A horrible and shocking thing
has happened in this land—
the prophets give false prophecies,
and the priests rule with an iron hand.
Worse yet, my people like it that way!
But what will you do when the end comes?
has happened in this land—
the prophets give false prophecies,
and the priests rule with an iron hand.
Worse yet, my people like it that way!
But what will you do when the end comes?
-Jeremiah 5:30-31 (NLT)
From his mouth came a sharp sword to strike down the nations. He will rule them with an iron rod. He will release the fierce wrath of God, the Almighty, like juice flowing from a winepress. -Revelation 19:11-15 (NLT)
It's a remarkable thing, extraordinary, inconceivable to the human mind, that God, a Being above and beyond all that be fathomed, would enter into time and take upon himself all human limitations to salvage what He hadn't destroyed.
If you were going to make a god wouldn't you make him strong like iron, magnificent beyond what marble can capture, powerful and blatantly feared? Really if you were going to make a god would you make him like Jesus? Poor, humble, patient, obedient, homely, able to be wearied, compassionate, weepy, friend of the marginalized, out on the fringes, gunless, swordless- does that sound like a king man would invent? I don't think so.
Yet Jesus as the opposite of what we in so many ways expect, is exactly what we need. He isn't ironman, superman, or sandman - He's the God-man. "Your righteousness, O God, reaches the high heavens.You who have done great things, O God, who is like you?" (Psalm 71:19)
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