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them (including Jude): Jesus said to them, "Truly, I say to you, in the new world, when the Son of man shall sit on his glorious throne, you who have followed me will also sit on twelve thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel. " (Mt. 1928). . Jesus was All-Aware neither of the obscure nor the manifest. He was in the dark even regarding so crude a matter as the produce season of the fig tree; It is, therefore, a flagrant blunder to take Jesus for God. (4) 'Death overtakes him not': "-who alone has immortality ” (Tim. i. 6 16). On the contrary Jesus is reported to have died: "While we were yet helpless, at the right time Christ died. " Consequently, Jesus cannot possibly be God. (5) It is God who is the Saviour of Mankind and shields them from disaster. Says David :. Many are the afflictions of the righteous; but the Lord delivers him out of them all. ” (Ps. 34: 19). The. Messiah was not in a position to rescue people from disaster; he himself requested God's help "Now is my soul troubled. And what shall I say, 'Father, save me from this hour??. . . " (Jn. 12:27). . In the light of this it is wrong to uphold. Jesus as God. (6) God neither fears nor is afraid of any one. . Jesus was most unlike Him. He was overawed and cowed by the Jews as will be seen from the passages below: So from that day on they took counsel how to put him to death. Jesus therefore 30