Incarnation to Resurrection
Incarnation to Resurrection roughly three and one-half
years, in 12 weeks, Sunday through Friday (six days) per week
Day Forty-three of Eighty-four:
Last week on Sunday, Monday and Tuesday we
read about Jesus Feeding the Five Thousand, from the perspective of John (last Sunday’s reading from Blog Thirty-six), Matthew & John (this past Monday’s reading with Blog
Thirty-seven) and from Mark (this
past Tuesday’s
reading
in Blog Thirty-eight), and today we’ll
read about Jesus Feeding the Four Thousand from the perspectives of Matthew & Mark. We can spend a few moments comparing some of
the differences between the Feeding of the Five Thousand and the Feeding of the Four Thousand, from Mark’s (Mark 6:30 - 44 & Mark 8:1 - 10) perspective a little later.
For now, we’ll
first look at both Matthew 16 & Mark 8 and some of the continuing demands
for signs. We first looked in Matthew 12:38 - 42 and the Demand for a sign, “The Sign of Jonah” (by
way of the “The Sign of Jonah”, Matthew 12:38 - 42 & Luke 11:29 - 32 talked about back
on February
1st with Twenty-six is, in my
opinion, one of the more poignant explanations by Jesus on both Signs N’ wonders,
and on End Times prophesy there is) and we’ll explore some subsequent “Demands
for sign” in today’s reading.
Let’s now take a look
now at a few of the differences, the number of fish and loaves of bread to
begin with, left over after the feast, and the reaction, or response, of the
people fed, between the account of the Feeding of the
Five Thousand and the record of
the Feeding
of the Four Thousand, apart from the
obvious 5,000 vs 4,000. In the Feeding of the
Five Thousand we read that they
had “five loaves and two fish”, Matthew 14:17, Mark 6:38 & John 6:9 in order to feed
Five Thousand people. Whereas we read
that they had “Seven, and a few small fish”, Matthew 15:34
& Mark 8:5 – 7, for feeding Four Thousand people. Further, we read that there were twelve
baskets full of broken pieces of bread and left-over fish, Matthew 14:20,
Mark 6:43 & John 6:13, after Feeding Five Thousand people. And that
there were seven baskets full of broken pieces, Matthew 15:37;
Mark 8:8, after Feeding Four Thousand people. Also
noteworthy here is that after the Feeding of the Five Thousand, the crowds determined that Jesus is “indeed the
Prophet who is to come”, John 6:14, while in the Feeding of the
Four Thousand, there is no such
reaction or response noted.
Today in Luke we
read of Peter’s Confession that Jesus is the Christ, Luke 9:18 – 20. And we’ll also see a teaser in Luke about
Jesus foretelling His soon coming death.
And though the world
does not understand that, that right there ^
^ ^ that, my friends, is… GOOD NEWS!
We’ll leave reading the rest of the text for you individually.
We’ll leave reading the rest of the text for you individually.
I’ve taken the liberty of assembling a weekly chart of daily readings to cover the chronology
Week 7
Matthew
15:32–18:9; Mark 8–9; Luke 9:18-62
Day
1 Matthew 15:32-16:4 Mark 8:1-13 Luke 9:18-22
Day 2 Matthew 16:5-20 Mark 8:14-30 Luke 9:23-27
Day 3 Matthew 16:21-28 Mark 8:31-9:13 Luke 9:28-36
Day 4 Matthew 17:1-13 Mark 9:14-29 Luke 9:37-42
Day 5 Matthew 17:14-23 Mark 9:30-37 Luke 9:43-50
Day 6 Matthew 17:24-18:9 Mark 9:38-49 Luke 9:51-62
Shalom!
“No Jesus, NO peace” and yet, “Know Jesus, KNOW peace”
How does one get to “know” Jesus? Simple, invite Him into your heart, as Jesus
says: “Here I am! I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears my voice and
opens the door, I will come in and eat with him, and he with me.” [Revelation 3:20 NIV]
How can be assured that this Jesus stuff means anything? Well because the Bible tells us so, as the
Apostle Paul wrote:
“If you declare with your mouth, “Jesus is
Lord,” and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be
saved. 10 For it is with your heart that you believe and are justified, and it
is with your mouth that you profess your faith and are saved.” [Romans 10:9-10 NIV]
And for those of you who say to me, I
can’t be bothered reading the Bible, “it’s confusing” or “it’s a waste of my time”,
may I draw your attention to what the Bible says about wisdom: “The fear of the
LORD is the beginning of wisdom, and knowledge of the Holy One is
understanding.” [Proverbs 9:10 NIV]
If nothing else, PLEASE read two chapters
from the Bible – (don’t own one, sorry NO excuse, if you’re reading this, you
can access this: http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=John%203:16&version=NIV) John 3 and John
14!
John 3:16 says: “For God so loved the
world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not
perish but have eternal life.”
And John 14:6 says: “Jesus answered, “I am
the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through
me.”
Well that’s it, that’s Da Bauz’s Take on, “Incarnation
to Resurrection, Day Forty-three of Eighty-four” – this 18th day of February
2018 © 2018, All Rights Reserved. wr (Da Bauz, Christian Zionist “creationist”
too!)
Pray for the peace
of Jerusalem...
What is #RAD? #RAD
is:
R epent of
rejecting Christ
A ccept Christ as
your Lord
D evelop your
relationship with G-d
#RAD your
relationship with the Living Almighty God Himself as your personal Lord and
Saviour depends on it!
What is #ATEND G-d
(Christ)? Ask me!
What is #IIC714?
II 2nd
C hronicles
7:14
John 3:16,
Revelation 3:20, Romans 10:9 -10, Revelation 21:27, II Corinthians 5:21 and I
John 5:13 / John 20:31!
Shalom
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