The Real Jesus - Chapter 2: - Garner Ted Armstrong - 1977

Garner Ted Armstrong

In later years, Jesus was always making some "outrageous" statement, the way the Pharisees looked at it. If something was true, He said it. If something was false, He called it so. For example, Jesus once said, "Your father Abraham rejoiced to see my day: and he saw it, and was glad." What Jesus meant by this was that He, Jesus, in His divine form was the very person who physically (through spiritual transformation) had visited Abraham (Genesis 18) and had related to him the reality of the coming of God's Kingdom; that Abraham, because he had proved obedient and faithful, would have a part in that Kingdom; that Abraham had known of the necessity of a Savior to come ("rejoiced to see my day") and had been glad. - Information Supplied By: Herbert W Armstrong Library