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Mark 8:31-33 READ

Whats going onPeter has just confessed that Jesus is the Christ. Then Jesus tells his disciples openly that he is going to go to the cross and then 3 days later rise from the dead. He speaks it openly. Then peter takes Jesus aside and rebukes Jesus. Then Jesus calls Peter a tool of Satan.

What does it mean

Jesus plan is the plan

Jesus is preparing his disciples of what is going to happen to JesusHe’s going to suffer, He’s going to be rejected, He’s going to be killed, and then He’s going to rise againThis is a prophecy! This is exactly how the plan laid out- This is exactly what happened to JesusYou can read later in the scriptures that this is what happened to JesusPsalm 22 was a prophecy that outlined much of what was going to happen to JesusIsaiah 53: 4 Surely He has borne our griefs And carried our sorrows; Yet we esteemed Him stricken,

Smitten by God, and afflicted. 5 But He was wounded for our transgressions, He was bruised for our iniquities; The chastisement for our peace was upon Him, And by His stripes we are healed.When God declares a prophecy- it always comes true- its what he doesThere are over 350 prophecies of the Old Testament that Jesus Christ fulfilledAfter examining only eight different prophecies (Idem, 106), they conservatively estimated that the chance of one man fulfilling all eight prophecies was one in 10^17. To illustrate how large the number 10^17 IS (a figure with 17 zeros), Stoner gave this illustration : If you mark one of ten tickets, and place all the tickets in a hat, and thoroughly stir them, and then ask a blindfolded man to draw one, his chance of getting the right ticket is one in ten. Suppose that we take 10^17 silver dollars and lay them on the face of Texas. They’ll cover all of the state two feet deep. Now mark one of these silver dollars and stir the whole mass thoroughly, all over the state. Blindfold a man and tell him that he can travel as far as he wishes, but he must pick up one silver dollar and say that this is the right one. What chance would he have of getting the right one? Just the same chance that the prophets would’ve had of writing these eight prophecies and having them all come true in any one man, from their day to the present time, providing they wrote them in their own wisdom (Idem, 106-107).

Prophecy is a big deal!What does it mean to you?Any prophecy that is in the Bible that you’re wondering is going to come true or not- it WILL come true!Revelation 16 READ-Did you catch that? First Bowl: Loathsome Sores, Second Bowl: The Sea Turns to Blood, Third Bowl: The Waters Turn to Blood, Fourth Bowl: Men Are Scorched, Fifth Bowl: Darkness and Pain, Sixth Bowl: Euphrates Dried Up, Seventh Bowl: The Earth Utterly ShakenAll of that is going to happen. Make sure you are on Team Jesus! Make sure you’re living for him!That could happen in your lifetime!See- the biggest problem with people is that they don’t actually believe that Jesus is coming back and that the wrath of God is actually going to be poured out upon the earthThat’s why they live the way that they live- they have no immediate expectation of Christ actually fulfilling what He said that he was going to doStory- Prophecy of the Desert- It wasn’t a euphemism, it was the actually desertIsaiah 55:11 So shall My word be that goes forth from My mouth; It shall not return to Me void, But it shall accomplish what I please, And it shall prosper in the thing for which I sent it.God is in the business of bringing to pass what he said he was going to have happenYou may not agree with it, you may not want to believe it, but if God speaks it over you,