THE BOOK OF JOHN 1:35-51 THE FIRST SIX DISCIPLES

Mike Balloun teaches. 10/09/21

THE BOOK OF JOHN CHAPTER 1:35-51
THE FIRST SIX DISCIPLES

VERSES: Psalm 139:1-8; Genesis 28:12-15; Mark 10:37-39; Isaiah 53:7

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John the Baptist, when he was probed and challenged by the Priests and Levites was being tempted unto self-assertion (notable that it corresponded with the culminating of Christ’s Wilderness Temptation 40th day) as to who he might say he was, and be ‘somebody’ in the eyes of religious leaders. Yet he professed not to have had visions, nor revelations, nor was he the Messiah, nor the Prophet, nor even a prophet, nor Elijah, but only Isaiah’s prophesied voice crying in the wilderness “prepare ye the way!”

It had been 40 days in heightened reflection in what he had seen and what he had heard before in the years of his wilderness experience now in the light of what he had heard and seen at and since Jesus’ Baptism… and what it had meant to have been the forerunner for this One, for Who he was not fit to be even His slave. He probably wondered if he had fulfilled that which he toiled for and understood his calling to be? He could not but sense that he had reached the very height of his ministry calling, and without any fanfare, he humbly began to see that he must step back now and decrease in the light of this far greater One.

He had spent years in the Wilderness in dedicated faithful solitude, prayerfully meditating on the Scriptures, and hearing from the Spirit about that One Who had come for the fulfillment of all Isaiah’s Words; that of the Christ, Messiah, the Representative Israelite to the Gentile, the Priest, King and Prophet (Read the following verses after Isaiah 9:6; 11:1; 42:1; 52:13; and read Chapters 61 and 66). In this 2nd unexpected sighting of Jesus in two days, it became increasingly clear unto him that what he had been reflecting on these last 40 days, suddenly came into full light. That being that all the prophetic words of Isaiah which spoke of the Christ’ Coming and Calling, which he knew all very well and had so deeply committed to heart and mind (and also of his own role relative to it) all pointed toward Isaiah 53:7… “He was oppressed, and he was afflicted, yet he opened not his mouth: he is brought as a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before her shearers is dumb, so he openeth not his mouth.” (See also Acts 8:26-35 where Philip explained to the Ethiopian eunuch these verses in Isaiah about Jesus.)

What John came to realize was that the institutional and sacramental meaning of the Priesthood and Sacrifices found their fulfillment in Jesus the Christ; as the ‘Lamb of God which taketh away the sin (sin in its singular totality; Adamic passed-on nature of sin as well as personal sin) of the world’. (It is not necessary to suppose that John the Baptist understood the fullness of God’s Salvation Plan in His Lamb, but it was always understood by Israel that the Messiah’s Savior-ship would ultimately extend to the World/Gentiles).
What John the Baptist saw was the climactic view of Israel’s Paschal Lamb, being the basis of all the sacrifices, brought into full focus, that being the two aspects of Christ’s Atonement through His death offering; redemption and fellowship. He must have known that all Isaiah’s and all Old Testament prophets words encompassed this realization in His Messianic Kingdom. That which he had been heralding; the Kingdom of heavens, Israel’s long awaited Kingdom promises, would only be realized in His exaltation sometime after His selfless act of pouring out His soul unto death, that which neither Pharisee nor Sadducee, Priest or Levite had ears to hear or eyes to perceive. “Thine eyes shall see the King in His beauty: they shall behold the land that is very far off.” [Isaiah 33:17] That is to say, the Lamb of God to be set as King in His Millennial heavenly Kingdom Glory. Revelation 5:11-13 gives us the destiny of the Paschal Lamb… “And I beheld, and I heard the voice of many angels round about the throne and the beasts and the elders: and the number of them was ten thousand times ten thousand, and thousands of thousands; Saying with a loud voice, Worthy is the Lamb that was slain to receive power, and riches, and wisdom, and strength, and honor, and glory, and blessing. And every creature which is in heaven, and on the earth, and under the earth, and such as are in the sea, and all that are in them, heard I saying, Blessing, and honor, and glory, and power, be unto him that sitteth upon the throne, and unto the Lamb forever and ever.”

VERSES 35-37 “Again the next day (the Sabbath day morning about 10am, appropriately the day closing the ministry of John) after John stood (taking notice of Jesus walking again at a distance….

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