SOME WOULD DIE — A CERTAIN ONE

Grace was finished when Jesus was crucified. Never again would there be an offering for the sins of mankind. 

We are sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all. … this man (Jesus), after He had offered one sacrifice for sins forever, sat down on the right hand of God… (Heb 10:10-12)

 After it was finished, Jesus rested during the Sabbath Day, then He was glorified with flesh that should not be touched. His flesh was regenerated holy and incorruptible in perfection.

Jesus spoke of the Holy Spirit, “which they that believe on Him should receive for the Holy Ghost was not yet given because that Jesus was not yet glorified. (John 7:39) The word, ‘glorification,’ is literally ‘magnified’ — intensified. While on the Cross, the substances of Jesus were revealed, the Light, the Flesh, and the Holy Ghost. To see how, refresh yourselves with the activities when Jesus was dying.

Glorification is basically God revealing Himself in three substances — the Holy Trinity — all three present and obvious at the same time. The Cross was not only to shed the blood of God for the sins of mankind, but to reveal to the world that Jesus IS God!

Consider the key verses below: 

For the Son of man shall come in the Glory of His Father with His angels; and then He shall reward every man according to his works. Verily I say unto you, ‘There be some standing here, which shall not taste of death, till they see the Son of man coming in His kingdom.” (Mat 16:27-28)

 That Jesus (the Son of man) shall come in Glory points to the resurrected Jesus. The question remains, when after He was glorified? It appears that the time may very well be in the lifetime of some of those who were standing there when Jesus spoke those words.

The critical phrase is “shall not taste death.”

“Shall” is geuomai in the Greek and so is “taste.”

 Death is thanatos in the Greek, and perhaps the best definition in that context is the separation of the soul from the body, as in the beginning with Adam.

Geuomai is to taste, implying eating. Rather than speaking of a much later event, perhaps Jesus was speaking of them eating of the “Last Supper’ wherein they ate the elements — the Body and Blood of Jesus.

There, at that time, they vicariously consumed Jesus. That Jesus was glorified at the Last Supper is not even implied, but that some would die before Jesus was glorified by the Crucifixion. That was a short time interval — one day between the Last Supper and the Crucifixion.

Who would eat of death… of the Body and Blood of Jesus? Judas sopped the bread in the wine and ate. Nobody else ate the sop but Judas.

Jesus told the twelve, “He it is, to whom I shall give a sop, when I have dipped it. And when He had dipped the sop, He gave it to Judas Iscariot, the son of Simon” (John 13:26). Then entered Satan in Judas. Satan entered Judas because the Spirit of God was not in him and never would be.

Judas ate death, not the death of Jesus, but his own death wherein his body was separated from his soul. In the key verses, it seems to be Judas to whom Jesus referred to as “some.” The Greek word translated ‘some’ (tis) is more literally “a certain one” (Strong 2006). As it turned out, the certain one was Judas Iscariot, and he would indeed have his body separated from his soul.

Most theologians indicate that those key verses (Mat 16:27-28) refer to the rapture of Christians. If so, then that would be the coming of Jesus in that generation. As you know, the snatching up of Christians has not yet occurred, so the key verses are not according to the Pauline letters. It makes sense that the ‘certain one’ was Judas because the Greek definitions, according to James Strong, fit him better than any group (“some’).

On a personal note, this theory was not a preconceived notion on my part because after I read it many times, I still had no idea what it meant. Neither do I refer to the commentary of others until after I study scripture and make my conclusions.

However, as I studied the Greek, it became clearer. Of course, my thoughts are not as perfect as the Thoughts of God, so the reader should judge for himself. Indeed, Judas, as far as it is known, is the only one to whom Jesus was speaking who died in that interval. He was the ‘certain one’ and indeed, his soul and flesh were divided as he died.

By the way, Judas was judged on the day that Jesus died, just as the key verse indicates:

Jesus told Pilate, "He that delivered me unto thee has the greater sin" (John 19:11). That certain one ('He') was Judas whose sin was greater than any of the others.