Tuesday | 10 November 2026
Christ was nailed to the cross by our reproaches against the Father. Reproach is the vocalised opposition of God that is sourced in Satan. Satan’s name means ‘adversary’ or ‘opposer’. The work of Satan is to reproach Christ. Satan was created ‘Lucifer’, which means ‘light‑bearer’ or ‘shining one’. Isa 14:12. He fell into darkness and speaks against God from the void. He speculates on things that have no substance. He has no capacity to create from the void, as God did. He is, therefore, a liar from the day that he fell. Joh 8:44.
Christ destroyed both the ground and the works of the devil that flourish from misappropriation. He did this by filling the void. Christ left nothing outside of God’s control when He filled, and fulfilled, the whole purpose and predestination of God which was to be spoken into time and space. On the cross, through obedience to the word of the Father, Christ took away any further ground for reproach against God. For this reason, the apostle Paul stated, ‘Who shall bring a charge against God’s elect? It is God who justifies. Who is he who condemns? It is Christ who died, and furthermore is also risen, who is even at the right hand of God, who also makes intercession for us.’ Rom 8:33‑34.
First love belongs to the offering of God in the beginning. The fruit of this offering is the message that has replaced all reproach. It is the word from the beginning proclaimed by presbyteries who have returned to first love. Testifying of this message, the apostle John wrote, ‘That which was from the beginning, which we have heard, which we have seen with our eyes, which we have looked upon, and our hands have handled, concerning the Word of life … that which we have seen and heard we declare to you, that you also may have fellowship with us; and truly our fellowship is with the Father and with His Son Jesus Christ’. 1Jn 1:1‑3.
Further Study:
1 John 1
References:
Isa 14:12
How you are fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! How you are cut down to the ground, you who weakened the nations!
Joh 8:44
You are of your father the devil, and the desires of your father you want to do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and does not stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaks a lie, he speaks from his own resources, for he is a liar and the father of it.
Rom 8:33-34
Who shall bring a charge against God’s elect? It is God who justifies. Who is he who condemns? It is Christ who died, and furthermore is also risen, who is even at the right hand of God, who also makes intercession for us.
1Jn 1:1-3
That which was from the beginning, which we have heard, which we have seen with our eyes, which we have looked upon, and our hands have handled, concerning the Word of life — the life was manifested, and we have seen, and bear witness, and declare to you that eternal life which was with the Father and was manifested to us — that which we have seen and heard we declare to you, that you also may have fellowship with us; and truly our fellowship is with the Father and with His Son Jesus Christ.