Revelation: The Divinity of Christ and the Black Horse

Revelation: Justification by Faith

The Divinity of Jesus and the Black Horse

(It is recommended to read this study to better understand the current one.)

Jesus can never be the living bread if He is not God. Justification by faith, our salvation, our hope—it is nothing without His divinity.
He had to be both man and God. With His human arm, He can take hold of us, and with His divine arm, He holds on to God. In this way, He is the Mediator between God and man.
For John, this is very clear. Every time he speaks about how Jesus is life for us, it is deeply connected to His divinity and power.

John 1:1–5 (ESV):

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
He was in the beginning with God.
All things were made through him, and without him was not any thing made that was made.
In him was life, and the life was the light of men.
The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it.

1 John 5:20 (ESV):

And we know that the Son of God has come and has given us understanding, so that we may know him who is true; and we are in him who is true, in his Son Jesus Christ. He is the true God and eternal life.

1 John 1:1–3 (ESV):

That which was from the beginning, which we have heard, which we have seen with our eyes, which we looked upon and have touched with our hands, concerning the word of life—
the life was made manifest, and we have seen it, and testify to it and proclaim to you the eternal life, which was with the Father and was made manifest to us—
that which we have seen and heard we proclaim also to you, so that you too may have fellowship with us; and indeed our fellowship is with the Father and with his Son Jesus Christ.

Jesus Himself is eternal life. We have no life in ourselves and deserve death. By nature, we vanish like mist.
But Jesus is our life—and He is so through His divine nature.
Only an eternal God could pay the price for our eternal debt in our place. Only our Creator could take our sins upon Himself and still live.
The letter to the Hebrews, which speaks much about how Jesus is our redeemer, begins by clearly stating that Jesus is God and the Creator.
Peter says:

2 Peter 1:3–4 (ESV):

His divine power has granted to us all things that pertain to life and godliness, through the knowledge of him who called us to his own glory and excellence,
by which he has granted to us his precious and very great promises, so that through them you may become partakers of the divine nature, having escaped from the corruption that is in the world because of sinful desire.

Peter tells us that by partaking in the divine nature, we receive the promises.
If Jesus were not God, we could not partake in His divine nature, and we would still be in our sins.
It’s important to say here that partaking in the divine nature does not mean we become God ourselves, but that we share in the things Jesus deserves as God.
We share in His character, His life, and His glory.
Peter is not saying that this is now suddenly found in ourselves, but that we share in what Jesus, as God, deserves by nature.
As John says:

John 17:5, 22 (ESV):

And now, Father, glorify me in your own presence with the glory that I had with you before the world existed.

The glory that you have given me I have given to them, that they may be one even as we are one.

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