Sounds like the cries of the Son of God and Persecution.

Many are familiar with the Son of God at the cross where He took on the sin of the world. It wasn’t so much only the sin He took on, but the judgment and condemnation of all the pain and ill effects associated with sin and death. And He took it on NOT for some but for all time for everybody who is willing to accept Christs payment on their behalf for the exchange from death to life according to godliness. And the exchange rate here is 1 to 1. One dead man for a new one, one after another. That’s a pretty good deal.

John 3. ¹⁶ For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believes in Him should not perish (live a life of dying) but have everlasting life (retroactive starting with confession). ¹⁷ For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world (or shut it down), but for the world through Him to be saved”. Meaning returned to it’s initial purpose of producing godly offspring. And because creation only reflects the condition of the hearts of people, so the world wasn’t saved so much but the hearts of all would be believers were at stake. That’s because the earth and all it is was made for man, not the other way around. It wasn’t until Adam sinned till he was told to till the earth, showing us the fall or, the inversion of thinking.

So when the earth seems to be waining and fading, that is because the hearts of men are and NOT because of climate change or global warming. Those are both symptoms of the human condition that is not right with God. When God finished creating and looked upon it and said it was good, He played out all the variables, and it adapted perfectly for it’s purpose.

This is the litmus test of time because as long as the hearts and minds of the people were right with God, this is what righteous means, so too creation would remain “good, very good” throughout it’s harvest times and seasons. The seasons are in reference to God harvesting the godly or god-like among people in general. “But when Christ comes will He really find the just on the earth?” This would be His final reckoning and collecting and not to save. We are already in the saving timeframe.

We can read of that account whereby the Son of God refused to deny that He was King when He was on trial saying “for this reason I have come into the world”. Showing us His pre-existing eternal value, and what the prize was for Him coming here which is us. In truth when He defended the title of Him being King, He did it not so much for Himself but for us who would be the recipients of the shared kingship in “The Kingdom of God at hand, that Adam and Eve turned from. Christ was restoring it by Him coming here in our likeness because in the beginning we were made in His image and likeness and lost it. So He became our way back to the Father, to share the goods that belongs to Him that He gave to us in the beginning, meaning everything. Didn’t Christ say that, to those who overcome He would Grant them power over the nation’s?

But you see scripture says that He was smitten for us, and just like the childs game with Mexican Pinatas, with a stuffed figure full of candy hanging on a stick. When stricken, all the goods come out for the kids satisfaction. So too with the cross of Christ scripture says that “He was striken for us and by His stripes we are healed”. It is there we get the goods for all our health care needs, our quality and satisfaction of life.

Just like Moses was instructed to hold up a pole with a dead snake wrapped around (like the healthcare field) it so that when one looks at it, they can be healed from all manner of sickness, desease and snake bites. Not only does this represent the Cross of Christ, but it exposes who the counterfeits are “with all lying signs if possible to decieve the elect”. The counterfeit stole that logo for deceptive means.

For this reason the cross is where we go for all of our necessary instruments of Godliness to become like The Son of God. “For even the angels in heaven behold the face of the Father in these little ones.” Not only do we get the goods “that pertain to life and godliness”, but we are free from the condemnation due, and the self inflicted anguish and pain of death associated with fear and guilt. Christ died to set us free from those symptoms, so that we wouldn’t have to experience that kind of death. In truth, we all loose our bodies. But in Gods time frame. When He is done with us here He can take us home and He doesn’t need modern medicines help. He created His creation as “very good” and He did not forget something or create things half way in hopes that mankind would hurry up and evolve to make their cures to save everyone on the planet. That’s what a Savior does. So you’ve been warned.

So many may ask, well what about those who die an excruciating death? Like maybe even a slow death through torture? Well if you can understand and trust the one who designed and made you, the same one who said that “I will never leave you or forsake you”. To leave you forsaken”. You could know that when and IF that time comes, He can jetasine your spirit and conscious right out of your human body because He designed a rip cord for that cause. Didn’t Paul teach in Romans that the body is dead because of sin and therefore you are raised in newness of life? That by faith you are already raised from the dead? That death no longer has dominion over such a one? For God to overlook this simple gift already given, puts one at risk of double Jeopardy. But Gods word is true, “I will never forsake you”, or leave you forsaken.

It is at this point we can understand that with Christ at the cross and with His dying words of Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani”, meaning “My God My God why have you forsaken me?” The answer is that God made a deal with the Son to let Him take on the sin and death of the world so that at the point of death that belongs to each person of the world through all time could by faith place their sin on that man, with all its pain and sorrow so that the recipients wouldn’t have to endure it. Scripture says that Christ was despised and rejected for us all. This doesn’t mean because of us but for our sake.

It’s like this. If I promised to take on a task for you, let’s say to wallow through a raging river to retrieve your child from being swept away by a current. That means it was done for you to spare you the possibility of dying yourself, so that you would be saved from a certain death yourself and you’re beloved. That is what Christ did for us. And IF we truly understood that Christ to on our infirmities, sicknesses and death, it did that to spare us from the raging river we percieve in dying, so that the fear of that is not even entertained in your thinking.

Oh the blessedness of having a Savior like The Son of God.

23 The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want.

² He maketh me to lie down in green pastures: he leadeth me beside the still waters.

³ He restoreth my soul: he leadeth me in the paths of righteousness for his name’s sake.

⁴ Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me.

⁵ Thou preparest a table before me in the presence of mine enemies: thou anointest my head with oil; my cup runneth over.

⁶ Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life: and I will dwell in the house of the Lord for ever.

(Shadows have no real substance)

We see this with the marytr Steven. With Saul/Paul standing by holding the garments, and jackets of the murderers. As they had Stephen on the ground and stoning him about the head and face, Stephens testimony was that, He saw the Son of God standing, hand out, as if to recieve him, and He did. This shows us that Stephen felt not the pain but the Glory, Gods Glory. And what about the pain? Stephen didn’t feel a pinprick. That was laid at the cross too. Not like at the ground in front of it, but on Christ because He was striken for us.

Anytime throughout all time unto eternity all the pain, sorrow and death belonged to The Son of God, and The New Testament is your receipt that it was “paid in full”. No down payments, no credit checks no other installments, no terms and conditions or cookies installed. You are free!  And because He purchased our sin with His death, all the ill effects belong to Him. This is the gospel message, this is the (singular) truth, all others compete with for your soul.

So then, when we read that He will never forsake us, and the promise to those that overcome? Christ said that “I will save you from the trial that shall come upon the whole earth to test those who dwell therein (Revelation 2). He saves us from dying and all its various stages because that’s what a Savior does start to finish. To “deliver those who all their lifetime were subject to the fear of death”, to fear no more. If He didn’t take the pains and long drawn out prosses associated with death too, then He didn’t really pay for it in full but in part, but with His last words on the cross, He said that “it is finished”. Salvation is complete A to Z. And He demonstrated His work by “healing all manner of deseases (minus none) and raised the dead”, so that you would know that those are part of the Salvation package. How remarkable!

So anytime you are threatened with fear of death and the tragedy of death, loneliness and isolation, place it on the Lamb of God. And as the Israelites in the wilderness we’re instructed to do so and send the lamb on it’s way. This was to picture God’s departure and removal of that sin “as far as the east is from the west”. How glorious!

Human death for us just means unfettered Glory because that is what the Son of God gave us in exchange for our death. So we can pretty much let go and let God kick in by giving these back to Him as the true owner of what He paid for. Our freedom from these things. “Those who the Son set free are truly free. Pretty good deal huh?

The Kingdom of God is emphatically at hand. Meaning graspable and attainable before your physical abandonment of your carnal capsule. God knows how and when you shall go. All you can do is to resist kick and fight, and put your trust in others less capable of loving you till the end. Christ did so without demanding any payment on your part but praising Him for such a great salvation package.

So truely since, NOT if, but since salvation is complete in this way, then you don’t need to wrangle with your own consciousness or God to try to prove or flounder as if these truths aren’t so and argue and complain, but live the rest of your life as if things are just fine. You can’t save yourself. As a matter of fact you can’t save anything. Not your neighbor, a co-worker or a family member, not even yourself. Go, be free. Those whom the Son sets free are truly free. Learn what that means.