...continued from The Messiah of the Psalms : The Son of God
Jesus told Pilate that he had been born to "bear witness to the truth."
Christians earnestly seeking that "truth," and looking to the ecclesia to light the way, find instead only conflicting doctrines and teachings. Jesus also said "Thy word is truth" and that the Pharisees had "erred not knowing the scriptures," which was saying, in effect, that they "erred not knowing the Old Testament", the only 'scriptures' then in existence. Likewise, no Christian Church can teach that which negates these statements by its founder.
Nor should any Christian Church teach that which negates the New Testament and the teachings of Jesus, for he said again: "But be ye not called Rabbi (teacher), for one is your teacher and all ye are brethren." (Matt 23:8)
Painful as it may be, no would-be Christian can afford the luxury of maintaining private beliefs that clash with scripture. For those committed to the 'truth,' however, there is great consolation in knowing that they tread the same difficult path as did Jesus of Nazareth when he confronted the religious establishment of his day.
As we have discovered in our search of the Psalms, the following 'truths' refer to Jesus of Nazareth:
"I have found David my servant; With my holy oil have I anointed him."
"I also will make him my first-born, The highest of the kings of the earth."
"I have given help to one who is mighty; I have exalted one chosen from the people."
"Therefore God, thy God, hath anointed thee with the oil of gladness above thy fellows."
"O YHVH, truly I am thy servant: I am thy servant, the son of thy handmaid."
"He shall cry unto me, Thou art my Father, My God, and the rock of my salvation."
"I will come with the mighty acts of the Lord YHVH."
"Blessed be he that cometh in the name of YHVH."
"Thou wilt guide me with thy counsel, And afterward receive me to glory."
There can be no question that these texts expose the utterly ludicrous nature of the doctrines of the 'trinity,' the 'miraculous incarnation,' and the various 'divinity' teachings. They are upheld only through recourse to artificial contrivance and theological sophistry on the part of scholars and ecclesiastics.
As already stated in The Messiah of the Prophets : A Summary, the prophetic expectation was that YHVH would anoint a man with his power and Holy Spirit, clothe him with the garments of salvation, and appoint him King forever, over both Jew and Gentile.
It is preposterous for any to suggest that YHVH, whose name was permitted to be mentioned by only a select few, and of whose name the Messiah was to stand in awe, was to become man, or that YHVH's anointed one was to be something other than a man born of the seed of David.
But we are assured of the fact that one day, as it is written in the second Psalm "the Lord will have them in derision."
The Keys of the Kingdom
"And he said unto them, These are my words which I spoke unto you, while I was yet with you, that all things must needs be fulfilled, which are written in the law of Moses, and the prophets, AND THE PSALMS, concerning me..." (Luke 24:44-46)
The Psalms are the keys to our understanding, not only of the past but also of the future, as we shall presently see.
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