We received a letter
from a young boy that said that he liked the
Christianity Oasis site but that his Dad was not a Christian and
confronted the boy with a question that caused doubt in this boy's heart
as to his Faith. Of course, we have addressed this letter to clear up
the confusion and we have elected to share the TRUTH here as well, just
in case there are some that may be confused on this issue.
The issue is ... While
Jesus was on the Cross, He said "My God, My God, why hast thou forsaken
me" ?
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MARK 15:34
And at the ninth hour Jesus
cried with a loud voice, saying, Eloi, Eloi, lama sabachthani?
which is, being interpreted,
My God, my God, why hast thou
forsaken me ... |
There have been some who have suggested that Jesus doubted or lost His Faith
while suffering for six hours upon the Cross for our sins and spoke those words. In fact ... There have been many assumptions as
to why Jesus spoke these words but there is only one TRUTH. Let us seek
the TRUTH in
scripture together, as to avoid deception
and to be set FREE from any doubts.
The EXACT words that Jesus spoke on
the Cross, "My God, My God why hast thou forsaken me" were spoken before
by the prophet David ...
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PSALMS 22:1
My God, my God, why hast thou
forsaken me? why art thou so far from helping me, and from the
words of my roaring? |
So why would Jesus say these words? The answer is that Jesus was simply
quoting Scripture. When Jesus echoed these prophetic words, Jesus was
directing the people present at His Crucifixion and even us today to
look at this particular scripture to
reveal to them and us an awesome TRUTH. Within Psalm 22
there is a prophecy that Jesus wanted us all to see ...
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PSALMS
22:16-18
For dogs have compassed me: the
assembly of the wicked have enclosed me:
they pierced my hands and my feet.
I may tell all my bones:
they look and stare upon me.
They part my garments among
them, and cast lots upon my vesture. |
Let's look closer at the exact words in this prophecy Jesus wanted
those present at His Crucifixion and us to read ...
Psalm 22 was predicting
that a group of people would surround SOMEONE and pierce His hands and
feet (Crucify Him)
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LUKE 23:33
And when they were come to the
place, which is called Calvary, there
they crucified Him
(JESUS) |
What about those words in the Prophecy of Psalm 22 that said ...
"I may tell all of MY bones"
This means that they would not break His bones.
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John
19:31-33
The Jews therefore,
because it was the preparation, that the bodies should not remain
upon the cross on the Sabbath day, (for that Sabbath day was an
high day,) besought Pilate that their legs might be broken, and
that they might be taken away. Then came the soldiers, and brake
the legs of the first, and of the other which was crucified with
Him. But when they came to Jesus, and saw that He was dead
already, they brake not His
legs: |
What about the part of the Prophecy that says ...
They part MY garments among them, and
cast lots upon MY vesture
This means they will divide the clothing
of this person and gamble for His clothes.
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MARK 15:34
And when they had crucified Him,
they parted His garments, casting lots upon them,
what every man should take. |
It is even told to us all today that these acts were PROPHECY.
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Matthew
27:35
And they crucified Him, and
parted His garments, casting lots:
that it might be fulfilled which
was spoken by the Prophet,
(David in Psalms) They parted my garments among them, and upon my
vesture did they cast lots. |
Jesus was revealing
to those present at His Crucifixion and to us today ...
That the Prophecy in
Psalm 22 was being fulfilled at that time when He said ...
MY GOD MY GOD WHY
HAST THOU FORSAKEN ME
Now, THIS is even more awesome ... We know from
Scripture these things never happened to David, who is the one who wrote
Psalm 22. Was he speaking of
another? If so, why was he saying ME, MY and I?
Now stay with me on this as you are
about to get a lil insight into Prophecy ... Prophecy is a lil strange.
BIBLE PROPHECY is GOD speaking THROUGH
man.
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Zechariah 12:10
They shall look upon
ME whom they have pierced, and they shall mourn for
HIM. |
Now
did ya catch the person change from ME to HIM?
As the writer of prophecy ... IT is, of
course, the prophet speaking or writing, but it is also God's Word being
spoken THROUGH the prophet.
Jesus is the WORD of God.
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John 1:1 and
1:14
In the beginning was the Word, and
the Word was with God, and the Word was God. And the Word was made
flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld His glory, the glory as
of the only begotten of the Father,) full of Grace and TRUTH. |
Therefore ... It was
JESUS that spoke these Words through all of the prophets, INCLUDING
David in Psalm 22.
Jesus makes it sooooooo
clear in the Bible that it is HIM speaking.
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Isaiah 52:6
Therefore MY people shall
know MY name: therefore they shall know in that day that I Am He that
doth speak: behold it is I. |
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Isaiah 48:16
"Come ye near unto ME hear this; "I"
have not spoken in secret from the beginning; from the time that it was
there am "I"
... and now the LORD
and HIS SPIRIT
hath sent
ME" |
Awesome huh?
NOT only does
Jesus reveal the TRUTH of the
TRINITY by saying The
Lord and
His Spirit
sent ME but shares
with us that He has been from the beginning, just as the Apostle John
revealed in John 1:1 and
1:14 and that it is HE that speaks to us in the Word of God (The
Bible) as HE is the WORD of God.
In all prophecy,
including what Jesus said on the Cross, dying for the sins of those
looking upon Him and our sins today, Jesus was saying what He has from
the beginning to those that could understand ...
IT IS ME