The Road to Emmaus

Larissa Payton

Description

Jesus is the center of the Old Testament and the New Testament. Mrs. Payton gives another look at an Eternal Savior. Providing scriptural evidence to re-ignite your relationship and expand your knowledge of the Eternal Jesus.

From Creation to the Coming of His Kingdom, Jesus has and always will be the heart of humanity. Jesus was present and active on earth long before His birth in Bethlehem. Many Christians believe that Jesus originated in the New Testament, but that is far from the entire Biblical History. The Road to Emmaus is a journey through the Bible to find an Eternal Jesus.

Sujets

• Christian Ministry
• Philosophie et théologie
• Jesús de Nazaret
• Emmaus
• Jesus
• Adult
• Old Testament
• Religion
• Jésus-Christ
• Emmaüs (homonymie)

Informations

• Publié par: WestBow Press
• Date de parution: 27 septembre 2022
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781664275416
• Langue: English

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THE ROAD TO EMMAUS
 

 
Discovering an Eternal Jesus
 
 
 
LARISSA PAYTON
 
 
 

 
 
Copyright © 2022 Larissa Payton.
 
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ISBN: 978-1-6642-7540-9 (sc)
ISBN: 978-1-6642-7542-3 (hc)
ISBN: 978-1-6642-7541-6 (e)
 
Library of Congress Control Number: 2022915133
 
 
WestBow Press rev. date: 9/26/2022
To my husband , Gehrig Payton, my best friend, and honest critic; my children, who are always proud of me; and a host of friends, relatives, and associates who have taken this journey with me and inspired me along the way. I love you all.
CONTENTS

Introduction
Part 1: Walking the Road to Emmaus
Chapter 1: Prophesy on the Road to Emmaus
Part 2: Discovering the Eternal Jesus: From Creation to the Coming Kingdom
Chapter 2: Angel of the Lord
Chapter 3: The Glory of God
Chapter 4: The Lamb of God
Chapter 5: By Any Other Name
Chapter 6: Immanuel
Chapter 7: The Eternal Jesus
Conclusion
The Author’s Epilogue
Bibliography
About the Author
Notes
INTRODUCTION

The purpose of this book is to show others that Jesus has always existed. We say that Jesus is eternal, and he is God. But have we searched for him in the Old Testament?
From creation to the coming of his kingdom, he has been and always will be the heart of humanity. Our purpose as Christians is to know and understand his divine existence and to foster a relationship with him.
I want to remove the limits from Jesus as being only in the New Testament and open the Bible to Jesus’s existence from Genesis to Revelation. Jesus was present and active on earth long before his birth in Bethlehem. 1 From Genesis to Malachi, the Old Testament reveals Jesus in prophecies and appearance to God’s chosen people. This book will open your understanding of an eternal Jesus who existed long before the world began, visualize him in creation, and follow him through the books of the Bible into the New Testament. It should enlighten the Old Testament images and prophecies and clarify New Testament writings about Jesus when we see him throughout the Bible.
The Old Testament affirms that the Almighty God, or Yahweh, alone is the universal Creator, ruler, judge, and Savior. According to the New Testament, Jesus is also the Creator, ruler, judge, and Savior. I say that to confirm that Jesus is Lord. 2 I reflect on the Old and New Testaments, sometimes referring to the familiarity of the New Testament and confirming it with Old Testament scriptures. John 1:10 says, “He was in the world, and the world was made through Him, and the world did not know Him.” I want the world to get to know the eternal Jesus.
What was the eternal Jesus doing throughout Old Testament history? Was he waiting around for his incarnation? Was he vexing his heart as he watched the best of sinners destroy themselves through ill-fated attempts to please God with law-keeping and the offerings of sacrifice? Maybe he just watched from the sidelines as the Father worked away on His own? None of these situations made sense to me. 3
It does make sense to me that the Son of God was busy in heaven and frequently visited earth, appearing to people in different forms, primarily the Angel of the Lord and the glory of the Lord. My curiosity prompted me to seek and find the truth about Jesus in the Old Testament and help other believers to do the same.
All believers have some biblical knowledge of who Jesus is. However, they must understand that the New Testament does not define the origin of Jesus. It does describe Jesus as a human man on earth and exemplifies a sinless, perfect human who sacrificed himself for our liberties. Understanding the role of Jesus in the context of our historical and current beliefs is crucial to recognizing him as Lord and Savior. It shows that he has consistently implemented God’s plan and will continue to do so for all eternity.
Jesus is the cornerstone of our spiritual salvation. I want to show and prove that Jesus is more than just a figure in prophecy. I want to prove that Jesus appeared to humankind throughout history at the Father’s prompting, intervening in humanity’s affairs. I want to show that Christ’s redemption was part of God’s plan from the beginning. 4 The process and purpose are and always will be to redeem humanity back to God. Jesus is God in the flesh. The appearances in the Old Testament were not “in the flesh” per se, but his appearance was real, nonetheless. In total, the Old Testament begins the story that Jesus completes in the New Testament.
Part One
WALKING THE ROAD TO EMMAUS
I must start this section by talking about the why. Why did I start walking on the road to Emmaus? In October 2019, I was driving along in my car when I had an open vision of Jesus. In this vision, he said, “I love you,” four times to me. I could clearly see his face, hair, and eyes. I felt such love as I had never felt before or since. I knew I needed to know more about him. After this encounter, my love affair with Jesus began. I knew that I wanted to learn about him not just in the New Testament but also in the Old Testament.
I wanted to share my love for Jesus with everyone, so I knew I had to be trained. That same month I signed up for Oral Roberts University. My path was to be an author of both Christian fiction and nonfiction books. My first book was to be Jesus in the Old Testament . I had the concept and started the research but was not able to pull it together. When I took the theology class and the biblical hermeneutics classes, the content started coming together. I wanted to show that the whole Bible speaks of the seed of the woman, the lion of Judah, the Messiah, the Lamb, the Son of Man, the One who was prophesied, the angel of God, the Redeemer, the Savior, the King, and many other titles that describe the authority, divinity, and power of Jesus Christ.
God has given me the insight and revelation to coordinate my thoughts and feelings about Jesus in this book. In addition, he has given me the urgency to bless others with this knowledge.
CHAPTER 1
PROPHESY ON THE ROAD TO EMMAUS

The Road to Emmaus narrative is a fictional piece that I needed to write. It is a story that has been in my spirit and needs to be told. I start by speculating on the conversation Jesus had with the two disciples on the road to Emmaus. I want to dive into the potential discussion that took place. I address the emotions of the disciples as the stranger approaches them and joins their conversation. We know that one of the disciples is Cleopas. I am giving the name Jude to the second disciple for the sake of this writing. This writing is merely supposition based on scripture, my imagined account of the conversation.
THE ENCOUNTER WITH THE STRA NGER
Luke 24:13–35 commences after Jesus’s crucifixion. The disciples are walking on the road to Emmaus, which is seven miles from Jerusalem. They talk together of all these things that have happened. Jesus himself comes close and travels with them to Emmaus, talking as they go. But their eyes are restrained so that they do not know him.

Slowly, Cleopas and Jude walked along. They talked of Yeshua missing from the tomb and the news they’d received while with the disciples in Jerusalem. They were sad and discussed the possibility of someone stealing the body of the rabbi. Silently coming close, the stranger asked them, “What kind of conversation is this that you are having with one another, as you walk,