The Sister Dulce Foundation, Inc.
Supporting the Cypress Springs Mercedarian Prayer Center
Did you know...
“
Eloi, Eloi, lema sabachthani?” which means, “My God,
my God, why have you forsaken me?” has been a misunderstood
statement by many Christians. Many believe that this was the
human part of Jesus crying out to His father. Actually, it is a
reference to Psalm 22. Jesus was pointing to a passage in Psalms.
They didn’t have them numbered back then, but the Jews knew
many of the Psalms. They had no way to record the Psalms on
paper so they were orally taught the Psalms and committed them
to memory. These Psalms were written hundreds and hundreds of
years before Christ. One Psalm, Psalm 22, is written by David.
And the name of this Psalm is, “The Prayer for an Innocent Person.”
This Psalm begins, “My God, my God, why have you abandoned
me?” (Psalm 22:2) This Psalm begins with a cry of desolation and
gives an accurate description of the crucifixion. It says things like,
“
So wasted are my hands and feet that I can count all my bones.”
(
Psalm 22:17-18) “They divide my garments among them; for my
clothing the cast lots.” (Psalm 22:19) “A pack of evildoers closes in
on me.” (Psalm 22:17) It goes into a description of a crucifixion,
and it ends with the word of the deliverance of the Messiah being
carried to the ends of the world, to people not yet born and to
generations to come. So what is Jesus saying? He’s saying that
this Psalm, this prophecy, has just been fulfilled. Jesus does not
need to finish the entire Psalm. The Jews that were listening were
taught many Psalms, and this one, they would have been very
familiar with. So when Jesus began the words of this Psalm, they
immediately knew what He meant.
Dr. Scott Hahn, a Catholic theologian gave this analogy.
What if a group of anti-American terrorists entered a room and sat
me in the corner, and they wanted me to denounce my American
patriotism? And I wouldn’t denounce my patriotism so they would
beat and torture me. And they sat me up and said ok, we are going
to get a live television camera, hand you a microphone and we
are going to ask you to say your last words. If you do not say
what we want you to say, you will die. And I look up holding the
microphone, and the camera is on, and these terrorists say do you
have any last words? And I say, “I pledge allegiance to the flag.”
Do I need to say more? Do I need to finish the pledge? No. Every
American watching knows the Pledge and they know the words of
the Pledge. It doesn’t need to be finished. Well, the Jews that were
standing around the cross – they knew the Psalms. When Jesus
said, “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?” they said,
the prophecy has been fulfilled. They’d been waiting for this. They
knew it. They were waiting for it, and recognized it.
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