Did Joshua, a human being and son of the living God who walked our planet c.0-33 A.D. live in a constant state of convergence?
There was a statement recorded by one of the New Testament writers that Joshua said, “Before Abraham was, I am.” An apostle to non-Jews wrote about Joshua, that he is “…the same yesterday, today, and forever.” Another writer, whom Joshua selected to become his closest friend, described him this way, “…he was, and it, and is to come…”
It is written in ancient scrolls that God spoke through Joshua to create our universe.
Joshua’s mother was a virgin girl. He became a man who lived by imitating our Father. He was murdered and buried as a religious blasphemer, just as Hebrew prophets foretold. The Spirit brought Joshua back from death to rise at our Father’s right hand as the only Mediator between God and human beings.
Did Joshua live those thirty something years as omni-present word of God and present human being in the lineage of Abraham, David, and Adam? Did the history and future exist within him? Did the author and finisher of our faith experience “Let there be light” and “It is finished” at the same time he looked at the man crippled from birth, lowered from the roof by his friends, and say, “You are forgiven”?
When Joshua sat at supper with Lazarus, could he see his friends’ conception, life up to that moment in time, all the days up to his death, then his resurrection...death and resurrection? Could he feel the loss of weeping when Lazarus died, hearing Mary’s request to come, his prayer and command, “Lazarus, rise!” all while the party surrounded him at Mary and Martha’s house?
Could it be that Joshua is Messiah? I believe he is!
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Monday, May 7, 2007 - The reality of it all
Posted by EncourageYou
There's just something about meditating on how this real Person walked this land, said what He said, and did what He did, to arouse worship!
In Him,
Jeff