Daily Manna – January 18, 2016
Topic: From the beginning it was not so 64
Scripture: He saith unto them, Moses because of the hardness of your hearts suffered you to put away your wives: but from the beginning it was not so. (Matt 19:8)
Note: “Then said Jesus, Father, forgive them; for they know not what they do. And they parted his raiment, and cast lots.” (Luke 23:34)
Why would a normal person, right from the head of the religious establishment, the rulers, soldiers and the people deride and make mockery of a non violent man like Christ Jesus? A man who wiped their tears by raising the dead. A man who fed five thousand famished men in the desert. A man who healed the sick, and restored sight to the blind. The deaf and dumb received their hearing and could speak again. A man who restored lepers to normalcy, and restored the crippled and paralyzed. He brought so much hope and joy to the ordinary people in the streets, they shouted Hosanna to his name.
This renewed belief in Jesus revived the hope of a coming Messiah to such an extent that his final entry into Jerusalem was welcomed with resonating sounds of joy, hope and salvation to the Jews. This renewed hope however, presented a different kind of threat to the religious ruling class whose fear of reprisals for their double standards, hypocrisy and treachery, stand to be badly exposed to the unsuspecting public by Jesus, whose uncompromising clean up in the temple denied them an important income source, the temple tax.
A regime change with Jesus at the helm of affairs as the Messiah would definitely find these shady and heartless leaders jobless. They knew Jesus. They knew themselves and knew what must be done to avert their own downfall. Jesus must definitely fall through fair or foul means, and surely did they stage-manage his death.
Food for thought: To the ordinary man, Jesus’ death was a misfortune, but to God, it is the completion of the redemption plan.
Declaration: When Jesus therefore had received the vinegar, he said, It is finished: and he bowed his head, and gave up the ghost. (John 19:30)
© Author: Rev Fred Aboe
