Mark 15:25-26 Now it
was the third hour, and they crucified Him. And the inscription of His
accusation was written above: THE KING OF THE JEWS.
Our Lord Jesus chose
crucifixion the most painful death meant for serious criminals. He suffered
being hung on the cross (tree) for six hours before His death to free those
were under the curse.
Gal 3:13 Christ
has redeemed us from the curse of the law, having become a curse for us (for it
is written, “Cursed is everyone who hangs on a tree”)
Blessings and Curses
Deu 11:26-28 “Behold,
I set before you today a blessing and a curse: the blessing, if you obey the
commandments of the Lord your God which I command you today; and the curse, if
you do not obey the commandments of the Lord your God, but turn aside from the
way which I command you today, to go after other gods which you have not known.
Jews and
unbelievers, who have committed abominations such as idolatry, adultery,
sodomy, wickedness, covetousness, etc. were under the curse.
Horror under the Curse
Deu28:16-18,20-22 “Cursed
shall you be in the city, and cursed shall you be in the country. Cursed shall
be your basket and your kneading bowl. Cursed shall be the fruit of your body
and the produce of your land, the increase of your cattle and the offspring of
your flocks... The Lord will send on you cursing, confusion, and rebuke in all
that you set your hand to do, until you are destroyed and until you perish
quickly, because of the wickedness of your doings in which you have forsaken
Me. The Lord will make the plague cling to you until He has consumed you from
the land which you are going to possess. The Lord will strike you with
consumption, with fever, with inflammation, with severe burning fever, with the
sword, with scorching, and with mildew; they shall pursue you until you perish.
Set free by Jesus on the Cross
Thank God for Jesus
who was hung on the cross (tree) to set us free from the curses caused by our
abominations before our salvation.
Col 3:5-7 Therefore
put to death your members which are on the earth: fornication, uncleanness,
passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry. Because of these
things the wrath of God is coming upon the sons of disobedience, in which you
yourselves once walked when you lived in them.
Jesus, the Lamb of God
John 1:29 The next
day John saw Jesus coming toward him, and said, “Behold! The Lamb of God who
takes away the sin of the world!"
The Word was made
flesh so that Jesus, the Son of God, was crucified as the sinless and perfect
Lamb of God for the remission of men's sins.
Mat 26:28 For this
is My blood of the new covenant, which is shed for many for the remission
of sins.
Fulfillment of the Law and Prophets
Mat 5:17-18 "Do
not think that I came to destroy the Law or the Prophets. I did not come to
destroy but to fulfill. For assuredly, I say to you, till heaven and earth
pass away, one jot or one tittle will by no means pass from the law till all is
fulfilled."
At the cross, our
Lord Jesus fulfilled the Law and the Prophets by becoming the perfect
sacrificial Lamb of God thereby replacing all the imperfect offerings and
sacrifices mentioned in
1. the Prophets as found in the Adamic and Noahide Covenants
for all mankind.
2. the Law for the Jews only.
Jesus the Only Way to God
John 14:6 Jesus
said to him, "I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes
to the Father except through Me."
