8-26-2018 Weekly Message
The contemplation of the week: Psalm 22:1-31
Text: John 19:14-24
The Word of God: The Divine Will of Christ Jesus died in Jerusalem
Immediately after Adam and Eve sinned against God, God planned to make Jerusalem a city on earth. God also planned that His only begotten Christ Jesus, to die in this city, to be a sacrifice for all the sins of the world. He also planned to restore the Garden of Eden, where Adam and Eve sinned in Jerusalem, the city of peace. Because of this, God told the devil, the serpent that brought sin, to make the garden of sin into the garden of peace in the future:
” And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel..” (Genesis 3:15)
God has long ago chosen a people to be His spiritual woman, and that God had made his own begotten Son appear in Jerusalem in the name of Jesus as the seed of the woman. God planned, the seed of the serpent crucify Jesus Christ, the woman’s seed in Jerusalem where is Eden in the old days, to destroy his heel. He also said that Jesus Christ, like the first man driven out of the Garden of Eden, will cast out the devil, the old serpent into the eternal lake of fire bruising hid head.
God began his work four thousand years ago to remove the sin, death, and curses that the devil brought to this world. Abraham is the first person to be called for God’s ministry. When God called Abraham, he promised him to give eternal life to all nations in his seed that shall be his only begotten Son Jesus:
” Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father’s house, unto a land that I will shew thee:2And I will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee, and make thy name great; and thou shalt be a blessing:3And I will bless them that bless thee, and curse him that curseth thee: and in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed. “(Genesis 12: 1-3)
God planned Abraham to bring his Israelites to the land of Canaan, the land of Palestine. He planned to build a city in Jerusalem where was the Garden of Eden in the old days, and set up a temple in which he would dwell, He planned to receive his only begotten Jesus Christ as a sacrifice to remove sin through forgiveness. He also foretold that all the tribes of the earth shall receive eternal blessings that is eternal life through Jesus Christ (This is the promise of the Holy Spirit ; Gal. 3:14).
Finally God called Abraham again and swore to him that he would give the land of Palestine to be occupied by his descendants. At that time the land of Palestine was already inhabited by other tribes:
” And it came to pass, that, when the sun went down, and it was dark, behold a smoking furnace, and a burning lamp that passed between those pieces.
18In the same day the LORD made a covenant with Abram, saying, Unto thy seed have I given this land, from the river of Egypt unto the great river, the river Euphrates:19The Kenites, and the Kenizzites, and the Kadmonites,20And the Hittites, and the Perizzites, and the Rephaims,21And the Amorites, and the Canaanites, and the Girgashites, and the Jebusites. “(Gen. 15: 17-21 )
God called Abraham again and told him to bring his only son, Isaac, to a mountain in the land of Moriah, to submit as a sacrifice to God. When Abraham took the wood for the burnt offering and laid upon Isaac and climbed the mountain and tied Isaac and tried to kill him with the sword. At that moment, the angel of the Lord appeared from heaven and told him not to kill his son. God wanted to show us a picture of Jesus Christ going up the road to Golgotha on the Mount of Moriah, which will be Jerusalem in the future, with a wooden cross on his back. It is also a preview of Jesus Christ taking a ram instead of Isaac and offer it as a sacrifice so that Jesus will become the Lamb of God in the city of Jerusalem and remove the sin of the world. At this time Abraham called the name of the place Jehovahjireh, and said, “in the mount of the LORD, It shall be seen.”
Finally, God gave Abraham’s grandson Jacob a new name, Israel, and led his descendants to the land of Egypt where was Joseph, and under the Pharaoh they had to be afflicted severely for four hundred years. Finally, God sent Moses and Aaron,
And gave them the law in the wilderness, and because of their wickedness God had made them wander for forty years, and only except Joshua and Caleb of the millions out of Egypt, and they all fell down to death in the wilderness. Only the children born in the wilderness were circumcised, and Joshua brought them into the land of Canaan.
The Israelites who entered the Promised Land did not obey the law given by God but served their idols, and by the hand of God they were disciplined by Babylon and other nations to a terrible podium. When they were in the Dark Ages, when God had not spoken to them for four hundred years after the prophet of Malachi, they fell into a state of spiritual and physical miseries. When they were under Roman Empire, God finally had a woman conceived his only-begotten Son in the name of Jesus through the Holy Spirit, so that as God spoke to the serpent in the Garden of Eden, he became the seed of the woman and appeared in Jerusalem, .
The Apostle Paul testified about Jesus who appeared to the world:
” And so it is written, The first man Adam was made a living soul; the last Adam was made a quickening spirit.46Howbeit that was not first which is spiritual, but that which is natural; and afterward that which is spiritual.47The first man is of the earth, earthy: the second man is the Lord from heaven.”( 1 Corinthians 15: 45-47)
That’s right! Jesus is the last Adam and the second man. The first man, Adam, did not overcome the temptations of the serpent, but sinned, died, and cursed by sin, and brought sin into the Eden, a beautiful garden created by God, but the second man, through his death took away the Root of sin that is original sin from God’s Garden of Eden and gave eternal life to all who believe in Him by resurrection. Therefore, he gave eternal life to all those who believe that the Lord Jesus Christ, the last Adam, died for our sins according to the scriptures, and was buried and resurrected on the third day according to the scriptures (1 Corinthians 15: 1-4). And he made us be sons of God, the family of God, from the sons of Adam, who gave death to the world.
God of Justice allowed the devil to crucify his Jesus of no sin, his only begotten Son, in Jerusalem same place as the Garden of Eden to take away the sin of the world. God fulfilled his word in the garden of Eden spoken the serpent, “Thou shall bruise his heel.”
God will send His only begotten Lord Jesus Christ to the earth and will judge all the nations that do not believe in Him and bring all Jews and Gentiles who believe in Him to Jerusalem, the ancient Garden of Eden, to restore Eden to Jerusalem. Also, the Lord will be LORD of LOPRDS and KING of KINGS. In addition, he will renew the desolate land. The prophet testified about the kingdom of Christ and the restored Eden:
” And it shall come to pass in the last days, that the mountain of the LORD’S house shall be established in the top of the mountains, and shall be exalted above the hills; and all nations shall flow unto it.
3And many people shall go and say, Come ye, and let us go up to the mountain of the LORD, to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths: for out of Zion shall go forth the law, and the word of the LORD from Jerusalem.4And he shall judge among the nations, and shall rebuke many people: and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruninghooks: nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more.
5O house of Jacob, come ye, and let us walk in the light of the LORD. “(Isa. 2: 2-5)
“ The wolf also shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the kid; and the calf and the young lion and the fatling together; and a little child shall lead them.
7And the cow and the bear shall feed; their young ones shall lie down together: and the lion shall eat straw like the ox.8And the sucking child shall play on the hole of the asp, and the weaned child shall put his hand on the cockatrice’ den.9They shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain: for the earth shall be full of the knowledge of the LORD, as the waters cover the sea.
…… Then the eyes of the blind shall be opened, and the ears of the deaf shall be unstopped.
6Then shall the lame man leap as an hart, and the tongue of the dumb sing: for in the wilderness shall waters break out, and streams in the desert. ” (Isaiah 11: 6-9; 35: 5-6)