Passion and Resurrection and Man’s Spiritual Deafness

Pilate thought that, by scourging Jesus, he would satisfy the mob and so be able to set Him free. This is how the weak always think: compromise, give in to evil to appease it. However, this only makes things worse. Does this not say something about we as a nation/people sometimes deliberate and act in order to get a particular result? Those who would inflict the pain bound His hands and brought Him to the post amid flurry of fists, jostling, and braying gawkers. His docility, nobility of soul/spirit, and disinclination to defend Himself contrasted with the pitiless, pointless, and loathing of His adversaries. How foolish an illusion that by tying His hands He would be restrained! Could He not have commanded the fetters that bound Him, “unfasten” and they would fall to the ground? 

What is extraordinary is that Jesus gave Himself up to be publicly humiliated, spat upon, beaten and scourged with a leather-thonged whips whose ends contained pieces iron and bone chips. Picture if you will, His groans, His Body writhing in agony, His flesh torn by the flagellum. This was the flesh of the God-Man! He stood, full of dignity, humble and without complaint, conversing with the Eternal Father (first person of the Trinity) within Himself. 

Can you imagine at that moment what the Son of God was thinking? Do you suppose Jesus was thinking about the blessed civilization that would one day be built on the merits of His Passion? Regrettably, I believe, Jesus foresaw that at a certain moment in time Christian nations/peoples would turn against Him and would be converted to and dominated by secularists, globalists and anti-Christian socio-political entities? Because this world would deny a personal God, it would also deny man’s personhood and individuality. 

In this trodden anti-civilization, or as some might say, syndicalists, mankind would affirm total equality, thus succumbing to enslavement in the direction of a rebellious Globalist or New World Order type dystopian rule. This dystopia would deny property, and therefore justice; would deny the family, and therefore purity; would deny religion, and therefore all that is sacred; would deny tradition, and therefore history. By inverting all values, this anti-civilization would produce substantial chaos, eminent nihility in which the former-Christian peoples would expire. This anti-civilization is the absolutism of substance, of mechanism, of obscurity, and of apostacy/atheism.