“BEHOLD, I AM GOING TO SEND FOR MANY FISHERMEN”
by Tuese
Getting my Afternoon BIBLE on.
You cannot be a Christian Jedi unless you are grounded in the entire Scripture, especially The First Covenant. I don't want to come across like I'm all that because I still have much much more to learn and study. We live in a Christian culture that is so weak in the study of The Word.
Here's an example why we must be grounded in the OT. Ever wonder where this "fishers of men" comes from? Modern Christianity is so SELF-centered. It's all about US evangelizing and bringing people to Christ but is that what these passages are about? Most Christians read themselves into the text and think the bible is all about them. smh. How arrogant! Read the context and where Christ is pulling this from the OT.
Matthew 4:17-19
17 From that time Jesus began to preach and say, “Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.”
18 Now as Jesus was walking by the Sea of Galilee, He saw two brothers, Simon who was called Peter, and Andrew his brother, casting a net into the sea; for they were fishermen. 19 And He *said to them, “Follow Me, and I will make you fishers of men.”
Mark 1:15-17
15 and saying, “The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand; repent and believe in the gospel.”
16 As He was going along by the Sea of Galilee, He saw Simon and Andrew, the brother of Simon, casting a net in the sea; for they were fishermen. 17 And Jesus said to them, “Follow Me, and I will make you become fishers of men.”
**The Old Testament tells us that YHWH would send many fishermen to bring in the elect of Israel who were scattered in The North via The Gospel. These are the ex-Israelites or gentiles jews from the 10 Northern tribes who inter-married with the pagans, The Disapora who were being brought in to The Kingdom via The Apostles and Disciples of Christ in the 1st century.
Jeremiah 16
14 “Therefore behold, days are coming,” declares the Lord, “when it will no longer be said, ‘As the Lord lives, who brought up THE SONS OF ISRAEL out of the land of Egypt,’ 15 but, ‘As the Lord lives, who brought up THE SONS OF ISRAEL FROM THE LAND OF THE NORTH AND FROM ALL THE COUNTRIES where He had banished them.’ FOR I WILL RESTORE THEM to their own land which I gave to their fathers.
16 “BEHOLD, I AM GOING TO SEND FOR MANY FISHERMEN,” declares the Lord, “and THEY WILL FISH FOR THEM; and afterwards I WILL SEND FOR MANY HUNTERS, and they will HUNT THEM from every mountain and every hill and from the clefts of the rocks. 17 For My eyes are on all their ways; they are not hidden from My face, nor is their iniquity concealed from My eyes. 18 I will first doubly repay their iniquity and their sin, because they have polluted My land; they have filled My inheritance with the carcasses of their detestable idols and with their abominations.”
***The Gospel WAS a double-edge sword in that YHWH raised up hunters, His Roman Armies to bring Judgment on covenant breaking Jews. FYI, there is NO future judgment to us in 2018. The Judgment was for the first covenant people of YHWH which took place in 70AD.
V18 mentions carcasses which would come from when unbelieving Israel would be judged by YHWH's hunters, the Roman Armies.
Matthew 24:28 For wherever the carcass is, there is where the vultures gather together.
see my paper on The Abomination of Desolation fulfilled by 70AD.
It's cool when the OT interprets what's happening in the NT. Most Christians don't realize this bc they don't study the OT. ;-(
Modern Christians don't realize that The Harvest was taking place in that 1st century generation. Even Christ said so
John 4:35 Do you not say, ‘There are yet four months, and then comes the harvest’? Behold, I say to you, lift up your eyes and look on the fields, that they are white for harvest.
**This is samaritan/gentile jews being brought back into the kingdom.
Matthew 9:37-38
37 Then He *said to His disciples, “The harvest is plentiful, but the workers are few. 38 Therefore beseech the Lord of the harvest to send out workers into His harvest.”
**The ELECT are those ELECT JEWS of the first covenant being FISHED OUT and HARVESTED out from the Old Covenant of Death/Adam.
** Found another passage that connects the fishermen's job ending at the old covenant end of the age which limits the fishermen to being the 1st century Apostles and Disciples of Christ.
Matthew 13:47-50 New American Standard Bible (NASB)
47 “Again, the kingdom of heaven is like a dragnet cast into the sea, and gathering fish of every kind; 48 and when it was filled, they drew it up on the beach; and they sat down and gathered the good fish into containers, but the bad they threw away. 49 So it will be at the end of the age; the angels will come forth and take out the wicked from among the righteous, 50 and will throw them into the furnace of fire; in that place there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.
Found yet another passage:
LUKE 5 Now it happened that while the crowd was pressing around Him and listening to the word of God, He was standing by the lake of Gennesaret; 2 and He saw two boats lying at the edge of the lake; but the fishermen had gotten out of them and were washing their nets. 3 And He got into one of the boats, which was Simon’s, and asked him to put out a little way from the land. And He sat down and began teaching the people from the boat. 4 When He had finished speaking, He said to Simon, “Put out into the deep water and let down your nets for a catch.” 5 Simon answered and said, “Master, we worked hard all night and caught nothing, but I will do as You say and let down the nets.” 6 When they had done this, they enclosed a great quantity of fish, and their nets began to break; 7 so they signaled to their partners in the other boat for them to come and help them. And they came and filled both of the boats, so that they began to sink. 8 BUT WHEN SIMON PETER SAW THAT, HE FELL DOWN AT JESUS’ FEET, SAYING, “GO AWAY FROM ME LORD, FOR I AM A SINFUL MAN!” 9 FOR AMAZEMENT HAD SEIZED HIM and all his companions BECAUSE OF THE CATCH OF FISH WHICH THEY HAD TAKEN; 10 and so also were James and John, sons of Zebedee, who were partners with Simon. AND JESUS SAID TO SIMON, “DO NOT FEAR, FROM NOW ON YOU WILL BE CATCHING MEN.” 11 When they had brought their boats to land, they left everything and followed Him.
***see v10 Yeshua's Apostles & Disciples in the 1st century were fishermen of Jeremiah 16:16 that would bring back sons of Israel from the land of the North.