Broken Like Bread: sent out and distributed to the masses, for multiplication of the Kingdom
When I broke the five loaves for the 5,000, how many [small hand] baskets full of broken pieces did you take up? They said to Him, Twelve. And [when I broke] the seven loaves for the 4,000, how many [large provision] baskets full of broken pieces did you take up? And they said to Him, Seven. Mark 8:19-20 AMPC
Imagine! Dare to contemplate what Jesus is alluding to. Could this well-known Bible story actually be the construction plans for establishing the kingdom of God.
22 “God is exalted in His power. Who is a teacher like him? 23 Who has prescribed His ways for Him, or said to Him, ‘You have done wrong’? 24 REMEMBER to extol his work, which people have praised in song. 25 All humanity has seen it; mortals gaze on it from afar. 26 How great is God—beyond our understanding! The number of His years is past finding out. 27 “He draws up the drops of water, which distill as rain to the streams[h];
Yes!
28 the clouds pour down their moisture and abundant showers fall on mankind. 29 Who can understand how He spreads out the clouds, how He thunders from his pavilion? 30 See how He scatters His lightning about Him, bathing the depths of the sea, 31 This is the way He governs[i] the nations and provides food in abundance. 32 He fills His hands with lightning and commands it to strike its mark. 33 His thunder announces the coming storm; even the cattle make known its approach. Job 36:22-33
A design pattern repeated time after time: death to life, chaos to peace. God said,
“Let light shine out of darkness,”
and then,
[a] made His light shine in our hearts, to give us the light of the knowledge of God’s glory displayed in the face of Christ. 7 But we have this treasure in jars of clay to show that this all-surpassing power is from God and not from us. 8 We are hard pressed on every side, but not crushed; perplexed, but not in despair; 9 persecuted, but not abandoned; struck down, but not destroyed. 10 We always carry around in our body the death of Jesus, so that the life of Jesus may also be revealed in our body. 11 For we who are alive are always being given over to death for Jesus’ sake, so that His life may also be revealed in our mortal body. 12 So then, death is at work in us, but life is at work in you. II Corinthians 4:6-12
Remember then,
3 It was not by their sword that they won the land, nor did their arm bring them victory. It was Your right hand, Your arm, and the light of Your face, for You loved them. Psalm 44:3
Therefore to whom much is given much is required.
Everyone to whom much was given, of him much will be required, and from him to whom they entrusted much, they will demand the more.
Imitate then, the Good Giver, the Lord Jesus Christ
And He said to them, The harvest indeed is abundant [there is much ripe grain], but the farmhands are few. Pray therefore the Lord of the harvest to send out laborers into His harvest. Go your way; behold, I send you out like lambs into the midst of wolves. Carry no purse, no provisions bag, no [change of] sandals; refrain from [retarding your journey by] saluting and wishing anyone well along the way. Whatever house you enter, first say, Peace be to this household! [Freedom from all the distresses that result from sin be with this family]. And if anyone [worthy] of peace and blessedness is there, the peace and blessedness you wish shall come upon him; but if not, it shall come back to you. Whenever you go into a town and they receive and accept and welcome you, eat what is set before you; And heal the sick in it and say to them, The kingdom of God has come close to you. But whenever you go into a town and they do not receive and accept and welcome you, go out into its streets and say, Even the dust of your town that clings to our feet we are wiping off against you; yet know and understand this: the kingdom of God has come near you. Luke 10:2-6, 8-11 AMPC
Amen, let it be…. for we see You and know You. Send us, that we might be a blessing, for all the world