God, Man, and Satan Working toward His Death
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Bible Verses~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Luke 22:1 Now the Feast of Unleavened Bread, which is called
the Passover, was drawing near. (2) And the chief priests and
the scribes were seeking a way to do away with Him, for they
feared the people. (3) And Satan entered into Judas who was
called Iscariot and was of the number of the twelve. (4) And he
went away and conferred with the chief priests and officers as
to how he might deliver Him up to them.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Words of Ministry~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
While the Lord was preparing both Himself and His disciples for
His death, the opposers--the leaders in the Jewish community--
were busy looking for an opportunity to arrest Him and put Him
to death. The Lord's sovereignty was exercised here, for this
was the year in which Messiah had to be cut off, that is, the
year in which the preordained Savior had to die. The Son
prepared Himself to die. The Spirit and the Father were also
working to prepare the environment so that the Son would die on
the cross exactly according to what was prophesied and typified
in the old Testament.
In Luke 22 we see that while the Man-Savior was preparing
Himself to die, the opposers were busy with their plot, their
conspiracy At the same time, the enemy of God, Satan, also was
busy. In particular, Satan was actively using Judas Iscariot,
one of the twelve apostles appointed by the Man- Savior. Satan
instigated Judas' betrayal of the Lord Jesus. Satan injected
into Judas the thought of finding an opportunity to deliver the
Lord into the hand of those who wanted to kill Him. Therefore,
in this chapter we see both the plotting of the opposers and
the working of Satan. On the one hand, "the chief priests and
the scribes were seeking how they might do away with Him" (v.
2). On the other hand, "Satan entered into Judas, who was
called Iscariot, being of the number of the twelve. And he went
away and conversed with the chief priests and officers as to
how he might deliver Him up to them" (vv. 3-4).
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(c) 2007 Living Stream Ministry. Bible verses are taken from
the Recovery Version of the Bible (RcV) and Words of Ministry,
from Witness Lee, Life-study of Luke, p. 421. Both are
published by Living Stream Ministry, Anaheim, CA. (Repeat
4/15/02)
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