THE BOOK OF JOHN CHAPTER 7:1-36 JUDAS, SON OF PERDITION

Mike Balloun teaches today. 01/08/22

THE BOOK OF JOHN CHAPTER 7:1-36
JUDAS, SON OF PERDITION

VERSES: Psalm 4:9, 109:1-20; John 12:6, Matthew 26:24; Leviticus 23:36

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John 7:1-2 “After these things Jesus walked in Galilee: for he would not walk in Jewry (Judea), because the Jews (Leaders) sought to kill Him (as He was a threat to their institution). Now the Jews’ feast of tabernacles was at hand” (in calling it the Jews’ feast, John now separates himself from them, having greater understanding of who he is as part of the “New Man” which is neither Jew nor Gentile). The end of the previous Chapter 6 speaks of how all but 12 of the disciples left Him because of His “…hard saying…” of the necessity of eating His flesh and drinking His Blood. It being not hard to understand, but hard to receive given the Jewish leaders’ traditional religious teachings (note it is 100 times harder to Un-learn than to learn or relearn. This goes for not only the Jews, but for all us today who have religious thinking we have to unlearn). To these 12, Jesus turned and asked them if they would also go away? Peter answered, “…to whom should we go, thou hast the words of eternal life.” Jesus responds to them in John 6:70… “Have not I chosen you twelve, and one of you is a devil? (foreshadowing Judas’ future role in the End-Times - more on that later) He spake of Judas Iscariot (the name Iscariot meaning the hired one) the son of Simon: for he it was that should betray him (in that the Jewish leaders were fearful to openly arrest Jesus, Judas sold them the place and time wherein they could safely accomplish their wicked purposes), being one of the twelve” (representative of God’s perfect governmental foundation). Noteworthy is it that Judas was most likely the only one out of the twelve that was from Judea. He is referred to by Christ as not only a ‘devil/slanderer/accuser’, but also later Jesus calls him the ‘son of perdition.’ [John 17:12]

The Lord stayed away from Jerusalem for there the Pharisees and the Chief Priests (verse 32) sought to kill Him due to His previous visit and actions when He healed the crippled man at the Pool of Bethesda on the Sabbath and told him to take up his mat and walk. This murderous spirit of Judas was discovered by our Lord as foretold by David in the Spirit centuries before as prophetically set forth in Psalms 41:9 and Psalm 109:1-20… “Yea, mine own familiar friend, in whom I trusted, which did eat of my bread, hath lifted up his heel against me.” Psalm 109, verses 1-20 is a strong indictment and probably the worst curse spoken in all of scripture and is aimed prophetically towards Judas and a particular few… “Hold not thy peace, O God of my praise; For the mouth of the wicked and the mouth of the deceitful are opened against me: they have spoken against me with a lying tongue. They compassed me about also with words of hatred; and fought against me without a cause. For my love they are my adversaries: but I give myself unto prayer. And they have rewarded me evil for good, and hatred for my love. Set thou a wicked man over him: and let Satan stand at his right hand. When he shall be judged, let him be condemned: and let his prayer become sin. Let his days be few; and let another take his office. (as when another was chosen to replace Judas’ office as one of the twelve after he committed suicide) Let his children be fatherless, and his wife a widow. Let his children be continually vagabonds, and beg: let them seek their bread also out of their desolate places. Let the extortioner catch all that he hath; and let the strangers spoil his labour. Let there be none to extend mercy unto him: neither let there be any to favour his fatherless children. Let his posterity be cut off; and in the generation following let their name be blotted out. Let the iniquity of his fathers be remembered with the Lord; and let not the sin of his mother be blotted out. Let them be before the Lord continually, that he may cut off the memory of them from the earth. Because that he remembered not to shew mercy, but persecuted the poor and needy man (John records in John 12:6 that Judas’ reason for objecting to the expensive perfume being poured on Jesus’ feet was “not that he cared for the poor; but because he was a thief, and had the bag, and bare what was put therein.” This really shows forth his true character, and that he was someone who was easy prey for satan to enter. Is it not too hard to think that Satan could have offered Judas esteem, money, and power for him to betray Christ, just as when he offered Jesus all the kingdoms of the world?), that he might even slay the broken in heart. As he loved cursing, so let it come unto....

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