Yeshua the Nazarene
Yeshua the Nazarene
The Ministry of Yehoshua the Nazarene of Nazareth Son of David, Messiah, Son of God
According to the Apostle Peter one criteria for apostleship, in replacing Judas was that the one to be ordained should have been present during the whole time the Lord Yehoshua of Nazareth went in and out among the disciples. . He dated the ministry as "beginning with the baptism of John, until he was taken up from us". (Acts) They looked for a person who could be a witness of the resurrection. So for Peter, immersion, represented the initiation of the ministry, the resurrection the key point and the Taking Up the end point.
The exact dates of the birth, death and resurrection of Yehoshua are uncertain. However we know he was crucified on Nisan 14 sometime between AD 29 and AD 33. He ministered until that point. If we take the three and half years away from Passover we come to a Rosh Ha Shana, between the years ACE 26 and ACE 30. We know from John’s gospel that Yehoshua the Nazarene attended four Passovers the final one being his crucifixion and resurrection. His first recorded sermon in a synagogue was relating the Year of Jubilee, which would have fallen in the month of Tishrei on Yom Kippur.
Yehoshua of Nazareth is known for his death and resurrection more than any other part of his life. The Apostle Paul has said "If Mashiach is not risen then our faith is futile and we of all men are to be most pitied" (1Cor 15). This then was the major contribution of Yehoshua of Nazareth, to the destiny of the planet, its inhabitants and the destiny of the heavens the earth and the sea and the dry land and all that in them is, the conquering of death once and forever. All creation wears out like a garment, whether in a day or in a million years. However not so Yehoshua of Nazareth, he had the character of an indestructible life and because of his righteousness, nay his goodness even death itself could not hold him. Apostle Peter said it was impossible for death to hold him (Acts).
How is this so? Because death came through sin, so the sting and cause of death is sin. Yet this Yehoshua of Nazareth, the Nazarene, is said to have been tempted in all ways as we, the rest of mankind, and yet was without sin. He became the seed of a new humanity. A humanity of men imperishable, containing in them the seed of God, the seed that grows into life everlasting.
Perfect Obedience
So his ministry was characterised by one distinct quality which no one else has ever lived up to. It was characterised by a completely perfect obedience to God, his Fathers will, his good, acceptable and perfect will, in every detail and in every respect, thoughts, words and actions. He was described in one place as being "mighty in word and deed" Acts.
Thus Yehoshua Ben David unlike the children who are sons and daughters of Adam never missed the mark of the glory of God, but is called the express image of His person (Heb). He never transgressed a command given by God for him to fulfil. Even to the point that when his Father commanded Yehoshua the Nazarene to show compassion to the dead and to give them life, it was in his ability to fulfil that command. (Showing us that if God commands us nothing in all creation can stop us fulfilling that command, for with the command goes God’s ability, if we are willing). And to give people not just abundant life for the present, but everlasting life stretching in length beyond the years that the sun will exist, beyond the years of the moon and the stars, in obedience to his Father he began to do just that. More than one dead person, whom Yehoshua saw as sleeping, saw the light of life as he obeyed his Fathers commandment to give life to whom he would.
All for the greater glory of God the Father
Yet at times he had to hold human feeling at bay for he knew the tears of Mary and Martha, his close friends. Their tears flowed as they saw their brother grow sick and die, yet for the sake of the will of his Heavenly Father and the glory of God, he had to stand by while their tears flowed and their hope of the present healing of their brother flickered and died. They did not know he had the power even to raise a rotting body from the grave and to return its life to it. And yet this is exactly what Yehoshua the Nazarene did. And was this not to the greater joy of Mary and Martha? Was this not to the greater glory of his Father?
His words are truth, everlasting, all-powerful and never failing.
The same is true of his ultimate victory. Even after he raised Lazarus from a stinking grave, his disciples could not comprehend, that the Physician to whom the crowd cited the proverb "heal thyself"
could raise himself from the dead. Why if Yehoshua of Nazareth died, who would be left alive to raise him up? Certainly not Peter, he was too busy denying Yehoshua, nor John, love greatly as he would, Judas is shooting out the back door heading for perdition and Thomas is in loyalty, crying "let us go and die with him"(Luke).
Had not this Yehoshua the Nazarene gone to quiet and secret places when they threatened his life?
Why should he suddenly be able to muster the power to raise himself from the dead?
He no longer walked in public? But he had stated clearly "No one takes my life from me, I will lay it down, and I will take it up again." This is the same speaker who said to a little dead girl, in one place, "Talitha Kumi" "Little girl I say to you arise" and she did. This is the same prophet who said to Lazarus, whose body was rotting and stinking "Come forth"(John) and he did.
This prophets words to an even a greater degree than Samuel’s never fell to the ground. Every word carried the weight and eternal power of deity in them. He never lied, he never gossiped, he never used his words to deceive, his mouth was the overflow of his heart in perfect harmony. When he spoke, he spoke and each and every person was hearing what they needed to hear. He spoke truth, in all its great variation and depth. He was a man who spoke like no other man.
His emotions and affections correspond exactly to the Fathers emotions and affections
Moses gets angry and displeased the Father, but when the Son of Man Yehoshua the Nazarene gets angry it is in perfect correspondence to the will of the Father, Zeal for thy house has consumed, was the motto. So that his heartbeat and his words are in complete harmony with the heart and will of the Father. This is his great and unique characteristic, as stated above, a life which was in total harmony with the destiny the Father, assigned for his incarnation. But his glory in truth was so far above the comprehension of his disciples, that although they knew he had the words of eternal life and
Although they knew he could speak to the dead, and they would live,
To the blind and they would see,
To the demon, and it would obey,
To the dumb and he would speak,
To the deaf and they would hear (!)
That he spoke words to sustain the weary,
And he spoke words to set the captive free.
He spoke words to silence the scoffer,
Outlaw the lawyers,
Calm the sea
And to turn a child’s lunch into a feast for 5000
To value the outcast
To convert an entire Samaritan village in a day
And to gain the respect of those who crucified him,
Both judge and soldier,
Yet they could not comprehend that when he said "No one takes my life from me. I lay it down and I will take it up again, when he spoke saying "after three days he would rise"(Luke, Mark), they could not see that his truth was stronger than death itself. It was with words that God created all things. Yehoshua the Nazarene was so in tune with the heart beat of the Father that his very words could go down into the grave and speak to his beaten and broken body, put it together, put the life, which only three days before he committed to the Father, and put it back into his newly transformed body. Each truth he spoke in his ministry, which came to pass added to the weight and power to the thought, this mans words are truth. They indeed will never pass away. The Torah may pass away when heaven and earth pass away and all is fulfilled, but his words never pass away. This is how we can know that all his prayers and words will happen, because they abide and they work to fulfil their task even as his decree "I will take it up again," went into the grave and did exactly that.
He moved in obedience to the expressed and unexpressed will and desire of the Father of glory. His thoughts, as well as his actions and words were in complete harmony with his Father’s will.
He completes, fulfils and exceeds the promises, precepts and teachings of all the prophets
All the prophets came bringing aspects of God’s, will, his heart for creation and man, they were preceded by and in accordance with the Torah. Yehoshua the Nazarene comes and crowns them all. He brings all the diverse words and expressions into one complete and whole picture of the will of God. His teaching was in accordance with and exceeded that of the Torah and the prophets.
He comes and he magnifies the Torah and makes it honorable.
He says of the Moses, the greatest of the prophets, "He wrote of me"(John) "If you don’t believe Moses you won’t understand me". He points to the highest aspiration of the prophets. "Go and learn what this means "I desire mercy not sacrifice"" He tells the Pharisees, drawing from Hosea. He is not interested in the rote obedience to mans outward commands so much as the reverence for and desire of the Father. Yes keep minute details of Torah, tithes of mint and dill, as commanded but what of justice, mercy, and faithfulness the heart beat of Ezekiel, Jeremiah and Habukuk. Do not in seeking to keep the ritual of Torah (instruction) forget the purpose of Torah that the man who does these things might live by them, and fulfill God’s desire for lovingkindness (Chesed), justice (Mishpat) and righteousness (Tzedekah), the things which are worked by Yahwah all over the earth and the very things in which he delights. This is what man is permitted to boast in, that he knows Yahwah works these characteristics in all the earth, not just among the Israelites (Jeremiah).
Yehoshua the Nazarene, said to John the Baptiser, "Let it be so for now that we may fulfil all righteousness, He said to the people "Judge right judgements" and "All judgement (Mishpat) has been given to the Son because he is the Son of Man".
And in his compassion to the leper, the women bent over for 18 years, the outcast harlots and tax collectors we see true chesed expressed. He said to the Pharisees "Go and learn what this means "I desire mercy not sacrifice" If you knew what this means you would have not condemned the innocent"
He is the Everlasting righteousness of Yahwah promised by the prophets.
He is the supreme pinnacle of the righteous and is called the Just one. Of Abraham he says: If you were sons of Abraham you would do the works of Abraham….before Abraham was I AM." Of Solomon the wisest man who ever lived he simply says "one greater than Solomon is here". Of the temple so dear to the Jewish heart he says "one greater than the temple is here’.
To the broken reed in accordance with Isaiah he is gentle and compassion. "Come to me you who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest, take my yoke upon you and learn of me. For I am meek and lowly of heart"
And ye shall find rest for your souls. For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light.
To the women caught in adultery, he applies the Torah perfectly and forgives her who was condemned by unjust, unbalanced and unmerciful judges ( For the Torah calls for the death of male and female caught in adultery, where was the male?) But in this compassionate forgiveness we see the true stretch of God’s heart. The Torah condemned not for malice but for man’s best, and the heart of God is life. She received her life back as though from the dead and was told "Go and sin no more".
And yet all her accusers being part of that wicked and perverse generation were now exposed to their own sin. But were they willing to repent, as no doubt she would?
The Samaritan women, perhaps because she spoke the truth saying "I have no husband" Yehoshua commends her "Ye have well said" And then reveals to her the entire heart of the Father for mankind "the true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and truth, for the Father seeketh such to worship him.
For one true statement she is rewarded with the greatest of living waters flowing from the meek and lowly heart of the Nazarene. She being an outcast (5 husbands) a woman (it was not normal for a strange woman and man to consult in private) and a Samaritan (a race despised by the Jews).
He is the Judge of Mankind
Gentle as a dove with the bruised and wounded, the crushed and hurting, he was yet firm and truthful, the Lion of the tribe of Judah, with those who put burdens on the people. He decried those who unlike him "bind heavy burdens and grievous to be borne on men’s shoulders: but they themselves will not move them with one of their fingers"(Matt). These dangerous people he would act with as wisely as a serpent. He would not move where they would wait to kill him, and with surprise he would turn up and send forth the truth. He joined with Isaiah, and Habukuk, in decreeing the woes on the wicked the unrepentant resisters of the truth. That is he judged in no uncertain terms, each case, and proclaimed his right judgements (hilchot), not according to the hearing of the ears but "with righteousness" he judged the poor and reproved with equity for the meek of the earth".
And he indeed smote the earth with the rod of his mouth.
With John the Baptiser he judges the Pharisees and a Saducees as a group, especially in Jerusalem, to be a brood of vipers. Yet some Pharisees were not of that order. To one Pharisee his judgement was "You are not far from the kingdom of Heaven’. He smote the earth of Bethsaida, Capernaum and Chorazin. With the perfect judgement of him who knows the result of judgement day before it happens.
Habukuk says "Woe to him", Yehoshua says "Woe to the village or city". Chorazin and Bethsaida are compared to Tyre and Sidon, however unfavorably. They are in the Woe category of judgement day.
Capernaum is judged even worse and compared to Sodom; Capernaum on the day of judgement will end up in Hades.
All three of these towns are no longer thriving and are merely sights for tourists to see.
So Yehoshua upheld true justice. He exercised continual mercy and compassion, to those cast out by society, lepers, beggars, harlots, tax collectors those on the edge of a wicked and perverse generation maintained by religious leaders who were lining their pockets, by long and pretentious prayers and very holy looking activities. He judged that they turned the temple, his Fathers house, firstly into a merchant’s house and by the last months of his ministry they had turned this same temple into a den of thieves.
His love for his Father and his will was so great that he who could raise the dead by a word, knock down soldiers by just saying who he was, allows himself to be judged by them, and crucified by gentiles. Just three and a half years after he began his ministry.
Yes this was no doubt the most perfect three and a half years ever lived on the planet earth. When he nears the end of his ministry he exemplifies his humility. He washes his disciple’s feet and tells them, effectively, it’s better for you if I leave you now. The Spirit of truth is better for you than me. He, with all the power to raise the dead and control nature, to move mountains if he so desires or curse a fig tree, allows himself to be spat on mocked, his beard ripped out and his body destroyed.
All that his Father’s will might be done. In the end we see the end of his life, resurrection from the dead and ascension to the highest place in the universe. He is indeed the most supreme example of humility given to men and his name the highest and most powerful in this age and the one to come. Will you receive your Mashiach?
The Ministry of Yehoshua the Nazarene of Nazareth Son of David, Messiah, Son of God
According to the Apostle Peter one criteria for apostleship, in replacing Judas was that the one to be ordained should have been present during the whole time the Lord Yehoshua of Nazareth went in and out among the disciples. . He dated the ministry as "beginning with the baptism of John, until he was taken up from us". (Acts) They looked for a person who could be a witness of the resurrection. So for Peter, immersion, represented the initiation of the ministry, the resurrection the key point and the Taking Up the end point.
The exact dates of the birth, death and resurrection of Yehoshua are uncertain. However we know he was crucified on Nisan 14 sometime between AD 29 and AD 33. He ministered until that point. If we take the three and half years away from Passover we come to a Rosh Ha Shana, between the years ACE 26 and ACE 30. We know from John’s gospel that Yehoshua the Nazarene attended four Passovers the final one being his crucifixion and resurrection. His first recorded sermon in a synagogue was relating the Year of Jubilee, which would have fallen in the month of Tishrei on Yom Kippur.
Yehoshua of Nazareth is known for his death and resurrection more than any other part of his life. The Apostle Paul has said "If Mashiach is not risen then our faith is futile and we of all men are to be most pitied" (1Cor 15). This then was the major contribution of Yehoshua of Nazareth, to the destiny of the planet, its inhabitants and the destiny of the heavens the earth and the sea and the dry land and all that in them is, the conquering of death once and forever. All creation wears out like a garment, whether in a day or in a million years. However not so Yehoshua of Nazareth, he had the character of an indestructible life and because of his righteousness, nay his goodness even death itself could not hold him. Apostle Peter said it was impossible for death to hold him (Acts).
How is this so? Because death came through sin, so the sting and cause of death is sin. Yet this Yehoshua of Nazareth, the Nazarene, is said to have been tempted in all ways as we, the rest of mankind, and yet was without sin. He became the seed of a new humanity. A humanity of men imperishable, containing in them the seed of God, the seed that grows into life everlasting.
Perfect Obedience
So his ministry was characterised by one distinct quality which no one else has ever lived up to. It was characterised by a completely perfect obedience to God, his Fathers will, his good, acceptable and perfect will, in every detail and in every respect, thoughts, words and actions. He was described in one place as being "mighty in word and deed" Acts.
Thus Yehoshua Ben David unlike the children who are sons and daughters of Adam never missed the mark of the glory of God, but is called the express image of His person (Heb). He never transgressed a command given by God for him to fulfil. Even to the point that when his Father commanded Yehoshua the Nazarene to show compassion to the dead and to give them life, it was in his ability to fulfil that command. (Showing us that if God commands us nothing in all creation can stop us fulfilling that command, for with the command goes God’s ability, if we are willing). And to give people not just abundant life for the present, but everlasting life stretching in length beyond the years that the sun will exist, beyond the years of the moon and the stars, in obedience to his Father he began to do just that. More than one dead person, whom Yehoshua saw as sleeping, saw the light of life as he obeyed his Fathers commandment to give life to whom he would.
All for the greater glory of God the Father
Yet at times he had to hold human feeling at bay for he knew the tears of Mary and Martha, his close friends. Their tears flowed as they saw their brother grow sick and die, yet for the sake of the will of his Heavenly Father and the glory of God, he had to stand by while their tears flowed and their hope of the present healing of their brother flickered and died. They did not know he had the power even to raise a rotting body from the grave and to return its life to it. And yet this is exactly what Yehoshua the Nazarene did. And was this not to the greater joy of Mary and Martha? Was this not to the greater glory of his Father?
His words are truth, everlasting, all-powerful and never failing.
The same is true of his ultimate victory. Even after he raised Lazarus from a stinking grave, his disciples could not comprehend, that the Physician to whom the crowd cited the proverb "heal thyself"
could raise himself from the dead. Why if Yehoshua of Nazareth died, who would be left alive to raise him up? Certainly not Peter, he was too busy denying Yehoshua, nor John, love greatly as he would, Judas is shooting out the back door heading for perdition and Thomas is in loyalty, crying "let us go and die with him"(Luke).
Had not this Yehoshua the Nazarene gone to quiet and secret places when they threatened his life?
Why should he suddenly be able to muster the power to raise himself from the dead?
He no longer walked in public? But he had stated clearly "No one takes my life from me, I will lay it down, and I will take it up again." This is the same speaker who said to a little dead girl, in one place, "Talitha Kumi" "Little girl I say to you arise" and she did. This is the same prophet who said to Lazarus, whose body was rotting and stinking "Come forth"(John) and he did.
This prophets words to an even a greater degree than Samuel’s never fell to the ground. Every word carried the weight and eternal power of deity in them. He never lied, he never gossiped, he never used his words to deceive, his mouth was the overflow of his heart in perfect harmony. When he spoke, he spoke and each and every person was hearing what they needed to hear. He spoke truth, in all its great variation and depth. He was a man who spoke like no other man.
His emotions and affections correspond exactly to the Fathers emotions and affections
Moses gets angry and displeased the Father, but when the Son of Man Yehoshua the Nazarene gets angry it is in perfect correspondence to the will of the Father, Zeal for thy house has consumed, was the motto. So that his heartbeat and his words are in complete harmony with the heart and will of the Father. This is his great and unique characteristic, as stated above, a life which was in total harmony with the destiny the Father, assigned for his incarnation. But his glory in truth was so far above the comprehension of his disciples, that although they knew he had the words of eternal life and
Although they knew he could speak to the dead, and they would live,
To the blind and they would see,
To the demon, and it would obey,
To the dumb and he would speak,
To the deaf and they would hear (!)
That he spoke words to sustain the weary,
And he spoke words to set the captive free.
He spoke words to silence the scoffer,
Outlaw the lawyers,
Calm the sea
And to turn a child’s lunch into a feast for 5000
To value the outcast
To convert an entire Samaritan village in a day
And to gain the respect of those who crucified him,
Both judge and soldier,
Yet they could not comprehend that when he said "No one takes my life from me. I lay it down and I will take it up again, when he spoke saying "after three days he would rise"(Luke, Mark), they could not see that his truth was stronger than death itself. It was with words that God created all things. Yehoshua the Nazarene was so in tune with the heart beat of the Father that his very words could go down into the grave and speak to his beaten and broken body, put it together, put the life, which only three days before he committed to the Father, and put it back into his newly transformed body. Each truth he spoke in his ministry, which came to pass added to the weight and power to the thought, this mans words are truth. They indeed will never pass away. The Torah may pass away when heaven and earth pass away and all is fulfilled, but his words never pass away. This is how we can know that all his prayers and words will happen, because they abide and they work to fulfil their task even as his decree "I will take it up again," went into the grave and did exactly that.
He moved in obedience to the expressed and unexpressed will and desire of the Father of glory. His thoughts, as well as his actions and words were in complete harmony with his Father’s will.
He completes, fulfils and exceeds the promises, precepts and teachings of all the prophets
All the prophets came bringing aspects of God’s, will, his heart for creation and man, they were preceded by and in accordance with the Torah. Yehoshua the Nazarene comes and crowns them all. He brings all the diverse words and expressions into one complete and whole picture of the will of God. His teaching was in accordance with and exceeded that of the Torah and the prophets.
He comes and he magnifies the Torah and makes it honorable.
He says of the Moses, the greatest of the prophets, "He wrote of me"(John) "If you don’t believe Moses you won’t understand me". He points to the highest aspiration of the prophets. "Go and learn what this means "I desire mercy not sacrifice"" He tells the Pharisees, drawing from Hosea. He is not interested in the rote obedience to mans outward commands so much as the reverence for and desire of the Father. Yes keep minute details of Torah, tithes of mint and dill, as commanded but what of justice, mercy, and faithfulness the heart beat of Ezekiel, Jeremiah and Habukuk. Do not in seeking to keep the ritual of Torah (instruction) forget the purpose of Torah that the man who does these things might live by them, and fulfill God’s desire for lovingkindness (Chesed), justice (Mishpat) and righteousness (Tzedekah), the things which are worked by Yahwah all over the earth and the very things in which he delights. This is what man is permitted to boast in, that he knows Yahwah works these characteristics in all the earth, not just among the Israelites (Jeremiah).
Yehoshua the Nazarene, said to John the Baptiser, "Let it be so for now that we may fulfil all righteousness, He said to the people "Judge right judgements" and "All judgement (Mishpat) has been given to the Son because he is the Son of Man".
And in his compassion to the leper, the women bent over for 18 years, the outcast harlots and tax collectors we see true chesed expressed. He said to the Pharisees "Go and learn what this means "I desire mercy not sacrifice" If you knew what this means you would have not condemned the innocent"
He is the Everlasting righteousness of Yahwah promised by the prophets.
He is the supreme pinnacle of the righteous and is called the Just one. Of Abraham he says: If you were sons of Abraham you would do the works of Abraham….before Abraham was I AM." Of Solomon the wisest man who ever lived he simply says "one greater than Solomon is here". Of the temple so dear to the Jewish heart he says "one greater than the temple is here’.
To the broken reed in accordance with Isaiah he is gentle and compassion. "Come to me you who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest, take my yoke upon you and learn of me. For I am meek and lowly of heart"
And ye shall find rest for your souls. For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light.
To the women caught in adultery, he applies the Torah perfectly and forgives her who was condemned by unjust, unbalanced and unmerciful judges ( For the Torah calls for the death of male and female caught in adultery, where was the male?) But in this compassionate forgiveness we see the true stretch of God’s heart. The Torah condemned not for malice but for man’s best, and the heart of God is life. She received her life back as though from the dead and was told "Go and sin no more".
And yet all her accusers being part of that wicked and perverse generation were now exposed to their own sin. But were they willing to repent, as no doubt she would?
The Samaritan women, perhaps because she spoke the truth saying "I have no husband" Yehoshua commends her "Ye have well said" And then reveals to her the entire heart of the Father for mankind "the true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and truth, for the Father seeketh such to worship him.
For one true statement she is rewarded with the greatest of living waters flowing from the meek and lowly heart of the Nazarene. She being an outcast (5 husbands) a woman (it was not normal for a strange woman and man to consult in private) and a Samaritan (a race despised by the Jews).
He is the Judge of Mankind
Gentle as a dove with the bruised and wounded, the crushed and hurting, he was yet firm and truthful, the Lion of the tribe of Judah, with those who put burdens on the people. He decried those who unlike him "bind heavy burdens and grievous to be borne on men’s shoulders: but they themselves will not move them with one of their fingers"(Matt). These dangerous people he would act with as wisely as a serpent. He would not move where they would wait to kill him, and with surprise he would turn up and send forth the truth. He joined with Isaiah, and Habukuk, in decreeing the woes on the wicked the unrepentant resisters of the truth. That is he judged in no uncertain terms, each case, and proclaimed his right judgements (hilchot), not according to the hearing of the ears but "with righteousness" he judged the poor and reproved with equity for the meek of the earth".
And he indeed smote the earth with the rod of his mouth.
With John the Baptiser he judges the Pharisees and a Saducees as a group, especially in Jerusalem, to be a brood of vipers. Yet some Pharisees were not of that order. To one Pharisee his judgement was "You are not far from the kingdom of Heaven’. He smote the earth of Bethsaida, Capernaum and Chorazin. With the perfect judgement of him who knows the result of judgement day before it happens.
Habukuk says "Woe to him", Yehoshua says "Woe to the village or city". Chorazin and Bethsaida are compared to Tyre and Sidon, however unfavorably. They are in the Woe category of judgement day.
Capernaum is judged even worse and compared to Sodom; Capernaum on the day of judgement will end up in Hades.
All three of these towns are no longer thriving and are merely sights for tourists to see.
So Yehoshua upheld true justice. He exercised continual mercy and compassion, to those cast out by society, lepers, beggars, harlots, tax collectors those on the edge of a wicked and perverse generation maintained by religious leaders who were lining their pockets, by long and pretentious prayers and very holy looking activities. He judged that they turned the temple, his Fathers house, firstly into a merchant’s house and by the last months of his ministry they had turned this same temple into a den of thieves.
His love for his Father and his will was so great that he who could raise the dead by a word, knock down soldiers by just saying who he was, allows himself to be judged by them, and crucified by gentiles. Just three and a half years after he began his ministry.
Yes this was no doubt the most perfect three and a half years ever lived on the planet earth. When he nears the end of his ministry he exemplifies his humility. He washes his disciple’s feet and tells them, effectively, it’s better for you if I leave you now. The Spirit of truth is better for you than me. He, with all the power to raise the dead and control nature, to move mountains if he so desires or curse a fig tree, allows himself to be spat on mocked, his beard ripped out and his body destroyed.
All that his Father’s will might be done. In the end we see the end of his life, resurrection from the dead and ascension to the highest place in the universe. He is indeed the most supreme example of humility given to men and his name the highest and most powerful in this age and the one to come. Will you receive your Mashiach?
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