The second in this series entitled, “Songs of Jesus in the Tanach,” draws our attention to another of the many Messianic Psalms in the Old Testament, Psalm 22.

Though written a thousand years before Jesus’ day, the Holy Spirit inspired King David to describe his own experiences of suffering in exaggerated terms which would, in fact, provide an extremely detailed and accurate first-person description of death by crucifixion.  The details are so precise and vivid that we find the whole account repugnant and repulsive.

But then. . .we are strangely drawn to the scene as an expression of the extent of Jesus’ love for us, that he would willingly endure such profound and immeasurable suffering.

This episode is released just ten days after Good Friday, so it is timely and fitting that we turn now to this particular Messianic Psalm, Psalm 22 in a study we have entitled, “The Worst of All Deaths, the Deepest of All Loves.” 

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