Is Jesus a Liar? | Rapp Report Daily 0071 | Striving for Eternity
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- Welcome to The Rapid Pull, daily edition, where we provide a quick Biblical interpretations and applications.
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- This is a ministry of striving for eternity. Is Jesus a liar? This is a question we were asked this week, and we're going to deal with a couple of passages of scripture that people try to use to claim that Jesus is a liar.
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- The first is Matthew 24, 36, and its corresponding passage in Mark 13, 32.
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- In both those passages, what it says is, But concerning the day or the hour, no one knows, not even the angels in heaven, nor the
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- Son, but only the Father. And people try to claim that Jesus is telling a lie, because as God, He should know everything.
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- But in this passage, it sure looks like He's claiming He does not know something.
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- That's the claim, until you know the rest of the story. Because what this actually is, is a
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- Jewish idiom. It is a way of trying to say that only the Father knows and the
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- Son shouldn't be choosing the date. The Son should basically be minding His own business.
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- He should be anxiously awaiting for the Father to choose the day.
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- And if you look within the context of both passages, that is exactly what you see. In the Mark passage, the very next verse says,
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- Be on guard, keep awake. And in the Matthew 24 passage, the very next verse says,
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- For as were the days of Noah, so will be the coming of the Son of Man. We're going to look into this in more detail tomorrow.
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- But what we want to foresee is the fact that the context makes it clear that this is not saying that Jesus did not know something, but to expect something.