by Luis B. Vega
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Continuing in the Discussion about your Article. You started off by mentioning your Times of Meditation and Study and that it pertained to the Destruction of the Temple. One also was reviewing the Portion of Scripture when Jesus went up to Jerusalem. It is the Account of how at the Sheep Gate of 5 Columns, there was that Crippled Man there. He had been in that Condition for 38 Years. Here is another example, in one’s Opinion of how Numbers noted in the Text are Prophetic. How so?
‘Now there is in Jerusalem near the Sheep Gate a Pool with 5 Covered Colonnades, which in Hebrew is called Bethesda. On these Walkways lay a Great Number of the Sick, the Blind, the Lame, and the Paralyzed. One Man there had been an Invalid for 38 Years. When Jesus saw him lying there and realized that he had spent a Long Time in this Condition, He asked him. Do you want to get Well? -John 5:2-5
Realize that as it pertains to Israel’s Spiritual Condition, at the Time of Jesus’ Visitation to them, as foretold by Daniel among other Prophets, Jesus came with Grace, thus the 5 Pillars. If one can then exegesis the Theme to then apply a Prophetic Correlation, the Crippled Man is Israel. He typifies how incapacitated Israel had become due to Sin, because as Jesus later in the Portion of the Chapter explains why. They, the Jews ‘Missed the Mark’ despite having so much Divine Revelation given to them like no other Nation on the Globe, etc.
And 1 Point is that this similar Spiritual Condition can be the case with one personally, and with the Church Body in these Last Days. And some would argue, the Last Iteration of the Church, that being Laodicea is exactly what the Crippled Man typified. And? Well, the Numerical Value associated with the Man was 38. And how is that then related to the Temple and its Destruction?
Well, assuming the Year in which the Event occurred was 32 AD. And if one interprets that the 38 Year Factor is how long from then the Sin of Israel continued? It would be the Year the Temple was Destroyed, 38 Years later in 70 AD. Coincidence? One has commented on this Equation before, but in this case, one just sees it as a possible Clue, though circumstantial, that if 38 Years later when the Temple was indeed demolished strengthens one’s assertion that 32 AD was the Crucifixion Year.
32 AD Crippled Man, Grace + 38 Years Prophetic Factor = 70 AD Temple Destroyed
Offer of the Kingdom
Now, the Incident does not prove it was a Time Marker of when the Crucifixion was, in 32 AD, if the Equation is True leading to 70 AD. But how is the Crippled Man as a Type of Israel, Prophetically? Note the Tone or Underlying Warning Jesus gave the Man and what the Man did. The following is one’s Conjecture. Apparently, the Condition of the Physical Ailment was due to the Man’s Sins. And that could be applied to National Israel. The Man gives a ‘Lame’ excuses, sorry for the Pun about why he cannot get ‘Cured’. It just came to Mind in how one would be saying it aside from the Context.
But is that not what Israel has done? In that it seeks to justify itself and never take Accountability or Responsibility for its Sin? Especially that of having rejected their own Messiah? Sad. It usually has taken individual People like the Prophets, i.e., Moses, Samuel, Daniel, Isaiah, to repent on behalf of all of Israel, etc. So, Jesus then finds the former Crippled Man in the Temple. And Jesus tells him to ‘Stop Sinning’ or worse things will happen.
One has a Suspicion that the Man continued in his Sin. And rather than seek to join Jesus and follow Him as many did, he rather went to the Jewish Ruling Council to inform about Jesus. So, in extrapolating the Prophetic Typology of this Man being as an Israel, Jesus came and showed Grace. He healed many and warned Israel to ‘Stop Sinning’. But Israel did not and placed its hope on Moses and the Temple, just like Today.
However, since the Ruling Council rejected Jesus’ Offer of the Kingdom there and then, that came along with Redemption, the Sin of Israel continued. And ultimately, that led to what the Jews trusted in, did and will again with. It will be the 3rd Temple and the Reestablishment of the Mosaic Law. As you all know, one’s Interpretation of the ‘Covenant with the Many’ will be how the AntiChrist will re-institute the Covenant, which is that of Moses, and confirmed during the Dedication of the 3rd Temple, etc.
But what Israel trusted in, Moses and the Temple was what was lost it in its Destruction in 70 AD, exactly 38 Years from the Time and Place Jesus had healed the Crippled Man, ‘Crippled’ Israel, i.e. The Jubilee Year was proclaimed, Luke 4:17-19 and what that brought to Israel, a 5-Fold implication of Grace.
1. To preach Good News to the Poor.
2. To proclaim Liberty to the Captives
3. To recovery of Sight to the Blind.
4. To release the Oppressed.
5. To proclaim the Year of YHVH’s Favor.
Rewards and Crowns
Thus, the Passage is very sobering in that the Spiritual Application can apply to one’s Life individually, and the Church Body. In Revelation, the Warning is also given out to the 7 Churches in how if there is no Faithfulness and Obedience, the Testimony of that Light can be and will be removed. It is not about losing one’s Salvation, but in regard to one's Testimony being compromised and how the Rewards and Crowns can be lost, etc. Now to those that are skeptical about if Jesus was and is the Messiah in fulfilling the Jubilee? It is was even John the Baptist asked in Matthew 11:4-6.
‘Are You the One who was to come, or should we look for someone else?’ Jesus replied. Go back and report to John what you hear and see:
1. the Blind receive Sight,
2. the Lame walk,
3. the Lepers are cleansed,
4. the Deaf hear,
5. the Dead are raised,
6. and the Good News is preached to the Poor.
Blessed is the one who does not fall away on account of Me’.
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Lastly, one wants to comment on who will be the 2 Witnesses? That has been the Question for nearly 2000 Years. And there are Good Arguments to read about. The 2 Main Contenders are Moses and Elijah. One would concur. But here in the same Chapter of John 5, there is perhaps another Clue as to the Identity of 1 of them, Moses. And this is said by Jesus. Of course, it is one’s Interpretation. But why would one be convinced that Jesus is referring to how Moses will be 1 of the 2 Witnesses during the Tribulation Period.
Consider the Present Tense of how Jesus stated that ‘It is Moses that accuses, still’. Now, some may rightly note that it could be interpreted as, ‘Ah, it is the law that is accusing the Jews’. True. There is that layer of Application, but one is more convinced that it is because Moses is still alive and will be the one that will directly accuse Israel and the AntiChrist. It will be like in the Times with Pharaoh at his Courts and to include all those 10 Plagues and Blood Moons, etc. Perhaps. But it will be an Amazing Spectacle to see, hopefully from Heaven’s Perspective after the Rapture Event.
‘Do not think that I will accuse you before the Father. Your accuser is Moses, in whom you have put your Hope. If you had believed Moses, you would believe Me, because he wrote about Me. But since you do not believe what he wrote, how will you believe what I say?’ -John 5:45-47
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