Psalm 22: Jesus's Crucifixion

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Psalm 22
King David wrote one of the prophecies foretelling Jesus’s crucifixion. Even though Kind David was writing about his own emotions, most of the things that happened in Psalms 22 was foretelling to the happenings during Jesus’s death. David’s Psalm foretells of Jesus’s physical and spiritual problems approximately 500 years before the crucifixion took place. An example of the physical problems would be best shown through Psalms 22:7-8, “All who see me mock me; they hurl insults, shaking their heads. 8 “He trusts in the Lord,” they say, “let the Lord rescue him. Let him deliver him, since he delights in him.” King David was expressing how the men were laughing at him and mocking him by telling David to go and be saved by God whom he had faith in, which is what happened to Jesus. When Jesus was being crucified that is what the Jewish leaders and Roman officers said to Him.
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500 years later, Jesus would also be God’s servant. They both were loved by God, but there was one thing different. Psalms 22:1 says, “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me? Why are you so far from saving me, so far from my cries of anguish?” This is what David asked God in his time of pain. In the end, God never had forsaken David. God will never leave anyone, but there was an exception that God probably did not want to make. In Matthew 27:46 it says, “And about the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, saying, Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani? that is to say, My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?” Why did Jesus have to be forsaken by God? On the website jesusplusnothing.com the author says, “Christ was forsaken by God so that we might never be forsaken. The great exchange was taking place. He took our rightful place so that we might be given

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