Who Is the Man Called Jesus Is Jesus God

Who is the Man called Jesus? Is Jesus God?

Written by Joseph Ho, April 10th 2010.

There is much confusion in the Christian world with regards to who this man called Jesus truly is. Is Jesus God or is he a man who is a prophet? The truth shall set you free. First of all I have to go into the Old Testament to define who the prophets were prophesying before his birth. As usual this is an article which serves to educate and inform, so it can never be an exhaustive thesis written to show every facts and events that point to who this man called Jesus truly is. I will not deal far back but will simply choose two verses from the book of Isaiah.

Isaiah 7:14

Therefore the Lord himself will give you a sign: The virgin will be with child and will give birth to a son, and will call him Immanuel.

Isaiah 9:6

6 For to us a child is born,
to us a son is given,
and the government will be on his shoulders.
And he will be called
Wonderful Counselor, [a] Mighty God,
Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.

Matthew 1:20-23

20But after he had considered this, an angel of the Lord appeared to him in a dream and said, 'Joseph son of David, do not be afraid to take Mary home as your wife, because what is conceived in her is from the Holy Spirit. 21She will give birth to a son, and you are to give him the name Jesus, because he will save his people from their sins.'

22All this took place to fulfill what the Lord had said through the prophet: 23'The virgin will be with child and will give birth to a son, and they will call him Immanuel' which means, 'God with us.'

While Jesus was on the earth, he never once claimed to be God although his name means 'God with us' or Mighty God. Whenever God wants to do something with someone he gives them his own personal name. All the prophets of Old had various names of God himself. Similarly, Jesus means Mighty God or God himself. So when you call upon the name of the Lord, Jesus, you are actually calling upon God himself.

John 17:11
I will remain in the world no longer, but they are still in the world, and I am coming to you. Holy Father, protect them by the power of your name—the name you gave me—so that they may be one as we are one.

Jesus prayed God his father will protect his people by the power of God's name, the name he gave to Jesus meaning Mighty God. From Isaiah and this statement, we come to conclude without a single doubt that the name Jesus is God's own personal name. Thus, we know that the name of Jesus has power to the believers, but no power whatsoever to those who believe not.

John 10:25
Jesus answered, 'I did tell you, but you do not believe. The miracles I do in my Father's name speak for me,

Jesus was doing the work of God in his Father's name Jesus. That is what the man called Jesus was doing on earth; he was doing the works in God's name, given to him.

Is this man who walks the earth actually God? No, he is the son begotten by God but he is not God. If he is God then the story of Joseph can not be true in the bible. Joseph was a type of saviour who saved Egypt from 7 years of famine. He was given full authority of the King Pharaoh but he was lower with respect to the throne, yet he had all powers of the throne. He was under one man's power that of the King. Similarly this man who walked the earth was not God, but he was endowed with the full power of God to be used on certain ordained circumstances obeying the will of God fully unto death. But yet his name means Mighty God and that is his true name. He was called God, yet he is not God. He  is called the son of God, meaning he is lower than God but above everything else.

John 3:16

16'For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.

God gave to the world his begotten son, so as a son how can he be God, He can not be God, so who is he? If you observed Jesus when he was asked who he is, he never once claimed equal status to God.

Mark 10:18
'Why do you call me good?' Jesus answered. 'No one is good—except God alone.

Luke 18:19
'Why do you call me good?' Jesus answered. 'No one is good—except God alone.

Notice here again, when Jesus testify to who he really is and what he was sent to do on earth. According to the old laws, no one can be confirmed to do anything true without the testimony of at least 2 persons.

Deuteronomy 19:15
One witness is not enough to convict a man accused of any crime or offense he may have committed. A matter must be established by the testimony of two or three witnesses.

John 8:13 - 20

13The Pharisees challenged him, 'Here you are, appearing as your own witness; your testimony is not valid.'

14Jesus answered, 'Even if I testify on my own behalf, my testimony is valid, for I know where I came from and where I am going. But you have no idea where I come from or where I am going. 15You judge by human standards; I pass judgment on no one. 16But if I do judge, my decisions are right, because I am not alone. I stand with the Father, who sent me. 17In your own Law it is written that the testimony of two men is valid. 18I am one who testifies for myself; my other witness is the Father, who sent me.'

19Then they asked him, 'Where is your father?'

'You do not know me or my Father,' Jesus replied. 'If you knew me, you would know my Father also.' 20He spoke these words while teaching in the temple area near the place where the offerings were put. Yet no one seized him, because his time had not yet come.

Clearly here Jesus says his father is the other witness, so clearly there are 2 persons or beings as it is explicitly stated by Jesus himself. His father is God because Jesus is the begotten son of God. Then again,

John 20:31
But these are written that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that by believing you may have life in his name.

Philippians 2:10
that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth,

This is serious stuff because at the name of Jesus, everyone on earth and heaven must bow, so what we are seeing here is that God chose a man and gave him co-equal powers except for the throne.

Many people have yet to understand why the man Abram had his name changed to Abraham and after that name changed he gained more power and prosperity. Abram means father of multitudes, meaning father of many people. Abraham means father of all nations, and God is the true father of all nations, so God gave Abraham his own name. And many times in the bible God says I have to save him for he bears my name, the name that God gave them was his own personal name, similar to a surname given to a son or daughter of that man. We all bear our father's surname or last name, much like what God did to his sons who bear his name, a description of him. Anyone who bears his name will come under his protection because God can not allow his sons to live without his protection. Yet he let Jesus to die for our sins, he did not protect him when he called on his name in the day of his death, because he was to be the sacrificial lamb.

Mark 16:19
After the Lord Jesus had spoken to them, he was taken up into heaven and he sat at the right hand of God.

After his death, Jesus the man was seated at the right hand of God, so how can this man be God? How can he be seated at his own right hand? This is just not logical, for scripture is clear that Jesus the man is not God, but his name means Mighty God just like Abraham, Elijah, Joshua, there were all sons of God who had the name describing an attribute of God and was able to perform that God given ability by his anointing. The name actually carries the anointing of that particular characteristic of God.

This goes to show that those without the anointing of the Holy Spirit none will be given the keys to understand the meaning of what is mentioned in the bible. For a long time, I could not understand what the theologians and preachers were teaching the Holy Trinity as in God the Father, God the Son and God the Holy Spirit. It confuses me a lot and the fundamental God of the universe could not be understood by Christians because they were never explained properly by men who profess to preach, Christians were confused by men who did not understand the very basic thing in the bible. Is God one or three?

When Jesus was conceived by the Holy Spirit, it means the Spirit of the Lord or the breath came upon the woman and brought life to her natural body without the normal way of conception. Jesus was begotten by God to the woman called Mary. God in actuality consists of 7 spirits.

Isaiah 11:2 (New International Version)

2 The Spirit of the LORD will rest on him—
the Spirit of wisdom and of understanding,
the Spirit of counsel and of power,
the Spirit of knowledge and of the fear of the LORD –

The first Spirit is the Spirit of the Lord, the second Spirit of Wisdom, the third Spirit of Understanding, the fourth Spirit of Counsel, the fifth Spirit of Power, the sixth Spirit of Knowledge and the seventh Spirit of the fear of the Lord.

Jesus was given the Spirit of The Lord and all 7 since he was able to perform miracles and had great wisdom and understanding without ever being in school and evidence by his own speech as he read the Book of Isaiah, he said.

Isaiah 61

The Year of the LORD's Favor

1 The Spirit of the Sovereign LORD is on me,
because the LORD has anointed me
to preach good news to the poor.
He has sent me to bind up the brokenhearted,
to proclaim freedom for the captives
and release from darkness for the prisoners,

Samson was given the Spirit of Power for he had much physical strength. And Soloman was given the Spirit of Wisdom for he had much wisdom, Moses was given the Spirit of Power for he could do miracles.

If Jesus the man born of Mary is God then why did he need to pray to God and while he was at the mountain and who spoke to him and call him son?

Matthew 17:5
While he was still speaking, a bright cloud enveloped them, and a voice from the cloud said, 'This is my Son, whom I love; with him I am well pleased. Listen to him!'

The voice coming from the cloud said Jesus is his son and he is well pleased with him. Jesus is indeed the Begotten Son of God and was given the rights to judge the world when he come again as God has given him this right. Now I leave you all to reconsider what has been taught to you and to seek eternal truths. The bible can be understood by anyone once God gave that Holy Spirit to guide you into all truths for God promised that in this verse.

1 John 2:20
But you have an anointing from the Holy One, and all of you know the truth.

1 John 2:27
As for you, the anointing you received from him remains in you, and you do not need anyone to teach you. But as his anointing teaches you about all things and as that anointing is real, not counterfeit—just as it has taught you, remain in him.

The anointing from the Holy Spirit will release the understanding which is true and not counterfeit. Without this key no one can understand what the bible is talking about although it's a book written in English, it's still already hard to comprehend the book for those Christians without the Holy Spirit and much harder for those who are not schooled in the Christian Faith. If you desire to know more about this gift, check out my website at Kingscepter or send me any query at prophet3333@yahoo.com. God bless you in Spirit and in Truth.

Joseph Ho is an engineer by training, he is also a former member of FGBMI and CBMC. Presently, he is the President of Thy Scepter, a spirit led Christian Business owner Society. He has also authored 2 books, one of which is 'My Sheep Hear My Voice' and is available at www.kingscepter.com.