The Northern Shore Nationalist Movement

Jesus saw people were going to make Him king by force. A look at what Jesus did to make His Kingdom "not of this world".

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Title: The Northern Shore Nationalist Movement

SubTitle: Jesus saw people were going to make Him king by force. 

Description: A look at what Jesus did to make His Kingdom "not of this world".

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The Northern Shore Nationalist Movement

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This episode shows how Jesus maintained that His kingdom was not of this world.

This is a fictitious account of the rise of what I call "Northern Shore Nationalism".

It was a short-lived conspiracy to form an aggressive military operation on the North Shore of the Sea of Galilee in the first century. The conspiracy was to make Jesus "king by force". But Jesus was going to have no part of it.

Recently, Jesus had multiplied loaves and fishes to feed five thousand men. 

John 6:14

14 Then those men, when they had seen the sign that Jesus did, said, “This is truly the Prophet who is to come into the world.”

15 Therefore when Jesus perceived that they were about to come and take Him by force to make Him king, He departed again to the mountain by Himself alone.

Let's visit a fictitious rally that happened near the North Shore at the closing of Jesus' revival there:

RIGHT FINGER POINTING AND LECTURING

"Don't you know the Scripture? This is the man!! Moses said,'The Lord your God will raise up for you a Prophet like me from your midst, from your brethren.'"

SLOW WITH EYES WIDE

"This Jesus fed people bread like manna. The bread didn't materialize out of heaven: it materialized out of his hands and His disciples!"

AKIMBO

"Yeah, come on! Where's your faith? This is the prophet!!"

SHAKING A WATERMELON

"Think about this! unlimited bread! What can we do with unlimited bread!"

LEFT FINGER AGAINST THE TEMPLE

"God was so wise to start here!"

PALMS UP

"No one would expect an army to arise from here! But with Him we have unlimited bread!"

That's the end of the fictitious rally.

Rallies like this presented Jesus with a problem. How to defuse an unwanted nationalist movement? Or to put it another way, a kingdom that comes from this world?

There is Scripture that describes what happened next:

Mark 6

Part of Verse 45 Immediately He made His disciples get into the boat and go before Him to the other side.

NOTE: Jesus stomped out the nationalist uprising in its early stages. He did it by finishing the revival and packing up. He sent the disciples -- they were part of the miracle bread making team -- away across the Sea of Galilee.

Last Part of Verse 46 He departed to the mountain to pray.

NOTE: Then Jesus goes out to the disciples...

Verse 49

And when they saw Him walking on the sea, they supposed it was a ghost, and cried out;

NOTE He crossed the sea in the middle of the night and scared his own miracle team disciples. The people at the revival missed a lot of miracles that night.

Jesus and the disciples finished crossing the sea with the miracle team and waited for the conspirators to come find Jesus. 

He then checked their motives.

Now I'll reference parts of the book of John to finish the story.

John 6:24 

when the people therefore saw that Jesus was not there, nor His disciples, they also got into boats,... seeking Jesus.

Verse 26 Jesus answered them and said, “Most assuredly, I say to you, you seek Me, not because you saw the signs, but because you ate of the loaves and were filled. 

27 Do not labor for the food which perishes, but for the food which endures to everlasting life, which the Son of Man will give you, because God the Father has set His seal on Him.”

NOTE: Jesus is saying these people are rightly seeking Jesus but with wrong motivations. They had wrong expectations.

To underline the point that Jesus was controlling possible uprisings, the Gospel of Mark mentions what Jesus did along the northern shore two chapters later.

Jesus took a preventive measure as seen in Mark 8:22. I think Jesus didn't want to start another nationalist movement and so healed a blind man outside the city and told him, "Don't go back in."

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