Why Christ Died

When Christ whipped the money-changers        
out of the temple courtyard      
He quoted from Psalms 69.9:      
"Zeal for Your House has eaten me up."      
So that psalm is about Christ.      
So the rest of the same verse should also apply to Christ,      
"The reproaches of them that reproach You have fallen on me."      
       
People hold things against God the Father,      
They think He has let them down.      
They feel He hasn't answered their prayers.      
Or He has taken their wife prematurely, etc.      
It's almost as if they think        
God has sinned against them.      
Those "reproaches have fallen on [Christ],"      
Meaning that He takes on and "pays for"        
those perceived sins of God the Father!!      
How, by dying on the cross, of course.      
       
So, He does not just die for the sins of the world.      
It's as if God the Father takes RESPONSIBILITY        
for the sins of the whole world.      
(The responsibility is indeed His.      
For He really has let sin come into the world.      
He could intervene every time      
a man is about to commit rape, murder, etc.      
But He doesn't. No, He does not!    
So He becomes an accessory.      
Christ on the cross represents God the Father.      
So,Christ going to the Cross portrays      
The Father owning up to the charges        
That people make against Him.      
       
When Moses led the Israelites in killing      
women and children before they conquered Canaan,        
How does God pay for that?        
You guessed it:By going to the cross.      
       
Christ came to "fulfill the Law of Moses"(Matthew 5.17).      
How? In part, by paying for the sins that were committed        
By Moses and the people during the time covered by the Torah!!      
 
Here's an Old Testament "prefigure"  
of the Crucifixion of Christ:  
The sons of Saul were "hung"        
for the sins of their father(2 Samuel 21.1,6).      
The 7 descendants died at the time
of First Fruits of the barley harvest,
Which  means at Passover(2 Samuel 21.9)!      
Yes, the very same time of year        
That Christ was hung on the cross(Matthew 26.2)!      
Their deaths are a metaphor for Christ's own.      
If not, why did they die the same death,      
at the same time of year?      
"The things in the Old Testament      
were written for our instruction"    
(Romans 15.3-4; 1 Corinthians 10.11).      
It's time we understood Christ's death      
in the light of 2 Samuel 21.