This week we have been on a series of didn’t the Christ have to suffer the things? He did according to prophecy and God’s Word.
I’ve been writing that the Jews missed Him at His first coming and will accept the antichrist because they are not looking for the literal prophesied Messiah (yet). Who else is missing the boat? Most so called
Christians! Most don’t know any of the signs. They are too busy to care or have the attitude of when it happens it happens.
However, if we study the literal Word, we know it is important to our Lord. He is even going to reward a crown for those who love His appearing (2Timothy 4:8).
We have been going over Isaiah 53 and today we will go to the other most prevalent chapter in the Bible that the Messiah was going to suffer.
Psalm 22:1-2 – 1My God, my God, why have you forsaken me? Why are you so far from saving me, so far from the words of my groaning?
2 O my God, I cry out by day, but you do not answer, by night, and am not silent.
Here below are some familiar words we recognize from Jesus in the New Testament.
Matthew 27:45 – 45 From the sixth hour until the ninth hour darkness came over all the land. 46 About the ninth hour Jesus cried out in a loud voice, “Eloi, Eloi, lama sabachthani?”—which means, “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?”
Continuing on in Psalm 22:
Psalm 22:6-8 – 6 But I am a worm and not a man, scorned by men and despised by the people. 7 All who see me mock me; they hurl insults, shaking their heads: 8 “He trusts in the LORD; let the LORD rescue him. Let him deliver him, since he delights in him.”
During the whole process of the crucifixion, Jesus was mocked.
Matthew 27:27-31 – 27 Then the governor’s soldiers took Jesus into the Praetorium and gathered the whole company of soldiers around him. 28 They stripped him and put a scarlet robe on him, 29 and then twisted together a crown of thorns and set it on his head. They put a staff in his right hand and knelt in front of him and mocked him. “Hail, king of the Jews!” they said. 30 They spit on him, and took the staff and struck him on the head again and again. 31After they had mocked him, they took off the robe and put his own clothes on
him. Then they led him away to crucify him.
Matthew 39-44 – 39 Those who passed by hurled insults at him, shaking their heads 40 and saying, “You who are going to destroy the temple and build it in three days, save yourself! Come down from the cross, if you are the Son of God!” 41 In the same way the chief priests, the teachers of the law and the elders mocked him. 42 “He saved others,” they said, “but he can’t save himself! He’s the King of Israel! Let him come down now from the cross, and we will believe in him. 43 He trusts in God. Let God rescue him now if he wants him, for he said, ‘I am the Son of God.’” 44 In the same way the robbers who were crucified with him also heaped insults on him.
You can see above that Matthew 27:43 and Psalm 22:8 run side by side regarding “Let the Lord rescue Him.”
Amazingly, when the Old Testament scriptures are taken literally not only has Jesus fulfilled them, but the odds are astronomical. We’re not done as there is more to compare and will do so next week.