the King was in command

The Word for today:
John 13:21-32







mark this: John 13:27 --
As soon as Judas took the bread, Satan entered into him.
"What you are about to do, do quickly," Jesus told him.

Jesus died in Jerusalem, on Mount Moriah, at Passover.

He had to.

The pictures and prophecies of the Old Testament foretold that the Lamb of God must die for the sins of the people in Jerusalem, on a ridge called Moriah which cuts through the city; the same ridge where Abraham had enacted the prophetic picture of the cross when told to sacrifice Isaac, his son.

And it had to be at a specific spot on Moriah--on the threshing floor of Araunah (1), which God had directed David to purchase, so that the Temple could be built there;

right where the ultimate altar would be built, from just two beams of wood.

It had to be in Jerusalem, where prophets go to die:
On that very day some Pharisees came, saying to Him, "Get out and depart from here, for Herod wants to kill You."
And He said to them, "Go, tell that fox, 'Behold, I cast out demons and perform cures today and tomorrow, and the third day I shall be perfected.'
Nevertheless I must journey today, tomorrow, and the day following; for it cannot be that a prophet should perish outside of Jerusalem." (2)

When King Herod wanted to kill Jesus, Jesus told him he'd have to wait--until he reached Jerusalem.

When he reached Jerusalem, Judas was waiting to betray Him. "What you do, do quickly," Jesus told him.

The King, who had told a king to wait, now was telling the prince of this world (Satan, who had entered into Judas) to hurry up. (3)

The Prophet was in Jerusalem; the Lamb was on Moriah. It was Passover, his deathday.

The King was in command.

(1) see 2 Samuel 24; (2) Luke 13:31-33; (3) see John 12:31; John 13:27