THE MESSAGE OF THE CROSS IS FOOLISHNESS TO THOSE WHO ARE PERISHING- FULL VERSION
THE MESSAGE OF THE CROSS IS FOOLISHNESS TO THOSE THAT ARE PERISHING
BY
Bro
Adesiyan Temitope
The true revelation of the cross with Bible and Quran verses
DEDICATION
This book is dedicated to the Almighty God the foundation of
the whole universe.
ACKNOWLEDGMENT
I want to acknowledge my darling wife for her support in this
ministry and my family.
CONTENTS
Chapter 1
The way people worshipped God before the death of Christ
Chapter 2
Types of sacrifices offered to God in Old Testament
Chapter 3
Reasons why there is no more need to sacrifice any animal for
remission of sins.
Chapter 4
Testimonies of Angel about the purity and Jesus relationship
with God
Chapter 5
Jesus as the sacrifice
used for remission of sins; scriptural evidences.
Chapter 6
The body of Jesus Christ and His blood.
INTRODUCTION
The way of the Lord may look foolish to an ordinary man
because they are spiritually discerned. Some people even ask why must there be
crucifixion of Jesus Christ before there is remission of sins for mankind. Some
argued If God loves why will he allow His son to die? Some religion believes
that He was not killed by the Jews but God replaced Him by another person that
resembles him and that one was killed. We have heard various human believes and
selfish alteration of the truth by many scholars in order to distract the
attention of people from heavenly race.
If in your
religion you can pray and ask God for the forgiveness of sin everyday without
the need to offer any sacrifice of pure animals, I think it is better you find
out yourself how people of faith in the beginning of the world used to pray and
worship God and trace it from one prophet to another. God in His power do send
prophet at one point and another to guide His people in His ways and we have
many of them in the scriptures.
If you also
believe that human being originated from Adam and Eve, this book is a must to
read. And if so, I will like you to follow this book systematically and see how
people used to worship and communicate to God before the death of Christ. I
must tell you; before you can understand the things of God you must be
spiritually inclined because God is spirit not man and His ways are always
stupid to spiritually blind fellow. How can you convince myopic scientists who
say men originated form apes just by studying bones of animals? “I tell you
they are limited by their knowledge”.
Inspiration
to write this book came as a result of various discussions I had with non
Christians and their understanding about the true words of God. I found out
that they have shallow understanding of the His words. Devil has been trying to
deceive people since the beginning of the world and up till now he is still
denying people of the truth. Any time God gave His children the truth, he will
always come around to manipulate things.
Likewise,
some people who claim Adam and Abraham in their lineage also based on selfish
misinterpretations of the words of God do pass wrong teachings to their
children. Before you to know the truth, you must search the scriptures by
yourself. I have heard a lot of selfish preachers saying the bible is not a
true word of God. If it is so, why did Quran recognize bible and referred its
readers to the truth in it. If you think I am lying, let us search the
scriptures and the few verses in Quran together.
1 Corinthian
2:14 says a canal man receives not the things of the spirit of God; for they are foolishness unto
him; neither can he know for they are spiritually
discerned. In
other words, the way of the cross is foolishness to a canal man because he
understands not the things of the Lord. He is full of his own wisdom and he is
myopic.
Let us discuss the relationship between God and Men in the
beginning and see how God has been talking and guiding His people.
CHAPTER 1
THE WAY PEOPLE WORSHIPPED GOD
BEFORE THE DEATH OF CHRIST
The mistake people make is to look at God has been canal. God
is spirit and those who worship Him must worship in spirit and truth (john4:24)
In the early part of the ministry of Jesus Christ in John 4,
He met a Samaritan woman at a well in Samaria. Jesus cleared the doubt and
believes about where to worship God. To the Samaritan, it was on the Mountain
in Samaria, to the Jews, you must go down to Jerusalem before you can worship
God.
John
4:21, Jesus said believe me the hour is coming when you will neither on this mountain, nor in Jerusalem
worship the Father and in
verse 23 But
the hour is coming, and now is, when the true worshipers will worship the father in spirit and in
truth; for the Father is seeking such to worship
Him and anyone who warship Him must do so in spirit and in truth.
This does not dispute the fact that God was not receiving
their worship but with human knowledge, the Jews believed before you can
worship God you must come to Jerusalem and likewise the Samaritan, you must worship
God on the mountain where Jacob dug well. The question is was God restricted to
one place?
The Blood of Animals
was Used to Atone for Sin. Before there will be forgiveness of sins, there must
be shedding of blood before the death of Christ. Firstly let us discuss the
composition of man: Body, spirit and soul. In the body, there is blood which is
defined as the living tissue that flows round the entire body. That is why if
someone is short of blood doctor will transfuse him. This tells us there is life
in the blood.
Leviticus
17:11. For the life of the flesh is in the blood, and I have given it to you upon the alter to make
atonement for your souls: For it is the blood that
makes atonement for the soul.
This scripture was taken from the third book of Moses. We can
now see that the life of animal is in blood and God has given it for us to make
atonement for sins. Therefore, if there must be forgiveness of sin, God
commanded His children that there must be shedding of animal’s blood on the alter
prepared for God.
The blood of man can
cry to God. Another
thing we must also know about blood is that it can cry to God. Remember that
God is spirit, He created man and He knows the reason why He put life in blood.
In Gen 4: 1-10, we will see account of the Abel who offered
burnt offerings from his best animals to God and his offerings was accepted.
And we can also see account of what happened when Cain killed Abel his blood
brother like the way many people have killed theirs today: How many innocent
blood have you shed? Their blood is also crying for vengeance that is why the
end of people that shed innocent blood is always bad like Cain. What we see
nowadays is disheartening, when people
kill other human beings in the name God: They are blinded by devil through
wrong teachings and they have their part in the lake of fire if they fail to
repent.
In verse 10:
God said something; what has thou done? The voice of your brother’s blood cried unto me
from the ground. God told Cain that his brother’s blood cried to God.
He didn’t say his soul, bone, or flesh. “He said blood”.
In Gen 8:20-21, Noah made an alter and sacrificed animals as
burnt offerings after the flood and it was recorded that a good savour
went to God and God decided that He will
not use flood to destroy the world again.
Then during the time of Abraham in Gen 19:1-19 God told
Abraham to sacrifice his only son Isaac and as he was preparing to slaughter
him on the Alter God stopped him and gave him a ram instead. And in Gen 46:1 we
can see how Israel made sacrifice to the God of his father Jacob.
We can see from the above scriptural references that earliest
men of faith Abel, Noah, Abraham, and Isaac made sacrifices to God by
slaughtering animals on the Alter before their sins can be forgiven or they can
worship God.
CHAPTER
2
TYPES OF SACRIFICES
OFFERED TO GOD IN OLD TESTAMENT
There were many sacrifices offered to God in Old Testament
according to the instructions of God. Some
of them include the followings:
a. Thanksgiving Offerings. Is
given to God to appreciate God and we can see example in the case of Noah who
slaughtered best animals immediately after the flood to appreciate God.
b. Sacrifice for Remission of Sins. For God to cleanse the Israelites
of their sins, an animal must be slaughtered on the Alter and the blood is
sprinkled on their body. The book of Leviticus 4 explains how God commanded His
people the way to offer sacrifices for different types of sin whether
intentionally or unintentionally.
Leviticus 4
1. Now
the lord spoke to Moses saying, speak to the children of Israel saying if a person sins
unintentionally against any of the commandments of the Lord in anything which ought not to be done, and does any
of them
3. If the anointed priest sins, bringing guilt
on the people, then let Him offer
to the Lord for His sin which he has
sinned, a young bull without blemish
as a sin offerings.
4. He shall bring the bull to the door of the
tabernacle of meeting before the
Lord, lay hand on the bull’s head, and kill the bull before the Lord.
5. Then the anointed priest shall take some of
the bull’s blood and bring it to the tabernacle of meeting.
6. The priest shall dip his finger in the blood
and sprinkle some of the blood
seven times before the Lord in front of the veil of the sanctuary.
In Leviticus 9, we can also see account of Aaron that stood
in the gap between the children of Israel and God and made all manners of
sacrifices: burnt offering, peace offerings and offerings for remission of sin.
Leviticus 9:7. And Moses said to Aaron, Go to
the altar, offer your sin offering
and burnt offerings and make atonement for yourself and for the people, Offer offering of the people
and make atonement for them, as the Lord
commanded.
Therefore, there was no direct communication between people
and God they must go through the priest which has to atone himself first before
making atonement for his people because if he failed to do that and enter God’s
presence with sin he will be devoured. All these things are no more as a result
of the circumstances around the death of Christ as we will see in this
discussion.
Other form of offerings
include burnt offerings, fellowship and peace
offerings. This
law of alter was given to Moses by God in Exodus 20:24-26. God gave the Israelite
the description of the alter and what should be burnt on it.
God
said an alter of earth you shall make for me and you shall sacrifice on it your burnt offerings, peace
offerings, your sheep and your oxen. In every
place where I record my name I will come to you and I will bless you.
This tell us before God will come down to bless and
Fellowship with His people, there must be a registered place where burnt
offerings must be made on an alter. An interesting thing about
sacrifice is that it must be made from precious and non blemish substances.
With all these evidences we are now better informed that God
really demanded sacrifices from His people in Old Testament. This tells us that
there is something special about the blood and sacrifices offered to God.
God also commanded that burnt offerings must be continually
made every morning and evening before the Lord
Exodus
29:38 Now this is what you shall offer on the alter: Two lambs, of first year, day by day continually.
Numbers 28;9 on the Sabbath day two lambs in
their first year, without blemish, and
two-tenth of an ephan of fine flour as a grain offering, mixed with oil, with its drink offering.
first day of month, two bullocks, one ram and
seven labs.
10. this is
burnt offering for every Sabbath, besides the regular burnt offering with its drink offerings.
The burnt offerings can be made from cattle, goats, sheep
birds ( Leviticus 1 ;3- 14). During the ritual, the high priest will lay his
hand on the head of the animal placed on the alter and confess the sin on
behalf of the people Lev 1:4. The priest will sprinkle the blood of the animal
on the alter (Lev1:5)
Then, the carcass of the animal will be burnt on the alter
with fire to produce sweet savour to God. The burnt offerings were ways of
calling God’s attention, fellowshipping and requesting from God. Therefore, the sacrifice process include
confessing , shedding and sprinkling of blood for the forgiveness of sins and
thereafter burning of the carcass on the alter to produce sweet smell for God’s
attention to any request (fellowshipping).
The question to ask yourself is that are you still practicing
this in your religion and if not you have to ask why these entire thing did
stopped. If you can confess your sins by simple prayer “God forgive my sins
without the need to meet any priest and killing any animal”. Then how did this
stop all of a sudden after the death of Jesus Christ. Let us search the
scriptures together and find out why.
SPECIAL THING ABOUT THE BLOOD FROM SACRIFICE
Apart from remission of sin as we have seen, the blood from
the sacrifice also offers protection for people. In the book of Exodus 12;1-14.
We can see the night of Passover when Israelites were instructed by God to kill
the best lamb when God wanted to liberate them from Egypt. God told them to
kill the first born of the sheep and use the blood to mark the roof of their
houses. When the Angel of death was visiting the Egyptian houses their own
houses were untouched.
In the book of Genesis
1&2, Adam and Eve lived in the Garden of Eden for many years and God used
to come down and fellowship with them until they sinned against God. They never
needed any sacrifice before God will come to them until when they were deceived
by devil.
I must tell you, it was God who first made the first sacrifice
by killing animal and stripped off its skin to cover the nakedness of Adam and
Eve. The way God used to fellowship with Adam and Eve in the beginning was what
He restored in the dispensation of mercy and grace after the death of Jesus
Christ. Therefore, there is no need to sacrifice for forgiveness of sin, no
need to have burnt offerings before God will fellowship with us as He used to
do with Adam and Eve.
CHAPTER
3
REASONS WHY THERE IS
NO MORE NEED TO SACRIFICE ANY ANIMAL FOR REMISSION OF SINS
Due to the stubbornness and disobedient nature of man, it was
easy for man to commit sin intentionally. And it came to pass; people began to
abuse the standards and the motives of sacrifices. People will willingly commit
atrocities and after that offer sacrifice showing various degree of
disobedience. That was why God sent many prophets long after, Abel, Noah,
Abraham, Isaac and Moses till the time of David as we will see in the following
scriptures that the blood of animals alone will not safe. When God realized
that His people were disobedient and not serious.
1 Samuel
15;22 And Samuel said .has the Lord has great delight in burnt offerings and sacrifice as in obeying the voice
of the Lord? Behold to obey is better
than sacrifice and to heed than fat of ram.
People had traded obedience with sacrifice; after all it will
not be more than a bull on the altar.
Proverb 21:3
To do righteousness and justice is better than sacrifice.
People traded righteousness with sacrifice, People lived
careless life throughout the year and at the end of the year they will offer a
ram for God thinking God can be bribed.
Hosea 6:6
For I desire mercy and not sacrifice. And the knowledge of God more than burnt offerings.
Psalm 40:6.
Sacrifice and offering You did not desire; my ears you have opened. Burnt offering and sin offering you
did not require.
Hebrews 10:4
for it is not possible that the blood of bulls and goats could take away sins 5.Therefore, when He
came into this world, He said sacrifice
and offering you did not desire, But a body you have prepared for Me. 6. In burnt offerings and
sacrifices for sin you had no pleasure. 7. Then
I said, Behold , I have come in the volume of the book it is written of Me –to do Your will O God.(That was talking about Jesus who came
to fulfill what has been written concerning Him)
All these scriptures came after Abel, Noah, Abraham, Isaac,
Moses, Aaron, etc. We are talking of the dispensation when people defiled the
sacrifices offered to God. It is very important to know that human’s heart is very
complex and he can choose the way he likes that seems good to his eyes.
The priests and children of God have disappointed God again
and again; the blood of animal doesn’t make sense anymore. It became
irritating. It was defiled by mercilessness, disobedient, and lack of knowledge
of God and all manners of atrocities. People did not seek for knowledge of God
anymore but arrogantly commit evil and go for sacrifices at a speculated time
to bribe God.
Being the all-knowing God, with preplanned solutions for
every problem, He has prepared a better solution for human sins. What can we
say about people who also shed innocent blood claiming that they are making
sacrifice for God, I wonder what type of god they worship.
Looking at God as a mere man will complicate this revelation
of truth but looking at Him as spirit will make this to be very simple for you.
God said through prophet Isaiah that:
For my thought are not your thought, neither
are your ways my ways, saith the
Lord. For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my
thought than your thought (Isaiah 55:8-9)
When God instructed the people to make sacrifice, He will
always demand for the purest one without blemish and it must be male not
female. When He wanted to create human, He made man first. God has reasons for
all these things and is well known to Him.
Now when the blood of
animals and its carcass are no longer acceptable, He needed to do just only one
sacrifice that will make it easier for Him to overlook the sinful nature of man
anytime man confesses his sin and fellowship with God because He want to remove
barriers between men and Himself.
To do this sacrifice, the purest blood ever is needed which is
free from Adamic gene. That is the reason God put His flesh in Virgin Mary, the
earthly vessel that carry the baby till delivery. He has the power to send
Jesus like the angel but if he does, Jesus would have come as immortal whose
blood cannot be shed. So that if He looks at man, that precious blood will
still be begging God for “Mercy” just as you have known how blood can talk to
God as in the case of Abel. The blood of animals and any man cannot do this
except the purest blood which came down from God: Remember, God is spirit not
man and He needed us to worship Him that was His initial plan of creating man
before devil came to create barrier (sin)
CHAPTER
4
TESTIMONIES OF ANGEL
ABOUT THE PURITY OF JESUS AND HIS RELATIONSHIP WITH GOD
The first evidence I will like to share is the one from Angel
Gabriel who brought the message to Mary, the mother of Jesus.
Luke 1:30
then the Angel said to her do not be afraid, Mary for you have found favour with God.
31. And behold you will conceive in your womb
and bring forth a son, and shall
call His name Jesus
32. He will
be great and He will be called the Son of most Highest and the Lord will give Him the throne of his
father David.
Like every faithful lady will ask, Mary said how can this be?
When no man has touched me?
35. And
the Angel answered and said to her, The Holy one Spirit will come upon
you, and the power of Highest will overshadowed you; Therefore, the Holy One who is to be born will be
called the son of God.
I am aware that some people have problem with this true
testimony about son ship of Jesus. If you agree with me that everybody born on
earth must have a father, who then is the father of Jesus Christ? Joseph? Whose
semen was not contributed? Or God who sent His Holy Spirit and His Power to
deposit His Word in an earthly and clean womb to produce a pure sacrifice. The truth has been revealed to you;
don’t be among the doubters.
CHAPTER
5
JESUS AS THE
SACRIFICE USED FOR REMISSION OF SINS; SCRIPTURAL EVIDENCES
1. Testimony by John the Baptist.
John the Baptist was the prophet that came to prepare the way and the mind of
people for the coming of Messiah. He was just a few month older than Jesus
Christ. His mother was Elizabeth the relative of Mary, mother of Jesus Christ.
In Luke 1:36 The Angel told Mary about the pregnancy of John the Baptist. It
was also recorded that the spirit of the Lord came upon Elizabeth when Mary
went to visit her.
Luke 1:41.
And it happened when Elizabeth heard the greetings of Mary, that the babe leaped in her
womb and Elizabeth was filled with Holy Spirit.
42. Then she spoke with loud voice and said, blessed are
you among women and blessed is
the fruit of your womb.
43. But why is this granted to me that the mother of my
Lord should come to me.
At this time of visitation, Elizabeth was already 6 month
pregnant with John the Baptist and when the Mary came visiting, John also recognized
in the womb that his Lord was around and he leaped for joy: So from the womb
John testified.
There was need of someone to prepare the way for the Messiah
that was why God sent John the Baptist before Jesus which John also testified
to it. God who sent John told him that anyone you baptize in water and you see
heaven opened on Him and you hear my voice declaring Him as my only begotten
son, that is the one who will take away the sins of the world and baptize with
holy Ghost and fire (John1 :29-34).
John 1:29
The next day john saw Jesus coming toward him and said Behold the Lamb of God who takes away the sins of the
world.
John saw Him and testified to His heavenly assignment. Jesus
Christ was regarded as the Lamb presented for sacrifice to take away the sins
of the whole world. Some people in their own opinion argued He wasn’t crucified
trying to deceive many from this truth. We will see how the prophet before the
birth of Jesus Christ regarded Him as a lamb taken to be slaughtered as we dig
deep in the scriptures.
Let me also quote the commonest Quran verse the Muslims use
to argue that Jesus was not killed but was replaced by another person.
Sura
4;157-158
They (the
Jews) said (in boast), we have killed Christ Jesus son of Mary, The messenger of Allah-but they killed him
not, nor crucified him, but so it was
made appear to them, and those who differ therein are full of doubt, with no (certain) knowledge, but only
conjecture to follow, for surety they killed
him not- Nay Allah raised him up unto Himself.
I can see human manipulations of the message of the cross in
order to deceive a lot of people but I thank God there still remnant of the
truth about the death and resurrection of Jesus in the Above mentioned verse of
Quran Allah raised him up unto
Himself .
Mathew 20:17-20.
Now when Jesus was going up to Jerusalem. He took twelve disciples aside and said to them,
18. We are
going up to Jerusalem and the son of Man will be betrayed to the chief priest and the teachers of
the law. They will condemn Him to death
19 and will turn Him over to the Gentiles to be mocked and flogged and crucified and on the third day He
will be raised to life.
Mark also
gave his testimony about what he heard from Jesus directly in Mark8:31 He then began to teach them
that the son of man must suffer many
things and be rejected by the elders. Chief priests and teachers of the law, and that he must be killed after
three days rise again.
Allah raised him up
unto Himself .This
statement is actually talking about resurrection and ascension of Jesus Christ
as it was written concerning Him in the scriptures. If He was not dead how will
God raise Him to Himself? I am sure there are a lot of manipulations in this
truth but thank God for the traces of truth for those that are ready to hear.
The Prophet Muhammad was later warned in Quran chapter 10 not to doubt the
message of the truth.
Quran
10:94
So if you
are in doubt (O Muhammad) about that which We have revealed to you, then ask those who have been
reading the scripture before you. The
truth has certainly come to you from your Lord, So never be among the doubter.
Looking at this Quran verse we can see how the human nature
can fight against God’s. He actally doubted after receiving some unbelievable
things he claimed was revealed to him by God. He was asked to ask the people
reading the scriptures before him. The question is that what was the scripture
before Quran? The answer is the ” BIBLE”.
Qurian 3:3
Sahih Internatinal: He has sent down upon you (O Muhammad), the book in truth, confirming what was before
it. And He revealed the Torah and the
Gospel.
Ysuf Ali
translation: It is He who sent down to thee ( step by step), in truth, the book confirming what went before it;
and He sent down the law ( of Moses)
and the Gospel( of Jesus) before this, as a guide to mankind, and He sent down criterion ( of judgment
between right and the wrong).
Considering these two translations of the Quran 3;3 It is
very obvious that when Muhammad claimed the Angel Gabriel was revealing the
message to him, he was told that it was God who sent down the law of Moses and
the Bible, the gospel of Jesus Christ to guide human race. How come you find it
difficult to believe the words of God as it written in the Torah (bible).
Almost all the prophets prophesied about the birth and the
death of Jesus Christ before He was born. If truly he was asked to ask the
people reading the scriptures before him I think it is high time you began to
take note of possible human influences in the message of the truth as you have
been taught. Find out the truth by yourself by doing what Prophet Muhammad was
told to do to know the truth.
PROPHECIES ABOUT
JESUS BY PROPHETS BEFORE HE WAS BORN
If you find it difficult to believe those disciples of Jesus
Christ and your book mention Bible and the Law of Moses as the scriptures sent
to guide human race. What does bible says about Jesus even before he was born?
Have you ever heard about the prophecies of the great man of God in Israel,
Prophet Isaiah? Let us see some of his prophecies about the birth of Christ and
His death.
Isaiah: 7:14
Therefore the Lord Himself will give you a sign: Behold a virgin shall conceive and bear a son
and shall call His name Immanuel. This
was fulfilled in the new Testament in Mathew 1;18 many year after.
Isaiah9:6-7
For unto us a Child is born, Unto us a son is given; government shall be upon His shoulder, And His
name shall be called Wonderful, Counselor,
Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.
Immanuel means God with us: When it was mentioned by prophet
Isaiah in 7 ;14, the meaning was not given but God also expatiated further in Chapter
9 ;6 as the Almighty God. But in Mathew 1:23 the meaning was given “God with us”. This is the true
revelation of Jesus. He knew what He came to do before He was born being a part
of God himself. God with us means God came down to dwell with us. That was why
Isaiah said Almighty God that is the son of God that will show the mightiness
of God for us. (Like father like son)
Isaiah 53:3
. He is despised and rejected by men, A man of sorrow and acquainted with grief .We hid as it were,
our faces from Him; He was despised
and we did not esteem him.
This scripture prophesied how His disciples will reject Him
because of the persecution He will face and all came to pass as He was betrayed
by one of the disciples and they all scattered because they cannot even stop
this great assignment anyway.
Isaiah 53:4.
Surely He born our grief and carried our sorrows: Yet we esteem Him stricken, by God and
afflicted.
Because at that point He has become a sacrifice for God and
he was carrying the sins of the whole world. Jesus became the sacrifice whose
blood must be shed for the remission of men sins. God had to turn His face from
Him while on the cross because He was carrying the sins of the whole world.
Isaiah53:5.
But He was wounded for our transgressions; He was bruised for our iniquities. The chastisement of our
peace was upon Him, And by His
stripes we were healed
Isaiah53:6.
All we like sheep have gone astray: we have turned, everyone to his own way: And the Lord has laid
on Him the iniquities of us all.
This is the reason for His death on the cross. The iniquities
of us all were laid on Him to do only one sacrifice that will cater for all human
race. This was foretold many years before Jesus was born. These were the
confirmations prophet Muhammad was asked to confirm to clear his doubt and I
think you have to confirm this right away so that you will not be mislead.
Isaiah 53:7.
He was oppressed and he was afflicted, yet He opened not His mouth. He was led as a lamb to the
slaughter. And as sheep before its shearers
is silent, So he opened not His mouth.
Isaiah 53:8He
was taken from prison and from judgment. And who will declare His generations? For He was cut off from the land of the
living; for transgression of my
people He was stricken.
Isaiah 53:10.
Yet it pleased the Lord to bruise Him: He has put Him to grief. When you make His soul an
offering for sin, He shall see His seed, He shall prolong His days .And the pleasure of
the Lord shall prolong in His hand.
This was the original plan of God before Jesus came to this
sinful world whether you believe it or not it is true because all these
prophecies came to pass in the life of Jesus
John19;2, John 19;5, mark 14;65. You will see how He was humiliated,
bruised, beaten and killed. If your book refer you to bible, that is the truth
in the bible.
That Isaiah 53:10 also explained how God planned to prolong
the days of Jesus Christ after crucifixion : He shall prolong His days. Meaning
after He has been offered as offering for sin He will live again
(Resurrection). The death and the resurrection of Jesus Christ were prophesied
many years before He was born. What truth do you still want to know?
David also foretold
of the agony of Christ on the cross
(Psalm 22:16-18)
Psalm 22;16
For dogs have surrounded me; The congregation of wicked has enclosed Me. They pierced my hands and my feet
17. I can
count my bones. They look and stare at me.
18 They
divided my garments among them and for my clothing they cast lots.
It was not recorded that King David was nailed to cross and
nobody divided his garment. It was God that opened his eyes to see what the
Messiah will pass through. Jesus was nailed to cross and the soldiers that
nailed Jesus to the cross divided His garment and when they saw that cloth He
wore cannot be divided they cast lots on who will take it. (John 19; 23-24).
What truth do you still need to know? You have heard it yourself from the mouth
of David who lived many years before Jesus was born.
Crucifixion is a slow and painful death carried out in Rome
in those days for people condemned to death. The victim will be nailed to cross
and allowed to die after serious beating, exhaustion and humiliation. Jesus went
through all these agony and they were well documented in the New Testament. Anyone
condemned to death of the cross will be humiliated tripped naked and
embarrassed and Jesus went through all these agony.
This is what is in the
scripture before Quran. What else do you still want to know before you believe
He was crucified, even if David can also prophesy about His crucifixion?
How He will be buried was also written in the scriptures
before He was born
Isaiah 53:9.
He had done no wrong and He has never deceived anyone. But He was buried like a criminal: He was put in rich man’s grave
This was fulfilled in Mathew 27:57-60. Now when the evening had
come, there came a rich man from Arimathea, name Joseph , who himself has
become a disciple of Jesus. 58. This man went to Pilate and asks for the body
of Jesus .Then Pilate commanded for the body given to him. He took the body and
wrapped it and laid it in a Tomb which he hew out of rock.
Now think about it and ask yourself, whose testimonies can we
believe? Those of the prophets of God, that is the same with the disciples that
were with Jesus Christ and heard Him talking about His death and resurrection?
Or that of another person that came about 570 after death of Jesus Christ who
God had to refer back to bible as he was doubting that which was revealed unto
him.
Now look at your stand now. By the doctrine of men that you
have been following who had denied you the truth about Jesus Christ. What if
God ask you in the Day of Judgment about what is written in the scriptures
before Quran? What will be your excuse? That your teacher said you shouldn’t
read it or what? Whereas it was God who sent the Law of Moses and the Gospel of
Jesus to guide man ( Quran 3:3) “Remember, the truth has been revealed to you
again, do not be among the doubters” ( Quran 10:94)
CHAPTER
6
THE BODY OF JESUS
CHRIST AND HIS BLOOD
Jesus explained the importance of His body as the lamb used
to make sacrifice for the remission of sin and His body for sacrifice that
brings about direct fellowshipping with God and straight access to request from
God through Him. He told this to His disciples when He was about to die to
confirm what has been written concerning Him.
Mathew
26:26-28 And as they were eating, Jesus took bread and said, take eat this is my body 27. Then He took
the cup, and gave thanks and gave
it to them saying drink from it all of you 28. For this is my blood of new covenant, which is shed for many
for remission of sins.
It was after the shedding of Jesus blood that burnt offerings
and sacrifices for remission of sin stopped. This one and final sacrifice was
the only reason you can ask for the forgiveness of sins without the need to
slaughter animals on the daily basis to God as it was in the time before His
death. This is my blood that is used for the remission of sin of many, he
said it Himself
JESUS TALKED ABOUT
HIS CRUCIFIXION
Mathew 26:1 Jesus told His disciples that after the Passover He
will be delivered unto the hand of the enemies to be crucified.
John3:14 -15
As Moses lifted snake in the wilderness so the son of man be lifted up and whosoever believe in Him
will not perish but have everlasting life
( Crucifixion).
This explained what happened when the Israelites sinned in
the wilderness and God sent serpents to bite them.
Numbers 21:4-9. When children of God sinned against God and
He sent serpent to be biting them. They cried to God and He instructed Moses to
make a calf of a serpent and hang it on the tree. And if anyone is bitten by
the snake and behold the calved snake he will be saved. This is the Old
Testament symbolic representation of crucifixion of Jesus Christ. That was why
Jesus told His disciples and illustrated that as Moses lifted up the serpent in
the wilderness so the son of man will be lifted up: He said it by Himself.
Mathew 12:40
For as Jonas was three days and three nights in the belly of whale: so shall the son of man be three
days and three nights in the heart of
the earth
He also talked
about the numbers of days He will spend in the grave before God will raise Him
up according to what was written concerning Him. What else do you need to know?
THE AGONY OF JESUS
ON THE CROSS
Everything that prophets Isaiah said about Jesus came to
pass, movement from one judgment to another, rejected, beaten, mocked including
His death and resurrection. Everything that David said about Him, how His hands
and feet were pierced and how His garment was torn and they cast lots on His
cloth came to pass. It is a pity that His replacement was not prophesied and it
is never written in the scriptures before Quran: This is the truth what else do
you want to know. The truth has been
revealed to you do not be among the doubters ( Quran 10:94)
Matthew
27:45 Now from the sixth hour until the ninth hour there was darkness over all the land 46. And at the
ninth hour Jesus cried out with a loud
voice, saying , Eli, Eli, lama sabchthani? That is My God, My God, why have you forsaken Me? 47. Some of
those who stood there, when they heard
that, said, ‘this man is calling Elijah. 50. And Jesus cried out with a loud voice, and yielded up His spirit.
MIRACLES ON THE
CROSS
The Roman Empire had been crucifying people before. In fact
the highest capital punishment for criminal was death on the cross. We all know
the history of Spartacus and his soldiers that were crucified on the major road
in Rome. This time around, When Jesus was crucified and gave up the ghost, there
were unusual things that happened which marked the transition between old
covenant and the new covenant established by the blood of Christ.( Mathew 27
:45-53)
a. There was
darkness over the land sun stopped shinning Luke 23;45
b. The veil of
the temple tore apart. The construction of the temple before the death of
Christ was different from what we have after His death. It used to be covered
with veil. Only the priest will go in and offer sacrifice unto God and the
place is called holly of hollies. The priest has to make atonement for his sin
before entering the temple because God can strike him there and the Angel can
also appear to him as the case of Zachariah the father of John the Baptize(
Luke 1:1-25).
c. There was
earthquake and the rocks were split
d. The graves
were opened and many of the bodies of the saints that died rose up.
At this point God has established a new beginning with man.
There is no need to make sacrifice again. No other blood is needed any more to
appeals God. The blood of Jesus has settled it all. The sun that stopped
shinning was not an ordinary eclipse; it was a message to the people witnessing
this triumphant and great assignment and to the whole world entirely. They also
saw and said truly this man is a son of God.
1 Corinthians 1 : 18 For the message of the cross is
foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the
power of God. 19. For it is written, I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and
bring to nothing the understanding of the prudent.
CONCLUSION
The problems of man commenced in the beginning by Adam and
Eve we all know the story. Initially God used to come to them in the Garden of
Eden not until when iniquities separated them. Then, God decided to bring them
to Himself by mercy though they were still stained with sins they committed, He
had to slaughtered an animal and ussssed the skin to cover their nakedness (Genesis3:21),
that was the first sacrifice God did Himself. He did not stop there, He gave
their descendants the laws and how to make sacrifice for sins and how to
fellowship with Him. This was also defiled as the world aged.
One thing about God is that He is a good planner. When the the
blood of animals doesn’t make sense anymore, there was need to cleanse the sin
of the whole world with the purest form of blood ever, which is neither the
blood of animal nor the blood of any man: The blood of animal can only work for
one person and it must be shed repeatedly, but the blood of Jesus is for the
whole world and it was once.
The only pure blood is the one that comes out from His own
part; the blood of Jesus. That is why Angel called Jesus name Immanuel, meaning
God with us. It is a pity that there is no other remedy apart from judgment
that is coming: This has been finalized by God. If you fail to believe this
truth you will face the judgment of God because Jesus is more than a prophet
and He is the only one that is coming back to rule and to judge this World. If
everything that was prophesied about Jesus according to the prophets we have
discussed came to pass, His coming back will also come to pass whether you like
it or not and the purpose of His coming is well written in the bible and was
foretold in the scriptures.
I will advise you to
search the bible yourself as Prophet Muhammad was asked to read the scriptures
before him. Do not be deceived by the mouth to mouth teachings of people,
search the scriptures yourself you have no excuse if you fail to make it to
heaven because of your ignorance.
If you want to be connected to God through Jesus Christ, you
need to pray this simple prayer: Heavenly father, I thank you for sending your
son Jesus to die for my sin, Have mercy on me I now believe and accept Jesus
Christ as my savior, let the blood of Jesus cleanse me from all my sins and
write my name in the book of life. In Jesus name I pray ,amen
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