The 72 Forerunners Luke 10:1-20

This post describes Jesus sending out and the return of 72 disciples as forerunners to proclaim the kingdom of God.

‘The 72 Forerunners’ as a post tells what happened when Jesus sent disciples before He visited the villages. Luke 10:1. “After this the Lord appointed seventy-two others and sent them on ahead of him, two by two, into every town and place where he himself was about to go.” Jesus’ training plan for this final phase of his ministry involved selecting 72 other disciples, not the twelve. They were sent out with the ability to heal and with specific instructions. They should go as forerunners before Him into the villages to which He intended to go. As part of their training they should take no extra provisions while preaching that the kingdom of God is near.

In this way, the disciples trained for the times after Jesus’ resurrection when they went to all the world—see Acts 8:1-4.

This much needed work should also incite earnest prayeer to the Lord of the harvest, God, for more laborers to reach those people eager to learn. The disciples, depending upon the hospitality of the villages, like lambs should not force themselves on anyone. For those towns that rejected them, they would consider them as dust on their shoes just like the Jews treated heathens.

If Sodom, Tyre, and Sidon had heard the preaching of Jesus and His disciples, they would have repented readily. Thus, non-listeners in Chorazin, Bethsaida, and Capernaum, without excuse for their unbelief, would end in torment.

 So, Jesus explained the inseparability of His word and the words of His disciples. Rejecting one rejects the other.

The 72 returned with joy and such a good report of casting out demons that Jesus saw Satan falling from heaven.  Although He gave them authority over physical things that might hurt them, He said eternal salvation in heaven made up the important thing.

So, what did we learn?

1.Jesus sent out 72 forerunners as part of His plan to go through villages on His way to Jerusalem.

2.Those who rejected Jesus and His disciples would be lost in Hades.

3.The words of His disciples carried the same authority as those of Jesus.

4.Their happiness should be in eternal salvation.

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