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Fire From Above
“From above hath He sent fire into My bones, and it prevaileth against them” (Lamentations 1:13).
“Love is strong as death; jealousy is cruel as the
grave: the coals thereof are coals of fire, which hath a most vehement flame” (Song of Solomon 8:6).
What we have, prophetically in these two verses, is not the physical sufferings of Christ at the hand of man, but the atoning sufferings of Christ at the hand of God. Notice it is “from above.” The Lord Jesus, in love, bore the judgment of God against sin in those three hours of darkness, when no eye could see, and no human hand touched Him. This is summed up by the Apostle Peter when he penned the words, “Who His own self bare our sins in His own body on the tree, that we, being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness: by whose stripes ye were healed” (1 Peter 2:24). Paul also records this momentous event by saying, “For He hath made Him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in Him” (2 Corinthians 5:21). Only the Son of God could do such a work to the glory and satisfaction of His Father.
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