By Sola Adeyegbe
Ask the average man who knows of Jesus about His mission and you will be told in one form or another that He came from His heavenly abode to die for the sins of mankind; He is the sacrifice offered up to pay for man’s iniquity.
Indeed, this view is 2000 years old. However, one of the eternal Laws of the Almighty is: He who sows will reap. Jesus did not sow sins and therefore cannot reap sins or carry our own sins. The Book of Ezekiel, Chapter 18 verse 20 says the soul who sins is the one who will die. Each bears the consequences of his actions. No one can carry away the sins of another.
If we truly know about the Holiness of the Lord, we will not even dare to think of putting our iniquities on Him!
It does not matter if the supporters of this popular view resort to name calling or rude remarks. This will certainly not controvert the truth. No amount of following for a wrong concept can make it right even if it had lasted 2000 years. The time has come for all false beliefs about the life of Christ to collapse. And they are already collapsing. We are now in the years of spiritual enlightenment and earnest seekers of the truth are being freed daily from the bondage of false beliefs!
The Revelations in the Bible show us vividly the repercussions that will come on humanity for what we did to the Lamb earlier on at Golgotha! The repercussions are already rolling. See the wars, economic and political failures and consider inwardly the strange illnesses ravaging the world today. Do these show any sign that man has been forgiven? No. Instead, man will have to drink to the dregs the cup of the repercussions of the crime against the Love of God embodied in Jesus of Nazareth. He came in love, but man repaid Him with hatred and even mockingly asked: Why didn’t He save Himself? Then followed the assumption that if He didn’t jump down from the cross then He and the Father Who sent Him must have agreed to His being treated with scorn and wickedness. So bold, arrogant, presumptuous and audacious a view!
The Lord is all powerful but men are free to exercise their freewill. The consequences always follow. That’s what happened with Christ’s rejection and crucifixion. Jesus gave man the Way of Truth leading to eternal life. Man had a choice. Accept and be saved or reject and be damned. Majority rejected, leading to a tragic crucifixion.
Many now revile the truth to the extent of calling the truth the work of the Antichrist.
Rejoice, because today the new spiritual knowledge has disclosed the identity of the Antichrist who has been deceiving man right from the time of the fall of man! The person behind all the animosity against Christ and who used all those religious leaders to perpetrate the crime against Christ is Lucifer! He was the one who acquired the name Antichrist by the war he waged on Christ at that time. He is still the one behind the false belief now so popular today which makes the crucifixion appear as the main mission of Christ and the way to salvation when it is not. He is the father of lies. He engineered the crucifixion and now sold it to man as the way of salvation. False!
The way of salvation has been the same from the beginning of Creation till today: Forsake your evil ways turn to God in repentance and you will be forgiven. That is the way to salvation and redemption!
May we have the strength to pluck up the courage to give these matters a thought. The courage to just think a little.
