We see in the Bible that when angry mobs tried to throw Jesus off of cliffs to kill him [Luke 4:28-30] but did you know that they tried to stone Him at least twice as well? [John 8:59; 10:31] And the Pharisees were always scheming to seize and destroy Him.
The Word says that 'He hid Himself' and walked away.
You've seen angry mobs in movies and on the 6:00 news...you know there's nothing that can stop them.
But in every instance where they sought to seize or kill Him, He 'eluded their grasp' or ‘hid himself.’ [John 10:39, John 8:59]
Luke 4:30 simply says ‘But passing through their midst, He went His way.’
In other words [my take on it…] ‘I’m not doing this, I’m outta here…’ And He just went His way!
Only Half Right...
I've said, in earlier posts, that the reason He could do this was because He knew the Word that promised protection or because He chose the reality where He was protected by the Word.
But I think now that it was more than either of those. He WAS/IS the Word, totally fulfilled, in human form.
He WAS the Word ‘No man will be able to stand before you…’ [Deuteronomy 7:24, 11:25; Joshua 1:5]
In the synagogue, when He got up and read Isaiah 61 [Luke 4], He said "Today this Scripture has been fulfilled in your hearing."
It's not only that He knew Isaiah 61...He WAS Isaiah 61!
His ability to disappear from the midst of angry mobs wasn't just that He knew His protection rights as outlined in the Word…He WAS the fulfillment of those scriptures, the WORD made flesh! No weapon formed against Him could prosper because He WAS Isaiah 54:17! Not just protected, but the fulfillment, in the flesh, of every scripture promising protection!
Not only the fulfillment and embodiment, but the demonstration of God's will for His children!
And we are the Word multiplied! [Acts 12:24] Think about that for awhile...
As He Is
Colossians 2:9,10 puts it this way: 'For in Him all the fullness of Deity dwells in bodily form, and in Him you have been made complete...'
1 John says '...for as He IS, so also are we IN THIS WORLD.' We've seen in multiple posts that we as Christians dwell in two realities...in the earth and seated in Him in heavenly places. [Ephesians 2:6]
But we are, now, AS HE IS IN THIS WORLD! Jesus prayed that The Father's will be done on earth as it is in heaven because He knew that He was already blessed with every spiritual blessing in heavenly places...as are we! [Ephesians 1:3] He knew that the Father had already rested from His works [Hebrews 4:3] and that which has been done is that which will be done. [Ecclesiastes 1:9; 3:15]
We are one Spirit with the Lord [1 Corinthians 6:17], His Body in the earth, individually and collectively. [1 Corinthians 12:27]
Just as He was/is the fulfillment of the Scriptures, so, too, are we.
