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"If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land." - 2 Chronicles 7:14
Mark Chapter 1 - Christogenea on
Talkshoe 10-07-2011
There is nothing
at all in the Gospel of Mark which explicitly indicates its
authorship. However many of the earliest Christian writers have not
only attributed the gospel to Mark, but have also said that Mark
recorded Peter's testimony, even calling him “Peter's interpreter”,
in the words of the second-century Christian presbyter Irenaeus. This
seems to indicate that Mark wrote the Greek which Peter may have
related to him in Hebrew, however such a viewpoint is not entirely
necessary, and the word may have simply been used more loosely of a
transcriber and not necessarily of a translator. In other words, the
statement does not by itself prove that Peter was not bilingual.
Mark Chapters 2 through 3 -
Christogenea on Talkshoe 10-14-2011
II 1 And entering again into
Kapharnaoum, for days it was heard that He is in a house. 2 And many
had gathered together so as no longer to have space, not even there
by the door, and He spoke the Word to them. 3 And they come bringing
to Him a paralytic being carried by four men. 4 And not being able to
bring him forth to Him because of the crowd, they had taken off the
roof where He was, and digging through lowered the cot upon which the
paralytic laid.
The men with the
paralytic had “taken off the roof” and then “digging through”
it they lowered the paralytic to where Christ was. The roof being
described must be a thatched roof covered with ceramic tile, and the
version of this account at Luke 5:19 tells us they were ceramic
tiles. The tiles were expensive and surely were not broken. Digging
trough the thatching must have made a mess, clouds of dust and dirt
and straw dropping into the room below. Yet Christ did not take
umbrage to the situation. Rather, He marveled before the crowd.
Mark Chapters 4 through 5 -
Christogenea on Talkshoe 10-21-2011
Here tonight we
shall see, when we get to Mark chapter 5, that there are a couple of
discrepancies in the chronology of events between Mark and Matthew,
where Luke agrees with Mark, which are difficult to resolve. These do
not, however, discredit the Gospel, once we realize the nature of the
Gospel accounts and their purpose. At this point, Mark chapters 4 and
5 contains events found in Luke chapters 8 and 9, and also in Matthew
chapters 8 and 9.
IV 1 And again He began to teach
by the sea, and a very large crowd gathers to Him, so as for Him
boarding into a vessel to sit in the sea, and all the crowd was by
the sea upon the land.
In the ancient Greek world, it was very common for teachers of
philosophy to have many followers, and to teach people in diverse
places. In Acts chapter 19:9, we see a certain school of philosophy
mentioned. Such schools were begun by private individuals who would
attract - or perhaps already had – adherents to their philosophy.
Sophists, Platonists, Epicureans, Stoics, Cynics, Gnostics, there
were many different types of philosophical beliefs in the world at
that time, and each had many followers and many teachers. Therefore
if Christ had a few dozen followers, He would never have been so
despised by the religious authorities in Judea, since it was quite
normal for a philosopher to have and be followed by a few dozen
students. Yet if Christ had hundreds, then hundreds more would have
joined the crowd simply out of curiosity, if for nothing else, and it
is not hard to imagine that there were thousands of people at many of
His gatherings. By this, the official authorities would indeed feel
threatened.
Mark Chapters 6 and 7 -
Christogenea on Talkshoe 10-28-2011
Before reading the first paragraph
of Mark Chapter 6, it would be fitting to discuss what was customary
to do on the Sabbath. It is obvious from many places in Scripture,
that people gathered on the Sabbath to learn the Scripture. But it
was apparently not that way from the beginning, where the command in
Deuteronomy chapter 31 was to read the law to all the people once
every seven years, in the year of release, on the Feast of
Tabernacles.
Deuteronomy 31:10-13: 10 And Moses
commanded them, saying, At the end of every seven years, in the
solemnity of the year of release, in the feast of tabernacles, 11
When all Israel is come to appear before the LORD thy God in the
place which he shall choose, thou shalt read this law before all
Israel in their hearing. 12 Gather the people together, men, and
women, and children, and thy stranger that is within thy gates, that
they may hear, and that they may learn, and fear the LORD your God,
and observe to do all the words of this law: 13 And that their
children, which have not known any thing, may hear, and learn to fear
the LORD your God, as long as ye live in the land whither ye go over
Jordan to possess it.
Mark Chapters 8 and 9 -
Christogenea on Talkshoe 11-04-2011
Discussing Mark last week I had made
a radical comment concerning the blood brothers of Christ, that some
of them were apostles. Here I will go over that again, because it is
something which has not been discussed sufficiently, and due to a few
inquiries I received, perhaps some people did not understand it.
The lists of
apostles at Mark 3 and Matthew 10 agree: Simon Peter; James the son
of Zebedee; John the brother of James; Andrew; Philip; Bartholomew;
Matthew; Thomas; James the son of Alphaeus; Lebbaeus Thaddaeus; Simon
the Cananean; and Judas Iscariot.
In Luke chapter
6 there is a James mentioned with John who must be that same brother
and son of Zebedee mentioned in Matthew and Mark. Yet in Luke's list
Lebbaeus Thaddaeus – who is only mentioned twice, once each in the
original lists of Matthew and Mark - is not mentioned and seems to
have dropped out of sight, because he is never mentioned again.
To fill out the
twelve, "Judas the brother of James" is mentioned in his
place. In Luke's account in Acts we see mentioned “Petros and
Iohannes, and Iakobos [James] and Andreas [Andrew was Peter's
brother, James and John were the sons of Zebedee], Philippos and
Thomas, Bartholomaios and Maththaios, Iakobos [James] son of
Alphaios, and Simon the zealot [the Cananean] and Iouda the brother
of Iakobos.” The lists in Matthew and Mark being early in Christ's
ministry, Lebbaeus Thaddaeus must have dropped out at some point for
some reason, and Jude the brother of James filled the list out to
twelve again when Luke made his lists.
Mark Chapters 10 and 11 -
Christogenea on Talkshoe 11-18-2011
X 1 And arising from there He
goes into the borders of Judaea and on the other side of the Jordan,
and the crowds again come together to Him, and as He is accustomed,
again He taught them. 2 And the Pharisees having come forth
questioned Him whether it is lawful for a man to put away a wife,
trying Him. 3 Then replying He said to them: “What did Moses
command you?” 4 And they said: “Moses permitted to write a letter
for a bill of divorce and to put her away.” 5 Then Yahshua said to
them: “For your hardness of heart he had written this commandment
for you. 6 But from the beginning of creation ‘He made them male
and female. 7 On account of this a man shall leave his father and
mother and shall cleave to his wife, 8 and they shall be two into one
flesh.’ Therefore no longer are they two but one flesh. 9 So that
which Yahweh has yoked together man must not separate!”
A certain
so-called Christian Identity pastor recently stated on his Talkshoe
program that Christ's words here do not condemn divorce. Yet clearly,
considering the context, Christ is indeed condemning divorce.
Otherwise, He would not have proceeded to quote Genesis 2:24, where
it says that “Therefore shall a man leave his father and his
mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh”.
It is the act of putting away which is divorce. The “bill of
divorcement” is only a receipt which records the act.
Mark Chapters 12 and 13 -
Christogenea on Talkshoe 11-25-2011
In Mark chapter
11, we saw the cursing of the fig tree, which we related to the
parable of the fig tree and the explanation of the fruitlessness of
Christ's mission in Jerusalem. We then related how this was the final
fulfillment of the dispersion of the Bad Figs of Jeremiah chapter 24,
which is proven when comparing the language of Jeremiah to that of
Christ concerning Jerusalem in his prophecy of its impending
destruction as it is recorded in Luke chapter 21. We will discuss
that at length here again next week, since it is also a subject of
the latter half of Mark chapter 13. All of these prophecies and
parables are part of a related theme, and so is the Parable of the
Vineyard which we are about to read here in Mark chapter 12.
XII 1 And He began to speak to
them in parables: “A man planted a vineyard and put a fence around
it and dug a vat and built a tower and let it out to husbandmen, and
he traveled abroad. 2 And he sent a servant to the husbandmen at the
appropriate time, in order that he would receive from the husbandmen
from the fruits of the vineyard, 3 and taking him they cudgeled him
and sent him away empty. 4 And again he sent to them another servant,
and him they hit on the head and dishonored. 5 And he sent another,
and him they slew, and many others, some then being cudgeled, but
some being slain. 6 Yet he had one beloved son. He sent him to them
last saying that ‘They shall respect my son!’ 7 But those
husbandmen said to themselves that ‘This is the heir! Come, we
should kill him, and the inheritance shall be ours!’ 8 And taking
him they killed him and cast him outside of the vineyard. 9 So, what
shall the master of the vineyard do? He shall come and destroy those
husbandmen and let the vineyard out to others!
Mark Chapter 13 - Christogenea on
Talkshoe 12-1-2011
During the
first half of this podcast we discussed the chronology of Daniel's
70-Weeks prophecy, found in Daniel chapter 9, with great detail from
the books of Ezra and Nehemiah, and from the history of Persia. (Click here for the notes to that part of the program.) Now
we may proceed with Mark chapter 13, repeating a few of the things
which we discussed last week when we began this chapter, and
hopefully after seeing the prophecy of Daniel, the marvel of these
prophecies will be that much more meaningful to us.
XIII
1 And upon His going out from the temple one of His students says to
Him: “Teacher, behold what quality stones and what quality
buildings!” 2 And Yahshua said to him: “You see these great
buildings? By no means should there be left here a stone upon a stone
which would not be thrown down!”
Here
Christ forecasts the destruction of Jerusalem which was to come
nearly 40 years later. At the end of Matthew Chapter 23, which Mark
did not record, Christ exclaimed to the Judaeans “Behold, your
house is left to you desolate!” Daniel 9:27 once again, says of the
ministry of Christ that “he shall confirm the covenant with many
for one week: and in the midst of the week he shall cause the
sacrifice and the oblation to cease, and for the overspreading of
abominations he shall make it desolate, even until the consummation,
and that determined shall be poured upon the desolate.”
Mark Chapter 14 - Christogenea on Talkshoe 12-09-2011
XIV 1 And it was Passover and the
feast of unleavened bread after two days. And the high priests and
the scribes sought how seizing Him with guile they could kill Him. 2
For they said “Not on the feast, that at no time shall there be an
uproar by the people!”
Christ not only
had thousands of followers, winning the hearts and minds of the
people, but He was also winning the battle of ideas. His expositions
of scripture and a proper application of the Law, judgement and
mercy, kicked the foundations out from under the pedestal of legalism
upon which the Pharisees pretended their authority. Not wanting to
lose their status and titles and position, but realizing that Christ
continually exposed them, rather than repenting they sought to kill
Him.
Mark Chapters 15 and 16 -
Christogenea on Talkshoe 12-16-2011
Last week we
concluded with the end of Mark chapter 14, and the unlawful trial of
Yahshua Christ in the court of the high priest. There we saw that
while they wanted to have Christ executed, they had a problem with
consistent witnesses establishing a charge worthy of a capital
offense. Therefore the high-priest himself provoked Christ in order
to instigate a charge that satisfied those taking part in the
judgment against Him.
XV 1 And immediately at morning
making counsel the high priests with the elders and the scribes and
all the council, binding Yahshua they led Him off and turned Him over
to Pilatos.
Here we see
that after the mock show-trial in the home of the high priest, they
still required a meeting in order to work up a plan by which they
could convincingly present Christ to Pilate as a criminal who was
worthy of execution. When Judaea was designated a kingdom, up until
the time of Herod Archelaus, the king had the privilege of trying
capital offenses. However when Judaea was reduced to a province, and
a Roman governor was set over it by the emperor, the local political
leaders lost that privilege, and only the Roman governor could try
capital offenses. Christ having had many followers, the high priests
could not risk politically the murder of Christ by themselves. In
Matthew chapter 26, verses 3 through 5, we learn that the high
priests had been planning for a way to execute Christ, while avoiding
a “tumult among the people”. Since it was the feast, Jerusalem
was typically very crowded at this time, and a major disturbance
would have invited an inquiry by the Roman officials. They had to
pressure the Roman governor into complying with their wishes. A Roman
citizen, such as Paul of Tarsus, would have the right to appeal to
Caesar. We see in Acts chapter 27 that Paul, not wanting to trust
either the Judaeans or a possibly corrupt governor with his fate,
exercised that right. However Christ, not being a Roman citizen, did
not have that right.
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