BLESSINGS OF THE CROSS

My Dear Precious Child, When they crucified Him, they took the clothes of Jesus Christ and auctioned them off. It had been prophesied by David in the Psalms. (Psalms22:18) Then the soldiers sat down and watched so that no one would come and take His body. While they had accused Him and persecuted Him and belittled Him, they had sarcastically called Him the King of the Jews and while He hung on the cross the soldiers made a sign and put it above His head that contained the accusation against Him, that He said that he was the King of the Jews. (Matthew 27:36-37 As was popular at the time, there were more than one person cucified. Two robbers were crucified along with Jesus, with Him in the middle. There were still onlookers who were passing by who continued to ridicule Jesus Christ, jeering Him and taunting Him further, as was also prophesied in the Psalms. (Psalms 22:7-8 and Psalm 109:25) Those people taunted Him by repeating back to Him His own prophesy that He would tear down the sanctuary of the temple and rebuild it back in three days. They commanded Him to rescue Himself from death. They demanded that if He was My Son that He would come down from the cross, all of which was necessary because of the prophesies from the past. In order for Him to die for people who have been ridiculed, taunted, lied about, falsely accused and justly accused, He had to die and go to hell for those people also. (Matthew 27:38-44) Not only did the people who passed Him by ridicule Him, but the chief priest and the scribes and elders of the temple also taunted him sarcastically by saying that He had claimed to save other people from death but He could not rescue Himself from death. They said that if He was the King of Israel that He must come down from the cross and then they would believe Him and trust in Him. They challenged Him by saying that He trusted in Me, so if I really cared for Him that I would save Him from the cross because He had said that He was My Son. The robbers who had been crucified with Jesus also abused, reproached and ridiculed Him in the same way. (Matthew 27:41-44) At noon darkness fell over all of the land and it remained dark until 3:00, fulfilling prophesy. At 3:00 Jesus cried out in a loud voice, "My God, My God, why haveyou abandoned Me?" The prophet David had also prophesied those words would come from the mouth of My Son. (Psalm 22:1) People in thecrowd thought that He was calling upon Elijah to save Him. One of the bystanders ran up to Jesus, soaked a sponge in vinegar, put it on a long reed and was just about to give it to Jesus when someone told Him to wait and let them see if Elijah came to save Jesus from death. It was at this time that Jesus was alone on the cross because My Holy Spirit had left Him in order that He might die for all the sins of the world and go to hell for those sins. Jesus cried out again and then gave up His human spirit. (Matthew 27:45-47) At once the curtains in the sanctuary were torn in two from top to bottom, the earth shook and rocks were split open, as had been prophesied. (Exodus 26:31-35) Tombs were opened and many of the bodies of the saints who had fallen asleep in death were raised into life. Coming out of the tombs after His resurrection, those risen saints appeared to many people in Jerusalem. It was then that the centurion and the people who were watching over His body saw the earthquake and everything that was happening, so they were filled with awe and declared that truly Jesus Christ was My Son.(Matthew 27:51-54) Prophesies were fulfilled and miracles were apparent to crowds of people. Jesus had spoken to one of the robbers who had recognized His divinity and said that he would be with Jesus in paradise that very day. (Luke 23:43) The atrocities that were done to Jesus that day were necessary for humanity. Jesus needed to experience ridicule at the hands of people in order that those sins would be experienced by Jesus so that He could die for those sins, as well as the ones which had been done to Him in the past. In order to die for those atrocities, He had to experience them. When He went to hell, He listed in hell the charges and accusations which He had experienced and He made sure that the devil knew that He was dying for those sins of people. He had to plead guilty to them in order to die for the people who commit them. After His paying for the sins of all human beings, Jesus Christ was catapulted out of hell and into the earth again, showing Himself to His followers for forty days. It was a glorious 40 days that Jesus Christ spent in the earth. Jesus had returned from the dead and was teaching again about My kingdom of God which was to soon come into the earth on the day of the feast of Pentecost. Your Father of Magnificent Promises