CAL THOMAS COMMENTARY APRIL 15, 2022
THE HEADLINE ON A GUEST ESSAY IN YESTERDAY’S NEW YORK TIMES READ “THIS PASSOVER, AMERICA NEEDS A REDEMPTION NARRATIVE.” IT IS ACCOMPANIED BY AN ARTIST’S RENDERING OF MOSES PARTING THE RED SEA AS THE IRSAELITES ARE REDEEMED FROM EGYPT.
AMERICA ALREADY HAS A REDEMPTION NARRATIVE AND IT IS NOT FOUND IN THE COMING ELECTION, OR THE ONE AFTER THAT. IT IS FOUND IN A PERSON WHOSE NAME IS JESUS AND WHOSE TITLE IS THE CHRIST. IT IS HE WHO HAS THE POWER TO REDEEM PEOPLE AND NATIONS, THOUGH HIS KINGDOM IS NOT OF THIS WORLD.
ON THIS DAY AS WE OBSERVE WHAT HAS COME TO BE CALLED GOOD FRIDAY AND WITH ALL OF THE DISTRACTIONS IN THE WORLD, IT IS GOOD TO PAUSE AND CONSIDER THIS ANCIENT MESSAGE. THE GOD OF THE UNIVERSE SENT HIS SON, WHO WILLINGLY LEFT HEAVEN BECAUSE THERE WAS NO OTHER WAY TO REDEEM HUMANITY. HE TOOK UPON HIMSELF THE WORLD’S SINS – IN FACT HE TOOK UPON HIMSELF SIN, ITSELF – AND OFFERED TO GOD THE PERFECT SACRIFICE ON A CROSS, IN A PLACE, IN HISTORY THAT CAN BE VISITED.
THE THIRD DAY HE ROSE FROM THE DEAD, PROVING HE WAS WHO HE SAID HE WAS.
THAT’S OUR AND EVERYONE’S REDEMTIVE MESSAGE. PRAISE HIM FOR IT. HE IS RISEN! I’M CAL THOMAS.
