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 == Friday, Nov 15: "Get behind me,Satan!" ==
-From [https://bible.usccb.org/bible/matthew/16?23 Mt 16:23] (also in [https://bible.usccb.org/bible/mark/8:33 Mk 8:33]): <blockquote>''He turned and said to Peter, “Get behind me, Satan! You are an obstacle to me. You are thinking not as God does, but as human beings do.”'' (Mt. 16:23)</blockquote>As at the arrest of Jesus in the Garden, Peter brashly tries to defend Jesus’ person. He just didn’t get it, get the logic of God’s plan (perhaps had he not slept through Jesus’ prayers shortly beforehand he may have better understood…).
+From [https://bible.usccb.org/bible/matthew/16?23 Mt 16:23] (also in [https://bible.usccb.org/bible/mark/8:33 Mk 8:33]): <blockquote>''He turned and said to Peter, “Get behind me, Satan! You are an obstacle to me. You are thinking not as God does, but as human beings do.”'' (Mt. 16:23)</blockquote>As at the arrest of Jesus in the Garden, Peter brashly tries to defend Jesus’ person. He just didn’t get it, didn't get the logic of God’s plan.  (Perhaps had he not slept through Jesus’ prayer in the Garden, he would have better understood...) We’re worse than Peter though— God's plan has been fully revealed to us and we are still stuck “''thinking… as human beings do.''”
-We’re worse — that plan has been fully revealed to us and we are still stuck “thinking… as human beings do.”
+The passage follows Simon's appointment as head of the Church, the rock, "Peter," which itself follow's Peter's declaration that Jesus is "the Messiah, the son of the living God."
+John, as usual, gives us some different passages, including the seven "I am" statements of Jesus, with the most direct one regarding knowing Abraham:<blockquote>So the Jews said to him, “You are not yet fifty years old and you have seen Abraham?” Jesus said to them, “Amen, amen, I say to you, before Abraham came to be, I AM.” ([https://bible.usccb.org/bible/john/8:57 Jn 8:57-8:x]) </blockquote>Jesus' listeners take great offence at this and try to stone him. But the Messiah will be "lifted up" not knocked down, so Jesus miraculously escapes.
+But even if they understood him to be the Messiah, as did Peter (albeit by divine inspiration; see [https://bible.usccb.org/bible/matthew/16?17 Mt 16:17]), they had no idea of the Messiah's actual mission.  They of course understood that the Son of David would free Israel from foreign enslavement, as did Moses for them out of Egypt, and then restore the kingdom.
+This is why Jesus says, repeatedly, "The Kingdom of God is at hand" -- to clarify that the "kingdom" is not of man (a "son of David"). The phrase "Kingdom of God" appears once -- once! -- in the Old Testament, coming in WI 10:10 in reference to staying faithful to God.
+>> under constructio as of 11:45 am 11/15
+"Messiah,"
-The passage follows Simon's appointment as head of the Church, the rock, "Peter," which itself follow's Peter's declaration that Jesus is "the Messiah, the son of the living God."
-John, as usual, gives us some different passages, including the seven "I am" statements of Jesus, with the most direct one regarding knowing Abraham:<blockquote>So the Jews said to him, “You are not yet fifty years old and you have seen Abraham?”*58* Jesus said to them,i “Amen, amen, I say to you, before Abraham came to be, I AM.” [https://bible.usccb.org/bible/john/8:57 Jn 8:57-8:x] , </blockquote>to which they try to stone him. But the Messiah will be "lifted up" not knocked down, so Jesus miraculously escapes them.
+they're a long way
 > the Messiah misunderstood
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-> so how does God think?
+It all begs the question, though, so how does God think?
 == Friday, Nov 8: Saint Paul, the perfect choice for Christ ==