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 There mankind will come to know Jesus Christ as they have not known him before. Christendom has no faith to look forward in the light of the Bible prophecy but prefers to look back nineteen centuries and remember the Son of God as the self-sacrificing Jesus, yielding himself to be slaughtered like an unprotesting lamb. In the garden of Gethsemane, when he was being betrayed by one of his own twelve apostles, and when Peter struck with a sword in his defense against the soldiers, Jesus miraculously healed the wounded man and said to Peter: "Return your sword to its place,  for all those who take the sword will perish by the sword. Or do you think that I cannot appeal to my Father to supply me at this a moment a legion of angels? In that case, how would the Scriptures be fulfilled that it must take place this way?"  (Matthew 26:48-54, NW) In order for the inspired prophecies to be fulfilled that foretold his sacrifical death, Jesus showed his unbreaking allegiance to Jehovah's universal Sovereignty and his loving submission to the universal's will. Thus he kept his integrity to his universal Sovereign down to the death, the shameful, painful death on a torture stake before the public eye at Calvary. His faithfulness until such a death in obedience to the divine will be served as vindication of Jehovah sovereignty and showed His sovereignty to be the rightful thing to govern our lives. At the same time his death served as a means to give up his perfect human life as repurchase price to buy back all obedient humans from the slavery of sin and its penalty death. 

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