The brother of Jared was shocked when he saw the finger of the Lord. He exclaimed, "I knew not that the Lord had flesh and blood." Why was this such a shock? He was after all, a man that had had many many conversations with the Lord up until this time.
One of the very most precious doctrines that is misunderstood by many religions is that Jesus Christ has a resurrected body, and that we are like Him in our image. Our Spirits look like His spirit, and His Spirit looks like His body, and thus our bodies look like His body.
There are few doctrinal points that this encounter supports:
1. The body is a gift from God and it is precious.
2. Just like a child looks like his parents, we look like our Heavenly Father.
3. We will be resurrected and have a body like Him.
It is interesting that the Lord commands the brother of Jared not to reveal this important doctrine, but to write it down in a confounded language (verse 22). If the brother of Jared, a super righteous man, was so shocked by the fact that the Lord looks like a man and will have flesh and blood, how would others (perhaps not so righteous) have reacted?
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