subject: Jesus Christ Was Not a Good Looking Man and He Cried a Lot! [print this page] Jesus Christ Was Not a Good Looking Man and He Cried a Lot!
And all the preachers seem to think he was a happy man traveling around the place with a smile on his face. The prophetic scripture of Jesus doesn't say that!
Isaiah 53 (Amplified Bible)
(1) WHO HAS believed (trusted in, relied upon, and clung to) our message [of that which was revealed to us]? And to whom has the arm of the Lord been disclosed? (2) For [the Servant of God] grew up before Him like a tender plant, and like a root out of dry ground; He has no form or comeliness [royal, kingly pomp], that we should look at Him, and no beauty that we should desire Him. (3) He was despised and rejected and forsaken by men, a Man of sorrows and pains, and acquainted with grief and sickness; and like One from Whom men hide their faces He was despised, and we did not appreciate His worth or have any esteem for Him.
Jesus didn't have the handsome face that we normally see that goes with a King. The best I could say is he probably looked like a Mick Jagger. He had no beauty that anyone would desire him.
It says in the Ten Commandments that we should not make pictures of God and it seems the whole world thinks Jesus was some amazingly handsome guy, but Isaiah the prophet says that he was not beautiful.
It says also that Jesus was a man of sorrows and acquainted with grief. It only is recorded twice in the Bible where Jesus cried. He cried about the death of Lazarus and he cried as he looked over the city of Jerusalem. But the Bible does not go out into the hill tops and gardens in the middle of the night when Jesus wept as he prayed to his Father.
As a young prophet, Jesus saw things a lot more clearly than the people of his day. Jesus could see the root causes of the problems in his homeland and the problems with how the law was being taught. Jesus healed a lot of people as he went from town to town and people came from hundreds of miles to hear him teach and to be healed.
But Jesus cried about all the sick people he couldn't heal. He was sad about the suffering of the people. He cried tears of compassion that he couldn't fix everything up.
Jesus was no good looking smiling man. He was deep, profound, able to say a deep and profound truth in a simple parable. He could talk for hours about the depths of the Law and still have a beer with a man in a pub and talk about family life.
People assume six hours one Friday was really hard for Jesus. He sits in heaven and is still a God that cries as he sees all the injustice the USA and Western countries are involved with. He sees all the girls getting molested in the West and all the abortions and all the bad things that are going on in the world and just weeps.
As a prophet still, Jesus would not just have happy things to say to the rich last days' church. As the prophet that speaks in Revelation he still has things to say that are not very edifying to the people that won't repent.
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