Mark 14
42 Rise up, let us go; lo, he that betrays me is at hand.
43 And immediately, while he spoke came Judas,
one of the twelve, and with him a great multitude with swords and staves,
from the chief priests and the scribes and the elders.
44 And he that betrayed him had given them a token, saying,
Whomsoever I shall kiss, that same is he; take him, and lead him away safely.
Men with weapons of war came after the One sent from the God of Peace to help mankind find peace with the God.
In the strength of their flesh they brought weapons to subdue, to conquer and to overcome. Their sweaty, sin-stained hands gripped blunt, wooden clubs drawn in anticipation of silencing the mouth of the innocent One who preached and purchased the salvation they were rejecting.
They did not know the ironic foreshadowing spoken by their powerless wood-hewn clubs.
The same word that was translated "stave" was also translated "tree."
Their first weapons, the clubs, wielded no power. Their second weapon, the cross used to crucify our Lord, was the greatest form of torture. The wooden beams brought suffering to the Lord Jesus, but what they meant for evil, God meant for good.
I Peter 2:24
"Who Himself bore our sins
in His own body on the tree,
in His own body on the tree,
that we, having died to sins,
might live for righteousness—
by whose stripes you were healed."
They had no power in their staves, but we have power in the tree, because the grossest weapon of cruel murder was the greatest tool of salvation.
May we praise, thank and adore Him for enduring the the torture of men's wooden weapons, while bearing our sins on the Cross.
Our joyful response for Him dying for us, should be to fully live for Him.
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Each item mankind used to torture or mock the Lord Jesus Christ,
the Lord Jesus Christ used to show forth His glory in Salvation.
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