I woke up recently seeing the written words, “SON OF MAN” then hearing the verse, “The son of man is lord over the Sabbath.”
Matt 12:8 – 8 For the Son of man is Lord even of the sabbath day.
Another way of saying this verse is “The man who repents will have authority over/to enter into rest.”
I realized this was a two-fold word – for a specific person but also a different tangent for the whole body of Christ. If you are anything like me, you have heard it taught that the Son of man is Jesus Christ. That is partially true, in referencing the humanness of Jesus Christ, but also partially deceptive in a way that causes us to lose sight of the authority we carry when we think it ONLY applies to Him. The prophets have declared we have crossed over into the Kingdom Era, so we need to be aware of the burden of responsibility upon us.
The Bible clearly states that Jesus, GOD come in the flesh, could NOT have been the Son of man in His Godhood. God is NOT a son of man. A son of man is a person who has repented (changed his thinking to depart from sin and to line up in obedience with God’s word.) That part Jesus DID fulfill as an example for us to follow. Christ IN us is the hope of glory!
Numbers 23:19- God is not a man, that he should lie; neither the son of man, that he should repent: hath he said, and shall he not do it? or hath he spoken, and shall he not make it good?
Ezekiel, a watchman prophet, is the most commonly named Son of man in the scriptures. Daniel, a prophet during the captivity in Babylon, was another one. (Dan 8:17) Jesus Christ is the most common Son of man mentioned in the New Testament.
Let’s unpack the scriptures and see how a Son of man behaves to grow our discernment between the righteous and the wicked. We also need to know what is to be expected as we align ourselves and walk in the fullness of scripture.
What are some characteristics of being Son of Man?
– They shall repent! (Num 23:19)
– The wicked will be harmed by their behavior/thinking but the Son of man will profit by their repentance. (Job 35:8)
– God will think about man but He will go a step further for the Son of man and visit him. (Ps 8:4)
– God will make the son of man strong for Himself. (Ps 80:17)
– God will take knowledge of man but go a step further to take special account of the son of man. (Ps 144:3)
– God’s voice is to the sons of man. (Prov 8:4, Eze 2:1)
– God will exercise/train the sons of man with sore travail. So being a son of man doesn’t guarantee a trouble-free life. Rather, it will guarantee God will put you through bootcamp to bring you maturity. (Ecc 1:13)
– Man will die but the Son of man will spring up yet again like grass that dies in winter but resurrects back to life after the snow washes away. (Is 51:12)
– They will lay hold on keeping judgment, doing justice, keeping the Sabbath from polluting it, and keeping his hand from doing evil (Is 56:1-2)
– They will not dwell in Babylon (place of false religion, graven images, & idols) or with the Chaldeans (astrology/witchcraft), Sodom or Gomorrhea (sexual perversion), drought (lack of living waters). (Jer 50)
– They shall not dwell in Hazor (fenced castle/stronghold), a dwelling place of dragons. (Jer 49:33)
– The Sons of men will be sent to the children of Israel, to a rebellious house that has rebelled against the LORD, those who have eyes to see but see not and ears to hear but hear not. (Eze 2:3, 12:2) *Note they are NOT sent to the unchurched.
– The Son of man will be made a watchman to give warnings and declare judgments from the LORD. (Eze 3:17, Eze 11, Eze 33)
– The Son of man will expose the blatant abominations committed in the sanctuaries as well as the wicked abominations and idol worship hidden in their inner courts (inside the hearts of men) committed by the elders of Israel. (Ezekiel 8)
– They will sometimes be required to do prophetic acts in the sight of the rebellious house. (Eze 12:3)
– The Son of man will prophesy against the false prophets who prophesy out of their own hearts. (Eze 13:17)
– The Son of man will call the rebellious to repentance and warn them of judgment against them if they fail to repent. (Eze 14:6-8)
– The Son of man will know ahead of time when judgment is about to fall due to the land sinning against the LORD by trespassing grievously. (Eze 14:13)
– The Son of men are anointed and appointed to cause Jerusalem (and all that city represents) her abominations (Eze 16)
– Sons of men will sometimes purposely talk in riddles and parables only to be understood by those who have ears to hear and sometimes give the translations to those who are spiritual deaf. (Eze 17)
– The Son of man is to prophesy resurrection life to the dry bones of the House of Israel. (Eze 37)
– The Son of man will prophesy over the Children from Israel that they will be saved out of their dwelling places where they have sinned and God will cleanse them. They will no longer defile themselves with their idols, their detestable things, nor with their transgressions. They shall all unite under one King – Jesus Christ – as they walk in His judgments and observe His statutes to do them. (Eze 37:22-24)
– One LIKE the Son of man will come with the clouds of heaven and will be given everlasting dominion and His Kingdom shall not be destroyed. This is referring to Jesus Christ, the King of Kings. (Dan 7:13-14)
– Son of man has nowhere to lay his head. (Matt 8:20)
– He has power on EARTH to forgive sins, which can result in healings. (Matt 9:6)
– Persecution will come but the Son of Man will be come before all the cities of Israel have been visited. (Matt 10:23)
– The Son of man shall eat and drink, being a friend of publicans and sinners, and wisdom is justified by her children. (Matt 11:19)
– Those who speak against the Son of man will be forgiven but those who shall speak against the Holy Spirit will NOT be forgiven, in this world or in the world to come. (Matt 12:32)
– The Son of man sows good seed. (Matt 13:37)
– Son of man shall send forth his angels to gather out of his kingdom all things that do offend and those that which do iniquity. (Matt 13:41)
– The Son of man shall come in the glory of His father with His angels. (Matt 16:27)
– The Son of man was ignored and rejected by man and shall suffer by them, being betrayed into the hands of men. (Matt 17:12, 22)
– The Son of man comes to save that which was lost (Matt 18:11)
– Those that follow Christ and are regenerated, the Son of man shall sit in the throne of His glory. (Matt 19:28) (**Cross ref: We are seated in heavenly places with Jesus Christ. Eph 2:6)
– The Son of man will be betrayed and condemned by church leaders and the religious elite. (Matt 20:18)
– The Son of man came not to be ministered to, but to minister to, and to give his life for others. (Matt 20:28)
– The Son of man will shine brightly like lightning. (Matt 24:27)
– The Son of man shall come in the cloud of heaven with power and great glory. (Matt 24:30) (**Cross ref: God’s presence among His people was manifest in the cloud by day and fire by night. Ex 13:21)
– The Son of man will manifest righteousness and blameless among the people of his time when the world is utterly wicked like in the days of Noah, when there were Nephilim (demon-human hybrids) present and every inclination of the thoughts of the human heart was only evil all the time, with eating, drinking, marrying and giving in marriage until Noah entered the safety of the Ark before the world was destroyed. (Gen 6:4-5,9; Matt 24:36-39)
– The arrival of the Son of man on the scene shall come as a shock. (Matt 24:29)
– The judgment upon those who betray the son of man will make them wish they had never been born. (Matt 26:24)
– The Son of man will sit on the right hand of power. (Note: It doesn’t say they ARE the power.) (Matt 26:64)
– The Son of man will be ashamed of those who are ashamed of Jesus and God’s word in this adulterous and sinful generation when he comes in glory of his Father with the holy angels. (Mark 8:38)
– The Son of man will have authority to bring legal testimony before the angels of God in the Courts of Heaven. (Lk 12:8)
– The Son of man will be given authority to execute judgment. (Jn 5:27)
– The Son of man will be sealed by God. (Jn 6:27; Eze 9:3-4)
– The Son of man will provide meat (and not merely milk) which produces everlasting life (Jn 6:27)
– One LIKE the Son of man will have upon his head a golden crown and in his hand a sharp sickle to thrust the sickle into the harvest for it is time to reap. (Rev 14:14-15)
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