God controls everything. EVERY. THING. In His timing, in His plan, He has all of creation. By faith in Him we are saved and that faith….is a gift of God.
The Father knew the heart of man. Sticking to the platform would crucify Jesus.
Be careful what you pray for. May our prayers always be for His will to be done.
Jesus knew that the messianic role that the people and the disciples expected was much different from His actual role as the Messiah. The element of suffering that the Messiah would endure was not a part of popular expectation. Thus Jesus’ messiahship could not be openly proclaimed before the true nature of the Messiah was revealed.
The disciples struggled to understand what Jesus was saying. They could not comprehend how Jesus’ predictions fit into God’s plan. Only after Jesus’ resurrection and His explanation of the Scriptures to them did they begin to understand.
Luke 9:20-22
20 He said to them, “But who do you say that I am?”
Peter answered and said, “The Christ of God.”
21 And He strictly warned and commanded them to tell this to no one, 22 saying, “The Son of Man must suffer many things, and be rejected by the elders and chief priests and scribes, and be killed, and be raised the third day.”
16 Simon Peter answered and said, “You are the Christ, the Son of the living God.”
Matthew 16:16
68 But Simon Peter answered Him, “Lord, to whom shall we go? You have the words of eternal life.
John 6:68
69 Also we have come to believe and know that You are the Christ, the Son of the living God.”
John 6:69
20 Then He commanded His disciples that they should tell no one that He was Jesus the Christ.
Matthew 16:20
30 Then He strictly warned them that they should tell no one about Him.
Mark 8:30
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