 The Wilderness
The year of the wilderness temptation of Christ is the very beginning of Daniel’s seventieth week which was in appriximately 27 A.D. It starts at the baptism of the Lord Jesus, and then immediately goes into the wilderness temptation.
Matthew 3:1
In those days came John the Baptist, preaching in the wilderness of Judaea.
Judaea was one of the three Roman provinces in what later became known as Palestine. In the south was Judaea, in the center was Samaria, and to the north was Galilee. John is baptizing here in the wilderness of Judaea. It’s believed that he was baptizing just east of the city of Jericho, in the Jordan River, which would have been north and east of Jerusalem.
This is where the Pharisees came to John and John refused to baptize the Pharisees and the Sadducees.
Matthew 3:7
But when he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees come to his baptism, he said unto them, O generation of vipers, who hath warned you to flee from the wrath to come?
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 old jerusalem
The old city of Jerusalem city went from being a glory to a shame. Take a look at the overall chronological picture of the city of Jerusalem from the time of David when he conquered that city named Jebus which was Jerusalem in the time of Christ.
Psalm 46 verse 4.
There is a river, the streams whereof shall make glad the city of God, the holy place of the tabernacles of the most High.
Psalm 48 verse 1
Great is the LORD, and greatly to be praised in the city of our God, in the mountain of his holiness.
The word mountain is symbolic for kingdom. Is the kingdom of God's holiness in present day Jerusalem? No - it is not there. So the city has gone from a glory to a shame.
Revelation 11 verse 8
And their dead bodies shall lie in the street of the great city, which spiritually is called Sodom and Egypt, where also our Lord was crucified.
Jesus was crucified in Jerusalem so the Lord was designating that Jerusalem is Sodom and Egypt. Sodom moral corruption, Egypt religious bondage. It went from glory to a shame.
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 New Wine in Old Bottles
Matthew Chapter 9, verses 16 and 17 reads thus. No man putteth a piece of new cloth unto an old garment, for that which is put in
to fill up, to fill it up taketh from the garment, and the rent is made worse. Neither do men put new wine into old bottles: else the bottles break, and the wine runneth out, and the bottles perish: but they put new wine into new bottles, and both are preserved.
What was Jesus talking about? We must consider the age and time in which Jesus lived. Jesus lived in that period of time in the nation of Judah, not the northern kingdom of Israel, but the southern kingdom of Judah. That nation was controlled by the Pharisees, the Sadducees and the Herodians. These were religious parties, and the Herodians were a political party. It was the Pharisees that controlled that nation.
Jesus was born, and He came to destroy something that was old, and to establish something that was new. Now what did He come to destroy? He came to destroy the old Levitical, religious ordinances that were laid down in the Old Covenant. He did not come to overthrow moral law. He did not come to overthrow the law of statutes and judgments, because moral laws, statues and judgments, we must live by, because they were given to govern our personal life and also our national life.
Jesus came to challenge the old system of religious sacrifice, animal sacrifice, and in the animal sacrifice, that law of ordinances, only the law of ordinances, He said, I am come to bring truth and life and grace and glory. He said, I am not come to put new wine of the New Covenant into the old bottles of the Old Covenant. I'm going to make a brand new framework into which I operate. I'm not come to patch up the old garment of the sacrificial system that was given unto Moses. I am bringing a brand new sacrificial system. I'm going to give my body as a perfect sacrifice.
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 Death
phrase. They call it the Fall of Adam, because he fell from a state of perfection to imperfection. But the Bible doesn’t use that term, if I’m, if I’m correct, it doesn’t use that term, fall, it uses, death. The day you eat thereof, Adam, ye shall die. We are in a state of death and death means separation.
Special guest Ron Poch explains Jesus came to give us abundant life. God is interested in restoring us to full fellowship with Himself. When Jesus was on the cross, and there are many statements that, that have been made and been preached on, but one
of the last statements that He made was, Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do. Restoration of what God has is based upon the forgiveness of sins, through the sacrifice of Jesus Christ on Calvary. He is our sacrifice, and whatever you have done, whatever sins you’ve committed, it cannot keep you from the grace of God.
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 Clouds over a Mountain
Joel is dealing with his time period and is talking about a people that were going to come and take Judah captive. We can learn some things about the day of the Lord that is at hand, maybe that we're beginning to sense, maybe this fear and apprehension and worry that's over the land today, could be because people intuitively know something is at hand . Ee are living in a special time
period known as the day of the Lord. It's a day of darkness, gloominess, a day of clouds, thick darkness. All of this is symbolic language, telling us that the day of the Lord is, is coming, judgment upon
wicked nations. The writer of Hebrews tells us that in the last days, God is going to shake all the things that could be shaken so that the only things that remain are the things of Him, and this is what we are facing today.
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