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Originally Posted by Curious
Who knows what are the long term developments from this virus? We don’t know, but God does. We just need to try to be a peace within His will. And stay as safe as possible!! All things work for the good for those who love God!!
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I think Joseph is appropriate here. He told his brothers, "What you meant for harm, God has turned to good." We are not smart enough to extrapolate future developments (I'm not anyway), but Jesus told us, "Sufficient is the day's challenges. Tomorrow will take care of itself".
Joseph, in that moment, realized how God's sovereign had was behind his evil brothers' plot. They had indeed intended him harm (he was clear-eyed and honest enough to call a spade a spade) but God's beneficence came in and transformed the event.
That we had such eyes as Joseph! That's what I meant where I said that Peter saw through the eyes of Christ. "You are the Christ, the Son of the Living God!" What a revelation. To see Jesus as he saw himself. To see him transform the human race. "You are the Saviour of the world!"
John 4:42 Then they said to the woman, “Now we believe, not because of what you said, for we ourselves have heard Him and we know that this is indeed the Christ, the Savior of the world.”
This is why I say that the entire NT is essentially an extended treatise on the OT, proving why the Jesus they knew was the prophesied Messiah/Christ. They were witnesses (Gk martyros) of Jesus, and they remembered scripture (our OT) that was written.
What happened centuries later was that Jesus' Christ-hood was taken for granted, and thus the incessant OT references were marginalized, and new meanings then imposed on the NT text. And then when merchandizers like Lee came along (notice that he was both Seer, Book Author, and Book Publisher) and they went into the OT for "type and figure" they supported their imaginary "Christ" with what was often extranea, and missed the man Jesus that Peter and John (and others) knew.
When you see this Jesus everything changes, I warrant.