One Thousand Years
Genesage
“Why?"
(Chapter 9:4)
Thomas saw the dilemma Jesus was in.
"No"
screamed Thomas in his mind.
He relived the thoughts and emotions the Messiah of God, the “Chosen of Israel”, the “Christ” wrestled with in the garden as Son of Man.
"Don't do it," Thomas rebelled.
He did not want it to happen. Had he been able to he would have wrestled control away. He would have refused to see, to feel, to experience what the Son of God was about to do. What he was about to go through.
Separation from God.
Separation from his Father. Severance of the link of love that had always followed the Son of God through life on earth. Pure love, complete connection, unadulterated communication.
It would end.
Thomas knew with all his being that the very contradiction of religions that struggled with a paradigm of Father, Son and Spirit, unique and distinctive yet one, echad, was nothing if not even more so confounded by the idea that the Father would not be able to bear to be in the presence of the Son if the Son did in fact, become Sin.
Did it not have to happen? Could there be any other way? Was it possible he, who knew no sin could find a way where there seemed to be no way?
Could he choose another way?
No.
It had already been discussed, the choice was already made.
Man had rebelled. Angels had rebelled. Creation was changed, corrupted. He, who was the Creator, He had to Obey the Father. Obey even in death if in fact that death showed angels to obey, Man to obey, All to obey the Word of the Lord God spoke.
To Obey was greater than the Sacrifice.
Thomas in Jesus had felt the love, the entropy. He could still feel the union with the Father that was inseparable. So unbroken, seemingly incapable of every being ever apart, yet about to be tested. Still this Man, Thomas could feel all of the humanity of the emotions the perfect man had, was willing to abdicate his ability to construct any way out of the solutions all other religions and all Theologians had devised to try to build another way to be close to God.
It was the only Way for the only Begotten.
There was no other way for Man to come to God.
There was only one way for God reconcile God’s Nature with Man’s Nature.
Man must die, or God must die.
There was no other way.
It was to accomplish what Man could not do for himself.
Only God could do it.
Only the Son of God was willing.
He had said He was willing.
Now here He was.
It would bring others also to the Father where they belonged.
It was where he belonged, where he longed to be.
For the sake of the One, he would die to save many.
"Never the less, not my will but thy will be done"
Thomas despaired on his own but all he could do was feel as the Son of Man felt. Act as the Son of God acted. In so doing he knew all that one Jesus who died for him went through. He felt every moment burned into his soul for eternity.
Agony consumed Thomas as he felt the passion. The exquisite torture as the power behind the torturers looked for a moment of unresolved on the Son of God. Waited watching for a moment of sin in the end. The time of suffering, all the World could throw at him, failed. The trials, laughing, whipping, family, friends, life and God ………..,
ALL forsook Jesus.
Thomas went with Jesus through it all.
Even the Cross.
“My God, My God”
“Why hast thou forsaken me?”
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