LUKE
CHAPTER 15 IS ENTIRELY ABOUT ANGELS (GOD’S THOUGHTS)
05-15-22
This
message may be viewed live streaming video at youtube.com and
tabernacleofmoses.org today Sunday at 11:00 am, and repeated 24/7
thereafter.
The video, audio, and study notes are archived.
INDEPENDENT
ANGELS, MEN, SHEEP
(Luke
15:1-7)
Then drew near unto him all the publicans and sinners
for to hear
him. And the Pharisees and scribes murmured [Gk:
complained: grumbled], saying, This man receiveth [accepts
into his company (companionship)] sinners, and eateth
with
them [shares a meal (equally, connoting hospitality)]. And
he [Jesus] spake this parable [Gk: a
similitude,
(symbolically) a fictitious narrative conveying a moral] unto
them,
saying, What man of you [i.e., a type and shadow of
Jesus
Christ & Father God], having [owning] an
hundred
sheep [or a hundred men or a hundred angels]
[1],
if he lose [be separated from] one of
them [that
insisted that he be independent of the shepherd in thought
(action is the consequence of thought)] [2], doth not leave the
ninety and nine in [a protecting sheepfold, a congregation
in] the
wilderness [Gk: lonesome, waste: desert, desolate,
solitary] [3],
and go after [i.e., cry out, preach toward] that
which is
lost, until he find it [4]? And when
he
hath found it [imagine the mutually compassionate sudden
greeting,
i.e., he saved the sheep], he layeth it on his
shoulders
[he lovingly, that is, sacrificially, completely
supported,
carried and cared for the sheep], rejoicing [and
is
exceedingly happy about it]. And when he cometh home [to
heaven], he calleth together his friends and neighbours,
saying
unto them, Rejoice with me; for I have found my sheep
which was
lost. I say unto you, that likewise joy [Gk:
cheerfulness,
delight] shall be in heaven over one sinner that repenteth,
more
than over ninety and nine just [Gk: innocent, holy:
righteous]
persons, which need no repentance [Why not? Because
these angels
were created holy and remained innocent] [5].
1.
Commentary:
“an hundred sheep”
= ascending parallels: symbolically, a hundred sheep
in a
shepherd’s flock in the wilderness may be the same as or likened unto a
hundred
men in Jesus Christ’s flock on earth, which initself may be the
same as
or likened unto a hundred angels in Father God’s flock in
Heaven. Please
apply whichever level of meaning that you can biblically substantiate
and are
comfortable with.
2.
independent
= Dict.: free from the
influence, control, or determination of another or others. (synonyms):
self-governing, sovereign, autonomous, self-determining,
self-regulating.
3.
(Gen
2:8) And the LORD God
planted a garden [Heb: a garden (as fenced) /// to
hedge about, protect:
defend] eastward in Eden [Heb: pleasure: delight];
and there he put the man whom he had formed.
4.
Commentary:
“until he find it”
= until he find the independent and therefore disobedient
sheep (servant)
who has himself first become repentant (Gk: to think
differently,
reconsider) and he then became a willing
to be found
obedient sheep who now bleats out a plaintive cry
for help (“Lord,
save me.” Matt 14:30), i.e., a sincere prayer, toward the now
immediately approaching shepherd, begging for healing,
begging
for restoration back into the flock.
a.
(Luke
15:20) And he [the
prodigal son, the fallen angel (one of the Sons of God)] arose
[after
repenting of his sins], and came to his father
[first].
But when he was yet a great way off [in the very early
stage of
his journey as a renewed (Rom 12:2) creature], his
father [God]
saw him [coming], and had compassion [Gk:
to have
the bowels yearn for, fig. to feel sympathy, pity] [as we all do to our
own
babies], and ran [to him] [“And immediately
Jesus stretched forth his hand, and caught him,” Matt 14:31],
and
fell on his neck, and kissed him [i.e., WELCOME BACK MY
SON].
5.
Commentary:
Question: Who was the
first sinner? Answer: the angel Lucifer. And who
were the
next sinners? Answer: “And his tail drew the third part of
the stars heaven [i.e., other angels], and did
cast them to
the earth:” (Rev 12:4a), “And the LORD God formed man of the dust of
the
ground [Heb: earth],” (Gen 2:7a). And inside that temporary
body of
earth, WHO are you??
Amen