Today is our final episode, exploring a theme called the anointed.

So far we've done a survey of the Hebrew Bible talking about how prophets, priests, and

kings all have oil smeared on them.

A ritual to symbolize that their lives are a bridge between heaven and earth.

Today we look at the theme of the anointed in the New Testament.

If you're looking to see on, you guessed it, the life of Jesus Christ.

That is Jesus, the anointed one.

Christ is a verb, which means to smear and pour oil upon.

Why is Jesus called Christ if he never had an official oil-annoying ceremony in Jerusalem?

Because there was one for the high priest.

That's how he became the anointed one.

And in ancient Israel there was a ceremony for kings involving oil.

So how can you call this guy a Messiah?

An anointed one.

If you never had that ceremony.

The gospel writers treat the baptism of Jesus like an anointing ceremony, where God

pours out not oil, but his spirit.

The claim of this narrative is, no, no, no.

The oil ceremony is a symbol of the original human image of God anointing, Haviden, where

God provides water on the dry land to grow a garden and then pours out his spirit on

a particular lump of the dry ground that has been formed into the shape of a human,

but is not yet alive until it is christened with the spirit of God.

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