Epistle Matot.

Epistle Matot

John 12:1-25

Joh 12:1 Then six days before the Pesach, Yeshua came to Beit-Anyah, where El’azar was, who had been dead, whom he raised from the dead.

Joh 12:2  So they made him a supper there. Marta served, but El’azar was one of those who sat at the table with him.

Joh 12:3  Miriam, therefore, took a pound of ointment of pure nard, very precious, and anointed the feet of Yeshua, and wiped his feet with her hair. The house was filled with the fragrance of the ointment.

Joh 12:4  Then Yehudah Iskriot, Shim`on’s son, one of his talmidim, who would betray him, said,

Joh 12:5  “Why wasn’t this ointment sold for three hundred denarii, and given to the poor?”

Joh 12:6  Now he said this, not because he cared for the poor, but because he was a thief, and having the money box, used to steal what was put into it.

Joh 12:7  But Yeshua said, “Leave her alone. She has kept this for the day of my burial.

Joh 12:8  For you always have the poor with you, but you don’t always have me.”

Joh 12:9  A large crowd therefore of the Judeans learned that he was there, and they came, not for Yeshua’s sake only, but that they might see El’azar also, whom he had raised from the dead.

Joh 12:10  But the chief Kohanim conspired to put El’azar to death also,

Joh 12:11  because on account of him many of the Judeans went away [from the Pharisee sect] and believed in Yeshua.

Joh 12:12  On the next day a great multitude had come to the feast. When they heard that Yeshua was coming to Yerushalayim,

Joh 12:13  they took the branches of the palm trees, and went out to meet him, and cried out, “Hoshia`na! Blessed is he who comes in the name of Adonai, the King of Yisra’el!”

Joh 12:14  Yeshua, having found a young donkey, sat on it. As it is written,

Joh 12:15  “Don’t be afraid, daughter of Tziyon. Behold, your King comes, sitting on a donkey’s colt.”

This is a quote from Zechariah:

Zec 9:9 Rejoice greatly, daughter of Tziyon! Shout, daughter of Yerushalayim! Behold, your king comes to you! He is righteous, and having salvation; lowly, and riding on a donkey, even on a colt, the foal of a donkey.   Zec 9:10  I will cut off the chariot from Efrayim, and the horse from Yerushalayim; and the battle bow will be cut off; and he will speak shalom to the nations: and his dominion will be from sea to sea, and from the River to the ends of the earth.

As you can see from the rest of the passage, they were still expecting the Kingdom to be set up immediately.

Zec 9:11  As for you also, because of the blood of your covenant, I have set free your prisoners from the pit in which is no water.   Zec 9:12  Turn to the stronghold, you prisoners of hope! Even today I declare that I will restore double to you.   Zec 9:13  For indeed I bend Yehudah as a bow for me. I have filled the bow with Efrayim; and I will stir up your sons, Tziyon, against your sons, Greece, and will make you like the sword of a mighty man.   Zec 9:14  YHWH will be seen over them; and his arrow will go flash like lightning; and Adonai YHWH will blow the shofar, and will go with whirlwinds of the south.   Zec 9:15  YHWH Tzeva’ot will defend them; and they will destroy and overcome with sling stones; and they will drink, and roar as through wine; and they will be filled like bowls, like the corners of the altar.   Zec 9:16  YHWH their Elohim will save them in that day as the flock of his people; for they are like the jewels of a crown, lifted on high over his land.   Zec 9:17  For how great is his goodness, and how great is his beauty! Grain will make the young men flourish, and new wine the virgins.

John, continued:

Joh 12:16  His talmidim didn’t understand these things at first, but when Yeshua was glorified, then they remembered that these things were written about him, and that they had done these things to him.

Joh 12:17  The multitude therefore that was with him when he called El’azar out of the tomb, and raised him from the dead, was testifying about it.

Joh 12:18  For this cause also the multitude went and met him, because they heard that he had done this sign.

Joh 12:19  The Perushim therefore said among themselves, “See how you accomplish nothing. Behold, the world has gone after him.”

Joh 12:20  Now there were certain Greeks among those that went up to worship at the feast.

Joh 12:21  These, therefore, came to Philip, who was from Beit-Tzaidah of the Galil, and asked him, saying, “Sir, we want to see Yeshua.”

Joh 12:22  Philip came and told Andrew, and in turn, Andrew came with Philip, and they told Yeshua.

Joh 12:23  Yeshua answered them, “The time has come for the Son of Man to be glorified.

Joh 12:24  Most certainly I tell you, unless a grain of wheat falls into the earth and dies, it remains by itself alone. But if it dies, it bears much fruit.

Joh 12:25  He who loves his life will lose it. He who hates his life in this world will keep it to eternal life.

This is a message to those who find themselves in the Tribulation.  If they give in to the Beast, and receive the Mark of the False Messiah so that they can buy and sell and save their earthly lives, they will have forfeited their eternal life in the Kingdom and/or the Olam Haba.

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