Isaiah 52:14 “As many were astonied at thee; his visage was so marred more than any man, and his form more than the sons of men:”
As Christians and churches, we must be very carful as to our
worship of Jesus Christ. The only images we have of Him are only in our minds.
Catholicism has created so much idolatry of Jesus and everything else biblical
that they have entirely idolized Christianity into a non-truth. Catholicism is
so false and fake that you almost must believe that they are satanic at best.
When we look at Jesus, we only know a limited amount about Him and almost
nothing about His human appearance. To say it honestly, there are absolutely no
earthly images of Jesus Christ because the scriptures do not have any real
descriptions of Him. I searched the internet and found that images of Jesus
dates to maybe the second or third century and Jesus was crucified about 30AD.
Therefore, we must believe that there are no true images of Jesus Christ on
this earth and that all that exist must be “false graven images” and as we know
it is sinful to have false graven images. It is more impossible to have any
images of God the Father or the Holy Spirit because they are “a Spirit” and
neither has a body form. And again, to have any form of image of anything in
heaven is a sin. "Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or
any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth
beneath, or that is in the water under the earth: (5) Thou shalt not bow down
thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the LORD thy God am a jealous God,
visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and
fourth generation of them that hate me;" Exodus 20:4 – 5. Therefore,
as a Pastor I must strongly suggest that if you have any images of any sort
that violate this law of God that you destroy them immediately. This is any
sort of image of anything in heaven, or on the earth, or beneath the earth such
as hell – Satan – or any demons.
So let us look at what we do have, we know that Jesus was
born as a man in the likeness of sinful flesh. The word “likeness” means He
appeared like us but in a sinless form. We also know He was God as well as a
man therefore He had two natures both human and deity. We also know that He had
no flaws, not one single flaw inside or out because there was no sin about Him.
I believe He could not have had long hair because it is a sin for a man to have
long hair. “Doth not even nature itself teach you, that, if a man have long
hair, it is a shame unto him?” 1 Corinthians 11:14 We also know that he did
have a beard, “I gave my back to the smiters, and my cheeks to them that
plucked off the hair: I hid not my face from shame and spitting.” Isaiah
50:6 And last we know that He was about 33 years old when He was crucified.
Outside of this we know very little about the bodily features of Jesus Christ.
We also know some about His arrest and crucifixion. However,
it is most important that we have a vision in our minds about His suffering.
While not much is known, we do have enough information to have a clear
understanding that He was severely beaten before He was brutally crucified.
Isaiah wrote “his visage was so marred more than any man” the words “more
than any man” allows us to understand that His beating was so severe that
no other human could have survived it. Isaiah also told us that “many were
astonied at thee; his visage” The word “astonied” means people were
so stunned they were numb as
they looked at Him. Jesus was beaten so badly that He was unrecognizable, “more
than any man”. Mark told us, “And
they smote him on the head with a reed, and did spit upon him, and bowing their
knees worshipped him.” Mark 15:19 A reed was like a measuring reed or rod
or a staff. There is more but I think we get the image of Jesus. But we need to
remember that all this often, because He suffering was what the Father required
of Him for our redemption. This is what it took to save us, this is what it
took to pay in full for our sins. THANK YOU JESUS!
