Jesus as symbol completer:

The other take away this week, was that Jesus was very Jewish, and a completer of Jewish symbols. This may seem very obvious to some, but becomes more embedded in your knowing, when walking around where He did His thing on earth.

Even in the Garden of Gethsemane, a peaceful ancient wind blown olive tree textured space just across from the temple mount, which really is a power spot in His ministry, a place where He conversed intimately with His Father, and drew down strength to finish His tasks, He prayed facing the temple. Of course, in His case, He was ultimately facing The Father’s Heart, but He lived out His spirituality within and in response to, and completer of Jewish symbolic frames. This become overtly obvious when there.

His Life, death burial and resurrection all occurred within the lines of prophetic or living Judaism, and its geo-spirituality. Good reminder which offers hope that all the symbols of Judaism will one day be completed even more fully in the future! All of Isaiah and Ezekiel’s visions of completion of each symbol in the future, become more assured by watching how He completed symbols while here. The Author and Finisher of all symbols.

That “stone of agony” for instance, that He prayed on by the garden, was facing and had a clear view of the temple, as did the garden itself on the mount of Olives. He often pointed to that place to teach from, as He taught using concrete symbols around Him, as all Jews did. He taught through symbols that His audience was familiar with. Things around them took on new layers of meaning–wild olive trees versus cultivated ones became teachings about Jews and Gentiles, and their future relations.

The geo-spirituality of Jesus ministry was Jewish. And He was working within their symbolic system, helping bring their symbols to wholeness or completion.

Good to meditate on Him as a completer of the Mosaic (Jewish) Law this week-the incarnation embodiment of it! The Author and Finisher. The bread which became The Bread of Life. How He completed all the old symbols. Jesus was a completer of symbols. Container of the whole Law, who wrote them in our hearts, as Jeremiah predicted.

Nice meditation this week, as I roam around Jerusalem with Him, the one who was held up like the snake in the wilderness, for the healing of the people, and completed all the other symbols as well. Wine becomes His blood. The literal symbols become embodied in Him. He ingest and completes them. This was His methodology. He was incarnating the Jewish symbols to make the Word, Living. He was the communication of God. All symbols are meant to communicate. He was that communication. And God chose to use Jewish symbols to communicate through.

Something about knowing that He completed those older symbols, gives me trust that He will complete all the symbols in the end. For He is a trustworthy symbol finisher, a great Master artist in other words, who will finish His Body of work! The Father has placed a symbolic level of meaning in everything around us. The Jews named theirs, and Jesus completed them. And will do so in the future, was what I left with after walking around in his steps while here.

But while here, He clearly worked to complete the Jewish symbols. Jesus was Jewish. And was completing the symbolic dimension of their faith while here, and worked within that symbolic framework. And will complete those symbols in the end!