While walking the roads of the Holy Land, Jesus often taught His followers lessons that would come down to us through God’s Word. But from our perspective—in our very different time and place—many of the Lord’s allusions to the surrounding landscape have been lost. In this seven-episode series, Dr. John (Jack) Beck highlights how the land provided talking points both to the original disciples and to us today.
Matthew and Luke reference this village nine times in telling the story of Jesus’s birth, highlighting that it too is a solution story.
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Matthew tells this story to highlight five parallels and one major difference between Israel’s and Jesus’s temptation experiences in the wilderness.
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Jesus traveled to Mount Moreh to raise a mother’s son from the dead, just as Elisha had before on this same mountain.
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As Jesus rode a donkey on Palm Sunday, the crowd called for His coronation because they were seeing him do what King Solomon had done, in the same place on the day of his coronation.
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The second miracle He performed there, the feeding of the 4,000, is precipitated by the first, the healing of a demon-possessed man.
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Only when we realize how much this part of the Holy Land had struggled to understand who God was, will we appreciate Peter’s confession and Jesus’s confirmation of it using local geography.
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The Sermon on the Mount is one of the most powerful discourses we have from the ministry of Jesus, beginning with the Beatitudes but ending on a quiet note—until we learn that Jesus returned to this same mountain to give His Great Commission.
Watch Here"I love these series--Jack Beck is an excellent communicator and he brings the Bible and Holy Land to life."
Betsy
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