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On Friday 29th of March 2024 Christians around the world celebrate what is called Good Friday. The title of our message “The darkest day” was chosen because according to the scriptural account, darkness fell on the Earth at the sixth hour. And when the sixth hour came, darkness came over all the land until the ninth hour. Mark 15:33 |
On Friday 29th of March 2024 Christians around the world celebrate what is called Good Friday. The title of our message “The darkest day” was chosen because according to the scriptural account, darkness fell on the Earth at the sixth hour. And when the sixth hour came, darkness came over all the land until the ninth hour. Mark 15:33 |
On Friday 29th of March 2024 Christians around the world celebrate what is called Good Friday. The title of our message “The darkest day” was chosen because according to the scriptural account, darkness fell on the Earth at the sixth hour. And when the sixth hour came, darkness came over all the land until the ninth hour. Mark 15:33 |
For he is the complete fullness of deity living in human form. And our own completeness is now found in him. We are completely filled with God as Christ’s fullness overflows within us. He is the Head of every kingdom and authority in the universe! Through our union with him we have experienced circumcision of heart. All of the guilt and power of sin has been cut away and is now extinct because of what Christ, the Anointed One, has accomplished for us. For we’ve been buried with him into his death. Our “baptism into death” also means we were raised with him when we believed in God’s resurrection power, the power that raised him from death’s realm. This “realm of death” describes our former state, for we were held in sin’s grasp. But now, we’ve been resurrected out of that “realm of death” never to return, for we are forever alive and forgiven of all our sins! He canceled out every legal violation we had on our record and the old arrest warrant that stood to indict us. He erased it all—our sins, our stained soul—he deleted it all and they cannot be retrieved! Everything we once were in Adam has been placed onto his cross and nailed permanently there as a public display of cancellation. Then Jesus made a public spectacle of all the powers and principalities of darkness, stripping away from them every weapon and all their spiritual authority and power to accuse us. And by the power of the cross, Jesus led them around as prisoners in a procession of triumph. He was not their prisoner; they were his! Colossians 2:9-15 |
AZAZEL I would like you to take some time and read Leviticus chapter sixteen. As you do, please think of what Jesus did for us and remember that He was our Kohen Gadol, or our Great High Priest. What God commanded Aaron to do, Jesus did in fulfillment. Aaron was to offer a young bull as a sin offering and a lamb as a burnt offering, to wash himself and dress himself in the priestly garments and then to take to goats from the people for a sin offering and a burnt offering. If Jesus had to do likewise, it had to take some time, but He was that offering! Aaron then had to place them at the opening of the tent of meeting and cast lots for the offering. Lots were cast with Jesus' clothing. One Goat was for God, The other was called Azazel The goat chosen for God was sacrificed. The Azazel was set free. The sins of the people were symbolically transferred to the goat as it went into the wilderness and never seen again. A Jewish tradition states that the priest tied a red ribbon to this goat and if God accepted this transferral, the ribbon turned white as it wandered off. I cannot substantiate that, but the concept is interesting. What I shall say however is that Jesus is our sacrificial goat and that our sins were placed on that scapegoat. |
When He knew He had fulfilled this part of making sacrifice, He cried out in triumph teleō It is finshed. What many people think was a sad day, or a dark day, was sad and dark indeed, but may I say that it is from our human perspective. From God’s viewpoint, it was a triumph. Everything that could possibly separate us from God has been eradicated and we are now reconciled, adopted as Sons and Daughters of the King. It is not a Jewish Passover, but because Jesus is our Passover, I wish you Chag, Pesach Sameach. Robert |
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