Harrowed By His Name

Holy Saturday is the day Christ our Lord descended into hades and harrowed hell (1 Peter 3:18-19). It is a time when He preached to the dead who could never have heard the Gospel because they were pre-Incarnation. For us Christians the signifgance of this holiday is that Jesus harrowed all of us from hell, His death on the cross and His blood extinguished the flames. We all have been harrowed by His name. We all deserved damnation, but God in His mercy let The Judgement for sin pour on Christ in our place and if you believe in Him the Hound’s power over you is lost!

Everyone is in the jaws of the Hound, and in his belly are flames eternally. But Christ reached and pried open the mouth of that Hound, using The Cross, Nails in His Hands and Feet, and making a red carpet of His blood that leads out of the jackal’s jaws. He reaches out to pluck us out, but there are many unaware that they are in the Hound’s snare, nor do they perceive Christ offering the only escape through faith in Him.

It is incumbent on us to share the Gospel, to show people the draw bridge and door out of hell:

“Most assuredly, I say to you, he who does not enter the sheepfold by the door, but climbs up some other way, the same is a thief and a robber. But he who enters by the door is the shepherd of the sheep. To him the doorkeeper opens, and the sheep hear his voice; and he calls his own sheep by name and leads them out. And when he brings out his own sheep, he goes before them; and the sheep follow him, for they know his voice. Yet they will by no means follow a stranger, but will flee from him, for they do not know the voice of strangers.” Jesus used this illustration, but they did not understand the things wThen Jesus said to them again, “Most assuredly, I say to you, I am the door of the sheep. All who ever came before Me are thieves and robbers, I am the door. If anyone enters by Me, he will be saved, and will go in and out and find pasture. ” (John 10:1-9).

Jesus is the only door out of the Hound of Hell’s mouth. He is the only way that we can be saved and set free from the Second Death’s power! Jesus has opened wide the hound’s mouth, and he will one day throw the Hound into oblivion, “Then death and Hades were thrown into the lake of fire. The lake of fire is the second death.” (Revelation 20:4).

So do not wait, break free from Hound’s jaws and walk into the arms of Jesus. Do not hesitate, but be loosed from the fear of death through Christ! (Hebrews 2:5-20). Trust and have faith in Jesus Christ, who is One with Father and Holy Spirit, One God in Three Persons, Blessed Trinity. Amen.

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