Esau’s Children
or Hilarity in Mark 3
“Then the Pharisees went out and immediately plotted with the Herodians against Him, how they might destroy Him. But Jesus withdrew with His disciples to the sea. And a great multitude from Galilee followed Him, and from Judea and Jerusalem and Idumea and beyond the Jordan; and those from Tyre and Sidon, a great multitude, when they heard how many things He was doing, came to Him.”
Teaching through Mark at the moment. I found it hilarious that after Jesus heals on the Sabbath, the Pharisees plot to kill him in league with the Herodians. Jesus hides himself from the Rulers of the Land and preaches to the Beasts of the Sea, and, get this, a bunch of Idumeans follow Him. The Jewish leaders conspire with spiritual Edomites, but the garden variety Edomites can recognise Jesus’ merit. P.C. Big Brother always ends up having to deny the obvious. And Jesus’ gospel, like the Pied Piper, always steals the beast’s children right from under his nose.
Is it any wonder, then, that a fair part of the Revelation is a condemnation of the kings of the Land? A few verses later, Jesus casts out their demonic rats and they call Him the Rodent King. Is it pushing things too far to point out that their believing children also followed Jesus through a split mountain?
Nighty night.
