Incarnation to Resurrection
Incarnation to Resurrection roughly three and one-half
years, in 12 weeks, Sunday through Friday (six days) per week
Day Eighty-one (b) of Eighty-four:
On this day* (tradition says it was a
Friday, we call that “Good Friday”*), between the sixth and ninth hours (the
hours of 12:00 o’clock noon and 3:00 o’clock pm) some c.~ One Thousand Nine
Hundred Ninety-one (+/- six) years ago, the LORD Jesus the Christ / Yeshua Ha
Mashiach (Rabbi Yeshua bar Yosef) while hanging on that cross, barely able to
even breathe any longer, the whole earth was dark. We read yesterday of a man, one whom some
traditional churches have names Dismas, was told by Jesus that - “Today you will be with Me in paradise”.
- Luke 23:43
Around the midafternoon
Jesus cried out, from the depths of His being, loudly - “Eli, Eli, lama
sabachthani?” which means, “My God, my God, why have you abandoned (or
forsaken) me?” Jesus said this in
fulfillment of Psalm 22:1, because, as we
read in Galatians 3:13, He (Christ) - “…redeemed us from
the curse of the law, being made a curse for us…”. Did you catch that? Jesus literally became a curse for us. See also II Corinthians 5:21, where we read - “G-d
made Him who had no sin to be sin for us, so that in Him we might become the righteousness of G-d.” Again, Did You catch that? Jesus, who had no sin, was made to be sin for
us, so that in Him, we might become
the righteousness of God! Wow… that’s
amazing grace.
You see, in spite
of Jesus having done not even one lone thing, ever, to even slightly hinder,
let alone remove, the favor of G-d the Father in His life (He was, after all, G-d’s
own Son - Holy, harmless, undefiled, and obedient, blameless in every way, indeed
G-d still loved Him and He’d done absolutely NOTHING wrong), our Father G-d,
and Heaven, is Holy. In those fleeting moments,
as the Lord Jesus expressed His
feelings of total abandonment, because G-d placed all of the sins of the entire
world squarely on His Son’s shoulders.
The world’s evil men were allowed to do whatever they wanted to Jesus, thus
Jesus, for a time, felt the despair and aguish of having absolutely NO conscious
awareness of His Father’s presence. This
may still seem rather abstract, but remember two things: A) - “G-d’s ways are not
our ways” - Isaiah 55:8, and B) - “We know, right
now, only in part. One day, we will see
(understand) fully.” - I Corinthians 13:12
Moments later,
approaching the 6th hour (3:00 o’clock pm), Jesus cried out boldly in
a loud voice, and then He gave up His ghost. At that very moment The Temple veil was torn
in two, from top to bottom, there were earthquakes (like none had seen before,
or since) and tombs, containing the bodies of many holy people (saints of G-d) who
had died in the past, were broken open.
The saints of old, who were raised to life, all exited their tombs, after
Jesus’ resurrection, and were seen by many people, as the resurrected ventured
out into the city. It must have been mayhem.
Those at the scene, even the very soldiers who nailed the hands and feet of
Jesus cried out - “Surely he was the Son of God!”
Upon finding Jesus
already dead, instead of breaking His legs (as was the custom of the day), the
soldiers charged with Jesus’ execution pierced Jesus’
side with a spear, bringing a strong flow of blood and water. This was done both as a fulfilment of Exodus
12:46, Numbers 9:12 & Psalm 34:20 - “…not one of His
will be broken…”, and also of Zechariah 12:10 which says - “They will look on
me, the one they have pierced, and they will mourn…”. And with that, we are brought up about the
sixth hour (3:00o’clock pm), Jesus has died, the Disciples are in shock, and His
followers NEED to get His body off the cross, and properly buried within the
next three hours. - Matthew 27:45 - 56, Mark 15:33 - 41, Luke 23:44 - 49
and John 19:28 - 37
And that right
there ^ ^ ^ that, my friends, is… from
a purely human perspective, perhaps the second darkest hour, to date, in human
history!
We’ll leave reading the rest of the text for you individually.
I’ve taken the liberty of assembling a weekly chart of daily readings to cover the chronology
Week 12
Matthew 26:47–28:20; Mark 14:43–16:20;
Luke 22:47–24:53; John 18:1–21:25
Day 1 Matthew 26:47 - 68 Mark 14:43 - 52 Luke 22:47 - 71 John 18:1 -
24
Day 2 Matthew 26:69 - 27:14 Mark 14:53 - 72 Luke 23:1 - 25 John 18:25 - 40
Day 3 Matthew 27:15 - 31 Mark 15:1 - 20 Luke 23:26 - 43 John 19:1 -
27
Day
4 Matthew 27:32 - 66 Mark 15:21 - 47
Luke 23:44 - 55 John 19:28 - 42
Day 5 Mark
16:1 Luke 23:56
Day 6 Matthew 28 Mark 16:2 - 20
Luke 24 John 20
Shalom!
“No Jesus, NO peace” and yet, “Know Jesus, KNOW peace”
How does one get to “know” Jesus? Simple, invite Him into your heart, as Jesus
says: “Here I am! I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears my voice and
opens the door, I will come in and eat with him, and he with me.” [Revelation 3:20 NIV]
How can be assured that this Jesus stuff means anything? Well because the Bible tells us so, as the
Apostle Paul wrote:
“If you declare with your mouth, “Jesus is
Lord,” and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be
saved. 10 For it is with your heart that you believe and are justified, and it
is with your mouth that you profess your faith and are saved.” [Romans 10:9-10 NIV]
And for those of you who say to me, I
can’t be bothered reading the Bible, “it’s confusing” or “it’s a waste of my
time”, may I draw your attention to what the Bible says about wisdom: “The fear
of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom, and knowledge of the Holy One is
understanding.” [Proverbs 9:10 NIV]
If nothing else, PLEASE read two chapters
from the Bible – (don’t own one, sorry NO excuse, if you’re reading this, you
can access this: http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=John%203:16&version=NIV) John 3 and John
14!
John 3:16 says: “For God so loved the
world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not
perish but have eternal life.”
And John 14:6 says: “Jesus answered, “I am
the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through
me.”
Well that’s it, that’s Da Bauz’s Take on, “Incarnation
to Resurrection, Day Eighty-one of Eighty-four” – this 28th day of March
2018 © 2018, All Rights Reserved. wr (Da Bauz, Christian Zionist “creationist”
too!)
Pray for the peace
of Jerusalem...
What is #RAD? #RAD
is:
R epent of
rejecting Christ
A ccept Christ as
your Lord
D evelop your
relationship with G-d
#RAD your
relationship with the Living Almighty God Himself as your personal Lord and
Saviour depends on it!
What is #ATEND G-d
(Christ)? Ask me!
What is #IIC714?
II 2nd
C hronicles
7:14
John 3:16,
Revelation 3:20, Romans 10:9 -10, Revelation 21:27, II Corinthians 5:21 and I
John 5:13 / John 20:31!
Shalom
* A good friend’s
(Pastor Tim Thomas of “The Shift Downtown) Pastor and Mentor, Mr. Bob (Preacher
Bob) Nash, has said that -
“Jesus was likely born as early as 7 BC, crucified on a Wednesday, and died in
A.D. 33”. Though Preacher Bob, and I may not 100% agree on the 7 BC through A.D. 33
points, four points on this subject we do agree on are:
i) - Jesus was born…
i) - Jesus was born…
ii) - Jesus was
arrested, was beaten, was crucified and did die,
iii) - Jesus is
Resurrected, and
iv) - Jesus has
promised to once again return to, and for, His people
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