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Helen White
is Cheryl's pen name, should she ever publish
anything that belongs to her. Perhaps she can write her true
confessions from a prison cell or insane asylum, after the
truth is revealed.
She continues to defame
my character . Endangers my future by spreading HORRIBLE
LIES about me. She is contacting everyone
that I know to try and destroy me (as Cheryl threatened that
she would do, on April 29, 2008 to Alfred Sit). (Cheryl
Menezes stole and copied my address book/personal
password records, deleted pertinent emails off my computer
(that I backed up on another) that would disclose her evil
nature).
She is really trying to destroy
me and cover her tracks now, after Lillian
(her last dog sitter/tenant) took her to Landlord and Tenant
court and presented my court disclosure to support her claim
that Cheryl too, tried to pull the
same stunt on her.
Alfred Sit is a key witness
in my lawsuits and his life is threatened now that Cheryl
made him sign a document to not discuss how she is scheming
to destroy me. (July 30 2008 secret meeting with Cheryl, Alfred
and her lawyer friend Robin).
August 12, 2008-
Cheryl calls another secret meeting with Alfred Sit. This
time Scott
Craig ( her dog sitter and friend of Hilton's) comes
out and challenges him to a fight. The initial meeting was
to disclose some important documents to Alfred. There was
nothing important. A trap to endanger Alfred.
August 14, 2008- Cheryl
continues to harrass my mother/father,
stating that she will call her back in a half hour. My mother
senses that she is being entrapped and taped into a manipulating
conversation. Cheryl states that Alfred Sit also wants to
have me committed and it is in my best interest. Alfred Sit
confirmed with me that this is not true and that she wants
to revoke my bail. Meanwhile she is lying to my mother- stating
that she wants to see me get some help in an institution.
She is going to use my brother's death last year as a cause
to say that I am crazy.
Is she a doctor? Is she suppose
to be harrassing my family after calling Constable Hayes on
Wed. Aug 13, 2008, complaining that I have her posted on the
web and that it is affecting her work now? Freedom of Speech
is still my right. I will tell my truth. Why does she continue
to try and destroy me? Has she not done enough damage?
Constable Hayes was called on
August 14, 2008 around midnight. I reported
the harrassment and now request some kind of protection for
myself, since this woman will not leave my life alone.
August 21, 2008-
My court appearance...one of many for these false accusations.
Anyway...Cheryl blackmailed Alfred with supposed information
in exchange for when my court date appearance would be and
where. She planned to have Scott
Craig ( her dog sitter and friend of Hilton's) come after
me and hurt me in some way. We shall see. The police have
been made aware of her nefarious plans. See
link for full evidence disclosure. Who is doing
the criminal activity here?
This page is dedicated to Peter
and Cheryl.
Hilton (Peter)
wanted to invest in Jrgenius.com but I
finallyrefused on April 28, 2008.
I called him a HYPOCRITE.
Hilton decided that is would also be a good idea
to remove me and have access to my school
and belongings anyway.
They like to call themselves St.
Germain and Shiva. That explains
it.
Luke 12:1-3
1In the meantime, when so many thousands of the people had
gathered together that they were trampling one another, he
began to say to his disciples first, "Beware
of the leaven of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy.
2Nothing is covered up that will
not be revealed, or hidden
that will not be known. 3Therefore whatever
you have said in the dark shall be heard
in the light, and what you have whispered
in private rooms shall be proclaimed
on the housetops.
***
phi·lan·thro·py
(fi-lan'thr?-pe)
n., pl. -pies.
The effort or inclination to increase the well-being of humankind,
as by charitable aid or donations.
Love of humankind in general.
Something, such as an activity or institution, intended to
promote human welfare.
human resources
pl.n.
(used with a pl. verb) The persons employed in a business
or organization; personnel.
(used with a sing. verb) The field of personnel recruitment
and management.
Judas made a concious decision
himself to allow himself to be tempted by money and then betray
Jesus!
The bible says that it is better
to have NEVER known Him (Jesus) than to have known him and
then dis-own him. But that's what Judas did. He had known
salvation from hearing and learning first-hand from Jesus
and yet chose to give it up for 30 pieces of silver? It was
his choice - and a bad one!
Oscar Wilde once described a
cynic as one who knows the cost of everything and the value
of nothing. Herein lies the reason perhaps for Judas' eventual
corruption and downfall. He failed to 'see' with his eyes,
the greatness which lay before him. He was more concerned
about what authorities thought and the movement countering
the Romans, rather than Who it was who called him and loved
him unto the end. During this clip you'll hear Jesus say that,
'Many Kings and prophets have desired to see what you see,
and hear what you hear.. and have not.' This is what Judas
passed up. This is what we pass up when we turn our backs
on he who has given us all. In truth, at some point or another,
we have all betrayed the Lord.. all have 'lost faith' and
gone astray. Jesus prayed for Peter, so that after his fall
he would rise, and be the help his brother apostles would
need in the hard times ahead. Jesus is counting on US as well
to not despair, but to rise up in faith and holiness before
the Father, so as to be witnesses to others of his precious
and liberating love.
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"Judas? The Apostle who
betrayed his Divine Master. The name Judas (Ioudas) is the
Greek form of Judah (Hebrew "praised"), a proper
name frequently found both in the Old and the New Testament.
Even among the Twelve there were two that bore the name, and
for this reason it is usually associated with the surname
Iscariot [Hebrew "a man of Kerioth" or Carioth,
which is a city of Judah (cf. Joshua 15:25)]. There can be
no doubt that this is the right interpretation of the name,
though the true origin is obscured in the Greek spelling,
and, as might be expected, other derivations have been suggested
(e.g. from Issachar).
Very little is told us in the Sacred Text concerning the history
of Judas Iscariot beyond the bare facts of his call to the
Apostolate, his treachery, and his death. His birthplace,
as we have seen, is indicated in his name Iscariot, and it
may be remarked that his origin separates him from the other
Apostles, who were all Galileans. For Kerioth is a city of
Judah. It has been suggested that this fact may have had some
influence on his career by causing want of sympathy with his
brethren in the Apostolate. We are told nothing concerning
the circumstances of his call or his share in the ministry
and miracles of the Apostles. And it is significant that he
is never mentioned without some reference to his great betrayal.
Thus, in the list of the Apostles given in the Synoptic Gospels,
we read: "and Judas Iscariot, who also betrayed him".
(Matthew 10:4. Cf. Mark 3:19; Luke 6:16). So again in St.
John's Gospel the name first occurs in connection with the
foretelling of the betrayal: "Jesus answered them: Have
not I chosen you twelve; and one of you is a devil? Now he
meant Judas Iscariot, the son of Simon: for this same was
about to betray him whereas he was one of the twelve"
(John 6:71-2).
In a very true sense, all sin
is a mystery. And the difficulty is greater with the greatness
of the guilt, with the smallness of the motive for doing wrong,
and with the measure of the knowledge and graces vouchsafed
to the offender. In every way the treachery of Judas would
seem to be the most mysterious and unintelligible of sins.
For how could one chosen as a disciple, and enjoying the grace
of the Apostolate and the privilege of intimate friendship
with the Divine Master, be tempted to such gross ingratitude
for such a paltry price? And the difficulty is greater when
it is remembered that the Master thus basely betrayed was
not hard and stern, but a Lord of loving kindness and compassion.
Looked at in any light the crime is so incredible, both in
itself and in all its circumstances, that it is no wonder
that many attempts have been made to give some more intelligible
explanation of its origin and motives, and, from the wild
dreams of ancient heretics to the bold speculations of modern
critics, the problem presented by Judas and his treachery
has been the subject of strange and startling theories. As
a traitor naturally excites a peculiarly violent hatred, especially
among those devoted to the cause or person betrayed, it was
only natural that Christians should regard Judas with loathing,
and, if it were possible, paint him blacker than he was by
allowing him no good qualities at all. This would be an extreme
view which, in some respects, lessens the difficulty. For
if it be supposed that he never really believed, if he was
a false disciple from the first, or, as the Apocryphal Arabic
Gospel of the Infancy has it, was possessed by Satan even
in his childhood, he would not have felt the holy influence
of Christ or enjoyed the light and spiritual gifts of the
Apostolate." ("Judas Iscariot" from newadvent(dot)com
with some alterations)
Dana comment- I have some
issues with this video, since our churches have been taken
over by Luciferian Pedo-files, after Peter the
Roman stole it from Mary
Magdalene, but it will do for now.
My edits- the rapture
is the Beast Agenda. Alien food
for NESARA BEASTS.
The Children of the Light
will be healing Mother Earth and will
not be microchipped and in the cities. We will be scattered
in the wilderness.
Apostle John-did not ascend
into heaven to get the Revelations. Mary
Magdalene did. John was not Jesus' beloved disciple
who he kissed on the lips often, it was
his WIFE MARY.
Question the character of the bible assemblers
and King James who was a satanist,
much like the Royal Illuminati bloodlines today.
Sir Francis Bacon (Shakespeare)
edited the bible for King James and took out
much of the side notes that are found
in the Geneva Bible. This would allow
confusion to the average person and the
interpretations could be left up to the
church Pedo-Files.
Sir Francis Bacon is St.
Germaine (the man who never dies).
St. Germaine
was the high priest of Atlantis.
He created the Rosicrucians and Freemasonry.
Bacon inserted secret ciphers
into the scriptures that can
be interpreted only by the elect
(Bible Codes).
Who Wrote the Bible? Is
the Bible the Word of God? Why is the Bible full of Contradictions?
This documentary explores questions at the heart of the
great Christian faith in a fair open-minded fashion. It
is NOT meant to be inflamatory but informative. The truth
one will see is the Bible is NOT what it is thought to
be. So what is the Bible? Find out! Visit www.IslamicVideos.net
for more videos like this! Now since we can see Christianity
is not what we thought it was, we can try and learn about
Islam, a religion that many equate with terrorism. Search
and learn about Islam as it is thought even by the most
educated people on Earth to be the ultimate way to truth
and happiness, in the truest sense of the word
For those that can't read ( due to our garbage
education system), I will add videos for you.
THIS WAS A VIDEO TEST] various
videos about the black Madonna. which is a religious icon
depicting Semiramis and her so-called divine child Nimrod.
The first known representation of the dynamic duo full
of ego (both names Nimrod & Mary are related in Hebrew
with Rebellion also Nimrod was know by the Romans as Mars
The Rebellious One and The God of War)was Isis and Osiris(Horus/Tammuz)
both both of them are known by various names as Semiramis
became The Queen of Heaven,Ishtar,Astarte,Artemis,Diana,Cybele,Kali,etc...
and her husband/son became known as the god of many pagan
religions and cults as Zoroaster,Lucifer,Baal,Ninus,Odin,Marduk,Moloch,Buddha,Khrisna,Mithras,Jason,Jesus,Zeus,Hercules,etc...
all of this information can be found in books like "The
2 Babylons", "The World's 16 Crucified Saviours",and
trough videos like "The God Who wasn't there",or
Acharya S. videos who prove that all these figures have
things in common and seem to all stem from the same mystery
schools that started with Babylon founded by none other
than Nimrod who came to be known as Mighty Man of renown
which goes into another topic relating to Fallen Angels
(Annunaki,Nephilim,Elohim and Nibiru or Planet X of the
Sumerians) but the black madonna is clear proof that before
1492. Europeans had no problem worshipping and admitting
that god or "his mother" were black. But like
the Greeks who did worship and get there knowledge from
Egyptians and other black peoples, the Roman Catholic
church decide to whitewash religion,history and their
achievements and decided to destroy all evidence of the
worship of a black mother goddess and decide to label
as "heretics and witches" all followers of the
black virgins during the Inquisition and the killings
of the Knights Templar spoken in the DaVinci Code movie.
It is also interesting to note that a lot of the black
Madonnas are in France. So,2 interesting questions arises:
1-What color is the right color for Jesus,Mary and if
possible their "last descendant" ? 2-What happened
at Fatima with the Dance of The Sun evidence of UFO's
or all those people were crazy ? the truth must come out
one way or the other
People will kill
for a bag of chips when the food
shortages hit.
I see more people begging
for loose change on Toronto Streets.
Increasing gas prices, more violence
and distractions, racial tension,
media disinfo and the accountable corrupted
bureaucracy still propping up the LIES.
Gas up, food up, inflation
up, stock market and dollar collapse. VIOLENCE and Manchurian
Candidates are being unleashed on the population by the
Illuminati. "Stolen Bikes" are being confiscated
by the "TO SERVE AND PROTECT OURSELVES" nazis
in Toronto. They only want to chip your bike and you.
Regulate and WATCH you. BIG BROTHER SECRET SOCIETES control
Toronto. KICK THEM OUT!
Poor people flood the court
systems and have no justice. WHITE COLLAR TRASH CRIME
is above the JUST_US system that will eventually enforce
the NWO martial laws.
September is a key
month for the fake SANANDA and what better then
to have an alien invasion of "NICE LOOKING
DEMONS" to help come and save the economy.
Just like in GENESIS- they
will devour fearful humans as food. (especially now that
there really is going to be a food shortage PERIOD). I
see some NEW AGERS have bought tickets for the space ships
that these GREY DEMONS are promoting. Greys serve the
Reptilians.
Gudni
Gudnason teaches that SANAT KUMARA
is going to bring in a Shamballa and we will all be initiated
into a NWO.
Gudni Gudnason and Sanat
Kumara
(Look similar. Negative
orgone pendant Gudni?)
I have warned Rocky
Mountain Mystery School in Toronto, that
they are dealing with LUCIFER and DEMONS. I
hope they wake up and use their gifts for GOOD not EVIL.
Do not be deceived.
( I warned them after I was deliberately not invited for
the free RMMS Teacher Recertification in Jan 2008). They
are ACCOUNTABLE.
The
Gospel of Judas is Satan's focus
Judas Iscariot betrayed Jesus Christ with a kiss, which led
to his arrest and crucifixion. He was one of Christ's twelve
disciples.
Judas was drawn away from the
teachings of Jesus Christ because of his own lust, and he
was enticed. When he was enticed, it brought forth the sin
of betrayal, which led to him going to the assembled religious
leaders and asking them what they would give him for the deliverance
of Jesus Christ to them.
Some suggest, as a new text
is coming out concerning the Gospel of Judas, that he was
chosen to set in motion the event of the Crucifixion and Resurrection
by direction of Jesus Christ Himself. They falsely believe
that it was the act of giving the sop, that forced him to
betray Jesus.
“Jesus answered, He it
is, to whom I shall give a sop, when I have dipped [it]. And
when he had dipped the sop, he gave [it] to Judas Iscariot,
[the son] of Simon. And after the sop Satan entered into him.
Then said Jesus unto him, That thou doest, do quickly.”
(Joh 13:26-27 AV)
Actually, it was Satan that
entered into Judas Iscariot that set the events in motion.
If it had not been for Judas Iscariot's weak character of
lustful desires, Satan would never have been able to take
control of his body
“But, behold, the hand
of him that betrayeth me [is] with me on the table. And truly
the Son of man goeth, as it was determined: but woe unto that
man by whom he is betrayed!” (Lu 22:21-22 AV)
Jesus Christ's journey was determined
from the beginning. The journey of Judas was known in advance
When Judas chose to follow Jesus
Christ with a heart that was not true to him, he became vulnerable
to the lusts and control of the world and Satan
True Christians who walk with
Jesus Christ toward the LORD GOD faithfully understand one
very sad and shameful fact. It was not Judas alone, but every
sinner who has ever lived that held the hammer and nailed
him to a cross. And when my precious Jesus was hanging on
that cross, naked and bleeding and dying for the sins of man,
he had no hate in his heart! It was the greatest act of love
ever displayed on this earth forever, as an innocent lamb
was slain for the redemption of mine and every believer's
sins.
He had been betrayed, persecuted,
mocked and spit upon, and humilited before he was put to death.
Yet in the end, He asked His Father to forgive those who caused
his death, because they did not know what they did.
I am washed in the blood of
Jesus Christ, because he loved me so much that he allowed
his betrayal by Satan through the weak Judas.
I have never heard Jesus Christ
being accused of hatred toward Judas. In fact, from his deep
prayers in the Garden of Gethsemane to His glorious Resurrection,
the amount of love for his Father and his followers that must
have been flowing through his body at that moment would have
excluded the emotion of hatred.
He had much bigger things to
think about, than a little man with a worldly lust that was
controlled by a wicked Satan. He was preparing to become the
sacrifice that would forgive the sins of his believers, and
redeem his blood for life eternal.
Quite frankly, Judas was a little
speck in the big picture. Most true Christians understand
this very fact, and reflect on their personal responsibilities
during this holiest of our seasons.
It would be in Satan's best
interest, if somehow he could make Judas the focus, and take
away from the Crucifixion and Resurrection of Jesus Christ.
As for me and mine during this
most sad and wonderful coming week, as we celebrate Jesus
Christ's entry into Jerusalem as a King, and mourn His Crucifixion,
and rejoice with our complete souls, minds and hearts of his
great Resurrection, we will not be thinking of the small things
of Satan, but rather the great Things of the LORD GOD and
His beloved son, Jesus Christ.
Now the Feast of Unleavened
Bread drew near, which is called the Passover. 2 And the chief
priests and the scribes were seeking how to put him to death,
for they feared the people. 3 Then Satan entered into Judas
called Iscariot, who was of the number of the twelve. 4 He
went away and conferred with the chief priests and officers
how he might betray him to them. 5 And they were glad, and
agreed to give him money. 6 So he consented and sought an
opportunity to betray him to them in the absence of a crowd.
This is the final message in
the series called Spectacular Sins and Their Global Purpose
in the Glory of Christ. The aim has been to show that over
and over in the history of the world, the epoch-making sins
that changed the course of history never nullified but only
fulfilled the global purposes of God to glorify his Son and
save his people.
My prayer is that, as these
great historical vistas of God’s sovereignty over sin
take their place in your renewed mind, they would have a profoundly
practical effect in making you strong in the face of breath-stopping
sorrows and making you bold for Christ in the face of dangerous
opposition. Christ-exalting strength in calamity and Christ-exalting
courage in conflict. I pray that the Lord will weave cords
of steel and silk into the fabric of your soul.
History’s Most Spectacular
Sin: The Murder of Jesus
The most spectacular sin that has ever been committed in the
history of the world is the brutal murder of Jesus Christ,
the morally perfect, infinitely worthy, divine Son of God.
And probably the most despicable act in the process of this
murder was the betrayal of Jesus by one of his closest friends,
Judas Iscariot.
Judas was one of the twelve
apostles that Jesus had personally chosen and who had been
with Jesus during his entire public ministry. He had been
entrusted with the moneybag for the whole group (John 13:29).
He was close enough to Jesus at the Last Supper to be dipping
bread with him in the same cup (Mark 14:20).
“Satan Entered into Judas”
On the night of the Last Supper, Luke tells us in Luke 22:3-6
that “Satan entered into Judas. . . . He went away and
conferred with the chief priests and officers how he might
betray [Jesus] to them. And they were glad, and agreed to
give him money. So he consented and sought an opportunity
to betray him to them in the absence of a crowd.” Later
he led the authorities to Jesus in the garden of Gethsemane
and betrayed Jesus with a kiss (Luke 22:47-48). With that,
Jesus’ death was sealed.
When Luke tells us in verse
3 that “Satan entered into Judas,” several questions
come to our minds. 1) One is whether Satan simply mastered
a good Judas or whether Judas was already walking in line
with Satan and Satan simply decided that now is the time.
2) Another question is why Satan would do this since the death
and resurrection of Jesus would result in Satan’s final
defeat, and there is good reason to think Satan knew that.
3) And the third and most important question is: Where was
God when this happened? What was his role or non-role in the
most spectacular sin that ever was? So let’s take these
questions one at a time.
1) Satan’s Power in Judas’
Sinful Passions
When it says in Luke 22:3 that “Satan entered into Judas,”
how are we to think about the will of Judas and the power
of Satan? Judas was not an innocent bystander when Satan entered
into him. The apostle John tells us in John 12:6 that he was
a thief. When Judas complained that Mary had wasted money
in anointing Jesus, John comments, “He said this, not
because he cared about the poor, but because he was a thief,
and having charge of the moneybag he used to help himself
to what was put into it.”
If that sounds incredible, just
think of the scandalous behavior of so-called Christian leaders
today who use ministry gifts to buy $39,000 worth of clothes
at one store in a year, and send their kids on a $29,000 trip
to the Bahamas, and drive a white Lexus and a red Mercedes.
As Judas sat beside Jesus with his pious, religious face and
went out and cast out demons in Jesus’ name, he was
not a righteous lover of Jesus. He loved money. He loved the
power and pleasures that money could by.
Paul tells us how that works
together with Satan’s power. Listen to Ephesians 2:1-3:
“You were dead in the trespasses and sins in which you
once walked, following the course of this world, following
the prince of the power of the air [notice the connection:
dead in sins, following Satan], the spirit that is now at
work in the sons of disobedience—among whom we all once
lived in the passions of our flesh, carrying out the desires
of the body and the mind, and were by nature children of wrath,
like the rest of mankind.” Dead in our sins, walking
in the passions of the flesh, fulfilling the desires of body
and mind, and therefore following the prince of the power
of the air.
Satan does not take innocent
people captive. There are no innocent people. Satan has power
where sinful passions hold sway. Judas was a lover of money,
and he covered it with a phony, external relationship with
Jesus. And then he sold him for thirty pieces of silver. How
many of his tribe are there still today! Don’t be one.
And don’t be duped by one.
2) Satan’s Role in His
Own Destruction
The second question is why Satan would lead Judas to betray
Jesus. Doesn’t he know that the death and resurrection
of Jesus would result in Satan’s final defeat (Colossians
2:13-15; Revelation 12:11)? There’s good reason to think
Satan knew that.
When Jesus began his ministry
on the way to the cross, Satan tried to turn him away from
the path of suffering and sacrifice. In the wilderness, he
tempted him to turn stones into bread and jump off the temple
and get the rulership of the world by worshipping him (Matthew
4:1-11). The point of all these temptations is: Don’t
walk the path of suffering and sacrifice and death. Use your
power to escape suffering. If you’re the Son of God,
show your right to reign. And I can help you do it. Whatever
you do, don’t go to the cross.
Then do you remember the time
when Jesus predicted he would suffer many things from the
elders and the chief priests and be killed and Peter rebuked
him and said, “Far be it from you, Lord! This shall
never happen to you” (Matthew 16:22). In other words,
I will never let you be killed like that. Jesus did not commend
him. He said, “Get behind me, Satan! You are a hindrance
to me. For you are not setting your mind on the things of
God, but on the things of man” (Matthew 16:23). Hindering
Jesus from going to the cross was the work of Satan. Satan
did not want Jesus crucified. It would be his undoing.
But here he is in Luke 22:3
entering into Judas and leading him to betray the Lord and
bring him to the cross. Why the about face? Why try to divert
him from the cross and then take the initiative to bring him
to the cross? We are not told. Here is my effort at an answer:
Satan saw his efforts to divert Jesus from the cross failing.
Time after time, Jesus kept the course. His face was set like
flint to die, and Satan concludes that there is no stopping
him. Therefore he resolves that if he can’t stop it,
he will at least make it as ugly and painful and as heartbreaking
as possible. Not just death, but death by betrayal. Death
by abandonment. Death by denial (see Luke 22:31-32). If he
could not stop it, he would drag others into it and do as
much damage as he could. It was a spectacular sequence of
sins that brought Jesus to the cross.
3) God’s Role in the Murder
of His Son
Which brings us now to the third and final question—the
most important one: Where was God when this happened? Or more
precisely: What was God’s role or non-role in the most
spectacular sin that ever happened—the murder of Jesus
Christ?
To answer a question like that
we should put our hands on our mouths and silence our philosophical
speculations. Our opinions don’t count here. All that
counts is what God himself as shown us in his word. And the
first thing he shows us is that the details surrounding the
death of Jesus are prophesied in God’s word hundreds
of years before they happen.
The Scriptures prophesy that
evil men will reject Jesus when he comes.
Matthew 21:42: “Jesus
said to them (quoting Psalm 118:22), ‘Have you never
read in the Scriptures: “The stone that the builders
rejected has become the cornerstone; this was the Lord’s
doing, and it is marvelous in our eyes”?’”
The Scriptures prophesy that
Jesus must be hated.
In John 15:25, Jesus quoted
Psalm 35:19 and said, “The word that is written in their
Law must be fulfilled: ‘They hated me without a cause.’”
The Scriptures prophesy that
the disciples would abandon Jesus.
In Matthew 26:31, he quotes
Zechariah 13:7: “You will all fall away because of me
this night. For it is written, ‘I will strike the shepherd,
and the sheep of the flock will be scattered.’”
The Scriptures prophesy that
Jesus will be pierced but none of his bones will be broken.
John quotes Psalm 34:20 and
Zechariah 12:10 and says, “One of the soldiers pierced
his side with a spear. . . . For these things took place that
the Scripture might be fulfilled: ‘Not one of his bones
will be broken.’ And again another Scripture says, ‘They
will look on him whom they have pierced’” (John
19:34-37).
The Scriptures prophesy that
Jesus would be betrayed by a close friend for thirty pieces
of silver.
In John 13:18, Jesus cites Psalm
41:9 and says, “I am not speaking of all of you; I know
whom I have chosen. But the Scripture will be fulfilled, ‘He
who ate my bread has lifted his heel against me.’”
And in Matthew 26:24, Jesus
says, “The Son of Man goes as it is written of him,
but woe to that man by whom the Son of Man is betrayed!”
And in Matthew 27:9-10, it says,
“Then was fulfilled what had been spoken by the prophet
Jeremiah, saying, ‘And they took the thirty pieces of
silver, the price of him on whom a price had been set by some
of the sons of Israel, and they gave them for the potter’s
field, as the Lord directed me’” (Jeremiah 19:1-13;
Zechariah 11:12-13).
And not only the Scriptures,
but Jesus himself prophesies, down to the details, how he
will be killed.
In Mark 10:33-34, he says, “See,
we are going up to Jerusalem, and the Son of Man will be delivered
over to the chief priests and the scribes, and they will condemn
him to death and deliver him over to the Gentiles. And they
will mock him and spit on him, and flog him and kill him.
And after three days he will rise.”
And on that last night, Jesus
looked at Peter and said, “Truly, I tell you, this very
night, before the rooster crows, you will deny me three times”
(Matthew 26:34).
According to His Sovereign Will
From all these prophesies, we
know that God foresaw, and did not prevent, and therefore
included in his plan that his Son would be rejected, hated,
abandoned, betrayed, denied, condemned, spit upon, flogged,
mocked, pierced, and killed. All these are explicitly in God’s
mind before they happen as things that he plans will happen
to Jesus. These things did not just happen. They were foretold
in God’s word. God knew they would happen and could
have planned to stop them, but didn’t. So they happened
according to his sovereign will.
And all of them were evil. They
were sin. It is sin to reject, hate, abandon, betray, deny,
condemn, spit upon, flog, mock, pierce, and kill the morally
perfect, infinitely worthy, divine Son of God. And yet the
Bible is explicit and clear that God himself planned these
things. It is explicit not only in all the prophetic texts
we have seen, but also in passages that say even more plainly
that God brought these things to pass.
God Brought It to Pass
For example, in Isaiah 53:6
and 10, it says, “All we like sheep have gone astray;
we have turned—every one—to his own way; and the
Lord has laid on him the iniquity of us all. . . . It was
the will of the Lord to crush him; he has put him to grief.”
So behind the spitting and flogging and mocking and piercing
is the invisible hand and plan of God.
And I say that carefully and
with trembling. This truth is too big and too weighty and
too shocking to be glib about or to be cocky about. I choose
to say that the invisible hand and plan of God are behind
these most spectacular sins in all the universe—more
grievous and more spectacular than the fall of Satan or any
others. The reason I use these very words is because the Bible
says it in those very words.
The Hand and Plan of God
In Acts 4:27-28, we have the
clearest, most explicit statement about God’s hand and
plan behind the horrific crucifixion of his Son. “Truly
in this city there were gathered together against your holy
servant Jesus, whom you anointed, both Herod and Pontius Pilate,
along with the Gentiles and the peoples of Israel, to do whatever
your hand (cheir) and your plan (boule) had predestined to
take place.” Those are the two words I am using: the
hand of God and the plan of God.
It is a strange way of speaking—to
say that God’s hand and plan have predestined something
to happen. One does not ordinarily think of God’s “hand”
predestining. How does a hand predestine? Here’s what
I think it means: The hand of God ordinarily stands for God’s
exerted power—not power in the abstract, but earthly,
effective exertions of power. The point of combining it with
“plan” is to say that it is not just a theoretical
plan; it is plan that will be executed by God’s own
hand.
This explains Isaiah 53:10:
“It was the will of the Lord to bruise him; he has put
him to grief.” Or more literally, with the King James
Version, “It pleased the Lord to bruise him; he hath
put him to grief.” The Lord bruised him. Behind Herod
and Pilate and the Gentiles and the people of Israel was Jesus’
own Father who loved him with an infinite love.
The Gospel: God At Work in Death
Why should this matter to you? It should matter because if
God were not the main Actor in the death of Christ, then the
death of Christ could not save us from our sins and we would
perish in hell forever. The reason the death of Christ is
the heart of gospel—the heart of the good news—is
God was doing it. Romans 5:8: “God shows his love for
us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.”
If you break God’s activity from the death of Jesus,
you lose the gospel. This was God’s doing. It is the
highest and deepest point of his love for sinners. His love
for you.
Romans 8:3: “Sending his
own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and for sin, he condemned
sin in the flesh.” God condemned sin in Jesus’
flesh with our condemnation. So we are free.
Galatians 3:13: “Christ
redeemed us from the curse of the law by becoming a curse
for us.” God cursed Jesus with the curse that belonged
on us. So we are free.
2 Corinthians 5:21: “For
our sake [God] made him to be sin who knew no sin, so that
in him we might become the righteousness of God.” God
imputed our sin to him, and now we go free in God’s
righteousness.
Isaiah 53:5: “He was wounded
for our transgressions; he was crushed for our iniquities.”
God wounded him. God crushed him. For you and me. And we go
free.
The Cross of Christ: The Work
and Love of God
The reason why this series of messages matters is this. If
you embrace the biblical truth (and I pray you will) that
God ordains spectacular sins for the global glory of his Son,
without in anyway becoming unholy or unrighteous or sinful
in that act, then you will not shrink back from the cross
of Christ as a work of God. You will not be among the number
of those who call the most loving act that ever was “divine
child abuse.” You will come to the cross and fall on
your face. And you will say: This is no mere human conspiracy.
This is the work of God and the love of God. You will it receive
as his highest gift. And you will be saved. And Christ will
be glorified. And I will not have preached in vain.
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