A Lesson About Trust

Yochanan (John) 11
45 At this, many of the Judeans who had come to visit Miryam, and had seen what Yeshua had done, trusted in him.

46 But some of them went off to the P'rushim (Pharisees) and told them what he had done.

47 So the head cohanim (Priest) and the P'rushim (Pharisees) called a meeting of the Sanhedrin and said, "What are we going to do? -- for this man is performing many miracles.

48 If we let him keep going on this way, everyone will trust in him, and the Romans will come and destroy both the Temple and the nation."

49 But one of them, Kayafa, who was cohen gadol (High Priest) that year, said to them, "You people don't know anything!

50 You don't see that it's better for you if one man dies on behalf of the people, so that the whole nation won't be destroyed."

51 Now he didn't speak this way on his own initiative; rather, since he was cohen gadol (High Priest) that year, he was prophesying that Yeshua was about to die on behalf of the nation,

52 and not for the nation alone, but so that he might gather into one the scattered children of YHWH.

53 From that day on, they made plans to have him put to death.



It seems to me that this passage reveals quite a bit.

1. It seem in verse 47 and 48 that the leaders understood that Yeshua was the Messiah. They said "What should we do? He does many miricles and if we don't do something, everyone will believe in Him".

2. But they didn't trust that Messiah would be able to save them from the Roman occupiers! They said, "If we leave him alone, the Romans will take away our Temple and our country!"

Unlike King David, who trusted YHWH to save him from the tyranny of Goliath and the Philistines, these leaders did not trust YHWH to save them from the tyranny of the Romans! They did NOT trust in YHWH and instead put their trust in their own plan! They reasoned that if they execute Yeshua, then the Romans would leave them alone.

They obviously loved "their temple and their nation" more than YHWH!

So they executed Yeshua.

A few years later (in 70 AD) the Romans completely destroyed the Temple and proceeded to ransack all of Jerusalem to the ground. They occupied Israel for the next 1800 years.

All because the leaders put their trust in themselves instead of in YHWH.

My friends, put your trust in YHWH and not your own heart/ plan!