Books could be written on the events on the day that Jesus was crucified, but I kept this brief so that it could be read in one sitting... even all five parts.
Just as Antichrist, whoever it is that has Satan in him, will have a high position in politics and his false prophet, a high office in the church. It is important to know who, what, and why Jesus was crucified so that Christians understand that some wicked government and corrupt religious figure will work together to have the "Final Solution" for Christians just as Hitler did for Jewry.
So, on this Good Friday, good for us, consider this commentary in whole and see how politicians and religious figures have and will continue to persecute Christians.
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Resuming with the events of Good Friday, they were “good”
for all mankind except for Jesus Himself, in that He redeemed all mankind. Only
one week before, Jesus was celebrated as a king on Palm Sunday, but now palm fronds
were replaced with cat-o-nine-tails as they scourged the Creator:
1 Then Pilate therefore took Jesus, and scourged him. 2 And the soldiers platted a crown of thorns, and put it on his head, and they put on him a purple robe, 3 And said, Hail, King of the Jews! and they smote Him with their hands. (John 19:1-3)
God would go through with it this time! This time? Was there a time before?
Hundreds of years before, on Mount Moriah, the “Passion Play” had been acted out. It was not a “play” but much like a wedding rehearsal, for the soon to come “wedding” of Jesus, the Groom, with His “Bride,” the Church.
The Bible seems to be a “book of coincidences,” but the death of Jesus was preplanned to every jot and tittle. The prophets and psalmists revealed the “script” well in advance and God even had an “opening act” before the main “Passion Play,” and the lead roles were played by father Abraham and His only remaining son, Isaac (since Ishmael had been emancipated).
God had given Abraham specific instructions, to wit:
And He said, “Take now thy son, thine only son Isaac, whom thou lovest, and get thee into the land of Moriah; and offer him there for a burnt offering upon one of the mountains which I will tell thee of” (Gen 22:2)
But did not Abraham have two sons? Was Ishmael not still his son? There was a difference between Isaac and Ishmael; the latter was the son of Abram and Hagar, in sin. As such, Ishmael was “shapen in iniquity” just like David admitted that he was (Psalm 51:5). Ishmael was born, like Cain, of the Wicked One.
I have written before that Isaac was perhaps the son of God alone; that he was born of God in a barren womb, based mostly upon, “The Lord visited Sarah as He had said, and the Lord did unto Sarah as He had spoken. For Sarah conceived, and bare Abraham a son in his old age, at the set time of which God had spoken to him,” and ““Shall I hide from Abraham that thing which I do?” (Gen 22:2,17). [1]
Isaac was the Son of God, if that is true, and Abraham was about to sacrifice his son born of God; not that Isaac was Jesus, but that he was an imperfect sacrifice before the final sacrifice would be provided by God. Whereas Jesus was born in a clean virgin womb, Isaac was born in a defiled womb, so his sacrifice would be somewhat like an animal sacrifice, and imperfect.
Now back to Jesus. Many believe that Jesus was crucified on Mount Moriah, and on the same mountain that Isaac was to be sacrificed. From Gen 22:2 above, Abraham was to take Isaac to the “land of Moriah,” to some mountain in the place Moriah. Mount Moriah, in scripture is literally, the mountains of Moriah. [2]
Traditional sites of holy places were established by Helena, Constantine’s mother, years later. It makes sense that Isaac was presented to die in the mountains of Moriah, and that Jesus was crucified on one of the mountains of Moriah; perhaps the same mountain that may or may not be at traditional “Calvary.”
Now consider, Jesus who on whom the soldiers, “platted a crown of thorns.” Is it merely coincidence that the ram that God provided, a sheep, would have about its head thorns in a thicket, and that Jesus would also wear a crown of thorns? God plans with great details, but a ram would not do, being an adult sheep, but the Lamb of God, Jesus would suffice. At both times, God provided the sacrifice and each time it was innocent “sheep.”
After scourging Jesus and dressing him in royal apparel, they said, “’Hail, King of the Jews!’ and they smote Him with their hands.” Jesus never claimed to be king of the Jews and never sought royal garments. In fact, the “coats of skin” of a lamb, just as with Adam and Eve, made those who would put it on, “royal priests” (1 Pet 2:9). The color purple represents Lucifer in symbiology. They as well said, This king is Lucifer!
The crowd wanted Jesus to be a criminal to Roman Law — to be King of the Jews — without Caesar’s approval. If that was accepted as the narrative, then the Jews’ hands would be clean of shedding the blood of the innocent one, much in the same manner as Herod’s murder of the innocents was carried out after his death because of a false narrative.
Many deny the slaughter of the innocents because Herod never did that when he was king of the Jews. However, as it turned out, in death, he did murder the innocents, and in like manner, Herod, in death, but living in his seed, did finally slaughter the Most Innocent — Jesus. The spirit that was in Herod the Great, remained in Herod Antipas who was, like Cain, of the Wicked One!
As the prelate of Caesar, Pilate as well as declared Jesus, “King of the Jews,” when he said, “Take ye Him, and crucify Him: for I find no fault in Him” (John 19:6). With that said, the Roman prelate, in the absence of Caesar, found Jesus innocent of all charges; that He was not King of the Jews, but Lord God of all!
After Pilate vindicated Jesus, the Jews continued their charade: “Whosoever maketh himself a king speaketh against Caesar” (John 19:12). That is a true statement. Only Caesar could declare kings, but that applied only to his realm, called “Syria” at that time, but was inclusive of all the Kingdom of David.
However, Jesus did not make Himself king as accused, but was God, the Father, who willed that He be King, not of this world, but in another realm just as Jesus tried to explain (John 18:36). Caesar had no authority outside his empire, and heaven was certain out there!
Therein was also a lie as usual: Jesus never spoke against Caesar, instead declaring what was Caesar’s was Caesar’s. Jesus laid no claim to Syria in the Roman Empire but to Paradise in heaven. Caesar was not Zeus, so why would he care?
Finally in verse fourteen, Pilate made it clearer when he declared, “Behold your King!” Jesus was not a Roman’s king but their King on whom they had been awaiting ever since John Hyrcanus was priest and king of the Jews. As it turned out, within 300 years, Jesus would be Gentile King as well, since they too are the “whosoever” in John 3:16 as the sign implied in verse eleven.
When Jesus said, “It is finished,” and bowed his head, to give up the ghost, what was finished? All the previous Covenants, the “Ten Prescriptions” for Eternal Health, the complete covering of the fleshes of men by those who would “wear” the Holy Ghost, the redemption and resurrection of Adam as Jesus was raised from the dead, Satan himself, sin defeated, the defiled blood of all of Adam’s kind cleansed and made anew, and the glorification of Jesus (John 7:39). All things theretofore that were promised was finished, and the land of milk and honey (Paradise) was willed to all who would go in!
And let us not forget the Temple that was never the Will of God at all; no longer would the Presence of God be covered, but the curtain that concealed Him was torn (Mark 15:38) so that all could see that the Face of God is called, “Jesus.” The revealing of the supra-nature of God was finished.
Longinus finished the provenance. He was the centurion who pierced the side of Jesus to release the Virtue (dymamis) so abundantly that all can be healed. “And when the centurion, which stood over against Him, saw that He so cried out, and gave up the Ghost, he said, ‘Truly this man was the Son of God’” (Mark 15:39)
Longinus said it almost rightly. It should have been “is the Son of God” not “was” because although dead, that Man was very much still alive in Spirit, as He demonstrated when He saved Dismus that day, and withered the limb on which Judas hung, thereafter, to finish off Satan by delivering him and sin to Hell.
Longinus was persuaded that the man, Jesus, is the Son of God. What persuaded him of that? He saw that the Holy Ghost of that man was God Himself. Like Luke at the baptism of Jesus, perhaps Longinus saw the Ghost of Jesus in bodily shape! Just as the apostles had seen that Jesus and Yahweh are one at the Transfiguration, Longinus saw the same at the Glorification of Jesus (John 7:39)
Because all those who sought power over Jesus failed, those who see Jesus as God and who has the Power (Virtue) to heal broken spirits, then it is those who are royal priests and as such are remade in the image of God.
Those who seek power, such as the chief priests, the Herods, the Pharisees, and even Simon Magus; lose but those who are like Simon the Cyrene and carry the Cross of Jesus have the privilege of being servants to the King. That is what the priests were meant to be, but throughout the centuries, they became more like Lucifer.
Jesus paid it all with His own life, and now anyone can reap the wages that He paid. It is low fruit hanging from the Tree of Life that is in reach of all who will eat of it!
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