The Final Events.
Living Bread in Times of Scarcity.
Part Thirty-nine in a Series.
https://secondcoming.org/blog/
The Apostle Paul tells us that the children of Israel in the wilderness “did all eat the same spiritual meat”, 1 Corinthians 10:4.
The Lord promised to give them food saying, “Behold I will rain bread from heaven for you”, He “commanded the clouds from above and opened the doors of heaven”, He “rained down manna upon them to eat” and gave them “of the corn of heaven”, “man did eat angels food.” Psalms 78: 23-25
The food that they had to eat was not a product of the country through which they were passing. If it had been, they would have had it before they did.
But the scripture tells us that it rained down from heaven. It came direct from God. It was “spiritual meat”, “angels’ food”. What it was for them, if they had only believed it, we learn from the account of another occasion when a multitude of people were miraculously fed in the desert.
In John chapter six we have the account of another miraculous provision of food for a multitude of people in the wilderness. There were about 5000 men, beside women and children, and the entire amount of food in the company was five barley loaves and two fishes. One of the disciples said that 200 pennyworth of bread would not be sufficient for everyone to have even a little taste.
Nevertheless, Jesus knew what He would do. He took the loaves into His hands and gave thanks, and then gave the bread to the disciples, who passed it on to the multitude. The same was done with the fishes, the result was that from the insignificant amount which would not ordinarily have given them a taste, they were all satisfied. There were twelve baskets full of fragments left.
There was more food when they had finished than there was when they began.
Where did the bread come from? There is only one possible answer, namely, it came from the Lord Himself.
The divine life that was in Him, which is the source of all life, caused the bread to multiply, even as it had made the grain to grow, from which it was made.
The multitude, therefore, ate from Christ Himself. It was His own life that was the nourishment of their bodies that day. The miracle was wrought for the purpose of satisfying their immediate physical wants; but it was designed to teach them a most valuable spiritual lesson, which Jesus set before them the next day.
The Final Events will end with the splendor of the Second Coming of Jesus Christ also known as the Parousia. The Signs of Parousia are detailed in the Final Events Blog series and emphasize the Imminent Return and Second Coming of Jesus Christ, and the Love of the Father for all mankind.
When the people found Jesus the next day, He reproved them for caring more for the loaves and fishes than for the better food which He had for them.
He said “Labor not for the meat which perishes but for that meat which endures unto everlasting life, which the Son of Man shall give unto you; For Him hath God the Father sealed. Then they said to Him what shall we do that we might work the works of God? Jesus replied this is the work of God that you believe on Him whom He hath sent.” John 6: 28, 29
Then notwithstanding all that they had seen and experience they asked for a sign saying, “What sign do You show us, then, that we may see and believe? What’s the work you are doing?”
And then not realizing that they had just had the same miracle repeated in effect for them, they refer to the giving of the manna saying, “Our fathers did eat manna in the desert; As it is written, He gave them bread from heaven to eat”. John 6:30, 31.
Jesus then reminded them that it was not Moses that gave them the bread in the desert, but that God alone gives the true bread from heaven. Said He, “The bread of God is He which cometh down from heaven and giveth Life unto the world.” Still failing to see what Jesus meant they asked that they might evermore have that bread of life, when He told them plainly, that He himself was the living bread saying, “I am the bread of life; He that cometh to me shall never hunger and he that believes on me shall never thirst.”
Still later He said: “Verily I say unto you he that believeth on me hath everlasting life. I am that bread of life. Your father’s did eat manna in the wilderness and are dead. This is the bread which cometh down from heaven, that a man may eat thereof and not die. I am the living bread which came down from heaven; If any man eats of this bread he shall live forever; And the bread that I will give is my flesh, which I will give for the life of the world.” John 6: 32- 51.
Just as the people ate that bread which came from the Lord Jesus and were strengthened by it, even so they might, if they had believed, have received spiritual life from Him.
His life is righteousness and all who eat of Him in faith must receive righteousness.
Like ancient Israel, the multitude was eating bread from heaven, and sadly, both did not appreciate and receive the full benefit of the bread of life.
Do you?
During the Final Events, those that have received His righteousness, and appreciate and receive the full benefit of the Bread of Life, will, by the grace of God, have sufficient bread and water.
The Final Events.
Living Bread in Times of Scarcity.
Part Thirty-nine in a Series.
https://secondcoming.org/blog/
The Final Events will end with the splendor of the Second Coming of Jesus Christ also known as the Parousia. The Signs of Parousia are detailed in the Final Events Blog series and emphasize the Imminent Return and Second Coming of Jesus Christ, and the Love of the Father for all mankind.