Posted by cool ambo on April 6th, 2023 | Comments Off on Love Story Chapter Seven Last Words
The Seven last Words
The sign above his head reads INRI, or King of the Jews.
This is to signify the Roman mastery over the Jews
and at the same time to mock their beliefs.
These word are related by eyewitnesses of the Crucifixion
by both HIS closest friends and relatives.
In these hours, Jesus performs HIS function as both
Son of Man and Son of God.
What follows is my insight on the occasion,
not God’s, because HE would have other things to think of
while HE is nailed on the Cross.
This is for your perusal and is free for you to download
and use later as a reference.
Just in case.
First of Seven:
“Father, forgive them, for they do not know what they are doing.”
These words mark the main reason for the Coming of Christ–
They actually form the theme of the Story of Jesus
and what His work was all about—
that of forgiveness, redemption, and love for the enemies.
These words give meat to HIS other spoken words of :
“Turn the Other Cheek”,
even if by doing so one stands to lose the rest of his head
by decapitation.
Second of Seven:
“Today, you will be with ME in Paradise”
HE said this when one nailed to another cross
asked jesus to remember him in Paradise.
Imagine how elated was Jesus to know that HIS work had
been fruitful, that people will now bow down to HIM
in supplication and adoration.
These words also prove HIS authority over the Heavens
and that HE make sinners enter Paradise with HIS will.
HE IS GOD, and HE has made it easier for man to enter Paradise.
Man needs not to blow himself up
nor to behead others
nor to kiss a charcoal-black rock
to enter Paradise.
A simple, sincere plea for forgiveness will do
at anytime, any place, in front of an altar or not.
Third of Seven:
“Woman, behold, your son….Behold, your Mother”
These words ring all over and for those who meditate on them
will sink that these words are actually God’s decree that Mothers
should be placed on pedestals and nothing should be refused
of what they ask for.
Women give birth, and nurture, and care, and love,
the kind of love that made God create Adam and Eve.
To feel the love of a Mother was God’s intention for creating Man.
And HE felt this love from Mary.
HE will realize later on when HE would have felt
the extreme fervor and love from HIS Saints.
This would require another chapter but for the meantime,
Jesus has placed HIS Mother under the care of John
which further decreed the importance of women.
To recap what I have said so far :
God came down to Earth to show the way.
People have been complaining thet
HIS Commandments are difficult to follow
as a whole and to be able to do this
one has to be a god himself.
Therefore to show how man can obey
HIS Commandments completely
HE HIMSELF must show the way.
And HE has to do this by assuming the form of man
with Man’s frailties including the feeling of pain.
So while his form, that of Jesus now pinned to the Cross,
HE speaks partly as God wills and partly as man in pain.
After the First Three of Seven Words, HE speaks as God.
The next four of the Seven Last Words
HE will be speaking as Man specifically as Man in agony.
HE had his agony first in the Garden when Jesus asked
the Father to lat this destiny on the Cross pass
because of the pain HE has to endure.
HIS experience as a carpenter got him to know about
beams and the size of the nails to attach these to a post.
The pain of using these nails to pin HIS arms to a beam
should have a painful thought.
More so with a bigger-sized nail to pin two feet to a post.
Fourth of Seven
“My God, My God, why have you forsaken me?”
At about this time, the pain must start to hurt.
This is the Man speaking, it would not hurt if HE were
speaking as God.
He realizes that this is HIS destiny and it has to continue
if HE has to save the world from sin.
Such words could not have been said
if HE were to use the Function of God.
More memorable it is to show the Way were HE
to experience excruciating pain and show it.
Fifth of Seven
“I Thirst.”
A symbolic meaning to these words is HIS thirst
for the love and adoration of the people HE Loves.
At any rate, HE was given acidic vinegar
on a sponge to sip on.
Sixth of Seven
“It is finished.”
After several hours (maybe three) pain diminishes
and Jesus feels death creeping in.
HIS Function, and God’s Divine Plan is in completion.
And HE says this, if only to remind HIMSELF.
Seven of Seventh
“Father, into your hands I commend my spirit.”
The Son of God returns to God the Father.
Jesus dies and the Earth trembles and the Heavens roar
as if both were the ones which gave up the ghost.
“Truly,” the Romans say, “this is the Son of God!”
These last words dramatize the fact which remains both
a mystery and controversy to some other people—-
that there exists JESUS, HIS SPIRIT, and THE FATHER
all rolled into one TRINITY.
