Why Jesus is the fullness of Revelation?

Why Jesus is the fullness of Revelation?

Revelation is the part of the self understanding of all religions. So religions are the divine creations not human constructions.  Revelation is the mystery according to its own religion and God expresses His graces and blessings through revelations. Many ways God revealed Himself in the Holy Bible. In the Old Testament God revealed Himself to Adam, Noah, Moses, Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Joseph and to many other prophets. God had a full of blessings and graces upon Israelites. But the Israelites were unable to understand His unending blessings. But God did not stop His grace upon Israel. He continues to bless Israel sending His only beloved Son Jesus Christ. 

“Revelation means a process through which something that had previously been hidden from man is disclosed, a mystery mysteriously manifested.”[1] “God’s revelation, or more accurately, self-revelation, as something that comes not from outside but from within our world, where the transcendent / mysterious God dwells in an immanent relationship with creation.”God revelation takes place within the history of God’s people in the Hebrew Scriptures and in the books of the New Testament and Reaches its fullness in the life, passion, death and resurrection of Jesus Christ- the human face of God.”[2] The Christian believes strongly the revelation of God. Without prior revelation of God’s part, faith would be impossible. So the Divine Revelation is an expression of the living tradition. The process, experience, symbols and doctrines.

God reveals Himself, His power and salvation to His people through the elements of nature. In the book of Genesis we see that God has created the universe and human beings by his words. After creation God has given the authority to look after all these universes upon human beings. This way God indirectly revealed Himself. So human forgot his/her creator. They committed sins and were disobeyed God’s commandment. Even God punished them destroying Sodom and Gomorrah, by deluging and drought. So God promised not to destroy human being anymore. He promised to send His only beloved son Jesus Christ to redeem the human from the bondage/slavery of sins. 

Jesus Christ fulfilled the plan of God. God has incarnated in womb of mother Mary. Being creator, Abba, Father, he humbled and came down to the earth as human being. God is born in the form of man, Jesus Christ. So Jesus is the Son of man and Son of God. Jesus Christ is the fully human and fully God. God left his heavenly kingdom and throne and came to live with the sinners. Jesus Christ as a Son of God and Son of man not only comes he obeyed His father’s

command. He had passion, suffered and finally died on the cross. By shedding his holy blood he remitted the sins of man. He consecrated himself. He died, resurrected and lived again with disciples and ascended to heavenly kingdom. God revealed Himself by the face of human Jesus’ face. Jesus is fulfilled the revelation of God. Jesus is revelation of God as fully human and fully God.

God revealed through Jesus as man so that man can have intimate relationship with God. Man can know Him closely and experience the love of God though Jesus. Man came to know God by Jesus. “No one knows the Father except the Son and any one to whom the Son chooses to reveal him. Mtt11:27” No one has ever seen God; the only Son, who is in the bosom of the father, he has made him known. Jh. 1:18”

‘So faith as man's response to the word of divine revelation with the coming of Christ. God "has spoken to us through his Son" (Heb 1:1-2). Jesus Christ is the Word and made flesh. He was sent as a man to men. He ‘speaks the words of God’ (Jn 3:34) and completes the work of salvation which his Father gave him to do ( Jn 5:36; 17:4). ‘To see Jesus is to see his Father’ (Jn 14:9). For this reason Jesus perfected revelation by fulfilling it through his whole work of making himself present and manifesting himself through his words and deeds, his signs and wonders. He perfected especially through his death and glorious resurrection from the dead and final sending of the Spirit of truth. Moreover, he confirmed with divine testimony what revelation proclaimed that God is with us to free us from the darkness of sin and death and to raise us up to life eternal’[3]

“To do the will of my Father is my food.” Jh. 4:34 “Have faith in God and faith in me" (Jn 14:1)." So Jesus is fulfillment of revelation because he did everything what his father expected from him. He spared to fulfill His father’s plan. It is not my will; it is your will saying this he completed the revelation of His father.

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[1] Fr. James Shyamol Gomes, csc. “Divine Revelation and Faith”. Class Note.

[2] Idem

[3] Catechesis by Pope John Paul II on God the Father