why is john 6:15 the death knell of premillennialism

Remark, too, the extent of the work involved in verse 29. (VersesJohn 7:33-36; John 7:33-36) Jesus was returning to Him that sent Him, and the Holy Ghost would be given. At once their malice drops the beneficent power of God in the case, provoked at the fancied wrong done to the seventh day. C. Death knell for "Good Pope John" . How, indeed, could it be stayed within narrow limits? And in this He is sovereign. This question is raised, or rather settled, by the Lord in Jerusalem, at the passover feast, where many believed on His name, beholding the signs He wrought. it may be chiefly, that he prayed that God would open the minds The word "premillennial" itself is derived of two components-"pre" signifies before, and "millennium" denotes a period of one thousand years. (VersesJohn 5:8-12; John 5:8-12), But were the Jews mistaken after all in thinking that the seal of the first covenant was virtually broken in that deliberate word and warranty of Jesus? They had stumbled before, and the Lord brought in not alone His person, as the Word made flesh, presented for man now to receive and enjoy; but unless they ate the flesh, and drank the blood of the Son of man, they had no life in them. The Lord, it is true, could and did go farther than the prophets: even if He taught on the same theme, He could speak with conscious divine dignity and knowledge (not merely what was assigned to an instrument or messenger). Still the Lord refused the crown then: it was not the time or state for His reign. God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth." None but a divine being could thus deal with the world. He could be declared only by One who was a divine person in the intimacy of the Godhead, yea, was the only-begotten Son in the bosom of the Father. God orders matters so that a favoured teacher of men, favoured as none others were in Israel, should come to Jesus by night. I sent you to reap that whereon ye bestowed no labour: other men laboured, and ye are entered into their labours." There He supposes His full rejection and death. It would not suit God, if it would suit man, that He, seeing all, should just pronounce on man's corruption, and then forthwith let him off with a bare pardon. seize him in order that they might make him King. 29) on which, as it were, Jesus speaks and acts in His grace as here shown on the earth. All is fitly closed by the declaration, that "the Father loveth the Son, and hath given all things into his hand." These are a test of evangelical authenticity. The great fact of the incarnation is brought before us "The Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only-begotten of the Father"). And so, in fact, it was and is. John was not yet cast into prison. Premillennialists believe that Revelation does imply this because Jesus is on the throne and Satan is bound. 13 Therefore they gathered them together, and filled twelve baskets with the fragments of the five barley loaves, which remained over and above unto them that had eaten. They cite the rise of an unbiblical and dangerous allegorical hermeneutic (by such as Clement of Alexandria and Origen) which took a sad toll on sound biblical exegesis. (Verse John 3:10). Further, John attests that he saw the Spirit descending like a dove, and abiding on Him the appointed token that He it is who baptizes with the Holy Ghost even the Son of God. His exaltation there is not without notice in the gospel, but exceptionally. This is all perfectly true, of course; and we have it elsewhere. All disciplinary action, every probationary process, disappears. "He must, increase, but I decrease." His corporeal presence was not necessary; His word was enough. It is here we learn in what condition of His person God was to be revealed and the work done; not what He was in nature, but what He became. The addition of "unto him" detracts, to my mind, from the exceeding preciousness of what seems to be, at least, left open. But how precious the grace, in presence of their hatred and proud self-complacency! Could they, then, reject the Son, and merely miss this infinite blessing of life in Him? The issue of all is, that the will of man is the real cause and spring of enmity. Though He could not, would not deny Himself (and He was the Son, and Word, and God), yet had He taken the place of a man, of a servant. All rights reserved. The Father seeks worshippers. When Jesus therefore perceived. It is the revelation of God yea, of the Father and the Son, and not merely the detecter of man. Truth and grace were not sought nor found in man, but began to subsist here below by Jesus Christ. There was sentence of death pronounced on their system, and they felt accordingly. Marvel not at this: for the hour is coming, in the which all that are in the graves shall hear his voice, and shall come forth; they that have done good, unto the resurrection of life; and they that have done evil, unto the resurrection of judgment." As mentioned in verse 10, the unbeliever is calling God a liar, in that he or she refuses to believe in God's testimony, namely, that which "God has given about His Son" (vs.10). Such shall live. Such is God's vindication of His outraged rights; and the judgment will be proportionate to the glory that has been set at nought. Then He rebukes the carnality of His brethren. If He judges, it is not without full warning. Nor was it from any indistinctness in the record, or in him who gave it. Thus a despised Christ is not merely a crucified Son of man, and given Son of God, as in John 3:1-36, but Himself a divine giver in communion with the Father, and in the power of the Holy Ghost who is given to the believer, the source of worship, as their God and Father is its object for the worshippers in spirit and truth (though surely not to the exclusion of the Son, Hebrews 1:1-14). forsake the honours and riches of this world, for his sake; and They were not to wonder then at what He says and does now; for an hour was coming in which all that are in the graves shall hear His voice, and shall come forth; those that have done good to resurrection of life, and those that have done evil to resurrection of judgment. Before the manner of His manifestation comes before us in verse 14, we have the secret explained why some, and not all, received Christ. he would not. There is but one unfailing test the Son of God God's testimony to Him. To the Pharisees, indeed, his words as to the Lord are curt: nor does he tell them of the divine ground of His glory, as he had before and does after. They wonder, as they had murmured before (John 7:12-15); but Jesus shows that the desire to do God's will is the condition of spiritual understanding. (VersesJohn 3:7-8; John 3:7-8), It is hardly necessary to furnish detailed disproof of the crude, ill-considered notion (originated by the fathers), that baptism is in question. Here was One on earth who knew all secrets. This is the marked effect on the third day (ver. "Whosoever believeth that Jesus is the Christ is born of God." It was much, yet was it little of the glory that was His; but at least it was real; and to the one that has shall be given. The same God who did not leave Himself without witness among the heathen, doing good, and giving from heaven rain and fruitful seasons, did not fail, in the low estate of the Jews, to work by providential power at intervals; and, by the troubled waters of Bethesda, invited the sick, and healed the first who stepped in of whatever disease he had. The chapter pursues this subject, showing that it is not only God who thus deals first, with the necessity of man before His own immutable nature; next, blessing according to the riches of His grace but, further, that man's state morally is detected yet more awfully in presence of such grace as well as holiness in Christ. for he knew He was the Christ. alone, for the sake of secret retirement, and private prayer; and "He that hath received his testimony hath set to his seal that God is true. Salem Media Group. Was this false and blasphemous in their eyes? John 6:1-15 describes Jesus' feeding thousands of peoplethe fourth of the gospel of John's seven ''signs'' of Christ's divinity. Meanwhile there was a manifestation of goodness, active in love in the midst of evil, and toward such; active in the making known God and man, and every moral relation, and what He is toward man, through and in the Word made flesh. Such are the grand emphatic points to which the Lord leads. What can be conceived more notably standing out in contrast with the governmental system God had set up, and man had known in times past? (Ver. Verse 15. But when the Lord speaks of His cross, and not God's judicial requirements only, but the gift of Himself in His true personal glory as the occasion for the grace of God to display itself to the utmost, then, and not till then, do we hear of eternal life, and this connected with both these points of view. No such sounds, no such realities were ever heard or known in Israel. Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers. If He spoke the truth, they were blasphemers. [whose?] Not only is there no healing to be extracted from the law by a sinner, but the law makes more evident the disease, if it does not also aggravate the symptoms. All is in the character of the Son of man. The Lord Jesus did, without question, take humanity in His person into that glory which He so well knew as the Son of the Father. ( ) flesh, and dwelt among us." All this, however, was abstract, whether as to the nature of the Word or as to the place of the Christian. For the astonishing thought is, not merely that Jesus receives the Holy Ghost without measure, but that God gives the Spirit also, and not by measure, through Him to others. Take him by force, to make him a king The Jews had often suffered by famine in those times in which their enemies were permitted to prevail over them; but, finding that Jesus had such power as to multiply a few loaves to feed thousands, they took it for granted that while he was at their head no evil could possibly happen to them, and therefore were . And he that reapeth receiveth wages, and gathereth fruit unto life eternal: that both he that soweth and he that reapeth may rejoice together. "As Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of man be lifted up: that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have eternal life." Yet before a miracle, as well as in the working of those which set forth His glory, it is evident that so far from its being a gradual growth, as it were, in His mind, He had, all simple and lowly though He were, the deep, calm, constant consciousness that He was God. The Jews wanted to force Christ to be a king like Saul, David or Solomon. Nothing in the slightest degree detracted from His own personal glory, and from the infinitely near relationship which He had had with the Father from all eternity. How can such have relationship with God? However, we know that Jesus sat down at the right hand of the Father shortly after His resurrection and ascension (Hebrews 8:1; Revelation 4:2). (Psalms 132:1-18) Then they wanted to make Him a king. Thus the Holy Ghost, given by the Son in humiliation (according to God, not acting on law, but according to the gift of grace in the gospel), was fully set forth; but the woman, though interested, and asking, only apprehended a boon for this life to save herself trouble here below. There is the nicest care to maintain His personal glory, no matter what the subject may be. This closes the various aspects of the Lord Jesus, completely blotting out Judaism, viewed as resting in a system of law and ordinances, as looking to a Messiah with present ease, and as hoping for the display of Messianic glory then in the world. How striking the omission! , , . Each had his own; all are harmonious, all perfect, all divine; but not all so many repetitions of the same thing. By MELANIE ZANONA. Nicodemus, not understanding in the least such a want for himself, expresses his wonder, and hears our Lord increasing in the strength of the requirement. It was but preliminary, of course; still it was a deep reality, the then present grace in the person of the Son, the Saviour of the world, who filled their once dark hearts with light and joy. Let them learn, then, that as Son of man (for which nature they despised Him, and denied His essential personal glory) He will judge; and this judgment will be no passing visitation, such as God has accomplished by angels or men in times past. (Ver. (Ver. Rev 20:7, 14 states death is thrown into into the lake of fire after the thousand year period. God does not here condescend to call it His, though, of course, it was His and holy, just, and good, both in itself and in its use, if used lawfully. reasons of his departure, were to prevent the attempt; to show (See Hebrews 12:2, Hebrews 13:11-13) Again, let me just remark in passing, that although, no doubt, we may in a general way speak of those who partake of the new nature as having that life, yet the Holy Ghost refrains from predicating of any saints the full character of eternal life as a present thing until we have the cross of Christ laid (at least doctrinally) as the ground of it. But there was a man who had been infirm for thirty and eight years. This brings all to a point; for the woman says, "I know that Messiah cometh, which is called Christ: when he is come, he will tell us all things." This is the only miracle recorded in all four of the gospel accounts. But see the blessed fruit of receiving it. No doubt Jesus Himself had the Holy Ghost given to Him, as it was meet that He in all things should have the pre-eminence; but it shows yet more both the personal glory of Christ and the efficacy of His work, that He now gives the same Spirit to those who receive His testimony, and set to their seal that God is true. Catalogue entry. The disciples come; the woman goes into the city, leaving her waterpot, but carrying with her the unspeakable gift of God. They would fall a prey to Antichrist, and meanwhile are accused of Moses, in whom they trusted, without believing him; else they would have believed Christ, of whom he wrote. In the Word was life, and the life was the light of men. But even this sufficed not: the Son of man must be lifted up. Besides this, goodness overflows, in that the Father is gathering children, and making worshippers. The result immediately follows. It was meet that so it should be; for, as a question of right, none could claim; and grace surpasses all expectation or thought of man, most of all of men accustomed to a round of religious ceremonial. Two resurrections, one of life, and another of judgment, would be the manifestation of faith and unbelief, or rather, of those who believe, and of those who reject the Son. For nothing can be more observable than the way in which He becomes the centre round whom those that belong to God are gathered. This was necessary for the kingdom of God; not for some special place of glory, but for any and every part of God's kingdom. One of the peculiarities of our gospel is, that we see the Lord from time to time (and, indeed, chiefly) in or near Jerusalem. Such was Jesus in person, contrasted with all who belong to the earth. The man could not tell the Jews the name of his benefactor. They spoke of the world; the world might hear them. They had no common thoughts, feelings, or ways with the Father and the Son. Nay, the Father has given all judgment to the Son. They knew what they worshipped, but not the Father, nor were they "true." This would make all manifest. Nay, therefore it was they, reasoning, denied Him to be God. For He who spoke was divine. Not only man under law has no health, but he has no strength to avail himself of the blessing that God holds out. "Ye will not come to me that ye might have life." For the Father judgeth no man, but hath committed all judgment unto the Son: that all men should honour the Son, even as they honour the Father. Granted He was the Son of man; but as such, He had all judgment given Him, and would judge. John then declared his own waning before Christ, as we have seen, the issues of whose testimony, believed or not, are eternal; and this founded on the revelation of His glorious person as man and to man here below. Pharisaic jealousy had wrought; and Jesus, wearied, sat thus at the fountain of Jacob's well in Sychar. Thus in one way or the other all must honour the Son. mountain alone". His was an errand incomparably deeper, more worthy of God, and suitable to One "full of grace and truth." "Master, eat," said they. No charge could be remoter from the truth. So does his confession: Rabbi, thou art the Son of God: thou art the King of Israel. Therefore, it seems to me, He adds verse 24. The person of the Son was there the object of divine and overflowing joy even then, although, of course, in the full sense of the word, the Holy Ghost might not be given to be the power of it for some time later; but still the object of worship was there revealing the Father; butJohn 7:1-53; John 7:1-53 supposes Him to be gone up to heaven, before He from heaven communicates the Holy Ghost, who should be (not here, as Israel had a rock with water to drink of in the wilderness outside themselves, nor even as a fountain springing up within the believer, but) as rivers flowing out. But there was this difference from the former occasion, that, at the marriage in Cana (John 2:1-25), the change of the water into wine was clearly millennial in its typical aspect. Still the eternal day alone will show out the full virtue of that which belongs to Jesus as the Lamb of God, who takes away the world's sin. Sons they might have been in bare title; but these had the right of children. 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