Friends, you all are swatting at gnats.
In light of what all Jesus came to do, the answer of silences evades you all.
Is it not clear in the scriptures that Jesus came to do the will of the Father?
Ref:Mat 26:42 He went away again the second time, and prayed, saying, O my Father, if this cup may not pass away from me,
except I drink it,
thy will be done.
If the will of the Father was to be honored completely and to the point means only that the Jesus was in the Fathers place doing what the Father wanted Him to do as a man.
Ref:Jesus a similitude of Cyrus; Isa 45:13
I have raised him up in righteousness, and
I will direct all his ways:
he shall build my city, and
he shall let go my captives,
not for price nor reward, saith the LORD of hosts.
If then, the Father were to have answered Jesus, as we proposed He should have done, and that the Father rescue Him from the cross, suppose Jesus would have completed His mission? (Not my will but thine?)
Silence was the Fathers answer, for Jesus' mission was not yet complete. Jesus had to descend ref
sa 28:1 <A Psalm of David.>
Unto thee will I cry, O LORD my rock;
be not silent to me: lest,
if thou be silent to me,
I become like them that go down into the pit.
Further explanation: Isa 14:15
Yet thou shalt be brought down to hell, to
the sides of the pit.
The side where all: Eze 32:23
Whose graves are set in the sides of the pit, and
her company is round about her grave: all of them slain, fallen by the sword,
which caused terror in the land of the living.
Jesus was counted among them: Psa 88:4
I am counted with them that go down into the pit: I am as a man that hath no strength:
Silence is an answer when the answer is no. As in the Father saying No, I have not forsaken you, for I will deliver you, but you must complete the journey: God's promise to Jesus
sa 16:10 For
thou wilt not leave my soul in hell; neither wilt thou suffer thine Holy One to see corruption.
Why was His journey not complete at the cross?
Ref:Isa 24:22 And they shall be gathered
together, as prisoners are gathered in the pit, and shall be
shut up in the prison, and
after many days shall they be visited.
Shall be visited? By whom? Jesus?
Gnats are every where and plenty of them. Those gnats, have a way of entertaining our focus away from the real issue, and that of what Christ is all about!
Blessings, AJ
