Zone1 Matthew 4

[Woodznutz]

Who were the "people which sat in darkness", in Matthew 4?

 

[knuckles]

The cave dwellers....

 

[John Edgar Slow Horses]

It's a foreshadowing of the LDS 1800 years later and today.

 

[Woodznutz]

It's a foreshadowing of the LDS 1800 years later and today.

Partly true.

 

[Zebra]

It's a foreshadowing of the LDS 1800 years later and today.

why that?

 

[Quantrill]

Who were the "people which sat in darkness", in Matthew 4?

Jesus ministry began with the imprisonment of John the Baptist. (Matt. 4:12) And upon hearing of Johns imprisonment He left for Galilee. Galilee was known as Galilee of the Gentiles. (Matt. 4:15)

The former tribes of Zabulon and Nephthalim had been once located in that area. But in 721 B.C. the Assyrians scattered the Northern ten tribes and repopulated the area with other Gentiles whom they had defeated. Thus the ten tribes became lost to the world mixed up with the Gentile population. And it is to this Gentile area that Christ goes.

(Matt. 4:14) "That it might be fulfilled which was spoken by Esaias the prophet...The people which sat in darkness saw great light...."

Esaias is Isaiah. He prophesied of this event in (Isaiah 9:1-2) "...at the first he lightly afflicted the land of Zebulum and the land of Naphtali, and afterward did more grievously afflict her by the way of the sea, beyond Jordan, in Galilee of the nations. The people that walked in darkness have seen a great light..."

The lost tribes condition was described in (Is. 8:21-22) "...they shall fret themselves, and curse their king and their God, and look upward. And they shall look unto the earth; and behold trouble, and darkness, dimness of anguish; and they shall be friven to darkness." But the prophet Isaiah leaves them with the promise of a future great light to bring them out of that darkness.

So, though Jesus is the 'light of the world' (John 8:12) and a 'light unto the Gentiles' (Luke 2:32) I believe here in (Matt. 4: 12-17), the emphasis is upon those Israelites scattered by the Assyrians, whose tribes were then mixed with the Gentiles. Those Israelite people may have been lost to the world but not to God.

Quantrill

 

[Woodznutz]

Jesus ministry began with the imprisonment of John the Baptist. (Matt. 4:12) And upon hearing of Johns imprisonment He left for Galilee. Galilee was known as Galilee of the Gentiles. (Matt. 4:15)

The former tribes of Zabulon and Nephthalim had been once located in that area. But in 721 B.C. the Assyrians scattered the Northern ten tribes and repopulated the area with other Gentiles whom they had defeated. Thus the ten tribes became lost to the world mixed up with the Gentile population. And it is to this Gentile area that Christ goes.

(Matt. 4:14) "That it might be fulfilled which was spoken by Esaias the prophet...The people which sat in darkness saw great light...."

Esaias is Isaiah. He prophesied of this event in (Isaiah 9:1-2) "...at the first he lightly afflicted the land of Zebulum and the land of Naphtali, and afterward did more grievously afflict her by the way of the sea, beyond Jordan, in Galilee of the nations. The people that walked in darkness have seen a great light..."

The lost tribes condition was described in (Is. 8:21-22) "...they shall fret themselves, and curse their king and their God, and look upward. And they shall look unto the earth; and behold trouble, and darkness, dimness of anguish; and they shall be friven to darkness." But the prophet Isaiah leaves them with the promise of a future great light to bring them out of that darkness.

So, though Jesus is the 'light of the world' (John 8:12) and a 'light unto the Gentiles' (Luke 2:32) I believe here in (Matt. 4: 12-17), the emphasis is upon those Israelites scattered by the Assyrians, whose tribes were then mixed with the Gentiles. Those Israelite people may have been lost to the world but not to God.

Quantrill

 

[Zebra]

today is the day of Matthew