Truth About The Crucifixion — Page 131
would be entitled to claim that no part of the prophecy made by Jesus was in fact fulfilled. But the truth is that, in accordance with the prophecy made by Jesus, God Almighty delivered him from the accursed death upon the cross and by blinging him down from the cross alive completely frustrated the design of the Jews. 2. The warning administered by God Almighty to Pilate through his wife just when he had taken his place on the judgment seat, was designed to inform Pilate that it was not God's design to let Jesus die upon the cross as is written: Besides, while he was sitting on the judgment seat, his wife sent word to him: Have nothing to do with this righteous man, for I have suffered much over him today in a dream. (Matthew, 27:19) This dream which God Almighty showed to Pilate's wife is positive proof that God had designed the deliverance of Jesus from death upon the cross. If, as is claimed by the Christians, the very mission of Jesus was to suffer death upon the cross for the redemption of mankind, then how is it that God Almighty showed a dream to Pilate's wife which ran counter to His own plan? We have been told that while Jesus was still a child and Herod designed to destroy him, God Almighty alerted Joseph against Herod's design and Joseph took the child and its mother into Egypt. (Matthew, 2:13) Thus as Joseph was alerted in his dream so that Jesus might be safeguarded against destruction at the instance of Herod, in the same way at a time when his enemies were promoting a project for his destruction, God Almighty informed Pilate's wife in a dream that Jesus was righteous and thereby intimated to Pilate that it was God's pleasure that this innocent one should be accounted blameless. But the Jews resisted all his efforts towards that end 123