The Courts of man

In all of the Gospels the account of the crucifixion and the trials that preceded this event are given. In Luke the account is more detailed in certain ways. So look at Luke 22 and 23. We see three different courts were involved before Jesus was crucified. There was the religious court, the civil court and the Roman court.

In an earlier blog, I showed how the covenants of God are open ended. Each covenant leads to the cutting of a deeper covenant that prepares for another covenant with deeper relationship with God available. Nothing God does is done away with but is fulfilled and opens to give man more possibilities in God. Everything God did in the O.T. brought man closer to the coming of Jesus. Jesus fulfilled all of the former covenants to open closer relationship to God in the New Covenant of His blood. However, we have not seen all of the prophecies fulfilled even though He fulfilled the necessary steps to see them fulfilled. Acts 3:20-21 (NLT)20 Then times of refreshment will come from the presence of the Lord, and he will again send you Jesus, your appointed Messiah. 21 For he must remain in heaven until the time for the final restoration of all things, as God promised long ago through his holy prophets.

We have always taken for granted that Jesus had to go through the trials before He could be crucified. Even though the crucifixion was the prophesied manner of the cutting of this New Covenant, and all that happened to Jesus was a part of this New Covenant, God was preparing the way for the return of Jesus and the fulfilling of the Davidic Kingdom Covenant. He was even crucified with the proclamation that He is King!

If you remember, I wrote earlier of God's earliest manner of teaching man was not through the priesthood, the tabernacle and the Law, but by giving them covenant making and city building. This became so inherent within man that it was the natural way of relating and governing. Abraham recognized immediately the covenant language of God's covenant approach. Everything God did after this in Israel's slavery and deliverance, giving of the Law, establishing Israel as a nation was a part of that Abrahamic covenant.

In establishing a New Covenant, Jesus also prepared the way for His return as King of Kings over the nations of this earth. God prepared the way for the judgment of the nations and the courts that rule over man. Jesus was taken to the religious, the civil and the national courts where judgment was pronounced over Him. The religious court of the Sanhedrin judged His Words. The civil court of Herod judged His ministry and found it "disappointing". International Rome through Pilot judged His Kingdom and let Him be crucified to protect its own. The courts of our recognition, whether of city, county, state, national or U.N., now stand open to the Judgment of the King. He has the right to bring judgment over the governments of this earth when He returns.

God relates to this realm through covenant. He always moves within covenant. He paid the price to let you have dominion in His Name over principalities, demonic forces and disease and to disciple the nations. In Him, you have the destiny to rule with Him and to live eternally in His Presence.