The Revelation of Jesus with Rick Sterling!

Impersonations~

Rick Little and Jonathan Winters were two of the best impersonators of my era. I remember Rich Little being on the Jonny Carson Show (late night comedy of the 1970's) and acting and sounding more like Jonny than Carson himself. It was amazing, accurate, and hilarious all at the same time. When I closed my eyes I really couldn't tell the difference. Impersonations can be funny,  but they can also denigrate the person being impersonated in a very mean spirited way, such as Alec Baldwin on SNL. To me (given my world view) his impersonation  of President Trump is not funny, because it reflects a reality that SNL believes to be true, but isn't. Being mean and nasty just for it's own sake is not funny, it is sad and disgraceful.

Another phrase that describes this situation is, "If it looks like a duck, quacks like a duck, and walks like a duck, it probably is a duck"!

'Behold, I stand at the door and knock; if anyone hears My voice and opens the door, I will come in to him and will dine with him, and he with Me. Rev.3:20.

How do we KNOW for sure that the person that is standing at the door in this verse is actually Jesus? After all, Satan is able to masquerade as an angel of light, or even Jesus Himself. Paul was fooled on the road to Damascus because he apparently thought that the being that blinded him was in fact the same Jesus that was here on earth who died on the cross.

How do we know the truth of this?

The reason the sheep know the Shepherd is by His voice, and what He says. Paul never saw Jesus on the road to Damascus, he only heard the voice and assumed the being was who he said he was. We do the same thing when we listen to words that someone said came from Jesus, but we don't know for sure because we haven't learn His words. If we KNOW His words given to His eyewitness disciples we cannot be decieved by an imposter.