Isaiah 53:5 ‘But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed.

DAILY READING; • John 1:1-18; 1 Chronicles 5-6; Zephaniah 2

In May 2012, many Global News outlets reported the story that scientists had finally uncovered the exact date of Jesus’ crucifixion.
For many centuries the exact date of Jesus’ crucifixion had been a topic of debate and much speculation.
While the day and month of the crucifixion was said to be 3rd April, the year had been more difficult to pinpoint.
The day and month were ascertained with fair precision because all four Gospels and historical records agree that the crucifixion occurred on a Friday before the beginning of the Jewish Sabbath when Pontius Pilate was procurator of Judea from 26-36 AD.
However, the particular year of the crucifixion has been in question.
In 2012, scientists sought to confirm the year as the International Geology Review investigated the Biblical account in Matthew 27 of an earthquake that had occurred at the time of Jesus’ crucifixion.
To determine the exact date, geologists investigated the 4,000-year chronology of earthquake disturbances around the Dead Sea, located about 13 miles from Golgotha, outside Jerusalem where Jesus was crucified.
After analyzing earthquake activity in the area through studying earth cores, they confirmed that there was indeed a major earthquake during the period referred to in the Gospel of Matthew.
The geological research combined with Biblical citations claimed that the date of Jesus crucifixion may have been Friday April 3, 33 A.D.
While this date agrees with what many historians have suggested through the centuries, the Bible does not explicitly specify the precise date of Jesus’ crucifixion.
Therefore what should be more important to us is the fact that He did die a brutal death on a Good Friday to save mankind from sin and death.

Today, let’s pause for a moment and focus on Scriptural accounts of what really happened on that day.
Christ was slapped, spit upon, and a crown of thorns placed upon his head, causing blood to gush down His face
He was then brought to the Roman soldiers to be flogged with 39 stripes. Each time they swung their whip, and it struck the back of the Lord, it ripped His back open, and streams of blood gushed down His back and dribbled onto the cobble stone floors.
Christ endured all the pain and humiliation, knowing that each stripe on His back was cleansing us from sin and every category of disease known to man.
Then an old, rugged cross was placed on His bloody back and in His weakened state He dragged this heavy cross through the cobblestone streets of Jerusalem.
At the Cross, He was hung high, nailed on His hands and feet and speared on His side.

On that Good Friday, Christ endured the pain, the Blood, the wounds so that we don’t have to be afflicted again.
It is called ‘good Friday’ because it is the day of the greatest good that ever happened to mankind. Through His death, Jesus has brought us freedom, salvation and deliverance! Jesus accomplished the greatest rescue ever known to man. When Jesus completed His purpose, He summed it up with these last words: “it is finished.”
As Jesus cried those words, satan became a defeated foe. Finished at the cross was the enemy’s stronghold on humanity. There is now redemption, deliverance, healing and forgiveness available to all who believe.
Redemption has re-positioned us for eternal victory over every affliction of life.
Therefore it is time to stand in faith and victory through seeking deeper understanding from the Word.
Ignorance is what makes believers to still suffer in spite of the price Christ has paid.
We are not meant to suffer sickness, poverty, pain or any negative condition because Christ has paid it all. Affliction is not permitted to arise a second time!
Certainly, you are not born again to suffer again. You are born again to enjoy the blessings of redemption, because whosoever the Son of God has made free is truly free indeed.

PRAYER: Lord, I thank You for the great price You paid for my redemption. Today by the power in Your Blood I certainly have victory over everything contesting my glorious destiny in Jesus Name.
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God is preparing you for the season He prepared for your breakthrough WORDBITE 222.