Sealing Your Own Fate

If you have seen the movie "Premonition" this post may make more sense to you than if you haven't. if you havent seen it.. im going to give you a quick run down of the story and i mean quick without much detail... so if you don't want me to ruin the end skip to the next paragraph..... right now! hurry! A woman is waiting for her husband to return from a business trip, she answers the door it was a cop with the news of her husbands death...after she tells her two daughters they all go to bed... she wakes up the next morning laying next to her husband so she figures it was a dream..... basically it goes back and forth between her husband being alive one day then the next day being dead. so she eventually makes a calender of that week and the events so that she can avoid all the events that lead to his death. so one day she chases her husband down the highway in her car to catch his car to have him turn around before he gets the mile marker she was told his death occured in. she calls him and has him pull over before that mile marker and she convinces him to turn around so he turns around and is starting to head back towards her when his car dies and he cant get is started.... and a semi truck is careening towards his car and jacknifes as he tries to slow down. he reaches for the seatbelt to get out of the car.. it wont come out.... the semi hits him and explodes cause it was carrying natural gas.... all that to say that in trying to help him avoid his death she actually caused it. she caused what she tried so hard to avoid...

Ok so onto the biblical application of this....
John. 11:49-53
49.Then one of them, named Caiaphas, who was high priest that year, spoke up, "You know nothing at all! 50.You do not realize that it is better for you that one man die for the people than that the wohle nation perish." 51. He did not say this on his own, but as high priest that year he prophesied that Jesus would die for the Jewish nation, 52. and not only for thatnation but also for the scattered children of God, to bring them together and make them one. 53. So from that day on they plotted to take his life.

To give some background on what was going on right before this that brought these statements about... Jesus had just raised Lazarus from the dead...(thats another blog for another time... i have some thoughts for that.) In verses 45 and 46 it says "therefore many of the Jews who had come to visit Mary, and had seen what Jesus did, put their faith in him. But some of them went to the Pharisees and told them what Jesus had done. The Jews were still divided in what to think about Jesus, so many people were going to the Pharisees with questions so much so that they called a meeting of the Sanhedrin. the Sanhedrin was the supreme court of olden days for the Jews. If these guys got together on your account you were in some serious trouble. The Sanhedrin was scared that if they allowed Jesus to live that everyone will follow him, and that the Romans would come in and take thier "place" being there position in the Roman Government.. also that the Romans where going to come in and conquere them and become part of the Roman Empire... meaning no more nation of Isreal(note about this later in the blog).

after this Caiaphas (one of the High Priest) against his will (and according to God's) said " You know nothing at all! You do not realize that it is better for you that one man die for the people than that the whole nation perish" He just prophesied that Jesus was going to die for the entire nation of the Jews... so that they wouldn't have to perish, so that the scattered Christians would also be able to come together to be one...... and what was their response to that? "So from that day on they plotted to take his life"... What!?! Were they listening to Caiaphas? Did they not just hear that Jesus was to be a sacrifice? They were the chosen race...Why would they kill off the man that was going to die for them? They believed that if they killed Jesus that it would stop people from following him and then Rome would have no reason to take over the nation(Which takes place in 70 A.D.) So eventually when they do crucify and kill him..... They actually cause what they were wanting to avoid..... The Jews sealed their own fate....
All this goes to pointing out that you can't stop something that God has planned.... no matter what you do.. no matter what circumstances you change, as much as you would like to there is no way you can outsmart God.... it just doesn't work that way...

Just something for you guys to chew on......

Trying to Fulfill the Great Commision,
Evan