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The Answer to Jesus' Prayer in John 1:17

Jesus knew that His Father loved Him because He always did that which pleased Him. What will it take for God the Father to answer His Beloved Son’s prayer?:

“I do not pray that You should take them out of the world,but that You should keep them from the evil one. They are not of the world,just as I am not of the world. Sanctify them by Your truth. Your Word is truth. As You sent Me into the world,I also have sent them into the world. And for their sakes I sanctify Myself,that they also may be sanctified by the truth.

For so they did to the Prophets before us

Persecution of believers in Yeshua as Lord and Messiah,the Son of God,is not a new thing in Israel. Rather,it is a phenomenon that has returned to Israel,for opposition to the gospel and persecution against those who believe the good news began in Israel already from the days since Yeshua was born. (Mt 2) Following this attempt to destroy the messianic hope in Israel at its inception,it surfaced again during the days of Yeshua’s ministry,threatening to excommunicate from the Jewish community (the synagogue) all those who would follow the Lamb of God. (Jn 9:22)

Blood of New Covenant on the Jewish People

Much ‘blood has been spilled’ over the outcry of the “all the [Israeli Jewish] people” to Pontius Pilate washing his hands wishing to be “innocent of the blood of this just man”: “His blood be on us and on our children!” (Mt 27:24-25)

In the sovereignty and wisdom of God,and by inspiration of the Holy Spirit,this Scripture is full of life and death,for “death and life are in the power of the tongue,and those who love it will eat its fruit”. (Pr 18:21) This publicly spoken word by the rulers and the common people had consequences which were not understood or foreseen when rashly uttered. (Acts 5:28) When Adam disobeyed God in the Garden of Eden,he had no idea really of what he was doing and the dreadful consequences of his action – that in him all future human beings would be starting out in life as sinners and dying!

No Confidence in the Flesh

Philp 3:3-11 For we are the circumcision,who worship God in the Spirit,rejoice in the Messiah Jesus,and have no confidence in the flesh. If anyone else thinks he may have confidence in the flesh,I more so. . . . But what things were gain to me,these I have counted loss for Messiah. Yet indeed I also reckon all things loss for the excellence of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord,for whom I have suffered the loss of all things,and count them as dung,that I may gain Christ. . . .