Why would a Creator, whose Logic, Ingenuity, Cunning and Creativity know no bounds, create the seemingly foolishness of the Cross? Ready for an adventure?
We could start with Elohim, but we will start with Logos. It is where we get the word Logic. Logos in Academics, would be called Source-Inherent Truth-Axiomic-Seemless. Perfect. Nothing lacking. Nothing wasted. Nothing out of place or out of order. How would you test that?
Truth shines brighter under cross-examination and all other narratives collapse as their circular reasoning interdependencies are exposed in the details.
So God personified the Word and created an opponent to cross-examine it. Revelation begins to unfold...
Unfolding means the unveiling of a script. A script in the form of a matrix, where freewill and predetermined are perfectly integrated, neither imposing on the other.
A very awesome Cherub issued the challenge-God's Word and God's Law were not seemless. God said He placed His Word above His Name and allowed the Drama to unfold. Every nook and cranny would be tested for seemlessness. Freewill and Predestination would be put on trial, time and time again.
God gave Adam, Dominion over the earth and empowered him to subdue it. When Adam chose Lucifer, it put a new head over the human race and Adam's inheritence and empowerment went to Satan and Satan's inheritence went to Adam and a contaminated blood line.
God told Satan, in the garden, that Jesus was coming. Joseph's story was a foretelling, it parallels the path. It would be paralleled time and time again. The arrival would change the course of time and the unfolding would be the single greatest drama in the adventures of angels. [Angels do their work in the trenches-confronting demon powers everyday. Even though they believe the Word, they are amazed how it comes to pass...]
When Satan showed Jesus all the kingdoms of the earth, through time and offered them to Him in exchange for acknowledgement, he said, "For they were delivered unto me, to give to whomsoever I will." It was a legal transaction. Binding... and only he could give them away.
The Cross as bad as it was, is not the depth of the story. "For it is appointed for man to die once and after that, the Judgement." When Jesus became a man, he had to follow man's course under the Law. "Cursed is every man, who hangs on a tree." The Word under the Law and under the sign of a curse.
The strong bulls of Bashan in Psalms 22, were demon princes frolicking and nipping at each other, as they led Jesus away. They did it. They stopped Messiah and He was going to Sheol/Hades-their turf. It was legal and nothing could stop it. The angels stood afar off, watching and helpless to intervene.
Jesus went to Hell. Not the good place-Abraham's Bosom, He went to the pit. Not gehenna-The Lake of Fire, it has not been lit. He went to Hades-The pit of despair, where one is held by the chords that bind them from the condition within. Jesus was willing held by my chords...and yours. He stood accused under the Law.
But something happened. The High Court convened and He was called before it. Notice a trial never unfolds. It couldn't, The High Court had no Jurisdiction over Him. He was not in Adam's blood line and there was no sin seed in His blood. They couldn't try Him, but they had to have closure. They had to raise Him unto Life or raise Him unto Death. The High Court had to render a verdict.
The only choice they had was to bring forth Case Law-Law established in a matter to fulfill the meaning, purpose and consistency of set of laws that determine decisions and outcomes, irregardless of the accused. Case Law's purpose is to not only determine a decision, but to extablish a precedent.
-One thing about the High Court-it gives no consideration to credentials, accusations, excuses or external testimony. It only looks at what the accused themselves wrote in the fabric with every thought, word or action of every moment of everyday. The punishment will always fit the crime.-
The curse pertained to the depth of pit and the severity of despair in Hell's holding cell, not the outcome of the High Court. One has to be raised in the condition he was found.
The High Court's only choice was to create a New Blood Line, not under its Jurisdiction and raise Jesus into it; making Him, the Head of it and the first born into it. It wasn't option A, B or C. There was nothing else they could do.
The title deed and empowerment had been given to man, not angels, but before, there was no one else to claim inheritence.The High Court rendered the transfer of ownership in the Resurrection to bring closure to an open docket [The Restoration Clause of the Law.]. The Perfect Word under the Perfect Law. Seemless.
How do we know that? Because the only way out of Sheol/Hades is through the High Court, just like the only way out of jail is through the court.
The Stone that was rolled away was the physical represention of Jesus' cell in Sheol. No reason to lock an empty cell. The High Court had convened.
Satan's greatest victory was his greatest defeat and it was by his own hand. Jesus was in check, every play of the match- from the garden to the pit, until the final move made and the board lit up... Checkmate. A chessmaster playing The Chessmaster.
Man now has a choice and freely choosing the New Birth in the New Blood Line, takes him out from under the High Court's Jurisdiction of The Law of Sin and Death. That is the Victory of Cross-The Resurrection. Jesus will be Messiah of Isreal, but first, He became Savior of man.
I am so glad. I am the most flawed creature on the planet, but I am not under jurisdiction of the High Court. [But I do spend lots of quality time in God's Woodshed... :-))) ]
Some say Christianity is a religion of laws and lacks adventure; but I have just proven we are saved by grace, not works. I think, that some think that a Christian's only adventure is to have the Ten Commandments in one hand and a big stick in the other, looking for a sinner to whack...:-}}}
A true Christian's only purpose in this life is to attempt to snatch another soul from Hell's grip by praying without ceasing, loving one another and bearing one another's burdens; but until one has gotten a glimpse of God's Ingenuity and Adventuresome Spirit, one has no idea of the Adventure waiting on them. It's just that one does not see the Adventure on this side as the battleground is in the ethereal realm.
Have a great day!
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