Saturday, October 6, 2012

Those who want a photo of Jesus

Joan Boney ... apostle/prophet

Someone took a long haired man and made a photo of this man and put it forth as a representation of Jesus and some today even hang this photo of an "actor" on their walls and look at the photo as "Jesus".

The man pictured in this photo is a nice looking man, desirable in physical ways.

But the prophet Isaiah said this of what Messiah would look like when HE came.

Isaiah 53 ... Who hath believed our report? and to whom is the arm of the LORD revealed?  2For he shall grow up before him as a tender plant, and as a root out of a dry ground: he hath no form nor comeliness; and when we shall see him, there is no beauty that we should desire him. 3He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were our faces from him; he was despised, and we esteemed him not. 
4Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows: yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted. 5But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed.   6All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and the LORD hath laid on him the iniquity of us all.


Jesus, the Word, did not attract people to himself with physical beauty.  HE was not going to be desired in the flesh.

The WORD itself is often undesirable to our flesh for it is opposite to our flesh and when we "see" the Word we often have to crucify our flesh in some way, giving up something the flesh craves.  Therefore "there is no beauty that we should desire Him."

So even the long haired man in the photo which is represented as "Jesus" is a false image in that Jesus was not going to be "comely" and there would be no fleshly beauty to make a person desire him.

Further, there are no photos of the real Jesus for good reason.

Jesus said ... But the hour cometh, and now is, when the true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth: for the Father seeketh such to worship him. 24God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth.  Jn. 4

We who worship God worship in spirit and in truth. 

And the LORD spake unto you out of the midst of the fire: ye heard the voice of the words, but saw no similitude; only ye heard a voice.  13And he declared unto you his covenant, which he commanded you to perform, even ten commandments; and he wrote them upon two tables of stone. 14And the LORD commanded me at that time to teach you statutes and judgments, that ye might do them in the land whither ye go over to possess it. 15Take ye therefore good heed unto yourselves; for ye saw no manner of similitude on the day that the LORD spake unto you in Horeb out of the midst of the fire: 16Lest ye corrupt yourselves, and make you a graven image, the similitude of any figure, the likeness of male or female, Deut. 4

We do not worship God through images ...

God is a Spirit:  and they that worship HIM must worship HIM in spirit and in truth.

If you worship God with an image, photo or object of a human figure, you cannot be worshiping God in spirit and in truth.