I heard an analogy once talking about Christ’s death. It explained the death of Jesus as a new birth for us. Jesus was led down the road to Golgotha, and as he was going, all the angels or demons could see was a bright shining light bearing a rough-hewn wooden cross. This light filled the streets and blinded both angels and demons. Satan was laughing and cursing Christ, saying, “I have conquered the Son of God!” As this light came to the foot of the hill, it grew brighter and brighter. And then they heard the hammer, driving the nails into the hands of Jesus. Even though the demons couldn’t see Jesus because of the light, they knew he was in pain and about to die. The Romans then stuck the cross in the hole with a thud, and a scream was heard, a scream of pain coming from the cross. Then weeping, then some words coming from the light. “Father, forgive them for they don’t know what they are doing!” With those words, all of a sudden the light started to dim. “Why is Jesus’ light growing dimmer?” one of the angels said. It continued for hours. The light kept growing dimmer. But as the light on the cross was growing dimmer, the darkness among the crowds was giving way to specks of light. A small demon asked his general, “Why are all of the humans losing their darkness?” The large demon, finally realizing what was going on, screamed, “Jesus is taking on the darkness of the sin from the world!” With this shout, the angels finally realized why Jesus was going through with this horrible death. They finally realized why He didn’t call down fire from Heaven. This had to be done. Then with three words and a tear-stained face, all of the sin was taken from the world. The figure on the cross was totally black with sin, and each person standing there was pure, bright, white. Jesus had done His job and made a way out for sinners.
Satan was still laughing though. He said, “The people will get their darkness back, so that’s no problem, we have destroyed Jesus.” Satan didn’t know about God’s plans for three days later. On that day, a few demons were wondering around, and many angels were hidden, waiting for that one shining moment when… “There it is,” said one small angel, “there’s the light, there is the master, the Son of God has just risen from the dead, and He is the Light. Sin and Satan have been conquered.” There were shouts of joy everywhere, and a great many shouts of pain as demons scampered and hid under anything they could find. This meant the end of their existence. They knew though, that they still had time to bring anyone who falls into their trap, down to Hell with them. Satan has been defeated for eternity, but there are still going to be battles between light and darkness.
Brothers and Sisters, this is one way to see the death of Jesus, and to fully understand how he made a way out of sin. We still need to be on our guard, because Satan is after us. He doesn’t want to burn in Hell alone. He wants You! Satan uses little things to get us. Temptation is all around us and if we try and make it on our own, we will surely fall to the darkness. We have won the victory in the end, but always be ready to battle Satan. He’s always ready to battle you.
1 John 1:5-7 says, “If we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship, with one another, and the blood of Jesus, his Son, purifies us from all sin.” Walk in the Light! Focus on Jesus, the only true light!
Jason
