As another Lame Cherry exclusive in matter anti matter.
There is a Christian phrase on Easter of, "He has risen." and is replied, "He has risen indeed", but for most people in the murder of Jesus the Christ, there is a reality lost, of the misconception of Jesus as the whipping boy, the turn the other cheek, the pray for your enemies, which hinders the real message of Easter in the what really took place.
Easter is Passover. Most do not consider that Passover is remembered for God sending plagues, like Coronavirus on the Egyptians, to free His children from an evil enslavement they were being persecuted and dying under.
The Angel of the Lord, or Jesus, passed over the houses of the Faithful who had painted lambs blood on their doors, while the Egyptians who had none, had every first born from lambs to children, slaughtered in their homes by God.
In Easter, satan tried to murder Jesus, by Rome and Jewry and succeeded. The problem was that Jesus death was payment for all rebellion against God. The 'ransom for man' Who Christ is, freed all of Faith from hell condemnation and entered them into eternal Life.
satan, hell, death and the grave were all conquered by Jesus. This was not a whipping boy, this was not turning the other cheek, this was not praying for enemies, this was saving the innocent and obliterating the enemies of God and His children.
The Holy Ghost provided me earlier this week with Psalm 93, and He moved a verse to catch my eye, as it was quite King David in reality.
The new version lacks the punch of the King James, because the new version makes it sound like we are passive observers to what happens to those who afflict us. The King James translation confirms that a Christian has an active part in our will in God, in obliterating our enemies.
Psalm 93
11 My eyes have seen the defeat of my adversaries; my ears have heard the rout of my wicked foes
11 Mine eye also shall see my desire on mine enemies, and mine ears shall hear my desire of the wicked that rise up against me
The desire is WILL. It is fervent emotional will. It is not a physical action for which a Christian would be prosecuted, and which would rob from God His vengeance as that is His, but the desire is the thought, the spoken word, the yearning, the prayer for Justice, and not being ignorant of that Justice being provided by God, but actively seeing or hearing the end of our enemies.
Our dear friend Sandy, was teaching me this past week in a lesson, which I will not plagiarize, but she said God informed her, that our belief in God is not an impediment for our failures, but a weapon to be wielded when we have need.
We believe God and in God, and we know that God's Will is to avenge us on our enemies and God's Will is to perform a reckoning, and God is thorough in laying destruction on families to the 3rd generation until they are obliterated from the earth to hurt people never again.
What is your desire upon your enemies? What is it you desire to hear about what befalls your enemies? You decide in this Psalm's instructions, not anyone else. That is your petition before the Court of God, and God hands out Sentence and enforces that Judgment.
The Old Testament is the Law, and Christ is the fulfillment of that Law, and that Law is Psalm 92, verse 11. You qualify for believing in Christ and your desire brings about God's Sentencing and Judgment against evil.
You do play a part in this. I realize this is not what "turn the other cheek" and "forgive as I have forgiven" has you misinformed by, because in those verses it is about a Christian dealing with other Christians and with evil people. You forgive Christians who are sincere in hurting you, but you do not if someone in authority beats you, retaliate as that will get you in prison or dead. You are active in both cases pleasing God in turning things over to God in letting of an offense to those who are sorry, and in turning this over to God to deal with the powerful.
Those are your WILL in God, active things put into motion in the Spiritual, and nothing sown in God does not become accomplished as He is all powerful.
Jesus was murdered by the Jewish leaders and Rome in Jerusalem. In God's avenging this, Jerusalem was mass raped, murdered, enslaved and obliterated to the last Jew 37 years later. That is God being thorough in He scrapes to the bone and grinds the bones up to dust, until nothing is left.
What this Easter teaching is about, is not telling you to be consumed with hatred or having you hold back in wanting bad people to have bad things happen to them, as you have been told this is wrong. Psalms teaches differently. You have absolute rights in this as a Christian, and whatever you desire for God to do to your enemies, the Psalms says you have the right to expect to hear about it and see it, so that you will not gloat, but that you will with joy and thanksgiving, praise God for sending His Consuming Flame and having these evil people destroy themselves.
No one has the right to hurt or harm you deliberately. You have the right to God punishing them as you feel inside of your heart is appropriate.
When Christ returns the second time, He is coming as a Warrior King, and it ends at Armageddon, with 200 million soldiers in armies arrayed against Him, in everyone of of them dead. That is who Jesus is. the Angel of the Lord slaughtering the tormentors in Egypt and the Warrior Christ slaughtering His and your adversaries in combat.
That is the Jesus on the Cross and the Jesus on the Right Hand of the Father. The same Father has a cup of wrath and vengeance which is full and will be poured out on the wicked. Leaving wicked people around to harm others as they have harmed you is not Christian. You have desires on what you want wicked people to be dealt with by the Lord, and the Psalms promise that you will see and hear of that outcome.
I have experienced this often enough to know it is real. I have been held back as many have in thinking I did not have the right to have the desires of my heart in balancing the scales in any way fitting, but Psalm 92 is the Law and it states I have that legal right to anything I desire. Anything.
And you have that right too in Christ the Lord.
Happy Easter.
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