{"id":803,"date":"2024-04-29T21:47:22","date_gmt":"2024-04-29T21:47:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.goodspringsfgc.org\/?p=803"},"modified":"2024-04-29T21:54:42","modified_gmt":"2024-04-29T21:54:42","slug":"8-things-that-transpired-when-jesus-expired","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.goodspringsfgc.org\/?p=803","title":{"rendered":"8 Things that Transpired When Jesus Expired"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Jesus did not die as a helpless victim; He\ndied as a heroic victor! One of my favorite scenes in the Gospels is when\nPilate stood nose to nose with Jesus and proudly presumed, \u201cDo You not know\nthat I have power to crucify You, and power to release You?\u201d <\/em>ButJesus\nreminded him, \u201cYou could have no power at all against Me unless it had been\ngiven you from above\u201d<\/em> (Jn. 19:10-11, NKJV). No one took His life. He laid\nit down willingly (Jn. 10:18). Christ could have summoned more than twelve\nlegions of angels to rescue Him (Mt. 26:53). Instead, He yielded to His\nFather\u2019s will and was obedient even unto death. When Christ expired, eight significant\nthings transpired:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

  1. The Sun was Eclipsed<\/strong>\u2014Mt. 27:45. Everyone was buzzing about the recent solar eclipse which lasted about three minutes. The eclipse at the cross lasted three hours, (12:00-3:00 p.m.). Nature reflected the mood of God. The sun recognized its Creator\u2019s pain and hid in shame. Ironically, the Light of the World died in total darkness as Christ became sin which is symbolized in Scripture by darkness (Eph. 5:8, 11).\u00a0

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  2. God Turned His Back on His Son<\/strong>\u2014Mt. 27:46. Jesus, quoting Psalm 22:1, cried out, \u201cMy God, My God, why have You forsaken<\/strong> Me?\u201d<\/em> Being separated from God hurt Him worse than the torture He endured. Why did God the Father abandon His Son at that moment? Because God is holy and cannot look upon iniquity with approval or favor (Hab. 1:13). On the cross Jesus absorbed our sin like a sponge, and God the Father, who couldn\u2019t bear to see His Son suffer, looked away. The divine part of Jesus was not defiled by sin, but He wore and bore our sin in His body like a coat (2 Cor. 5:21, 1 Pt. 2:24). Just as the corporate sins of Israel were confessed over the scapegoat and it was led outside the camp and abandoned in the wilderness, our sin was transferred to Christ and His righteousness was and is imparted to us by faith (Lev. 16:21-22, Heb. 13:11-13). The Son was temporarily forsaken by the Father so we never have to be (Heb. 13:5-6).

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  3. A Curtain was Torn<\/strong>\u2014Mt. 27:50-51. Notice it was torn from top to bottom indicating this was God\u2019s work not man\u2019s. Plus, this was no ordinary curtain. Some sources say it was forty feet tall, forty feet wide, and four inches thick (it was multicolored and had multiple layers of fabric sewn together of blue, purple, scarlet, and fine linen with cherubim embroidered into in (2 Chr. 3:14). For centuries the veil concealed the Ark of the Covenant within the Holy of Holies. However, it was empty at this time (the Ark had been missing since Solomon\u2019s Temple was destroyed in 586 B.C.). Also absent was God\u2019s Shekinah glory. So, God exposed their religion as a sham (it had declined into formalism without faith, tradition without truth, and rituals without relationship). Only the High Priest was permitted to enter onetime per year on the Day of Atonement. By ripping the veil in two, God granted us unlimited access to His presence (Heb. 4:16; 10:19-22). The barrier that separated man from God was removed once and for all.<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n

    4.  The Earth Quaked<\/strong>\u2014Mt. 27:51; 28:2. There were actually two\nearthquakes\u2014one when Jesus died and another when He rose again. The spiritual\nclash between good and evil overflowed into nature. The earthquakes were God\u2019s emphatic\nway of declaring that this was no ordinary man or death. After witnessing the\nquake, the centurion in charge of the crucifixion and his soldiers were\nconvinced of Christ\u2019s Lordship (Mt. 27:54). He had seen many people die, but\nthere was something very different about this MAN! That centurion killed people\nfor a living but God melted his hard heart like hot butter. The earthquake\nturned cold-blooded killers into blood-washed believers. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

    5. Dead Saints Arose<\/strong>\u2014Mt. 27:52-53. The Bible doesn\u2019t say how many but it does\nsay \u201cmany\u201d (maybe dozens). Imagine the impact of their witness as they went\nthroughout Jerusalem testifying to all the people they knew. They are a type of\nthe dead in Christ who will rise at the resurrection (1 Th. 4:16-17). There are\neleven recorded resurrections in Scripture (nine individuals and two groups of\npeople who were raised from the dead). Eventually, all of them died again of\nold age (what a bummer). Jesus was the only one to rise from the dead never to\ndie again. And just think, the same Holy Spirit power that raised Him from the\ndead lives in us (Rom. 8:11). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

    6. A Debt was Paid<\/strong>\u20141 Jn. 2:1-2. Jesus paid for every sin that ever has been\nor ever will be committed. When He cried, \u201cIt is finished,\u201d He used the Greek\nword tetelestai <\/em>which means \u201cpaid in full!\u201d Archeologists have found\nancient tax receipts with tetelestai<\/em> stamped on them indicating a zero\nbalance. It\u2019s the spiritual equivalent of changing bank accounts with Jeff\nBezos or Elon Musk. We went from bankrupt to billionaires spiritually. No\nwonder the songwriter wrote, \u201cHe paid a debt He did not owe; I owed a debt I\ncould not pay. I needed someone to wash my sins away. And nowI sing a brand-new\nsong \u2018Amazing Grace.\u2019 Christ Jesus paid a debt that I could never pay.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    7. A Head was Crushed<\/strong>\u2014Gen 3:15. This first Messianic prophecy predicted that Christ\nwould crush Satan\u2019s head and Satan would bruise His heel. When Christ died on\nthe cross, He stomped His heel squarely on the serpent\u2019s head delivering a\nmortal wound. Satan is a defeated foe. Although, with all the demonic activity\nin the world, it looks like evil is winning. But what happens when you crush a\nsnake\u2019s head? It twists, writhes, and whips its tail in final death throes.\nSatan is on a short leash and his time is limited because Christ crushed his\nhead on the cross (Heb. 2:14-15, Rev. 12:12).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    8. Keys were Retrieved. <\/strong>The resurrected Redeemer said,\u201cI am the living one. I died, but look\u2014I am alive forever and ever! And I\nhold the keys of death and the grave\u201d (Rev. 1:18, NLT).Just asDavid slew Goliath with his own sword, Jesus\ntook the devil\u2019s biggest weapon (death) and turned it on him (Heb. 2:14-15). Adam\nforfeited the keys (authority) of death and the grave to Satan in the fall, but\nJesus descended into hell and reclaimed them. (Eph. 4:8-9, 1 Pt. 3:18-20). Christ\nconquered death so we don\u2019t have to fear it anymore. Ultimately, death will be totally\ndestroyed and the glorified saints will live eternally (1 Cor. 15:25-26). No\nwonder Paul wrote, \u201cDeath is swallowed up in victory\u201d<\/em> (1 Cor. 15:54).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    When Jesus expired, these eight things\ntranspired, and His death certificate became our birth certificate. Hallelujah!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Jesus did not die as a helpless victim; He died as a heroic victor! One of my favorite scenes in the Gospels is when Pilate stood nose to nose with Jesus and proudly presumed, \u201cDo You not know that I have power to crucify You, and power to release You?\u201d ButJesus reminded him, \u201cYou could […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":805,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-803","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goodspringsfgc.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/803","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goodspringsfgc.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goodspringsfgc.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodspringsfgc.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodspringsfgc.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=803"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodspringsfgc.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/803\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":807,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodspringsfgc.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/803\/revisions\/807"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodspringsfgc.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/805"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goodspringsfgc.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodspringsfgc.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodspringsfgc.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}