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NASB | John 13:27 After the morsel, Satan then entered into him. Therefore Jesus *said to him, "What you do, do quickly." |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | John 13:27 After [Judas had taken] the piece of bread, Satan entered him. Then Jesus said to him, "What you are going to do, do quickly [without delay]." |
Subject: Why did Jesus encourage to betray? |
Bible Note: Hi, iktoose! Isaiah 55:11 tells us that the Word of God will accomplish all that God has been set out to do, that it will not be void! Knowing this, we must have full confidence that God's Divine Plan will be realized despite any hindrance that may arise (ie: see: Revelation 12). As far as Judas' appointment... God has created us in His image and likeness, allowing free will... still, there are circumstances where God actually forces His Hand (Authority) on us in order to keep His Plan from being disrupted... sometimes His Divine intervention occurs after the fact (Garden of Eden); sometimes it occurs as a warning and admonishion (Noah's ark); sometimes before the fact (Joseph's travails); sometimes it occurs in subtle ways (the conception of Issac); and some of the times it occurs in very direct and explosive ways (the exodus from Egypt or Israel's exile into foreign lands)... The fact is that once selected, a person cannot avoid fulfilling God's Will (Saul, David, Salomon, Elijah, Jonah, Peter, Judas, Paul...); though, from our perspective, it seems that anyone could refused God's commission... this is due to the greater amount of information that we have in matters regarding Christ Jesus and the Holy Spirit and our limited understanding of God's people and their salvific history (Salvation is from the Jews...); when order to travel to a different land, Abram did not refuse God; when order to build the ark, Noah did not refuse God... John the Baptist knew the perils he would face as that voice that would speak in the desert... he did not refuse his appointment! Judas was not aware of his mission; his lack of faith and patience kept him unawares even after Jesus clarifies that one who sat at the table with Him would betray Him... Judas must have had some type of intuition into this matter as he asks Jesus directly if it would be him who would betray Him (Matthew 26:24-25); yet, even so, Judas lacked the power to change his destiny... When we look at Judas' relationship to Christ in spiritual terms we understand that Judas had a task to perform and that Jesus, just as He came to fulfill the Scripture, could not rescue him from the task at hand... we must also recognize that we do not have all the pieces of God and we cannot determine Judas' fault nor his spiritual end--after all, Peter was commissioned with the Church (Matthew 16:18-19; Luke 22:31-32; John 21:15-17) while he was still weak and destined to deny His Lord... would not a Loving God also allow for Judas' return to the fold? (Matthew 26:24) As ignorant of the Truth as Judas was, could his desperation, after failing to secure Jesus' freedom (Matthew 27:1-5), not have lead him to what he understood as the only recourse left? Could he not have been answering Jesus' warning in a crude and limited fashion? Could God's Love not extend to this limited man who only understood his error when matters were far beyond his control? Could the "son of perdition" not be alloted special circumstances as he traded his life in an effort to repair some of the injuries he caused? I have no right to exclude Judas from gaining salvation, neither does anyone else... this is Christ's precise message to those who were eager to kill the woman that was brought to Him (John 8:3-11)... Jesus was not allowing the woman to go on sinning freely, He simply corrected the feign justice which the Jews were purporting to employ: they were not seeking to fulfill God's commandment as much as they were seeking to oppress (kill, on this particular case) the woman--why did they not also bring the man? Their sense of justice was corrupted! Just as theirs, our sense of justice is flawed and limited as we view Salvation History through our limited means! Recap: Judas had a treacherous job to perform; he could not be disuaded as his job was crucial to our salvation: he had to put in motion Jesus' crucifixion! Could the job be filled by anyone else? No! Why? How many sons of perdition did Jesus name? God Bless! Angel |