Bible Questions Answered: Seventy-The

Bible Questions Answered:
Why did Jesus, choose seventy disciples to be sent out?
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Bible Answers:
There remains little dispute that our Lord, choose twelve men to be His disciples, patterned after the twelve tribes of Israel.
Their task was to represent the Lord Jesus, to the extent of their lives.

And what of the seventy?

The calling of the Seventy was a temporary commission, that of preparing the way of the Lord (Making Christ known, in all of Palestine and Judea.).
They were sent out two by two, and they had great success.

Text:
Luke 10:1,17 KJV
1 After these things the LORD appointed other seventy also, and sent them two and two before His face into every city and place, whither He Himself would come.
17 And the seventy returned again with joy, saying, Lord, even the devils are subject unto us through thy name.

Why, the number seventy?

* When Jacob traveled into Egypt, his family had seventy members.
* Moses appointed seventy elders.
* The Sanhedrin (The National Jewish Council.), had seventy members.
* The general thought of the Jews in Christ's day, was that the earth was composed of some
“seventy,” nations.

Our Lord is “always,” in the recruiting business.
Has He called you? If He has called you, He will equip and keep you, granting you success.

John 4:34-36 KJV
34 Jesus saith unto them, My meat is to do the will of Him that sent Me, and to finish His work.
35 Say not ye, There are yet four months, and then cometh harvest? behold, I say unto you, Lift up your eyes, and look on the fields; for they are white already to harvest.
36 And he that reapeth receiveth wages, and gathereth fruit unto life eternal: that both he that soweth and he that reapeth may rejoice together.

I Corinthians 15:58 KJV
Therefore, my beloved brethren, be ye stedfast, unmoveable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, forasmuch as ye know that your labour is not in vain in the Lord.

Mark 16:15,16 KJV
15 And he said unto them, Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to every creature.
16 He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved; but he that believeth not shall be damned.

II Timothy 4:1-5 KJV
1 I charge thee therefore before God, and the Lord Jesus Christ, who shall judge the quick and the dead at His appearing and His kingdom;
2 Preach the word; be instant in season, out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort with all long suffering and doctrine.
3 For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears;
4 And they shall turn away their ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables.
5 But watch thou in all things, endure afflictions, do the work of an evangelist, make full proof of thy ministry.