God makes

Genesis 1

¹ In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.

² And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.

³ And God said,

'Let there be light':

and there was light.

⁴ And God saw the light, that it was good: and God divided the light from the darkness.

⁵ And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day...

¹⁴ And God said,

'Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and years: ¹⁵ and let them be for lights in the firmament of

the heaven to give light upon the earth'

and it was so.

¹⁶ And God made two great lights; the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night: he made the stars also.

¹⁷ And God set them in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth, ¹⁸ and to rule over the day and over the night, and to divide the light from the darkness: and God saw that it was good.

¹⁹ And the evening and the morning were the fourth day...

²⁶ And God said,

'Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion ... '

²⁷ So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.

²⁸ And God blessed them, and God said to them ...

31 And God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, it was very good. And the evening and the morning were the sixth day.

Psalm 19

¹ The heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament shows his handywork.

² Day to day utters speech, and night to night shows knowledge.

³ There is no speech nor language, where their voice is not heard.

⁴ Their line is gone out through all the earth, and their words to the end of the world. In them has he set a tabernacle for the sun,

⁵ Which is as a bridegroom coming out of his chamber, and rejoices as a strong man to run a race.

⁶ His going forth is from the end of the heaven, and his circuit to the ends of it: and there is nothing hid from the heat thereof.

Instrumental

All heaven declares the glory of the risen Lord. Who can compare with the beauty of the Lord? Forever He will be the Lamb upon the throne. I gladly bow the knee and worship Him alone.

I will proclaim the glory of the risen Lord, who once was slain, to reconcile man to God. Forever He will be ...

God's makes Himself known

Isaiah 48:13

My hand also has laid the foundation of the earth, and my right hand has spanned the heavens: when I [God] call to them, they stand up together.

Joshua 10

¹² Then spoke Joshua to the LORD in the day when the LORD delivered up the Amorites before the children of Israel, and he said in the sight of Israel,

'Sun, stand thou still upon Gibeon; and thou, Moon, in the valley of Ajalon'.

¹³ And the sun stood still, and the moon stayed, until the people had avenged themselves upon their enemies. Is not this written in the book of Jasher?

So the sun stood still in the midst of heaven, and hasted not to go down about a whole day.

¹⁴ And there was no day like that before it or after it, that the LORD hearkened to the voice of a man: for the LORD fought for Israel.

God used 'signs' to confirm His words

2 Kings 20

⁹ And Isaiah said,

'This sign shall you have of the LORD, that the LORD will do the thing that he has spoken: shall the shadow go forward ten degrees, or go back ten degrees?'

¹⁰ And Hezekiah answered,

'It is a light thing for the shadow to go down ten degrees: nay, but let the shadow return backward ten degrees.'

¹¹ And Isaiah the prophet cried to the LORD: and he brought the shadow ten degrees backward, by which it had gone down in the dial of Ahaz.

Gideon's Fleece

Judges 6

³⁶ And Gideon said to God,

'If you will save Israel by my hand, as you have said, ³⁷ behold, I will put a fleece of wool in the floor; and if the dew be on the fleece only, and it be dry upon all the earth beside, then shall I know that you will save Israel by my hand, as you have said.'

³⁸ And it was so: for he rose up early on the morrow, and thrust the fleece together, and wringed the dew out of the fleece, a bowl full of water.

³⁹ And Gideon said to God,

'Let not your anger be hot against me, and I will speak but this once: let me prove, I pray thee, but this once with the fleece; let it now be dry only upon the fleece, and upon all the ground let there be dew.'

⁴⁰ And God did so that night: for it was dry upon the fleece only, and there was dew on all the ground.

Paul tells the truth

Acts 17

²² Then Paul stood in the midst of Mars' hill, and said,

'All you men of Athens, I perceive that in all things you all are too superstitious.

²³ For as I passed by, and beheld your devotions, I found an altar with this inscription, TO THE UNKNOWN GOD. Whom therefore you all ignorantly worship, him declare I to you.

²⁴ God who made the world and all things therein, seeing that he is Lord of heaven and earth, dwells not in temples made with hands;

²⁵ neither is worshipped with men's hands, as though he needed any thing, seeing he gives to all life, and breath, and all things;

²⁶ and has made of one blood all nations of men for to dwell on all the face of the earth, and hath determined the times before appointed, and the bounds of their habitation;

²⁷ That they should seek the Lord, if happily they might feel after him, and find him, though he be not far from every one of us:

²⁸ For in him we live, and move, and have our being; as certain also of your own poets have said,

'For we are also his offspring.'

²⁹ Forasmuch then as we are the offspring of God, we ought not to think that the Godhead is like to gold, or silver, or stone, engraved by art and man's device.

³⁰ And the times of this ignorance God winked at; but now commands all men every where to repent: ³¹ because he has appointed a day, in the which he will judge the world in righteousness by that man whom he has ordained; whereof he has given assurance to all men, in that he has raised him from the dead.'

³² And when they heard of the resurrection of the dead, some mocked: and others said,

'We will hear thee again of this matter.'

Luke 7

¹² Now when he [Jesus] came nigh to the gate of the city, behold, there was a dead man carried out, the only son of his mother, and she was a widow: and much people of the city was with her.

¹³ And when the Lord saw her, he had compassion on her, and said to her,

'Weep not.'

¹⁴ And he came and touched the bier: and they that bare him stood still. And he said,

'Young man, I say to you, Arise.'

¹⁵ And he that was dead sat up, and began to speak. And he delivered him to his mother.

The Sign (Appearance)

Prophecies of Messiah, the Anointed One (Christ, in Greek), and His eventual appearance is The Sign that God keeps His word.

Prophecies of Messiah begin in Genesis 3. They are special, because they demonstrate God's earnest desire and intention to redeem [buy back] mankind from the power of death and sin, which first appeared when Adam rebelled against God's instructions for life.

[Romans 5 vv 6 - 12]

God commanded the blessing, even life forevermore

[Psalm 133 v 3]

but we must opt in, or we will, finally, forever die.

Down through the history of mankind, God gave His prophets, priests and kings, more and more detail of how to identify Messiah when He arrived.

Only one Person fulfilled all criteria: Jesus Christ the righteous.

[1 John 2 v 1

Jeremiah 23 vv 5 and 6]

Isaiah 7:14

Therefore the Lord himself shall give you a sign; Behold, a virgin shall conceive, and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel.

Luke 2

¹⁰ And the angel said to them,

'Fear not: for, behold, I bring you good tidings of great joy, which shall be to all people.

¹¹ For to you is born this day in the city of David a Saviour, who is Christ the Lord.

¹² And this shall be a sign to you;

you all shall find the babe wrapped in swaddling clothes, lying in a manger.'

¹³ And suddenly there was with the angel a multitude of the heavenly host praising God, and saying,

¹⁴ 'Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, good will toward men.'

Matthew 1

²⁰ But while he [Joseph] thought on these things, behold, the angel of the Lord appeared to him in a dream, saying,

'Joseph, you son of David, fear not to take to you Mary your wife: for that which is conceived in her is of the Holy Ghost. ²¹ And she shall bring forth a son, and thou shalt call his name JESUS: for he shall save his people from their sins.'

²² Now all this was done, that it might be fulfilled which was spoken of the Lord by the prophet [Isaiah], saying,

²³ 'Behold, a virgin shall be with child, and shall bring forth a son, and they shall call his name Emmanuel', which being interpreted is, 'God with us'.

²⁴ Then Joseph being raised from sleep did as the angel of the Lord had bidden him, and took uto him his wife: ²⁵ and knew her not till she had brought forth her firstborn son: and he called his name JESUS.

Matthew 16

¹ The Pharisees also with the Sadducees came, and tempting desired him [Jesus] that he would show them a sign from heaven.

² He answered and said to them,

'When it is evening, you all say, 'It will be fair weather: for the sky is red.'

³ And in the morning,

'It will be foul weather to day: for the sky is red and lowring.'

O all you hypocrites, you all can discern the face of the sky; but you all can not discern the signs of the times?

⁴ A wicked and adulterous generation

[Joshua 24 v 15 - 25]

seeks after a sign; and there shall no sign be given to it, but the sign of the prophet Jonas ...' '

Jonah 1

¹ Now the word of the LORD came to Jonah the son of Amittai, saying,

² 'Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and cry against it; for their wickedness is come up before me.'

³ But Jonah rose up to flee to Tarshish from the presence of the LORD, and went down to Joppa; and he found a ship going to Tarshish: so he paid the fare thereof, and went down into it, to go with them unto Tarshish from the presence of the LORD.

Jonah 1

¹⁵ So they took up Jonah, and cast him forth into the sea: and the sea ceased from her raging.

¹⁶ Then the men feared the LORD exceedingly, and offered a sacrifice to the LORD, and made vows.

¹⁷ Now the LORD had prepared a great fish to swallow up Jonah. And Jonah was in the belly of the fish three days and three nights.

Jonah 2

¹ Then Jonah prayed to the LORD his God out of the fish's belly, ² and said,

'I cried by reason of my affliction to the LORD, and he heard me; out of the belly of hell cried I, and you heardest my voice.

³ For you had cast me into the deep, in the midst of the seas; and the floods compassed me about: all your billows and your waves passed over me.

⁴ Then I said, I am cast out of your sight; yet I will look again toward your holy temple.

⁵ The waters compassed me about, even to the soul: the depth closed me round about, the weeds were wrapped about my head.

⁶ I went down to the bottoms of the mountains; the earth with her bars was about me for ever: yet have you brought up my life from corruption, O LORD my God.

⁷ When my soul fainted within me I remembered the LORD: and my prayer came in to you, into your holy temple.

⁸ They that observe lying vanities forsake their own mercy.

⁹ But I will sacrifice to you with the voice of thanksgiving; I will pay that that I have vowed. Salvation is of the LORD.'

¹⁰ And the LORD spoke to the fish, and it vomited out Jonah upon the dry land.

Luke 11

²⁹ And when the people were gathered thick together, he [Jesus] began to say,

'This is an evil generation: they seek a sign; and there shall no sign be given it, but the sign of Jonas the prophet.

³⁰ For as Jonas was a sign to the Ninevites, so shall also the Son of man [Jesus] be to this generation.'

Matthew 27

⁵⁷ When the evening was come, there came a rich man of Arimathaea, named Joseph, who also himself was Jesus' disciple:

⁵⁸ He went to Pilate, and begged the body of Jesus. Then Pilate commanded the body to be delivered.

⁵⁹ And when Joseph had taken the body, he wrapped it in a clean linen cloth, ⁶⁰ and laid it in his own new tomb, which he had hewn out in the rock: and he rolled a great stone to the door of the sepulchre, and departed.

⁶¹ And there was Mary Magdalene, and the other Mary, sitting over against the sepulchre.

⁶² Now the next day, that followed the day of the preparation, the chief priests and Pharisees came together to Pilate, ⁶³ saying,

'Sir, we remember that that deceiver said, while he was yet alive,

'After three days I will rise again.'

⁶⁴ Command therefore that the sepulchre be made sure until the third day, lest his disciples come by night, and steal him away, and say to the people,

'He is risen from the dead':

so the last error shall be worse than the first.'

⁶⁵ Pilate said to them,

'You all have a watch: go your way, make it as sure as ye can.'

⁶⁶ So they went, and made the sepulchre sure, sealing the stone, and setting a watch.

Matthew 28

¹ In the end of the sabbath, as it began to dawn toward the first day of the week, came Mary Magdalene and the other Mary to see the sepulchre.

² And, behold, there was a great earthquake: for the angel of the Lord descended from heaven, and came and rolled back the stone from the door, and sat upon it.

³ His countenance was like lightning, and his raiment white as snow:

⁴ And for fear of him the keepers did shake, and became as dead men.

⁵ And the angel answered and said to the women,

'Fear not, all of you: for I know that you seek Jesus, who was crucified.

⁶ He is not here: for he is risen, as he said.

Come, see the place where the Lord lay.'

'Low in the grave He lay'

St. Michael's Singers - Low In the Grave He Lay

Hymn Makers Gold ℗ 2019 Integrity Music Released on: 2019-02-22

1 Low in the grave He lay— Jesus my Savior!

Waiting the coming day— Jesus my Lord!

Refrain

Up from the grave He arose,

With a mighty triumph o’er His foes

He arose a Victor from the dark domain,

And He lives forever with His saints to reign.

He arose! He arose! Hallelujah! Christ arose!

2 Vainly they watch His bed— Jesus, my Savior!

Vainly they seal the dead— Jesus my Lord!

3 Death cannot keep his prey— Jesus, my Savior!

He tore the bars away— Jesus my Lord!

John 20:31

' ... these are written, that you all might believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God; and that believing you all might have [eternal] life through his name.