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THE VISIBLE GOD
VERSES PROVING THAT GOD IS VISIBLE (AND HAS BEEN SEEN MANY TIMES)
WE DO NOT DISCUSS, I THINK, I FEEL, I BELIEVE, OR IN MY OPINION, WE DISCUSS ONLY, “THUS SAITH THE WORD OF THE LORD”.
WHEN GOD AND JESUS USED A FIGURATIVE STATEMENT, THERE WAS ALWAYS A LITERAL TRUTH BEHIND EACH FIGURATIVE STATEMENT. WHEN YOU SAY THAT SOMETHING IS FIGURATIVE, ALWAYS BE READY TO TELL THE LITERAL TRUTH BEHIND EACH STATEMENT. THE PARABLES THAT JESUS TAUGHT ARE VERY GOOD EXAMPLES. EACH PARABLE IS TEACHING A LITERAL TRUTH.
INVISIBLE
THE WORD REALLY MEANS NOT IN SIGHT, UNSEEN, CONCEALED. INVISIBILITY CONSISTS MORE OF DISTANCE THAN SUBSTANCE. CITIES OR OTHER MATERIAL OBJECTS CANNOT BE SEEN EVEN 30 MILES AWAY. AT THIS DISTANCE THEY ARE INVISIBLE. OBJECTS CONCEALED, ARE INVISIBLE. ANYTHING OUT OF EYESIGHT IS INVISIBLE, THEY HAVE BEEN SEEN WITH THE NATURAL EYES MANY TIMES. PROVING THAT INVISIBILITY MUST BE UNDERSTOOD WITH THEM AS WITH ALL OTHER INVISIBLE THINGS AS A MATTER OF PROXIMITY (IN THIS FRAMEWORK).
Colossians 1:15 Who is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of every creature:
IF JESUS CHRIST IS THE IMAGE OF THE INVISIBLE GOD, THEN JESUS IS INVISIBLE. IF HE LOOKED IN A MIRROR HE WOULD NOT SEE HIS IMAGE IF HE IS INVISIBLE, HE WOULD HAVE TO BE VISIBLE TO SEE AN IMAGE IN THE MIRROR.
IMAGE – (I-KONE) FROM 1504 GREEK CONCORDANCE, PAGE 25: IMAGE, A LIKENESS, THAT IS (LIT.) A STATUE, PROFILE, RESEMBLANCE:
John 4:24 God [is] a Spirit: (ANGELS ARE SPIRITS) and they that worship him must worship [him] in spirit and in truth. PEOPLE CONTEND THAT BECAUSE GOD IS A SPIRIT HE IS THEREFORE INVISIBLE. THIS IS NOT TRUE BECAUSE ANGELS ARE SPIRITS AND THEY HAVE BEEN SEEN NUMEROUS TIMES.
Hebrews 13:2 Be not forgetful to entertain strangers: for thereby some have entertained angels unawares.
IF YOU HAVE ENTERTAINED ANGELS UNAWARES LOGICALLY THEY MUST LOOK EXACTLY LIKE HUMANS.
II Corinthians 12:2 I knew a man in Christ above fourteen years ago, (whether in the body, I cannot tell; or whether out of the body, I cannot tell: God knoweth;) such an one caught up to the third heaven.
II Corinthians 12:3 And I knew such a man, (whether in the body, or out of the body, I cannot tell: God knoweth;)
11 COR.12:2-3 ABOVE PAUL, COULD NOT TELL AND DID NOT KNOW WHETHER HE WAS LOOKING AT A SPIRIT BODY OR A FLESH AND BLOOD BODY. HE (PAUL) DID NOT EVEN KNOW WHETHER HE WAS IN HIS SPIRIT BODY OR HIS FLESH BODY AT THE TIME OF THIS EXPERIENCE. PROVING THAT THE SPIRIT BODY AND THE PHYSICAL BODY LOOK EXACTLY ALIKE
THE VERSES BELOW PROVE THAT GOD HAS BEEN SEEN MANY TIMES.
Genesis 3:8 And they heard the voice of the LORD God walking in the garden in the cool of the day: and Adam and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the LORD God amongst the trees of the garden.
IT IS IMPOSSIBLE TO HIDE FROM GOD IF HE IS INVISIBLE. BECAUSE YOU COULD NOT SEE HIM SO YOU WOULD NOT KNOW WHERE TO HIDE. HE COULD HAVE BEEN BEHIND THE TREE WITH ADAM AND EVE IF HE (GOD) WAS INVISIBLE OR EVERYWHERE. SO DOESN’T IT SOUND RIDICULOUS TO EVEN IMPLY THAT GOD IS AN INVISIBLE GOD AND THAT HE IS EVERYWHERE, JUST BECAUSE WE CANNOT SEE HIM NOW?
Genesis 12:7 And the LORD appeared (TO LOOK ONE UPON ANOTHER) unto Abram and said, Unto thy seed will I give this land: and there builded he an altar unto the LORD, who appeared unto him.
STRONG’S HEBREW’S DICTIONARY (NUMBER 7200) TO APPEAR MEANS, “TO SHOW ONESELF TO ANOTHER”, “TO LOOK ONE UPON ANOTHER”, “SEE ONE ANOTHER”.
Genesis 17:1 And when Abram was ninety years old and nine, the LORD appeared (STRONG’S HEB. #7200) to Abram, and said unto him, I [am] the Almighty God; walk before me, and be thou perfect.
Genesis 18:1 And the LORD (JEHOVAH) appeared (STRONG’S HEB. #7200) unto him in the plains of Mamre: and he sat in the tent door in the heat of the day;
Genesis 18:2 And he lift up his eyes and looked, and, lo, three men (JEHOVAH AND TWO ANGELS) stood by him: and when he saw [them], he ran to meet them from the tent door, and bowed himself toward the ground,
Genesis 18:3 And said, My Lord,
(‘Adonay, ad-o-noy’; an emphatic form of Hebrew 113 (‘adown); the Lord (used as a proper name of God only) :- (my) Lord.) if now I have found favour in thy sight, pass not away, I pray thee, from thy servant:
Genesis 18:4 Let a little water, I pray you, be fetched, and wash your feet,(JEHOVAH’S FEET) and rest yourselves under the tree:
Genesis 18:5 And I will fetch a morsel of bread, and comfort ye your hearts; after that ye shall pass on: for therefore are ye come to your servant. And they said, So do, as thou hast said.
ABRAHAM WASHED GOD’S FEET. “HOW CAN YOU SEE TO WASH SOMEONE’S FEET IF THEY ARE INVISIBLE”? IF GOD’S FEET HAD BEEN INVISIBLE ABRAHAM WOULD NOT HAVE BEEN ABLE TO SEE GOD’S FEET TO WASH THEM. (YOU CAN’T WASH SOMETHING THAT IS NOT THERE).
Genesis 18:13 And the LORD (JEHOVAH) said unto Abraham, Wherefore did Sarah laugh, saying, Shall I of a surety bear a child, which am old?
Genesis 18:14 Is any thing too hard for the LORD? At the time appointed I will return unto thee, according to the time of life, and Sarah shall have a son.
Genesis 18:8 And he took butter, and milk, and the calf which he had dressed, and set [it] before them; and he stood by them (JEHOVAH AND TWO ANGELS) under the tree, and they did eat.
AND ABRAHAM STOOD BY THEM. IF GOD IS INVISIBLE HOW WOULD ABRAHAM KNOW HE WAS STANDING BY GOD?
Genesis 18:16 And the men (JEHOVAH AND THE TWO ANGELS LOOKED EXACTLY LIKE MEN TO ABRAHAM) rose up from thence, and looked toward Sodom: and Abraham went with them to bring them on the way.
GOD APPEARS, (SHOWS HIMSELF) UNTO ISAAC
Genesis 26:24 And the LORD appeared (STRONG’S HEB. #7200) unto him the same night, and said, I [am] the God of Abraham thy father: fear not, for I [am] with thee, and will bless thee, and multiply thy seed for my servant Abraham’s sake.
GOD APPEARED, (SHOWED HIMSELF) UNTO JACOB.
Genesis 32:24 And Jacob was left alone; and there wrestled a man with him until the breaking of the day.
Genesis 32:25 And when he (JEHOVAH) saw that he prevailed not against him, (JACOB) he (JEHOVAH) touched the hollow of his (JACOB’S) thigh; and the hollow of Jacob’s thigh was out of joint, as he (JEHOVAH) wrestled with him (JACOB).
Genesis 32:26 And he (HE JEHOVAH AS PROVED BY GEN. 32:30) said, Let me go, for the day breaketh. And he (JACOB) said, I will not let thee go, except thou bless me.
Genesis 32:27 And he (GOD) said unto him, What [is] thy name? And he said, Jacob.
Genesis 32:28 And he (JEHOVAH) said, Thy name shall be called no more Jacob, but Israel: for as a prince hast thou power with God and with men, and hast prevailed.
Genesis 32:29 And Jacob asked [him], and said, Tell [me], I pray thee, thy name. And he (GOD) said, Wherefore [is] it [that] thou-* dost ask after my name? And he (JEHOVAH) blessed him there.
Genesis 32:30 And Jacob called the name of the place Peniel: for I have seen God face to face, and my life is preserved.
THE MAN THAT JACOB WRESTLED WITH WAS GOD. JACOB SAID, “I HAVE SEEN GOD FACE TO FACE”.
I HAVE SEEN, (THAT IS TO LOOK UPON, OR GAZE AT).
IF ANY OF YOU, WHO WERE NOT THERE THREE THOUSAND YEARS AGO WHEN THIS HAPPENED “IN YOUR GREAT WISDOM” WISH TO CALL JACOB A LIAR, FEEL FREE.
Genesis 35:9 And God appeared (STRONG’S HEB. #7200, TO SEE ONE ANOTHER) unto Jacob again, when he came out of Padan-aram, and blessed him.
IN GEN. 35:9 WHEN GOD WROTE THAT GOD APPEARED UNTO JACOB AGAIN HE IS VERIFYING THAT JACOB DID SEE HIM AND WRESTLE WITH HIM IN GEN. 32:34. “TRY TO WIGGLE OUT OF THIS ONE”.
Genesis 35:13 And God went up from him in the place where he talked with him.
Genesis 35:15 And Jacob called the name of the place where God spake with him, Bethel.
Exodus 19:11 And be ready against the third day: for the third day the LORD (Yehovah, yeh-ho-vaw’; from Hebrew 1961 (hayah); (the) self-Existent or Eternal; Jehovah, Jewish national name of God :- Jehovah, the Lord. Compare Hebrew 3050 (Yahh), Hebrew 3069 (Yehovih). will come down in the sight of all the people upon mount Sinai.
Exodus 24:9 Then went up Moses, and Aaron, Nadab, and Abihu, and seventy of the elders of Israel:
Exodus 24:10 And they saw the God of Israel: and [there was] under his feet (THEY SAW HIS FEET) as it were a paved work of a sapphire stone, and as it were the body of heaven in [his] clearness.
IF YOU CONTEND THAT THE PHRASE “THEY SAW THE GOD OF ISRAEL,” IS FIGURATIVE YOU MUST EXPLAIN THE LITERAL MEANING BEHIND THE PHRASE. WHAT IS GOD TRYING TO TEACH US WHEN HE WROTE, “THEY SAW THE GOD OF ISRAEL.”? IS HE TRYING TO TEACH US THAT THEY DID NOT SEE THE GOD OF ISRAEL?
Exodus 24:11 And upon the nobles of the children of Israel he laid not his hand: also they saw God, and did eat and drink.
SAW (HEB. – CHAZAH – KHAW-ZAW). A PRIMITIVE ROOT TO GAZE AT.
Exodus 33:11 And the LORD (JEHOVAH) spake unto Moses face to face, as a man speaketh unto his friend. And he turned again into the camp: but his servant Joshua, the son of Nun, a young man, departed not out of the tabernacle.
AS I WOULD STAND AND TALK TO YOU FACE TO FACE, SO DID GOD TALK TO MOSES.
Leviticus 9:24 And there came a fire out from before the LORD, and consumed upon the altar the burnt offering and the fat: [which] when all the people saw, they shouted, and fell on their faces.
HOW COULD THEY KNOW WHERE THE FIRE CAME FROM, IF THEY COULD NOT SEE GOD?
Leviticus 10:1 And Nadab and Abihu, the sons of Aaron, took either of them his censer, and put fire therein, and put incense thereon, and offered strange fire before the LORD, which he commanded them not.
Leviticus 10:2 And there went out fire from the LORD, and devoured them, and they died before the LORD.
HOW COULD THEY KNOW THAT FIRE CAME OUT FROM THE LORD, IF THEY COULD NOT SEE GOD? THEY WOULD NOT HAVE KNOWN WHERE THE FIRE WAS COMING FROM IF GOD HAD NOT BEEN VISIBLE.
Numbers 12:8 With him will I speak mouth to mouth, even apparently, (VISIBLY) and not in dark speeches; and the similitude of the LORD shall he behold: wherefore then were ye not afraid to speak against my servant Moses?
SIMILITUDE; (HEB. 8554 – TEMUNAH – TEM-OO-NAW) EMBODIMENT, BODY.
Numbers 23:4 And God met Balaam: and he said unto him, I have prepared seven altars, and I have offered upon [every] altar a bullock and a ram.
Numbers 23:16 And the LORD met Balaam, and put a word in his mouth, and said, Go again unto Balak, and say thus.
I Samuel 3:10 And the LORD came, and stood, (HOW DID THEY KNOW THAT GOD STOOD?) and called as at other times, Samuel, Samuel. Then Samuel answered, Speak; for thy servant heareth.
I Samuel 3:21 And the LORD appeared (STRONG’S HEB. #7200, TO SEE ONE ANOTHER) again in Shiloh: for the LORD revealed himself to Samuel in Shiloh by the word of the LORD.
II Chronicles 3:1 Then Solomon began to build the house of the LORD at Jerusalem in mount Moriah, where [the Lord] appeared unto David his father, in the place that David had prepared in the threshingfloor of Ornan the Jebusite.
APPEARED – HEB. REAH: RAW -AW: TO SEE. GAZE , LOOK ONE UPON ANOTHER. LOOK ONE ON ANOTHER, BE NEAR, PRESENT (SEE ONE ANOTHER).
Job 42:5 I have heard of thee by the hearing of the ear: but now mine eye seeth thee.
SEETH, HEB. 7200 REAH: RAW-AW: TO SEE, GAZE AT, LOOK UPON.
Isaiah 6:1 In the year that king Uzziah died I saw also the Lord
(an emphatic form of Hebrew 113 ‘adown); the Lord (used as a proper name of God only) :- (my) Lord.) sitting upon a throne, high and lifted up, and his train filled the temple.
Amos 9:1 I saw the Lord (‘adown-hebrew); the Lord (used as a proper name of God only) :- (my) Lord.) standing upon the altar: and he said, Smite the lintel of the door, that the posts may shake: and cut them in the head, all of them; and I will slay the last of them with the sword: he that fleeth of them shall not flee away, and he that escapeth of them shall not be delivered.
Acts 7:56 And said, Behold, I see the heavens opened, and the Son of man standing on the right hand of God.
ALL OF THE ABOVE VERSES TEACH THAT GOD HAS BEEN SEEN BY MAN MANY TIMES. THERE ARE MANY OTHER VERSES PROVING A VISIBLE GOD. (AT LEAST 44 OR MORE)
God is a Spirit Being John 4:24
God is a Spirit Being, not the sun, moon, stars; nor an image of wood, stone, or metal; and not beast or man. He is not the air, wind, universal mind, love or some impersonal quality.
He is a person with a personal spirit body, a personal soul, and a personal spirit, like that of angels, and like that of man except His body is of spirit substance instead of flesh and bones (Job 13:8; Hebrews 1:3). He has a personal spirit body (Daniel 7:9-14; Daniel 10:5-19); shape (John 5:37); form (Phil. 2:5-7); image and likeness of a man (Genesis 1:26; Genesis 9:6; Ezekiel 1:26-28; 1 Cor. 11:7; James 3:9). He has physical parts such as, back parts (Exodus 33:23), heart (Genesis 6:6; Genesis 8:21), hands and fingers (Psalm 8:3-6; Hebrews 1:10; Rev. 5:1-7), mouth (Numbers 12:8), lips and tongue (Isaiah 30:27), feet (Ezekiel 1:27; Exodus 24:10), eyes (Psalm 11:4; Psalm 18:24; Psalm 33:18), ears (Psalm 18:6), hair, head, face, arms (Daniel 7:9-14; Daniel 10:5-19; Rev. 5:1-7; Rev. 22:4-6), loins (Ezekiel 1:26-28; Ezekiel 8:1-4), and other physical parts. He has bodily presence (Genesis 3:8; Genesis 18:1-22) and goes from place to place in a body like all other persons (Genesis 3:8; Genesis 11:5; Genesis 18:1-5,22,33; Genesis 19:24; Genesis 32:24-32; Genesis 35:13; Zech. 14:5; Daniel 7:9-14; Titus 2:13). He has a voice (Psalm 29; Rev. 10:3-4); breath (Genesis 2:7); and countenance (Psalm 11:7). He wears clothes (Daniel 7:9-14; Daniel 10:5-19); eats (Genesis 18:1-8; Exodus 24:11); rests (Genesis 2:1-4; Hebrews 4:4); dwells in a mansion and in a city located on a material planet called Heaven (John 14:1-3; Hebrews 11:10-16; Hebrews 13:14; Rev. 21); sits on a throne (Isaiah 6; Daniel 7:9-14; Rev. 4:1-5; Rev. 22:3-6); walks (Genesis 3:8; Genesis 18:1-8,22,33); rides (Psalm 18:10; Psalm 68:17; Psalm 104:3; Ezekiel 1); and engages in other activities.
He has a personal soul with feelings of grief (Genesis 6:6), anger (1 Kings 11:9), repentance (Genesis 6:6), jealousy (Exodus 20:5), hate (Proverbs 6:16), love (John 3:16), pity (Psalm 103:13), fellowship (1 John 1:1-7), pleasure and delight (Psalm 147:10), and other soul passions like other beings (Galatians 5:22-23).
He has a personal spirit (Psalm 143:10; Isaiah 30:1) with mind (Romans 11:34), intelligence (Genesis 1:26; Romans 11:33), will (Romans 8:27; Romans 9:19), power (Ephes. 1:19; Ephes. 3:7,20; Hebrews 1:3), truth (Psalm 91:4), faith and hope (Romans 12:3; 1 Cor. 13:13), righteousness (Psalm 45:4), faithfulness (1 Cor. 10:13), knowledge and wisdom (Isaiah 11:2; 1 Tim. 1:17), reason (Isaiah 1:18), discernment (Hebrews 4:12), immutability (Hebrews 6:17), and many other attributes, powers, and spirit faculties.
He has been seen physically many times (Genesis 18; Genesis 32:24-30; Exodus 24:9-11; Joshua 5:13-15; Isaiah 6; Daniel 7:9-13; Ezekiel 1; Acts 7:56-59; Rev. 4-5), and can be understood by the things that are made. Man is the visible image and likeness making the invisible God clearly seen as in Romans 1:20.
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IF YOU CANNOT BELIEVE THESE BIBLICAL FACTUAL STATEMENTS ABOUT GOD’S BODY YOU DO HAVE A VERY SERIOUS PROBLEM.
IF YOU THINK THE BIBLE LIES ABOUT THESE BODILY PARTS OF GOD THEN YOU ARE IMPLYING THE BIBLE MIGHT TELL MANY, MANY LIES.
DO YOU TRULY BELIEVE GOD MENTIONED ALL OF THE ABOVE BODILY PARTS TO CONVINCE US THAT HE DOES NOT HAVE THEM? IF SO, THEN YOU MUST BELIEVE THE BIBLE IS A PIECE OF TRASH.
IF YOU DO NOT BELIEVE THE ENTIRETY OF THE BIBLE YOU WILL FALL UNDER THE JUDGMENT OF REV. 22:18-19 WHERE GOD SAYS HE WILL TAKE YOUR NAME OUT OF THE BOOK OF LIFE (IF GOD SAYS FOR CERTAIN ACTIONS HE WILL REMOVE YOUR NAME FROM THE BOOK OF LIFE THIS CAUSES PROBLEMS FOR THE BELIEVERS OF ONCE SAVED ALWAYS SAVED) OR MAKE YOU SICK.