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Jesus in the wilderness
The temptation of the Lord in Matthew 4 has long been a thoroughly discussed passage of scripture. In my household I recall my parents and grandparents often discussing the circumstances surrounding this intriguing event. Although, in hindsight, I see how far removed these conversations were compared to the real purpose of the Lords experience, and there meaning.

The Lords temptation occurred straight after his baptism and would be a continual experience all his life. In many ways you could say his whole life was one temptation Luke 22:28. To me his life declares total dedication and reliance on His Fathers Word; to trust in its power, and to overcome the desires of his flesh. Because he was - Heb 4:15-16 - we are now able to be in him “constantly” through baptism Luke 12:50. A great blessing Acts 3:26.

The example of Gods continual support of His Son, through all his temptations (many more than recorded) is comforting. He provides us with assurance that Jesus will also stay constantly with us, through ours.

In Matt 4 we will find our humanity, in all its weaknesses, however by contrast, we can appreciate the divine attributes of true discipleship, the use of Gods Power and how He is victorious in temptation.


Heb 4:15-16
Heb 4:15 For we do not have a high priest who is unable to sympathize with our weaknesses, but one who in every respect has been tempted as we are, yet without sin.

Heb 4:16 Let us then with confidence draw near to the throne of grace, that we may receive mercy and find grace to help in time of need.

The above verses teach us the Lords experience was all encompassing with regard to the nature of flesh and blood, and all its propensities. In every respect he was comprehensively tried and tested yet without sin. And now we have an active High Priest who is able to perform his duties with total compassion understanding our all our weaknesses. However, Jesus never experienced the emotional & physical pain of sin. For this we can be most pleased as the Apostle exclaimed in Heb 7:26.

On a personal note when speaking of temptation we must speak from experience.

Temptation for me is a "feeling", an overwhelming impulse which you often know can easily end in sin. The Temptation itself is not sin (James 1:14) but to contemplate or encourage it, is. Often we find ourselves playing with temptation and this as we know can be deadly. From Matt 4 and other passages we know the Lord felt these same impulses and suffered deeply by them.

It may do us well to consider what might some of the Lords temptation be and how did they affect him during his walk.

I would say he would consider his mortal weakness. If we read the Messianic Psalm 22:14-17 this speaks to a Lord who felt the weakness of his frail body. If we consider how much responsibility was upon his shoulders Isaiah 53:6 compared with Heb 9:16 we know our very transgressions were upon him. Meaning the forgiveness of our sins became his responsibility. This is duanting when we consider I was not known to the Lord when he lived his life! Yet he suffered the burden of my sins.

His Father demanded absolute perfection and temptation was the continual distraction from his purpose. There were times when Jesus was very low; some have considered him to be depressed because very few would listen to his message. The continual assault of the “vipers” those Pharisees who plotted and planned for his death.

Jesus Christ also experienced heavy grief, the kind we cannot imagine. It was within this grief that he felt the overwhelming desire to pray to his Father – if you can visualise having a will to not go to the cross, but compelled to pray to an opposite Will to be followed, it’s not a wonder his sweat were as drops of blood.

We could also mention his loneliness and the looming death which hung over his life from a very young age. How would he endure all the insults of the day and what about the next day and so on.

And finally and quite possibly the most feared of all temptations which few people consider. His separation from his Father if only three days see Jesus last words Psalm 31:5.

Matt 4 to be continued...
 

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Hi 'truth'(lower case),

The title of your thread:"Jesus in the Wilderness Although he was a son, he learned obedience through what he suffered ." FALSE.

How do you propose that Jesus learned obedience through what he suffered?

He did not suffer as a result of any disobedience within Himself.

He had no disobedience whatsoever of which He needed to repent of.



 

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Hi 'truth'(lower case),

The title of your thread:"Jesus in the Wilderness Although he was a son, he learned obedience through what he suffered ." FALSE.

How do you propose that Jesus learned obedience through what he suffered?

He did not suffer as a result of any disobedience within Himself.

He had no disobedience whatsoever of which He needed to repent of.

Hello Person,

Are you assuming one must be disobedient before obedience can be "learned".

Heb 5:6-9

[sup]7[/sup]In the days of his flesh, Jesus offered up prayers and supplications, with loud cries and tears, to him (God) who was able to save him from death, and he was heard because of his reverence. [sup]8[/sup]Although he was a son, he learned obedience through what he suffered. [sup]9[/sup]And being made perfect, he became the source of eternal salvation to all who obey him,

Does the above record place the emphasis on "disobedience"?

We must remember he lived in the flesh and the sufferings he experienced in the flesh caused him to depend on his Father; this total and utter dependency produced in him prayer, shouting and weeping with strong tears? Why you might ask?

Because only his Father could redeem his life from death and the grave.

You are right, he had nothing to repent, as he did no sin. However in his obedience with many sufferings he learned a dependency which had its perfect work "not my will but thine” in his death.

If you look at the beginning of his life you will see this gradual learning of wisdom which lead to obedience. Luke 2:52

Thank you

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The Temptation of Jesus in the Wilderness
Observations made from Matthew 4 reveal to us three seperate temptations, followed by three seperate replies. It is not too difficult to align these responses with some Old Testament scriptures, namely Deuteronomy 6 and 8. These chapters have their background in three significant incidents in Israel's deliverance as a nation:

(1) the provision of manna in the wilderness (Deut 8:3),

(2) the deliverance from Egypt (Deut 6:12-13),

(3) the supply of water from the rock (Deut 6:16).

The manna, the water, and the deliverance all point forward to the work of Jesus Christ both now in Matt 4 and upon his return to the Earth.

We might ask why three seperate temptation and three answers?

Well all three temptations are identified with what the Apostle John later wrote:

"For all that is in the world, (1) the lust of the flesh, (2) and the lust of the eyes, (3) and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world" (1 John 2:16).

(1) The first temptation of Jesus played on the lust of the flesh, as the tempter used the natural hunger of the Lord to (try to) draw him from complete trust in the Father.

(2) The second temptation appealed to the pride of life, as from the dizzy heights of the pinnacle of the temple to where the Lord was taken..., the adversary explained the effect such a miracle would have on the people of the land.

(3) The third temptation paraded the lust of the eyes before the Lord, as the tempter described to him the kingdoms of the world and offered him the power and the glory of them.

We find in Luke's record of this event (Luke 4:13) the temptation in the wilderness is described as "every kind of temptation" in other words all temptations can be categorised in 1 John 2:16. Luke varies the order of the temptation to conform to John's statement in 1 John 2:16, while Matthew's account records them in the order in which they actually occurred.

All the desires and strong feelings of the flesh can be summed up in these three forms of temptation.

Disciples of the lord will know these internal desires and there ability to overpower us in times of weakness. It has forever been the way from the first sin, until the last.

So what does Matt 4:3, 5-6, 8 – Gen 3:6 & 1 John 2:16 have in common?

Well the answer is most significant in terms of understanding "human nature" and its propensity to sin. Is it significant that sin first made its appearance in the world, after the flesh had been excited through these three emotions?

We see Eve looking upon the forbidden tree, and saw that it was...

(1) "good for food (lust of the flesh), and

(2) pleasant to the eyes (lust of eyes),

(3) And a tree to be desired to make one wise (pride of life), and took of the
fruit thereof" (Gen 3:6).

Sadly she desired to be as God (Gen 3:6RSV), which is now a hope for all who do His will (Zech 12:8; Rom 5:3; 2 Pet 1:4; Rev 3:12).

Unfortunately Eve took the wrong way to be like God, she grasped at something which was forbidden her. However where she failed, Jesus succeeded. And for this we can be most thankful.

We know Eve brought sin into the world by submitting to an alternative way of thinking (carnal), a mind which was not from above but from beneath, earthly. John 3:31; 2 Cor 11:3 (note: Christians today are warned not to allow their minds to be deceived from the simplicity which is in Jesus Christ)

You will also note from 2 Cor 11:3 that Paul refers to the actual serpent and not some supernatural being. Paul directs us to the “mind” where the problem of sin is found. 1 Peter 4:1 tells us to have the same mind as who? Yes, Jesus Christ, and what did he suffer in the... The Flesh!

So here in the Matt 4 we see Jesus upholding the righteousness of God by allowing the living Word to overcome. While Eve grasped at equality with God, Jesus thought it "not a thing to be grasped" (Phil 2:6). But instead "humbled himself, and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross". Because of that: "God also hath highly exalted him, and given him a name which is above every name: That at the name of Jesus every knee should bow and that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father (Phil 2:9-11).

Jesus in humbling himself in obedience, allowed the Word of God to exalt Jesus in victory over sin; he overcame the fleshly impulses and acted upon divine thoughts...all pointing to a time when he would destroy deaths power over him (Heb 2:14).

But for now it was sufficient for angels to come and minister unto him, after the tempter left him for a season.
 

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Luk 4:1 And Jesus being full of the Holy Spirit returned from Jordan, and was led by the Spirit into the wilderness,

Jesus is revealed as one being led by the spirit into the wilderness to be tested. If we consider Deut 8:2,5 we see God leading Israel out for a similar test. But now it was on an individual basis Hos 11:1 & Matt 2:15. We can identify with Jesus here as we are called to be led by the spirit mind (true children) through life’s wilderness. Romans 8 provides us insight into being “led by the spirit”. Romans 8:5 “inclined toward the spirit” Rom 8:5 “the mind of the spirit Rom 8:6 the indwelling of the spirit – either of God and Jesus Rom 8:9-11. In Col 3:1-2 we are told to set our thinking on things above as a means of obtaining this mind through the living Word.

Even for Jesus who is the son of God (Rom 8:3) and when we compare Luk 3:22 with Luk 4:1 we begin to understand that God gave up his beloved son that we might become His sons and daughters by adoption Rom 8:15 Romans 8:19-21. This is related to "huiothesis""sonship" or adoption. We see here early in his ministry a victory which would lay the foundation for his entire life.

Those like Jesus who are now in him and being led by the spirit mind of God will be revealed as such upon the Masters return.

However...

These three temptations put the spirit in Jesus to the ultimate test, unlike Israel who sadly turned the test around on God. They tested Him in the wilderness (Psa 95:8-9), but Jesus was a perfect son Luk 3:22 who pleased Him in all ways.

If you compare Luk 3:22 with Rom 8:14; Gal 5:18: God did not provide His son anytime to enjoy his blessing and was very quickly tested by Him. It is also evident this testing was by divine intervention (cp Gen 22:1; 1 Co 10:13).

Interesting reference to Wild beasts in Mark 1:13 …which certainly gives us a taste of how he overcame in Psa 8:1-3, 4-6, 7-9.

We shall see that Jesus exercised his dominion over the wild beasts and didn’t allow his thinking to be influenced by his fleshly nature…no, not once!

What a beautiful example of obedience.
 

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Luke 4:2 for forty days, being tempted by the devil. And he ate nothing during those days. And when they were ended, he was hungry.

Just as God tested Israel His firstborn nation 40 years (Deut 8:3) in the wilderness, so God tested his beloved Son 40 days. Sadly for Israel all ended without the intended perfection achieved. Unlike Abraham & Isaac Heb 11:17 as a wonderful rich example of God and Jesus, the Jews had always proven themselves to be Matt 16:4.

Being tempted of the devil has two possibilities.

1. An external distraction of some kind

2. Or human nature 1 Peter 4:1

The devil is also called the "tempter" in Mat 4:3, and "Satan" in Mar 1:13. Possibly a member of the delegation from the High Priest and other authorities (cp Mat 3:7), who see Christ baptized, anointed as the "Lamb of God" (John 1:29), and hope to find a way to neutralize his influence: 'Come, join with us, and you will "succeed" far beyond your expectations!'

If in fact someone came to investigate Jesus' credentials as his reputation was becoming heard afar off. We know that they also came to see how John Baptist was and in fact if he is the Christ. Cp John 1:19: "Now this was John's testimony when the Jews of Jerusalem sent priests and Levites to ask him who he was." This could have led, directly, to their need to "examine" the would-be "Messiah" to whom John pointed (John 1:23-29).

What is interesting about the reference of “tempter” in the gospels are all external tempters: Mat 16:1; 19:3; 22:15-18; 26:59-63; John 8:6; Luke 11:15,16.

The background events leading up to His temptation are of interest. We see John actively preaching about Jesus role in this divinely appointed process.

The following passage trial is presented to build a background of events leading up to these temptations. The scriptures are certainly written for our learning and investigation can prove very useful.

Please read:

Matt 3:1-11

Mark 1:1-11

Luke 3:2-23

John 1:19-34

In these passages let us connect the dots so to speak – I think you will find this an interesting exercise, one which will open the Scriptures for us.

The word of God came to John and he was found preaching around the wilderness of Judea. The message that John preached was the baptism of repentance for the remission of sins. We are told the “ALL the land of Judea, and they of Jerusalem, ALL the region round about Jordon were baptised in the river Jordon. Amongst “the multitude” that came out to be baptised it makes special mention of the “Pharisees and Sadducees”. The religious leaders were always in and around John as he drew immense crowds away from the temple and synagogues and John couldn’t be all that popular with the elders.

Imagine if one emptied your church? How popular would he be?

John was unaware who the messiah was, but preached about his coming and what his position would be in Israel.

The Jews, obviously the religious leaders, sent priests and Levites to try and find out who John the Baptist was. They specially were trying to find out if he was the Messiah. It must be remembered both John’s and Jesus births were remembered by all. Both Matt 2 and Like 2 would relate many things surrounding this time period. All of these events would be filling the minds of all when John bursts upon the scene with his thundering message of a coming Messiah. It was all of this that was behind their interrogation of John.

IMPORTANT: Why did the Pharisees question John the Baptist? Read Deut 18.

Especially Deut 18:15,16,17,18,19,20.

All of a sudden Jesus comes on the scene who is to be even more righteous than John – and after some discussion John agrees to baptised Jesus and so Gods declaration of “Thou are my beloved son; in thee I am well pleased” must have been spread abroad.

The questions that came to John came as a result of the great hype surrounding Jesus the one who he prophesied. The question I ask you here is why were these leaders so compelled to chase down John the Baptist and Jesus Christ to establish who they are?

Do you think its a question worthy of an answer?

I believe the Law of Moses demanded action of them based on Deut 18:9-22 they were obeying the command to establish, if in fact, this Jesus was the promised Messiah, the one greater than Moses.

REMEMBER DUET 18 commanded that false prophets should be put to death!

The Jews had two options only. If Jesus was a prophet like unto Moses then he must be followed, if not they must put him to death. Ever wondered why they continually ask Jesus for a sign? Because Jesus had to pass their test to see if he was the Christ. Matt 12:38-39 Matt 16:1,4 Acts 4:16

To me it makes perfect sense that God would allow his son 40 days before being tested to see if in fact he is the promised Messiah.

It worthy of noting that Jesus, in this instance performed none of the signs being requested.

1. Stone into bread

2. Taking the Kingdom of God to himself

3. Provoking God to protect him should he cast himself from the pinnacle of the Temple.

What is also interesting about the language concerning these temptations.

“If thou be the son of God” Matt 27:40 the exact same phrase is used and spoken of by whom at the foot of the cross?

Matt 27:39,40,41,42

The Chief Priest and his supporters.

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Luk 4:3 And the devil said unto him, If thou be the Son of God, command this stone that it be made bread.

I have a question.

Before Jesus set one foot into that wilderness do you think he knew why he was going into the wilderness to be tempted? Do you think he understood Deut 8? He trusted in being led out into the wilderness and not once did he doubt the Fathers purpose in testing him!!!

I put to you that Jesus Christ was totally equip for the test and knew the scriptures and the very nature of the temptation, before he set out into the wilderness with the wild beasts.

So while Jesus was ready for the trial he had to be able to feel the temptation within him. There must be a connection with what is being suggested with his inner thoughts and feelings.

In fact, Jesus would know the very reason he was in that wilderness was because of his sonship.

The question “if thou be the son of God” directly after Luke 3:22 is the very reason why God took the trouble with Israel Deut 8:5 compare Heb 12:5-6. If only Israel knew the motives behind His discipline they would have been more willing to obey instead they rebelled and complained.

Consider what they did to God:-

Psa 95:9 when your fathers (Israel) (1) put me to the test and (2) put me to the proof, (3) though they had seen my work.

Compared with...

Heb 3:8 do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion, on the day of testing in the wilderness,

Heb 3:9 where your fathers put me to the test and saw my works for forty years.

Are you putting God through this test? Don’t fool yourself we all do regularly, complain about this or that.

More than ever we fail to understand the great lengths God will go to for a Father Son relationship both with Israel and his very son.

Only the Lord Jesus Christ alone has ever grasped at that relationship without a partition of sin between them. All that separated Father and Son was a corrupting body and a will which tried to have its way, but was never allowed.

Our temptations are there to test our allegiance to God whether or not we will heed the diabolos and its lusts or the Divine Will from above.

If you give in to temptation and sin, you have tested the Father put Him to the test, and remember that generation in the wilderness where condemned to death!

Who is the diabolos?

No greater scriptural proof can be Heb 2:14; Rom 8:3 Eph 2:14-16 is ample proof of who the diabolos is!

This temptation is teaching us how to destroy the devil!

Heb 2:14 Since therefore the children share in flesh and blood, he himself likewise partook of the same things, that through death he might destroy the one who has the power of death, that is, the devil,

Rom 8:3 For God has done what the law, weakened by the flesh, could not do. By sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and for sin, he condemned sin in the flesh,

Eph 2:14 For he himself is our peace, who has made us both one and has broken down in his flesh the dividing wall of hostility

Eph 2:15 by abolishing the law of commandments expressed in ordinances, that he might create in himself one new man in place of the two, so making peace,

Eph 2:16 and might reconcile us both to God in one body through the cross, thereby killing the hostility (enmity Gen 3:15).

HOT STEAMY BREAD – CAN YOU SMELL IT? The flesh has needs! It must eat to survive!

Jesus didn’t hunger for forty days...so he wasn’t hungry for forty days. Deut 8:3 God suffered Israel not to eat to teach them man doesn’t need to live by bread alone, but by the Word of God! The Lord wasn’t hungry for forty days because he lived by the spirit!

BUT!!!

Afterwards, Jesus hungered!!!!!

Why?

Because it didn’t matter how much of the spirit Jesus took in his mortal fleshly body, he still needed food to live!

Many people miss this lesson regarding the temptation.

Afterward Jesus became very hungry.

Jesus wasn’t asked to fast for 41 days for he knew Deut 8 (a day for a year in the wilderness) and understood the task at hand and prepared himself for it. His body experienced and overwhelming urge to eat and that was right after such a test. The spirit doesn’t change human nature that required a death, but certainly the Lord experienced the need for food. Not unlike us if we fasted for days etc.

We must also realise if God had asked him to go longer he would have and he did this dear reader, for you and I.

Imagine being tempted at your weakest, imagine being tempted when you are at you lowest ebb.

If this was us we would be delusional and totally distracted with obsession of hunger and seeing hallucinations.

Imagine the concentration of Jesus on these stones?

And the tempter said “command this stone that it be made bread” Jesus mind goes back to Deut 8 and now once more is confirmed his sonship. For he knew this test was for that very reason that he should behave as the Son of God. He wasnt there to give commands but to keep them!

Consider these verses about being Gods Children in the context of Luke 4:3

Deut 8:5 Know then in your heart that, as a man disciplines his son, the LORD your God disciplines you.

Prov 13:24 Whoever spares the rod hates his son, but he who loves him is diligent to discipline him.

Heb 12:6 For the Lord disciplines the one he loves, and chastises every son whom he receives."

Heb 12:7 If ye endure chastening, God dealeth with you as with sons; for what son is he whom the father chasteneth not?

If you be the son of God? The very temptation proves that he was!

Heb 12:6-7 is taken from Deut 8:5

God dealt with Jesus as a son ...Please respond if you understand the lesson?
 

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Luke 4:4 And Jesus answered him, "It is written, 'Man shall not live by bread alone.'

For Jesus to overcome all temptations he was required to learn "all" Scripture. God certainly helped His Son to grow and become strong Isa 11:3 for His purpose. Jesus not only knew the Scriptures, but was expected to apply them to any given situation or temptation, so here Jesus “confines” himself to one section of scripture Deut 8:3; 6:13; 6:16. A great lesson is applied here friends! Please take heed. If we have a sin which so easily besets us Heb 12:1, we ought to search out the Word of God which has the power "if" relyed upon to overcome temptation.

See Jer 15:16; Job 23:10-12; John 4:32-34.

Luke 4:4 does not see Jesus quote the Law of Moses to overcome these temptations; he went to a section which demonstrated righteousness. Deut 8:3; 6:13; 6:16

The Apostle Pauls Testimony of how Jesus overcame a powerful lesson for us to learn..

Paul in Romans 10:4-6 is quoting from the book of Deut. “For Christ is the “end” of the law for righteousness to everyone that’s got faith”. In other words Law doesn’t produce righteousness, FAITH does!!!

Deuteronomy (FAITH) QUOTED!

Rom 10:4 For Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to everyone that believeth (faith).

Leviticus (LAW) QUOTED! Lev 18:5

Rom 10:5 For Moses describeth the righteousness which is of the law, That the man which doeth those things shall live by them.

Deuteronomy (FAITH) QUOTED

Rom 10:6 But the righteousness which is of faith speaketh on this wise, Say not in thine heart, Who shall ascend into heaven? (that is, to bring Christ down from above:)

Deuteronomy is all about faith and not law. Here Jesus is quoting Deut 8:3; 6:13; 6:16 and teaches us one fundamental lesson - John 16:33; 1 John 5:4.

We might say the greatest commandment is written in this book = Deut 6v4.

So Jesus says “It is written” Deut 8:3

Deut 8:3 And he humbled thee, and suffered thee to hunger, and fed thee with manna, which thou knewest not, neither did thy fathers know; that he might make thee know that man doth not live by bread only, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of the LORD doth man live.

Now the difference between Jesus and Israel is Israel didn’t live by the Words which proceed out of the mouth of God....they wanted to forced God to speak - Exod 16:4.

Can you see the difference between Jesus responding in Luke 4:4 compared with Israel in the Wilderness?

Exo 16:3 And the children of Israel said unto them, Would to God we had died by the hand of the LORD in the land of Egypt, when we sat by the flesh pots, and when we did eat bread to the full; for ye have brought us forth into this wilderness, to kill this whole assembly with hunger.

Israel didn’t release God didn’t want to kill them, He wanted to teach them to be "patient" (which comes out of faith James 1:3) and rely of Him to speak, he knew their needs and He was all too willing to provide them with food. But they complained!

Exo 16:4 Then said the LORD unto Moses, Behold, I will rain bread from heaven for you; and the people shall go out and gather a certain rate every day, that I may prove them, whether they will walk in my law, or no.

God could have given them bread in many different ways, with various means, but He choose to send it from Heaven to teach them their real food is in every Word which proceeds from His mouth.

First account of bread in Gen 3:19 – we work...to eat...to die!

Look up John 6:31, 50, 51, 58

People of this world have two (2) options before them.

1. Eat physical bread and labour, toil and perish in the dust Gen 3:19 or...

2. Eat and consume Jesus Christ in John 6:31, 50, 51, John 6:58 stand in faith and live forever.

Jesus being a son knew that he could only live by the heavenly bread (Word) which proceeds from His mouth. Even Jesus! Had to lean upon his Father and except from His mouth whatever words proceed and obey.

Are you feeding on Christ daily?

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Luke 4:5 And the devil, taking him up into an high mountain, shewed unto him all the kingdoms of the world in a moment of time.

In Matt 4:8 we have written an “exceeding high” mountain! If we go over to Ezekiel 40:2 we see God showed Ezekiel the Kingdom on Earth and the Temple from an “high” mountain, but Jesus is shown all the kingdoms of this world.

What for? And what is the connection with Ezek 40:2?

Jesus knew that before the Kingdom of God would come a lamb would need to be lifted up on a cross and that without his sacrifice the Ezek 40:2 vision, could not happen.

So we need to appreciate that Jesus Christ “seeing” all the kingdoms of this world his mind no doubt went back to the High Mountain and vision of the Kingdom Age.

You know what day God showed Ezekiel the vision of the Kingdom in all its glory?

Ezek 40:1. (Day of Atonement) Ezekiel saw this vision on the very day they took the Passover lamb which pointed forward to a suffering lamb John 1:29 first before glory could be revealed in the earth.

· Ezekiel saw the Glory of God on the Day of Atonement

· Jesus was shown the glory of man from an exceedingly high mountain

Jesus is shown the entire habitable world with all its subjects as something he could possess. The Lord was offered the present order of the world “cosmos” in Matt 4. In other words Jesus was being offered a sin filled world with all its problems.

If you were Jesus would you like to inherit this cosmos?

Compared to the vision of Gods Temple in Ezek 40?

No!

Jesus will be King on Earth when he has established a new world order in righteousness. The saints with Jesus will create a new arrangement of things in the earth as speak below in Heb 2:5.

Heb 2:5 Now it was not to angels that God subjected the world to come, of which we are speaking.

In other words the future earth is not been created for angels but for the saints of the most High God. Jesus knew of a world to come. Heb 1:8-12, the Kingdom age which will be in the “last days”. Also spoken of as ” the coming age" Heb 6:5. WE could say that upon Jesus’ ascension this future age had already begun however its experience is yet to be revealed in the earth.

Jesus never wanted the current earth is its state or order of things. Luke 12:14 provides great insight into the mind and attitude of Jesus while walking this earth. The man wanted Jesus to make arrangements but he was not willing to do so. Why because John 18:36 showed he took no part in the Kingdoms of Men.

But why does Luke tell us that Jesus was shown the entire world “in a moment of time”?

Luke wants us to know it’s a "stigme" of time, a pin prick of time! That’s how long he had to see it.

“moment of time” stigmē stig-may' Feminine of G4742; a point of time, that is, an instant: - moment.

Do you know in Gods eyes based on God time the kingdoms of this world are but a flicker compared to the future Kingdom of God on Earth.

1Jn 2:17 And the world is passing away along with its desires, but whoever does the will of God abides forever.

WHAT IS THE CONTEXT OF THIS WORLD PASSING AWAY?

SEE 1 Jn 2:16

Do you think John understood what Jesus Christ second coming will achieve in the earth? Do you see the problem is found in the flesh, which is the source of evil and sin! Compare His Kingdom will have no end. Dan 2:44 Rev 22:5

John said this world will pass away, and this age is going in a moment of time.

So look at what the false accuser offers Jesus.

Luke 4:6 and said to him, "To you I will give all this authority and their glory, for it has been delivered to me, and I give it to whom I will.

That above red text is a lie because Jesus knew – Dan 4:17!!!!! Jesus knew the kingdoms change Dan 2. He knew this offer empty and had no substance.

Luke 4:7 If you, then, will worship me, it will all be yours."

Luke 4:8 And Jesus answered him, "It is written, "'You shall worship the Lord your God, and him only shall you serve.'" Duet 6:13 quoted.

Rom 13:14?

I am left wondering how much of this world is on our homes, how many temptations have we given into that we have been promised through marketing and advertising? The things of this world which are gods to those who worship them (we are all guilty). Deut 6:14

We ought to like Jesus say "Get behind me, Satan! You are a hindrance to me. For you are not setting your mind on the things of God, but on the things of man."

Are we able to recall what is “written” that we be not tempted with evil.

Alethos