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Bible Study Nothing To Eat For 40 days And Nights.

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Mark 1:12 "The Spirit immediately drove him out into the wilderness.
1:13 And he was in the wilderness forty days, being tempted by Satan. And he was with the wild animals, and the angels were ministering to him."

I don't know about you, I wouldn't be able to fast 40 days and nights....

Luke 4:1 "And Jesus, full of the Holy Spirit, returned from the Jordan and was led by the Spirit in the wilderness
Luke 4:2 for forty days, being tempted by the devil. And he ate nothing during those days."

Very seldom do we think of Jesus being tempted those forty days. It is viewed my many folk that at the end of the forty day fast Satan tempted Jesus, I believe the scripture points to a forty day temptation as well as going without food....Hmmm
 
How Jesus must have suffered all that time, and how close He must have felt to the Father. Only He could have done that. The Father must have kept our saviour's body strong to be able to cope physically. But He must have been in pain. What faith He had!

It's so true we don't think of those forty days, or at least don't talk much about it.

I wonder how long we would have lasted?
 
Tessa said:
How Jesus must have suffered all that time, and how close He must have felt to the Father. Only He could have done that. The Father must have kept our saviour's body strong to be able to cope physically. But He must have been in pain. What faith He had!

It's so true we don't think of those forty days, or at least don't talk much about it.

I wonder how long we would have lasted?
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Probably about this long for me,... :lol (gotta love the big and fat orange cat)




 
Hunger can add to a grumpy mood.

When you are hungry AND frustrated/angry...whew boy....look out.

Which is what is being said here.
40 days and nights....kinda like the days of rain for Noah....forty years of wandering for the Israelites for angering God.

Jesus went to the wilderness because He was angry after his Baptism. He was angry with the Jews and people in general.

Likely due to the lack of reception. (But probably not the only reason) His coming had been foretold in scriptures and by John the Baptist. He got nobody.
He made these people and they literally couldn't be bothered... partly because of the religious leaders. (Dislike for religious leaders is kinda an obvious)
People are very self-serving... even the "nice and kind" ones.

And when a huge party is announced 600 years in advance (with current reminders) and no one showed up?
 
And just to talk about the "Wilderness" area.
There's a reason it's called that. Very inhospitable. No life out there whatsoever. No shade from the blazing son. Lots of rocks to trip on and twist an ankle on. No bugs or birds either. It's desolate and no one lived there. The deserts of Texas and Arizona look like a garden by comparison.

So...for Jesus to head out there meant that He went to be alone. Probably a good idea since He was that angry. Jesus wasn't exactly an extrovert or an introvert. But played both roles often. To calm down, focus on what His role was going to be, how to attain the goals his Father had set before him, and have compassion for The most obnoxious people on the planet.
 
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We were promised many False Prophets but one does wonder why? 2Tim 2:15 NASB
15 Be diligent to present yourself approved to God as a workman who does not need to be ashamed, accurately handling the word of truth.

Any follower of Yashuah will love the study of the Holy scriptures because with each reading, led by the Holy Ghost, brings the believer closer, ever closer, to His steps along the path He walks.

More and more are they that teach another gospel as opposed to the Gospel of Yashuah ha'Mashiah. Most of these that I have encountered profess the Scriptures to be incomplete, that their walk with the Spirit has and is teaching them unrevealed truths of YHWH and His Son. In Mal. 3:6a however we learn the truth that our Elohim, God. never changes. And yet, time after time, the teaching of these, claiming further revelation and a better way demonstrate that either YHWH has changed or the Bible He promises, multiple times, beginning with Duet 4:2 and ending with the end of the last of Revelation 22, to protect and preserve His Word.

Why would YHWH the Most Wise Elohim have Timothy to record that it is wise to study the scriptures and then this Ever Consistent Elohim trash the very message His Son Died on the Cross, some 2000 years ago? That is the question one must answer before following any spirit that teaches one to forget studying the scriptures to know your God?
 
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Good to see you, Bill!

40 day fasts have been done, in modern times. Not by me. I thought I would go 10 days with no food or water, but long before that my Pastor and his wife pointed out how my eyes looked (my actual eyeballs) and that this was not healthy. Adding water fixed that after a couple more days. The no food part is easy after the first several days, but it sure will let you know what junk food you've been eating! That stuff stays in our guts, only to be digested after everything else is gone. If you get headaches when you're hungry, that's why; the toxins are being digested and released into our system ...

Handel wrote The Messiah on an extended fast. He locked himself in his music room and didn't come out until it was finished. His wife "faithfully" brought him food, knocked on the door telling him it was there, and left it for him. That would've been ... hard! Around 30 days of that
 
In Matthew 4:1-11 notice that Satan did not tempt Jesus until after His forty day fast. I believe during the forty days Jesus was meditating and living on the very word of God taking no concern for himself, but that which laid ahead of Him. He was preparing for the beginning of His ministry here on earth as His strength came from the food (word) of God for that which He had to endure during His ministry.

Every time Satan would try to tempt Him Jesus always came against him with the written word of God as He was quoting God's commandments:
Vs. 4 It is written, Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God.
vs. 7 It is written again, Thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God.
vs. 10 Get thee hence, Satan: for it is written, Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God, and him only shalt thou serve.

Satan was defeated by the written word of God and the angels came to help Jesus as He departed into Galilee and began His ministry. Jesus was fully God and fully man and we being only human would have a hard time with a forty day fast as our bodies were not design for such a fast.
 
for_his_glory said:
In Matthew 4:1-11 notice that Satan did not tempt Jesus until after His forty day fast. I believe during the forty days Jesus was meditating and living on the very word of God taking no concern for himself, but that which laid ahead of Him. He was preparing for the beginning of His ministry here on earth as His strength came from the food (word) of God for that which He had to endure during His ministry.

Every time Satan would try to tempt Him Jesus always came against him with the written word of God as He was quoting God's commandments:
Vs. 4 It is written, Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God.
vs. 7 It is written again, Thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God.
vs. 10 Get thee hence, Satan: for it is written, Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God, and him only shalt thou serve.

Satan was defeated by the written word of God and the angels came to help Jesus as He departed into Galilee and began His ministry. Jesus was fully God and fully man and we being only human would have a hard time with a forty day fast as our bodies were not design for such a fast.
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I don't know if Satan waited until after the 40 days. Matthew 4 says that after Jesus was baptized He was led away by the Spirit to be tempted by the devil. In v3 it only talks about the temptations that occurred after the 40 days, which would likely be during Jesus' weakest condition.

Mark's account words it this way in chapter 1 v12 and v13 NKJV Again, this indicates that He was tempted during the 40 day period.
Immediately the Spirit drove Him into the wilderness. And He was there in the wilderness forty days, tempted by Satan, and was with the wild beasts; and the angels ministered to Him.

Luke's account is similar to Mark's. Luke 4:1-2 NKJV Luke is more specific saying that Jesus was tempted for 40 days.
Then Jesus, being filled with the Holy Spirit, returned from the Jordan and was led by the Spirit into the wilderness, being tempted for forty days by the devil. And in those days He ate nothing, and afterward, when they had ended, He was hungry.

Luke then continues to describe temptations that occurred after the 40 days, which are similar to Matthew's account.

I'm inclined to believe that Jesus was tempted during the 40 days as well as after and the temptations we progressively more tempting so-to-speak.
 
WIP said:
I don't know if Satan waited until after the 40 days. Matthew 4 says that after Jesus was baptized He was led away by the Spirit to be tempted by the devil. In v3 it only talks about the temptations that occurred after the 40 days, which would likely be during Jesus' weakest condition.

Mark's account words it this way in chapter 1 v12 and v13 NKJV Again, this indicates that He was tempted during the 40 day period.
Immediately the Spirit drove Him into the wilderness. And He was there in the wilderness forty days, tempted by Satan, and was with the wild beasts; and the angels ministered to Him.

Luke's account is similar to Mark's. Luke 4:1-2 NKJV Luke is more specific saying that Jesus was tempted for 40 days.
Then Jesus, being filled with the Holy Spirit, returned from the Jordan and was led by the Spirit into the wilderness, being tempted for forty days by the devil. And in those days He ate nothing, and afterward, when they had ended, He was hungry.

Luke then continues to describe temptations that occurred after the 40 days, which are similar to Matthew's account.

I'm inclined to believe that Jesus was tempted during the 40 days as well as after and the temptations we progressively more tempting so-to-speak.
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Jesus being filled with the Holy Spirit that led Him out into the wilderness would have given Him the strength for such a long fast as He was making Himself ready for His ministry. Jesus already knew of His life, death and resurrection that laid ahead of Him as I believe that is what was meant by preparing for His ministry. At the end of His fast He was hungry and this is where I believe Satan came to tempt Him as Jesus would have been weak in body, but not in Spirit. Satan has always tried to quite the word of God and thought he did when Jesus was crucified.

It truly does not matter if before or after, but that Jesus never gave into the temptations, which is the teaching we need to gain from His fast that we never give into temptations in a moment of weakness just like you said as they can become progressively tempting. It is a possibility that there could have been more temptations other than the three that were written.
 
for_his_glory said:
It is a possibility that there could have been more temptations other than the three that were written.
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This is one of those things I find so interesting: how did it go from everything that happened (surely more than we have recorded) to what we have in Scripture?

I think we do have what's most important, but how did that weeding out process work?
 
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