BLESSINGS EVEN IN TURMOIL

My Dear Precious Child,
     After the Jews, led by their chief priests and political leaders, insisted to Pilate that Jesus Christ be crucified for breaking their religious laws, Pilate took Jesus and whipped Him and the soldiers put a twisted crown of thorns on His head and threw a purple cloak around Him.  The crowds kept coming to Him, mocking Him as the king of the Jews, sarcastically wishing Him good health, good luck and a long life as king of the Jews.  They individually struck Him with the palms of their hands.  I, fortunately, had prepared Him for these atrocities, but they still hurt Him in His flesh because He walked the earth in the flesh of men. (John 19:1-3)
    Pilate brought Jesus out in front of the crowd again and told the crowd that He still could find no fault in Him. (John 19:4-8)  Jesus came out wearing the thorny crown and the purple cloak.  Pilate identified Him and said, "See, here is the man of whom you speak," to which the Jewish chief priests and guards cried out to crucify Him, crucify Him.  Pilate again proclaimed his belief that he could find no fault of lawbreaking in Jesus, but in order to please the angry crowd he told them to take Jesus and go ahead and crucify Him.  The Jews insisted that their law required the crucifixion of Jesus, and so Pilate became even more afraid than before of the angry mob.   Pilate went to the judgment hall where Jesus was restrained and asked Him where He was from and which world He belonged to.(John 19:9-11)  Jesus answered that Pilate had no authority over what was to happen to Him if it had not been given by Me.  He said that the sin and guilt of the devil, the one who had delivered Jesus over to the Jews, had the greater guilt.
    At that point Pilate was determined to release Jesus Christ, but the Jews in the mob kept screaming and shrieking that if Pilate released Jesus that he was no friend of Caesar's.  The Jews kept declaring that anyone who makes himself a king sets himself up against Caesar and is a rebel to the emperor.   Hearing that explanation, Pilate brought Jesus before the crowd and placed Him on the judgment seat. (John 19:12-15) 
     It was the day of preparation for the Passover about noon.  Pilate finally referred to Jesus as the king of the Jews, to which the Jews shouted to take Him away and crucify Him.  The chief priests confessed that they had no king except Caesar.  Then Pilate turned Jesus Christ over to be crucified after surmising that he would never convince the Jews to release the Man who appeared to never have broken any laws that would warrant a penalty so severe as crucifixion. The Jews took Him to a place called the Place of the Skull, Golgatha, and they crucified Him there along with two others, one on either side of Jesus, with Him in the middle.  (John 19:14-16) 
     Jesus Christ was killed by the same people whom He came to earth to save from the works of the devil, the religious Jews who did not recognize Him as their Savior because of His humility, His kindness, His goodness, His love, His power to heal the sick and diseased, His authority over demons and His wisdom in teaching about My kingdom which was soon coming into their own lives on earth if they followed His instructions.  Because of their religious and political patriotic emphasis they preferred a king similar to Caesar who executed judgment and death upon people instead of forgiveness and rehabilitation like Jesus Christ.   Most of the Jews missed out on what happened on the day of Pentecost when My kingdom came on earth as it is in heaven.  (Matthew 6:10)
    There are people in your world who call themselves by My name who are still so overly patriotic to their earthly countries that they have no room left in their lives to be loyal and completely bound to My kingdom of heaven which has come into the world in the lives of the people who are obedient to My first instruction to have no other God but Me, to love Me and to love their neighbors as themselves, much like the Jews who insisted on the crucifixion of Jesus Christ.  (Exodus 20:3; I John 4:18) 
     Your Devoted Father Who Requires Your Complete Love So That You Will Inherit My Blessings in Your Life on Earth.