Jesus says:
"You Are Mistaken!" (Matt 22:29)

Someone once asked, "John 1:8 speaks of no one having ever seen God, but Exodus 24:10 speaks of Moses and others seeing God. These certainly contradict each other, don’t they?"

In response to this question, Dr. Torrey of the United States once used the following illustration: "If someone asks me, 'Have you ever seen the back of my head?' I can say, 'No, never.' And that is a right answer. At the same time, I can say, 'Yes, I have seen it.' And that could also be a right answer. On the one hand, I have never seen the back of my head; on the other hand, I have seen it in the mirror more than once."

In His eternal essence, God is invisible (1 Tim. 1:17) because He is spirit (John 4:23-24). Therefore, John the Apostle writes, "No one has seen God at any time. The only begotten Son, who is in the bosom of the Father, He has declared Him" (John 1:8). Christ Jesus said, "He who has seen Me has seen the Father" (John 14:9). Christ is in the form of God and the express image of His person (Phili. 2:6; Heb. 1:3).

Genesis 1:26 speaks of "Our image"; in verse 27, it is "His image". Among the three persons of the Godhead, only God the Son has an image. Therefore, characters of the Old Testament such as Moses (Ex. 24:10), Isaiah (Isa. 6:1), Job (Job. 42:5), and others indeed saw God. However, they saw Him through God the Son, just like a person sees the back of his head through a mirror.

Jesus answered and said to them, "You are mistaken, not knowing the Scriptures and the power of God. " (Matt. 22:29)

Someone once asked, "After His resurrection, how could Jesus meet the disciples by walking through the wall of a locked house?"

"The heaven is the cover and the earth is the bottom—there is no one who has ever walked out of this coffin." This is so true for us who live in space and time—a four-dimensional space.

However, there was an exception in history. More than one thousand and nine hundred years ago, a man called Jesus of Nazareth indeed resurrected from the dead and broke through such a coffin as stated in Romans 1:4--He "declared to be the Son of God with power according to the Spirit of holiness, by the resurrection from the dead."

After His resurrection, Christ went beyond the limitations of space and time. To Him, the space we now live in is merely a subspace. For us who have always been in this subspace, "walking through the wall" is indeed something mystical; for our Lord it was, however, as easy as flipping our hands over.

Let us illustrate this point: Little John carelessly drops a piece of meat on the ground, causing a large crowd of ants to scramble toward this sumptuous sight. In response, Little John playfully surrounds this piece of meat with a wall of fire. Since ants are animals whose senses are two-dimensional, they can only stare at the meat and sigh. They might even conclude to one another that no "beings" could possibly gain access to the meat. After a while, little John takes away the meat. Now the ants might respond in awe saying, "How come the meat has disappeared? We can never understand this!" They forget that little John is a person who lives beyond their two-dimensional space; for him to remove that meat from such a space is a trivial task.

In the same token, "Jesus’ walking through the wall" is just as easy as this.

Jesus answered and said to them, "You are mistaken, not knowing the Scriptures and the power of God. " (Matt. 22:29)

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