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Excerpted from: Jesus in the Feasts (Part Four): AtonementSo Jesus' cry, "Why have You forsaken Me?" is the clearest indication of the time when the sins of the world were placed upon Him. Remember that was something that the high priest had to do in Leviticus 16. He placed his hands on the head of the live goat and he transferred all the sins of Israel to the goat to be borne away. All the sins, all the iniquities, all the transgressions of Israel were placed on the live goat's head.
You know, God would never forsake His Son—His beloved Son—except for the fact that He was at this point the most repulsive being in the universe with the evil of all human sin, every human sin, on Him. The weight of that must have been terrible for Jesus. To suddenly have to face the guilt of all humanity, all that sin placed upon Him. And it was equally horrible for the Father to see His Son bearing all of those sins.
Isaiah 59:2 says that our sin separates us from God and that is exactly what happened here. Our, our sins, not Jesus' sins. It was our sins that caused the Father to forsake His Son there on the cross. And Jesus, it was the first time that He had been apart from His Father forever in that sense. Because He said His Father was always with Him. But not this time. Not when He was forsaken for all the evils of mankind's sins.
And the creation responded. Their God, the creation's God, had just died. And the inanimate earth rocked. The veil of the Temple was torn top to bottom to show that access to God had been opened by the death of the Savior. That sinless perfect Lamb of God had done the job. Had done the work that would open up the way for us to come right into the Holy of Holies. Reconciled to God, justified, and have a relationship with Him.
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