THE SPIRIT ON THE CROSS

THE DOOR TO THE TEMPLE OF HEAVEN 

© Carlos Padilla, Easter March 2018 – Passover 14th of Nisan 5778

 

“Eli, Eli, lema sabachthani?” which means “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?” Matthew 27:46, where the words of our Lord Jesus while on the Cross. Afterwards the following events accoutred: “⁵¹ At that moment the curtain of the temple was torn in two from top to bottom. The earth shook, the rocks split ⁵² and the tombs broke open. The bodies of many holy people who had died were raised to life. ⁵³ They came out of the tombs after Jesus’ resurrection and went into the holy city and appeared to many people.”

We know that Yahshua - Jesus Christ took the decision to give His live in sacrifice for our sins before the foundation of the world, by His will and in accordance with God the Father, and did it through the eternal Spirit, Ephesians 5:2, Hebrews 9:14, 1 Peter 1:19-20. For this He had to incarnate to accomplish that great work. However these two works of Christ –to be forsaken and to have decided willingly- may seem a contradiction at first sight, but if we continue to read the Text in the Bible, we are revealed how and why this was the only way to open to us the door of Heaven for eternal life, and only the Lord Jesus Christ could do it, and did it knowing that He was facing to be forsaken and loaded with our sins. Have you entered through the door of Heaven that Jesus Christ opened on the Cross of Calvary through the eternal Spirit when the curtain was torn from top to bottom? Continue to read...

The work of the Holy Spirit on the Cross of Christ is not evident at first sight, the Bible reveals to us that the work of the Cross was possible through the eternal Spirit, who without a doubt is the Holy Spirit. That deep relationship between the Holy Spirit and Yahshua Jesus Christ that began before Creation was coming to its decisive point at the Cross in Calvary, as we read in the initial Text. That Text concludes with the reaction of the centurion and the witnesses, in Matthew 27:54:  “So when the centurion and those with him, who were guarding Jesus, saw the earthquake and the things that had happened, they feared greatly, saying: Truly this was the Son of God!” We can also read the story in the other three Gospels: Mark 15:34, Luke 23:46 and John 19:30.

 

YAHSHUA – JESUS CHRIST OPENED THE DOOR OF THE TEMPLE OF HEAVEN FOR BELIEVERS

We know through Scripture that Jesus Christ gave the spirit willingly, this is, He decided to die in the instant that He wanted; the soldiers did not have to accelerate His death, as with the other two crucified, because of the hurry due to the start of Passover. Therefore He had authority over His life. But the effect that His life caused on us, on those that would become the Church, since then, to open the door of the Temple of Heaven, the door of the same Heart of God, the door of a Temple not made by hand, not of this Creation, which has a Holy of Holies and that requested of this work of one who was High Priest forever. His work is the centre of human History. Once Jesus had opened the door of Salvation, the Holy Spirit could come in us giving us the gift of faith to believe in that accomplished work of Christ on the Cross, His eternity, incarnation, expiatory death, resurrection and ascension to the glory, and whom we are waiting in His coming to establish His Kingdom.

 

THE TEMPLE OF HEAVEN – JESUS CHRIST THE LAMB OF GOD

Hebrews 9 explains how the system of the Temple was established, God´s justice and how the expiatory work that forgives our sins works, and why Jesus Christ had to give His life fulfilling the commandments of the Old Covenant or Testament and how it established the New Covenant or Testament. After the second curtain was the part of the Tabernacle which is called Holy of Holiest, where only the High Priest could enter, once a year, not without blood, who had to offer as much for his own sins as for the rest of the people, and with this the Holy Spirit was giving understanding, according to verse eight that the way to that Holy of Holiest had not been manifested. But being Christ present, High Priest without sin and eternal, entering Heaven itself, in another and perfect Tabernacle not made by hand, not of this Creation and with His own blood obtained eternal redemption.

 

GOD ABIDES IN US

Now that we have followed the origin and the purpose of the work of Christ, and how, before the foundation of the world He had seen our fall and loved us, provided that we could have that special and privileged relationship with the Father in His name and thought the Spirit, let us enter with confidence through that door, because we may live and experience that relationship for which it is necessary that we understand and accept humbly what Paul received in clear revelation from God in his letter to the Romans. In the eighth chapter we read that there is no more condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus, with a fulfilled justice thanks to the Holy Spirit, true main character of our Christian life and who has the merit of being That “Parakletos” that Jesus announced before He was ascended to the throne of glory.

We read some characteristics of when God abides in us through the Holy Spirit: “⁴ that the righteous requirement of the law might be fulfilled in us who do not walk according to the flesh but according to the Spirit. ⁵ For those who live according to the flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh, but those who live according to the Spirit, the things of the Spirit. ⁹ But you are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if indeed the Spirit of God dwells in you. Now if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, he is not His. ¹¹ But if the Spirit of Him who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you, He who raised Christ from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through His Spirit who dwells in you. ¹⁶ The Spirit Himself bears witness with our spirit that we are children of God.

 

Therefore the Holy Spirit shall abide in us, if we are of Christ, and He himself will raise us or rapture us in the last day. And in the same way, James 4: 5 sais: “Or do you think that the Scripture says in vain: The Spirit who dwells in us yearns jealously”? a precious affirmation that the believer shall experience daily according to how he works on his relationship with the Holy Spirit to be full of Him. And that same Spirit that abides in us, is the same Spirit that abides in the Temple of Heaven, which is God Himself: Revelation 21:22 “But I saw no temple in it, for the Lord God Almighty and the Lamb are its temple.”

God is the Temple, and the Lamb, and the Spirit who abides in us and in Heaven.

 

 

CONCLUSION

 

Yahshua – Jesus Christ saves us of eternal death and hell if we have received the faith in His work; we have understood it and received it. If it is like this, we have received the baptism of the Holy Spirit, who has been working in us from before the foundation of the world, as we have seen in the Texts of the Bible. Jesus offered Himself with the power of the eternal Spirit, and in His death he overcame death and sin, opening, after the curtain of religion, the door to the personal relationship with God. Today, and until He returns to take us to the new Creation, we are Temple of God and the Holy Spirit abides in us giving us permanent access to the Temple of Heaven, to the same heart of the Father, in Jesus Christ.

 

Have you already entered through that Door of Heaven and live a daily relationship with God? You only need faith in the work of the Cross of Christ thought the Gospel, to confess your sin, and ask God to live in your heart through His Spirit. Pray daily, talk to God and study the Bible always. This Easter and Passover of the Passion of Christ may it fulfil in each of us for the glory of God, abided by the Holy Spirit, may we be kept because Jesus Christ returns. To Him be the glory. Amen! Hallelu-Yah!