An Intercessor
"He saw that there was no man, and wondered that there was no one to intercede; then his own arm brought him salvation, and his righteousness upheld him." (Isaiah 59:16)
All throughout history God as sought an intercessor but has found none on earth. He sought for one to bring his lost sheep to himself. He looked for one who knew and understood him, yet able to sympathize with our weakness. Even his prophet Isaiah did not fully satisfy his desire for an intercessor. There was no one to bring his justice on earth. Therefore he wrought salvation with his own arm. Moses and the prophets knew God's thoughts and emotions in some limited way, but in their finite capacity they could not truly know God. Job, the one God boasted of before Satan was not there when he laid the foundation of the earth. None but God can comprehend God. None can fully feel what he feels nor know the desires of his heart save the word that was with God and was God. Yet God incorporeal could not stand for man save man. None could properly relate the plague of the fallen rebels but one amongst them. Only God become flesh could possibly stand before God on behalf of man. Charnok has an incredible that depicts the contrasting natures of Jesus' incarnation well. “He had a nature whereby to suffer for us, and a nature to be meritorious in those sufferings. A nature that makes hims capable to bear the penalty and an nature to make his sufferings sufficient for all that embraced him. A nature to be exposed to the flames of the Divine wrath, and another nature, incapable to be crushed by the weight, or consumed by the heat of it.” I cannot add to his words except to take away from them.