Jesus Christ Suffered to Succour the Saints

JESUS CHRIST SUFFERED BEING TEMPTED IS ABLE

TO SUCCOUR THEM THAT ARE TEMPTED

Our title came from where the Apostle said: “For in that he himself hath suffered being tempted, he is able to succour them that are tempted.” Hebrews 2:18

The Heavenly FATHER commissioned JESUS to take on the task of defeating and destroying the Devil while earning the privileged to succour the saints by anointing Him with the Spirit in a dove-like form at His baptizing.

Immediately JESUS began to carry out that commission.

Matthew said: “Then was Jesus led up of the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted of the devil.  And when he had fasted forty days and forty nights, he was afterward an hungred.” Matthew: 4:1-2

That painful and gruesome task of succoring the saints ended with His Crucifixion, and death and Resurrection; yea, that assignment was completed to the satisfactory of the One who sent Him three years and six months later.   But not before He was victorious over death Hell and the grave.

According to Webster, the word succour is pronounced as the boney fish: “sucker.”   And it means: To help, aid, assist, assistance, comfort, lift, relief, secure, support, maintain, nourishment, and sustenance.  Jesus met all of those criteria with a lot to spare. 

The definition of succoring cannot be better defined than where one said:  “The will of God will not take you where the Grace of God will not succour thee.” (Author unknown)

Through prophecy, Daniel told us that the time from His baptizing to His death was three and a half years.  He prophesied: “Messiah shall confirm the Covenant with many for one week.  And in the midst of the week he shall be cut off.” Daniel 9:27

(Now Daniel’s week was a week of years, meaning it was seven years.)    

According to the Holy Scripture the LORD sustained or succored his saint when He asked them to perform a task other than the ordinary.

Such was the case when He told Moses to separate himself from the Children of Israel and go upon Mount Sinai to receive the Ten Commandments which he received on two tables of stone.

That sustenance embraced Moses and therefore he wrote: “Then I abode in the mount forty days and forty nights, I neither did eat bread nor drink water:” Deuteronomy 9:9

In describing JESUS’ ability to assist or succour His saints the psalmist said: “God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble.”  Psalms 46:1

Then assuring us He is an all sufficient help when needed. 

The Apostle wrote: “For in that he himself hath suffered being tempted, he is able to succour them that are tempted.”  Hebrews 2:18

That’s not all. His succoring was in force from the foundation of the world, thus Matthew said: “And when he had fasted forty days and forty nights, he was afterward an hungred.” Matthew 4:2 

That qualified JESUS to succour Moses who was also a beneficiary of His fasting and thirst. 

John said: “And the woman, (The Church,) fled into the wilderness, where she hath a place prepared of God, that they should feed her there a thousand two hundred and threescore days.” Revelation 12:6

Yea, that reference was to where JESUS succored the Church while they went about carrying out the great commission to preach His everlasting Gospel.   Yea, they got it done.   The great Apostle asked: “But I say, Have they not heard?   Yes verily, their sound went into all the earth, and their words unto the ends of the world.” Romans 10:18    

(That thousand and two hundred and three score days is, when converted is three and a half years.)

Then there is where the Apostle John said: “And there was given me a reed like unto a rod: and the angel stood, saying, Rise, and measure the temple of God, and the altar, and them that worship therein.”

Then he was told:

“But the court which is without the temple leave out, and measure it not; for it is given unto the Gentiles: and the holy city shall they tread under foot forty and two months.” Revelation 11:1&2     

Yea, from that statement John has made us aware that it was forty and two months or three years and six months from Pentecost until Cornelius and those at his house were baptized by the Holy Ghost.

That requires us to go to the Day of Pentecost where GOD brought both Jew and Gentile saints in to the City of GOD.  For then and there, He baptized about a hundred and twenty disciples that awaited the promise of the Holy Ghost; whom when He came, baptized them into the Kingdom of GOD whom JESUS named the Church.

While leaving the Gentiles such as Cornelius, the Centurion and the Canaanite woman to tread, under foot the outer Court of the City of GOD for forty and two months as prescribed by John in Revelation 11:2‘

You know what?

It was due to the crudeness and ignorance of the Gentiles concerning the ministry was why they were kept in the outer court; after all this study is about the Ministry and not Salvation.

Some of the brethren were sent to the Church at Jerusalem concerning that matter:  Their reply was: “But that we write unto them, that they abstain from pollutions of idols, and from fornication, and from things strangled, and from blood.” Acts 15:20  

And said they: “That ye abstain from meats offered to idols, and from blood, and from things strangled, and from fornication: from which if ye keep yourselves, ye shall do well. Fare ye well.” Acts 15:29

May the LORD GOD be blessed by His saints, forever,

Amen!