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Is that what Luke 4:16-22 is; 'the gospel of confirmation'? It's funny, sometimes, the religious-sounding terminology men attach to the scriptures.
This particular passage tells what happened just after Jesus' survival and recovery from the famed "temptation of Christ." He had just defeated Satan... who took his best spiritual shot to cause Jesus to sin... and failed. This meant that Jesus Christ had qualified to "depose" the god of this world as its "Ruler"... its King.
And it wasn't until that moment of Satan's defeat, that the world's new King was able to begin preaching the "gospel" [good news] of the restoration of the Kingdom of God on earth; that Satan... God's once-trusted angel, 'Lucifer'... perverted when he rebelled against God's Government in the beginning.
In other words -- it wasn't until then that Jesus' "earthly ministry" began in earnest.
"...Jesus returned in the Power of the Spirit into Galilee..." (Luke 4:14).
"...Jesus came into Galilee, preaching the gospel of the Kingdom of God, and saying, THE TIME IS FULFILLED, and the Kingdom of God is at hand: repent ye, and believethe gospel [good news]." (Mark 1:14-15)
It was like saying: 'Your new King walks among you and His Kingdom draws near; repent of your sins, and believe the good news I bring you.'
The signs of the times and the prophecies of God's Word were in alignment. All of Judaea was expecting the prophesied "Messiah" to appear... and following His defeat of Satan in the 'temptation' -- Jesus' appearance and fame began to spread from Galilee.
When He got to His hometown of Nazareth [Luke 4:16] -- they had already heard about their "hometown boy" who was making a splash as the alleged "Messiah"... and they cautiously waited to see Him "perform for them."
The passage from Isaiah's scroll that He read in 'church' that Sabbath day was His official declaration to the people of Nazareth that He was indeed the One.
What He read to them from Isaiah 61, was what He was sent by His Father to do in the first part of His seven year ministry:
"The Spirit of the Lord is upon Me, because He hath anointed Me to preach the gospel to the poor; He hath sent Me to heal the brokenhearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised, to preach the acceptable year of the Lord.
"And He closed the book, and He gave it again to the minister, and sat down..." (Luke 4:18-20).
As they all stared at Him... wondering what He would do next:
"...He began to say unto them, This day IS THIS SCRIPTURE FULFILLED IN YOUR EARS." (verse 21)
The reaction of the folks of Jesus' hometown was "doubt and skepticism," that one of their own sons could possibly be the One for whom all the land was waiting to see, praise and worship! Especially, since He'd grown up among them as the son of Joseph, a local contract construction businessman. [He was a most unlikely candidate for the job. Jesus, whose birth was a local scandal, clouded with rumors of illegitimacy]. They'd been hearing the local chatter about His miracles and preaching in the surrounding towns... but, really:
"...they said, Is this not Joseph's son?" (verse 22)
Then Jesus began to compel them, in their spiritual state of unbelief, to reflect on their hauteur [arrogance] and ungodly disdain for others. They wanted to see some "proof" of what they heard about Him from the towns around them.
But all they got from Him was "ego-deflating" [what might be termed, today, as 'nation-bashing'] historical testimony of the "faith" of people not of their nation that put them to shame. Like many people today who take pride in being an American... those Jews maintained a strong carnal human pride in being "God's People"... "God's Nation."
They'd heard from the rabbis and read in their scriptures [and were told by John the Baptist] that "Messias" was about to appear; who would smash the Roman Empire [Daniel's fourth Beast - Dan.7]. Rome was going to get theirs... and the Jews were going to receive "preferential treatment" from God for their being "Abraham's children." Or, so they thought.
Instead... Jesus reminded them how Elijah in his day was sent to a "faithful Gentile widow" in Sidon, while thousands of Israelites starved. And when many Israelites suffered from leprosy in Elisha's day... he was only sent to cleanse a Gentile man: Naaman, the Syrian." [Luke 4:25-27]
Jesus was declaring to the folks of His hometown that He was the One they were expecting... but in the heat of their doubts... and hurt pride from His biting testimony that reminded them of their True National History [along with their personal short-comings] -- the church service broke up in a mob scene that would have resulted in their hometown boy's murder at their hands, had He not blended into the crowd and walked away.
"...He passing through the midst of them went His way." (verse 30)
That's what Luke 4:16-22 means. It wasn't a pious religious ceremony as some men might think it to be - a 'gospel of confirmation," as it were.
Jesus mearly "went to church" in Nazareth on the Sabbath [as was His custom] in the early days of the beginning of His earthly ministry, following His defeat of Satan the Devil. And He "confirmed" to the faithless, unbelieving folks of the town where He grew up, as to His authenticity as the long-awaited Messiah.
He read a passage from Isaiah 61 and told them that HE FULFILLED THAT MESSIANIC PROPHECY since entering Galilee in the towns around them, prior to that Sabbath day.
And they confirmed to Jesus their lack of belief, faith and Godly compassion... and tried to kill Him.
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