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Truth from the high priest
lareli:
John 11
47Then gathered the chief priests and the Pharisees a council, and said, What do we? for this man doeth many miracles.
48 If we let him thus alone, all men will believe on him: and the Romans shall come and take away both our place and nation.
49 ¶ And one of them, named Caiaphas, being the high priest that same year, said unto them, Ye know nothing at all,
50 Nor consider that it is expedient for us, that one man should die for the people, and that the whole nation perish not.
51 And this spake he not of himself: but being high priest that year, he prophesied that Jesus should die for that nation;
52 And not for that nation only, but that also he should gather together in one the children of God that were scattered abroad.
Does anyone know if Ray ever taught about this? Specifically why did God speak truth through the high priest who was an enemy?
Musterseed:
John 11:52. And he did not say this of his own accord, being high priest that year, He prophecied
Jesus would die for the nation.
I was reading Balaam and the donkey story tonight so it reminded me of how Our Lord can put
his words into the mouth of anyone or anything. The burning bush just came to mind, anyhoo, I
think God used this wicked Sadducee Calaphas who was a senior high priest (18 Yrs apparently) to serve
a purpose. I think God used the wicked plots of this group of wicked snakes to accomplish His own
purpose. What they thought was the fulfillment of their plans was actually to fulfill God’s plan which
I think was to ruin them. Their wealth and power.Also Caiaphas ordered Jesus to say if He was the Son of God and Jesus said “ You say that I am.” What did Jesus mean by that ? What was His purpose? Was it to incriminate them? I’m going to study more on this. I Love this book 📖. Peace, Pamela. PS,, do you think that this high priest having lots of authority was a reason God chose
him to speak through?
lareli:
PS,, do you think that this high priest having lots of authority was a reason God chose
him to speak through?
I don’t know Pamela.
I’ve been thinking about this since way before I decided to post it. I have no answers only questions as to why God used Caiaphas to prophecy. I have questions about prophecy itself in light of this part of Johns gospel.
I think about Balaams donkey as you mentioned, and I also think about one of the stories where Gideon was going to fight and he overheard one of the enemies talking about a dream he had that terrified him and another of the enemies was interpreting the dream correctly. So in scripture God uses all sorts of vessels to speak His truth. But in the case of Caiaphas it’s different because Caiaphas did not mean what God meant when he spoke.
Caiaphas said something that was a deep and profound spiritual truth.. but he didn’t mean it like that. He said it as a carnal statement. Yet it’s recorded as a spiritual prophecy and a deep spiritual truth.
octoberose:
Hi largeli,
I was thinking that at that time virtually everyone was an enemy of Jesus. Everyone was about to abandon him. Ray said that Jesus saved no one during his earthly ministry.
And then theres' this in Matthew 7, "On that day many will say to me, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name, and cast out demons in your name, and do many mighty works in your name?’. " These people will do all these things, but they never knew Christ. They still prophesied, cast out demons and healed.
lareli:
--- Quote from: octoberose on November 16, 2017, 01:54:09 AM ---Hi largeli,
I was thinking that at that time virtually everyone was an enemy of Jesus. Everyone was about to abandon him. Ray said that Jesus saved no one during his earthly ministry.
And then theres' this in Matthew 7, "On that day many will say to me, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name, and cast out demons in your name, and do many mighty works in your name?’. " These people will do all these things, but they never knew Christ. They still prophesied, cast out demons and healed.
--- End quote ---
All good points.
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