CRYSTALLIZATION-STUDY
OF THE HUMANITY OF CHRIST

MESSAGE TWO

IN THE PROPHECY
CONCERNING THE ETERNAL ECONOMY OF GOD

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OUTLINE

5. A man:
1. Christ visited Abraham as a man in His humanity—Gen. 18:
1. He was Jehovah with two angels—vv. 1-3, 9-14, 16-18, 22, 33; 19:1.
2. Abraham provided Him with water for foot-washing and asked his wife to prepare a meal for Him—vv. 4-8.
3. He told Abraham that his wife Sarah would bring forth a son in the next year—vv. 9-15.
4. Considering that Abraham would become a great nation to be the kingdom of God on the earth for the carrying out of His economy, He told Abraham as His friend (James 2:23; 2 Chron. 20:7; Isa. 41:8) that He would judge the sinful Sodom and Gomorrah—vv. 16-21.
5. Abraham prayed to Jehovah for Sodom; actually, his prayer was for his nephew, Lot, who made his home in Sodom (vv. 22-33), and Jehovah answered him by rescuing Lot from the destruction of Sodom (Gen. 19:1-29).
2. Christ, who was God, wrestled as a man in His humanity with Jacob—Gen. 32:
1. While Jacob was under the threatening that his elder brother Esau would come to destroy him on his way back to his father's land from Haran, where he could not suffer his uncle Laban's stripping any longer, Christ came in His humanity to meet Jacob at the time of his need—vv. 1-24.
2. Jacob would not let Him go unless He would bless him—v. 26.
3. Realizing that He could not prevail against Jacob, He touched the hollow of his thigh so that the hollow of his thigh was out of joint—v. 25.
4. His touching of the hollow of Jacob's thigh transformed Jacob, a heel-holder, into Israel, the prince of God, who was one of the three prominent forefathers of the people of Israel for the carrying out of God's economy—v. 28.
3. Christ, as a man in His humanity, met Joshua as the Captain of Jehovah's army to fight for Israel for the carrying out of God's economy—Josh. 5:13-15.
4. Christ, who was the Angel of Jehovah, Jehovah Himself, came as a man in His humanity to tell Manoah's wife that she would bring forth a son, Samson, to deliver Israel from the oppression of the Philistines for the carrying out of God's economy—Judg. 13.