Tehillah Generation Chapel
Daily Manna| Tuesday, August 28, 2018 | Topic: Conscience 109
Scripture: And when they saw Joseph afar off, even before he came near to them, they conspired against him to slay him. Genesis 37:18
Note: The facts supporting the assertion that Jesus was scourged, brutalised, humiliated, crucified on the cross, died, resurrected from the dead, lived on earth for 40 days, before ascending to heaven in the full glare of many disciples, with the promise to return one day, are facts that became the empowering legacy of His disciples, who were never the same again after the promise of the Holy Spirit had been fulfilled ten days after His ascension into glory.
The facts concerning the life of Jesus Christ could sound confrontational to any adversary to Christianity or the life of Jesus. The forceful nature of the Gospel of Jesus Christ was born out of the crucible of twelve fearful disciples who had all run into a hideout after Jesus was crucified. The death of Jesus was a massive failure to a nurturing dream of a utopian political future, which hope seemed to have risen to a crescendo at the triumphant entry of Jesus to Jerusalem in the week of the Passover feast.
If the electrifying welcome of Jesus to Jerusalem, whom His detractors; the Pharisees, the Sadducees and the religious leaders in Jerusalem so much hated and wanted dead, was anything to go by, then the powerful voices of the vast majority of the masses who trumpeted the name of Jesus Christ as the Messiah coming in the name of the Lord, put every contrary fear harboured by the disciples to sleep. Those who needed to worry were the religious elites whose stranglehold on the ignorant masses seemed to be drawing to an end.
Such was the high drama of mixed emotions in an electrifying atmosphere in Jerusalem that the very foundations of an establishment that had persisted for hundreds of years, masterfully reinventing itself even under the watchful eyes of despotic Roman rule to retain their relevance in society, showed the extent to which political hegemony and religious stranglehold could strangely find unanimity in a hostile environment against a common enemy. Jesus was this common enemy who was craftily and deceitfully traded off in exchange for political gains on the other side, to serve the dual, wicked and unjust purposes of a world system that would stop at nothing to achieve its worldly gains.
Food for thought: Just when evil collusion of wicked men thought they had Jesus put out forever, only to realise the mistake of His death as the beginning of the redemption of man.
Declaration: Forasmuch then as the children are partakers of flesh and blood, He also likewise took part of the same; that through death He might destroy him that had the power of death, that is the devil. Heb 2:14
©Author: Rev Fred Aboe
