The sounding of the sixth trumpet.
“So, my brothers and sisters, you also died to the law through the body of Christ, so that you could be joined to another, to the one who was raised from the dead, to bear fruit to God.”
Romans 7:4, NET. Humankind’s marriage to the law was dissolved through the body of Jesus Christ on the cross at Golgotha. Now humankind has a new Master, a new husband, Jesus Christ. We cannot serve the law and Christ. Humanity could be married to one husband only. To be married to two masters is a violation of the Law. Humankind’s marriage to the Law was unbearable bondage. The Law did not love humankind because humankind, the wife, could not please the Law anymore. However, the second husband, Jesus Christ, loves humankind as it is. Therefore, our marriage to Jesus Christ is without conflict.
Our death, not divorce, dissolved our marriage to the Law. Our first husband, the Law, could not die. Therefore, humankind, the wife, had to die so that she could marry another. The concept of the exchange of life in the body of Christ on the cross at Golgotha has puzzled the students of the Bible for millennia. How did God accomplish the wonderful exchange on the cross at Golgotha?
At the incarnation, God put in Jesus a new human spirit, a new human life. The new spirit God put in Jesus was of the same order as the spirit God put in Adam at creation. It was the same spirit Adam had before he sinned in the Garden of Eden. However, Jesus conquered temptation, and thus the new spirit of humankind became perfect. The old is gone; the new is here. On the cross at Golgotha, Jesus Christ separated the perfect human life from his body. Therefore, the new life of humankind remained without a body until the resurrection. This was the sacrifice for sin. God placed on Jesus Christ the sinful human life and the sin itself. “God made the one who did not know sin to be sin for us so that in him we would become the righteousness of God.” 2 Corinthians 5:21. NET. See also Isaiah 53:6. By abandoning Jesus on the cross, God destroyed sinful human life and human sin forever. Thus, Jesus became the scapegoat who took our sin into an eternal abyss from where it will never come back and count against us. On the morning of the resurrection, the perfect human life reentered Jesus’s body, and he shares it with us now. Our first husband cannot condemn us anymore. In Jesus Christ, we are free from condemnation forever.
The consequences of changing husbands. Read the next blog.
