6-13-19 My children, I have some questions for you. What is more important to you, that you know a date of one of the events that I have told you about or that you spend intimate time with Me? Whic…
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Luke 4: 1-13
“And Jesus, full of the Holy Spirit, returned from the Jordan, and was led by the Spirit for forty days in the wilderness, tempted by the devil. And He ate nothing in those days; and when they were ended, he was hungry….”
Jesus’s forty days in the wilderness was actually prophetic of His entire life on this Earth to serve the Father.. from the day He was born to the die He was crucified and surrendered His spirit into His Father’s hands. His entire physical life on this Earth was an “uphill climb” .. the type of uphill climb young Isaac walked with his father Abraham, up the mountain intended for his sacrifice.
The deprivations, lack of food and water, temperature extremes, scorpions, snakes, scavenger beasts, etc… were all symbolic of what He would experience on a larger scale throughout His ministry ..even what He already experienced prior in Nazareth. The wild beasts, snakes and scorpions in that wilderness represented all the facets of mankind’s fallen human nature that He would experience, and who would “get in His face”.. and again, Satan would continue to find opportune times to use fallen beast-like mankind to continue in his attempt at tempting Jesus. He saved his highest level of temptations for last.. in Gethsemane’s garden, trial and crucifixion.
His hunger and thirst in the Wilderness represent His spiritual hunger and thirst for the Father’s will for mankind.. that the Father’s Will would come on this fallen Earth as it already is in Heaven. His thirst and hunger was for the Salvation of souls. On the cross , as He hung dying, His cry, “I thirst”, was not merely for physical water.. but His thirst for the Father’s complete will .. that the souls of man could be saved. His cry was a hymn of love before the Father. Yes, He experienced extreme physical thirst and hunger, but these needs for Him went beyond the physical to the spiritual.
He drank the fullness of the Cup. In His recorded words to Gabrielle Bossis in “He and I”, He told her:
“My very little girl, you must begin to be happy to suffer for Me. You know that I was happy to suffer for you. Don’t two friends seek to give one another things? Would you be content just to receive? Take the initiative in love. Above all, don’t lose your smile. Give it to Me so that I may bless it..”
Jesus- King in Exile 