Stumbling Over The Cross

Friend, many people stumble in their seeking and searching for God when they consider, the Christian Cross.

It is unbelievable to them that a Good God would allow His only Son to die on a Roman cross, brutally beaten, innocent of all charges. That a pure, humble, teacher full of life and love for humanity would be chosen to take the punishment of billions of souls.

Why not the worst criminal; heinous, brutish and unrepentant? Wouldn't he deserve the punishment?

But God had a Plan. One that would satisfy the Holy Law and also successfully dupe evil.

He knew how to make a Way for His People who are caught in the clutches of satan; while allowing satan to think he had the upper hand, while being completely and Righteously Lawful.

And The One we know as Jesus, The Father's Son, was willing to carry out the Plan because He created us, and because His enemy, satan the once high positioned angel had corrupted humankind.

Only a Holy soul could fulfill the Law by taking on the punishment for all sinners, past, present and future. A sinful human cannot stand against Holy Law.

Did The Godhead, The Trinity, know that these things would happen; that mankind would be led into sin?

Yes. 

Did God know that only He could come to take away the sins of the people of earth?

Yes and He wrote Law; knowing all things.

But all things must be played out to satisfy Righteous and Holy Law.

All Creation is watching. God must show He is unchanging.  That His Law is Just. That His Law is Forevermore.

So, The Christ of God The Father, Jesus, willingly left the Holiness of Heaven to come as a baby and experience our humanity; be punished for our sins, die a horrible agonising death, fool satan, be Resurrected. 

Later to ascend to Heaven in full view of people in a transfigured body; showing those who believe, what is possible for them.

Those who stumble over the Cross; do not trust God to be Loving, Kind, Compassionate, All Powerful and Good.

They listen to the devil who says God is unjust, unkind, uncaring and unloving; one who lies.

But believer's understand that Almighty God is none of those things.

He was willing to save humans here on earth who were sinful and unbelieving in Him, by sending His Son Whom He loved, to die for us, to make a Way for us, to be reunited with Him in Heaven, to be granted entry into Heavenly places.

He could have said, 'Let them perish, I will not pay for their sin."

Instead, He shows His Love for us, by agreeing to carry out the Father's Will; leaving all His Power and Glory in Heaven to come as a helpless baby and suffer the indignities of the human existence for 30+ years from infant to adult man. 

Is this not showing Compassion, Kindness and Love towards us who are lower than His Son?

God is showing His Love for us in that He sent His Only Begotten Son to die for our sins because there was no-one else who could satisfy the Law.

This shows God's Justice but also His Mercy towards us.

He satisfied His Holy Law and made us Blood Covered with His Holy Son's Blood, to make us sinless when we stand before The Great Judgment.

Everyone of us is able to have this Blood Covering if we so desire. 

The Father asks us to recognize what His Son did for us.

Friend, don't stumble over the cross. Don't judge things from your human point of view.

Look into Who God Is and what He did.

When we look at the Cross, we should see a symbol of God's Love for us; a realization that Jesus shed Holy Blood which made a New Covenant. The Law given to Moses was added to with the Blood Covenant.

The Father says that we must recognize and follow His Son in order for The Father to recognize us. 

When The Father sees the blood covering He knows we are covenanted and grafted into the Holy Kingdom.