JUDAS ISCARIOT
Matthew 27:3 "Then Judas, which had betrayed Him, when he saw that He was condemned, repented himself, and brought again the thirty pieces of silver to the chief priests and elders,"
Judas is the one that betrayed Jesus for the thirty pieces of silver. Judas saw what these religious leaders had done in condemning Jesus by trial, and bringing Him to Pilate to be crucified, and Judas was sorry for what he had done. Now don't read over this. JUDAS REPENTED HIMSELF. This was not the unforgivable sin that Judas committed, and upon repentance there is forgiveness.
Matthew 27:4 "Saying, "I have sinned in that I have betrayed the innocent blood." And they said, "What is that to us? see thou to that."
These chief priests and elders used Judas for the betrayal, and then they discarded him. Satan and his children, the Kenites have no respect for anything that is in their way.
This is an prime example as it will be at the coming of the Antichrist. All those dear souls that believe Satan, the Antichrist is the True Christ will be used by him and discarded in the same manner as Judas. That is Satan's manner and character, and that is also the character of the his offspring, the Kenites [Rev.2:9 & 3:9], only it will be a spiritual death.
Matthew 27:5 "And he cast down the pieces of silver in the Temple, and departed, and went and hanged himself."
hanged - 519 apagchomai (ap-ang'-khom-ahee) from 575 and agcho (to choke; kin to the base of 43); to strangle oneself off (i.e. to death): KJV-- hang himself.
Many teach that Judas went out and committed suicide here but that is not the case. Analyze it in the Greek for what really happened. The very word "Hanged" means suffocation. It can even mean suffocation with grief.
Acts 1:18; "Now this man purchased a field with the reward of iniquity; and falling headlong, he burst asunder in the midst, and all his bowels gushed out."
The purchase of the field was made by the false Kenite religious leaders, with the thirty pieces of silver that Judas threw on the floor of the temple. Now pay attention: "falling headlong he burst asunder in the midst, and all his bowels gushed out." Why was this? Because He was murdered, he was cut wide open, not hanged as some translators would have you believe. Judas was murdered after he repented, He did not commit suicide as the traditional doctrine would have you believe. Judas was murdered by having his stomach ripped wide open, and all of his insides gushing and pouring out of him.
What happens when you repent, is that God says you are forgiven of all sin, and when Judas repented, that evil act, that sin of betraying our Lord was blotted out, just as every evil act committed today is forgiven when repented before the Lord.
The reason we are to pay attention to the word "repented", for repentance brings forgiveness. Lets go to Acts 1 to see what the best account of this event has to say. Christ has risen at this point and the ascension has taken place. Jesus told His disciples to wait in Jerusalem for the forty days, and they would receive the filling of the Holy Spirit of God. It was during this wait the Peter discusses what happened surrounding the events of Judas' death.
It was the Sanhedrin, the high counsel of the Temple was the one that paid the fee to have even Judas delivered up to death. Most of the Christian world has allowed themselves to accept man`s tradition, over just plain common sense.
Their record of this is like the newspaper report in Texas that said the man committed suicide by shooting himself in the back of the head seven times. The record doesn't add up.
This matter made a great deal of difference to Judas, and I hope it causes you to wake up to a lot of other tradition that is just pure nonsense. The second witness concerning the hanging, states that Judas was murdered after his repentance.
Matthew 27:6 "And the chief priests took the silver pieces, and said, "It is not lawful for to put them into the treasury, because it is the price of blood."
Can't you just see that chief priest on his hands and knees picking up the silver and counting each piece as it goes into his hand. What is new in the religious community?
Matthew 27:7 "And they took counsel, and bought with them the potter's field, to bury strangers in.
The real beauty of this is that Christ was sent to only Israel in the beginning, and that blood money paid the price for the entire field which, symbolized, is the world. The sole purpose of purchasing that field is His taking out of that field all those broken vessels that would come to Him. [ think broken souls]
The blood of Christ paid the price in full so that you in what ever state you are in, and act you have committed, can do the same as Judas, REPENT to the heavenly Father, and ask His forgiveness. You do it all in the precious name of Jesus, for that is the only way you can have repentance by the Father. All sin is then forgiven by the Father, that you have done. and it is time to get into His Word and turn things around.
Remember back in Matthew 10:6, where Jesus instruction at first to His disciples were to "go to the lost sheep of the house of Israel". At Jesus death and resurrection, the entire field, or world, and all foreigners had the right to repent, and have salvation for their souls. Jesus blood opened salvation to all races.
So who told this chief Priest that he should use this thirty pieces of silver to buy this potters field? Acts 1:19; "And it was known unto all the dwellers at Jerusalem; insomuch as that field is called in their proper tongue Aceldama, that is to say, The field of blood."
Matthew 27:8 "Wherefore that field was called, "the field of blood,", unto this day."
Matthew 27:9 "Then was fulfilled that which was spoken by Jeremy the prophet, saying, "And they took the thirty pieces of silver, (the price of Him That was valued, whom they of the children of Israel did value); "
Many of the higher critics call this a error in the Bible because it is not written in the Word, however they missed the whole verse. It doesn't say, "written", it says "spoken by Jeremy the prophet". Even in the original text in doesn't indicate that it was in writing. In the Greek, the word is "rhethen", and not "ho gegraptai". It was spoken by Jeremiah, and written down by Zechariah.
Zechariah 11:12, 13; "And I said unto them, "If ye think good, give me my price; and if not, forbear." So they weighed for my price thirty pieces of silver." [12] "And the Lord said unto me, "Cast it unto the potter: a goodly price that I was pricsed at of them." And I took the thirty pieces of silver, and cast them to the potter in the house of the Lord." [13]
Even the religious leaders know what was to be done with it immediately, for it was prophesied in Zechariah what would be done with it. They knew now the Jesus was the Messiah, and they did as Zechariah instructed. No man could have forced Caiaphas to do this, when he was in the murderous act of crucifying Christ, it was the Spirit of God that led him to fulfill what was written.
Matthew 27:10 "And gave them for the potter's field, as the Lord appointed me."