REMEMBER ARCHIVE SPECIAL PROPHECY UPDATE NUMBER 125A?
June 22, 2003
Jesus Came in His Heavenly Father’s Name
Bar Kochba Came in His Earthly Father’s Name
He came in his Father’s name, and they did not receive him. He gives the new birth from above to as many as will believe he is the Messiah sent by his Father. The same root word that is translated “become” in John 1:12 is translated “born again” in I Peter 1:23.
John 1:11-13 – He came unto his own, and his own received him not.
[12] But as many as received him, to them gave he power to BECOME the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name: [13] Which were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.
I Peter 1:23 – Being BORN AGAIN, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, by the word of God, which liveth and abideth for ever.
John 3:7,27,31-36 – Marvel not that I said unto thee, Ye must be born again. [27] John answered and said, A man can receive nothing, except it be given him from heaven. [31] He that cometh from above is above all: he that is of the earth is earthly, and speaketh of the earth: he that cometh from heaven is above all. [32] And what he hath seen and heard, that he testifieth; and no man receiveth his testimony. [33] He that hath received his testimony hath set to his seal that God is true. [34] For he whom God hath sent speaketh the words of God: for God giveth not the Spirit by measure unto him.
[35] The Father loveth the Son, and hath given all things into his hand. [36] He that believeth on the Son hath everlasting life: and he that believeth not the Son shall not see life; but the wrath of God abideth on him.
He came in his Father’s name, working miracles by the power of his name, and they sought to kill him for his claiming God was his Father. They were looking for a Messiah they thought God would send to deliver from their physical and secular problems, and were certainly not looking for one who claimed to be his Son, one sent to deliver them from their spiritual problems. Is that not basically what most of the religious world is looking for today?
John 5:15–24 – The man departed, and told the Jews that it was Jesus, which had made him whole.
[16] And therefore did the Jews persecute Jesus, and sought to slay him, because he had done these things on the sabbath day. [17] But Jesus answered them, My Father worketh hitherto, and I work. [18] Therefore the Jews sought
the more to kill him, because he not only had broken the sabbath, but said also that God was his Father, making himself equal with God.
[19] Then answered Jesus and said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, The Son can do nothing of himself, but what he seeth the Father do: for what things soever he doeth, these also doeth the Son likewise. [20] For the Father loveth the Son, and sheweth him all things that himself doeth: and he will shew him greater works than these, that ye may marvel. [21] For as the Father raiseth up the dead, and quickeneth them; even so the Son quickeneth whom he will. [22] For the Father judgeth no man, but hath committed all judgment unto the Son: [23] That all men should honour the Son, even as they honour the Father. He that honoureth not the Son honoureth
not the Father which hath sent him. [24] Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that heareth my word, and believeth on him that sent me, hath everlasting life, and shall not come into condemnation; but is passed from death unto life.
The Jewish leaders who sought to kill him were the most religious people of that day. Jesus came to them working miracles to prove to them he was God’s Son. He came to them as their Messiah in his Father’s name. But they did not know him because they did not know his Father.
John 5:36-43 – But I have greater witness than that of John: for the works which the Father hath given me to finish, the same works that I do, bear witness of me,
that the Father hath sent me.
[37] And the Father himself, which hath sent me, hath borne witness of me. Ye have neither heard his voice at any time, nor seen his shape.
[38] And ye have not his word abiding in you: for whom he hath sent, him ye believe not. [39] Search the scriptures; for in them ye think ye have eternal life: and they are they which testify of me. [40] And ye will not come to me, that ye might have life.
[41] I receive not honour from men.
[42] But I know you, that ye have not the love of God in you.
[43] I am come in my Father’s name, and ye receive me not: if ANOTHER shall come in his own name, him ye will receive.
Verse 43 is often used to teach that the antichrist will be a Jew who comes in his own name and Israel will receive him as their Messiah. But I don’t believe what Jesus said had anything to do with Antichrist. If you must attach it to an individual, rather than generically to the many who came in their own name, and were received by segments of the Jewish population as Messiah, then attach it to a very specific one, Bar Kochba.
Jesus came in the name of his Father, and they did not receive him. About 100 years later, a Jew named Bar Kochba came in his earthly Father’s name and, at the insistence of the Sanhedrin leader Rabbi Akiba, the Sanhedrin proclaimed to be the Messiah from God, who would deliver the nation from the Romans. The Bar Kochba Rebellion was crushed in 135 A.D., and the Roman Emperor Hadrian finished the leveling of Jerusalem, put a Pagan statue on the Temple Mount, and gave Jerusalem a Roman name.
I really believe the “another” Jesus said would come in his own name was probably a reference to Bar Kochba, who was to come in his own name to be named Messiah by the Grandchildren of those who rejected Jesus as the Christ.
John 5:43 – I am come in my Father’s name, and ye receive me not: if another shall come in his own name, him ye will receive.
His Father gave Jesus his name before he was born, as well as at his birth.
Isaiah 7:14 – Therefore the Lord himself shall give you a sign; Behold, a virgin sh
all conceive, and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel.
Luke 1:29-35 – And when she saw him, she was troubled at his saying, and cast in her mind what manner of salutation this should be. [30] And the angel said unto her, Fear not, Mary: for thou hast found favour with God.
[31] And, behold, thou shalt conceive in thy womb, and bring forth a son, and shalt call his name Jesus. [32] He shall be great, and shall be called the Son of the Highest: and the Lord God shall give unto him the throne of his father David: [33] And he shall reign over the house of Jacob for ever; and of his kingdom there shall be no end. [34] Then said Mary unto the angel, How shall this be, seeing I know not a man
? [35] And the angel answered and said unto her, The Holy Ghost shall come upon thee, and the power of the Highest shall overshadow thee: therefore also that holy thing which shall be born of thee shall be called the Son of God.
Philippians 2:8-11 – And being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself, and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross.
[9] Wherefore God also hath highly exalted him, and given him a name which is above every name: [10] That at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of things in heaven, and things in earth, and things under the earth; [11] And that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.
Romans 10:9 – That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved.
And it is in the name his Father gave him that the gift of eternal salvation to the soul is once delivered.
Acts 4:12 – Neither is there salvation in any other: for there is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved.