VERSE 25

OF
THE PRAYER

“In the full assembly I will praise You
for what You have done.
In the presence of those who worship You.
I will offer my sacrifices I promised.”

(The Psalm-22, Verse: 25)

The Verse is highly ponderable. It’s conscious study tells us about the two promises of Jesus__ undertaken by him as a symbol of his thankfulness to the Lord. Question arises that what was that particular favour from the Lord__ which moved Jesus to undertake these two promises of praise & sacrifices? The answer is very much present in the Verse. Another conscious study of the Verse tells us;

The Lord had acceded to the prayer of Jesus__ just after utterance of the Verse-21.

“I will tell my people what You have done
I will praise You in their assembly.”

(The Psalm-22, Verses: 22)

Almost the same words are resounding in the first two lines of the Verse-25 and__ repetition of the words:-

“What You have done”

re-confirms the favour of the Lord, positively.

Up to the Verse-21, diction of the prayer is that of a pathetic-petition or a mercy appeal. But just after Verse-21__ the diction is totally changed__ and the prayer is transformed into a thanksgiving-discourse. Whereby it is automatically proved that Jesus has been saved by the Lord. He is no more a crucified person. Instead, he is the favoured-one of the Lord__ whose salvation has been effected through Ascension.

The Ascension is meaningful only __ if it happened before the death of Jesus __ and it would have saved the life of Jesus. So the correct belief about Ascension__ is the Ascension of Jesus before his death.

GOD Almighty entered Jesus in Paradise and saved him from his enemies. GOD tells us that GOD has always been the All-able & the Wise.

Hence, Jesus was very right in his thanksgiving turn in the prayer__ which begins from the Verse-22 and goes on__ to the end of the prayer till the closing line__ based on the announcement of salvation:-

“The Lord saved the Lord’s people.”

The two promises of Jesus are of paramount importance. The wording thereof does signify that the favour of the Lord__ awarded to Jesus__ was twofold. Firstly it was related to the Ascension of Jesus and secondly it was related to the future-based life of Jesus__ another life-span of Jesus. Wherein he had to honour his promises in practical terms.

1. He had to praise the Lord in the full assembly for what GOD did with him in the presence of those who worship GOD.

2. He had to offer his sacrifices to honour his promise.

What is the mystery behind the ascension of Jesus?

Why people do not believe in the ascension of Jesus before his death?

Why they say that Jesus died on the cross and was buried after his death and became alive after three days?

It is strange that Psalm-22 is telling the truth about the ascension of Jesus before death but no one is pondering over its verses especially the verse-25 and the most decisive verse-31 which tells:

“The Lord saved the Lord’s people.”

GOD SAVED THE LIFE OF JESUS AND JESUS DIED NOT ON THE CROSS

“In the full assembly I will praise You
for what You have done.
In the presence of those who worship You.
I will offer my sacrifices I promised.”

(The Psalm-22, Verse: 25)

THERE IS NOTHING MYSTERIOUS IN THE ASCENSION OF JESUS BEFORE DEATH.

People believe that Jesus became alive after three days of his death on the cross but this belief of people is not testified by the verses of Psalm-22 especially verse-25.

So today’s belief of the people is not based on the fact which verse-25 is presenting. Verse-25 openly tells us that Jesus died not on the cross and he was taken alive to Heaven. Verse-25 further confirms that the life of Jesus was saved by the Lord and he was heard & was helped by the Lord.

The minute study of the verse-25 further tells us that after the incident of crucifixion the one who appeared as Jesus on the hill of Galilee was not Jesus at all because if he was Jesus then he had definitely fulfilled his promises which he made in this verse. Since the one who appeared on the hill fulfilled not his promises made in the verse-25 and done in the presence of the Lord he can not be taken as Jesus.

Who he was?

If he was Jesus then he must have fulfilled his promise and in that case people would have a different belief in Jesus. Since only Jesus knows that what happened to him only Jesus can explain the happening of salvation. Because the one who appeared was someone else and was other than Jesus on account of the following four sound reasons:

1. If he was Jesus then he must have told what Lord has done with him on the cross and how the Lord has saved his life.

2. If he was Jesus then he must have praised his Lord in the full assembly of the people who worship GOD.

3. If he was Jesus then he must have offered his sacrifices as he promised in his thanks paying words.

4. If he was Jesus then he must have fulfilled his promises which he made in verse-25.

In fact no one ponders over the Psalm-22 especially the verse-25 and the verse-31 and everyone believes in the story which is told by the people not by Jesus.

LACK OF KNOWLEDGE OR IGNORANCE

Christian belief is based on the observation of those who were present on the occasion and who unmounted the body of Jesus from the cross and buried him. Since the body of Jesus was lifeless & selfless it was considered dead by the observers who were present on the occasion and those who were present on the occasion knew not any thing about the miraculous ascension of Jesus. It is true that nothing was told about the ascension of Jesus by the Lord Almighty and the question of salvation was left unsolved and the secret was kept secret to unveil for some other time for the future generations.

So the observations of the people present there told nothing to them about the ascension of Jesus and that is why they say that Jesus died on the cross helpless. Though Jesus through his prayer told the people that the Lord has saved the Lord’s people but people could not understand anything. It can be well imagined that how the situation entangled in between the sayings of Jesus & the observations concerning crucifixion which raised doubts in their minds but nothing was done to understand the reality according to the statements of Jesus which he gave in his last prayer and since there was no one to answer the doubts of the people and only Jesus knew what had happened to him, all questions about the ascension remained unanswered. Though Jesus told the truth about ascension in the last hour people could not understand about his uttered truth. If they had pondered over the truth revealing statements of Jesus they must have got the reality of the ascension of Jesus through his sayings. Please ponder over this last hour’s uttered saying:

“In the full assembly I will praise You
for what You have done.
In the presence of those who worship You.

(The Psalm-22, Verse: 25)

It is a fact that only Jesus knew what happened and how GOD saved his life from death.

People put his body in the tomb as a dead Jesus and when after three days the body was removed or was stolen by the disciples they started believing that Jesus came alive and gave them the good news of a new religion in which they say GOD is three-in-one instead of One Alone GOD of all the foregoing prophets thus they have invented a new faith & a new religion based on the forgiveness of sins through faith. So today their leaders say, “One needs not to follow the commandments of GOD in their religion and their religion is not based on doing this or doing that or not to do this and not to do that but it is based on one’s faith. If someone will believe that Jesus is a son of god and a savior for him, his sins will be washed and without this faith under Heaven there is no salvation. So they are doing away from the true religion preached by all other foregoing prophets such as Braham, Moses, Jacob, David, etc.

It is a fact that their today’s belief is based on the sayings of the ethereal image of Jesus who appeared on the hill of Galilee and who told them that he is the real Jesus though the people present on the hill doubted in him due to his ethereal image which suddenly appeared among them and was without body. Today’s Christianity is nothing but the teachings of that ethereal image which appeared on the hill of Galilee. Their concept about GOD and their belief in the forgiveness of sins and their New Testament or faith was given to them by the ethereal image to which they took as real Jesus and worshipped him as their god against the first commandment “Worship no god but Me”& by forgetting the teachings of Jesus and the written sayings of Torah and committed the worst sin against the commandments of GOD.

GOD commands,

“I Am the Lord your GOD. Worship no god but Me. Do not make for yourself images of anything in heavens or on earth or in the water under the earth. Do not bow down to any idol or worship it. Because I Am the Lord your GOD and I tolerate no rivals. I bring punishment on those who hate Me, on their descendants, down to third and fourth generation.”

(Exodus, Chapter 20, Verses: 1 to 5)

It was the test of their faith in which they failed because before this test when Satan put Jesus in the test through temptation and asked him to worship him Jesus replied,

“Go away Satan! The Scripture says;
Worship the Lord your GOD and serve only the Lord.”

(Matthew, Chapter 4, Verse: 10)

But disciples worshipped the ethereal image as their god and forgot that how Jesus passed his test of faith and what he said on the occasion and bowed not before the image and recognized the guise or the image of the Satan.

Their worst sin the worship of an ethereal image which appeared on the hill made them blind and later on happened what happened. Anyhow the doubtful belief in the ascension of Jesus remained prevailing up to the coming seven generations and then Lord revealed that GOD saved the life of Jesus and the enemies of Jesus could not crucify him. It was told through holy Quran. So Muslims do not believe in the death of Jesus.

Muslims believe in an alive Jesus who died not on the cross according to the information given to them through revelation. Believing in the death of Jesus is not the real belief in any case. So Muslims believe that Jesus was taken to Heaven alive and they cannot tell what was the body of Jesus after his ascension and those who tell about the body of Jesus in both religions are in doubts. So it is true that Jesus entered in Paradise and his life was saved by GOD and in Quran it is told about the death of Jesus that it seemed so to them.

157. And because of their saying: We slew the Messiah Jesus son of Mary, the messenger of GOD — They slew him not nor crucified, but it appeared so unto them; and lo! those who disagree concerning it are in doubt thereof; they have no knowledge thereof save pursuit of a conjecture; they slew him not for certain:

158. But GOD took him up unto GOD. GOD was ever Mighty, Wise.

159. There is not one of the People of the Scripture but will believe in him before his death, and on the Day of Resurrection he will be a witness against them.

(Al-Quran, Chapter 4 Al-Nisa, Verses: 157 to 159)

Verse-25 tells us that only Jesus can tell what happened to him. GOD saved his life and what was the body left behind for the burial. Since all happened to Jesus, only Jesus can truly answer the questions concerning ascension that is why Jesus is saying in verse-25 of his prayer:

“In the full assembly I will praise You
for what You have done.
In the presence of those who worship You.
I will offer my sacrifices I promised.”

(The Psalm-22, Verse: 25)

It is a fact that everyone is made of the materials of this earth and his contents are clay & water and no one takes one’s clay & water along with one’s self or soul at the time of one’s departure or end. When a soul leaves this material world it leaves its body or materials too, which in hours starts decaying & rotting and cannot be kept due to the process of decaying. It starts to rot and needs an immediate dispose off which is performed differently in different religions. It is on record that whosoever was killed or died was disposed off by the people.

Those who are killed in the way of GOD according to the commandments of GOD are not dead. The Lord our GOD says:

“Think not of those, who are slain in the way of GOD, as dead. Nay, they are living. With their Lord they have provision.”

(Holy Quran, Chapter 3, verse: 169)

“And call not those who are slain in the way of GOD “dead.”Nay, they are living, only ye perceive not.”

(Holy Quran, Chapter 2, verse: 154)

And everyone knows that all those who are killed in the way of GOD remain not in this world. They leave their wives, children, land, wealth and everything behind.

Their wives become widows and after the prayers and formalities of the funeral get married with other men, their children become orphans, their land & wealth is taken by the relatives and they are buried by the people. Their burial here shows that they enter alive in Paradise the kingdom of GOD and leave everything of this world.

Act of the burial also shows that the bodies of the martyrs are like dresses and they leave the used dresses here and wear the new dresses there.

It is very simple to understand that Jesus was a martyr like other martyrs, death touched not his life at all and the Almighty GOD made it possible for him. Since GOD is All-able, GOD made it possible through knowledge & wisdom and GOD saved his life and kept him alive and opened the door of Heaven for him. It was a duration equal to the blink of an eye and Jesus was not here and entered in paradise there. Such a great rescue is possible only if GOD Almighty wills and GOD not only saved him but gave him the news of his salvation to announce in the people, that is why Jesus is saying in his prayer, “I will praise You for what You have done”.

He left his mortal body behind and the mortal body is nothing more than a dress which the soul wears to live life. Jesus left his body and the people not only unmounted him from the cross but also buried him like a dead and they knew not that the body of Jesus is not Jesus. Jesus was not there and his soul returned not to explain the mystery of his migration and Satan took advantage of this situation and became Jesus to deceive people.

Jesus had passed half of his age when he drank the cup of suffering and on cross he prayed to GOD to save his worldly life and GOD Who saves, saved not only his worldly life from death but also raised him to send him again to this world for his remaining life. Like his birth his rescuing of life was also unique and according to the ordained order soul of Jesus will dress someone’s body to lead the remaining life and he will fulfill his promises as he made with GOD in the verse-25. So the life which was saved by GOD was the worldly life of Jesus due to which Jesus paid thanks & made promises. The most interesting aspect is that Jesus will not appear in the previous body and will appear in another body through the change of soul and this change of soul will be the beginning of the remaining life of Jesus as the messenger of GOD. Before the end of his first life & leaving the world Jesus told everyone that no one will see him again and warned them not to believe anyone who claims that he is Jesus. He also warned that false Jesus will appear to deceive and advised everyone not to follow anyone other than him.

SATAN AND HIS TRICKERY

The mystery of the end of Jesus is, in fact, related to the Satan’s trickery__ spell-bounding trickery__ whereby he deceived the disciples quite easily. At first, he deceived the disciples of Jesus and took them over in his total control. Thereafter, the disciples deceived the whole world on a massive scale. And as such, the disciples, the unfair and disloyal disciples of Jesus, proved themselves as the fair and loyal disciples of Satan. To apprehend the Satan’s trickery, however, we will have to go back in the age of Jesus.

After his glorious entry into Jerusalem, Jesus visited the Temple of GOD and dismantled the shops and the business corners therein. Because__ he wanted to cleanse the Temple from the Jewish traders and their commercial activities. At that time he was loudly & openly announcing:-

“It is written in the Scripture that GOD said:
My temple will be called a House of
Prayer but you are making it a hideout
for thieves”

(Matthew, Chapter 21, Verse: 13)

The incident was seriously viewed by Jewish chief priests. They treated it as a threat to their monopoly over the Temple. So, they decided to plot against Jesus in terms of the famous contempt-case of the temple of GOD. All the witnesses whereof were fake & false.

The case was based on the blame that Jesus had committed a great sin by saying the words that he was able to tear down the temple of GOD and rebuild it in three days.

Whereas Jesus had never spoken the likewise words at all. But the Jewish chief priests managed several witnesses and presented them in the court. The people present in the court were also persuaded by the Jewish chief priests and the case was, ultimately, decided against Jesus. Death-sentence in terms of crucifixion was announced against Jesus. The Roman Governor, Pilate wanted to release Jesus but the persuaded crowd did not let him do so.

The disciples of Jesus were, of course, aware of the fake & false nature of the case as it is written in the Gospel by Matthew:-

“The chief priests and the whole council tried to find some false evidence against Jesus to put him to death.”

(Matthew, Chapter 26, Verse: 59)

The Gospel by Mark, also contains the same view:-

“Many witnesses told lies against Jesus but their stories did not agree. Some men stood up and told this lie: we have heard him say: I will tear down this Temple which men have made and after three days I will build one that is not made by men.”

(Mark, Chapter 14, Verses: 56 to 58)

Accordingly, the disciples had to unfold the fake & false nature of the contempt case. But they responded in highly strange terms, rather, perverted terms. Firstly, they let the Jews crucify Jesus and then they said that Jesus had not talked about GOD’s Temple. Instead, he had talked about the bodily temple of his own self.

Whereby he wanted to declare that he was able to revive his dead body, just after three days of his death on the cross.

To make this very interpretation true, the disciples conspired to steal away the buried body of Jesus from the graveyard. And, they did so at night before the arrival of the third day. While on the morning of the third day, they spread the fake news of the revival of Jesus, from his tomb.

To prove the disciples innocent and to conceal the theft of the buried body of Jesus and to make the news of the revival certain Matthew added two references under the following headings:-

“The Guard at the Tomb.”

(Matthew, Chapter 27, Verses: 62 to 66)

“The Report of the Guard.”

(Matthew, Chapter 28, Verses: 11 to 15)

It is written in the Gospels that the disciples ran away to save their necks at the time of the arrest of Jesus but it is not written anywhere what they did to save their necks after the decision of the court against them and the end of Jesus. They remained hidden till they spread the news of the revival of Jesus and they made the news of revival to get rid of the contempt case due to which their enemies were after them for arrest & punishment. The contempt case against them was behind everything which they did.