The Graverobber Commith!
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There were three days of darkness in Egypt before the Passover (Ex. 10:21-23).
Then the Lord said to Moses, “Stretch out your hand toward heaven, and there will be darkness over the land of Egypt, a darkness that can be felt.” So Moses stretched out his hand toward heaven, and there was thick darkness throughout the land of Egypt for three days. One person could not see another, and for three days they did not move from where they were. Yet all the Israelites had light where they lived.
There were three hours of darkness before the Lamb of God died for the sins of the world (Mt. 27:45-46).
From noon until three in the afternoon darkness came over the whole land. About three in the afternoon Jesus cried out with a loud voice, “Elí, Elí, lemá sabachtháni?” that is, “My God, My God, why have You forsaken Me?”
Both would be a declaration of victory. Both would result in captives being set free. Both resulted in life.
Jesus was silent for those three hours. Why? War. Battle. Sacrifice. During this time of darkness, Jesus was being made sin for the world (2 Cor. 5:21).
He made the One who did not know sin to be sin for us, so that we might become the righteousness of God in Him.
Sin upon sin, of men, were being laid down upon Him. Like the hands of the High Priest laying his hands on the sacrificial lamb for the sins of Israel; man’s sins were being transfered to Jesus, by Jesus, to be taken into the wilderness of death. Jesus has been forsaken by the Father! The darkness, the symbol of the judgment that Jesus endures, as He is “made a curse” for us (Gal 3:13).
Christ has redeemed us from the curse of the law by becoming a curse for us, because it is written: Everyone who is hung on a tree is cursed.
What darkness can be received by the Father? We have periods of light and periods of darkness. Jesus became/took upon Himself our darkness, so that we might experience light…the Light. Do I know the Light? Have I experienced the Light?
My God, my God, why have You forsaken me? Why are You so far from my deliverance and from my words of groaning? My God, I cry by day, but You do not answer, by night, yet I have no rest. But You are holy, enthroned on the praises of Israel. Our fathers trusted in You; they trusted, and You rescued them. They cried to You and were set free; they trusted in You and were not disgraced.
“Commit your cause to the Lord; let him deliver— let him rescue the one in whom he delights!”
Jesus cries, we cry, “Why have you forsaken me?” The LORD God rescues those in whom He is delighted and are committed to Him. One committed to Christ robs the grave! We will reign with the Graverobber, Jesus himself!
How could God the Father look upon His Son, who had become a curse, who whore the graveclothes of sin? How can He look upon us, our graveclothes, without the Son? Sin had to die, but could only be put to death by One who knew no sin. Sin cannot cling to One righteous, and one righteous born. One committed to Christ, the Graverobber.
To him, indeed, shall all who sleep in the earth bow down; before him shall bow all who go down to the dust, and I shall live for him.
Jesus thirsts. For souls? For relief? For redemption? For resurrection? For the Father? Do we thirst? For what?
They gave me poison for food, and for my thirst they gave me vinegar to drink.
The Graverobber cries out one last time, with His last breath, “It is finished!”
Then Jesus cried again with a loud voice and breathed his last. At that moment the curtain of the temple was torn in two, from top to bottom. The earth shook, and the rocks were split. The tombs also were opened, and many bodies of the saints who had fallen asleep were raised.
The Graverobber dies to rob the grave! The Immortal becomes mortal to die for the mortal to become immortal!
When this perishable body puts on imperishability, and this mortal body puts on immortality, then the saying that is written will be fulfilled: “Death has been swallowed up in victory.” “Where, O death, is your victory? Where, O death, is your sting?”
Crucified through weakness, Jesus lives by God’s power (2 Cor. 13:4). Just as we who choose to be weak in Christ, the Graverobber, we will live by God’s power through/and in Christ. Hallelujah to the Graverobber!
In fact, He was crucified in weakness, but He lives by God’s power. For we also are weak in Him, yet toward you we will live with Him by God’s power.
For by a single offering he has perfected for all time those who are sanctified.
Do I know the Graverobber? The Graverobber tore open the veil that seperated us from God. Sin has no more power through Christ Jesus. Law is fulfilled, the earth quakes in agreement (Heb. 12:18-24). Sunday is coming! The tombs release their captives. Rescue is complete!
Will the Graverobber lie in Death’s clutches, Death’s embrace? Will He remain? Or is He indeed, “Truly…the Son of God?” (Mt. 27:54). The Graverobber commith, and will commith again. Amen!