Outside the City
Jesus prophesied that he would be handed over the Gentiles and killed (Luke 18:32). If he had to die to satisfy God’s anger, he would have been arrested and killed by the priests on the altar in the temple in Jerusalem. That did not happen, because God did not need to be appeased.
Jesus was handed over to the Gentiles and killed outside Jerusalem, where the spiritual powers of evil were in control, because they were the ones that demanded his death. They needed to be propitiated, because humans had given them authority on earth and they demanded death and blood to be satisfied.
2 comments:
Hi Ron.
this is diametrically opposed to the standard teaching on Jesus' death. Please expand your thinking on this.
I am struggling some with this claim that God didn’t need to be appeased. I’ve always believed that Jesus suffered God’s wrath for us and therefore we will escape it. Otherwise, Jesus becomes just like any martyr. Something was different about His death on the cross. Could you explain a bit more what you mean by propitiation for the evil spirits ruling the world?
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