I appreciate your response. Do you believe Jesus saw things only for Him or can all Christians see what He saw?
“If ye had
known me, ye should have known my Father also: and from
henceforth ye know him, and have seen him. Philip saith unto him,
Lord, shew us the Father, and it sufficeth us.
Jesus saith unto him, Have I been so long time with you, and yet hast thou not known me, Philip?
he that hath seen me hath seen the Father; and how sayest thou then, Shew us the Father?
Believest thou not that
I am in the Father, and the Father in me? the words that I speak unto you I speak not of myself: but the Father that dwelleth in me, he doeth the works. Believe me that I am in the Father, and the Father in me: or else
believe me for the very works' sake.
Verily, verily, I say unto you,
He that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do also; and greater works than these shall he do; because I go unto my Father.”
John 14:7-12
“Ye are my friends, if ye do whatsoever I command you. Henceforth I call you not servants; for the servant knoweth not what his Lord doeth:
but I have called you friends; for all things that I have heard of my Father I have made known unto you.”
John 15:14-15 KJV
yes brother my belief is we can only know and see God and what he’s wanting us to know by hearing accepting and believing Jesus and all the gospel tells us about salvation
I believe the gospel is how we can know those things
“
Give ear, O my people, to
my law: Incline your ears to the words of my mouth. I will open my mouth in a parable: I will utter dark sayings of old:”
Psalm 78:1-
“All these things
spake Jesus unto the multitude in parables; and without a parable spake he not unto them:
That it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the prophet, saying, I will open my mouth in parables; I will utter things which have been kept secret from the foundation of the world.”
Matthew 13:34-35 KJV
those are the things Jesus heard and saw the heavenly things men can’t see and know unless it’s by faith
“So then
faith cometh by hearing, and hearing
by the word of God.”
Romans 10:17
brother I think to “ see” shoild
Be considered as a spiritual knowledge and not literally seeing something. Remember “I once was blind but now I see “ I once was in the dark but now the light shines “ “ I once couldn’t know God but now Jesus has made himself known “
none of us physically see and hear Jesus but we hear and believe the gospel and see by faith the truth of Christ seeing by faith ( what he declared and said to believe ) and not by physical sight of what we physically see but rather , what we heard and believed of Jesus and his promises in the gospel it’s how we can start to believe in his kingdom only when we start to see it and hear by faith
“And when he was demanded of the Pharisees, when
the kingdom of God should come, he answered them and said,
The kingdom of God cometh not with observation: neither shall they say, Lo here! or, lo there! for,
behold, the kingdom of God is within you.”
Luke 17:20-21 KJV
there’s a kingdom in us in our hearts where Christ needs to sit upon the throne of our life we can hear and see him spiritually as in having real solid evidentiary faith in us of the truth of those things Jesus promised and swore by himself would be given to believers who repent and believe the gospel
so the actual seeing in my opinion will happen after we part this world and enter the kingdom prepared for us for our spirits then we will see as he sees , until then we see and know in part through the hearing of faith
“For
we know in part, and we prophesy in part. But
when that which is perfect is come, then that which is in part shall be done away.
When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things.
For
now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known. And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity.”
1 Corinthians 13:9-13 KJV
Jesus saw fully but we only see the things he revealed To us that’s our sight and our hearing as chrirtians of those unseen things until we arrive alive and well with him