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Day 5 - Revealing God

At the birth of the Lord Jesus, Matthew quotes the prophecy from Isaiah 7:14 about the birth of Immanuel. The name means "God with us". God is incredibly great and inhabits an "unapproachable light". No one has ever seen God. Yet He reveals Himself. We even read that He meets people, like Abraham and Moses. Sometimes God shows Himself in nature. In a storm or in the silence, as with Elijah. But much more often God manifests Himself in His Son. For example, we read in Colossians 1 (see also John 1) that God created the earth through His Son. God's Son often reveals Himself as the Angel of the Lord (see, for example, Exodus 3:2). This is how He is near to Israel (Isaiah 63:9).

But when the Son of God was born as man, He also turned out to be the Son of Abraham, Judah and David, the long-promised King of the end times. You could say that in Jesus the Son of God and the Son of Israel miraculously come together in one person. This is quite significant. Jesus is not only a Revelation of God, but also a Jew. We do Jesus a disservice if we lose sight of either of these. Salvation is from the Jews: a Jew has borne our guilt, a Jew will come to judge the world, and a Jew will be King over all nations. By the way, this also means that if we believe in Jesus, we are connected to Israel in Him.