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MY GOD, MY GOD WHY HAST THOU FORSAKEN ME
CHRISTIANITY OASIS HAS PROVIDED YOU WITH THIS FORSAKEN STUDY. MOST HAVE HEARD OF THE PHRASE FORSAKEN IN THE BIBLE ... BUT DO NOT KNOW EXACTLY WHAT FORSAKEN MEANS OR WHAT BEING FORSAKEN IS. DID YOU KNOW THAT THE BIBLE PROPHESIED JESUS' DEATH? JESUS REVEALED THIS AWESOME PROPHECY WHEN HE SAID THE WORDS "MY GOD MY GOD WHY HAS THOU FORSAKEN ME" WHEN HE WAS UPON THE CROSS DYING FOR OUR SINS. UNDERSTANDING THIS TRUTH IS A KEY INGREDIENT IN ASSISTING US AS WE SOJOURN DOWN THE CHRISTIAN WALK. LET US SEEK AND FIND THE TRUTH OF WHAT JESUS MEANT WHEN HE SAID UPON THE CROSS, MY GOD, MY GOD WHY HAVE YOU FORSAKEN ME, SHALL WE?
 

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" ?

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 ...

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 ...

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)

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.

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.
 

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.

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.

 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.

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.

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.

 

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

 

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