How about this perspective Tanner,

The Old Testament EXPLICITLY prophesied that the Messiah would be rejected, despised (Isaiah 53:2-3, Psalms 22:6) and killed (Isaiah 52:12 to chapter 53, Psalm 22, Zech 12:10). When He is eventually accepted by His people, He will come back again for them. So the fact that Jesus was rejected the first time around was part and parcel of the divine plan. Hence Peter in Acts 2 could say through the predetermined will of God the chief priests of the people took Him and killed Him then God exalted Him to the highest place after all.

Secondly, I think your article misses one crucial point. JESUS' FIRST COMING WAS TO GLORIFY GOD THE FATHER NOT HIMSELF. Hence He spoke in riddles about His identity especially to those who would not believe Him anyway (Which is the reason He starts speaking to them in Parables per Mathew 13:1 and 13:11). The things He did were unmistakably divine, which is why His disciples understood who He was after the resurrection, one of them even calling Him "My Lord and My God". So Jesus did not show up in glory because He was not here to glorify Himself, He came to be despised, not different from any other person physically speaking (Isaiah 52:2) and killed while bringing glory to God His Father in the process.

Do you not even realise that when you say something like,

"Imagine having the power to win everyone over — heal the sick, walk on water, raise the dead — and then refusing to use it just to prove a point. That’s not love. That’s a trap."

You sound just like the Devil that said to Him if you are the son of God turn stones to bread or throw yourself down, tempting Him to use His divinity in a way that glorifies Himself and outside the bounds of the mission the Father gave Him? He refused to do that to satisfy the devil and He would not do that to satisfy men either. He did exactly what scriptures (Moses and the prophets) said He will do (The miracles and signs) such that if anyone believes in the scriptures they would believe in Him but if anyone did not believe in the scriptures Moses wrote, they would not believe in Him even if He rose from the dead. (John 5:46-47, Luke 16:31)