Follower’s of Christ "Now I have told you before it happens, so that when it happens, you may believe"?
What is it we are to see, to believe? has it happen?
28“You heard that I said to you, ‘I go away, and I will come to you.’ If you loved Me, you would have rejoiced because I go to the Father, for the Father is greater than I. 29“Now I have told you before it happens, so that when it happens, you may believe.
BQ: What is the word play on the word ‘I’ in these verses, can you see its intention and what it points to ? (Now I have told you before it happens,????)
Double BQ. What is meant I go to the Father? (“for the Father is greater than I”) Why did Jesus what us to know this . (I have told you before it happens, so that when it happens, you may believe.) believe what?
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What Jesus is trying to tell the world is that the Father is greater than he is and this is where the world has gone wrong when they praise Jesus over the Father. Thus Jesus is the antichrist for those who follow him and praise him over the Father. Yet, the world insists that we can't get to the Father without going through Jesus, which has a truth in it that the worldly preachers are blind to. The words of Jesus lead to the Father, yet men praise Jesus. He's become the Golden calf of our times, and thus those who praise him, are idolaters in the eyes of the Father. Though Jesus has spoken the truth, his truths are misunderstood and misinterpreted by men who know not the Father, for the Father is not within them. I tell you truths and I know you will not believe my answer. Thus what you don't see or will believe is that Jesus has become the antichrist to those who praise him as I said. This truth will be revealed to the whole world by the Father himself in his time, and even then no one will believe even when he bestows his powers upon those he's preparing to work miracles through, yet no one will believe for these chosen are not followers of Jesus nor belong to any church of man that does for they only praise the Father.
Well, there are actually many times throughout the entirety of the Bible that we see these writings, and they are also said another way like, "In order to fulfill Prophecy." This statement is the same as yours...God is merely showing in his early writings and warnings how he knows in advance what will happen in many cases as to convince us of his omni-presence and omnipotent powers...Knows all things, past , present and future tense. Yes, all the scripts. you have posted show me that these are ways the Father has and can prove his fore-knowledge...