Remember,
one day in history,
A crowd called for Christ to save Himself,
A crowd called for Christ to save Himself,
‘Others You saved’,
they cried angrily.
‘So why not come down, and save
Yourself?!’
What
would you say if I said, ‘Jesus also
needs salvation’?
To
you, would this sound crazy, maybe even sacrilegious?
Would
these words, to you, sound just like an illegal conflation.
Would
you walk away; shake your head over my spuriousness?
No
worry, Friend, we’ve all been so conditioned
To
read God’s Word with a religious mindset.
To
our interpretations, we’re imprisoned,
Missing
God’s plan to paint a broader vignette.
You
are correct in your understanding;
Salvation
from God to us is given,
Given
in the Person of Christ, our King,
Freeing
us from the traps of devilish gremlins.
However,
of all
the Bible’s references
To
God’s great salvation offerings,
Only
two speak of His awesome presages
Of
His own salvation outpourings.
What?! Salvation for Jesus?! Who ever heard of such?!
Yet that is what He said, not once, but
twice!
Hey!
Jesus saves!
If He needs to be saved, I would ask, ‘From whose clutch,
And
who, pray tell, could ever pay that price??’
In
His interview with the prophet, Isaiah,1
He
mentions a notion we might leave ‘on the shelf’;
One
that seems like an outlandish idea:
That
is, His own arm brought salvation for Himself.
When
He comes to claim His royal priesthood and holy nation,2
He’ll
set a 7-year timer on His proverbial clock.
It
will start the gruesome
winding down of this dispensation.
Then
this ole world will know His wrath,
and feel His ‘salvation shock!’
Indeed,
His mighty arm will bring Him His own salvation,
Salvation
from the kingdom of satan’s grip on God’s creation;
Salvation
from those who rejected His adjuration;
Salvation
that ushers in His Millennial dispensation!
The ransom of a soul is costly,
a psalmist wrote in reverence,3
Not
only is it costly, but oh soooo bloody,
this you know.
Just
as the price of our salvation was one bloody experience,
So
will His be, but this time, it won’t be His blood that will flow!
They
will pay first in blood, then forever in hell,
Because
they spurned Christ’s sin payment on Calvary’s hill,
For
not responding as we ‘rang the Gospel bell’,
Jesus
will get His salvation....and send them the bill!
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1 Writing prophetically about the end of this
current age or dispensation, Isaiah was instructed to write the following,
which is elaborated in detail in The Book of Revelation, chapters 6 – 20. It is
widely understood that Isaiah had visions/encounters with The Pre-incarnate
Christ, as did several other Old Testament prophets.
‘He
saw that there was no man, and wondered that there was no intercessor; therefore
His own arm brought salvation for Him; and His own righteousness,
it sustained Him. For He put on righteousness as a breastplate, and a helmet of
salvation on His head; He put on the garments of vengeance for clothing, and
was clad with zeal as a cloak. According to their deeds, accordingly He will
repay, fury to His adversaries, recompense to His enemies; the coastlands He
will fully repay. So shall they fear The Name of the Lord from the west, and
His glory from the rising of the sun; when the enemy comes in like a flood, The
Spirit of the Lord will lift up a standard against him.’ (Isaiah 59:16-19) ‘For the day of vengeance is in My heart, and the year of My redeemed has come. I looked, but there was no one to help, and I wondered that there was no one to uphold; therefore My own arm brought salvation for Me; and My own fury, it sustained Me. I have trodden down the peoples in My anger, made them drunk in My fury, and brought down their strength to the earth.’ (Isaiah 63:4-6)
2 The Church
3 Psalm 49:8
