John 6:1-21
After this Jesus went away to the other side of the Sea of Galilee, which is the Sea of Tiberias.
2 And a large crowd was following Him, because they saw the signs that He was doing on the sick. 3 Jesus went up on the mountain, and there He sat down with His disciples. 4 Now the Passover, the feast of the Jews, was at hand. 5 Lifting up His eyes, then, and seeing that a large crowd was coming toward Him, Jesus said to Philip,
“Where are we to buy bread, so that these people may eat?” 6 He said this to test him, for He Himself knew what He would do.
7 Philip answered Him, “Two hundred denarii worth of bread would not be enough for each of them to get a little.”
8 One of His disciples, Andrew, Simon Peter's brother, said to Him, 9 “There is a boy here who has five barley loaves and two fish, but what are they for so many?”
10 Jesus said, “Have the people sit down.”
Now there was much grass in the place. So the men sat down, about five thousand in number. 11 Jesus then took the loaves, and when He had given thanks, He distributed them to those who were seated. So also the fish, as much as they wanted. 12 And when they had eaten their fill, He told His disciples,
“Gather up the leftover fragments, that nothing may be lost.”
13 So they gathered them up and filled twelve baskets with fragments from the five barley loaves left by those who had eaten. 14 When the people saw the sign that He had done, they said, “This is indeed the Prophet who is to come into the world!”
15 Perceiving then that they were about to come and take Him by force to make Him King, Jesus withdrew again to the mountain by Himself.
16 When evening came, His disciples went down to the sea, 17 got into a boat, and started across the sea to Capernaum. It was now dark, and Jesus had not yet come to them. 18 The sea became rough because a strong wind was blowing. 19 When they had rowed about three or four miles, they saw Jesus walking on the sea and coming near the boat, and they were frightened.
20 But He said to them, “It is I; do not be afraid.”
21 Then they were glad to take Him into the boat,
and
immediately the boat was at the land to which they were going.
There is a verse in Psalms, and this verse tells us, He can throw a troop over a wall.
What did Jesus do here? According to Einstein, what Jesus did moving the boat miles immediately, was
Albert Einstein’s theory of relativity, comprising special (1905) and general (1915) theories, fundamentally redefined physics, showing time and space are linked (spacetime) and not absolute. The speed of light is constant, while time and space change relative to an observer's speed and gravity.
And this is more easily explained by saying if we fold a paper in half, we now have two edges as the beginning of the paper and the paper edges meet. Jesus has moved time and space explaining to the disciples why the lame walk, the deaf hear, the blind see and the poor have Good News preached to them.
Jesus is explaining much more than these 2 paragraphs. He explains this:
Luke 1
“To give knowledge of salvation to His people
in the forgiveness of their sins,
78 because of the tender mercy of our God,
whereby
The sunrise shall visit us
from on high
79 to give light to those who sit in darkness and in the shadow of death,
to guide our feet into the way of peace.”
68 “Blessed be the Lord God of Israel,
for
He has visited and redeemed His people”
Would we say Jesus flew the boat and the disciples? No, we would say
Jesus upholds the universe with the power of His Word.
And this brings us to the Scriptures repeat time and again!
Ascension and John sitting on Patmos Island, exiled because John did not boil to death in a vat of oil by order of Emperor Domitian.
John arrived on Patmos after surviving an event recorded on papyrus fragments and also a complete history. This papyrus (interpreted by Victor of Capua) might very well have originally been written by Polycarp, the disciple to John. According to Dr. Bob Thiel, of the Washington Post, these fragments are John's disciple Polycarp - recording the cruel boiling oil as an historical event from John to Polycarp as John's own account.
A Historian, lawyer and married to a Christian wife - Tertullian disliked mysticism and wrote this was fact that John was boiled in oil and unharmed by Emperor Domitian intended the death of a man worshiping Jesus as God. Tertullian's book is The Prescription of Heretics. The precise written event - John was banished to Patmos after being plunged into boiling oil in Rome and suffering nothing from it. Tertullian wrote the whole audience of the smaller games area than the Colosseum was converted to Christianity upon witnessing this miracle. The smaller arena was used because, first, the dogs refused to attack John in the larger Colosseum. Dogs were deemed less grand than lions. The smaller arena was packed for the second oil boiling event. This event would have occurred in the late 1st century.
View of Patmos from John's cave
Revelation 1
John was sitting, one Sunday at home. John had not seen Jesus in about 62 years based upon the time frame of his exile and Domitian. He was living in the cave the exile provided at the top of Patmos hills. And suddenly, the walls of the cave fell away and John was seeing Jesus again in His Kingdom.
The walls fell away, and today people who have returned from life after death say, The walls fell away. The Kingdom of Heaven is at hand.
Jesus moved time and space with the power of His Word. John was alive as he visited Jesus in His Kingdom.
The Ascension
Surely the atmosphere surrounding earth could not contain Jesus Christ, Almighty, Savior of the world. Death could not contain Jesus.
Jesus in John's Gospel in the 6th Chapter explains the might of God's blessings. His ability to move all. The incredible swiftness of God Himself.
The Ascension explains, not just where Jesus went, not roaming the earth. The Ascension explains God can move all time, space and layers to His Purpose.
Romans 13:1-5
Let every person be subject to the governing authorities. For there is no authority except from God, and those that exist have been instituted by God. Therefore whoever resists the authorities resists what God has appointed, and those who resist will incur judgment. For rulers are not a terror to good conduct, but to bad.
Would you have no fear of the one who is in authority?
Then do what is good, and you will receive His approval, for he is God's servant for your good.
But if you do wrong, be afraid, for he does not bear the sword in vain. For he is the servant of God, an avenger who carries out God's wrath on the wrongdoer. Therefore one must be in subjection, not only to avoid God's wrath but also for the sake of conscience.
Jesus Christ, Almighty, Savior of the world, clearly is the Authority.
Abba, Father,
Our heart hears the call from You.
We know to have held Jesus to
trial and death as a false prophet
would incur egregious error.
And we see in Scripture
the Mercy of the Merciful.
What we would
Ask of You, Father,
What could be
accomplished
And how to do this.
For the Many Needs
to
be
Met
Gracious Father.
In Jesus
AMEN.
Dwell in us, Father,
Dwell fully in those we love,
Help us to seek You first
and we will finish well in Jesus Christ.
Thank You.
Our God is working. His Son,
Jesus is working.
Amen.
♔ Lord Jesus Saves †
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