Day 88..."Instructions for Offerings...Jesus Offers Himself"
Numbers devotes Thursday's reading to specifics of various offerings....daily offerings, sabbath offerings, monthly offerings, passover offerings, feasts offerings, atonement...in addition to the vow, freewill, burnt, grain, drink, and peace offerings. In Mark's Gospel, Jesus offers Himself as the perfect sacrifice to suffer and die for our sins. The centurian proclaims after all the sarcasm of His Lordship..."surely this was the Son of God." The Psalmist says something I had never noticed before..."Are your wonders known in the darkness, or your righteousness in the land of forgetfulness?" In the darkness of sin, despair, or discouragement the wonder of God is missed. How easy we forget righteousness in the land of forgetfulness. What a thought for a sermon? "The Land of Forgetfulness."
posted by Philip McVay @ 1:49 PM
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I recently heard a different angle regarding the centurion claiming...."surely this was the Son of God."
During this time, the Psalms were not yet numbered. They were known by the first line of the Psalm. So, when Jesus said “Eloi, Eloi, lema sabachthani?” which means, “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?”, he was referring to Psalm 22...
14 I am poured out like water,
and all my bones are out of joint;
my heart is like wax;
it is melted within my breast;
15 my strength is dried up like a potsherd,
and my tongue sticks to my jaws;
you lay me in the dust of death.
16 For dogs encompass me;
a company of evildoers encircles me;
they have pierced my hands and feet [2]—
17 I can count all my bones—
they stare and gloat over me;
18 they divide my garments among them,
and for my clothing they cast lots.
Once the centurion heard Jesus refer to the Psalm and realized David had written and predicted this many years ago, he proclaimed Jesus as the son of God.
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