Now it has come to it. We are at the cusp of the great event. We are peering at the climax of Mark’s gospel. More than that, we find ourselves on the verge of the climactic event of human history. Everything heretofore has been building toward this.
We finished chapter 13 last week and now we press forward to the end. Mark has been prepping us for this, and so has Jesus. In the very first verse of this gospel Mark told us the purpose of his writing, to announce to us the beginning of the good news of Jesus Messiah, the Son of God. Every step of the way he has shown us Jesus Messiah and he has also been preparing us for these climactic events.
Way back in chapter 2 he began describing the building opposition to Jesus culminating early in chapter 3 with the plot between the Pharisees and Herodians to have him put to death. Then we witnessed miracle after miracle, event after event, that demonstrated to us in ever-increasing clarity that Jesus was, indeed, the promised Messiah, God in the flesh come to redeem us, come to fulfill all the promises made to Israel.
But he was not what the people expected. They expected, they desired, a warrior king to throw off the yoke and tyranny of Rome and usher in a new David-like kingdom of glory, like the one of old. But God had something much more grand in mind. God had in mind a world-wide kingdom which would transcend the temporary, provincial, political kingdom of David. What God was doing through Christ was far greater than all that they could ask or think or even dream. And yet it would be brought about in a way that they would never dream.
The Son of Man must suffer, Jesus had told them at Caesaria Philippi. He must suffer many things. He must be rejected. He must be executed. He must rise again the third day.”
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