This is tough to read, but we all need to realize just what crucifixion
is
all about.
Jesus went through this for us.......
be challenged, be blessed.
What is crucifixion?
A medical doctor provides a physical description:
The cross is placed on the ground and the exhausted man is quickly
thrown
backwards with his shoulders against the wood. The legionnaire feels
for
the depression at the front of the wrist. He drives a heavy, square
wrought-iron nail through the wrist deep into the wood. Quickly he
moves
to
the other side and repeats the action, being careful not to pull the
arms
too tightly, but to allow some flex and movement.
The cross is then lifted into place. The left foot is pressed backward
against the right foot, and with both feet extended, toes down, a nail
is
driven through the arch of each, leaving the knees flexed. The victim is
now
crucified.
As he slowly sags down with more weight on the nails in the wrists,
excruciating fiery pain shoots along the fingers and up the arms to
explode
in the brain - the nails in the wrists are putting pressure on the
median
nerves. As he pushes himself upward to avoid this stretching torment, he
places the full weight on the nail through his feet. Again he feels the
searing agony of the nail tearing through the nerves between the bones
of
his feet.
As the arms fatigue, cramps sweep through his muscles, knotting them in
deep, relentless, and throbbing pain. With these cramps comes the
inability
to push himself upward to breathe. Air can be drawn into the lungs but
not
exhaled. He fights to raise himself in order to get even one small
breath.
Finally, carbon dioxide builds up in the lungs and in the blood stream,
and
the cramps partially subside. Spasmodically, he is able to push himself
upward to exhale and bring in life-giving oxygen.
Hours of limitless pain, cycles of twisting, joint-rending cramps,
intermittent partial asphyxiation, searing pain as tissue is torn from
his
lacerated back as he moves up and down against rough timber. (And remember, Jesus already had 37 lashes with a whip across his back) Then
another
agony begins: a deep, crushing pain deep in the chest as the pericardium
slowly fills with cerium and begins to compress the heart.
It is now almost over. The loss of tissue fluids has reached a critical
level. The compressed heart is struggling to pump heavy, thick,
sluggish blood into the tissues. The tortured lungs are making
frantic efforts to gasp in small gulps of air. He can feel the chill of
death creeping through his tissues.
Finally, he allows his body to die.
All this the Bible records with the simple words, "and they crucified
Him"
(Mark 15:24).
What wondrous love is this...
Please send this to as many people as possible so that everyone will
know
the pain and suffering our Lord Jesus Christ went through for us.
Surely
God is my salvation; I will trust and not be afraid. (Isaiah 12:2)