Also, Herk claims that none of the Jews EVER believed in Jesus as God. What does the Bible say?
Isaiah believed that Jesus was God Almighty (Yahweh):
Isaiah 9:6: For to us a Child is born, to us a Son is given; And the Government will be upon His shoulder. And His Name will be called Wonderful, Counselor, The Mighty God, The Everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace.
And in the very next Chapter, Isaiah says that The Mighty God is Yahweh:
Isaiah 10: 20-21: And it shall come to pass in that day That the remnant of Israel, And such as have escaped of the house of Jacob, Will never again depend on him who defeated them, But will depend on the LORD [Yahweh], the Holy One of Israel, in truth. The remnant will return, the remnant of Jacob, To the Mighty God.
Isaiah 6:1-5: I n the year that King Uzziah died, I saw the Lord sitting on a throne, high and lifted up, and the train of His robe filled the temple. Above it stood seraphim; each one had six wings: with two he covered his face, with two he covered his feet, and with two he flew. And one cried to another and said: " Holy, holy, holy is the L ORD [Yahweh] of hosts; The whole earth is full of His glory!" And the posts of the door were shaken by the voice of him who cried out, and the house was filled with smoke. So I said: " Woe is me, for I am undone! Because I am a man of unclean lips, And I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips; For my eyes have seen the King, The L ORD [Yahweh] of hosts."
The Apostle John said that Isaiah saw JESUS' GLORY in Isaiah Chapter 6!
John 12:41: Isaiah said these things when he saw His [Christ's] glory, and spoke about Him [Christ].
Also, notice that Jesus Himself said that NO HUMAN (except Jesus) in history has EVER seen The Father:
John 6:46: Not that any man has seen the Father, except He that is of God, He has seen the Father.
Therefore, since Isaiah saw Yahweh God, and no human has seen The Father, it was YAHWEH THE SON that Isaiah saw, just as John said at John 12:41!
Jeremiah believed that Jesus was YAHWEH:
Jeremiah 23:6: In His days Judah shall be saved, and Israel shall dwell safely: and this [is] His Name by which He shall be called, THE LORD [YAHWEH] OUR RIGHTEOUSNESS.
Moses believed that Jesus was YAHWEH, God Almighty:
Exodus 3: 2-17: And the Angel of the L ORD [Yahweh] appeared to him in a flame of fire from the midst of a bush. So he looked, and behold, the bush was burning with fire, but the bush was not consumed. Then Moses said, "I will now turn aside and see this great sight, why the bush does not burn." So when the L ORD [Yahweh] saw that he turned aside to look, God called to him from the midst of the bush and said, "Moses, Moses!" And he said, "Here I am." Then He said, "Do not draw near this place. Take your sandals off your feet, for the place where you stand is holy ground." Moreover He said, "I am the God of your father--the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob." And Moses hid his face, for he was afraid to look upon God. And the L ORD [Yahweh] said: "I have surely seen the oppression of My people who are in Egypt, and have heard their cry because of their taskmasters, for I know their sorrows. So I have come down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians, and to bring them up from that land to a good and large land, to a land flowing with milk and honey, to the place of the Canaanites and the Hittites and the Amorites and the Perizzites and the Hivites and the Jebusites. Now therefore, behold, the cry of the children of Israel has come to Me, and I have also seen the oppression with which the Egyptians oppress them. Come now, therefore, and I will send you to Pharaoh that you may bring My people, the children of Israel, out of Egypt." But Moses said to God, "Who am I that I should go to Pharaoh, and that I should bring the children of Israel out of Egypt?" So He said, "I will certainly be with you. And this shall be a sign to you that I have sent you: When you have brought the people out of Egypt, you shall serve God on this mountain." Then Moses said to God, "Indeed, when I come to the children of Israel and say to them, 'The God of your fathers has sent me to you,' and they say to me, 'What is His name?' what shall I say to them?" And God said to Moses, "I AM WHO I AM." And He said, "Thus you shall say to the children of Israel, 'I AM has sent me to you.'" Moreover God said to Moses, "Thus you shall say to the children of Israel: 'The L ORD [Yahweh] God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, has sent me to you. This is My name forever, and this is My memorial to all generations.' Go and gather the elders of Israel together, and say to them, 'The LORD [Yahweh] God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, of Isaac, and of Jacob, appeared to me, saying, "I have surely visited you and seen what is done to you in Egypt; and I have said I will bring you up out of the affliction of Egypt to the land of the Canaanites and the Hittites and the Amorites and the Perizzites and the Hivites and the Jebusites, to a land flowing with milk and honey."'
The Angel of Yahweh was also Yahweh!
Abraham believed that Jesus was YAHWEH, God Almighty:
Genesis 16:7-14: Now the Angel of the LORD [Yahweh] found her by a spring of water in the wilderness, by the spring on the way to Shur. And He said, "Hagar, Sarai's maid, where have you come from, and where are you going?" She said, "I am fleeing from the presence of my mistress Sarai." The Angel of the L ORD [Yahweh] said to her, "Return to your mistress, and submit yourself under her hand." Then the Angel of the LORD [Yahweh] said to her, "I will multiply your descendants exceedingly, so that they shall not be counted for multitude." And the Angel of the LORD [Yahweh] said to her: " Behold, you are with child, And you shall bear a son. You shall call his name Ishmael, Because the L ORD [Yahweh] has heard your affliction. He shall be a wild man; His hand shall be against every man, And every man's hand against him. And he shall dwell in the presence of all his brethren." Then she called the name of the LORD [Yahweh] who spoke to her, You-Are-the-God-Who-Sees; for she said, "Have I also here seen Him who sees me?" Therefore the well was called Beer Lahai Roi; observe, it is between Kadesh and Bered.
