07/01/2025
GOD'S REVEALED (INCARNATE) WORD
Another important Personality we must reckon with in our discourse about the blissful Shower from God is Jesus Christ.
If recalled, SHOWERS OF BLESSINGS is Prophet Ezekiel's perspective of what God ultimately had in mind for Israel and for the whole world. In Ezekiel chapter 34, the covenant God (the True Shepherd of Israel) was terribly provoked because His chosen Shepherds had caused men to degenerate and be lost in sins!
Noticeably, God was angry, and had gone on to condemn and rain curses (woes) upon the land and the shepherds (leaders) of Israel. But, the way God later positioned Himself against Israel never stipulated as if He had given up on sinful humanity. Even, the Holy Bible candidly fully talked about the when and how God's eternal Plan shall work to save mankind.
Thus, as the Bible said, God went ahead to gift His anointed and indispensable Servant to become the means by which to restore all that has gone wrong! Invariably, Jesus Christ (the eternal living Word - Who is co-eternal, co-equals, and co-works with God) became God's Revealed or Incarnate Word. (John 1:1-3; 2Corinthians 13:14)
Let's recall, that at about 6,024 years ago, God had vehemently forewarned the devil about Christ's victory on the Cross. By then, GOD (in Genesis 3:15-ERV) said to the snake:
“You did this very bad thing, so bad things will happen to you. It will be worse for you than for any other animal.... I will make you and the woman enemies to each other. Your children and her children will be enemies. You will bite her child’s foot,
But he will crush your head."
4,000 years later, Isaiah 7:14(KJV) said:
"Therefore the Lord himself shall give you a sign; Behold, a virgin shall conceive, and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel." And, 500 years after the Old Testament Prophetic era had passed, Matthew 2:1-2 said: "behold, there came wise men from the east to Jerusalem, Saying, Where is he that is born King of the Jews? for we have seen his star in the east, and are come to worship him."
In Hebrews 1:1-3, St Paul states, thus:
In the past God spoke to our people through the prophets....... And now in these last days, God has spoken to us again through his Son. He made the whole world through his Son. And he has chosen his Son to have all things. The Son shows the glory of God. He is a perfect copy of God’s nature, and he holds everything together by his powerful command......"
So, it can be properly understood, when John 1:14(ERV) said: "The Word became a man and lived among us. We saw his divine greatness—the greatness that belongs to the only Son of the Father. The Word was full of grace and truth."
Or, when Jesus in John 10:10(KJV) said:
"The thief cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy: I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly. And, 1Jn 3:8(KJV) said: "For this purpose the Son of God was manifested, that he might destroy the works of the devil."
And when, St Paul put a seal to this fact (in 1Timothy 1:15), when he said: "Here is a true statement that should be accepted without question: Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners, and I am the worst of them."
As it stands now, Jesus' birth, suffering, death, resurrection, ascension, and glorification has fulfilled the entire prophecies about Christ's mission to the earth. So far and based on Prophet Ezekiel's perspective of what God's Servant shall do in Ezekiel 34.
Because of what Jesus has done, you can forthwith:
+Be saved vs10-13, 22
+ Enjoy self-determination, self-reliance
+Enjoy adequate Divine Placement vs 13
+Enjoy proper Divine nurture / care
+Enjoy Divine Peace or Rest vs 15, 25, 27; Mt 11:28-30
+Enjoy Divine Health/ Wellbeing / Healings vs 15; Ps w107:20
You'll experience
+Divine Vindication / Justice vs 22
+ Divine leadership / Guidance, Mentorship / Direction vs 24
+Divine Prosperity
+ Eternal Abundance vs 27, 29
+ Divine Revelation / Understanding vs 25, 27 cf Exodus 15:24-25
+ Freedom cf vs 28; Gen 3:15
+Fame, honor, greatness, nobility vs 29
+ Mutual intimate relationship (fellowship) with God and man vs 30-31
+Adoption