Skip to main content

Harrowed By His Name


IMG_3376.jpeg
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.  




Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

The Potrait of Jesus: What Christ Looked Like

What was Jesus’s appearance? Pseudo-historians at National Geographic and other publications argue that Jesus’ humanity was of Arab or African descent. This is impossible because Jesus our God was Son of David according to His flesh, “He promised beforehand through His prophets in the Holy Scriptures, regarding His Son, who was a descendant of David according to the flesh, and who through the Spirit of holiness was declared with power to be the Son of God by His resurrection from the dead: Jesus Christ our Lord (God),” (Romans 1:2-4), and King David was described as the following, “So he sent and brought him in. Now he was ruddy [red, ruddy, from the word admowniy {ad-mo-nee'}; from 'adam ; reddish of the hair or the complexion red, ruddy], with beautiful eyes and a handsome appearance. And the LORD said, "Arise, anoint him; for this is he. So Samuel took the horn of oil and anointed him in the presence of his brothers, and from that day on the Spirit of the LORD came ...
4 comments
Read more

Dispensationalism

John Nelson Darby (1800-1882) was a man who did two things, he took 70th week of the Book of Daniel and stretched out to the End Times, and he was the father of  Dispensationalism , a belief system that God dispenses different peoples with separate blessings and covenants. According to Darb'ys doctrine of Dispensationalism, God dispenses different covenants. There are total of seven dispensations that divide the history of man: I. Dispensation of Innocence (prior to the Fall, "Do not east of the Fruit of Good and Eve, Eden), II. Dispensation of Conscience ( You must assuage guilt and sin with blood sacrifices.) III. Dispensation of Human Government (Multiply and Subdue the world, example the Tower of Babel Gen 11:1-9, and Genesis 1:28). IV. Dispensation of the Promise (Dwell in Canaan, Jerusalem) V. Dispensation of the Law ("Obey the Law of Moses and the Prophets"). VI. Dispensation of Grace (The Church, Jesus Christ has come...
Post a Comment
Read more

Orthodox Christianity and Messianic Judaism

There is a divide between the two sides of Christianity. One is lined by a rosary, the other with tallit (prayer shawl). In the west we tend to come from a Greco-Roman understanding of The Bible and Jesus Christ. We are saturated with images of the Crucifixion and see through the red lens of Calvary. Now The Messianic or Jewish perspective is becoming more prevalent as people begin to study the roots of the Christian faith. After all, Jesus was a Jew and his Twelve Disciples were all Jews of different sects and positions in society. By studying the Jewish roots of Jesus we come to understand the ancient customs, practices, rites, and traditions that are featured in the Old and New Testaments. We learn in Jewish tradition that a Rabbi had to be ordained by two rabbis and that when Jesus was asked, "by who's authority do you say these things?, (Luke 20:2)" the Pharisees were asking who had ordained Jesus and where he got his yoke (teachings), and Jesus responds, "wh...
Post a Comment
Read more