Why didn't JESUS know the DAY or the HOUR? | Sam Shamoun

0:00 Okay. So now, is it clear Mark and Matthew have gone out of their way to depict Jesus as Jehovah God in the flesh? Right? Not just Matthew, but Mark, right? Was that clear? Just want to make sure it's clear. Amen. First and last. So here's my question. If it's clear, they've portrayed Jesus as Jehovah. If he's Jehovah, doesn't Jehovah know all things? Doesn't Jehovah know all things? So if Jesus is Jehovah, he has to know everything. He has to know everything. So why doesn't he know the dare hour? Here's where you're going to have to learn your faith. Why doesn't he know the dare hour? Because the whole story

0:47 of the New Testament, the story of the Gospels is Jehovah became man. Jehovah became flesh. Jehovah became a human being and humbled himself to take on human limitations, to experience human limitations in order to experience what it's like to be a true human being with limitations with the exception of sin. So why would it shock you if Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John are portraying Jesus as God Almighty who willfully condescended, humbly condescended to become an actual human being, to take on an actual human nature, to experience actual human limitations.

1:33 Why then would it shock you that there's a sense in which because he's man, he has to grow. Because he's man, he has to learn. Because he's man, he has to sleep. Because he's man, he gets tired, fatigue. Because he's man, he has to eat. Because his man, he has to bathe. And if he truly became a human baby, a true human baby, not a phantom baby, that he would cry because he would have stomach pains, toothaches, earachches. He would lose his baby teeth because he chose to become truly human to experience the human condition in all its fullness with the exception of sin. Would Jesus be truly human if he didn't hunger? Would he be truly human if he

2:20 didn't thirst? Would he be truly human if he didn't grow, go from a babe to a toddler to a child to an adolescent to an adult? Okay. Would he be true human if his physical body didn't change as he grew older? That he had the shape of a baby, then the shape of a toddler, then no. Would he be truly human if he didn't experience earachches, tooth aches, right? Ear infections, got the common cold. And would he truly be human? Would a true human mind if in his human mind he was omnisient? Which human being is omnisient? No human being. No human being is omnisient. No human being can

3:05 be omnisient. So if Jesus is truly human with a true human mind, if it's truly a human mind, then in his human mind, he can't know everything. Otherwise, he doesn't really truly have a human mind. Jesus can't be truly human possessing a human mind. If his human mind is omnisient, then he's not truly human. And then we end up becoming like the gnostics who denied that the divine Christ became truly human. But no, he is truly human. You understand? Now, is it sinking in? I'm going real slow because I want this to sink in to understand what is incomprehensible. You're going to get an

3:52 idea. Oh, okay. But you won't fully comprehend because God is an infinite mind beyond human comprehension. That doesn't mean you won't see it. Oh, yeah. Okay. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I don't know how it works, but yeah, I can see. Yeah. Okay. As man with a human mind, his human mind can't know everything, but he's also God. And as God, he possesses omniscience. But somehow the two natures remain distinct. They infuse into each other. So one person had two natures that he didn't fuse into each other. They remained distin distinct and he fully possessed all the attributes of deity and humanity but they didn't get mixed up or garbled in. I don't know how that works but I can see that's what the Bible say.

4:38 Right? Is that clear? Just before I move on because we're going to go back to Mark 13:32. So should it shock you that Jesus who's truly human could say of the dare hour no man knows neither angels of heaven nor the son. Should it shock you that if Jesus is truly human, Luke 2:40 and 22 could say the boy grew in stature and wisdom and favor between God and man. Should it shock you that the Jesus of history, who's the Jesus of the Gospels, who's a true human being, got tired and had to rest and got hungry and had to eat and needed to sleep. If he didn't do any of that, he's not truly

5:23 human. Folks, the problem with Christians, and I'll tell you what the problem is, we overemphasize the deity of Christ at the expense of his humanity. Whereas the cults who are anti-trinitarians overemphasize his humanity at the expense of his deity or even ignore his deity altogether. See the problem? Never ever say Jesus relinquish his deity. He cannot stop being God. God can't stop being God. God can't stop being who he is. But but it doesn't mean he has to make full use of all his attributes. Right? Even now God is not unleashing all his anger and the power that enables him to unleash all his anger and all its fullness. He's

6:08 constraining himself. So but that's true of the father. The father constrains himself and doesn't make full use of all his attributes. So so the son and so the spirit three persons who possess the same essence fully completely. So if that made sense, let's go back to Mark 13:32. So Jesus said, "No human nose." All right. Well, that's to be expected because unless God appears visibly and wants his voice to be heard audibly to the people on heaven, God remains invisible in secret to you human beings. So, okay, that makes sense. Humans won't know the hour because God is hidden to them unless he wants to appear. And he does, but that's rare. That's not often. Neither the angels in heaven. And as I showed yesterday, the Bible says angels,

6:54 these spirit creatures are in heaven beholding God visibly and hearing God's voice audibly. Even though they're that close and they see God's visible glory and hear his voice audibly, they don't know. Well, according to the Bible, that's all creation. So, here's the line. Imagine a line. Creator, creation, angels, humans, that's it. What's left is now the creator. But now notice where Jesus placed himself. Notice where Jesus placed himself in that list. Mark 13:32. Though he became human, he's not merely human. Notice it's in ascending order. No humans, neither angels, that's creation, nor the son, but the father alone. So wait, Jesus, you just

7:41 differentiated yourself from all angels and humans. That means all creation. and you place yourself above all creation and even claim to be the true son of the father. Notice in that list, he alone is the son to the father. Everything else is a creation. So even in this passage, if you properly understand it and you have eyes to see and ears to hear, Jesus just showed I am the true son of the father. I'm on the same side that the father is separated from creation. angels and humans, creation creatures. I'm not among them, though I became human. I'm part of this side of the divide. I'm on the same side that my father is because I'm his son and belong to him. So even the passage

8:29 that they use to try to disprove Christ's deity shows he is the eternal son greater than all creation who belongs to the father. So if a Muslim brings it up, this is what you tell the Muslim. Muslim, thank you for again proving to me Muhammad is a son of Satan, an antichrist, and your Quran is a book of the devil. Why? This passage just proves I could never be a Muslim and Muhammad is a fraud. What do you mean? Do you believe Jesus is the son to the father? No. But you just quoted a verse where Jesus says he is the son, the true son of the father. That's number one. Number two, do you believe that Jesus is greater than all humans? That means he's greater than your Muhammad and your Muhammad is beneath his feet. No. Do you believe Jesus is

9:15 greater than all angels and humans combined? No. So why are you quoting this? Why are you quoting the verse that proves your Muhammad is beneath the feet of Jesus? Jesus is the true son who's greater than all creation. None of which you can accept. Okay. So Mark 13:32, why doesn't Jesus the son know the hour? In one sense he does know it in respect to his spirit divine nature but in another sense as a man in his human mind in his waking consciousness he doesn't know all things he only knows what the father wants him to know and to relay in his waking consciousness in his human mind in respect to his human nature let me repeat the answer and I'm going to

10:01 unpack this here's the answer in respect to Jesus's divine nature he knows everything even the day hour. But remember Jesus has a true human nature and part of that nature he has a human mind and as a human being with a human nature he has layers of consciousness in respect to his human nature in his waking human consciousness. What do I mean waking human consciousness? See I'm awake right now. This is my waking consciousness. I'm not asleep. In his waking consciousness, he cannot know everything. He cannot have access to the full omniscience that he has as God because then he wouldn't be truly human and wouldn't be a truly human mind. He only

10:47 knows and retains and recalls what the father wants him to know and retain and recall in respect to his human waking consciousness in respect to his human nature. Now what's my point? We are temporal, finite, imperfect human beings. And notice how complex our humanity is, how complex our physiology is, how complex our minds and brains are. In that as a human being, I have layers of consciousness. I have the waking consciousness and I have a subconsciousness. And this is a fact that human beings are able to retain and keep tons of information on a

11:34 subconscious level that they don't have access to when they're awake. Now, explain how that works. How is it when I'm awake I do not recall remember all that information embedded in my subconscious mind information I've been storing since the time I came came out of my mother's womb that's there intact but I can't recall it I don't remember it how's that possible can you explain it no you can't now folks if that's true of human beings who are finite ite imperfect temporal fallen creature cre creatures. If we could have layers of consciousness so in one layer we don't

12:19 know everything that we know on a deeper level and a deeper layer. Why would it then shock you that when it comes to Jesus who has a human nature and part of that human nature has all these layers of consciousness and then you add a divine nature and he becomes so mind-boggling that in one sense he doesn't know that they are our another sense he knows all things and we can't figure out how that works. Why would that shock you when we have something similar going on with human beings and we only have one nature that's limited and temporal and we have layers of consciousness on my waking conscious I don't know everything that I know on a deeper subconscious level how does that work so then why would you be shocked that Jesus the God man on one

13:05 level he doesn't know the dare hour he only knows what the father wants him to know in his waking consciousness and what his father wants him to reveal but there's a deeper level to Jesus even on the human level. There's a deeper human consciousness to Jesus. And then there is a divine mind that Jesus possesses in which he knows a lot more than he does in his waking consciousness. So why should you be shocked?