Jeremiah 23 : 3 -6.
“I myself will gather the remnant of my flock out of all the countries where I have driven them and will bring them back to this pasture, where they will be fruitful and increase in number. I will place shepherds over them who will tend them, and they will no longer be afraid or terrified, nor will any be missing,” declares the Lord.
“The day is coming,” declares the Lord, when I will raise up for David a righteous Branch,
a King who will reign wisely and do what is just and right in the land.
In his days Judah will be saved and Israel will live in safety.
This is the name by which he is called: The Lord Our Righteous Savior.”
Luke 23: 33 - 43.
When they came to the place called the Skull, they crucified him there, along with the criminals - one on the right, the other on the left.
Jesus said, “Father forgiven them, for they do not know what they are doing”.
And they divided up the clothes by casting lots. The people stood watching, and the rulers even sneered at him. They said, “He saved others; let him save himself if he is God’s Messiah, the Chosen One”. The soldiers also came up and mocked him. They offered him wine vinegar and said, “If you are the king of the Jews, save yourself”. There was a written notice above him, which read: THIS IS THE KING OF THE JEWS.
One of the criminals who hung there hurled insults at him: “Aren’t you the Messiah? Save yourself and us!”
But the other criminal rebuked him, “Don’t you fear God,” he said, “since you are under the same sentence? We are punished justly, for we are getting what our deeds deserve. But this man has done nothing wrong”. Then he said, “Jesus, remember me when you come into your kingdom”.
Jesus answered him, “Truly I tell you, today you will be with me in paradise”.
Colossians 1: 19 & 20.
“For God was pleased to have all his fullness dwell in him, and through him to reconcile to himself all things, whether things on earth or things in heaven, by making peace through his blood, shed on the cross.
Are we not all grateful for the “all” of salvation, a salvation given to us by the Chosen One, a salvation that is in the process of reconnecting our two worlds? The God of the galaxies has made a way for us all!
