Opus 2025-406: What If?

What if Israel had accepted Jesus as their Messiah?

How would the story have been modified?  Would He still have needed to die?

I’m thinking that certain elements were necessary in order for Jesus to be the perfect Lamb of God and to be the Messiah that was promised.  His death was necessary because the perfect Lamb of God had to die as the perfect sacrifice.  It was also necessary because the resurrection was to be the final promise of God’s salvation.

How would this have worked out?

I’m guessing that if the Jews had responded in the way God intended then the Romans would’ve still gone ahead and executed Jesus on some other charge.  They had no place for a rival king.  This of course would create a scene similar to the upper room after the crucifixion, but it would be broader and farther reaching.  And then, of course, when His resurrection took place, we don’t know how that would play out, but I have this feeling that there would be this awesome time of evangelism as the story and the claim of the Messiah spread to Jews, all around the world, and because God is the God of all people the transition to the Gentiles would also take place.

Talk about a wild and crazy theory.  I think I have too much time on my hands.

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