Then the Lord my God will come, and all the holy ones with him. The Fear of the Lord The first essential truth the repentant thief (from now on referred to as the thief) understood was that God should be feared. His words give us a synopsis of essential gospel truth.
Watch while Death is taken by the throat. Walk with the Infinite made flesh into the belly of the whale. But Jesus Christ came to take away our sins by His death on the cross. We die together, a thief and the Maker of the world. And you shall flee as you fled from the earthquake in the days of Uzziah king of Judah. The thief on the cross presents us with a basic but powerful systematic theology. What did Jesus mean when He told the thief on the cross who believed in Him that. And you shall flee to the valley of my mountains, for the valley of the mountains shall reach to Azal. The way to the garden of Eden has been opened once again. Jesus final words to the thief on the cross are directly connected to this second Adam motif, Truly, I say to you, today you will be with me in Paradise.
On that day his feet shall stand on the Mount of Olives that lies before Jerusalem on the east, and the Mount of Olives shall be split in two from east to west by a very wide valley, so that one half of the Mount shall move northward, and the other half southward. What Christ has done in his persistent innocence is to reopen the way closed by Adam. Then the Lord will go out and fight against those nations as when he fights on a day of battle. Half of the city shall go out into exile, but the rest of the people shall not be cut off from the city. For I will gather all the nations against Jerusalem to battle, and the city shall be taken and the houses plundered and the women raped. ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpfulīehold, a day is coming for the Lord, when the spoil taken from you will be divided in your midst. He asked the Father to forgive the thieves on the cross who jeered at Him.
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