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NASB | Luke 24:20 and how the chief priests and our rulers delivered Him to the sentence of death, and crucified Him. |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | Luke 24:20 and how the chief priests and our rulers handed Him over to be sentenced to death, and crucified Him. |
Subject: Was the cross inevitable? |
Bible Note: Greetings Simchat! Whether one believes that they were predestined to reject Him or that God timelessly knew that they would reject Him the end result is the same - they would reject Him. This is consistent with what Scripture says about the Jews and the Messiah. Acts 2:23 - "This man was handed over to you by God’s set purpose and foreknowledge; and you, with the help of wicked men, put him to death by nailing him to the cross." Acts 2:47 - "7 Indeed Herod and Pontius Pilate met together with the Gentiles and the people of Israel in this city to conspire against your holy servant Jesus, whom you anointed. 28 They did what your power and will had decided beforehand should happen." And, of course, Romans 11 speaks of God's hardening of Israel that His purpose of election might stand: "For God has bound all men over to disobedience so that he may have mercy on them all." Rom. 11:32 So, I would definitely say that the cross was inevitable and the only means that God has ordained for salvation. Paul makes it clear that the Law could not save us: Rom. 8:3 - "For what the law was powerless to do in that it was weakened by the sinful nature, God did by sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful man to be a sin offering. And so he condemned sin in sinful man, 4 in order that the righteous requirements of the law might be fully met in us, who do not live according to the sinful nature but according to the Spirit." Your Brother in Christ, Tim Moran |