No one knows who the Son is except the Father

3 DECEMBER (Lk 10,21-24)

Who is Jesus that is about to come. He is not a simple legate, a plenipotentiary and a mediator with absolute powers. He is not one like the prophets of old. He is not even a new Moses. The Letter to the Hebrews makes the difference between Moses and Jesus with divine clarity. It is a difference between man and God and between the whole and the little or almost nothing.

In times past, God spoke in partial and various ways to our ancestors through the prophets; in these last days, he spoke to us through a son, whom he made heir of all things and through whom he created the universe, who is the refulgence of his glory, the very imprint of his being, and who sustains all things by his mighty word. When he had accomplished purification from sins, he took his seat at the right hand of the Majesty on high, as far superior to the angels as the name he has inherited is more excellent than theirs (Heb 1,1-4).

Therefore, holy “brothers,” sharing in a heavenly calling, reflect on Jesus, the apostle and high priest of our confession, who was faithful to the one who appointed him, just as Moses was “faithful in (all) his house.” But he is worthy of more “glory” than Moses, as the founder of a house has more “honor” than the house itself. Every house is founded by someone, but the founder of all is God. Moses was “faithful in all his house” as a “servant” to testify to what would be spoken, but Christ was faithful as a son placed over his house. We are his house, if (only) we hold fast to our confidence and pride in our hope (Heb 3,1-6).

Since then no prophet has arisen in Israel like Moses, whom the Lord knew face to face. He had no equal in all the signs and wonders the Lord sent him to perform in the land of Egypt against Pharaoh and all his servants and against all his land, and for the might and the terrifying power that Moses exhibited in the sight of all Israel (Dt 34,10-12).

Moses was great, powerful in word and deed. He did miraculous signs. But he is not God. He is not the one the Lord constituted as his universal mediator, that is the mediator of every gift of grace, of the fullness of truth, the giver of the Holy Spirit, the revealer of the fullness of the love of the Father, realizer on earth of all ancient prophecy and promise of God, executor of all his will. It is not possible to make a comparison between Moses and Christ the Lord even if we want; Moses is not even a drop of water in relation to all the oceans, big and small lakes, long and short rivers and every other stream. The same drop of water that is Moses is drawn in Christ Jesus, in the eternal Mediator between God and every man. St. Paul possesses a wonderful picture about it.

I do not want you to be unaware, brothers, that our ancestors were all under the cloud and all passed through the sea, and all of them were baptized into Moses in the cloud and in the sea. All ate the same spiritual food, and all drank the same spiritual drink, for they drank from a spiritual rock that followed them, and the rock was the Christ. Yet God was not pleased with most of them, for they were struck down in the desert (1Cor 10,1-5).
Jesus received all from his Father. The all is absolute. The Father kept nothing for himself or gave to others. Without Christ there is the divine nothing. No one might know the true God except through Christ. God might not go to any man, except through Christ. He is the one and only true way, true vine, true bread, the true shepherd, the true light, true peace, true joy, true consolation and true refreshment.

At that very moment he rejoiced (in) the holy Spirit and said, “I give you praise, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, for although you have hidden these things from the wise and the learned you have revealed them to the childlike. Yes, Father, such has been your gracious will. All things have been handed over to me by my Father. No one knows who the Son is except the Father, and who the Father is except the Son and anyone to whom the Son wishes to reveal him.” Turning to the disciples in private he said, “Blessed are the eyes that see what you see. For I say to you, many prophets and kings desired to see what you see, but did not see it, and to hear what you hear, but did not hear it.”

Today, this faith is seriously in crisis. Our Christian foolishness is relativizing Christ. For some worldly success, it is selling him off, perpetuating the work of Judah. Christ is the only one, he is the everything, he is the grace, he is the truth, he is life and he is the way. Not anybody else.

Virgin Mary, Mother of the Redemption, Angels and Saints help us give Christ the truth.