How He Suffered
That We Might Live!
Jah – Rejoice!
Hallelu
He Is Risen
© Shammah 04-2009
See How He Suffered for You and Me
Fact #1:
Crucifixion is an ancient method of execution that
caused extreme pain as the body was tortured to
death. The Romans perfected this technique, which
was used only upon the most hideous criminals. One
foot would be pressed backwards against the other
while a nail would be driven through the arches. Iron
nails were also driven deep into the skin near the
person's wrists. With each breath, the body would
painfully flex up and down upon the nails. This motion
created excruciating agony as the weight of the body
was pressed upon the muscles and nerve endings.
Cramps, fatigue, and knotting would lead to the
pectoral muscles being paralyzed. The victim's heart
would eventually stop due to a loss of blood and the
build up of carbon dioxide in the lungs.
Fact #2:
The crucifixion of the Messiah is prophesied
throughout the Old Testament. Many verses
speak vividly about His passion. For example,
Psalm 22:16 read, "For dogs have surrounded
me; a band of evildoers has encompassed me;
they pierced my hands and my feet."
Fact #3:
The Roman method of crucifixion used during the
time of Jesus was not upon a cross but a straight
stake or tree. "Christ hath redeemed us from
the curse of the law, being made a curse for us:
for it is written, Cursed is every one that
hangeth on a tree," Galatians 3:13. History
records that the few times a cross shaped beam
was used for an execution, the shape resembled
the capitalized letter T and not the lower case t
shape.
Fact #4:
The hands of the Savior were not nail scarred.
The Romans could not have placed the nails into
the hands of a criminal as the palms were not
strong enough to support the weight of the body.
Instead, nine to twelve inch nails were driven deep
into the arms of the sufferer. The space between
the small bones of the wrists, radial and ulna, were
strong enough to allow the body to hang for hours
in agony. A nail in the hand would have broken
many bones. Psalm 34:20 and John 19:36 state
that not a single bone was broken in His body;
therefore He could not have nail scarred hands.
Fact #5:
The Jews did not kill the Messiah. Nor did the Romans. No
one took the Savior's life from Him. The Bible clearly shows
that He gave up His life freely for all mankind. "I lay down
My life that I may take it again. No one has taken it
away from Me, but I lay it down on My own initiative. I
have authority to lay it down, and I have authority to
take it up again," John 10:17-18. Because the wages of
sin is death, the Savior gave His life upon a tree. He
became cursed to pay the penalty of sin. The death and
eventual resurrection of the Savior provided hope for all
mankind. "For God so loved the world that He gave his
only begotten son that whosoever beliefeth in Him
would not perish but have everlasting life," John 3:16
KJV.
ISAIAH 53
Isa 53:1 Who hath believed our report? and to whom is the arm of
the LORD revealed?
Isa 53:2 For he shall grow up before him as a tender plant, and as
a root out of a dry ground: he hath no form nor comeliness; and
when we shall see him, [there is] no beauty that we should desire
him.
Isa 53:3 He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows,
and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were [our] faces from
him; he was despised, and we esteemed him not.
Isa 53:4 Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows:
yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted.
Isa 53:5 But he [was] wounded for our transgressions, [he was]
bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace [was]
upon him; and with his stripes we are healed.
• Isa 53:6 All we like sheep have gone astray; we have
turned every one to his own way; and the LORD hath
laid on him the iniquity of us all.
Isa 53:7 He was oppressed, and he was afflicted, yet he
opened not his mouth: he is brought as a lamb to the
slaughter, and as a sheep before her shearers is dumb,
so he openeth not his mouth.
• Isa 53:8 He was taken from prison and from judgment:
and who shall declare his generation? for he was cut off
out of the land of the living: for the transgression of my
people was he stricken.
Isa 53:9 And he made his grave with the wicked, and with
the rich in his death; because he had done no violence,
neither [was any] deceit in his mouth.
Isa 53:10 Yet it pleased the LORD to bruise him; he hath
put [him] to grief: when thou shalt make his soul an offering
for sin, he shall see [his] seed, he shall prolong [his] days,
and the pleasure of the LORD shall prosper in his hand.
Isa 53:11 He shall see of the travail of his soul, [and] shall
be satisfied: by his knowledge shall my righteous servant
justify many; for he shall bear their iniquities.
Isa 53:12 Therefore will I divide him [a portion] with the
great, and he shall divide the spoil with the strong; because
he hath poured out his soul unto death: and he was
numbered with the transgressors; and he bare the sin of
many, and made intercession for the transgressors.
1 Corinthians 15:12-26
12 And if Christ is preached, that out of the dead he hath risen,
how say certain among you, that there is no rising again of dead
persons?
13 and if there be no rising again of dead persons, neither hath
Christ risen;
14 and if Christ hath not risen, then void [is] our preaching, and
void also your faith,
15 and we also are found false witnesses of God, because we did
testify of God that He raised up the Christ, whom He did not raise
if then dead persons do not rise;
16 for if dead persons do not rise, neither hath Christ risen,
17 and if Christ hath not risen, vain is your faith, ye are yet in
your sins;
18 then, also, those having fallen asleep in Christ did perish;
19 if in this life we have hope in Christ only, of all men we are
most to be pitied.
20 And now, Christ hath risen out of the dead -- the first-fruits of
those sleeping he became,
21 for since through man [is] the death, also through man [is] a
rising again of the dead,
22 for even as in Adam all die, so also in the Christ all shall be
made alive,
23 and each in his proper order, a first-fruit Christ, afterwards
those who are the Christ's, in his presence,
24 then -- the end, when he may deliver up the reign to God, even
the Father, when he may have made useless all rule, and all
authority and power –
25 for it behoveth him to reign till he may have put all the
enemies under his feet –
26 the last enemy is done away -- death;
