With Easter this week and Passover coming soon (a shame that our calendar and the Jewish calendar don’t match well this year), I would like to talk about the Cross. I have heard that some people professing to be Christians are not taking it seriously. Especially, I have heard the so called pastor of Brian McLeran has call it “cosmic child abuse”; also the guy that claims to have found Christ’s tomb says that having a dead body of Christ would not affect his Christianity. I’m sure there are many more that don’t realize the power and necessity of the cross, and it is a shame.
This poem I think explains why the Cross was not child abuse and one of many ways that the bible is unified as one book and yet separate in many books. As for the Jesus tomb guy the poem doesn’t answer his heresy; so I’ll attempt s short answer here. If your god cannot conquer the grave, through a bodily resurrection and never die again and ascend to on a cloud, then what hope is there for you to conquer the grave? For me my God died for a purpose (the substitutionary atonement of my sins) and defeated death by raising from the dead; so first my sins are paid for second I can count myself dead to sin but alive in Christ, and third I do not have to fear death since I’ll live forever in the presence of my King.
*as a side note what I think is cool about this poem is that the first letter of each line corresponds with the first letter of the books of the bible in order G-Genesis E-Exodus L-Leviticus
the Sacrificial Plan
God spoke and all was created
Expressly from the words he stated
Lead, over creation, Adam presided
Needing a helper, Eve, God provided
Days, it took, less than seven
Judging it good, both earth and heaven
Joyous to walk forever and free
Required not to eat of but one tree
Surely, eating it would bring death
Serpent, deceiving with every breath
Knowing the wrath that they would incur
Keenly made Eve, question God’s word
Choosing to eat from the forbidden tree
Causing man to enter sin’s slavery
Eyes being open they did perceive
Nakedness they tried to hide with leaves
Evading God, ashamed of their sin
Jehovah, covered them with animal skin
Prophesying that the snake would make Him bleed
Permanent redemption comes from women’s seed
Eden was closed with flaming swords
Several generations passed, the Bible records
Israel’s sons, one brother despised
Joseph, sold to slavery but pharaoh advised
Living in Egypt four hundred years
Egyptian rulers stared to fear
Depopulation is what pharaoh decides
Hebrew children would face genocide
Jeopardized by what pharaoh decreed
A Levite woman built an ark of reed
Out of the river saved from the slaughter
Joined like a son to pharaoh’s daughter
Moses got angry, Egyptian blood he shed
Next day, to the land of Midian he fled
Hearing, I AM, from a bush that burned
Zealous for God, to Egypt returned
Heroically proclaiming, let my people go
Zero tolerance for this, pharaoh said no
Moses continued to preach God’s plan
Many plagues, would befall the land
Many times, pharaoh’s heart was made stone
Legendary power of God, made Known
Jehovah stretched out his mighty hand
An angel of death flew across the land
Red blood from a perfect lamb
Covered the doors, post and jamb
Continuing what God did in the Garden
Giving an animal for sins to be pardoned
Even the law had that at its root
Passing for now it was not absolute
Christ the messiah the prophets foretold
The one that would come, the law to up hold
The Baptist named John did proceed
The way he made straight for the women’s seed
The virgin gave birth in Bethlehem
To the Lord Jesus, fully God, fully man
Preaching that He was the way truth and light
Healing the lame and giving blind back their sight
Jesus Christ the only sinless man
Perfect sacrifice, the spotless lamb
Punished for sinners, He hung on the cross
Justice was served and death had lost
Just by one man sin entered the world
Joyously by one grace was unfurled
Justification for those who believe
Repentance and faith eternal life to achieve
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