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  • Bennymkje - 11 months ago
    Just one point: testimony

    After healing a leper Jesus told him,"And Jesus saith unto him, See thou tell no man; but go thy way, shew thyself to the priest, and offer the gift that Moses commanded, for a testimony unto them." Though he was accused of breaking the law, he was instead fulfilling the Law. The hypocrisy of his accusers was in their inability, intentionally not acknowledging truth. He came indeed to fulfill them. No better example we can have in the manner he instructed his disciples to gather the leftovers after feeding the multitudes. After feeding 5000 he was left with 12 baskets indicating he fed them as the Son of man. "And they did all eat, and were filled: and they took up of the fragments that remained twelve baskets full"(Mt.14.20-22). Strghtaway he had to leave so he gathered them for carrying about. He was presenting his Father with He did in his name. On another occasion he fed four thousand in the wilderness, "And he took the seven loaves and the fishes, and gave thanks, and brake them, and gave to his disciples, and the disciples to the multitude./And they did all eat, and were filled: and they took up of the broken meat that was left seven baskets full."(Mt.15.36-37) Here the Spirit gives us as in the previous case seven which is a whole number. As the Word become flesh he was presenting his testimony to the Law or the Word was God. God separated His sanctified ones in which 144 a constant number was His seal of approval, So we shall understand significance of this voice: "And lo a voice from heaven, saying, This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased." (Mt.3.17) In the vision of Ezekiel it was noise, and with his Son he is testifying he was his only begotten Son. " Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil."(Mt.5.17)



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