Carpenter Diem (Because Jesus Was a Carpenter and Is Now Preparing a Home for His People)
The resurrection of God the Son, Jesus Christ, is crucial to the Christian faith. In Luke 24:13-35, we read of the resurrected Savior walking the road to Emmaus. This specific geographical reference reminds us of the absolute accuracy of God’s Word in all areas. In verse 27, Jesus begins to teach from the Old Testament; He not only walked the talk but also talked the walk! This passage does not reveal the exact Scriptures Jesus employed to teach these journeying believers, but we do know that He fulfilled the entire Old Testament (Matthew 5:17,18). Fulfilled prophecy is one of the major reasons that we can be certain that our faith in Jesus is not misplaced. (I will be using this opening paragraph for each of the brief messages in this series. The following material will change daily.)
Portions of Ezekiel 1:26-28 are quoted twelve times in the New Testament, all in the book of Revelation. The imagery of a fiery brightness in a human form is also found in John 1:18: “No man hath seen God at any time; the only begotten Son, which is in the bosom of the Father, He hath declared Him.” To declare is to make known; in other words, Jesus reveals the fullness of God in a way that we can see. What do we see of the glory of God? We see that God comes to us because we cannot go to Him, that He is perfect in all His ways, that He suffered and died for our sins, that He defeated death and rose from the grave, that He ascended to heaven to prepare a place for us, that He is coming again for His people. May we rejoice that the glory of God has been so clearly made known to us.