Parousia Second Coming of Jesus Christ:  The Cross and the Atonement

To study and appreciate the love of God will be the theme studied in all eternity.

Here are some precious thoughts for our contemplation, praying that the Holy Spirit would touch our hearts and minds. https://studio.youtube.com/channel/UCIHo35zNI1a7f7I0uZQpfNQ/playlists

• Christ’s physical suffering on the cross, terrible as it was, played no part in our atonement.
• The cross not only fully revealed Satan’s malignant hatred of mankind, it also revealed the depths of God’s agape love for you and me.
• The wages of sin are not merely death, but the second death, which is eternal death.  This is the death Christ experienced on the cross.
• For the Jews, crucifying Christ meant more than mere physical death.  It demonstrated that He was under God’s curse. Isaiah 53:4, 10:   ^“Surely he took up our pain
  and bore our suffering, yet we considered him punished by God,
  stricken by him, and afflicted. Yet it was the Lord’s will to crush him and cause him to suffer, and though the Lord makes his life an offering for sin,
  he will see his offspring and prolong his days,and the will of the Lord will prosper in his hand”. Deuteronomy 21:23: “You must not leave the body hanging on the pole overnight. Be sure to bury it that same day, because anyone who is hung on a pole is under God’s curse. You must not desecrate the land the Lord your God is giving you as an inheritance.”
• Christ’s divinity did not die on the cross.  It was our corporate human life that He assumed at the incarnation that died the eternal death.
• God did something to Christ on the cross:  He “laid on him the iniquity of us all” Isaiah 53:6. God’s wrath against sin was heaped upon Christ as our Sin Bearer.
• At the cross, the Father abandoned His Son, leaving Christ alone and without hope — without hope of the resurrection; without hope of ever seeing the Father again.  The second death that rightfully belonged to us was placed upon Him.  He gave up His eternal life forever for us. https://www.secondcoming.org/
• Before the cross, Jesus is called the “only begotten of the Father” [ The Word became flesh and made his dwelling among us. We have seen his glory, the glory of the one and only Son, who came from the Father, full of grace and truth. John 1:14], meaning “unique” or “one of a kind.”  After the cross and the resurrection, He is called the “first begotten of the dead” [and from Jesus Christ, who is the faithful witness, the firstborn from the dead, and the ruler of the kings of the earth.To him who loves us and has freed us from our sins by his blood. Revelation 1:5].  Before the cross, God had only one beloved Son.  Through the supreme sacrifice of Christ on the cross, God has many beloved sons and daughters, of whom Christ is first [ See what great love the Father has lavished on us, that we should be called children of God! And that is what we are! The reason the world does not know us is that it did not know him. ² Dear friends, now we are children of God, and what we will be has not yet been made known. But we know that when Christ appears, we shall be like him, for we shall see him as he is.1 John 3:1-2; ³ His divine power has given us everything we need for a godly life through our knowledge of him who called us by his own glory and goodness. ⁴ Through these he has given us his very great and precious promises, so that through them you may participate in the divine nature, having escaped the corruption in the world caused by evil desires.2 Peter 1:3-4].
• Praise God from whom all blessings flow. He paid the price for you! May God bless you as you contemplate the cross and Christ’s atonement. Hallelujah!!