior and Lord? Have you trusted Me for your salvation from Hell? If not, I offer you eternal life with Me if you will confess and repent of your sins Then ask Me to forgive you and invite me into your life to take charge of you. If you do, I will save you now from the penalty of your sins which is hell, and I will give you life eternal in heaven with Me and the Father." What is your decision?"
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