Biblical Significance of Gethsemane

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There's levels to this.

There's levels to this.

There's levels to this.

This is gonna blow your mind. This right here is a photo of the Garden

of

Gethsemane, and that's literally the place where Jesus

prays the night He is

arrested. Gethsemane is located in this ca-

a place called Mount of Olives, which

is literally a mountain full of olive trees.

The word Gethsemane comes from Getsemani, which literally means oil

press or the olive crushing place.

And so obviously, oil is what you get when you put pressure on olives.

The next photo right here is what people used to use in biblical

times to

literally grab that circle stone on top, put a bunch of olives, uh, over there,

and then put pressure on them, and that's how you make oil.

So when you read scripture and you see that Jesus at the Garden of

Gethsemane, He's

not at this random garden. He's actually at a place that

is associated with olives

being crushed and pressed to produce oil.

Now, in the Bible, there are four different purposes for olive oil.

This is insane.

It's really interesting.

So good.

It was used to anoint kings, priests, and prophets.

King David was anointed with oil, and he became king.

The sons of Aaron were anointed, and then they became priests.

Elijah anoints Elisha to become a prophet.

Olive oil was also used for cleansing.

It was used to build soap. Jesus says in Matthew Chapter 6 that

when you fast,

it says wash your face with oil. It literally was used to, to cleanse you.

Olive oil was used to treat wounds and bring healing.

Uh, this is really interesting. In the Gospel of Luke, Luke

is a physician, and he

says that the Good Samaritan grabs the man that was wounded, and he uses oil on

him to help with the healing. Also, I didn't know this,

but in James Chapter 5, the

famous passage that says that if somebody is sick among you,

bring them to the

elders, uh, and anoint the person that is sick with oil.

Oil is a representation of God's blessing over your life.

But at the time, it was also used with medicinal purposes.

Olive oil was also used to fuel lamps.

This is a photo of the lamps that were used in that time.

You actually have one right here-

Oh

... which is amazing. You would put a bunch of oil in

that little space and then a,

a wick, and then, like, you light it up, and that would be what people used to

bring light. Now, if you think about everything I just said,

four purposes.

Here it comes.

In Gethsemane, the place of the oil press, Jesus is being

pressed as He fulfills the role of the ultimate anointed king, priest, and

prophet. In Gethsemane, Jesus is being pressed because He's getting

ready to go

to a cross to cleanse us from our sins.

Jesus is being pressed because He is the one who came to heal our wounds

and is

getting ready to be wounded Himself.

Jesus is being pressed because He is the light of the world,

and the Bible says

that those that are in Him have no darkness in them. There's more.

When you press ripe olives, the first liquid that comes out is

actually not pure oil. It is a dark purple, reddish color

liquid. It actually looks like blood.

Luke 22:44, Jesus is praying, and He is in agony.

He's saying, "Lord God, Father, if there is another way."

And the Bible says that

as He is praying, He is in agony. His sweat becomes like great drops of

blood falling down to the ground. And so here's the point.

Salvation costs you nothing, but to Jesus, it cost Him everything.

When you put pressure on the olives, what comes out is oil.

When Jesus was pressured at the garden and at the cross, what came out was His

blood, and it's in that blood that you and I today, by His grace, we find

salvation.