THE PURPOSE
Why did Jesus have to die? To put an end to the spiritual “Deep
State” which was about to destroy Him. Only a few leaders were there to crucify
the One Man who came to save the world, but in spirit all mankind was there.
Anyone who has sinned were accomplices to the death of God. When anyone denies
the Word from Scripture, they as well crucify Jesus.
Trust no one not to sin for “all have sinned” (Rom 3:23).
The penalty for sin is falling short of God’s Glory. That is the
inability of returning to Paradise and living forever in the Presence of God. Adam-kind
were generated in God’s Paradise. Regeneration is mankind’s return to Paradise
lost. Adam was cast out of the Garden into the tribulation of the world. The unregenerate
will be cast out into Hades. Paradise is the reward for God’s good and faithful
servants, and Hades, or Hell, is the wage for evil and rebellious Narcissists. “Who
is he?” you ask. Look at your reflection. If you love who you see more than
God, then you are Narcissus.
Imagine what Judas saw. He surely looked into his mind’s eye
and saw himself with beautiful things that money can buy, or perhaps prestige
in the eyes of those around him. The silver is not valuable in itself, but vain
people treasure what it will buy — they are lusts of the eyes, flesh, and pride
(1 John 2:16). Narcissus killed Jesus, and unless sinners have become new
creatures in Christ, they are all Narcissus and are “as God” in their own eyes.
(Gen 3:5).
The whistleblower, Judas, was chosen, “for I (Jesus) know
whom I have chosen” (John 13:8). Remembering that Satan was about to enter
Judas (John 3:27), it was Satan that God had chosen in the beginning. It
is worth discussing the nature and supra-nature of Lucifer for a moment.
His given name is “Lucifer,” his personalities are the Serpent, Judas, and the
Antichrist; his title is “Satan” and that is his purpose as well, and his ego
is the “Devil.” Satan was chosen. When
was that?
14 And the Lord God said unto the serpent, Because thou hast done this, thou art cursed above all cattle, and above every beast of the field; upon thy belly shalt thou go, and dust shalt thou eat all the days of thy life: 15 And I will put enmity between thee (Satan) and the woman (Eve), and between thy (Satan’s) seed and her seed (Eve’s); it (Eve’s seed) shall bruise thy (Satan’s) head, and thou (Satan) shalt bruise his (Her seed’s) heel. (Gen 3:14-15)
Of course, it was Satan in the Serpent. Judas is Satan’s “seed”
since Satan had entered him. As mother of all (Gen 3:20), Jesus is the
seed of Eve. In the beginning, Jesus knew that His Purpose was to crush the
Serpent; not really the Beast, but the spirit within it. The promise was that
Jesus would bruise His heel by stepping on the Devil, and that the head of the
Serpent Beast would bruise Jesus’s heel. That was the way it was to happen. [1]
However, Jesus said, “He that eats bread with Me has lifted up his heel against
Me.” Satan’s plan was to crush Jesus; that is why he would lift his heel
against Jesus. Fortunately for mankind, God’s Plan was for Jesus to lift His
heel against Satan, that was Jesus’s Purpose, and that is what His crucifixion would
do!
How so? “To die is gain,” as Paul said, when Christ is in
us. The Holy Ghost of Jesus IS Christ in His people. Jesus did not lose
by sacrificing Himself. He won the souls of all that would trust His Crucifixion
as efficacious for their own sins. Who died that day? Jesus? Jesus experienced
death. In his words, he was asleep, but all the while His Holy Ghost was busy. What
was happening while Jesus was in the tomb?
Satan’s “vessel” and vassal for that matter, had died
that day as well. Satan no longer had flesh. Much as the demons died when the
pigs ran over the cliff after leaving the man of the Gadarenes, with Judas gone
Mark 5, Luke 8), Satan was without flesh as Judas gave up the unholy ghost. The
Holy Ghost who had left Jesus (Mark 15:37), unseen to mankind, was battling in
the spiritual realm with the unholy ghost of Judas. [2]
Regeneration begins with spiritual rebirth (John 3:7), and
that entails looking at Satan dead on his pole: “And as Moses lifted up the
serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of man be lifted up” (John
3:14). It would appear that the serpent on the pole represented Jesus. However,
the Serpent represents Satan, not Jesus. What was Jesus’s Purpose? To defeat
Satan. It seems that the Hebrews who looked at the dead Serpent in his “tree”
(the pole) saw the Adamic Covenant fulfilled. Perhaps when Judas hung himself,
his limp dead body hanging from a tree limb was the brass Serpent dead on his pole.
With Jesus’s death on His “Tree” (Acts 5:30), it spiritually
“killed” Satan in his tree. The brazen Serpent surely represented Judas and with
him dead, Satan was defeated as Jesus’s Purpose was finished (John 19:30). Was
Jesus dead? Was that what Jesus said was finished? Surely not! Satan was as
well as dead and would be when Jesus comes to reign.
Jesus died so that Judas would. The flesh is weak, but the
spirit strong. Judas died easily, but Satan’s death as evil spirit would be
lengthy. Jesus chose his whistleblower. It was Judas who God selected way back
in the Garden of Eden. Judas fulfilled prophecy and represents mankind. Just as
Satan’s flesh would have to die, the flesh of all men must die as well. The old
creation must be made anew (2 Cor 5:17). Those who follow Jesus must pick up
their cross and follow Him to be worthy of regeneration (Mat 10:38). Judas
propitiated his own flesh to compensate for his gross sin of denying Jesus. That
was not effective. If he had only looked at that Tree and saw the Serpent
instead of himself, then perhaps he would have depended on Jesus on the other
tree instead.
Christians often see only one cross. One cross was intended
for Barabbas, “the son of the father” but he escaped death that day. The true “Son
of the Father” took his place. Of the other two crosses, one represents those
who look at Jesus on His Cross and see salvation but need not see Judas hanging
a distance away. They are those who knew Jesus’s death defeated Satan.
The third cross is seldom considered. It represents those
who will have their flesh regenerated, but their souls tormented. Those people
fail to see that Satan was defeated when Jesus gave up the Ghost. And most of
all, people fail to even look at the Judas Tree and what really happened there.
The identity of the whistleblower was not even noticeable
and to this day, no one notices that the whistleblower was evil and that he
suffered the consequences of his actions. Because Jesus lives, we shall be regenerated
as He was. Because Judas is dead, we can understand that Satan is defeated.
[1] My
book, The Skull of Adam, is about that premise. It is called both the
Edenic Covenant and the Adamic Covenant, but in reality, it is the Covenant of
Grace in that it would be fulfilled when Jesus came to fulfill the Law of
Grace.
[2] In
my book, I contended that Adam’s skull, representing sin, was beneath Calvary,
and that Jesus may have stepped on the very dust of Adam. If so, Adam’s
original sin was propitiated by Jesus’s blood of which the death of a living
animal was in Genesis 3. I believe the time interval of “five and one half days”
(5500 years) was from Adam’s original sin to his reprieve, and that in the
interim, the coat of skin that God gave kept him safe from Satan.
(picture credit: Adam Farnes Pininterest)
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