The Cross of Christ.
The human spirit, the life of humankind, sinned in the garden of Eden, and it had to die forever as the wage for sin. Such is the righteous requirement by the Moral Law, the foundation of our universe. Sinners could not be helped to become righteous. Sinners had to be re-created righteous. God the Creator only could accomplish such a task. Humankind became a sinner by nature, unable to do right. Jeremiah 13:23. If the sinners would speak good words and do good deeds only their entire life, they would still be natural sinners. God and only He can replace the nature of humankind because he is its Creator.
Because he loved the world selflessly, the Creator of all willingly took on himself our sin and sinful life so he could remove them from us and, in exchange, give us the righteous life of Jesus Christ, the representative of the new humankind. God so loved the rebellious human race that he came into the world in the likeness of sinful humanity to save it from the guilt and punishment for sin. “For God achieved what the law could not do because it was weakened through the flesh. By sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and concerning sin, he condemned sin in the flesh.” Romans 8:3, NET. Therefore, the Mystery of God, announced by the sixth trumpet, was successfully and fully accomplished in the days of the seventh trumpet’s sounding, as depicted in the book of Revelation. The Mystery of Mysteries is now our reality. Our salvation has been accomplished; it is perfect and is forever. The death of the body still exists; however, that also will be resolved by the blessed hope of the return of Jesus Christ.
God, at the incarnation, put a new human spirit in Jesus. Jesus was a perfect new human for three and a half years on earth. His perfect new human life is eternal; therefore, it could not die. The human life that sinned in the garden had to die a second death. A righteous person could not die for the sinners; the sinners had to die. The Moral Law does not allow a substitution. Ezekiel 18:20. Therefore, the sinful life of humanity died the second death on the cross at Golgotha, as the Law required. The sinful human life that died on the cross at Golgotha did not rise on Sunday morning. Jesus’ perfect new human life, which he set aside or separated from his body, reentered the body of Jesus on Sunday morning. If we accept Christ as our Savior and trust him, we have his perfect and eternal life here and now.
Read the next blog about the benefit we have from the power of the Cross of Christ.
