# 12 LENTEN MEDITATION ~ 2023 ~ for the Preparation of the GREAT PASSOVER ~~~ The Morning Sacrifice in the Temple ~ Those 12 Legions of ANGELS Which Were NOT Called

HE+ DID NOT USE HIS+  GREAT POWER FOR HIMSELF + 

 

 This series of Lenten / Passover Meditations will reflect the 3^rd Hour Prayer ( 9 a.m. ) Station observed by the Early Christians.  Today, many liturgical churches continue to observe these ancient prayer hours.  They were based upon the prayer hours in the Temple in Jerusalem.

The Morning Prayer came at the time of the Morning Sacrifice in the Temple, the very time that The LORD JESUS was nailed to the Cross.  

3rd HOUR MORNING PRAYER

Heavenly FATHER, we come before YOU at this 3^rd hour of the ancient day, the hour of the Morning Sacrifice in the Temple . . . that same hour that Your Beloved SON+, the LAMB+ of GOD that taketh away the sin of the world, was offered up on the Cross for our sakes.

We thank YOU for the Great Drops of BLOOD HE+ shed in the garden of Gethsemane, after praying all through the night . . . then facing the men who had come with swords and clubs to violently take HIM+.

Thank YOU, O Holy FATHER, that Your Beloved SON+, as the perfect  SON+ of GOD, revealed Your power,  saying  “ I AM,”  causing the armed band of men to go backward and fall to the ground .

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Yet, HE+ did not use this great power for HIMSELF+, revealing HIMSELF+ to be the obedient and perfect SON+ of Man . . . still loving His+ disciples to the uttermost, HE+ requested the armed men to “Let them go,” and thus, His+ frightened disciples could flee away.

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Then said JESUS unto him,

Put up again thy sword into his place:

for all they that take the sword

shall perish with the sword. 

^{MATTHEW 26:52}

Thinkest thou that I+ cannot now

pray to My+ FATHER,

and HE shall presently give ME+

more than

TWELVE legions of ANGELS? 

^{MATTHEW 26:53}

But how then shall the scriptures be fulfilled,

that thus it must be? 

^{MATTHEW 26:54}

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Just one. 

HE+ only needed ONE ANGEL to deliver HIMSELF+ out of this deadly situation. Just one. 

And it came to pass that night, that the angel of the Lord went out, and smote in the camp of the Assyrians an hundred fourscore and five thousand: and when they arose early in the morning, behold, they were all dead corpses. ^{2 KINGS 19:35}

That ONE angel --- who felled 185,000 military men in the Old Testament days --- would have been enough to handle the entire Roman garrison encamped in Jerusalem . . . plus Herod and Pilate’s courts . . .  plus the numerous Temple Guard, the Sanhedrin , and all the unscrupulous rabble as well.

HE+ had 12 legions ( think: 4,000 at the smallest amount per legion) of supreme Heavenly warriors at His+ beck and call.

 HE+ could have saved HIMSELF+ all the Agony.

WHY DIDN’T HE+ ?