WHO DUNNIT?

There has been much theological debate about whether Judas Iscariot was responsible for betrayal of Jesus or whether God used him for the plan of salvation. Judas had Satan in him, not the Holy Spirit of God (Luke 22:3), so it is that Satan is responsible for the thoughts and actions of Judas. Satan cannot go into anyone unless the person’s defenses are lowered. That was the case with Judas: 

And (Judas) said unto them, “What will you give me, and I will deliver Him unto you?” And they covenanted with him for thirty pieces of silver. (Mat 26:15)

 With Satan in himself, Judas was the personification of the Devil. He was the ‘Antichrist.’  The chief priests, and the scribes, and the elders of the people “consulted that they might take Jesus by subtilty and kill him” (Mat 26:4). The assembly were the demons of Satan that present him as he goes to and fro (Job 1). Satan was assembled there along with demons in the others.

This situation with Jesus was very much the same as with Job who “was perfect and upright, and one that feared God, and eschewed evil” (Job 1:1). Job symbolized Jesus and the Book of Job was a ‘rehearsal’ of sorts of what would come about millennia later. Satan, even with Job could harm the body, but God had put a hedge about him, so that his soul remained unarmed, as was the case with Jesus; that ‘hedge’ was the crown of thorns upon His brow, ostensibly a ‘boma’ to keep the vicious beasts from taking over the Will of Jesus.

Where has dying that way been done before? Upon killing Adam and Eve, it was said that “the serpent was more subtill than any beast of the field which the Lord God had made” (Gen 3:1). Judas was the answer to that. The assembly wanted Jesus killed legally and by their Laws.

Judas was a traitor. He was one of the twelve that knew Jesus the best. It seems to be friends that betray friends is it not? Jesus, since the beginning of time, knew who would betray Him: The psalmist, King David, wrote about His ‘son,’ genetically speaking, “Yea, Mine own familiar friend, in whom I trusted, which did eat of My bread, has lifted up his heel against Me (Psalm 41:9). Judas was the ‘familiar friend’ of Jesus who defected from Him (apostasy, as in Heb 6:6)

As most know, Judas ate the bread of Jesus. “He (Judas), then having received the sop, went immediately out; and it was night” (John 13:30) to find the assembly. It was Judas of whom David wrote, eating of the bread that belonged to Jesus.

A ‘sop’ is dipping bread in a juice of some sort. The chief priest did not kill Jesus; technically and vicariously, Judas did! Symbolically, the bread is the Body of Christ and the wine the Blood of Christ. Judas as much dipped the Body of the Savior into His own Blood — the very Blood of God.

I have written before that the chief priest, Caiaphas, had the greater sin than Pilate. Of course he did, but Judas had a greater sin than either Caiphas or even the one that pierced Jesus. As Judas left Jesus, Jesus said, “Now is the Son of man glorified, and God is glorified in Him” (John 13:31).

Jesus was glorified when he was crucified (John 7:39). As such, it was Judas who glorified Jesus. Satan killed Jesus because he was in Judas. Satan is the one with the greatest sin of them all! Satan killed Jesus before any nail was even driven. He killed Jesus because he willed it be done and Judas, because he lusted after silver, allowed Satan entry into his soul to carry out the will of Satan.

Remembering that the assembly “consulted that they might take Jesus by subtilty and kill Him;” that was the cunning device of the Serpent in the beginning.

It was for the love of money that was the incentive to kill Jesus. Satan got entry even unto a godly man such as Judas by finding his weakness… money it was! Always follow the money and cunning will reveal itself. The fruit of the forbidden tree was the money in the economy in the Garden. Adam and his mate sold their souls for whatever fruit hung the lowest.

Most have missed it, but since the beginning, God had known this conspiracy as it developed. He knew of it when the subtill one was identified in the Garden of Eden! He knew the Serpent would endeavor to take the life of God. Thankfully, it would only be the Body of Christ, not His Spirit, Jesus had said, “Fear not them which kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul: but rather fear him which is able to destroy both soul and body in hell. (Mat 10:28). They got the Body of Jesus but His Soul escaped death!

Satan, Judas, and those assembled could indeed kill the body of Jesus which they did, but as Jesus died, “When Jesus had cried with a loud voice, He said, ‘Father, into your hands I commend My Spirit’ and having said thus, He gave up the Ghost” (Luke 23:46).

Those assembled with Jesus, just as Jesus has said, killed His Body, but His Spirit (in the ‘cup’ of His Soul) lived on!

All who assembled to conspire against Jesus, killed the Flesh of Man, but were not able to kill God Himself — the Image that was within the Body of Jesus. The ‘Son of God’ lived on and did things like save the repentant thief that day and carry sin and Satan to the grave in Hell.

Whenever sinners sin, it as much kills the Body of God again… but get used to it; God never dies! Friedrich Nitzke declared, “God is dead,” but He is very much alive in Spirit.

Ironically, the atheist, Nitzke, when he spoke the words, “God is dead” it was an admission that God once lived. Indeed, God never died, and still reigns in Paradise!

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