God's law, and Man's Law

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Jordan Peterson on the Bible 



So what is lawful? “Gods law? or Mans?”

The curious who SOUGHT Jesus had their whole WORLD turned UPSIDE DOWN. In parable after parable in the first ten chapters of Mark, Jesus “CHALLENGED their thinking” and traditions as he MINISTERED. Now he’s changing up what he’s done EVEN MORE by -RIDING into JERUSALEM- in PEACE as “KING,” and causing a SCENE clearing out the treachery in the temple courts. To begin these “LAST few days” of his life in Jerusalem, Jesus SPEAKS publicly with authority, on a -few important topics- “amazing ALL who listen.” The first story is about a vineyard and the tenants. It’s a retelling of Isaiah 5, the same imagery: God the Father, Israel the tenants, the prophets rejected or killed. Jesus was “abandoned” and rejected by his people. And when he quotes Psalm 118 for the punchline, his adversary know of what he’s accusing them. So when they were “mocking” jesus, they were really mocking GOD. They thought they were “contending man” but were “contending god.”

Have you not read this Scripture: “‘The STONE that the builders rejected has become the CORNERSTONE; this was the Lord’s doing, and it is marvelous in our eyes’?” Mark 12:10-11. Our JOURNEY with Jesus with the DISCIPLE Mark has piqued curiosity. Why did Mark pick these CERTAIN stories about Jesus? What about the -order- he put them in? What about the symbolism from the Hebrew scripture (OT)? Many chose not to follow, or “unfollow” jesus, but great Treasures of Hebrew symbolism can be found here:)     https://instagram.com/anewlightcreatives?r=name tag

Jesus makes states that he is the cornerstone from Psalm 118. The stone is a familiar image for God (Deut. 32:4, Psalm 18:31, Isaiah 17:10, 26:4, 20:29) and particularly how it points to the *Messiah* (Isaiah 28:16, Daniel 2:34-35,45, Acts 4:11, Eph 2:20). Jesus made it clear to the Jewish leaders (the builders) they had rejected him, and he became to “them a *stone of *stumbling” (Isaiah 8:14). The “cornerstone is laid first” at the “head corner” and “governs every other corner” and “every ANGLE” in the entire building and thus determines the “place every other stone is to be laid.” Through his death, resurrection, and ascension, Jesus became the “chief cornerstone of the SPIRITUAL TEMPLE,” the church. As ACTS 2:36 says: “God has made Him BOTH Lord and Christ.” There is salvation in no one else. It is “GODS DOING,” and it is marvelous!! 

We can SEEK him, there are still more points of history and etymology of -THE WORD- and idea of the cornerstone. Jesus is the chief cornerstone, ingrafting all humanity into ONE SPIRIT, one life in him, who is, the TREE of LIFE. Our God resurrected life from death, ressurecting eternal life in us- in unity as one human race and one human family. We are saved by Grace through Faith in him, because he forgave us for our sins by replacing our sins in his place through sacraficing himself on the cross. Sins past, present, and future. This was only achieved through his unconditional Love, GRACE, and unconditional forgiveness that he offers his children- asking we do the same in RETURN. This is his renewed COVENANT.

Redemption and RESTORATION is not possible by human strength alone, it is by the GRACE of GOD. There is no security in anything else but abandonment to God, no matter what storm is swirling about. So, when we hear the expression “The stone that the builder’s rejected has become the cornerstone,” and that it was “Jesus Himself who was rejected and set aside” – and thus gave us the grace of the death and resurrection - we too can realize that in the struggles and mysteries of our life, God is doing something new and something great. He uses human adversity and suffering for greater purpose, that point to him, calling us to seek him. We wants to RESTORE, and only he can. God uses suffering to bring us closer to him. Sometimes we dont understand the things we do, but god fully understands. His word reveals truth, his word points us in his direction, his spirit SPEAKS through us. 

Psalm 34 is the 34th book of psalms: “I will bless the LORD at all times: his praise shall continually be in my mouth." The Book of Psalms is part of the third section of the Hebrew Bible, and a book of the Christian Old Testament. In the slightly different numbering system used in the Greek Septuagint and Latin Vulgate translations of the Bible, this psalm is Psalm 33. In Latin, it is known as "Benedicam Dominum in omni tempore". Psalm 34 is attributed to David. The Psalm's subtitle, A Psalm of David when he pretended madness before Abimelech, who drove him away, and he departed, derives from when David was living with the Philistines, but the account of this event in 1 Samuel 21 refers to the king as Achish, not Abimelech. The psalm is an acrostic poem in the Hebrew Alphabet, one of a series of songs of thanksgiving. It is the first Psalm which describes angels as guardians of the righteous.

Psalm 34;

34 I will bless the Lord at all times: his praise shall continually be in my mouth.

2 My soul shall make her boast in the Lord: the humble shall hear thereof, and be glad.

3 O magnify the Lord with me, and let us exalt his name together.

4 I sought the Lord, and he heard me, and delivered me from all my fears.

5 They looked unto him, and were lightened: and their faces were not ashamed.

6 This poor man cried, and the Lord heard him, and saved him out of all his troubles.

7 The angel of the Lord encampeth round about them that fear him, and delivereth them.

8 O taste and see that the Lord is good: blessed is the man that trusteth in him.

9 O fear the Lord, ye his saints: for there is no want to them that fear him.

10 The young lions do lack, and suffer hunger: but they that seek the Lord shall not want any good thing.

11 Come, ye children, hearken unto me: I will teach you the fear of the Lord.

12 What man is he that desireth life, and loveth many days, that he may see good?

13 Keep thy tongue from evil, and thy lips from speaking guile.

14 Depart from evil, and do good; seek peace, and pursue it.

15 The eyes of the Lord are upon the righteous, and his ears are open unto their cry.

16 The face of the Lord is against them that do evil, to cut off the remembrance of them from the earth.

17 The righteous cry, and the Lord heareth, and delivereth them out of all their troubles.

18 The Lord is nigh unto them that are of a broken heart; and saveth such as be of a contrite spirit.

19 Many are the afflictions of the righteous: but the Lord delivereth him out of them all.

20 He keepeth all his bones: not one of them is broken.

21 Evil shall slay the wicked: and they that hate the righteous shall be desolate.

22 The Lord redeemeth the soul of his servants: and none of them that trust in him shall be desolate.

The phrase the law and the prophets refers to the entire Hebrew Bible, what we call the Old Testament. Jesus spoke of “the law and the prophets” multiple times, such as when He listed the two greatest commandments (Matthew 22:40). In the Sermon on the Mount, Jesus pointed to His absolute perfection, saying, “Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I have not come to abolish them but to fulfill them” (*Matthew 5:17*)

On the Emmaus Road, Jesus taught two disciples “everything written about himself in the Scriptures, beginning with the Law of Moses and the Books of the Prophets” (Luke 24:27, CEV). Clearly, all Scripture, indicated by “the law and the prophets,” pointed to Jesus. The same passage also contains a three-fold division of the Old Testament: “the Law of Moses, the Prophets and the Psalms” (verse 44), but the two-fold division of “the law and the prophets” was also customary (Matthew 7:12; Acts 13:15; 24:14; Romans 3:21).

The books of the law, properly speaking, would comprise the Pentateuch: Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy. The prophets, in the two-fold division, would include the rest of the Old Testament. Although it may seem strange that poetic books such as Job or Proverbs would be included in the “prophets” category, it was common for the Jews to see any writer of Scripture as a prophet. Further, many of the psalms are -clear- “messianic prophecies.”  It is believed that the forked cross represents a tree, or more precisely, the “Tree of Knowledge,” which brought sin into the world. However sin was defeated by the suffering of Jesus on the cross at Calvary. Jerusalem was still being rebuilt following the destruction caused by Titus in 70 AD. Emperor Hadrian had built during the 130s a temple to Venus over the supposed site of Jesus' tomb near Calvary, and renamed the city Aelia Capitolina. 

Hebrew bible (ot) Isaiah 53: 

53 Who has believed our message
    and to whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed? 🙈

2 He grew up before him like a tender shoot, and like a root out of dry ground. 🌳

He had no beauty or majesty to attract us to him,
    nothing in his appearance(F) that we should desire him.

3 He was despised and rejected by mankind,
    a man of suffering, and familiar with pain.

Like one from whom people hide their faces
    he was despised, and we held him in low esteem.

4 Surely he took up our pain
    and bore our suffering,

yet we considered him punished by God,(L)
    stricken by him, and afflicted.(M)

5 But he was pierced(N) for our transgressions,(O)
    he was crushed(P) for our iniquities;
the punishment(Q) that brought us peace(R) was on him, and by his wounds(S) we are healed.(T)

6 We all, like sheep, have gone astray,(U)
    each of us has turned to our own way;(V)
and the Lord has laid on him
    the iniquity(W) of us all.

7 He was oppressed(X) and afflicted,
    yet he did not open his mouth;(Y)
he was led like a lamb(Z) to the slaughter,(AA)
    and as a sheep before its shearers is silent,
    so he did not open his mouth.

8 By oppression[a] and judgment(AB) he was taken away.
    Yet who of his generation protested?
For he was cut off from the land of the living;(AC)
    for the transgression(AD) of my people he was punished.[b]

9 He was assigned a grave with the wicked,(AE)
    and with the rich(AF) in his death,
though he had done no violence,(AG)
    nor was any deceit in his mouth.(AH)

10 Yet it was the Lord’s will(AI) to crush(AJ) him and cause him to suffer,(AK)
    and though the Lord makes[c] his life an offering for sin,(AL)
he will see his offspring(AM) and prolong his days,
    and the will of the Lord will prosper(AN) in his hand.

11 After he has suffered, 
    he will see the light(AP) of life[d] and be satisfied[e]; ☀️ by his knowledge 🍎my righteous servant will justify many,
    and he will bear their iniquities. 

12 Therefore I will give him a portion among the great,
    and he will divide the spoils with the strong,
because he poured out his life unto death,
    and was numbered with the transgressors.(AW)
For he bore the sin of many,
    and made intercession for the transgressors.

When Philip invited his friend Nathanael to meet Jesus, he referred to the whole of Hebrew Scripture in its two-fold division: “We have -found- the one Moses wrote about in the law, and the prophets also wrote about—Jesus of Nazareth” (John 1:45, NET). Philip was right that all of Scripture has a common theme: the Messiah, the Son of God, who is Jesus.

That is very “Amazing news!!” God is -real- and personal, and hes searching for all people he doesnt have a relationship with, and Hes asking for you to -search for him- back! The “good news” is hes not “confined or defined” by religion, belief, culture, identity, race, etc, as there are no -man made restrictions- or boundaries in God! I know it sounds odd- how god -‘reveals himself,’ but he just does, and when he does its just -‘known.’ Thats why for the past 2,000 years people keep proclaiming the ‘same -discovery.’ Part of the reason why i refused to -accept- it for so long was because -i know- theres thousands of years of history and persecution -keeping the distance. And that is a huge -barrier to ‘Cross. His disciples are called to ‘testify- to the -truth- and -witness- of the messiah,’ and we are called to -share- that good news! “Amazing news!”

But the god of israel is the god of jacob, and jacob was given the name israel after “wrestling with god.” (etymologized as "contends-with-God"). In the Genesis narrative, Jacob spent the night alone on a riverside during his journey back to Canaan. He encounters a "man" who proceeds to wrestle with him until daybreak. In the end, Jacob is given the name "Israel" and blessed, while the "man" refuses to give his own name. Jacob then names the -place- where they -wrestled- Penuel (פְּנוּאֵל "face of God" or "facing God"- The account contains several plays on Hebrew names—Peniel (or Penuel), Israel—as well as similarity to the root of Jacob's name (which sounds like the Hebrew for "heel") and its compound. The limping of Jacob (Yaʿaqob ), may mirror the name of the river, Jabbok (Yabbok יַבֹּק , river), and Nahmanides (Deut. 2:10 of Jeshurun) gives the etymology for the name Jacob. The Hebrew text states that it is a "man" (אִישׁ, LXX ἄνθρωπος, Vulgate vir) with whom Jacob wrestles, but later this —“man" is identified with “God”—- (Elohim) by Jacob. Much of history points to the symbolism behind why israels name was given.