Luke 2017

Luke 23:35 And the people stood by, looking on. And even the rulers were sneering at Him, saying, "He saved others; let Him save Himself if this is the Christ of God, His Chosen One." All the people there, even the rulers, were sneering at Him and mocking Him. This too, was prophesied in the Tanakh (Psalm 22:12-13, Isa. 49:7, Isa 53:3). Luke 23:36 And the soldiers also mocked Him, coming up to Him, offering Him sour wine, Luke tells us here that offering Him sour wine was a part of the soldiers mocking Him. How was offering Him this sour wine on a sponge on a stick mocking Him? When we see what these sponges were used for, we see the degradation Yeshua was being put through. We are told in Matthews account that the sour wine was offered to Him with a sponge on a stick (Matt. 27:48). The sponges on sticks were used communally as toilet paper in latrines in ancient Rome. ""Here we had 12 to 60 people at once, going to the bathroom sitting next to each other. There were no dividers. There was no toilet paper. And there was one sponge stick for everyone to dip into the water and pass around."

Luke 24:49 "And behold, I am sending forth the promise of My Father upon you; but you are to stay in the city until you are clothed with power from on high." The promise of the Father is the promise that His Spirit would dwell in His people. It is not a separate entity, but the breath of the Father.

Luke 22:20 And in the same way He took the cup after they had eaten, saying, "This cup which is poured out for you is the new covenant in My blood. Notice that His blood is not the New, but the New Covenant is IN His blood. It is through His blood that we receive the New Covenant. Just as Moses sprinkled the blood of the covenant on Israel, His blood is the blood of the New Covenant. Ex. 24:6-8 And Moses took half of the blood and put it in basins, and the other half of the blood he sprinkled on the altar. 7Then he took the book of the covenant and read it in the hearing of the people; and they said, “All that the LORD has spoken we will do, and we will be obedient!” 8So Moses took the blood and sprinkled it on the people, and said, “Behold the blood of the covenant, which the LORD has made with you in accordance with all these words.” Moses sprinkled the blood on the people to designate their obligation to the Covenant. With the New Covenant, we are sprinkled with clean water which is His Word. Eph. 5:26-27 hat He might sanctify her, having cleansed her by the washing of water with the word, 27that He might present to Himself the church in all her glory, having no spot or wrinkle or any such thing; but that she should be holy and blameless. Ezek. 36:25-27 “Then I will sprinkle clean water on you, and you will be clean; I will cleanse you from all your filthiness and from all your idols. 26“Moreover, I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit within you; and I will remove the heart of stone from your flesh and give you a heart of flesh. 27“And I will put My Spirit within you and cause you to walk in My statutes, and you will be careful to observe My ordinances. The blood of Messiah is the blood of the New Covenant which makes us clean in the sight of Elohim because He places His Word in our hearts and minds.

Luke 21:34 "Be on guard, that your hearts may not be weighted down with dissipation and drunkenness and the worries of life, and that day come on you suddenly like a trap; Luke 21:35 for it will come upon all those who dwell on the face of all the earth. Luke 21:36 "But keep on the alert at all times, praying in order that you may have strength to escape all these things that are about to take place, and to stand before the Son of Man." Yeshua says to be on guard and alert at all times. We are to be looking for these things. We now see these things that have been prophesied. Wonderful and marvelous things are about to take place.

Luke 20:10 "And at the harvest time he sent a slave to the vine-growers, in order that they might give him some of the produce of the vineyard; but the vine-growers beat him and sent him away empty-handed. This parable is also given in the Tanakh. Isa 5:1-7 Let me sing now for my well-beloved A song of my beloved concerning His vineyard. My well-beloved had a vineyard on a fertile hill. 2And He dug it all around, removed its stones, And planted it with the choicest vine. And He built a tower in the middle of it, And hewed out a wine vat in it; Then He expected it to produce good grapes, But it produced only worthless ones. 3“And now, O inhabitants of Jerusalem and men of Judah, Judge between Me and My vineyard. 4“What more was there to do for My vineyard that I have not done in it? Why, when I expected it to produce good grapes did it produce worthless ones? 5“So now let Me tell you what I am going to do to My vineyard: I will remove its hedge and it will be consumed; I will break down its wall and it will become trampled ground. 6“And I will lay it waste; It will not be pruned or hoed, But briars and thorns will come up. I will also charge the clouds to rain no rain on it.” 7For the vineyard of the LORD of hosts is the house of Israel, And the men of Judah His delightful plant. Thus He looked for justice, but behold, bloodshed; For righteousness, but behold, a cry of distress. Jer. 2:21 “Yet I planted you a choice vine, A completely faithful seed. How then have you turned yourself before Me Into the degenerate shoots of a foreign vine? The symbolism in the parable is very easily discerned by itself, but the Tanakh references make it blatantly obvious. The "Man" who planted the vineyard is Elohim. The vineyard is the land of Israel. The vine-growers He rented it to are the sons of Israel. The slaves that are sent to the vine-growers are the prophets.

Luke 19:44 and will level you to the ground and your children within you, and they will not leave in you one stone upon another, because you did not recognize the time of your visitation." Yeshua specifically said that Jerusalem will be destroyed because they did not recognize the time of your visitation. How could Israel have recognized the "time" of the visitation of Messiah? The reason being is that it is spelled out for them in Daniel 9:24-26. Let's turn to this passage in Daniel and see what transpired. Dan 9:24 "Seventy weeks have been decreed for your people and your holy city, to finish the transgression, to make an end of sin, to make atonement for iniquity, to bring in everlasting righteousness, to seal up vision and prophecy, and to anoint the most holy place. "Seventy weeks" does not necessarily mean 490 days. The Hebrew word for weeks is "shabua" which means "a unit of measure". This word is similar to our word dozen. A dozen can stand for twelve of anything. Gabriel is saying here that seventy "sevens" are determined for the people of Daniel. It could be seventy sevens of days, weeks, months, or years. In the context of this verse, it is plain that Daniel was reading in Jeremiah about 70 years and it appears that what is being referred to is years. Why were the Israelites held in captivity for 70 years? LEV 25:3 'Six years you shall sow your field, and six years you shall prune your vineyard, and gather in its fruit; LEV 25:4 'but in the seventh year there shall be a sabbath of solemn rest for the land, a sabbath to the LORD. You shall neither sow your field nor prune your vineyard. LEV 25:5 'What grows of its own accord of your harvest you shall not reap, nor gather the grapes of your untended vine, for it is a year of rest for the land. The Israelites had violated the law of the sabbath pertaining to their land for 490 years. They did not let their land rest on the seventh year as Elohim had commanded. Elohim let them know He meant what He said. He let them be held captive to make up for the 70 Sabbath years they had missed (2 Chron. 36:21). The 70 weeks spoken of here is broken up into three segments: 7 weeks, 62 weeks, and 1 week. Daniel must be puzzled here as to how the end of the 70 years of captivity would fit into the long period of Gentile world domination shown in the previous visions in chapters 2, 7, & 8. Daniel had to think that at the end of the 70 years of Israel captivity his people would return to the land, the promised Messiah would come, and the kingdom which had been promised to David would be established. But what about these Gentile empires? These had to be seemingly irreconcilable contradictions to Daniel. It says "Seventy weeks are determined for your people,..." The Hebrew word for "determined" here literally means "cutting off". The seventy sevens are to be cut off, or cut out, for the Israelites, as the following verses will indicate. The seventy weeks concern "your people". It concerns Israel. They also concern "your holy city", which is Jerusalem. Six things will be accomplished at the end of the seventy weeks: This verse is a summary of the prophecy of the seventy weeks. Keep in mind that this prophecy concerns Israel. Gabriel says it is for "your people". When critics come to the Book of Daniel, they hate the ninth chapter. It is pre-written history. It is the section that foretells the arrival of Messiah. Elohim predicted the time this prophecy would start. Elohim also predicted the day of the Messianic entry of Yeshua into Jerusalem. Dan 9:25 Dan 9:26

Luke 18:26 And they who heard it said, "Then who can be saved?" Luke 18:27 But He said, "The things impossible with men are possible with God." The fact is that no man can save himself. He cannot call upon Elohim for salvation unless Elohim chooses him. It is impossible for a man to save himself.

Luke 17:2 "It would be better for him if a millstone were hung around his neck and he were thrown into the sea, than that he should cause one of these little ones to stumble. The term "stumbling blocks" is a reference to "hindrances." It is mentioned along with those who commit lawlessness. Matt. 13:41-42 “The Son of Man will send forth His angels, and they will gather out of His kingdom all stumbling blocks, and those who commit lawlessness, 42and will cast them into the furnace of fire; in that place there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth. Matt. 16:23 But He turned and said to Peter, “Get behind Me, Satan! You are a stumbling block to Me; for you are not setting your mind on God’s interests, but man’s.” The "stumbling blocks" are things that others do to attempt to cause people to commit lawlessness. 1 Peter 2:7-8 This precious value, then, is for you who believe. But for those who disbelieve, “THE STONE WHICH THE BUILDERS REJECTED, THIS BECAME THE VERY CORNER stone,” 8and, “A STONE OF STUMBLING AND A ROCK OF OFFENSE”;for they stumble because they are disobedient to the word, and to this doom they were also appointed. 1 John 2:10-11 The one who loves his brother abides in the light and there is no cause for stumbling in him. 11But the one who hates his brother is in the darkness and walks in the darkness, and does not know where he is going because the darkness has blinded his eyes.

Luke 16:9 "And I say to you, make friends for yourselves by means of the mammon of unrighteousness; that when it fails, they may receive you into the eternal dwellings. Unrighteous mammon is any material resource not used according to the will of Elohim. "Mammon" is an Anglicized form of the word that signifies "That in which one trusts." It is a derogatory term for "money." Yeshua says to make friends with the men of this world by using money and using it shrewdly. Money is not that important and cannot be what we worship. Use it to benefit others and to make friends and gain the trust of the world.

Luke 15:21 "And the son said to him, 'Father, I have sinned against heaven and in your sight; I am no longer worthy to be called your son.' Ephraim will turn back to Elohim in repentance. Jer 31:6-14 “For there shall be a day when watchmen On the hills of Ephraim shall call out, ‘Arise, and let us go up to Zion, To the LORD our God.’” 7For thus says the LORD, “Sing aloud with gladness for Jacob, And shout among the chiefs of the nations; Proclaim, give praise, and say, ‘O LORD, save Thy people, The remnant of Israel.’ 8“Behold, I am bringing them from the north country, And I will gather them from the remote parts of the earth, Among them the blind and the lame, The woman with child and she who is in labor with child, together; A great company, they shall return here. 9“With weeping they shall come, And by supplication I will lead them; I will make them walk by streams of waters, On a straight path in which they shall not stumble; For I am a father to Israel, And Ephraim is My first-born.” 10Hear the word of the LORD, O nations, And declare in the coastlands afar off, And say, “He who scattered Israel will gather him, And keep him as a shepherd keeps his flock.” 11For the LORD has ransomed Jacob, And redeemed him from the hand of him who was stronger than he. 12“And they shall come and shout for joy on the height of Zion, And they shall be radiant over the bounty of the LORD— Over the grain, and the new wine, and the oil, And over the young of the flock and the herd; And their life shall be like a watered garden, And they shall never languish again. 13“Then the virgin shall rejoice in the dance, And the young men and the old, together, For I will turn their mourning into joy, And will comfort them, and give them joy for their sorrow. 14“And I will fill the soul of the priests with abundance, And My people shall be satisfied with My goodness,” declares the LORD. Luke 15:22 "But the father said to his slaves, 'Quickly bring out the best robe and put it on him, and put a ring on his hand and sandals on his feet; Luke 15:23 and bring the fattened calf, kill it, and let us eat and be merry; Luke 15:24 for this son of mine was dead, and has come to life again; he was lost, and has been found.' And they began to be merry. Ephraim is the lost son who was dead in his trespasses and sins. Romans 6:11-13 Even so consider yourselves to be dead to sin, but alive to God in Christ Jesus. 12Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal body that you should obey its lusts, 13and do not go on presenting the members of your body to sin as instruments of unrighteousness; but present yourselves to God as those alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness to God. He has returned and the Father is throwing a feast in celebration. Isaiah 25:6-9 And the LORD of hosts will prepare a lavish banquet for all peoples on this mountain; A banquet of aged wine, choice pieces with marrow, And refined, aged wine. 7And on this mountain He will swallow up the covering which is over all peoples, Even the veil which is stretched over all nations. 8He will swallow up death for all time, And the Lord GOD will wipe tears away from all faces, And He will remove the reproach of His people from all the earth; For the LORD has spoken. 9And it will be said in that day, “Behold, this is our God for whom we have waited that He might save us. This is the LORD for whom we have waited; Let us rejoice and be glad in His salvation.” Rev. 19:7-9 And the appearance of the locusts was like horses prepared for battle; and on their heads, as it were, crowns like gold, and their faces were like the faces of men. 8And they had hair like the hair of women, and their teeth were like the teeth of lions. 9And they had breastplates like breastplates of iron; and the sound of their wings was like the sound of chariots, of many horses rushing to battle.