Re: THE SUFFERING SERVANT-ON THE ROMAN CROSS.

Admin Sun 31 Mar 2024, 8:38 pm

THE SUFFERING SERVANT-ON THE ROMAN CROSS. Shroud10

Deacon Len Long
The Shroud is woven flax, made by a professional-quality weaver, which was likely only to have been owned by a wealthy man (e.g., Joseph of Arimathea).
The flax fibers are traceable to the Eastern Mediterranean or the Middle East.

The stitching is identical to an artifact found at Masada in Israel, dated between 40 BC and AD 73.
And the cloth has been otherwise dated to between 300 BC and 300 AD.
Chemical and biological testing proves that there are blood stains on the Shroud, of blood type AB and antigen group MNS. Moreover, there are no paint pigments of any kind on the Shroud—eliminating the possibility that the Shroud is some sort of supremely clever artistic forgery.

The Shroud bears the image of a grown male, five feet eleven inches tall, with shoulder length hair and a beard—a man who had suffered crucifixion in the Roman fashion.

Admin Sun 31 Mar 2024, 1:55 pm

Of Saturday Blues and Sunday Triumph
By: Lyn Chaffart
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March 30, 2024

“Joseph took the body and wrapped it in a long sheet of clean linen cloth. He placed it in his own new tomb, which had been carved out of the rock. Then he rolled a great stone across the entrance and left. Both Mary Magdalene and the other Mary were sitting across from the tomb and watching.” (Matthew 27:59-61 NLT)

It is Saturday, that day that must have seemed endless to the disciples and others who mourned Jesus’ death. All of their hopes and dreams. Dashed. There would be no one to rescue them from the roman oppression. They were doomed forever.

I can relate. When my husband was first given medication for his Alzheimer’s, and after taking just one dose, he returned to being sweet and tender and kind, just like the man I had known for so many years. I even began to hope that maybe we would have many more years where I could manage his care at home. Imagine my total disappointment when out of the blue, he returned to his former, non-medicated behaviour. All of my hopes and dreams. Dashed. There would be no relief from the Alzheimer’s behaviours.

I suspect you can all relate as well. That prayed for job interview, and you weren’t offered the job. The cancer wellness check reveals a return of cancer. The peaceful resolution of your marriage broken in a moment of passion. The summer storm that took out your excellent crop of wheat.

I could go on.

The problem is, none of Jesus’ close friends and followers realized that Sunday was coming! Their tears, their fears, their worry, their grief was all for naught! Why? Because Sunday morning Jesus rose from the grave! They had hoped for an earthly king to deliver them from the roman oppression. What they got was far better: Deliverance from spiritual oppression! Deliverance from death! Eternal life!

Meanwhile, a few blocks away, there was great concern amongst the Jewish and Roman leaders. Even though it was the Sabbath, and not just any Sabbath, but the Sabbath of Passover, the Jewish leaders went to see Pilot: “They told him, ‘Sir, we remember what that deceiver once said while he was still alive: “After three days I will rise from the dead.” So we request that you seal the tomb until the third day. This will prevent his disciples from coming and stealing his body and then telling everyone he was raised from the dead! If that happens, we’ll be worse off than we were at first.’” (Matthew 27:63-64 NLT).

Isn’t it interesting to note that Jesus’ followers mourned because they didn’t believe He would rise again, while Jesus’ enemies were busy taking precautions in case He did? They had more faith than Jesus’ followers!

Are you in a Saturday of life? If so, remember that Saturday so many years ago when Jesus’ body lay in a tomb. Remember that the tears and fears and worry and grief were all for nothing! Remember that God is at work in your story. He has a greater plan than you can even imagine, for: “And we know that God causes everything to work together for the good of those who love God and are called according to his purpose for them.” (Romans 8:28 NLT); and we also know that, “God has made everything beautiful for its own time.” (Eccl. 3:11a NLT)! Take that step in faith that was shown by Jesus’ enemies! Believe in Resurrection Sunday, when everything that you are going through will be turned into something beautiful!

Remember, tomorrow we commemorate Jesus’ resurrection. Have a blessed Easter!

In His love,
Lyn

Lynona Gordon Chaffart
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Admin Sun 31 Mar 2024, 1:31 pm

A day to contemplate the brutality of Christ's suffering

It’s Good Friday, which means that tonight I’m probably going to lose the last ten pounds of baby weight in tears while watching "The Passion of the Christ." When the movie originally came out, critics panned director Mel Gibson for “excessive gore” and “sadism.” I hear similar critiques today. It reminds me of those from people who f ...
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Admin Sat 30 Mar 2024, 7:44 pm

Gospel of Luke 24
1 But on the first day of the week, at early dawn, they came unto the tomb, bringing the spices which they had prepared. 2 And they found the stone rolled away from the tomb. 3 And they entered in, and found not the body of the Lord Jesus.
Hewbrew first day of the week is Saturday
Judaism the Sabbath is on Saturday, while in Christianity it is on Sunday, SunNone Good but God.
Preach the WORD Bible Studies.
The Evening & the Morning.
The Seventh Day. The Sabbath.
Saturday, March 30, 2024.
The Morning.
Luke 18:19 (KJV)
19 And Jesus said unto him, Why callest thou me good? none is good, save one, that is, God.
Moslems quote this verse as proof that the LORD Jesus was not God but just another Prophet. They say that Christ Condemns himself out of his own mouth, by saying there is none good but God.
In Chapter ten of the Gospel of John we read this;
John 10:11 (KJV)
11 I am the [good] shepherd: the [good] shepherd giveth his life for the sheep.
We cannot take one scripture in isolation, all of scripture fits together and tells the whole truth.
Peter from a Hebrew perspective refers to him slightly different;
1 Peter 5:4 (KJV)
4 And when [the chief Shepherd] shall appear, ye shall receive a crown of glory that fadeth not away.
There are many Shepherds in Israel but Peter marks him out above them all, the only one to bare the title of Shepherd of Israel.
Psalms 80:1 (KJV)
1 To the chief Musician upon Shoshannimeduth, A Psalm of Asaph. Give ear, O [Shepherd of Israel], thou that leadest Joseph like a flock; [thou that dwellest between the cherubims], shine forth.
WHO but God himself dwells between the cherubims above the Mercy seat, we must take the Whole Testimony of scripture to gain a grasp of the whole truth.day is considered the beginning of the week in both religious traditions.

Admin Sat 30 Mar 2024, 6:14 pm

Matthew 27:62-28:15
The Guard at the Tomb
62 The next day, the one after Preparation Day, the chief priests and the Pharisees went to Pilate. 63 “Sir,” they said, “we remember that while he was still alive that deceiver said, ‘After three days I will rise again.’ 64 So give the order for the tomb to be made secure until the third day. Otherwise, his disciples may come and steal the body and tell the people that he has been raised from the dead. This last deception will be worse than the first.”

65 “Take a guard,” Pilate answered. “Go, make the tomb as secure as you know how.” 66 So they went and made the tomb secure by putting a seal on the stone and posting the guard.

THE SUFFERING SERVANT-ON THE ROMAN CROSS. Jesust11

Admin Sat 30 Mar 2024, 5:43 pm

THE SUFFERING SERVANT-ON THE ROMAN CROSS. 84340711

The Guard at the Tomb
62 The next day, the one after Preparation Day, the chief priests and the Pharisees went to Pilate. 63 “Sir,” they said, “we remember that while he was still alive that deceiver said, ‘After three days I will rise again.’ 64 So give the order for the tomb to be made secure until the third day. Otherwise, his disciples may come and steal the body and tell the people that he has been raised from the dead. This last deception will be worse than the first.”

65 “Take a guard,” Pilate answered. “Go, make the tomb as secure as you know how.” 66 So they went and made the tomb secure by putting a seal on the stone and posting the guard.

Jesus Has Risen
28 After the Sabbath, at dawn on the first day of the week, Mary Magdalene and the other Mary went to look at the tomb.

2 There was a violent earthquake, for an angel of the Lord came down from heaven and, going to the tomb, rolled back the stone and sat on it. 3 His appearance was like lightning, and his clothes were white as snow. 4 The guards were so afraid of him that they shook and became like dead men.

Admin Mon 16 Apr 2018, 10:15 pm

THE SUFFERING SERVANT-ON THE ROMAN CROSS. Floggi10

THE SUFFERING SERVANT-ON THE ROMAN CROSS. Jesusb11

THE SUFFERING SERVANT
ON THE ROMAN CROSS..
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No grief is so sore.
No shame is so perfect.
No death is so ugly, so cruel, so horrible, so thorough.
First, there was the scourging.
The scourging post was two feet high. An iron ring, placed close to the top, projected from both sides.
Clothing was ripped away from a prisoner so that he stood naked.
Wrists were firmly tied to the iron rings. Then the victim was stretched, face down, with his feet pointing away from the post.
Even the tension of awaiting the first blow is cruel. The muscles knot in tormenting cramps.
Colour drains from the cheeks. Lips are drawn tight against the teeth. The body, in fear is rigid.
The Roman whip was a flagra (flagrum),-- a short-handled whip made of several thin iron chains or 9 leather cords with cracked sheep-bones inserted in the leather, that ended in small weights and hooks-- a scourge for stripping the flesh off a person's body, piece by piece.
Scourging was called the "little death".
It came before the "big death": Crucifixion.
Roman lictors were professionals. They confined their labours to the fine, brutal art of scourging, and they could easily beat a victim to death.
As the whip descends, the chains fan out across the back, and each link cuts through the skin and deep into the flesh.
- [ ] The weights crash with bruising force into the ribs and curl tortuously around the chest and abdomen.
- [ ] The hooks dig in, and harrow the abdomen as the whip is pulled back for the next blow.
- [ ] A man being scourged knows pain beyond the memory of pain.
- [ ] Sweat bursts from the brow and stings the eyes.
- [ ] At each stroke of the flagra, a victim's body twitches like a beheaded chicken.
- [ ] The second stroke patterns the back and half of the chest with a V-shaped network of small cuts.
- [ ] Only Wonderful has been able to hold back the high-pitched wail of unbearable agony, as the very juice of life is torn away with every lash, as the whistle of the flagra in the air, and the harrowing of the back and shoulders blinds the victim with burning pain.
- [ ] Blood with minced flesh spatters the floor.
- [ ] The flagra can flay a man alive.
- [ ] Hebrew law limited the strokes to 39, but Roman punishment was not so limited. There was only one rule for the lictor who scourged a man about to be crucified: he must not die.
- [ ] A spark of life must be sustained for the agony on the cross.
- [ ] Men have bitten their tongues in two under such beatings.
- [ ] Only blessed unconsciousness could bring relief.
- [ ] The limp body of a victim was cut away from the post. His wounds were washed but not otherwise medicated. The next step was the parade to the execution ground. Roman politicians always liked to make examples of condemned men.
- [ ] The long, slow parade along public streets was designed to serve as a warning to others that Rome dealt quickly and mercilessly.
- [ ] A centurion usually served as the executioner or carnifex servorum.
- [ ] While four soldiers held the prisoner, he placed the sharp five-inch iron spike in the centre of the palm of the hand. A skilful, experienced blow would send it through to the wood of the cross-beam (patibulum). Four to five more strokes would hammer the spike deep into the rough plank, and a final blow turned it up so that the hand could not slip free.
- [ ] A small projection resembling a rhinoceros horn, and known as the ‘sedile’, is solidly fitted halfway up the already planted vertical beam. This took much of the victim’s weight off his hands when, nailed onto the cross-beam, he was lifted up and made to ‘sit’ (by the crotch) on the sedile.
- [ ] Then, with the knees slightly bent and one foot over the other, a spike is driven through the feet into the vertical beam.
- [ ] It was a death reserved for slaves, thieves and traitors.
- [ ] The wounds in the hands send fire down through the arms.
- [ ] Fainting only relieves temporarily.
- [ ] The cross is planted so that the sun shines directly into the eyes of the crucified.
- [ ] Even when the eyelids are closed (to evade the gaze of the crowd) a red glare penetrates.
- [ ] It is darkness and pain; then pain and darkness.
- [ ] The pain in the back, arms, hands, feet and crotch is a steady burning, throbbing, horrible, endless pain. The pain builds up. It multiplies. It is cumulative. There is not one moment of respite.
- [ ] Below, the curious crowd wait, fascinated by the torture.
- [ ] The macabre scene is played out slowly. Dying should be a private thing, not a public spectacle.
- [ ] There is something obscene about having a mob of people standing around, waiting for you to die.
- [ ] Then the thirst begins. The greatest of all needs at this moment is a drop of cool water.
- [ ] The lips are dry. The mouth is parched. The blood is hot. The skin is fevered.
- [ ] Water is denied.
- [ ] But vinegar (sour wine) with bile in it, is provided.
- [ ] The tongue thickens.
- [ ] What was once saliva is turning into a sticky, flesh-gripping glue.
- [ ] At the foot of the cross the terror-squad drinks a thin beer in the presence of the dying man, to add to his mental torment.
- [ ] Swelling begins in the hands and the feet.
- [ ] The sedile digs deeply into the genitals. It is impossible to turn, or to change one's position.
- [ ] Muscles begin to twitch.
- [ ] The real horror is only beginning.
- [ ] What has happened up until now is child's play.
- [ ] One by one the muscles of the back gather in tight, knotty cramps.
- [ ] There is no escaping them, no pulling out of them, no gentle massaging hands to ease them away.
- [ ] They move across the shoulders and the thorax. Then down into the abdomen.
- [ ] After two hours on a cross, every muscle in the body is locked in solid knots and the agony is beyond endurance.
- [ ] Men shriek themselves into insanity.
- [ ] The pain and symptoms are identical to tetanus (lockjaw or the state of a muscle when undergoing continued contraction).
- [ ] Man, with all his genius, has never devised a more cruel or more agonizing death than that of tetanus -- the slow, steady contraction of every muscle.
- [ ] Death by crucifixion makes the agony last as long as possible.
- [ ] At times the cramps make the neck rigid and the head is held flush against the vertical beam. Then the sores of the thorns driven into the scalp ignite.
- [ ] The cramps drive the harrowed back to scrub the rough plank, scouring the wounds.
- [ ] A man longs for death. It is his only desire.
- [ ] Dogs yelping, with the smell of blood in their nostrils. Birds of prey, scavengers of the skies, circle lower and lower, waiting.
- [ ] Flies, undeterred by the crowd, gather upon every open wound..
- [ ] Prayers seem to mock a man, but you either pray or curse.
- [ ] As the hours pass, the tiny blood vessels which feed the nerves will be squeezed flat, and with the lack of blood circulation comes a numbing paralysis.
- [ ] A new agony develops for the crucified with time. It is the agony of the mucous membrane. These were new pains.
- [ ] On the cross there is no end of suffering. It is only the manner of suffering and the degree of pain that changes.
- [ ] During crucifixion, the mucous membrane -- that thin, slippery tissue which lines and lubricates much of the human body -- dries to the consistency of fine sand and scours the tender tissues of the anus (the posterior opening of the alimentary canal).
- [ ] Layers of tissue are ripped from the eyes every time they are moved or blinked. The dried membranes tear at the tortured throat. They lie like stones in the sinuses.
- [ ] The tongue begins to stick onto the jaws, so the mouth must be kept open to avoid suffocation.
- [ ] Then the flies swarming around the eyes, nose, mouth, wounds on the face .. head, crawl into the mouth.
- [ ] At that time, Wonderful said, 'I thirst'. A sponge dipped into the vinegar-bile mixture is pushed (by a reed) into the gaping mouth.
- [ ] He dies wailing.
- [ ] Could there ever be more intense suffering outside of hell?
- [ ] Most condemned men died naked.
- [ ] [In the evening, towards night fall, soldiers were inclined to hasten death ( because men have been known to remain alive for 3 days on a cross). They began breaking bones. Standing on a ladder, a practised legionnaire would swing a mallet in a short arc and shatter the right femur (thigh-bone), or the tibia (below the knee). A second, sharp blow would shatter the left leg-bone. The crucified would then suffocate to death. Wonderful Jesus let go before this point .. after He was sure He had paid God's full purchase price of man, He says, 'It is finished', then dies .. so He was in complete control even of His death. No lunacy, fault or loss of purpose (aim) is seen in Him despite the torment.
- [ ] Had JESUS been a sinner, the cross would have revealed it, for nothing can prevent the inside of the heart from being seen for a man dying on a cross .. because the first to die is the brain, so power to exercise the will (to pretend or otherwise) vanishes .. dies, and the true state of the heart (the inside) becomes bare, visible. Jesus Christ died the most brutal.. thorough death ever devised by man under Satan, allowing the slow death-erosion of cell, muscle, emotion, bone, tissue, mind, spirit, blood and heart-beat..
- [ ] JESUS wasn't bitter, didn't disown man, but said, 'Father forgive them',.. pleaded with GOD to have mercy on man.
- [ ] HE TRIUMPHED OVER EVEN DEATH ON THE CROSS.
- [ ] JESUS' DEATH ON THE CROSS IS SATAN'S PERFECT IRREVERSIBLE DEFEAT.
- [ ] God said that the sure reward, wages .. salary of sin is death. But man was created to rule God’s creation (by His guidance .. inspiration), so sacrifice of animals, plants, earthen stuff cannot bridge a breach between corrupt man and a Holy (morally excellent) God. Only the Man Christ Jesus can mediate between God and the corrupted descendants of Adam.
- [ ] God's Mercy is His darling Son JESUS, who took the blame, identified with man's sin, so took the crash of God's Holy Justice against all our sin, when He was made a brass (suffering) snake (sin) on a pole.. sin burning on a pole,.. God's Rod swallowing every snake, including Satan himself, and their sting (all diseases, death).
- [ ] JESUS faithfully took my place, God's punishment for my sin, (rebelliousness, wickedness..) into Himself, died my death, was buried in my stead, rose from the dead leaving ALL my destruction in the deep pit.
- [ ] Thus the victory of the Resurrection is the most complete victory for man against all enemies of man ever recorded.
- [ ] Up from the grave He arose,
- [ ] With a mighty triumph o'er His foes;
- [ ] He arose a Victor from the dark domain,
- [ ] And He lives forever with His saints to reign.
- [ ] He arose! He arose! Hallelujah! Christ arose!
- [ ] No other sacrifice, offering for sin can touch GOD'S heart.
- [ ] Are you willing to be free from the guilt of your sin before God, and so be spared from His judgment? Ask God to forgive you of your past sins, take away all iniquity (sin, rebelliousness, curse), heal you and turn your heart to walk in His ways. JESUS paid for your total freedom.THIS IS A FREE OFFER FROM GOD!
- [ ] A clean, new origin awaits all who receive it, they become as if they never did wrong.. so that as He is so they maybe (1Cor1:17--). When we open up, yield ourselves to JESUS, ALL of His death swallowing resurrection life fills us, destroying all our destructions.. the power and anchor of sin in us, but if we reject Him, we will share in the harvest of what Satan brought against himself when he filled JESUS with fire. GOD faithfully gives to everyone what they themselves justify
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