Glorious Mystery - according to Mark

I've been looking at Mark's gospel recently... if anyone grasped what Owen is going on about in the "glorious mystery" book, he did!

Mark 1:1-3

The beginning of the gospel of Jesus Christ, the Son 0f God. As it is written in Isaiah the prophet, "Behold, I send my messanger before your face, who will prepare your way, the voice of one crying in the wilderness: Prepare the way of the Lord, make his paths straight."

Three things here:

1. Mark call Jesus the "Son of God" i.e. he comes from God. If this title alone does not ascribe him divinity, Mark clears it all up for us in his Old Testament quotations. (which i always thought were about John the baptist, but even his comission is to do with the one who is to come after him, who is mighter than him.)

2. The first quote is God stating: "I will send my messenger before him [Jesus]" which everyone in first century Judaism would know in Malachi 3:1 reads - "I send my messenger and he will prepare the way before ME [i.e. God]"

3. The second quote is God stating john will proclaim: "Prepare the way of the Lord." - Not only was it blasphemy to call anything else Lord. But this quote from Isaiah does not, in Isaiah, use the title Lord for the one whose way is being prepared, but YHWH. This is the name God gave to Moses concerning who he, and he alone, was to be called (Isaiah 40:3; see Exodus 3:15).

There we are, another part of God's Word which presents Jesus as the person of God.