Stop It!! Stop thinking that the Blood of CHRIST trickled down from HIS Brow while HE was hanging on the Salvation's Cross!! Because you are sadly mistaken if you think JESUS'S Bleeding was minimal!!
First, Scripture notes that JESUS was whipped and beaten by Roman soldiers. Roman [& Jewish] law prohibited no more than 39 lashes to be prescribed as punishment. At the end of this lashing, can you really imagine anything but CHRIST'S Flesh torn to shreds? And that was even before the soldiers taunted and beat HIM!! Ask yourself why it was needful for Simon to be recruited to help carry the cross to the site of CHRIST'S Crucifixion. This type of torture [ruled cruel and unusual punishment by the US Supreme Court] often resulted in internal injuries.
Further ask yourself what occurred at each of JESUS'S Trials. To me at least, it is clear how provocative and upsetting JESUS'S Non-Answers were to both Jewish and Roman officials. Again do you really think that neither of these trials were carried out without any physicality involved? JESUS wasn't slapped? JESUS did not carry bruises from HIS First Trial to HIS Second? Not one mark on HIS Flesh? Nothing?
And none of these ideas of the harm done to The LAMB'S Body include the actual nailing of JESUS'S Hands or HIS Feet onto the cross. Nor does it include the wounds inflicted by the Crown of Thorns stuck to HIS Wounded Head...because let me tell you, it was not intended to be a gentle experiencing with a bare prickling of the skin. No! Those thorns were put on with as much cruelty and viciousness, as damaging and mocking as humanly possible! In all probability, our SAVIOR'S Brow ended up looking like ground meat.
As modern society steps further and further away from the reality of being sentenced to be hanged on a cross until dead, whether that took days to accomplish or the knees are broken to speed up the process; we often think six hours on a cross is a long time, when in fact, JESUS'S Finish on earth was really quite rapid. Scripture remarks on the surprise the Roman soldiers felt when they came to break CHRIST'S knees and thus hurry our KING'S End and found HIM already dead...
So even the soldiers were shocked so significantly that they felt the need to 'make sure' HE was dead by piecing HIS Chest Cavity with a sword...
And let me continue to enlighten you as to the Cross's brutal reality. 'Water' did not pour out of JESUS'S 'S Stabbed-Through Side. Blood gushed out of CHRIST'S Torn Rib Cage; accompanied most probably with bone fragments, and perhaps bits of internal organs.
We must never again allow ourselves the thought that JESUS CHRIST'S Death only brought forth a few drops of blood. Let us always remember the cry JESUS screamed:
GOD, why have YOU forsaken ME?
It was delivered from a deep chasm, a deep reserve of unbearable pain. Only because my ETERNAL FRIEND sacrificed HIMSELF in such agony can I never be forsaken, abandoned or be separated by The LORD or HIS LOVE.
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