Reading through it now, he makes a great point I never thought of. In the gospels when Jesus was 12 and sitting in the Temple with the doctors and lawyers... in effect he was sitting in his own House and Temple (if you factor in his divinity). Thats some trippy late night theology there.
On page 11-12.
If we had been alive at the time when Luke had written his
gospel story, and if we had gone to Luke and said, “Tell us,
please, Dr. Luke, whom did Joseph and Mary find that day in
the temple?” then he would have said, “Why, they found the
twelve-year-old boy Jesus.”
But another voice has also spoken—the Old Testament
prophet Malachi—and he has told us who was found in the
temple that day: “Behold, I will send my messenger [John
the Baptist], and he shall prepare the way before me: and
the Lord, whom ye seek, shall suddenly come to his temple”
(
Malachi 3:1).
Malachi said that the twelve-year-old growing boy found in
the temple was none other than Jehovah Himself. That is a wonderful
thought! That ornate temple, that beautiful magnificent
temple, actually belonged to a twelve-year-old boy sitting in the
midst of those learned doctors, hearing them and asking them
questions.
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