Jesus’ Pay for a Job Well Done
1 Timothy 5:18 For the scripture saith, Thou shalt not
muzzle the ox that treadeth out the corn. And, The labourer is worthy of his reward.
There are many allegories in the scriptures that may not
seem to be significant on first read.
However as we grow in understanding we discover light in them. Let us
look at Abraham’s attempt to sacrifice Isaac.
Abraham thought that God had commanded him to sacrifice his only son,
Isaac for an offering to him. However
God had promised Abraham, “In thy seed shall all nations of the earth be blessed”. Now the devil knew that, and he sought to cut
off the promise in the bud with a scheme to get rid of Isaac. He persuaded Abraham that he was the voice of
God! As you know God likes to take dares
and defeat demonic schemes as He did with Job.
Anyway God let the plot proceed, but He planned a remedy. An angel prevented Abraham from harming Isaac
and told him to “sacrifice a ram caught in a thicket by the horns”
instead. So God took responsibility for
the wicked plot because He controls everything.
Isaiah 45:6 That they may know from the rising of the sun,
and from the west, that there is none beside me. I am the LORD, and there is
none else. 7 I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create
evil: I the LORD do all these things.
For his trouble, Abraham received confirmation and renewal
of God’s blessing concerning his seed.
Genesis 22:15 And the angel of the LORD called unto Abraham
out of heaven the second time, 16 And said, By myself have I sworn, saith the
LORD, for because thou hast done this thing, and hast not withheld thy son,
thine only son: 17 That in blessing I will bless thee, and in multiplying I
will multiply thy seed as the stars of the heaven, and as the sand which is
upon the sea shore; and thy seed shall possess the gate of his enemies; 18 And
in thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed; because thou hast
obeyed my voice.
This act or psychodrama had clinical significance with
regard to the work of the Son of God.
From before the beginning God selected one Son only out of the billions
He created to do a special work on His behalf.
Before Abraham was born on earth Jesus was ordained by the Father to be
His ATONEMENT Lamb. From the Law of Moses
and the Levitical priesthood, we learned that the REMOVAL OF ALL SINS OF ALL
THE PEOPLE is done by one special lamb chosen by the chief priest, this time
God Himself.
Leviticus 16:15 Then
shall he kill the goat of the sin offering, that is for the people, and bring
his blood within the vail, and do with that blood as he did with the blood of
the bullock, and sprinkle it upon the mercy seat, and before the mercy seat:
16 And he
shall make an atonement for the holy place, because of the uncleanness of the
children of Israel, and because of their transgressions in all their sins: and
so shall he do for the tabernacle of the congregation, that remaineth among
them in the midst of their uncleanness. 17 And there shall be no
man in the tabernacle of the congregation when he goeth in to make an atonement
in the holy place, until he come out, and have made an atonement for himself,
and for his household, and for all the congregation of Israel. 18 And he shall go out
unto the altar that is before the LORD, and make an atonement for it; and shall
take of the blood of the bullock, and of the blood of the goat, and put it upon
the horns of the altar round about. 19 And he shall sprinkle of
the blood upon it with his finger seven times, and cleanse it, and hallow it from
the uncleanness of the children of Israel
As I stated Jesus was chosen from the beginning to do this
special work for the Father.
Book of Enoch 46 1 And there I saw One who had a head of
days, And His head was white like wool, And with Him was another being whose
countenance had the appearance of a man, And his face was full of graciousness,
like one of the holy angels 2 And I asked the angel who went with me and showed
me all the hidden things, concerning that 3 Son of man, who he was, and whence
he was, (and) why he went with the Head of days? And he answered and said unto
me: This is the Son of Man who hath righteousness, With whom dwelleth
righteousness, And who revealeth all the treasures of that which is hidden,
Because the Lord of Spirits hath chosen him, And whose lot hath the
pre-eminence before the Lord of Spirits in uprightness for ever. 4 And this Son
of Man whom thou hast seen Shall raise up the kings and the mighty from their
seats, [And the strong from their thrones ] And shall loosen the reins of the
strong, And break the teeth of the sinners. [And he shall put down the kings
from their thrones and kingdoms] Because they do not extol and praise Him, Nor
humbly acknowledge whence the kingdom was bestowed upon them. 6 And he shall
put down the countenance of the strong, And shall fill them with shame. And
darkness shall be their dwelling, And worms shall be their bed, And they shall
have no hope of rising from their beds, Because they do not extol the name of
the Lord of Spirits. 7 And these are they who judge the stars of heaven, [And
raise their hands against the Most High],
Jesus was well aware of his task. He was to be Father’s sacrificial Lamb to be
slain on earth, and by his blood all the children God created will have their
sins totally ERASED.
Psalm 40:6 Sacrifice and offering thou didst not desire;
mine ears hast thou opened: burnt offering and sin offering hast thou not
required. 7 Then said I, Lo, I come: in the volume of the book it is written of
me, 8 I delight to do thy will, O my God: yea, thy law is within my heart. 9 I
have preached righteousness in the great congregation: lo, I have not refrained
my lips, O LORD, thou knowest. 10 I have not hid thy righteousness within my
heart; I have declared thy faithfulness and thy salvation: I have not concealed
thy lovingkindness and thy truth from the great congregation.
The prophets described his work in detail, and it was a very
tough and violent work that was to happen to him in his role.
Isaiah 53:3 He is despised and rejected of men; a man of
sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were our faces from him;
he was despised, and we esteemed him not. 4 Surely he hath borne our griefs,
and carried our sorrows: yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and
afflicted. 5 But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our
iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we
are healed. 6 All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to
his own way; and the LORD hath laid on him the iniquity of us all. 7 He was
oppressed, and he was afflicted, yet he opened not his mouth: he is brought as
a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before her shearers is dumb, so he
openeth not his mouth. 8 He was taken from prison and from judgment: and who
shall declare his generation? for he was cut off out of the land of the living:
for the transgression of my people was he stricken.
So Jesus warned his disciples about his fate so they would
be aware of his sacrifice.
Matthew 12:40 For as Jonas was three days and three nights
in the whale's belly; so shall the Son of man be three days and three nights in
the heart of the earth.
Luke 9:20 He said unto them, But whom say ye that I am?
Peter answering said, The Christ of God. 21 And he straitly charged them, and
commanded them to tell no man that thing; 22 Saying, The Son of man must suffer
many things, and be rejected of the elders and chief priests and scribes, and
be slain, and be raised the third day.
Jesus also knew his WORK very well!
John 1:29 The next day John seeth Jesus coming unto him, and
saith, Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world.
Isaiah 49:5 And now, saith the LORD that formed me from the
womb to be his servant, to bring Jacob again to him, Though Israel Israel
Father also revealed to him exactly HOW he would pay him for
succeeding in his task.
Psalm 110:1 A Psalm of David. The LORD said unto my Lord,
Sit thou at my right hand, until I make thine enemies thy footstool. 2 The LORD
shall send the rod of thy strength out of Zion
Psalm 2:6 Yet have I set my king upon my holy hill of Zion.
7 I will declare the decree: the LORD hath said unto me, Thou art my Son; this day
have I begotten thee. 8 Ask of me, and I
shall give thee the heathen for thine inheritance, and the uttermost parts of
the earth for thy possession. 9 Thou shalt break them with a rod of
iron; thou shalt dash them in pieces like a potter's vessel.
Jesus knew Father would give him all his brothers and
sisters as a possession and heritage if he did this job as God asked. Fully aware of his brutal demise to come,
Jesus informed all those around him.
John 12:32 And I, if I be lifted up from the earth, will
draw all men (my heritage and possession) unto me.
He also prepared his disciples about his demise.
John 14:1 Let not your heart be troubled: ye believe in God,
believe also in me. 2 In my Father's house are many mansions (Zion
So the powers of darkness were fully informed of the
consequences of crucifying him. And
Jesus' disciples were fully warned about the end Jesus faced on earth as well
as what it meant for mankind. But devils
were so angry with Jesus and their lust for revenge was so great that they made
the chief priests and Romans kill him anyway.
As a result of this action, Jesus possesses and inherits all the
children God created as his paycheck. As fast as men die, he erases their sins and
REDEEMS THEM FROM DEATH.
Matthew 18:11 For the Son of man is come to save that which
was lost. 12 How think ye? if a man have an hundred sheep, and one of them be
gone astray, doth he not leave the ninety and nine, and goeth into the
mountains, and seeketh that which is gone astray? 13 And if so be that he find
it, verily I say unto you, he rejoiceth more of that sheep, than of the ninety
and nine which went not astray. 14 Even so it is not the will of your Father which is in heaven, that
one of these little ones should perish.
John 6:39 And this is the Father's will which hath sent me, that of all which he hath given me I
should lose nothing, but should raise it up again at the last day.
Hosea 13:14 I will ransom them from the power of the grave;
I will redeem them from death: O death, I will be thy plagues; O grave, I will
be thy destruction: repentance shall be hid from mine eyes.
John 17:12 While I was with them in the world, I kept them
in thy name: those that thou gavest me I have kept, and none of them is lost, but the son of perdition; that the
scripture might be fulfilled.
John 5:25 Verily, verily, I say unto you, The hour is
coming, and now is, when the dead
shall hear the voice of the Son of God: and they that hear shall live.
28 Marvel not at this: for the hour is coming, in the which all that are in the graves shall hear his
voice,
Luke 20:35 But they which shall be accounted worthy to
obtain that world, and the resurrection from the dead, neither marry, nor are
given in marriage: 36 Neither can they die any more: for they are equal unto
the angels; and are the children of God, being the children of the
resurrection. 37 Now that the dead are raised, even Moses shewed at the bush,
when he calleth the Lord the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God
of Jacob. 38 For he is not a God of the dead, but of the living: for all live unto him.
So any time you read of someone dying do not fret over
it. Jesus is just collecting part of his
pay, and he intends to collect his PAYMENT IN FULL! So Abraham got a great deal with that ram in
the thicket. He did not lose his son.
Father got a better deal. He
sacrificed is “only Son” chosen to be that special Atonement Lamb for the
salvation and regeneration of them ALL!
Glorify God!
God did it!
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