Matthew 4

Matthew's writings of the Gospel of the kingdom were inspired. But what do they really tell us in the context of the times and the precepts of the kingdom of God?

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Led by the Spirit to be tempted.

V3 stones turned into bread for whom? Were these stones living stones?

V4 The desire for free bread especially through covetous practices at the expense of your neighbor is the root cause of corruption of man and often is made manifest through legal charity and men who exercise authority.

"The evil was not in the bread and circuses, per se, but in the willingness of the people to sell their rights as free men for full bellies and the excitement of the games which would serve to distract them from the other human hungers which bread and circuses can never appease." Marcus Tullius Cicero

Understanding he metaphor of "stones be made bread" is easier if we understand that the Altars of clay and stone was a form of social safety net dependent upon freewill offerings of the Old Testament and what the New testament calls charity. Those altars of Pure Religion promoted by Abraham and Moses were used by society according to the perfect law of liberty letting every soul remain subject to the higher liberty to avoid the covetous practices, wages of unrighteousness which are the snare of legal charity. and the structure of government intended by God, the Son of God, and Moses, which was a form of the ancient Libera res publica.

Augustus Caesar, who also was called the Son of God, campaigned on the political platform of a "return to the republic" and "family values". Yet, he continued with the plunder of national neighbors and the funding of legal charity through their public temples until the masses developed an appetite for benefits becoming accustomed to living at the expense of others and depending for their livelihood on the property of others. This of course as predicted by Polybius and other prophets began to degenerate the people.

Jesus will foretell the taking of the kingdom from the pharisees in Matthew 21

Questions

What does it mean to worship?

How did the Rabbinical Baptism of the ancients, the baptism of Herod differ from the baptism of John and Jesus at Pentecost?

Was the ministry of Jesus one of Pure Religion?

Was Nazareth a place or a polis of the Essenes?

The Temptation of Jesus

[1] Then was Jesus led up of the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted of the devil. [2] And when he had fasted forty days and forty nights, he was afterward an hungred. [3] And when the tempter came to him, he said, If thou be the Son of God, command that these stones be made bread.

Matthew 4:4 But he answered and said, It is written, Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God. 5  Then the devil taketh him up into the holy city, and setteth him on a pinnacle of the temple, 6  And saith unto him, If thou be the Son of God, cast thyself down: for it is written, He shall give his angels charge concerning thee: and in their hands they shall bear thee up, lest at any time thou dash thy foot against a stone. 7 Jesus said unto him, It is written again, Thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God. 8  Again, the devil taketh him up into an exceeding high mountain, and sheweth him all the kingdoms of the world, and the glory of them;  9  And saith unto him, All these things will I give thee, if thou wilt fall down and worship me. 10 Then saith Jesus unto him, Get thee hence, Satan: for it is written, Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God, and him only shalt thou serve. [11] Then the devil leaveth him, and, behold, angels came and ministered unto him.

Jesus Begins His Ministry

[12] Now when Jesus had heard that John was cast into prison, he departed into Galilee; [13] And leaving Nazareth, he came and dwelt in Capernaum, which is upon the sea coast, in the borders of Zabulon and Nephthalim: [14] That it might be fulfilled which was spoken by Esaias the prophet, saying, [15] The land of Zabulon, and the land of Nephthalim, by the way of the sea, beyond Jordan, Galilee of the Gentiles; [16] The people which sat in darkness saw great light; and to them which sat in the region and shadow of death light is sprung up. [17] From that time Jesus began to preach, and to say, Repent: for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.

Jesus Calls the First Disciples

[18] And Jesus, walking by the sea of Galilee, saw two brethren, Simon called Peter, and Andrew his brother, casting a net into the sea: for they were fishers. [19] And he saith unto them, Follow me, and I will make you fishers of men. [20] And they straightway left their nets, and followed him. [21] And going on from thence, he saw other two brethren, James the son of Zebedee, and John his brother, in a ship with Zebedee their father, mending their nets; and he called them. [22] And they immediately left the ship and their father, and followed him.

Jesus Ministers to Great Crowds

[23] And Jesus went about all Galilee, teaching in their synagogues, and preaching the gospel of the kingdom, and healing all manner of sickness and all manner of disease among the people. [24] And his fame went throughout all Syria: and they brought unto him all sick people that were taken with divers diseases and torments, and those which were possessed with devils, and those which were lunatick, and those that had the palsy; and he healed them. [25] And there followed him great multitudes of people from Galilee, and from Decapolis, and from Jerusalem, and from Judaea, and from beyond Jordan.

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