"But your little ones, which ye said should be a prey, them will I bring in, and they shall know the land which ye have despised./ But as for you, your carcases, they shall fall in this wilderness."
What God here means by the little ones and what Jesus meant are same things held together not by age but according to the word of God. It is thus the number 40 becomes a sign fixed by the Spirit. Jesus Christ in his "woe-to-ye" discourse graded the martyrs each according his generation. (Matt.23:34-36). The woe is heaped,"That upon you may come all the righteous blood shed upon the earth," and at the end he says when it shall occur, "Verily I say unto you, All these things shall come upon this generation.: He referred to his generation. That is the basis for the Law of Gradation. The Word of God bears the tag which is a Command number Four, Forty refers to man's life as mentioned in this verse,"And your children shall wander in the wilderness forty years, and bear your whoredoms, until your carcases be wasted in the wilderness."(14:33). The impenitent and stiff-necked nation had to get used to the new math,-"After the number of the days in which ye searched the land, even forty days, each day for a year, shall ye bear your iniquities, even forty years, and ye shall know my breach of promise."(v.34). Forty days are considered adequate for man to be drilled in the will of God so Jesus was prepared by the Spirit to face the temptation of Satan. Similarly the risen Christ would be seen of by the disciples, and it for preparing 'the little ones' to be endued with power from above. So the usage of the little ones in both cases are reconciled.
For this reason we read how Moses prepared the 'lost' generation for the generational change."For Moses had said, Consecrate yourselves today to the Lord, even every man upon his son, and upon his brother; that he may bestow upon you a blessing this day." Moses prepared their little ones, for this day"(32:29)
"But your little ones, which ye said should be a prey, them will I bring in, and they shall know the land which ye have despised./ But as for you, your carcases, they shall fall in this wilderness."
What God here means by the little ones and what Jesus meant are same things held together not by age but according to the word of God. It is thus the number 40 becomes a sign fixed by the Spirit. Jesus Christ in his "woe-to-ye" discourse graded the martyrs each according his generation. (Matt.23:34-36). The woe is heaped,"That upon you may come all the righteous blood shed upon the earth," and at the end he says when it shall occur, "Verily I say unto you, All these things shall come upon this generation.: He referred to his generation. That is the basis for the Law of Gradation. The Word of God bears the tag which is a Command number Four, Forty refers to man's life as mentioned in this verse,"And your children shall wander in the wilderness forty years, and bear your whoredoms, until your carcases be wasted in the wilderness."(14:33). The impenitent and stiff-necked nation had to get used to the new math,-"After the number of the days in which ye searched the land, even forty days, each day for a year, shall ye bear your iniquities, even forty years, and ye shall know my breach of promise."(v.34). Forty days are considered adequate for man to be drilled in the will of God so Jesus was prepared by the Spirit to face the temptation of Satan. Similarly the risen Christ would be seen of by the disciples, and it for preparing 'the little ones' to be endued with power from above. So the usage of the little ones in both cases are reconciled.
For this reason we read how Moses prepared the 'lost' generation for the generational change."For Moses had said, Consecrate yourselves today to the Lord, even every man upon his son, and upon his brother; that he may bestow upon you a blessing this day." Moses prepared their little ones, for this day"(32:29)
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