Was the pre-incarnate form of Jesus absent from Heaven during His humanity in the flesh on earth?
As Jesus was in Mary's womb, the Angel of the Lord appeared in a dream/vision to Joseph on 3 occasions (the NASB reads "an angel of the Lord" Matt 1:20), while Matt 2:12 says the Magi "having been warned by God in a dream."
Matthew 2:13
ESV - 13 Now when they had departed, behold, an angel of the Lord appeared to Joseph in a dream and said, "Rise, take the child and his mother, and flee to Egypt, and remain there until I tell you, for Herod is about to search for the child, to destroy him.
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Asked August 11 2024
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Greg Frost
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Tim Maas
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In my opinion, omnipresence (such as being in heaven and on earth simultaneously) was an attribute of Christ prior to His bodily incarnation that He gave up during His life on earth (although He still retained omniscience, as when He told Nathaniel that He had seen him under the fig tree before Philip called him (John 1:48)), or when he saw the apostles being swamped by the storm on the Sea of Galilee before walking out to them on the water).
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