WHAT IF YOU WERE THAT ONE?

 What if you, His own familiar friend betrayed Him, the Ben of Elohim, the living Elohim? (Tehillim/Psalm 41:9). You who were called to be one of the twelve apostles and ministered with him. You went preaching the gospel and healing the sick. He even trusted you with the money bag, but you took money out of it. You were a thief.

Indeed what if you would have been in Jerusalem about two thousand years ago?

What if you were in the crowd and were screaming together with the excited mob, “Crucify Him! Crucify Him! Crucify Him!

Imagine Yehoshua, the Son of Man, the Ben/Son of Elohim, standing there with the skin of His back ripped open with deep wounds left there by the 39 lashes. He is covered with His own blood. He is not complaining. He is still and is letting his accusers do what they wanted with Him. They reviled Him.

Imagine you taking His clothes off and putting on Him a scarlet robe. Then twisting the crown of thorns and placing it on His head. Imagine you giving Him a reed in His right hand and mocking Him.

Just Imaging if you, yes you, bowed the knew before Him and mocked Him, saying, “Hail, King of the Jews! Then you spit on Him, and you took the reed and strike Him on the head. And when you have mocked Him, you take the robe off Him, put His own clothes on Him, and you led Him to be crucified. (See Tehillim/Psalm 22:16) Mattithyahu/Matthew 27:27-31)

Imagine Him stripped and naked with the crown of thorns bleeding and still with great kindness looking at the mob, and at you, who insanely scream: Crucify Him!

Imaging you being at the Place of the Skull, which is called Golgotha, and you give him sour wine mingled with gall to drink. He tastes it, but does not drink it. (Tehillim 69:21) Next you crucify Him, (Tehillim/Psalm 22:16), and you divide His garments, casting lots, that it mighty be fulfilled which was spoken by the prophet. (Tehillim/Psalm 22:18).

You have crucified and pinned Him on the cross. Piercing His hands and His feet. You have accomplished your plan to get rid of Him. He was dangerous. He was healing every body. He was forgiving sins, and He rebuked the religious leader. You were one of them. Imaging you were afraid the Romans may destroy you because He was a dangerous Man. And now Pilate even called Him King of the Jews! This was too much. He deserved to die, and you were happy that finally you did not have to listen to Him anymore. You were very convicted of your own sin. Away with Him! Let Him suffer and die! He is not delivering us anyway. He has to go. We do not need Him.

Imaging you were a thief and a robber, a criminal, Barabbas, and you were set free. But He was arrested and killed instead of you. (See Mattithyahu/Matthew 27:16-26).

Yeshua was too much to handle! Yes, too much! How did He know you also were, greedy and a thief? How did He know that you were going to betray Him?

(See Mattithyahu/Matthew 26:20-25).

So you put Him on the cross and also blasphemed Him saying, “You who destroy the temple and build it in three days, save Yourself! You are the Son of Elohim, come down from the cross.” You also said,

“He saved others; Himself He cannot save. You were mocking Him with the scribes and elders saying. If He is the King of Israel, let Him now come down from the cross, and we will believe Him. He trusted in Elohim; let Him deliver Him now if He will have Him; for He said, ‘I am the Ben/Son of Elohim.’”

Imagine yourself looking into His eyes full of love as He is looking at you and thinking I am doing this for you.

The scene soon changes. Yeshua cries out, “My Elohim, My Elohim, why have you forsaken Me?(Tehillim/Psalm 22:1) Imaging now you being present when He said this, and you and others say that He is calling for Elijah and say, “Let Him alone, let us see if Elijah will come to save Him.”(Mattithyahu/Matthew 27:49)

Then imaging you heard Him crying out again and saying, “IT IS FINISHED!(Yochanan/John 19:30)

Then Yeshua yielded up His spirit.

Then, behold, the veil of the temple was torn in two from top to bottom; and the earth quaked, and the rocks were split, and the graves were opened; and many bodies of the saints who had fallen asleep were raised; and coming out of the graves after His resurrection they went into the holy city and appeared to many. So when the centurion and those with him, who were guarding Yeshua, saw the earthquake and the things that had happened, they feared greatly saying, “Truly this is the Ben/Son of Elohim!”

But He, the Mashiach, the Messiah, the Anointed One of Yehovah, after the three days and three nights, in spite of securing the tomb, rose from the dead. He appeared to many people and the apostles. He gave the commission: “All authority has been given to Me in Heaven and on earth. Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Ben/Son and of the Ruach HaQodesh/Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all things that I have commanded you; and lo, I am with you always, even to the end of the age.

See Mattithyahu/Matthew 28

Imaging you were there, and you would be going to preach the gospel all over the world.

However, the apostles had to wait until the coming of the Ruach HaQodesh whom Yeshua sent to them. They needed the power of Elohim in them or they would fail. (See Ma’aseh/Acts 1:8)

Ma’aseh 2: 1-4 declares: When the day of Shavuot/Pentecost had fully come, they were all of one accord in one place. And suddenly there came a sound from Heaven, as of a rushing mighty wind, and it filled the whole house where they were sitting. Then there appeared to them divided tongues, as of fire, and one sat upon each of them. And they were all filled with the Ruach haQodesh and began to speak with other tongues, as the Spirit gave them utterance.

Imagine if you would have been there. Now you knew that you had betrayed the very Elohim, the very Creator of the Universe.

Imagine you falling on your knees and repenting of all your sins. And Yeshua now come to you and assures you of been forgiven.

This is a fact. The Jews in reality did not crucify Yeshua, but you and I did with our sin. It is our sin which separated us from the Father that Yeshua came to save us from. Sin separated us from Yehovah. (Yeshayahu/Isaiah 59:2) He fulfilled Yeshayahu 53 and many other scriptures. All of us sinned.

Yehovah Himself became our sacrifice (See Tehillim 40:6-8) for without shedding of Blood redemption. No longer we need the animals to die for us. Yeshua did it all at one time. He shed His blood, because the life of the flesh is in the Blood

(See Wayyiqra/Leviticus 17:14).

He had to die in our place in order to save you and I from our sin, because the penalty for sin is death. We could not atone ourselves because we are sinners. There is none righteous. All of us has sinned.

Yechezqel/Ezekiel 18:4 declares: “Behold, all souls are Mine. The soul of the father as well as the soul of the son is Mine; the soul who sins shall die.”

Romans 3:23 For all have sinned, and fall short of the glory of Yehovah.

Romans 6:23 For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of Elohim is eternal life in Mashiach/Messiah Yeshua our Adonai.

Now, since Yeshua is the only way of salvation, you can repent of your sins, and ask Yehovah the Father in Heaven to forgive you of your sin. Next ask Yeshua to come into your life and live His life in You. His Spirit will come into you and you will become a child of Yehovah. He will write your name in the book of life (Chazon/Revelation 21:27).

You will have to commit yourself to serve him and obey Him. Some day He will take you to Heaven, and eventually you also will rise again as He did.

I must stop now, but please meditate on this message and make the right choice.

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