Lord Jesus and his Autarkian Aseity

Lord Jesus Christ and autarky.

Summary of Gospel of Saint John 4:32-37: 

In the passage of John 4: 31-37, the Lord Jesus asserts that he doesn't need charity from another person concerning food or sustenance. His disciples meet with Him at the well of Jacob, after the Samaritan woman left. They had come from the nearby Town. Lord Jesus teaches them how to be independent of money.

Summary of Gospel of Saint John 6:2-4: 

In the passage of John 6:1-7, the Lord Jesus asks his disciples to have charity on the crowds and when they refuse, Lord Jesus feeds the crowd of 5000 men with five loaves and two fish resulting in a miracle. We can Lord Jesus ask the disciples to use their money. They refuse. And God picks up the slack, where money fails, by doing a miracle to glorify Lord Jesus' Father.

Superficial Observations. 

 In chapter 4, Lord Jesus doesn't need help with food. He says he has spcial food, and then teaches the group of disciples how to not need help themselves for food, by teaching them sound community-centered horticultural practices, economic horticultural practices. 

But in chapter 6 Lord Jesus is followed by a large crowd to the east side of Galilee, up some mountain. The crowds were in a different country to Israel now. Jesus asks the disciples if they can find a shop to buy food from and Phillip answers that 6 months' wages are not enough.  

Basically, they don't have enough money, and the Gospel's author, John says that Lord Jesus asked as a test (a qualifier) because Lord Jesus already knew about his future miracle. 

Situational Observation. 

Lord Jesus, as God and as individual, doesn't need their food, and His lesson to the disciples is that they can help sow and reap food (inevitably on the land they call home for long enough to tend crops.)

In this light, the crowds (for whom Lord Jesus asked if the disciples can buy food)  are away from their homes and even in a territory that is traditionally (according to Moses) not part of Israel. 

Causal Observations

We see that because Lord Jesus can miraculously multiply the food that he can also logically miraculously feed himself. 

Historical Implications

"On the Trinity"(verse 2) says that God is 'self-sufficient. And as a human, Lord Jesus has perfectly exemplified this fact of God's personality trait. 

Monasteries whose patron saint is Saint Anthony, who followed Christ's lesson  "Son of man has no where to rest his head," are groups of monks and nuns who were completely self-sufficiently growing their own food. Money also travelled with the homeless imperial colonizers of the 1500s AD - 2000s AD, enabling the foreigners to trade for food and their 'needs and wants.'  

Part 2:  Gospel implications.

We can see this through Christ's life as recorded in the Gospels. That in the age of His public ministry as Messiah from the earliest times in John 4:32, Lord Jesus was motivated to be self-sufficient. 

Summary: 

Lord Jesus died because he didn't want to partake of the passover, when he hadn't contributed to the 'industry' of lamb-raising, that year. That is one of multiple reasons that led to the crucifixion, not least of which include the fact Lord Jesus was a provincial citizen of Rome with only one right "Ius Gentium" the right to appeal a sentencing. And the fact that the Nazareth crowd tried to throw him off a cliff for reading in the synagogue. The future of Lord Jesus could have turned to one of two ways, as we see with the temptation of the devil. Lord Jesus would have to go to Jerusalem to appeal the death sentence which the Nazarenes tried to kill him on the cliff, but the Roman caesars were worshipped by the empire as 'son of God.' The Roman Imperial Cult was a small part of how the Lord Jesus' eternal Father prepared the world for Lord Jesus to live in. 

Summary of Luke 4 verse 16-30

Lord Jesus reads the scriptures of the prophet Isaiah in the Synagogue. He then says some sermon response to which the crowd is angry and tries to throw him off a cliff. It is in this particular scene that Lord Jesus explains the meaning of His name by mentioning Elijah and Elisha. (Jesus' name is JahSha in his indigenous language.) 

Christian view.

When Lord Jesus read the Scroll of Isaiah in the Synagogue in the Holy Gospel according to Saint Luke 4:16-30, He said the those scriptures were fulfilled by Him. 
We as Christians know that Lord Jesus fulfilled every verse of the entirety of Holy Scriptures, both Torah and TaNaK of the Old Testament. To put another way, the goal of a priest is to find how a particular passage in the Old Testament is describing Lord Jesus.

Historical context.

When a Jewish person reads in the Synagogue, 2000 years ago, there were two languages being used. One language which the audience spoke and heard. And one language which the ancient scribes wrote with. So there were two people involved in reading at the Synagogue, the reader, and the assistant who translated aloud to the crowd. 

Such were the rules of reading in the synagogue that the reader could read from anywhere on the open scroll, provided that he didn't take so long to find some words to read, that the assistant had to pause between translating.  The assistant should pause, and the crowd should just hear one continuous sentence of readings. 

Textual Analysis

So the very scriptures which Lord Jesus read out of Isaiah's scroll come from Isaiah 61 and Isaiah 58. They words he spoke form a chiastic structure (a chiastic sandwich) surrounding the most important bit in the middle, about being liberated, liberating, and teaching liberation. 

However what Isaiah 61 continues to say, if you read further down, is "another shall feed your flocks, and you shall become priests of the LORD the God." This verse in Isaiah comes true after Lord Jesus' resurrection , when he meets them at Lake Galilee. 

 Summary of John 21:15-17

This passage shows Lord Jesus meet with the disciples, as he told Saint Mary to tell them that he would meet them. He talks with Saint Peter, about feeding his sheep and his lambs. He also talks about Saint John, the disciple whom God-Jesus loves.

Specifically Lord Jesus asks Peter three times to feed his flocks. 

We know that Peter is the rock, the main disciple who in Acts 1 is the leader of the Apostles. 
We know that Peter left fishing in Luke 4, to 'follow' Lord Jesus (as a bodyguard.) And then after the crucifixion Lord Jesus told Mary to tell Peter to meet him at Galilee. 
But technically, Peter returned to fishing. So on that boat fishing, before Lord Jesus told Peter to feed the sheep,  there would be no church, no Peter reforming the 12 disciples in Acts 1. 

So, when someone feeds Lord Jesus's sheep, suddenly, they become priests of the YAHWHA the God. 

Modern world view.

Odd? No! This is basically exactly the same as what every priest or Christian who goes to study the holy bible knows. 

https://www.simplybible.com/f75q-chach-feed-my-sheep.htm 

https://www.gotquestions.org/feed-my-sheep.html

https://sermons.faithlife.com/sermons/399527-peter!!!-feed-my-sheep!

Now these are all likely written by Western European Christians in foreign lands, Christians who need money to eat and live. So, they will likely ignore the fact that there is an ancient way of life before western Europeans arrived, where people lived without money, and were self-sufficient. 

Proposition about biological data about sheep. 

So a sheep may weight 200kg. An adult sheep gestates with a fetus for 5 months, before giving birth to a lamb. the word "lamb" only applies to a sheep that is younger than 1 year. 

Proposition about a Farm Calendar

Assume that the shepherd keeps the (female) Ewes separate from the (male) Rams. Shepherds do this to help sheep mate and carry their lambs at the correct time of year when food is abundant. 

If a sheep gestates for 5 months.

Then from spring when the sheep mates, late summer will be when the lamb is born,  5 months later anyway. 

If we consider Lord Jesus getting his Ewes and Rams to mate, and then leaving his flock's land, after being chased out of Nazareth by the murderous synagogue. 

1 year plus 5 months is the longest it could be  for the lambs which Lord Jesus facilitated to be born, to remain called as "Lambs."

That is 17 months.

Length of Lord Jesus' messiahship. 

When there were Gnostics, before European Catholicism killed them off and burnt their books, Irenaeus wrote about a certain Gnostic suggestion that Jesus had spent only 1 year between his baptism and crucifixion and resurrection. This was because the 3 festivals mentioned in the Gospels. There are 3 festivals in the Torah, which Jews had to travel to Jerusalem for. 

However Irenaeus says that all the festivals were the same Passover festivals, at different years, specifically 3 Passover festivals with the third being the day that Lord Jesus was crucified. 

Months of Lord Jesus' messiahship away from Nazareth

Year Number	Total Number of Months between Jesus leaving Nazareth and Passover	Description
1	from 1 to 12 months	if Lord Jesus had a lamb for the first passover, how old would it be? would it be 1 month old? or 11 months old? probably as old as possible. Afterall passover is usually at the start of spring, when sheep mate.
2nd passover	12 to 17 months	One lamb could have been concieved 17 months previously. But the second passover could have been sooner, allowing Lord Jesus to have given to another back in Nazareth, the lamb he helped to grow, while having a lamb for passover. As he said "the true saying One sows and One reaps"
3rd Passover = Easter/Crucifixion & Resurrection	24 to 36 months after the first passover	Lord Jesus didn't eat the lamb, and Judas snitched on the group

Conclusion.

The Important thing to understand is Lord Jesus' phrase in John 4:37 : 
One sows and one reaps. 

In the English versions it reads "One sows and another reaps" but the another in the Greek version is simply "one." (which if you think about it, has a vastly different meaning than 'one.'

If Lord Jesus could sow, then he or another could reap.