Jesus answered, “I and the Father are one.” John 10:25,30.
Today your LORD (יהוה) God (אלהים) says:
Many people think they know Jesus, but to know the full mystery that is hidden in Him since before the world began is beyond the human mind but in the Spirit you can know because My Spirit teaches you all things, John 14:26, and guides you to all truth. However, just as Jesus told His disciples the night that He was betrayed, there was so much more He wanted to share with them about who He is and who I am and who you are, but He could not because their hearts were not ready to hold so full a revelation.
“I have much more to say to you, more than you can now bear. But when He, the Spirit of truth, comes, He will guide you into all the truth. John 16:12-13.
Even now two thousand years later you are not ready to hold it all for many have quenched the Spirit in them and lived at a much lower level than the royal mandate and sacred duty I have given you to steward the earth and the life I have entrusted to you with so much love.
For though by this time you ought to be teachers, you have need again for someone to teach you the elementary principles of the oracles of God, and you have come to need milk and not solid food. Hebrews 5:12.
You are now living in the age of grace, all who believe in Jesus are united with Me as one in the everlasting Covenant that began by My spoken Word with Noah and Abraham, creating a family of faith through whom the Messiah I promised in the Garden of Eden would take flesh and tabernacle among you to free you from sin and the judgment against you and crush the devil’s authority given him by the first man. And then by My written Word with Moses and the people of Israel creating a nation of faith in preparation for the coming of My Son, your Savior, Messiah and Lord. The tabernacle and sacrifices and offering foreshadowed and forthtold who He would be to prepare all for the coming Messiah, and through the anointed prophets every detail of His life was spoken into the earth to open the way. And now My everlasting Covenant with mankind has been updated and restated in what I call the New Covenant, whereby My Word stepped off the page and out from behind the veil to take flesh and dwell with you. And He made both gentile and Jew one new man in Christ and the church was born.
Jesus is the fulfillment of the child born of the virgin who is “God with you.” And He is the fulfillment of everyone of My Covenant Names and promises. Everything is summed up in Him about Me, about you, and about the things to come.
I spoke to Jeremiah of a new Covenant I would make in the last days where all would know Me from the least to the greatest.
“The days are coming,” declares the LORD, “when I will make a new covenant with the people of Israel and with the people of Judah. It will not be like the covenant I made with their ancestors when I took them by the hand to lead them out of Egypt, because they broke my covenant, though I was a husband to them,” declares the LORD. “This is the covenant I will make with the people of Israel after that time,” declares the LORD. “I will put my law in their minds and write it on their hearts. I will be their God, and they will be my people. No longer will they teach their neighbor, or say to one another, ‘Know the LORD,’ because they will all know me, from the least of them to the greatest,” declares the LORD. “For I will forgive their wickedness and will remember their sins no more.” Jeremiah 31:31-34.
First, let Me say that Jesus fulfills all of that prophecy. He is all that and more.
I have always sought to dwell among you and be your God and you to be My people, but not just any people, a people who know Me and are of one mind, heart, purpose, and love with Me.
You yourselves have seen what I did to the Egyptians, and how I bore you on eagles’ wings, and brought you to Myself. Now then, if you will indeed obey My voice and keep My covenant, then you shall be My own special treasure among all the peoples, for all the earth is Mine; and you shall be to Me a kingdom of priests and a holy nation. Exodus 19:4-6.
They, however, would not respond to My invitation and they broke the Covenant though I was a husband to them. They did not care to hear My voice when I came down on Mt. Sinai or fellowship with Me as Moses did.
But I have a vision that all may be one in Me, My family in My own image, united, triumphant, and true, ruling and reigning with Me now and forever. For I have a good plan for each life that comes from Me, a life triumphant and fruitful, forever abiding in Me. And I will accomplish My purpose for the designs in My heart are forever and will prevail.
Truth is nowhere to be found, and whoever shuns evil becomes a prey. The LORD looked and was displeased that there was no justice. He saw that there was no one, He was appalled that there was no one to intervene; so His own arm achieved salvation for Him, and His own righteousness sustained Him. He put on righteousness as his breastplate, and the helmet of salvation on His head. Isaiah 59:15-17.
“The Redeemer will come to Zion, to those in Jacob who repent of their sins,” declares the LORD. “As for Me, this is My Covenant with them,” says the LORD. “My Spirit, who is on you, will not depart from you, and My Words that I have put in your mouth will always be on your lips, on the lips of your children and on the lips of their descendants—from this time on and forever,” says the LORD. Isaiah 59:20-21.
Jesus was and is the answer. He was and is the plan. And what I did for you in Him is forever and can never be altered. The New Covenant is the everlasting and final version of My living Covenant of love.
For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through Him. John 3:16-17.
It is hard to know someone you cannot see, feel, touch, embrace, and carry on a conversation with.
And the Word became flesh, and dwelt among us, and we saw His glory, glory as of the only begotten from the Father, full of grace and truth. John 1:14.
No one has seen God at any time; the only begotten God who is in the bosom of the Father, He has explained Him. John 1:18.
But when I came down to save you in Jesus that all changed, the hidden God became living, working, and active among you as one like you.
What was from the beginning, what we have heard, what we have seen with our eyes, what we have looked at and touched with our hands, concerning the Word of Life—and the life was manifested, and we have seen and testify and proclaim to you the eternal life, which was with the Father and was manifested to us—what we have seen and heard we proclaim to you also, so that you too may have fellowship with us; and indeed our fellowship is with the Father, and with His Son Jesus Christ. These things we write, so that our joy may be made complete. 1 John 1:1-4.
You could hear My Words said right to you face to face. “Neither do I condemn you.” “Let the little children come to Me and do not hinder them.” And in Jesus I embraced and blessed the least to the greatest.
God, after He spoke long ago to the fathers in the prophets in many portions and in many ways, in these last days has spoken to us in His Son, whom He appointed heir of all things, through whom also He made the world. And He is the radiance of His glory and the exact representation of His nature, and upholds all things by the word of His power. When He had made purification of sins, He sat down at the right hand of the Majesty on high. Hebrews 1:1-3.
Do you see what is happening here?
I will be their God, and they will be my people. No longer will they teach their neighbor, or say to one another, ‘Know the LORD,’ because they will all know me, from the least of them to the greatest,” declares the LORD. “For I will forgive their wickedness and will remember their sins no more.” Jeremiah 31:33-34.
In the Gospels as you witness the words and works of Jesus, His interaction with the people, and His compassion and love for all, all can know Me from the least to the greatest.
People were bringing little children to Jesus for him to place his hands on them, but the disciples rebuked them. When Jesus saw this, he was indignant. He said to them, “Let the little children come to me, and do not hinder them, for the kingdom of God belongs to such as these. Truly I tell you, anyone who will not receive the kingdom of God like a little child will never enter it.” And he took the children in his arms, placed his hands on them and blessed them. Mark 10:13-16.
Now there was a Pharisee, a man named Nicodemus who was a member of the Jewish ruling council. He came to Jesus at night and said, “Rabbi, we know that you are a teacher who has come from God. For no one could perform the signs you are doing if God were not with him.” Jesus replied, “Very truly I tell you, no one can see the kingdom of God unless they are born again from above.” John 3:1-3.
The woman (Samaritan women by the well) said, “I know that Messiah is coming. When he comes, he will explain everything to us.” Then Jesus declared, “I, the one speaking to you—I am he.” John 4:25-26.
And now you know these things by the Spirit. You have the anointing in you as well. And the anointing teaches you who Jesus is (the Holy Spirit speaks of Jesus), who I am (I was in Christ reconciling the world to Myself, so seeing Him you see Me), who you are (loved, justly forgiven by the substitutionary death of Jesus, blessed, and favored), what you have and can do (all My magnificent promises are “yes” to you in Jesus and you are enabled to do the works Jesus did and greater), and that your sins and offenses I remember no more (so you can come with confidence to My throne where you are seated in the Spirit with Christ and receive all you need.)
In watching Jesus heal, raise the dead, multiply supplies, stop storms, and cast out demons, in other words, undo the works of the devil to reverse the curse and bring back the blessing, you see My Will for your life and who you are and how to live the royal mandate and sacred duty to bring the Kingdom to the earth that I have entrusted to you. And in His sufferings and death, He showed you who I am, My great love for you that surpasses all human understanding, My desire to redeem you and have you with Me forever, My heart for you, and the power in Me that I have extended to you by giving you a new heart (spirit) in His works for you.
Do you recall how much Job wanted to be right with Me, pleasing and pure before Me, but he knew on his own he could not do this, so he asked Me for a mediator that would know what it was like to be Me and what it was like to be you that would remove the judgment from him and take his fear of Me away?
“He is not a mortal man like me that I might answer Him, that we might confront each other in court. If only there were someone to mediate between us, someone to bring us together, someone to remove God’s rod from me, so that His terror would frighten me no more. Then I would speak up without fear of Him, but as it now stands with me, I cannot.” Job 9:32-35.
That longing that was in his heart is in all hearts. I longing for your original righteousness before you fell by sin, but even more, My very righteousness as a gift to you to make you like Me.
I urge, then, first of all, that petitions, prayers, intercession and thanksgiving be made for all people— for kings and all those in authority, that we may live peaceful and quiet lives in all godliness and holiness. This is good, and pleases God our Savior, who wants all people to be saved and to come to a knowledge of the truth. For there is one God and one mediator between God and mankind, the man Christ Jesus, who gave himself as a ransom for all people. 1 Timothy 2:1-6.
Yes, I have answered that longing in Jesus. In Him you can come to Me with confidence. He understands your weakness and He understands My justice and power, but also My love and mercy and He makes the two meet in one embrace for you.
Therefore, since we have a great high priest who has ascended into heaven, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold firmly to the faith we profess (homologia). For we do not have a high priest who is unable to empathize with our weaknesses, but we have one who has been tempted in every way, just as we are—yet he did not sin. Let us then approach God’s throne of grace with confidence, so that we may receive mercy and find grace to help us in our time of need. Hebrews 4:14-16.
Jesus shows you My heart in one you can relate with. He was tempted in every way you are and thus He shows you how to respond to temptation, to sin, and to evil. He never sinned and if you follow Him you will become like Him.
For by one sacrifice he has made perfect forever those who are being made holy (being sanctified in Him). Hebrews 10:14.
In Him I make you perfect by His sacrifice and I continue to sanctify you in the truth of My Word.
This is the message we have heard from Him and announce to you, that God is Light, and in Him there is no darkness at all. If we say that we have fellowship with Him and yet walk in the darkness, we lie and do not practice the truth; but if we walk in the Light as He Himself is in the Light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus His Son cleanses us from all sin. 1 John 1:5-7.
To know who Jesus is and what I was doing in Jesus embraces the entire plan of the world and of the heavens. The prophets were trying to delve into this subject, you see this in what I was revealing to Isaiah, Ezekiel, Jeremiah, Daniel, Hosea, Micah, Zechariah, Malachi and even Job. I want you to see more and more of how one I am with Jesus and the Spirit and what I was doing for you in Christ. It is so tremendous that it’s beyond what the human mind can understand but the Spirit, as your heart is able, reveals more and more about Jesus to you. The Spirit testifies to Jesus, He witnesses to Jesus, and so should you. When your heart turns to Me, the Spirit keeps taking you deeper into the beauties of who Jesus is to you and what you have in Him. Jesus is how you know Me, how you know yourself, how you know each other, how you know what you are supposed to be doing with the awesome life I have given you, how you know eternity, how you know the present. It’s all there for you in Jesus, One like you, He is My gift to you, and in Him you are His gift to Me. He brought you all back to Me. He paid the ransom. Are you grateful? I am. That is why I have bestowed upon Him the Name that is above every other name and to whom every knee shall bow and proclaim Him as Lord to My glory. He is the revelation of My glory: the exercise of My tremendous power in love to produce goodness and eradicate all evil.
I love you. And do you know why Jesus came? It is still the same as I told Jeremiah: No longer will they teach their neighbor, or say to one another, ‘Know the LORD,’ because they will all know Me, from the least of them to the greatest,” declares the LORD. “For I will forgive their wickedness and will remember their sins no more.” Jeremiah 31:33-34.