Monday, November 25, 2013

Explain how the fourfold witnesses are relative to today. To you? 532-1 - 5 - 6

According to CM the Fourfold Witness are:
1) John the Baptist
2) The Works
3) The Father
4) The Scriptures

In my opinion, it is difficult to treat these for four witnesses as separate. John the Baptist was a witness to Jesus as the Lamb of God and as God’s chosen one. Luke writes of a voice that came down from heaven confirming Jesus as “His son.”
John 1:29, “The next day John saw Jesus coming toward him and said, “Look, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world!”
John 1:32-34, “Then John gave this testimony: “I saw the Spirit come down from heaven as a dove and remain on him. And I myself did not know him, but the one who sent me to baptize with water told me, ‘The man on whom you see the Spirit come down and remain is the one who will baptize with the Holy Spirit.’ I have seen and I testify that this is God’s Chosen One.”
Luke 3:22, “and the Holy Spirit descended on him in bodily form like a dove. And a voice came from heaven: “You are my Son, whom I love; with you I am well pleased.”
Jesus fulfilled more than 100 Messianic prophecies from the Old Testament. One of the most impressive is found in the Book of Daniel 9:25, Jesus made his entrance into Jerusalem to the very day predicted from the day Nehemiah was given permission to rebuild the walls of Jerusalem.
ll Peter 1:19-21, “We also have the prophetic message as something completely reliable, and you will do well to pay attention to it, as to a light shining in a dark place, until the day dawns and the morning star rises in your hearts. Above all, you must understand that no prophecy of scripture came about by the prophet’s own interpretation of things. For prophecy never had its origin in the human will, but prophets, though human, spoke from God as they were carried along by the Holy Spirit.”

The witness of Jesus as the Messiah is just as relevant today as 2000 years ago and in the thousands of years of prophecy before that. Jesus warned us again and again about false teachers. This warning was reinforced in Ii Peter 2:1, “But there were false prophets also among the people, even as there shall be false teachers among you, who privily shall bring in damnable heresies, even denying the Lord that bought them, and bring upon themselves swift destruction.”

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