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Seeing Jesus in Psalm 147

  Psalm 147 He gives food to the wild animals and feeds the young ravens when they cry. Psalms 147:9 NLT Look at the birds. They don’t plant or harvest or store food in barns, for your heavenly Father feeds them. And aren’t you far more valuable to him than they are? Matthew 6:26 NLT So Jesus explained, “I tell you the truth, the Son can do nothing by himself. He does only what he sees the Father doing. Whatever the Father does, the Son also does. John 5:19 Jesus is doing what His Father sent Him to do. And He is doing the same things the Father does. When Jesus tells us what the Father does, He is also explaining the works that are attributable to Himself. These are the kingdom of God works. And we shouldn’t think that we can understand it all. It is by definition Godly stuff, infinite acts of unfathomable complexity and far outside our comprehension. The rebuilding of Jerusalem and the return of the exiles points figuratively to two enemies in Jesus’ life. The return follows th...