John 16:25 states that Jesus spoke in figurative language (veiled speech) about the deity of the Father, but promised that a time would come when he would plainly speak about the Father. It is clear that Jesus used veiled speech about his true identity as “God with us” as a fully complete man who was “made like unto his brethren (just like all men – Hebrews 2:17)” because he had to fulfill his mission on earth as the Lamb of God who would die for humanity's salvation (Philippians 2:8). If Jesus claimed his divine rights and privileges as God with us as a man, then he would not have been able to fulfill his mission to die for our sins. That is why Jesus used his human titles as the “Son of God” and “Son of Man” to hide his true identity as the Holy Spirit of God who came down from heaven (Luke 1:35; Matthew 1:20) to become one of us in order to save us. For it was impossible for the identity of Jesus as the Spirit of God incarnate as a true man to have ceased from being the omnipresent God who fills the heavens and the earth (Jer. 23:24). Therefore, Jesus as a man on earth had to have had the divine awareness of both his pre-existence in heaven and his continued omnipresence in the heavens.
Isaiah 45:14-15 clearly proves that the Messiah is that God who hid His true identity on earth as a man during the first century, but would plainly reveal His true identity as God after His second coming in His millennial reign, “Truly you are a God who hides Himself, O God of Israel, the Savior (Isaiah 45:15).” Since Jesus was truly the reproduced Essence of Being of the Father’s Person as a true human person (Hebrews 1:3) through his virgin conception and birth, then He could have (through His divine awareness) claimed to have simultaneously existed in heaven and on earth at the same time just as He could say, “before Abraham was I AM (John 8:58).” And such a man could have (through His divine awareness) claimed to have pre-existed as God the Father by claiming to be where he was before (John 6:62).
Since Jesus is “God with us” as a true man, he used the titles, “Son of God” and “Son of Man” as incarnational terms for the God who became a man. The title, “Son of man” is an incarnational title, which means the son of mankind via the virgin conception. John 16:25 proves that Jesus used “figurative language” or “veiled speech” when speaking of the deity of the Father. This explains why Jesus veiled his true identity by saying, “What then if you see the Son of man ascending to where he was before (John 6:62)?” For Jesus pre-existed his birth as the only true God - the Father (John 17:3; 1 John 5:20).


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