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Prophesized death and resurrection (3)       [Matthew 16:21-23]       Matthew 16:21-23 say: “From that time Jesus began to show His disciples that He must go to Jerusalem, and suffer many things from the elders and chief priests and scribes, and be killed, and be raised up on the third day.  Peter took Him aside and began to rebuke Him, saying, ‘God forbid it, Lord! This shall never happen to You.’  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.’”  Here, “that time” refers to the time when Simon Peter confessed his faith, “You are the Christ, the Son of the living God” (v. 16) through the revelation of God the Father in heaven, and received many compliments from Jesus.   After hearing Peter's confession of faith, Jesus said, "I will build my church on this rock (Peter's confession of faith), and the powers of Hades w...

Prophesized death and resurrection (2)       [Matthew 16:21-23]       Matthew 16:21 says: “From that time Jesus began to show His disciples that He must go to Jerusalem, and suffer many things from the elders and chief priests and scribes, and be killed, and be raised up on the third day."   This is the first word Jesus prophesied that He would suffer, be killed, and rise again on the third day, and is repeated twice (17:22-23; 20:18-19).   The first words of Mark's Gospel are recorded as follows: “And He began to teach them that the Son of Man must suffer many things and be rejected by the elders and the chief priests and the scribes, and be killed, and after three days rise again.   And He was stating the matter plainly.   …” (Mk.8:31-32).   It appears twice more in Mark's Gospel (9:30-32; 10:32-34).   In the Gospel of Luke, the first word is recorded as follows: “ saying, ‘The Son of Man must suffer many...

Prophesized death and resurrection (1)       [Matthew 16:21-23]                        Look at Matthew 16:21 – “From that time Jesus began to show His disciples that He must go to Jerusalem, and suffer many things from the elders and chief priests and scribes, and be killed, and be raised up on the third day.”   This is the word that Jesus prophesied that He would die and that He would be resurrected on the third day.                   During the Wednesday prayer meeting last week, centering on the words of Matthew 2:13-18, we learned that Jesus, who came to this earth to die at the time appointed by God (Gal. 4:4), fled to Egypt because the time appointed by God was not yet the time to die.   During his 33-year life on this earth, Jesus often fled and hid Himself, but the re...