It all began in the garden
and the fall of man. Not only did this
launch the battle that will end at Armageddon, but it also reveals to us a
peculiar God, who required the sacrificial blood of animals that would
foreshadow the death of His Son and the blood atonement required for salvation.
This God who would send His Son into the world
not as a king but as a lowly servant, who would die a most brutal death so that
He would share in our sufferings and also give us life through His name. This life is eternal life and it comes by
faith in His son, Jesus Christ. This God
who would speak through prophets and ask them to perform seemingly peculiar
acts to drive home His message.
Such as having Ezekiel cut
his hair and beard, weigh it and divide it three ways. One third he was to burn with fire, one third
strike with the sword and one third scatter to the wind and keep some of it out
and sew into the edge of his garment, to represent and coincide with God’s
judgements. There are several of these
throughout the book of Ezekiel. This
strange God who would address Ezekiel as son of man as if talking to a species
that was unlike His own, but that He created. This peculiar God who would when
speaking to Ezekiel refer to Himself as the Lord of Hosts.
I think of the nazarite
vow of Samson and John the Baptist. They were not to cut their hair and were
not to eat any grapes or have any food products made from grapes.
The Abrahamic Covenant,
the Mosaic Law, God requiring the
building of a temple and providing every instruction for its construction. The
blood sacrifice that would be performed and would represent and foreshadow Jesus
Christ, who was coming and going to be the atonement for man’s sins. Jesus who
would be born of a virgin and would die a most brutal death, with every drop of
His blood poured out to pay for my sins and yours and who would resurrect from
death and promise all who believe in Him eternal life.
The blood sacrifice is
what is incomprehensible to our rational mind and defies our human
reasoning. This is required from the God
of the universe? Yes, and this God
requires faith to please Him and He knows that faith is difficult for man. The paradox is that it is the faith of a
child that is required to understand His complexity. This is backed up in Scripture
in the following verses:
Luke 18:17, “Verily I say
unto you, Whosoever shall not receive the kingdom of God as a little child
shall in no wise enter therein.”
Matthew 18:3.“And said, Verily I say unto you, Except ye be converted,
and become as little children, ye shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven.”
It is not of works that we achieve eternal
life and life with Christ but through faith and belief in this fantastic foolish
sounding Gospel, which is the power of a God that we cannot for the life of us
comprehend. It takes childlike faith to understand it.
It’s like getting through a corn maze. Corn
mazes are popular attractions at farms in the United States. Farmers will build mazes through their corn fields in
an effort to help their farms earn money.
Many people have gotten lost in the maze and some have phoned the police
to help find them. One of the
recommendations for finding your way out of a corn maze if you find yourself
lost is to follow the kids because they somehow know how to get out of
one. This is a prime example of a child
having an ability that an adult does not possess such as understanding the God
of the Bible.
Jesus Himself told us we would need the
faith of a child to believe in Him. A child can comprehend this fantastic world
and the Gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ because they do not have adult
reasoning. God and His parallel world as described in the Bible defies our
reasoning. Yet, because it is
incomprehensibleto us does not mean that it does not exist.
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