Hebrews 11:1-12
1 Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen.
What does mankind want to see? The Movie "MIB" has a quote saying.
Men in Black (1997)
Kay: A person is smart. People are dumb, panicky dangerous animals and you know it. Fifteen hundred years ago everybody knew the Earth was the center of the universe. Five hundred years ago, everybody knew the Earth was flat, and fifteen minutes ago, you knew that humans were alone on this planet.
Apply this quote to the Life and Ministry of Jesus. What were people thinking?
1. Jesus' first Sermon of His Ministry: 2 to 3 thousand people "All of Capernaum" arrive because they see Jesus has made the blind see, the deaf hear and the lame walk. The Signs in the Bible of the Messiah.
2. A Large Crowd saw the Widow of Nain receive her son back from the dead on his funeral bier - Jesus merely touched the bier.
3. Multitudes - 5,000 want to be fed and are.
4. Lazarus is healed and the people following Rome are panicked.
5. The Road to Emmaus we find "All of Jerusalem knows" - roughly 500,000 ***. Multitudes as in all the women were brave to witness Good Friday.
6. Populations - The Populations of Israel were said to be rather steadfast.
The Torah contains the number of (adult, male) Hebrews freed from Egypt, the descendants of the seventy sons and grandsons of Jacob who took up their residence in that country. Altogether, including Levites, the number given is 611,730. For non-Levites, this represents men fit for military service, i.e. between twenty and sixty years of age; among the Levites, the relevant number is those obligated in temple service (males between twenty and fifty years of age). This would imply a population of about 3,000,000.
The Census of David is said to have recorded 1,300,000 males over twenty years of age, which would imply a population of over 5,000,000.
Tacitus declares Jerusalem at 70 A.D. fall contained 600,000 persons ***; Josephus, there were as many as 1,100,000 slain in the destruction of Jerusalem in AD 70. We have to remember there were three raids. The number of willing exiles who returned from Babylon is given at 42,360.
After Jesus died, The 36 Acres of the Temple contained in Biblical language multitudes upon multitudes and the Logistics of Josephus place this at 2 million.
Did you ever wonder why? Why?
All 5 million people could have turned up to see the Blind See. The Deaf Hear. The Lame Walk. All the Signs of the Messiah - told for millenniums. The Dead were raised. The Temple Official Jairus proclaimed his dead 12-year-old daughter found Life in Jesus. Yes, at the Festivals, the crowds looked for Jesus and this could be 2 million Jews.
I suppose, given the multitudes (about 5,000) routinely the crowds rotated. People had jobs and farms and families.
The people had to see with "faith" to believe. Routinely Jesus created Awe and Fear and Wonder. People had to lose Jesus and miss Him - to believe this was true. Jesus responded to this with something that could cause us all to weep. "Days will come."
Days will Come where we would all hope to put our eyes on Jesus.
And the millions had to know He was gone to understand. We seem to need faith to believe the greater facts of existence.
GOD IS WITH US - EMMANUEL... AMEN! Say that with me. AMEN.
2 For by it the people of old received their commendation.
3 By faith we understand that the universe was created by the word of God,
so that what is seen
was not made out of things that are visible.
4 By faith Abel offered to God a more acceptable sacrifice than Cain,
through which he was commended as righteous, God commending him by accepting his gifts. And through his faith, though he died, he still speaks.
5 By faith Enoch was taken up so that he should not see death, and he was not found, because God had taken him. Now before he was taken he was commended as having pleased God.
6 And without faith it is impossible to please him, for whoever would draw near to God must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who seek him.
7 By faith Noah, being warned by God concerning events as yet unseen,
in reverent fear constructed an ark for the saving of his household. By this, he condemned the world and became an heir of the righteousness that comes by faith.
8 By faith Abraham obeyed when he was called to go out to a place that he was to receive as an inheritance. And he went out, not knowing where he was going. 9 By faith, he went to LIVE in the land of promise, as in a foreign land, living in tents with Isaac and Jacob, heirs with him of the same promise.
10 For he was looking forward to the city that has foundations, whose designer and builder is God.
11 By faith Sarah herself received power to conceive, even when she was past the age, since she considered him faithful who had promised. 12 Therefore from one man, and him as good as dead, were born descendants as many as the stars of heaven and as many as the innumerable grains of sand by the seashore.
Abba,
SEEN!
Kay was RIGHT! We are not alone on this Planet we daily remind ourselves is a WORK OF GOD!!!
You tell us we are surrounded within and by a great cloud of witnesses.
Therefore Father, Jesus and HOLY SPIRIT - We are getting out our Prayers and We are Going to Pray _ - - - HUGELY because of Your Word. We ask Your good and willing Blessings upon our lives and path. Keep us on the Path You want of us. And we Know You Will. In Jesus.
We take our selves unseen and those who have Dreamed of Heaven - Seen - Straight to the Loving Arms of Jesus. Up there on His Chest.
We KNOW - the weather is Changeable. And we pray the Daily MERCIES of GOD pulling us to Your Joy.
We ask for the strengthening of Joy!!!
The ability to find this Joyous Path You have for us.
Finding You, Abba, in Willingness. You, Our Father, Your good pleasure to Give us the Kingdom. Jesus tells us yesterday, today and tomorrow, "The Kingdom of Heaven is at hand." Wow. WOW.Jesus tells us we can ask for Wisdom and be given Wisdom. Jesus tells us we can pray for more of Heaven on earth. Jesus tells us to pray God's Good Will is accomplished on earth.
We ask the Love, Joy, Peace, Gentleness, Goodness of Your Goodness.
Goodness in life of Genesis 1 and 2. Your Joy of John 1, 14, 15 and 16. We pray this Covering OVER our concerns. We pray this for our very selves. We pray this with Jesus over the ones we Love!!!
UNSEEN!
I want to Thank JESUS - because I have been praying for Love and Living WATER Flowing and seeping and nourishing. And I am Seeing Results.
I THANK GOD - because all these answered prayers have a this - that reason. Father God can be the quiet type. And He is Answering.
We pray Jesus with us in the people You have given us. We pray this over the prayer concerns asked of us. Over the news. Our culture. This nation. The believers all over the world covering us with Love.
We anticipate a Good Night of Rest. And of Your mercies RENEW tomorrow again. Thank You, Abba, for Jesus and the Blessings and Promises You willingly Give. Amen. Amen. Amen.
♔ Lord Jesus Saves! †
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