Friday, March 29, 2013

Annual Good Friday Post


I posted this a couple years ago. Updated.
I want to share a cool thing with you.
If you're not a Christian, please read anyway, because it never hurts to have a little information about what those whackos around you believe.

A few people know that Psalm 22 is a description of the crucifixion of Jesus that was written hundreds of years before the event.
David saw it in a vision and it shakes him up so much that he starts out with:

My God, My God, why have You forsaken Me?
Many Christians have been taught that, as He was crucified, Jesus was crying this out out to His Father in heaven, because the Father could not bear to look on Jesus, our scapegoat.
That He was separated from the Father.
That Jesus was a curse (and the Father could not be in fellowship with Jesus because it would violate His holiness) because Jesus was carrying the penalty of the sins of the world.

Give me a break.
<< 1 Corinthians 12:3 >> Wherefore I give you to understand, that no man speaking by the Spirit of God calleth Jesus accursed.
Jesus and the Father had this worked out since before the universe was created, and at the last minute The All-Powerful Ruler of More than the Universe flinches?
No.
If the Father and the Son (who with the Spirit are referred to as the "Godhead" in perfect unity) ever separated, I believe the universe would crumble.
As you read the gospels, particularly John's, you see that the Pharisees (some of them, like Nicodemus and Joseph of Arimathea, were good guys, by the way) were asking Jesus for a sign that he was the Messiah. He continually answered them that when they saw Him lifted up, that would be their sign.

Here He is, lifted up in front of them. He's surrounded by "strong bulls" (prison slang for guards), and the crowd is taunting Him. It's the scene predicted in Psalm 22 .
Then He quotes the first verse.
And they know the rest.
Can you imagine the look on their face when they get it?
Do you get it?

4 comments:

  1. I absolutely agree with you...why would Jesus think God was forsaking him when it was all planned?? As a matter of fact, sometimes I think "did Judas really go to hell if he was used in this plan and complied and made it perfect in its completeness!?" :-) Weird, I know, but...

    yes, the pharisees must have got the message! "Hey, that's exactly what was foretold in David's songs!"
    Very cool, Ed..........very wonderful stuff.
    Thanks for the reminder!
    Happy Easter,

    z

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  2. Here He is, lifted up in front of them. He's surrounded by "strong bulls" (prison slang for guards), and the crowd is taunting Him. It's the scene predicted in Psalm 22 .
    Then He quotes the first verse.
    And they know the rest.
    Can you imagine the look on their face when they get it?


    They did get it, I think. But they continued to try to destroy the messengers of Jesus. They refused the truth -- and the Truth.

    An excellent post for Good Friday, Ed. Thank you!

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  3. Thanks, friends.
    I just got back from dinner with some friends about 40 miles from here and at the restaurant was one of my friend's pastor and his wife. my friend had told me a couple years ago that she had mentioned the contents of this post to her pastor and that he felt the same way. I asked him today if he still felt that way and he said that the Greek convinced him even more so.
    He explained to me why, but it was all Greek to me.

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  4. Thanks Ed. I've never seen that before - excellent stuff!

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