Why would a Creator, whose Logic, Ingenuity, Cunning and Creativity know no bounds, create the seemingly foolishness of the Cross? Ready for an adventure?
We could start with Elohim, but we will start with Logos. It is where we get the word Logic. Logos in Academics, would be called The Science of Context-Seemless. Perfect. Nothing lacking. Nothing wasted. Nothing out of place. How would you test that? Personify it and create an opponent to cross-examine it. A Drama unfolds. Unfolding means the unveiling of a script. A script in the form of a matrix, where freewill and predetermined are perfectly integrated, neither imposing on the other.
A very awesome Cherub issued the challenge-God's Word and God's Law were not seemless. God said He placed His Word above His Name and allowed the Drama to unfold. Every nook and cranny would be tested for seemlessness. Freewill and Predestination would be put on trial, time and time again.
God gave Adam, Dominion over the earth and empowered him to subdue it. When Adam chose Lucifer, it put a new head over the human race and Adam's inheritence and empowerment went to Satan and Satan's inheritence went to Adam and a contaminated blood line. God told Satan, in the garden, that Jesus was coming. Joseph's story was a foretelling, it parallels the path. It would be paralleled time and time again. The arrival would change the course of time and the unfolding would be the single greatest drama in the adventures of angels.
When Satan showed Jesus all the kingdoms of the earth, through time and offered them to Him in exchange for acknowledgement, he said, "For they were delivered unto me, to give to whomsoever I will." It was a legal transaction. Binding... and only he could give them away.
The Cross as bad as it was, is not the depth of the story. "For it is appointed for man to die once and after that, the judgement. When Jesus became a man, he had to follow man's course under the Law. "Cursed is every man, who hangs on a tree." The Word under the Law and under the sign of a curse.
The strong bulls of Bashan of Psalms 22, were demon princes frolicking and nipping at each other, as they led Jesus away. They did it. They stopped Messiah and He was going to Sheol/Hades-their turf. It was legal and nothing could stop it. The angels stood afar off, watching and helpless to intervene.
Jesus went to Hell. Not the good place-Abraham's Bosom, He went to the pit. Not gehenna-The Lake of Fire, it has not been lit. He went to Hades-The pit of despair, where one is held by the chords that bind them from the condition within. Jesus was held by my chords...and yours.
But something happened. The High Court convened and He was called before it. Notice a trial never unfolds. It couldn't, The High Court had no Jurisdiction over Him. He was not in Adam's blood line and there was no sin seed in His blood. They couldn't try Him, but they had to have closure. They had to raise Him unto Life or raise Him unto Death. The High Court had to render a verdict.
The only choice they had was to bring forth Case Law-Law established in a matter to fulfill the meaning, purpose and consistency of set of laws that determine decisions and outcomes, irregardless of the accused. The curse pertained to the depth of pit, not the outcome of the High Court. One has to be raised in the condition, he was found.
The High Court's only choice was to create a New Blood Line, not under their Jurisdiction and raise Him into it, making Him, the Head of it and the first born into it. It wasn't option A, B or C. There was nothing else, they could do. The title deed and empowerment had been given to man, not angels, but before, there was no one else to claim inheritence.The High Court rendered the transfer of ownership in the Resurrection to bring closure to an open docket. The Perfect Word under the Perfect Law. Seemless.
How do we know that? Because the only way out of Sheol/Hades is through the High Court, just like the only way out of jail is through the court. The Stone that was rolled away was the physical represention of Jesus' cell in Sheol. No reason to lock an empty cell. The High Court had convened.
Satan's greatest victory was his greatest defeat and it was by his own hand. Jesus was in check, every play of the match- from the garden to the pit, until the final move made and the board lit up... Checkmate. A chessmaster playing The Chessmaster.
Man now has a choice and freely choosing the New Birth in the New Blood Line, takes him out from under the High Court's Jurisdiction of The Law of Sin and Death. That is the Victory of Cross-The Resurrection. Jesus will be Messiah of Isreal, but first, He became Savior of man. I am so glad. I am the most flawed creature on the planet, but I am not under jurisdiction of the High Court. [But I do spend lots of quality time in God's Woodshed... :-))) ]
Have a great day!
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