Open my eyes, that I may see Wondrous things from Your law. (Psalm 119:18); They said to Him, “Lord, that our eyes may be opened.” So Jesus had compassion and touched their eyes. And immediately their eyes received sight, and they followed Him. (Matthew 20:33-34)
Just as Jesus gave sight to the blind (John 9:1-12), and hearing to the deaf and speech to the mute (Mark 7:31-37), so will he also give us spiritual eyes to see the Truth, spiritual ears to hear the Truth and wisdom to speak the Truth (Luke 4:16-21), even if it seems to fantastic to believe. Let's continue...
Jesus believed Sodom and Gomarrah were destroyed because of their immorality, and that Lot's wife became a pillar os salt for looking back at the city:
- Then the men said to Lot, ... —take them out of this place! For we will destroy this place, because the outcry against them has grown great before the face of the Lord, and the Lord has sent us to destroy it.” So it came to pass, when they had brought them outside, that he said, “Escape for your life! Do not look behind you nor stay anywhere in the plain. Escape to the mountains, lest you be destroyed.” The sun had risen upon the earth when Lot entered Zoar. Then the Lord rained brimstone and fire on Sodom and Gomorrah, from the Lord out of the heavens. So He overthrew those cities, all the plain, all the inhabitants of the cities, and what grew on the ground. But his wife looked back behind him, and she became a pillar of salt. (Genesis 19:12-13, 17, 23-26)
- Then He said to the disciples, “The days will come when you will desire to see one of the days of the Son of Man, and you will not see it. And they will say to you, ‘Look here!’ or ‘Look there!' Do not go after them or follow them. For as the lightning that flashes out of one part under heaven shines to the other part under heaven, so also the Son of Man will be in His day. But first He must suffer many things and be rejected by this generation. Likewise as it was also in the days of Lot: They ate, they drank, they bought, they sold, they planted, they built; but on the day that Lot went out of Sodom it rained fire and brimstone from heaven and destroyed them all. Even so will it be in the day when the Son of Man is revealed. Remember Lot’s wife. (Luke 17:22-25, 28-30, 32)
Jesus believed in Jonah and that he spent three days in the belly of a big fish, and that after the fish spit him out on dry land, he went on to evangelize in Ninevah:
- Now the word of the Lord came to Jonah the son of Amittai, saying, “Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and cry out against it; for their wickedness has come up before Me.” But Jonah arose to flee to Tarshish from the presence of the Lord. Now the Lord had prepared a great fish to swallow Jonah. And Jonah was in the belly of the fish three days and three nights. (Jonah 1:1-3, 17); Then Jonah prayed to the Lord his God from the fish’s belly. So the Lord spoke to the fish, and it vomited Jonah onto dry land.(John 2:1, 10); Now the word of the Lord came to Jonah the second time, saying, “Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and preach to it the message that I tell you.” So Jonah arose and went to Nineveh, according to the word of the Lord. And Jonah began to enter the city on the first day’s walk. Then he cried out and said, “Yet forty days, and Nineveh shall be overthrown!” So the people of Nineveh believed God, proclaimed a fast, and put on sackcloth, from the greatest to the least of them. Then God saw their works, that they turned from their evil way; and God relented from the disaster that He had said He would bring upon them, and He did not do it.(Jonah 3:1-3, 4-5, 10)
- Then some of the scribes and Pharisees answered, saying, “Teacher, we want to see a sign from You.” But [Jesus] answered and said to them, “An evil and adulterous generation seeks after a sign, and no sign will be given to it except the sign of the prophet Jonah. For as Jonah was three days and three nights in the belly of the great fish, so will the Son of Man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth. The men of Nineveh will rise up in the judgment with this generation and condemn it, because they repented at the preaching of Jonah; and indeed a greater than Jonah is here. (Matthew 12:38-41)
Jesus believed in all the prophets of God: Joshua, Samuel, David, Solomon, Isaiah, Jeremiah, Ezekiel, Daniel, Minor Prophets; and He refered to them throughout his ministry:
- “Do not think that I came to destroy the Law or the Prophets. I did not come to destroy but to fulfill. For assuredly, I say to you, till heaven and earth pass away, one jot or one tittle will by no means pass from the law till all is fulfilled. (Matthew 5:17-18)
- Now as He was going out on the road, one came running, knelt before Him, and asked Him, “Good Teacher, what shall I do that I may inherit eternal life?” So Jesus said to him, “Why do you call Me good? No one is good but One, that is, God. You know the commandments: ‘Do not commit adultery,’ ‘Do not murder,’ ‘Do not steal,’ ‘Do not bear false witness,’ ‘Do not defraud,’ ‘Honor your father and your mother.’” And he answered and said to Him, “Teacher, all these things I have kept from my youth.” Then Jesus, looking at him, loved him, and said to him, “One thing you lack: Go your way, sell whatever you have and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven; and come, take up the cross, and follow Me.” But he was sad at this word, and went away sorrowful, for he had great possessions. [“I am the Lord your God, ... “You shall have no other gods before Me., Exodus 20:2-3] (Matthew 10:17-22)
- ...(and the Scripture cannot be broken),... (John 10:35); And beginning at Moses and all the Prophets, He expounded to them in all the Scriptures the things concerning Himself. Then He said to them, “These are the words which I spoke to you while I was still with you, that all things must be fulfilled which were written in the Law of Moses and the Prophets and the Psalms concerning Me.” And He opened their understanding, that they might comprehend the Scriptures.(Luke 24:27, 44-45); You search the Scriptures, for in them you think you have eternal life; and these are they which testify of Me. (John 5:39)
There are hundreds of examples that could be given, but the point of it all is this: If Jesus believed the Word of God, shouldn't we? Let us be like the church in Berea, These were more fair-minded than those in Thessalonica, in that they received the word with all readiness, and searched the Scriptures daily to find out whether these things were so. (Acts 17:11) Don't depend on men to prove that God is or isn't real, but go to God directly, by studying His Word with a sincere desire to know the Truth, the Truth that all creation professes: “But now ask the beasts, and they will teach you; And the birds of the air, and they will tell you; Or speak to the earth, and it will teach you; And the fish of the sea will explain to you. Who among all these does not know That the hand of the Lord has done this, In whose hand is the life of every living thing, And the breath of all mankind? Does not the ear test words And the mouth taste its food? “With Him are wisdom and strength, He has counsel and understanding. (Job 12:7-11, 13)
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