have you ever wondered why Jesus told his disciples to buy swords before his arrest have you ever considered the significance of the horde of pigs Jesus cast the demons into or have you ever asked why John 20:7 is even in the Bible over the past 12 months I've come across a few theories about well-known passages involving Jesus that I had trouble believing I was certain they couldn't be true but after studying the passages in question my appreciation for God's word grew even more because of their cultural ties I'm confident that not a single one of
you watching right now will know all five of these deeper meanings in fact if you're one of the few Geniuses who knew all five beforehand comment it down below and I'll mention you in my next video and I always forget to say it but if you are blessed by this content in any way please subscribe it would mean a lot since all five stories involve Jesus in some way I figured we'd start at one of my now favorite passages his temptation in the wilderness before learning of the gravity of this interaction between Jesus and Satan
I found the passage somewhat pointless I just kind of assumed that there was no good reason for Jesus to even consider Satan's proposal making the Temptation somewhat easy but I was sorely mistaken this temptation remarkably mirrors a verse in 1 John 2:16 watch the parallels as I read this verse for all that is in the world the desires of the flesh the desires of the eyes and the pride of life is not from the father but is from the world I want to hone in on this Last Temptation mentioned in Matthew's account the devil took
him to a very high mountain and showed him all the kingdoms of the world and their glory and he said to him all these I will give you if you fall down and worship me as I said before this last temptation just sounds foolish to me in what world would Jesus ever bow down and worship Satan when he knows God the Father why would he consider it at all in fact why would Satan bother wasting his time on such a useless attempt at the Son of God well I read a few verses to investigate and
discovered that I couldn't have been more wrong this may just have been the hardest Temptation a human has ever experience in our entire history a number of verses in the Bible tell us that Satan is currently in control of our world and we do know from Revelation that in the end Jesus will take his place and rule the world himself but what was offering Jesus was a shortcut Jesus could inherit the entire Earth without having to go to the Cross this was Satan's Las itch effort to derail God's salvation plan by tempting Jesus with an
escape but praise be to God that he didn't fall to the devil's schemes and instead bought salvation for us all with his blood now our next story takes place in Garin a gentile City apparently full of pigs what's with the pigs why did Jesus permit the demons to go into the pigs knowing they would all be drowned although this seems somewhat coincidental there's actually a very powerful message being sent by this exorcism from Jesus at the time countries were governed by Roman Legions not to be confused with a demon-possessed man with the same name these
Legions were groups of four to 5,000 soldiers put in charge of asserting Roman Authority in a particular area and the Legion in charge of gines was especially brutal to its people liio X fretensis the 10th Roman legion and guess what their mascot of choice was AAR as we know I heard of 2,000 pigs charged off a for their deaths 2,000 the same number of Roman soldiers in a battalion which was also referred to as a legion what Jesus is basically demonstrating is not only his power to cast out even the strongest of demons but his
power to throw the entire Roman Empire into the sea with a single word Jesus final command to the restored man was to tell the other Gentile cities what Mercy he was shown by him as opposed to his usual response to the Jews of secrecy I'm sure we all remember the challenging passage about money where Jesus says it's easy for a camel to enter the eyee of a needle than a rich man to enter the kingdom of God which we know is impossible so as Jesus saying that it's impossible for the rich to make it full
stop or maybe we've got the passage wrong alt together see the eye is actually referring to the gates of the cities in jesus' time at each gate there were two large doors and a smaller door called the eye of the needle intended for pedestrian passage only if the larger Gates were shut a camel would have to to squeeze through the smaller door by shedding its load bowing its head and squeezing its way through a difficult task but not impossible this meaning brings so much depth to jesus' seemingly impossible command in order for any of us
to enter the kingdom of God we must be willing to leave behind what we're carrying bow our head in submission to his will one passage that always puzzled me was Jesus command to his disciples to buy swords before his arrest I always wondered why the disciples would need swords and in a seemingly perfect moment to use them Jesus condemns Peter for slashing off the ear of the high priest's servant even the disciples were confused as the guards closed in to arrest Jesus they said Lord should we strike with our swords so why did Jesus ask
them to bring swords if he was just going to stop them from using them the truth is when Peter sliced off the ear of malcus the servant of the high priest he was guilty of committing a a capital crime for which he would have been executed when Jesus healed the ear he removed any evidence of Peter's crime meaning that even though he still tried to kill the servant the evidence that would have brought judgment upon him was raised and what followed was jesus' own arrest and crucifixion Calvin and others in history have strongly affirmed that
Jesus was referring to spiritual swords in the earlier verses but a theory can be made that Jesus planned this scenario to leave us with a beautiful example of his atoning work for us on the cross okay let's finally talk about John 20 verse 7 we know that every verse in the Bible is there for a reason so what's the reason for the verse after jesus' Resurrection reading and the facecloth which had been on jesus' head not lying with the linen cloths but folded up in a place by itself why does it specifically mention the facecloth
of all things well in Hebrew tradition the master of a banquet would always have a facecloth handy while he ate and when he needed to leave the table he would leave the facecloth folded to signify to his servants that he had not yet finished and was coming back some speculate that by taking the time to fold his face cloth in the Tomb Jesus was sending a very clear message to his disciples I am coming back a truth we know is Promised throughout all the New Testament scriptures so how many of you knew all five of
those deeper meanings if you knew all of them I will be very impressed because it took me about 12 months to find them all leave a comment down below and also let me know of any crazier deeper meanings of Bible stories maybe even some Old Testament stuff we could do a part two God [Music] bless
