Being Humble They Humiliated Him
Jesus Is Mocked
16 And the soldiers led him away inside the palace (that is, the governor's headquarters), and they called together the whole battalion. 17 And they clothed him in a purple cloak, and twisting together a crown of thorns, they put it on him. 18 And they began to salute him, “Hail, King of the Jews!” 19 And they were striking his head with a reed and spitting on him and kneeling down in homage to him. 20 And when they had mocked him, they stripped him of the purple cloak and put his own clothes on him. And they led him out to crucify him.
As we reach the end of Jesus’ life, above, we ought to visit one of the first things Jesus taught at the beginning of His earthly ministry:
5 “Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the earth.
Those that are meek in this life are those that don’t need to flex their muscles. Those that are meek in this world know that “there’s is the kingdom of heaven,” so they have no need of anything else. In the above passage we read about Jesus being ridiculed, mocked and humiliated by the Roman soldiers. He has just been condemned to die and was released to this battalion of men to be prepared for the crucifixion. The officers of these men stood by and watch military trained man dismantle another human being physically, psychologically and mentally. This is not an inmate on death row being treated to a wonderful last meal, last rites and last respect. This is Jesus Christ, the Son of God, being treated like a dog. The Roman soldiers mistook His meekness for weakness. That will prove to be a terrible mistake. Note what one of the officers of these very soldiers will say upon watching Him die on the cross:
39 And when the centurion, who stood facing him, saw that in this way he breathed his last, he said, “Truly this man was the Son of God!”
The world mistakes Jesus humility and meekness for being weak and pitiful. God showed them in the end His power when Jesus rose from the dead. Yet, at this moment in time they took Jesus’ humility and attempted to humiliate Him even further. But, the meek will inherit the earth:
The Seventh Trumpet
15 Then the seventh angel blew his trumpet, and there were loud voices in heaven, saying, “The kingdom of the world has become the kingdom of our Lord and of his Christ, and he shall reign forever and ever.”
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