When they take the Son of God and put Him to death, why is that considered good?
Because when He died that horrific tortured death on Calvary, He took the punishment due us for our rebellion against God.
It was good for us. Was it good for Him?
When He arose from the dead on Easter, He proved that what He said was true. He had been predicting these moments to His followers for a couple years and they did not believe Him.
Until He did it.
The Bible says, "… who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God." (Heb 2:2).
So if Jesus came down from Glory, endured the cross, and went back to Glory, what was His net gain?
Us.
We were the joy set before Him.
It was good for us. Was it good for Him?
When He arose from the dead on Easter, He proved that what He said was true. He had been predicting these moments to His followers for a couple years and they did not believe Him.
Until He did it.
The Bible says, "… who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God." (Heb 2:2).
So if Jesus came down from Glory, endured the cross, and went back to Glory, what was His net gain?
Us.
We were the joy set before Him.
We are the bride He travelled to a far land to obtain (like Jacob did, among other examples).
Granted we're not the finished product, yet, but if we cooperate with His plan, He sees something in us He wants to spend eternity with.
I'm good with that. That's good.
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 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 accursed (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.
If the Father looked away from His Son in His greatest trial. how could you be sure He would stay with you in yours?
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 of Psalm 22.
This is called a "Remez". It's a teaching tool Jesus had used for 3 years.
When they hear this verse, they remember the rest of the Psalm.
The Pharisees had asked Jesus for a sign.
He said that they would have it when the Son of Man was lifted up.
(Remember that joke, "Here's your sign."?)
Can you imagine the look on their face when they get it?
This death on this cross by this man was predicted hundreds of years ago.
Here was their sign.
The ramifications are huge.
Do you get it?
These people did:
https://stream.org/did-god-abandon-jesus-on-the-cross/
With the nation still reeling from an outbreak of violent incidents in the wake of the U.S. military strikes against Iran, the media clarified that there was no known motive yet in the attack on a Jewish Synagogue by a radical Muslim.
ReplyDeleteThough an outspoken Islamic extremist who originated from the Middle East and had expressed support for ISIS and loaded his car with explosives and rammed it directly into a synagogue and daycare facility, journalists explained that there simply wasn't any way to know at this point why he committed such an act.
"We may never know," said one reporter. "These acts of violence are often so random and take place without any discernible motive behind them, so the reason why this Muslim man seemed to intentionally target a place where Jewish people congregate. It is, by all accounts, just a completely random tragedy."
Other journalists speculated that the incident may have resulted from something completely unrelated to the fact that the attacker was a radical Muslim and the victims were Jewish people. "It's difficult to settle on any one correlation," another reporter said. "We'll do our best to connect the dots, but quite frankly, this one is likely to remain a mystery."
One of Mohammad's last instructions, many years go, was (to paraphrase) 'Fight all of the Humans until the whole word has converted to Islam'.
The Left Wing Media is always dishonest.
The Media doesn't want to offend the genocidal Goat Humping wing of the Democrat Party's coalition of Hate.