SPIRITUAL DIARY FOR 7/9/2024 7:51 AM
My Worship Time Focus: “The
Contrast Between the Wicked Leaders and the Sinless Christ”
Bible Reading & Meditation
Reference: Matthew 27:1-2
Message of the
verses: “1 Now when morning came, all the chief priests and the elders of the
people conferred together against Jesus to put Him to death; 2 and they bound Him, and led
Him away and delivered Him to Pilate the governor.”
It
has been ever since these fake trials began for Jesus that I have tried to
point out that they were contrary to the laws that Israel had that were found
in the Word of God, but, and I have mentioned this before, that similar to the
trials that former President Donald Trump had to go through as they too were
fake trials that did not go along with the laws in our country. Now these first two trials of Jesus were
contrary to rabbinical law, the first two phases of Jesus’ religious trial were
carried out during the night and away from the Temple. Jesus had first been brought before the
former high priest Annas, probably in hope that this wicked schemer could
concoct a charge that would be against Jesus which could be justified to put
Him to death. However when that failed,
Christ was then brought before the acting high priest, Caiaphas, and this sham
trial began rapidly as the Sanhedrin were brought together. Now I have mentioned that probably Joseph of Arimathea
was not there, for others knew how he felt about Jesus. It was only after Jesus confessed to be the
Christ and being God’s Son did they discover a way to destroy Him. Jesus was and is in fact God’s Son and the
true Messiah of Israel, but truth did not matter to these blood thirsty people
who were certainly filled with Satan.
This is what can happen because of sin entering in the world back in the
third chapter of Genesis, thus Satan became a ruler on earth, but certainly God
can and does overrule in his activities, but allows others to be done and like
the death of Jesus Christ for the redemption of sin God wins and will win in
the end when He puts Satan in the lake of fire for all eternity.
MacArthur writes “Now when morning
came, Matthew recounts, all the chief priests and the elders of the people
conferred together against Jesus to put Him to death. Although t hey had already reached a verdict
about His guilt and punishment, they still had two hurdles. First, they had to devise a way to make their
decision appear legal under rabbinical law.
Mark mentions that in addition to all the chief priests and the elders, ‘scribes,
and the whole Council’ were present (15:1).
Second, because the people knew that all trials involving the death
penalty had to be conducted in the daytime and in the Temple court, they had to
wait until morning of that Passover Friday to reconvene the Sanhedrin in its
legitimate council chamber (Luke 22:66).
The council they took among themselves amounted to reasserting the
charges against Jesus and reaffirming the verdict to put Him to death (see Luke
22:67-71).”
Now I will quote those verse from Luke 22:67-71 “67 “If You are the Christ, tell us." But He said to
them, "If I tell you, you will not believe; 68 and if I ask a question,
you will not answer. 69 “But from now on THE SON OF MAN WILL BE SEATED AT THE
RIGHT HAND of the power OF GOD." 70 And they all said, "Are You the
Son of God, then?" And He said to them, "Yes, I am." 71 Then
they said, "What further need do we have of testimony? For we have heard
it ourselves from His own mouth.’”
It was after that point, that the Jewish leaders
dropped all pretense of having a legal trial, and went on with their sham
trial. In an earlier SD I talked the
fact that if a person was to be sentence to death legally, and not in a sham
trial that there had to be three days of wait time before that sentence could
be carried out and even on that third day if any evidence would come through as
they were in the process of putting to death the one on trial they would stop
and listen to the new evidence. The
Jewish leaders, as mentioned were blood thirsty and wanted to get this over so
that they could celebrate the Passover, and certainly did not want to wait and
do this lawfully.
Now
I have mentioned when talking about Judas that his betrayal of Jesus was prophesized,
however it was what Judas wanted to do and so he certainly will receive the
just punishment of what he did in the next life in hell. This is the same with those Jewish leaders as
this too was prophesized and they too will receive their just punishment as it
certainly was their desire to have Jesus put to death.
Now as we learned the Jewish leaders
were not allowed to have someone put to death they had to have permission from
Rome therefore they bound Him, and led Him away and
delivered Him to Pilate the governor. With that hearing the first phase of Jesus’
secular, Roman trial would begin.
MacArthur concludes: “Pontius Pilate had been the Roman governor of
Judea since A. D. 26, when Tiberius Caesar was emperor, and continued to govern
until the year 36. Jesus was taken to
the Praetorium, the official provincial residence of the governor, and to keep
from being ceremonially defiled and thereby prevented from celebrating the
Passover later that day, the Jewish leaders waited outside (John 18:28).”
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