In Part 1 we looked at Jesus as the Prince of Peace. Today we want to look at the description of Jesus as the Everlasting Father. This seems strange that Jesus, the Son of God, would be called father. But this is not a reference to the supreme father of the trinity. Jesus is not Father God. This is referring to the quality of the messiah in how he will relate to those who follow him. He will care for them just as his father does with the same enduring compassion and fatherly care. We see this same fatherly characteristic in Jesus in Matthew 9:36 "When he saw the crowds, he had compassion on them, because they were harassed and helpless, like sheep without a shepherd." Jesus came to reveal the father’s heart to us. He said, “If you have seen me you have seen the father.” In the Hebrew mind the term father often refers to one who is an originator. We use the term “founding fathers”. George Washington is the father of our nation. Jesus is the originator. The founding father of everything. He is eternal. He always was. He created all things and all things exist by him. He is the beginning and the end, the alpha and the omega.