Love Thine Enemy

Psalms 22:1 My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? why art thou so far from helping me, and from the words of my roaring?

Few prophecies are fulfilled with exacting detail as in Psalm 22.

Mark 15:34 And at the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, saying, Eloi, Eloi, lama sabachthani? which is, being interpreted, My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?

Notice that Mark is careful to note that the words Jesus spoke were not in the common language but with a language that the educated understood. It stands to reason that a life in torment would not go through the trouble to speak in an educated language, that life would speak by the natural course of language. To speak these words,”Eloi, Eloi, lama sabachthani” required purpose and internal fortitude. Jesus was breathing his last few breaths as he spoke these words. What could possibly be so important that he would use his last breath to speak words that only a few could understand.

The few just happen to be the very same people that put him on that cross, the Pharisees, Scribes, and Lawyers. The ones who knew instantly without having to research the words he spoke. They knew instantly that Jesus was referencing Psalm 22.

Consider with me the how great His mercy is, that the great I Am would take the time before the fulfillment of all prophecy to reach out to those that hated him, to say vicariously through this Psalm:

John 5:39

Search the scriptures; for in them ye think ye have eternal life: and they are they which testify of me.

The love of God was reaching down from the cross to entreat  his enemy to seek him that they might also enjoy eternal life.