TRIUMPHANT
Despite the mob, Jesus was triumphant! The
aftermath was not as destructive as it had seemed. Jesus had been beaten beyond
recognition and He could not breath. Ironically, Adam, in the beginning had God’s
Spirit breathed into him, but Jesus’s last breath was God’s Holy Spirit exhumed
from His Son as He gave up the Holy Ghost.
Then Jesus could not breath. He said to
His Father, “Why have you forsaken me?” As well put was, Father, I cannot
breathe! With that, the Holy Ghost left Jesus but while Jesus slept in His
tomb, His Ghost had some work to do.
One thief had saw the injustice. Jesus’s
last words to mankind was, “Verily I say unto thee, ‘Today shalt thou be with
me in paradise’” (Luke 23:43). Jesus had not died, He was just “asleep” as he
referred to death. While His Flesh slept, His Ghost was busy. The first order
of business was to rid the world of sin.
The mob could not see it, but The Ghost
of Jesus first took all the sins if mankind and deposited them in Hell (Ephes
4:7-10). Jesus suffered death but He never went to Hell. That would have
been defeat. Jesus was triumphant, not defeated.
The mob could do nothing to His Ghost
for “it” was in another realm. Neither could Satan disturb Jesus for he was
left hanging in the Judas Tree.
Jesus emptied His “Cup” in Hell. It had
been emptied when He “gave up the Ghost” but imbued with the sins of all
mankind. Once over the bottomless pit, perhaps in the Holy of Holies beneath
the Foundation Stone, Jesus emptied His Cup into the Well of Souls where the
spirits of the dead, perhaps, will be heard on Judgment Day.
Jesus trumped Satan! Satan was left
hanging, and Jesus slept. While the Ghost of Jesus was defeating sin, the ghost
of Judas was swinging to and fro, waiting on some swine to pass by would be a
good guess. The Spirit of Jesus would Comfort mankind and the Devil would only search
for some other dark angel to lead the mob. Jesus had died, but His Doctrine was
very much alive.
Just as Adam and Eve had failed to understand
death, it appears that Satan did as well. He thinks Jesus died; he was
misled — Death is gain. Jesus, then, accompanied the soul of the thief who showed
kindness to Paradise that day. The thief, not breathing only hours
before, had the Spirit of God breathed unto him. I can’t breath became I
can breath freely because their was no impedance to God’s Holy Spirit. The
Devil no longer had a “choke-hold” on that sinful man.
Satan had smothered the man, but death
had removed the death angel’s hold on him. Jesus, by His death, had set the man
free from death. A thief before, Jesus freed the man from sin, and his soul was
regenerated. There was no waiting line! The apostles had come to Jesus
several years before, but by dying the man went to the front of the line. The
man’s “cup” was filled with the Spirit of God and living waters had quenched
his thirst. The last had been first just as Jesus had said.
Just as one man was safe from
the Devil on that day, anyone who longs for their “cup” to be filled with Jesus
is also safe from the evil one. Regeneration, just like generation,”
is when the dust has life breathed unto it. The process of regeneration is when
both the body and spirit are saved from the evil one. He that endure to the end
(of tribulation) shall be saved and that occasion is when Jesus appears in the
sky to snatch up the living and the dead.
Adam sinned. Jesus covered him and his
mate with a “coat of skin” for protection from the world and the Serpent.
Although “safe,” Adam would not be “saved” until the time came for his dead flesh
to be regenerated. The redemption of his soul and dust was on
Calvary as promised and written in Genesis 3:15. The Word told Adam, that he had “raised him
when he had fallen” and “Yea, the Word that will again save thee when five and
a half days be fulfilled.”
Adam thought that would be five and
one-half days to the end of the world, but “these were 5000 and 500 years; and how
One would come and then save him and his seed.” God had made His Covenant with Adam, “When he
was by the tree where Eve took the fruit and gave it to him to eat” (1 Adam
and Eve 3:2-7).
Jesus was triumphant when He was
resurrected and so will Adam and all who are born again. Adam and Eve received “bright
natures” and corresponding “bright eyes” (1 Adam and Eve 3). [1]
Their natures had changed. That is the characteristic of fallen people who have
been lifted-up by Jesus.
Just as Adam long before had fallen,
Jesus was knocked down. He had done no wrong as Adam had, but had corrected by
His death what Adam had caused by his own spiritual death (Rom 5:10).
Some of the women disciples came to the
tomb, surely to anoint the dead body of Jesus with some myrrh. They expected
to see a dead man lying still, but the angels told them they would witness
something different:
5 And the angel answered and said unto the women, “Fear not ye: for I know that ye seek Jesus, which was crucified. 6 He is not here: for he is risen, as he said. Come, see the place where the Lord lay. 7 And go quickly, and tell his disciples that he is risen from the dead; and, behold, he goeth before you into Galilee; there shall ye see him: lo, I have told you.” (Mat 28:5-7)
Jesus overcame death!
Satan had not and never will. The mob followed Satan and unless they repented,
will follow him to Hell where their sins await them. The thief followed Jesus
and that day he too was triumphant. Jesus defeated death for him so that
he needed not.
The thief is in
Paradise awaiting the great day for his “cup” to be restored to life when God
breathes His Spirit and makes him a living soul again. That is the great
day that he shall be saved, and regeneration is complete. He will be
just as before; not before he ever sinned, but before even Adam sinned.
Where was Judas and the
unrepentant thief that day? Satan took them to Hell when he tired of
hanging with Judas.
Who triumphed the day
the mob got violent? Jesus and the remnant who trusted Him; a few women and one
thief. Only a few ever knows what is going on in the spiritual world. The thief
knew and so did perhaps three or four women: two Marys, Salome, and Johanna.
There was a great and “serious crisis” that day, and only a few took it
seriously. Soon after, Jesus convinced all the apostles, and then he ascended triumphantly
into the heavens.
Not long after seeing
His Father, the Holy Ghost of Jesus came down when the disciples were of one
accord (Acts 2:1). The Ghost of Jesus is always here but reveals himself only
to those in unity with the Spirit of God. Mobs are never of God
but against God. The “spirit” that drives mobs is the unholy spirit of
Judas.
Back in the Garden, the
Word saw His female creature standing under the Judas Tree with the Serpent and
was jealous. Right there, surely in that same spot, the Serpent saw four women
standing under the “Jesus Tree of Life” and he was jealous. Jesus trumped
Judas, and foiled (bound) the Serpent of old!
Who lost? The mob! They
followed the wrong spirit. The mob was jealous, angry, violent, and hateful. Many
in the mob that murdered Jesus thought they were doing right. They were
protecting Yahweh. Ironically, they were protecting Yahweh by
destroying “Ya’s Son the Savior” (Yeshua).
Today, mobs are an
everyday event. It is their day of vengeance for perceived injustice. To
whom does vengeance belong? “Dearly beloved, avenge not yourselves, but rather
give place unto wrath: for it is written, ‘Vengeance is mine; I will repay,
saith the Lord’” (Rom 12:9).
When the mob of any era
seeks vengeance, they are pretend “gods” whose judgment is harsh. “Judge not;
condemn not” (Luke 6:37) and by the same metric that you judge God will judge
you (Mat 7:1-3). What should people do for their enemies?
21 If thine enemy be hungry, give him bread to eat; and if he be thirsty, give him water to drink: 22 For thou shalt heap coals of fire upon his head, and the Lord shall reward thee. (Prov 25:21-22)
When there are mobs,
they are unjust. Why do Christians protest peacefully if they even protest?
Because they are not mobs. Mobs hurt, destroy, and hate. The mobs today that
espouse “love” are intolerant haters. Each time there is violence on the
streets, it is as if crucifying Jesus all over again.
Who will prevail? That
has been revealed but only those with bright natures and bright eyes know the
outcome. The demon mob and its leader are cast down to Hell, and Jesus is
triumphant, as John saw it:
1 And I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth were passed away; and there was no more sea. 2 And I John saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband. 3 And I heard a great voice out of heaven saying, Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men, and he will dwell with them, and they shall be his people, and God himself shall be with them, and be their God. 4 And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away. 5 And he that sat upon the throne said, Behold, I make all things new. And he said unto me, “Write: for these words are true and faithful.” 6 And he said unto me, “It is done. I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end. I will give unto him that is athirst of the fountain of the water of life freely.” 7 He that overcometh shall inherit all things; and I will be his God, and he shall be my son. (Rev 21:1-7)
Socialism will not create
the “new Earth” (Utopia). God will! Mobs tear down great cities; God restores
them and makes them great again. Marx and his doctrine will be destroyed. Citizens
in Paradise will have the “common good” just as back in the Garden of Eden, but
for those who “thirst” after God, not Marx, He will provide a fountain of water
flowing freely. There will be milk and honey for all just as God promised
Moses.
No one will need to
sacrifice for the needs of others, but God will provide all they need and
desire. What changes? Their desires? No longer will citizens of the Garden want
fruits that do not belong to them, but God Himself will freely provide just as He
did before Satan deceived.
Rather than mobs taking
what is not theirs, he that overcomes the world and its false philosophies and
hatred, “shall inherit all things.” The belligerent mob will not control the
Earth, but the meek shall inherit it!
The mob thought they
had a dead pretender to the throne when Jesus died. Little did they know that
the true pretender was dead on a nearby tree. God remained King and still is.
There was no sign over Judas’s head, and he was buried as a pauper. Jesus overcame
death and the grave! Who won during the time of the greatest and most “serious crisis”
ever told? Jesus sits on the Throne even today, and He is triumphant over death!
He is the “Omega.”
Never follow the mob.
Their destination is perdition. There is one Way for eternal “well-being” and
the Greatest Commandment is the “prescription” — Love conquers all! (1 Cor 13).
Love is not being as a
child. What do children do? They terrorize until their demands are met. Christianity
addresses that childish attitude with, “When
I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a
child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things” (1 Cor 13:11).
Children may triumph
over parents and often do. Parents may trump each other’s authority. However, the
mob will never trump God nor triumph over Him!
[1]
The books of Adam and Eve are canon in the eastern church.
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