“Then the earth shook and quaked,
and the foundations of the mountains trembled,
and they staggered because he was angry.
Smoke went forth from his nose,
and fire from his mouth consumed.
Burning coals blazed from him.
So he bowed the heavens and came down
with a thick cloud under his feet.
And he mounted a cherub and flew,
and he swooped down on wings of wind.
He made darkness his hiding place;
all about him his covering
was a darkness of waters, thick clouds.
From the brightness before him
his clouds passed over
with hail and coals of fire.
And YHWH thundered from the heavens,
and the Most High uttered his voice
with hail and coals of fire.
And he shot his arrows and scattered them,
and many lightning bolts and routed them.
Then the channels of the sea became visible,
and the foundations of the world were uncovered
by your rebuke, O YHWH,
by the blast of the wind of your nose.
He reached from on high; he seized me.”
(Psalm 18)
and the foundations of the mountains trembled,
and they staggered because he was angry.
Smoke went forth from his nose,
and fire from his mouth consumed.
Burning coals blazed from him.
So he bowed the heavens and came down
with a thick cloud under his feet.
And he mounted a cherub and flew,
and he swooped down on wings of wind.
He made darkness his hiding place;
all about him his covering
was a darkness of waters, thick clouds.
From the brightness before him
his clouds passed over
with hail and coals of fire.
And YHWH thundered from the heavens,
and the Most High uttered his voice
with hail and coals of fire.
And he shot his arrows and scattered them,
and many lightning bolts and routed them.
Then the channels of the sea became visible,
and the foundations of the world were uncovered
by your rebuke, O YHWH,
by the blast of the wind of your nose.
He reached from on high; he seized me.”
(Psalm 18)
Yes, beatings, yes mockery, yes scorn and scourging, yes nails, yes suffocation, all these things Jesus experienced in the death of his body.
But THIS, this is what he began to experience in the Garden when His Father placed upon Him the sins of the world! This is what He got in our place! The full, just wrath of God against our sin! This is a taste of what he experienced in the death of his soul.
But THIS, this is what he began to experience in the Garden when His Father placed upon Him the sins of the world! This is what He got in our place! The full, just wrath of God against our sin! This is a taste of what he experienced in the death of his soul.
