SPIRITUAL DIARY FOR 6/3/2024 11:58 AM
My Worship Time Focus:
PT-2 “The Attack of the Crowd”
Bible Reading & Meditation Reference:
Matthew 26:47
Message of the
verse: “47 While He was still speaking, behold, Judas, one of the twelve,
came up accompanied by a large crowd with swords and clubs, who came
from the chief priests and elders of the people.”
I want to continue to quote from
MacArthur’s commentary as he quotes from different sources as they speak about
Judas. Remember that these are not
biblical. “An ancient manuscript called Coptic Narratives of the Ministry and
Passion maintained that Judas’s wife was exceedingly greedy and that he was
nothing more than the pawn of a manipulative wife. In the ancient Near East, to accuse a man of
being subjugated to a dominating wife was considered highly slanderous.
“A twelfth-century writing called The Legendary Aura claimed that Judas’s
parents threw him into the sea when he was an infant, because even at that
early age they supposedly sensed he was diabolical and deserved to be
destroyed. Somehow he managed to survive
and grow to adulthood, and, according to the legend, soon after ferrying a
beautiful older woman, he discovered she was his mother.
“Such bizarre accounts are common in
extrabiblical literature. They are
concocted to demonstrate the vileness of Judas and to reveal the contempt with
which he was viewed. The gospel writers,
by contrast, simply called him one of the twelve. Rather than minimizing the heinousness of
Judas’ treachery, this heightens the insidiousness of his crime more than any
list of epithets could do.”
In the end as I have learned that
Judas will perhaps be the most punished person to occupy hell, and that is
because he had the greatest opportunity of any person who will occupy hell
because he spent three years with the Lord Jesus Christ while He was on planet
earth and was able to listen to most everything that He was teaching. Some would say that a person like Hitler
would deserve this place, but Hitler did not have the opportunity that Judas
had. My thoughts that if George Soros
does not come to repentance that he too may receive great punishment in hell
because of being a Jew has great hatred for the Jewish people and God told
Abraham that “I will bless those who bless you and curse those who curse you.” God was talking about the children of
Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob when saying this to Abraham.
Judas, the traitor came to the garden
he was “accompanied by a large crowd with swords and clubs, who came
from the chief priests and elders of the people.” Now this great multitude was not your typical
spontaneous crowd of admires that would often seek the Lord out. It was in fact rather a carefully-selected
group brought together for the very purpose of arresting Jesus and putting Him
to death. Now keep in mind this was all
in the plan of God for this to happen even though it would cost Him His Son.
“Then
Jesus said to the chief priests and officers of the temple and elders who had
come against Him, "Have you come out with swords and clubs as you would
against a robber?” (Luke 22:52) In this verse we see some of the crowd
identified who came out after Jesus.
This group was offered limited police powers by the Romans in matters concerning Jewish religion and
society. We cans see that this group was
armed with clubs, and the multitude also included a cohort of Roman soldiers as
seen in John 18:3, which, at full strength comprised of 600 men. The truth about this is that if this was not
in the will of the Lord to have this done, then it would not have mattered how
man came after Him, and what kind of weapons that they would have, even modern
weapons would not have stopped the Lord from defeating them, if this was not in
the will of the Lord. Think about when
the Lord will return with His angels, and also both the Old and New Testament saints
in the midst of a great war which will be going on in the Middle East at that
time, and when they see Him they will begin to fight against Him, but to no avail.
I have mentioned that this will take some time to get
through this section, but hopefully we will all learn things that perhaps we
did not know before.
6/3/2024 12:32 PM
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