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Why did the Roman soldier beneath Jesus’ Cross feel afraid to face God at the Judgment? He may, just then, have realized the repentant thief had the answer. “We, indeed, suffer justly.” That was it: We’re wrong! Doing things the way we want was not right after all! It was our Creator’s right to tell us—His creation—how to live. After all, only then would we know how to fulfill His purpose for us. We were guilty of “insubordination”! This a soldier could understand.
By now it was noon, and a strange thing begins to happen. The sky begins to darken with an eerie blackness. For a few brief moments, the air was so still it seemed to choke you as the darkness deepened. Then the earth began to tremble. Lightning bolts were exploding against the ground.
Then, unexpectedly, the voice of Jesus pierces the darkness. In a loud, wrenching voice Jesus cries out, “My God, My God, why have You forsaken Me?” (Matthew 27:46, emphasis added)
The level of emotional pain expressed by this outcry was Continue reading