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Preincarnate appearances (Theophanies)
We read in the Gospels that Jesus became flesh.
But, of course, becoming a baby didn’t mean He was not there from before the beginning.
He was.
He is eternal.
We see that Jesus was involved in creation in
And so, Jesus was the Word that was spoken when God said, Let there be light.
But what about other times?
I think that there are many instances in the Old Testament of appearances of One who can be none other than Jesus Himself before He was born into this world.
And the first instance we find is not only Jesus creating the universe but even being in it.
Who was walking in the Garden?
In Theology we call these Theophanies though some say Christophanies.
Pre-incarnate appearances of Jesus.
The mention of the Angel of the Lord is found often as One who appears to be God.
But look at
See that the Angel of the Lord, now calls Himself God.
This Angel of God was the One who spoke with Hagar in Genesis 21:17-18 and to Jacob in Genesis 28:13, 19 and Genesis 31:11, 13.
And note that this Angel is equated with the Angel who calls Himself God in Exodus 14:19 and Exodus 13:21
Who was leading the Israelites?
In Joshua we have a very interesting one who accepts worship:
And was not told off, so this was God.
We read in Genesis 18 how Jesus and two angels appeared to Abraham, ate with him, and then Jesus told Abraham how he was going to destroy Sodom and Gomorrah and the cities around them for their sins.
Abraham’s nephew Lot lives in Sodom and so Abraham tries to bargain with God to save Lot.
Abraham asked God to spare Sodom if there were only 50 righteous, 45, 40, 30, 20, and finally ten.
So, we are told that they were three men, but we know that two were angels and other was Jesus Himself.
We are told that a man wrestled with Jacob but look who it really was
Whose finger wrote the Ten Commandments and with whom did Moses and the others eat and drink in:
Let’s read another passage:
Who met Balaam?
Who met Gideon?
Who met Manoah to speak of one Samson?
Is it an Angel or is it Jesus?
Manoah saw a man, who is an Angel and yet, in the end, knew they had seen God.
When I ask you if there is a particular story you can think of where it may have been Jesus I wonder which one would come to mind?
For me, apart from Genesis 3, Jesus walking in the Garden, I would remember a story in
And we can speak of
This one is not so clear cut.
Was it an angel, was it God?
We do not know for sure.
But what we do know for sure is that it was Jesus who appeared to so many and not just in the passages we read but probably in others which are not absolutely clear.
I think when I read in the Old Testament ‘the Lord God’ I am inclined to think it is Jesus.
If so, He is mentioned 553 times just in this way.
God, we are told is invisible we are told in 1 Timothy 1:17 yet Moses saw the back of God.
And what are told that Jesus is The Image of the invisible God in Colossians 1:15.
And Jesus is God revealed in
Is the evidence clear from Scripture?
What do you think?
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