Our Covenant Keeping God

Now throughout His earthly life, Jesus performed many miracles and taught His disciples and His followers many things about Himself and about God. He used terms explicitly reserved only for God and He was arrested, tried, condemned and crucified. What was the charge? That He claimed to be God Himself (which He was). What? We crucified God? Yes, very definitely. In fact very interestingly, Pontius Pilate hung an inscription over Jesus' head and in English we read it as "Jesus of Nazareth, King of the Jews" but in Hebrew it reads as "Yeshua HaNazarei Vemelekh Hayhudim" No wonder the chief priest, and the religious leaders went to Pilate and requested that Pilate changed the inscription to read "Jesus of Nazareth, He says He was King of the Jews".

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23 " Let us hold fast
the confession of our
hope without wavering
for He who promised is
faithful."
Heb 10:23 NKJV

12" For there is no
distinction between Jew
and Greek, for the same
Lord over all is rich
to all who call upon Him."
Heb 10:12 NKJV

The Lord's "hand is not shortened"

Is. 59:1 "Behold the Lord's hand is not shortened that it cannot save.."

In ancient times the outstretched arm was an emblem of authority while the shortness of the arm or hand spoke of authority that had been diminished and extended only to a certain point. It was said of king Artaxerxes that his empire was so far reaching that he was named "Artaxerxes Longimanus" which means long- handed, not because his hands were physically long, but because the vast extent of his empire reached to the farthest parts of the known world.

There are many sculptures that have been found with interesting symbols of power, many being throughout Egypt, and some with the monarchs arm and hand outstretched, with rays of the sun coming down on it, with hands at the end of every ray.

Though this particular passage was spoken in a time when Israel was being called to turn from their evil ways, the message is clear that the Lord, as the everpresent, all powerful, king of all creation, extends his hand to offer the free gift of salvation to all who will turn to him.

Jesus used this physical expression of reaching out the hand many times showing that there is no limit to His authority, and He, as the true King, can grant forgiveness, and power over death. To the Jewish leaders this was a blasphemous thing, using this physical expression and thus identifying Himself with the Almighty