SPIRITUAL DIARY FOR 10/14/2022 10:15 AM
My Worship Time Focus: PT-1 “The
Promise Repeated”
Bible Reading & Meditation Reference:
Matthew 16:28
Message of the verse: “28 “Truly I say to
you, there are some of those who are standing here who shall not taste death
until they see the Son of Man coming in His kingdom.’”
This is quite a promise that the Lord is giving to
His disciples, “not to taste death until they see the Son of Man coming in His
kingdom.” We have talked about how this
last section in the 16th chapter of Matthew had to be so difficult
on Jesus’ disciples as they were certainly a confused lot after hearing that
Jesus was indeed the Messiah, as seen in Peter’s statement, and then that He
was going to die, and now He is saying that some of them would not taste death
before they saw His kingdom. I suppose
that because many of us who read these Spiritual Diaries know the truth of what
is going to happen do not really understand what it would have been for the
disciples of Jesus who have just spent the last two and a half plus years
walking with the very God who created the universe, listening to His every
word, thinking that He would take them out from the arm of the Roman Empire,
and then they hear He was going to die, and that some of them will actually get
to see a picture of His coming kingdom.
I have to say that I would have been confused too.
John
MacArthur writes “Taste death was a common Jewish expression that referred to
drinking the cup of death, in other words, to dying. Jesus assured the Twelve that, before death
some of them would see Him coming in His kingdom.”
Now
if we are to understand correctly what Jesus meant, “it would be first of all
helpful to know that basileia (kingdom)
was often used as a metonym
to mean “royal majesty” or “regal splendor”—in much the same way that scepter
has long been used figuratively to represent royal power and authority.” This word metonym is a word that John MacArthur is
using. Here is a definition that I found
for it “What is a simple definition of metonymy? metonymy, (from Greek metōnymia, “change of name,” or
“misnomer”), figure of speech in which the name of an object or concept is
replaced with a word closely related to or suggested by the original, as
“crown” to mean “king” (“The power of the crown was mortally weakened”) or an
author for his works (“I'm studying .” I
hope that helps out. MacArthur goes on “Used
in that way, baso;eoa would refer to
a manifestation of Jesus’ kingliness rather than to His literal earthly
reign. His promise could therefore be
translated, “until they see the Son of Man coming in His kingly splendor.”
This passage has always been
difficult for me to totally understand because as we will see when we begin the
17th chapter, at least to me that it does not really look like what
I think that the millennial kingdom will totally look like.
10/14/2022
10:40 AM
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