<4>Now after
Esa
became Christ and
overcame his lower self, he started his mission. The mission of John
was to find him, open his spiritual eye to his divinity and purpose
in life. So John's mission would begin to decrease and his would
increase.
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"And leaving Nazareth, he came and dwelt in Capernaum, which is upon
the sea coast, in the borders of Zabulon and Nephthalim:"
"That it might be fulfilled which was spoken by
Esaias the prophet,
saying,"
"The land of Zabulon, and the land of Nephthalim,
by the way of the sea, beyond Jordan, Galilee of the
Gentiles;" (Matthew
4:13-15)
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<5>Christ
left Nazareth because John was taken to prison. He went to
Capernaum. With this, another prophecy was fulfilled.
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"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." (Matthew 4:16)
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<6>"The people which sat in
darkness" refers to
the people of the north of the
House of Judah, "Galilee of the
Gentiles" (verse 15), whom
Christ visited. They received a great blessing by the Lord
and "saw great
light." <7>The cities of
Nazareth, Capernaum, and the regions Zabulon and Nephthalim were in
the north part of Judaea and were in the region which was the home
of the
House of Israel
before they were taken away captive.
<8>The people of the
House of Israel
(the northern kingdom) started to become idol worshippers after it
was separated from the southern kingdom. Their king Jeroboam "made
two calves of gold, and said unto them, It is too much for you to go
up to Jerusalem: behold thy gods, O
Israel, which brought thee up out of the land of Egypt" (I Kings
12:28) and people started to worship these calves.
<9>As it was explained in the book
Children of Abram
(Abraham), All Prophecies Are Fulfilled, it was the people
of the
House of Israel
whom
Christ came to gather
together as was prophesied by Jacob, "until
Shiloh [Messiah]
come; and unto him shall the gathering of the people be." (Gen.
49:10). <10>But in order to make a new religion accepted by a
people, first the previous religion should be weakened. Then when
the new religion comes it can easily replace the old. That is why
the people of the
House of Israel
went through such a period of change that even they are considered
as the ten lost tribes. In reality they were not lost but were being
prepared to receive the new teachings of the
Shiloh (Messiah).
<11>That is the reason
Christ lived and even
started to preach in the north region of
Israel (Ephraim) and gathered them under his banner so that the
prophecy of Jacob would be fulfilled.
<12>Again we can see that what apparently seems
to the human as some unrelated accidental events, in truth are
planned and are interrelated happenings toward the goal
God has in His
Mind and is trying to
fulfill. <13>He even declared that the reason the
House of Israel
was separated from the kingdom, was by His Will. That is, after the
House of Israel
was separated from the
House of Judah
(southern kingdom), king Rehoboam, the king of the
House of Judah
"assemble[d] all the
house of Judah, with the tribe of Benjamin,...to fight against
the
House of Israel,
to bring the kingdom again to Rehoboam the son of Solomon" (I Kings
12:21).
<14>"But the word of
God came unto Shemaiah the
man of
God," (I Kings 12:22) that
he should speak with the people of the
House of Judah that, "Thus saith the Lord, Ye shall not go up,
nor fight against your brethren the
children of
Israel: return every man to his house; <15>for this thing is
from me...." (I Kings 12:24). <16>Therefore this separation of the
kingdom of Israel into
two nations was done by Him for a purpose that is now revealed to
us; for more detail read
Children of Abram
(Abraham), All Prophecies Are Fulfilled.
<17>Again that is the reason this verse is used
here when
Esa was still in the
northern part of
Israel. It was in this
region that, "the people which sat in
darkness saw great
light; and to them which
sat in the region and shadow of death [spiritual death]
light is sprung up." <18>In truth he had come to awaken these
people, not the Jews,
because the
Jews had so many
concepts that no
matter how many signs
Esa would show them, they
would not believe in him.
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"From that time
Esa began to preach, and to
say, Repent: for the kingdom of
heaven
is at hand." (Matthew 4:17)
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<19>The mission of John was finished and the work
of
Esa began. However, he also
brought the same message and showed the way, "Repent: for the
kingdom of
heaven is at hand," that
only with repentance and change of heart can the Kingdom Of
Heaven
be established (within and without). This is the same message as
John's. <20>He did not say, "I will forgive you without you
repenting and changing the way of your life," but, "The first step
was shown for you to take, 'repent.' Then after that I will help you
to progress and enter the Kingdom."
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"And Esa, 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."
"And he saith unto them, Follow me, and I will make
you fishers of men."
"And they straightway left their nets, and
followed him." (Matthew 4:18-20)
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<21>Also
Esa
started to select his disciples from those who were pure in heart,
not from the Pharisees and Scribes or Sadducees who had created big
false egos with many
concepts. <22>Simon and his brother Andrew were so ready to
follow the master that they left everything behind to go with him. They did not let anything keep them from being his disciples.
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"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."
"And they immediately left the ship and their
father, and followed him." (Matthew 4:21-22)
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<23>The hierarchy of the importance of the beings
in life starts with God,
then the spiritual teacher, next the parents (especially if they
help in one's spiritual progress), and lastly the spouse. That is
why here we see John and his brother left their father and followed
Christ.
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"And Esa
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." (Matthew 4:23)
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<24>He started preaching his message, the gospel
of the Kingdom. Also, to make people believe in him and follow his
teachings, he then started to heal their sicknesses and diseases.
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"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." (Matthew 4:24)
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<25>He became famous not because of his teachings
and the truth he was revealing, but because he had healing power. They did not come to learn the truth from him, to repent and
establish the Kingdom Of
Heaven, but they brought
him their sicknesses to be healed.
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"And there followed him great multitudes of
people from Galilee, and from Decapolis, and from Jerusalem, and
from Judaea, and from beyond Jordan." (Matthew 4:25)
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<26>A great multitude started to follow him and
ask to be healed or be given some favors. People started using him
for their own selfish petty interests. That is why he left them as
it was written in chapter 5, and started teaching his doctrine to
his disciples, not to the multitudes. <27>The multitudes were deaf,
blind, and dead.
