(The second commandment says not to make "any likeness of anything that is in heaven". Yet we have so many pictures of Jesus around.)

Exodus 20:4 Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth:

(Apparently many in Israel didn't take that commandment literally, like many of us don't, like we figure that pictures of Jesus wouldn't grieve him, but somehow honor him? However, when it is suggested that it is only referring to graven images there, it should be noted that it also says, "or any likeness", which would include pictures along with the graven images.)

(Like Israel at Sinai, when the gospel came to us, we only heard the word of God, either in our mind when we read the words, or by our ears, when someone spoke them to us. And like Israel, we saw no similitude:)

Deuteronomy 4:12 And the LORD spake unto you out of the midst of the fire: ye heard the voice of the words, but saw no similitude; only ye heard a voice.

(Long before most saw or heard of a shroud of turin, there were already many pictures of Jesus with long hair. I have wondered if they may have thought that Nazarene meant the same as Nazarite, who did let their hair grow:)

Matthew 2:23 And he came and dwelt in a city called Nazareth: that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the prophets, He shall be called a Nazarene.

(However, doesn't Nazarene imply that he would come from Nazareth? Although born originally in Bethlehem. But, if they think that Jesus was a Nazarite, wouldn't that lead to a couple of problems?)

Numbers 6:3 He shall separate himself from wine and strong drink, and shall drink no vinegar of wine, or vinegar of strong drink, neither shall he drink any liquor of grapes, nor eat moist grapes, or dried.

(Do they consider that Jesus never had any fruit of the vine?)

Mark 14:25 Verily I say unto you, I will drink no more of the fruit of the vine, until that day that I drink it new in the kingdom of God.

("no more", implies that he had been.

Then the other problem with thinking Jesus was a Nazarite:)

Numbers 6:6 All the days that he separateth himself unto the LORD he shall come at no dead body.

(Do they think that Jesus never came at a dead body?)

Luke 7:12 Now when he came nigh to the gate of the city, behold, there was a dead man carried out, the only son of his mother, and she was a widow: and much people of the city was with her.

  13 And when the Lord saw her, he had compassion on her, and said unto her, Weep not.

  14 And he came and touched the bier: and they that bare him stood still. And he said, Young man, I say unto thee, Arise.

  15 And he that was dead sat up, and began to speak. And he delivered him to his mother.

(Because, if so, he would have had to go to the priest with a sin offering and trespass offering:)

Numbers 6:11 And the priest shall offer the one for a sin offering, and the other for a burnt offering, and make an atonement for him, for that he sinned by the dead, and shall hallow his head that same day.

  12 And he shall consecrate unto the LORD the days of his separation, and shall bring a lamb of the first year for a trespass offering: but the days that were before shall be lost, because his separation was defiled.

(However, Jesus never sinned, also, he didn't blow it as a Nazarite, because he was a Nazarene, not a Nazarite.)

(Additionally, most pictures that I've ever seen, are of a soft European with a beard and long hair, but didn't he grew up in a carpenter's shop? If so, wouldn't he then have been more rugged and muscular? i.e. there were no power saws at that time. Also, he is an Israelite according to the flesh, not a European.)

(So, what if, when the antichrist shows up, that he actually does look like those pictures, and people start saying, "It's Jesus, he looks just like the pictures!")

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