Why wasn't Jesus named Emmanuel?

[jcrichton]

Hi, Mike!

Do you recall Jesus stating that all blasphemy and sin will be forgiven of man, except for blasphemy against the Holy Spirit?

How many times does that appears in Scriptures?

How many times does the Old and New Covenant (limited to the Gospels) speak of the Holy Spirit?

When the angel Gabriel Reveals that the Virgin’s Conception is by the Power of the Holy Spirit, why is there no question in regards to “the Holy Spirit?”

Yet, it seems, from the absence of it in Scriptures, that there’s no Holy Spirit till the Catholic Church introduces the Holy Trinity–what is the true development, that the Remnant of Israel Knew about the Holy Spirit or that only after the Church introduces the term “Holy Trinity” does the Holy Spirit becomes Known?

Maran atha!

Angel

 

[jcrichton]

Exactly!

It is as the Revelation of the Virgin Mary that:

48for he has been mindful of the humble state of his servant. From now on all generations will call me blessed, (St. Luke 1)

Clearly, most non-Catholics and non-Believers do not hold the Virgin in high esteems and few, if any, would call her Blessed, yet the prophecy does not indicate that all the people from all the nations during all times will call her Blessed… only that from the Annunciation till the end of times the Virgin will be called Blessed throughout man’s generations.

We often get caught up with legalisms–it is the reason why Jesus chastised the Sadducees, Pharisees, scribes, and masters of the Law… the delved in the legalisms ignoring God’s actual Revelations and Commands.

Maran atha!

Angel

 

[jcrichton]

Hi, Rose!

The problem is that Prophecies are God’s Revelations… this means that it is His Way of bringing man to some Knowledge of the Truth of His Salvific Plan.

The way they are Revealed seem to cause confusion… but is this not part of the Revelation:

33 As it is written:
“See, I lay in Zion a stone that causes people to stumble
and a rock that makes them fall,
and the one who believes in him will never be put to shame.” (Romans 9)

So it is that God’s Revelations do not simply come clean-cut and to a very specific point… look at the round about way that the Hebrew people were led in the desert… because of their disobedience and because the sought to return to the servitude of Egypt, Yahweh God cleansed the Hebrew people allowing only the new generations to enter into the Promised Land… then there’s the Promise itself–Given to Abraham, when Abraham and Sarah took it upon themselves to provide for the descendant, Yahweh God rejected Ismael and passed the Promise to and through Isaac…

Look also into the Heavenly Battle… it is Prophesied that Eve’s descendant would crush the head of the Ancient Serpent while he (Lucifer) strikes at His (Jesus) Heal… this Battle, Revealed in Genesis 3:15, is augmented/unfolded in Apocalypse (Revelation) 12 and brought into full disclosure in the actual human experience:

17 And the dragon was angry against the woman: and went to make war with the rest of her seed, who keep the commandments of God, and have the testimony of Jesus Christ. (Apocalypse 12)

So while there seems to be some built-in misleading, it is only, in my estimation, the means to highlight what is important to God’s Time Table and His Salvific Plan…

Since you seem to be fascinated by changes… here’s quite an inexplicable one (at least from my perspective–unless it is to demonstrate that Jesus is indeed God):

3 Behold I send my angel, and he shall prepare the way before my face. And presently the Lord, whom you seek, and the angel of the testament, whom you desire, shall come to his temple. Behold he cometh, saith the Lord of hosts. (Malachi 3)

Compare with:
10 For this is he of whom it is written: Behold I send my angel before thy face, who shall prepare thy way before thee. (St. Matthew 11)

Do you see how Jesus’ rendering of the Prophecy renders it, roughly: “John the Baptist, the new Elijah, prepares the Way for Me to Come to the Temple.” Basically, the Old Covenant’s wording of the Prophecy intimates that it is Yahweh God Himself that Comes to the Temple… and the New Covenant’s wording states that the Immanuel, the God-with-us, Comes to the Temple.

Both rendering is about Yahweh God Visiting with Israel (St. John 1:1-14), yet they seem to have slightly different wording; still, the meaning does not change: the Word, who Existed as God and with God from the Beginning, Comes to the Temple to Be Amongst His People!

Maran atha!

Angel