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Yahweh wrote for His Son was one of tragedy and suffering.

Acts 2:23
This Man, delivered over by the predetermined plan and foreknowledge of God, you
nailed to a cross by the hands of godless men and put Him to death.

Isaiah 53:10
Yahweh was pleased to crush Him, putting Him to grief...

Yahweh wrote the life story of His Son before He was born of a virgin. The story was
one of persecution and much affliction. Christ came to His own, and His own people
received Him not. He was rejected, and persecuted by the one’s He came to save. Yahshua
was accused of having a demon, of being illegitimately born, of being a Samaritan, whom
the Jewish people despised. Christ was born in poverty, and His life ended in shame as He
was cruelly beaten, scourged, and crucified between two thieves.
This is the story that Yahweh wrote for His beloved Son, and it is truly a tragedy. If
Christ’s life had ended at the cross, it would be the saddest story ever told. But it did not end
there.

Philippians 2:8-11
Being found in appearance as a man, He humbled Himself by becoming obedient to
the point of death, even death on a cross. For this reason also, God highly exalted
Him, and bestowed on Him the name which is above every name, so that at the name
of Yahshua every knee will bow, of those who are in heaven and on earth and under
the earth, and that every tongue will confess that Yahshua Christ is Lord, to the glory
of God the Father.

Christ arose from the dead, and He has been seated at the right hand of God. All power
and all authority has been entrusted to Him. Yahshua is now clothed in glory, and the
angels in heaven bow before Him in worship and adoration.
What this entire series has been seeking to emphasize is that there is a pattern to
Yahweh’s work among mankind. Christ’s life reveals this pattern. There is humility before
exaltation, and suffering before glory.

Proverbs 15:33
Before honor comes humility.

I Peter 4:13
To the degree that you share the sufferings of Christ, keep on rejoicing, so that also
at the revelation of His glory you may rejoice with exultation.

First there is suffering, then there is glory. Yahweh has stamped this pattern upon the
entire creation. There are none who can overturn this order that has been established by the
counsel of God. All must pass through suffering on their way to exaltation as sons of God.
Even as a play opens with Act One, Scene One, so too has Yahweh ordained that our
pathway to progression as mature sons in His image must begin with sorrow. He has called
this opening experience of our lives, “the first things.”