The Exodus Has Begun.

You Don’t Find God. He Finds You.In the Gospel of Mark, Jesus enters Capernaum, a place whose name means “village of grace.” Scripturally, Jesus is bringing the news of the gospel to the people in that city as a gift. He goes into the synagogue, the place where the Jews of the diaspora gather to be taught, on the Sabbath, the day for that purpose. It is there that Jesus cleanses a man with an unclean spirit with a word of command. When it says he “entered” the synagogue, the stress is on the fact that grace is coming to them from outside. The gospel does not come from them, but it is unto them. This parallels the movement in Exodus where the children of Israel receive the Torah as a gift and are commanded to follow the voice of the Lord by keeping his statutes, in the wilderness. In Scripture, we don’t find God in a temple; rather, he leaves his abode in the heavens and comes to us through the word he puts into the mouth of his prophet.   Join me as we continue our reading through the Gospel of Mark.Notes:John 16:27, 28, 30εἰσέρχομαι eiserchomai - to come into, to enter in, or go through ἐξέρχομαι exerchomai - to go out ofיצא yatsa’ - to go out ofεὐθὺς evthys - immediately ἐξουσίαν exousian - authority ὑπακούω hupakouó - to obeyὁρίζω horizó - to declare Photo by hanabi dae.“Hallucination Rain” and “The Exodus Has Begun” courtesy of NPG Vandals.