Friday, January 21, 2022
BLESSED EVEN IN PERSECUTIONS AND ACCUSATIONS
My Dear Precious Child,
After Jesus taught His disciples more truths about My kingdom of God which was to soon come at that time into their lives, and after He wrestled with His own will and His flesh relating to His mission of going to the cross for the diseases, illnesses, sins, iniquities, transgressions and mistakes of all the people in the world, and after Jesus enjoyed His last meal with His disciples in which He told them that they must remember every word that He spoke to them about My kingdom of God, and after He was identified as the Christ by Judas to his accusers and persecutors as the Savior of the World, as His being Jesus Christ, He was surrounded by the chief priests and elders of the church. Judas had identified Him by praising Him and kissing Him. Then one of the followers of Jesus grabbed a sword from the crowd and cut off the ear of a servant of the high priest. Jesus chided His follower and told him to put away his sword because people who live by the sword will also die by the sword. Jesus did not want someone to die for defending Him.
Then Jesus Christ professed His faith in Me by saying that He could appeal to Me and I would provide more than eight million angels to save Him if I were to will it. (Matthew 26:48-53) Jesus Christ wanted the observers to know that He was giving Himself up to His persecutors instead of their forcing Him to come with Him. He said and did what He did in order that prophesies would be fulfilled and humanity would receive the truly greatest gift ever sent from Me, My new covenant with the world.
Not only did Jesus Christ yield to His accusers and persecutors, but He spoke wisdom to the chief priests and elders of the church, saying that they didn't need to make a big show of arresting Him, that He had day after day sat in their porches teaching and they didn't arrest Him then. Scriptures were still being fulfilled. It was then that an important scripture was fulfilled that His disciples and followers would fall away from following Him. (Matthew 26:54-56) It was on that occasion that the men who had seized Jesus took Him to the high priest where scribes and other elders were gathered.
Peter, who had claimed to never desert His Savior, followed at a distance in order not to be labeled as a follower of the Christ, following them all the way to the courtyard of the home of the high priest. He went inside and sat at the back with the guards to observe what was going on. The high priests and elders had arranged for false witnesses to testify against Jesus so that they might put Him to death. Even though they found no false witnesses, two men came forward and said that they had personally heard Jesus say that He was going to tear down the sanctuary of the temple and build it up again in three days, to which the high priest asked Jesus if he had anything to say in His own defense. Jesus kept silent to which the high priest commanded Jesus to swear by God that He was the Christ, the Son of God.
Jesus Christ replied that the high priest was the one who said that fact, but Jesus replied that in the near future that they would see the Son of Man seated at the right hand of the Almighty God and coming on the clouds in the sky. (Psalm 110:1; Hebrews 12:1 and 22-29) It was with that profession by Jesus that the high priests identified the reply of Jesus as being blasphemy, claiming that that was all they needed to hear to charge Him with blasphemy. The high priest appealed to the crowd to tell him their desires, to which they screamed that their desire was that Jesus be put to death, exemplifying the punitive nature of the laws of the Jews which was death to all lawbreakers. Regardless of how this scenario looked to the natural eyes of people, this event was necessary for My will to be done in the earth, which was that My Son, Jesus Christ, would be crucified and go to hell for the sins of the whole world. It was planned by Me, ordained by Me and carried out according to My will, so that all of humanity, whoever lived in the long history of the world, would benefit from everything that occurred at that moment of time in the history of the world, which was the forgiveness of all sins for which the devil and his demons had condemned My children since he had caused the first two of them to hide from Me in fear and guilt. (Matthew 26:65-68)
Peter was still sitting in the courtyard and after people beat upon Jesus and spat in His face, a woman asked Peter if he was previously with Jesus, to which Peter said that he didn't know what the woman was talking about, denying Jesus once. Another woman saw him later on the porch and she identified him for the crowd as having been with Jesus, to which Jesus said he didn't even know the Man Jesus, denying him twice. Later a few other bystanders identified Him as being a friend of Jesus to which Peter invoked a curse upon himself by swearing that he did not know the Man Jesus, denying Him the third time, to which at that moment a rooster crowed, fulfilling the prophesy of Jesus Christ.
This man Peter had much earlier, when some of his disciples were going to leave Jesus, when Jesus asked Peter if he was going to leave also, Peter had professed that there was nowhere else to go, because Jesus Christ was the only person who had the worlds of eternal life and that they believed that He was Christ, the Son of the Living God. (John 6:66-69) Now Peter was denying that he ever knew Jesus, yielding to a temptation of the devil that Jesus had warned him about when Peter, James and John kept going to sleep instead of praying for at least an hour, like Jesus had asked them to do while He was wrestling with His flesh about His destiny of going to the cross. Jesus warned them that if they went to sleep instead of praying, that they would soon yield to the temptation of the devil, not knowing that would be to deny even knowing the Savior of the world with whom the disciples had spent day and night for three years. Jesus knew that if they prayed for that hour, just like Jesus had done, that they would have been built up spiritually enough to refuse to deny knowing Him as Christ. That was another prophesy of Jesus that was later fulfilled. (Matthew 26:40-41)
By avoiding not participating in the works of the devil in their lives, the disciples of Jesus were later able to obey the instructions of the risen Jesus Christ after He rose from the dead to go to Jerusalem where My promise would be fulfilled in their lives. It's called the new covenant of My Holy Spirit's coming into the world which came on the day of the feast of Pentecost which instituted a new heaven and a new earth, thanks to Jesus Christ considering it a blessing to go to the cross as payment for the sins of the whole world.
Your Father of Divine Workable Plans
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