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12. The Base of the Cross 10.04.19

12. Ok Ash, so why of all the Gods that people worship on this earth, why Jesus?! Why your God?
The short answer to this is that I know because I saw, I saw twice like I was there. Like I was right there and I felt everything.
Acts 2
32 This Jesus God has raised up, of which we are all witnesses. 33 Therefore being exalted to the right hand of God, and having received from the Father the promise of the Holy Spirit, He poured out this which you now see and hear.
The lighting was grey like how shadow gets cast almost like after a rain storm had cleared away. I was kneeling on the ground, looking down at the soil. The soil was soaked with water and blood and tears that penetrated deep into the soil to the point where the top layer was almost dry. As if all the sins of the world were poured out and drying up in forgiveness. I could feel the pain in that soil as if it was the most tremendous pain I’ve ever felt. Such sadness for the way the people have turned their back on him, such a crying out for his people to repent and come home to him. The pain and longing took my breath away and my chest hurt so bad. I wish I could find better words but I can’t. I was breathless, speechless, and tears were streaming down my face. It was so hot, so so hot. I reached my right hand up and as I did, I realized I was at the base of the cross. My right hand went up to touch a mans calf. The skin was dry and tough almost like the sun had turned it to leather. There was dirt rubbed deep into his skin and dried blood from when it was running down his legs to his feet. My fingers felt the dried crusty blood in the hairs of his legs just like I could reach out and touch someone right next to you. I pulled my hand back, I couldn’t breathe, the pain I felt overtook every part of my being and I will never forget it.
My eyes traveled down to his feet, I could see the nail, the dried blood and the way his feet had been struggling to bear his weight. The skin tearing, the bones nearly breaking, the tendons being ripped to shreds. Then I followed the blood from the nail down to his toes. His toes, I’ve never in my life seen anything like it. As if carrying and dragging that cross took not only the strength of his feet but even the tips of his toes and toenails were digging into the ground trying to gain traction as he walked. They skin on the tips of his toes was worn raw with with dried dirt and they were so bloody, so painful, his toe nails worn and split and cracked. There was so much dried dirt and blood crusting his big toes along with all the others. I couldn’t breathe, I couldn’t see, all I could feel was pain, sadness and a longing for his children to realize who he is before it’s too late.
So that my friends is why when I hear the Lord God telling me to dump out all the alcohol in the house, or take my tivo out, or confess all of my sins, that my friends is why. Because I saw it like I was there and all I can think of is getting back to Jesus and taking as many people with me as I can.
Acts 3:17
17 “Yet now, brethren, I know that you did it in ignorance, as did also your rulers. 18 But those things which God foretold by the mouth of all His prophets, that the Christ would suffer, He has thus fulfilled. 19 Repent therefore and be converted, that your sins may be blotted out, so that times of refreshing may come from the presence of the Lord, 20 and that He may send Jesus Christ, who was preached to you before, 21 whom heaven must receive until the times of restoration of all things, which God has spoken by the mouth of all His holy prophets since the world began. 22 For Moses truly said to the fathers, ‘The Lord your God will raise up for you a Prophet like me from your brethren. Him you shall hear in all things, whatever He says to you. 23 And it shall be that every soul who will not hear that Prophet shall be utterly destroyed from among the people.’ 24 Yes, and all the prophets, from Samuel and those who follow, as many as have spoken, have also foretold these days. 25 You are sons of the prophets, and of the covenant which God made with our fathers, saying to Abraham, ‘And in your seed all the families of the earth shall be blessed.’ 26 To you first, God, having raised up His Servant Jesus, sent Him to bless you, in turning away every one of you from your iniquities.”

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