Replacing Judas
15-17During this time, Peter stood up in the company—there were about 120 of them in the room at the time—and said, "Friends, long ago the Holy Spirit spoke through David regarding Judas, who became the guide to those who arrested Jesus. That Scripture had to be fulfilled, and now has been. Judas was one of us and had his assigned place in this ministry.
18-20"As you know, he took the evil bribe money and bought a small farm. There he came to a bad end, rupturing his belly and spilling his guts. Everybody in Jerusalem knows this by now; they call the place Murder Meadow. It's exactly what we find written in the Psalms:
Let his farm become haunted
So no one can ever live there.
"And also what was written later:
Let someone else take over his post.
21-22"Judas must now be replaced. The replacement must come from the company of men who stayed together with us from the time Jesus was baptized by John up to the day of his ascension, designated along with us as a witness to his resurrection."
23-26They nominated two: Joseph Barsabbas, nicknamed Justus, and Matthias. Then they prayed, "You, O God, know every one of us inside and out. Make plain which of these two men you choose to take the place in this ministry and leadership that Judas threw away in order to go his own way." They then drew straws. Matthias won and was counted in with the eleven apostles.
Did Judas really have a choice?
The scriptures prophecised that someone would betray Jesus and contribute to Him being arrested. In order for scripture to be fulfilled this had to happen, and it did in the form of Judas.
Acts states that Judas chose to throw away his position of leadership and go his own way. But his own way was the way of fulfilling the scripture. So was it really HIS choice?
If Judas had not chosen, would someone else have done it, or was it Judas' destiny?
Even though the initial perspective is that Judas was in the wrong, what he did had to be done to lead to what Jesus had to do. So was what Judas did actually the right thing and righteous? and was it Judas' God chosen destiny?
If it was wrong, then was Judas destined to do wrong. Did he really have a choice?
If it was actually the right thing....
Does God call us to do things that we may perceive as bad or negative or wrong, but it retrospect is the right thing?
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