Jesus the Messiah

Prophesy in Scripture has a long tradition of communication between God and Man, prophesy in Israel includes divine judgement on God's own people, and the promised Saviour Messiah delivers them from sin and death, rather than provide social and political deliverance.

Prophesy, charting a new course in Israel's history, including divine promise and typological messianic fulfillment. King David's great Son will found a kingdom that includes the Gentiles (non-Jews); he will be prophet and priest as well as king. He will be the Lord's anointed; the Spirit of God will be upon Him.

In the fullness of time, Jesus the Messiah (Greek: the Christ) appears, proclaiming the presently coming kingdom of God. He introduces a new understanding of the kingdom; it is religious-ethical and not political; it is present in faith, repentance, rebirth, and is yet to come as a full eschatological reality.

Jesus is the long awaited Messiah, He knows Himself to be both the apocalyptic Son of Man (Daniel 7) and the royal Son of God, the one the Father loved and sent as his emissary. 

It is as the Son who alone knows the Father, and is known by the Father, that Jesus exercises His special authority to forgive sins, and to reveal the Father's will.

Jesus is the unique Son of God, God Himself in the flesh, the true Messiah.