It was just “another day at the office” for the quaternion of Roman soldiers assigned to carry out Jesus’ crucifixion after Pilate had sentenced Him to death in order to pacify the Jewish leaders. Death was a routine part of their lives as soldiers charged with maintaining the Pax Romana and Jesus was no different…
On Thursday afternoon of Passion week, around 3:00 pm as the Passover lambs were being slaughtered for the celebration that would begin at sunset, Jesus Himself expired upon the cross as the Lamb of God who would take away the sins of the world. He and His disciples had celebrated the Passover the previous day,…
After crying out with a loud voice upon the cross Jesus gave up His Spirit that God would return to Him three days later, which He would then pour out from heaven after His ascension on the day of Pentecost. On that day it would come with a noise like a violent, rushing wind (Act…
As Jesus yielded up His Spirit and died upon the cross, a number of extraordinary events manifested in the physical realm in response to that spiritually momentous happening. Not only was the veil of the temple rent in two to disclose the way through the veil of His death, and ours, into the holy place…
As Jesus died upon the cross Matthew records that He yielded up His Spirit with a great cry. Luke records that on the day of Pentecost, fifty days later, that same Spirit would come from heaven with the noise of a violent, rushing wind, like a storm or tempest, as the same word for an…
As Jesus died upon the cross and the glory of God’s Spirit departed the earthly tent of His flesh the veil of the temple was torn in two signifying multiple spiritual truths. Jesus’ whole life was intimately connected with the temple as the dwelling place or tabernacle of His Father (see Joh 1:14), so the…
On Thursday of Passion Week as Jesus was raised upon the cross about noon a supernatural darkness came over the land corresponding to the spiritual sun going down at noon upon the Jewish nation. Their Messiah had come, but what ought to have been the brightest time of day was turned to darkness by their…
When Jesus died, the veil of the temple was torn in two to reflect the rending of His own flesh that like an ignoble jar of clay had concealed the hidden glory of God; cf. Jdg 7:16,19, 2Co 4:6-7. As He yielded up His Spirit that the Jews would not have fill their temple, the…
From even His youth, Jesus’ life on earth was bound up with the temple in Jerusalem, which represented the presence of His Heavenly Father. At His baptism the heavens were torn open (Mar 1:10, ESV) from which God’s Spirit descended upon Him to become the living temple of His Spirit during His ministry on earth. …
In terms of salvation history, the coming of the Messiah ought to have been the brightest time of day for the Jewish nation. But as God gave them over to their own will and they raised Jesus upon the cross, a supernatural darkness descended upon the land to mark the going down of their sun…