There are many tremendous themes that flow from the "Calvary and Golgotha experience", and all of the interconnected circumstances, ultimately bring truth and revelation, regarding the immense and incredible suffering of the Lord to the forefront of our thinking. It is impossible to think about "the hill called mount calvary" without thinking about the pivotal place that this symbolizes in each of our lives. Calvary becomes the turning point for the entire universe in it's totality because it is a place that anchors our existence, and the foundation of our faith in God because it provides a visual reference to what my faith can be hinged upon. It is so significant that no matter what else happens, I know that God changed my life at Calvary.
Jesus said "Destroy this temple and in three days I will raise it up" (John 2:19). Destroy means to demolish by force, much like the destruction of a heavily guarded fortress that needs a full assault in order to take it. This is not how they took Jesus because he went quietly and subserviantly to fulfill all prophetic words, " He was brought as a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before her shearers is dumb, He opened not His mouth" (Isaiah 53:7). Jesus went quietly, yet in the power of His own might.
Jesus reserved the right to reserve his own miracle, remember he said "For as the father hath life in himself, so hath he given the son to have life in himself" (John 5:26). Naturally, if Jesus could raise Lazarus, raise the widow's son at Nain, raise Jairus' daughter, then surely He can raise himself!
Shalom Alecheim
