You asked who it is that 'knows' Jesus, and does the will of the Father.
To begin with, we can see the equality in knowledge between Father and Son from the words, 'As the Father knoweth me, even so know I the Father:' [John 10:15].
And yet at Matthew 24:36, Jesus said..."Concerning that day and hour [of his return] nobody knows, neither the angels of the heavens nor the Son, but only the Father."
How is it possible that God knows things that the son does not? Equality in knowledge between Father and son is shared in the eons of time spent when God was educating his "firstborn", sharing in the eventual creation of all things. As a human however, Jesus was as subject to his Father as he was in heaven. He still called the Father "my God" even after his ascension to heaven.
"‘The one who conquers—I will make him a pillar in the temple of my God, and he will by no means go out from it anymore, and I will write upon him the name of my God and the name of the city of my God, the New Jerusalem that descends out of heaven from my God, and my own new name." (Revelation 3:12)
If Jesus is God then how do these words make any sense?
He also speaks about "the name of his God" which we are told in Exodus 3:15 is Jehovah (YHWH in the Tanakh) and that it was to be his name "forever", so then, how can Jesus speak about a new name if he only has one? Jesus is clearly NOT Jehovah.
If you read the rest of this chapter [1 Corinthians 2] you will see that it's impossible to know and please God without having received the Spirit of God into your heart. Hence the teaching that to please God we must worship ('serve') in 'spirit and in truth'. To do this we must be 'born-again', and be filled with the Holy Spirit.
We have a completely different take on this if you will allow me to explain...?
We understand that there are two groups who inherit salvation from Jesus' sacrifice. One is a numbered group who are 'chosen by God from among mankind' to rule as 'kings and priests' in heaven. (Revelation 14:1-4) These, it says in Revelation 20:6 are part of the "first resurrection".....(if there is a first, then there has to an another following. (John 5:28-29)
This "first resurrection" is first in time and in importance because these ones make up the "Bride of Christ"....rulers in the Kingdom of God, who along with Jesus, will rule redeemed mankind on earth.
Revelation 21:2-4 shows this...
"I also saw the holy city, New Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God and prepared as a bride adorned for her husband. 3 With that I heard a loud voice from the throne say: “Look! The tent of God is with mankind, and he will reside with them, and they will be his people. And God himself will be with them. 4 And he will wipe out every tear from their eyes, and death will be no more, neither will mourning nor outcry nor pain be anymore. The former things have passed away.”
This again ties back into why we are here. God was going to be our only King and ruler, but satan stepped in and hijacked the human race for his own selfish purposes. This defection caused a barrier between God and humankind....and raised the need for a rescuer to undo what the devil had done. Right there in Eden God purposed for that rescuer (savior) to deal the devil a fatal head wound, but only after satan had dealt the seed of the woman a "heel" wound. (painful but not fatal). No one knew for centuries what Genesis 3:15 was all about, but as time went on and God's purpose unfolded, it became more apparent who the players were in this prophetic drama.
But what of the other group that is mentioned in revelation 7:9-10; 13-14? These also acknowledge salvation of the Lamb and worship God, but this group is unnumbered....and they are said to "come out of the great tribulation" which occurs on earth. (Matthew 24:21)
We see the first group as those who have to be "born again" to attain spirit life in heaven, but that is not necessary for their subjects here on earth. All of the first Christians were of that "heavenly calling". (Hebrews 3:1)
When Christ comes as judge, he will cleanse the earth through a great tribulation and the final war of Armageddon, and save those faithful ones through that unprecedented time of trouble. (Matthew 24:21) These will then be joined in time by those brought back to life in the general resurrection of the dead, who will then make up the Kingdom's subjects on earth.
The Kingdom of 1,000 years duration, will take redeemed mankind back to the perfect state that Adam once enjoyed, and then God's will can be "done on earth as it is in heaven".....mission accomplished, as everything returns to God's original purpose in Eden.
The Bible is one story....paradise was lost and God sends his son to get it back for us....with lessons learned and precedents set for all time to come....so there will never be a need for God to tolerate wickedness or disobedience ever again.
I personally think his strategy is brilliant and so far forward in its purpose. We as a human race, all obediently serving the one God in unity, will make this earth a place worthy of praise to its Creator. The current state of the world will not even be remembered...(Isaiah 65:17)
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