Post by foxjj on Apr 1, 2021 7:53:30 GMT
Behold Your King
As the prisoner was brought forward with a scarlet robe around his shoulders, the Roman Procurator mockingly proclaimed to the gathered crowd: “Behold your king.” Upon the prisoners head a platted crowd of thorns, while his body was deeply scared from the scourging from which blood could be seen slowly trickling down his legs. Without compassion the crowd cried out: “Away with him, crucify him.” Having found no reason to execute the prisoner, Pilate sought to release him, but the angry crowed responded: “If you release this man, you are not Caesar's friend. Everyone who makes himself a king opposes Caesar.” The response left Pilate little choice but to condemn.
Escorted by soldiers, the prisoner was joined by two other condemned men on the slow and agonizing walk through the streets of Jerusalem, carrying upon their shoulders the cross beams to which they will soon be cruelty fastened. The soldiers walk them through the city streets where they endured the humiliating starers and sometimes jeers of the crowd gathered for the feast of Passover. Their Roman guards lead them through the city gates and on to the the place of execution - a hill known as Golgotha. There, stripped of their dignity, they are hauled up upon their crosses to endure their agonizing death in the presence of the onlookers, including family.
The Procurator had an inscription affixed to the Nazarene’s cross written in Hebrew, Latin and Greek, reading: “Jesus of Nazareth King of the Jews.” This inscription could be read by all who passed this place of execution, be they Jewish who understood and spoke Hebrew, or be they Gentiles who would speak Latin or Greek, which were the languages of the empire. Thus, the crucifixion of Jesus was first proclaimed by a Roman official for all to read. When the religious leaders complained to Pilot concerning the wording, his response was a curt: “What I have written, I have written.” Our God had used a Gentile to be the first to write the message of Messiah’s Sacrificial Death, in spite of the religious leaders rejection of God’s Anointed.
The cruel death of Jesus as God’s Redeemer was foretold by the prophet Isaiah when he wrote:
“But he was wounded for our transgressions,
he was bruised for our iniquities:
the chastisement of our peace was upon him;
and with his stripes we are healed.
All we like sheep have gone astray;
we have turned every one to his own way;
and the LORD hath laid on him the iniquity of us all.” (Isaiah 53:5-6)
Notwithstanding, Psalms 16:10 proclaims the resurrection of The Anointed One:
“For You will not leave my soul in Sheol,
Nor will You allow Your Holy One to see corruption.”
The cost of Redemption for sin was the Blood of Jesus as God’s Anointed, sacrificed on behalf of humanity as expressed in 1 John 4:9-10:
“This is how God showed his love among us: He sent his one and only Son into the world that we might live through him. This is love: not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins.”
Have you accepted this manifestation of God’s Love through the Atoning death of His Son, making Him your Redeemer and King?
Today, let us give praise to The Lord for His Redemptive Sacrifice.
John Joseph Fox.
As the prisoner was brought forward with a scarlet robe around his shoulders, the Roman Procurator mockingly proclaimed to the gathered crowd: “Behold your king.” Upon the prisoners head a platted crowd of thorns, while his body was deeply scared from the scourging from which blood could be seen slowly trickling down his legs. Without compassion the crowd cried out: “Away with him, crucify him.” Having found no reason to execute the prisoner, Pilate sought to release him, but the angry crowed responded: “If you release this man, you are not Caesar's friend. Everyone who makes himself a king opposes Caesar.” The response left Pilate little choice but to condemn.
Escorted by soldiers, the prisoner was joined by two other condemned men on the slow and agonizing walk through the streets of Jerusalem, carrying upon their shoulders the cross beams to which they will soon be cruelty fastened. The soldiers walk them through the city streets where they endured the humiliating starers and sometimes jeers of the crowd gathered for the feast of Passover. Their Roman guards lead them through the city gates and on to the the place of execution - a hill known as Golgotha. There, stripped of their dignity, they are hauled up upon their crosses to endure their agonizing death in the presence of the onlookers, including family.
The Procurator had an inscription affixed to the Nazarene’s cross written in Hebrew, Latin and Greek, reading: “Jesus of Nazareth King of the Jews.” This inscription could be read by all who passed this place of execution, be they Jewish who understood and spoke Hebrew, or be they Gentiles who would speak Latin or Greek, which were the languages of the empire. Thus, the crucifixion of Jesus was first proclaimed by a Roman official for all to read. When the religious leaders complained to Pilot concerning the wording, his response was a curt: “What I have written, I have written.” Our God had used a Gentile to be the first to write the message of Messiah’s Sacrificial Death, in spite of the religious leaders rejection of God’s Anointed.
The cruel death of Jesus as God’s Redeemer was foretold by the prophet Isaiah when he wrote:
“But he was wounded for our transgressions,
he was bruised for our iniquities:
the chastisement of our peace was upon him;
and with his stripes we are healed.
All we like sheep have gone astray;
we have turned every one to his own way;
and the LORD hath laid on him the iniquity of us all.” (Isaiah 53:5-6)
Notwithstanding, Psalms 16:10 proclaims the resurrection of The Anointed One:
“For You will not leave my soul in Sheol,
Nor will You allow Your Holy One to see corruption.”
The cost of Redemption for sin was the Blood of Jesus as God’s Anointed, sacrificed on behalf of humanity as expressed in 1 John 4:9-10:
“This is how God showed his love among us: He sent his one and only Son into the world that we might live through him. This is love: not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins.”
Have you accepted this manifestation of God’s Love through the Atoning death of His Son, making Him your Redeemer and King?
Today, let us give praise to The Lord for His Redemptive Sacrifice.
John Joseph Fox.