The Light Swallows Darkness

But let's be clear: Jesus has no similarity to the tempter who worked through a snake in the Garden of Eden. Satan was a creature taking the world away into sin; Christ is the creator taking away the sin of the world. Lifted on the Roman torture rack, He is a vision of God’s wrath on the slithering snake that is our iniquity. For God made him who knew no sin, to be sin for us.

When Christ is mounted on the cross, He is all sin: our sin and the sin of our tormentors -– sins we commit and those committed against us. He is any sin committed at any time by anyone. More than that, He is us. He is the fallen beast that humanity has become. On that eternal hill, He lives it all. From the first breath of Adam to the death rattle of the last sinner on earth, He suffers it.

Matthew’s eyewitness account: “Now from the sixth hour there was darkness over all the land unto the ninth hour.” The darkness of the ages is brought to the one point in time that is the whole point of time. In the right time Christ died for the ungodly. The death that gathers on Golgotha, is so thick it darkens the skies over Jerusalem as it lands on the Son of God. The Prophet Isaiah said, “All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and the Lord has laid on him the iniquity of us all.” He suffers our pain, sin and death in ways impossible for us to comprehend. It is our cry that tears His soul when He screams, “Why have you forsaken me?”
How Shall We Then Forgive: Chapter Nineteen~The Serpent