*DAILY DEW 16/APRIL/2022*
*Judas Cash-out? (Snippet on prophecies)*
_Key Bible Text:_
*"Knowing this first, that no prophecy of the scripture is of any private interpretation."* (2 Peter 1:20 (KJV))
_Bible Insight:_
When we read about the events that surround the birth of Christ, we are often tempted to believe that every occurrence were orchestrated in the Spirit and those at the time were acting by default.
And this claims have quite some passages that can back them up such as Matthew 1:23-- "Behold, a virgin shall be with child, and shall bring forth a son, and they shall call his name Emmanuel, which being interpreted is, God with us."
Likewise, Matthew 2:5,6, 16-- "And they said unto him, In Bethlehem of Judaea: for thus it is written by the prophet, And thou Bethlehem, in the land of Juda, art not the least among the princes of Juda: for out of thee shall come a Governor, that shall rule my people Israel. Then Herod, when he saw that he was mocked of the wise men, was exceeding wroth, and sent forth, and slew all the children that were in Bethlehem, and in all the coasts thereof, from two years old and under, according to the time which he had diligently enquired of the wise men.
Reading 2:17,18 further it says *"Then was fulfilled that which was spoken by Jeremy the prophet, saying, In Rama was there a voice heard, lamentation, and weeping, and great mourning, Rachel weeping for her children, and would not be comforted, because they are not.
Finally, 2:23 says "And he came and dwelt in a city called Nazareth: that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the prophets, He shall be called a Nazarene."
There are several of these passages but let's build on this few; God is omnipresent, omnipotent etc..He does not live in time. He had seen in the future that a virgin would conceive the saviour, that Herod would kill the children under the ages of two and that one of the saviour's disciples would betray him...therefore he revealed those to the prophets of old..The later characters of this roles; Mary, Herod, Judas etc all acted on their own accords.
Even when Jesus told Peter that he would deny him thrice before cockcrow it Was because Jesus had by Spirit seen how that Peter would deny him and not that Peter denied him to fulfil what Jesus said.
Therefore Judas allowed greed and discontentment to rule him.
_MEDITATION:_
*"Know ye not, that to whom ye yield yourselves servants to obey, his servants ye are to whom ye obey; whether of sin unto death, or of obedience unto righteousness?"* -- Romans 6:16
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