Jesus Came To His Own

1. There’s an expectation that the world should have known Jesus [Joh 1:10].
   1. God expected that the world would know that He created the world
2. Israel—Jesus’ own—didn’t receive Him [Joh 1:11].
   1. “His own” doesn’t refer to Jesus’ citizenship in Israel, but that Israel was His property.
   2. To think otherwise is to say that John meant that Israel should have received anyone who was a fellow Israelite.
   3. When God divided the people into nations, He put the nations under the guidance of angels [Deu 32:7-8, ABP, ESV, GNT, LXX, MSG, NET, NLT, RSV, TLB, UDB, ULB, ULT, UST].
      1. He took Israel as His own [Deu 32:9]
   4. Jacob blessed Ephraim and Manasseh—his grandchildren— elevating them to the status of sons [Gen 48:13-16]. He blessed them saying they would grow into a multitude. He blessed them by the God of Abraham Isaac and Jacob and called the God “the Angel”.
      1. All the sons of Jacob—and by extension, the entire nation—was under this same Angel
      2. Moses repeated Jacob’s blessing to Joseph (i.e., Ephraim and Manasseh), but instead of saying “the Angel”, He calls Him “the One who dwelt in the burning bush” [Deu 33:13-16]. This means that the Angel in the burning bush is the same Angel who was the God of Abraham Isaac and Jacob.
   5. Therefore, When John says Jesus came to “His own”, he meant the Angel of Yahweh
   6. The world (including Israel) was supposed to recognize Jesus by His power and authority.
      1. Both Jesus and the Angel of Yahweh spoke with authority and displayed power over elements

Unlike the Syrophoenician woman, we—though Gentiles—are sons of God not pets [Mar 7: 26-29; Joh 1:12-13; Rom, 8:15-16].