Monday | 02 November 2026
Christ’s journey from Gethsemane to Calvary was the manifestation, in time, of Yahweh’s offering through which the Father, Son and Holy Spirit’s covenant purpose, to make man in Their image and according to Their likeness, was accomplished. Inherent in this offering was provision for propitiation.
Propitiation became necessary when mankind, through sin, was separated from God and was condemned to eternal death. Gen 2:17. Let us be clear, there is nothing that a person can do in relation to their sin in order to appease God’s judgement or to make Him propitious towards them. Rather, in mercy, God set forth His Son, Jesus Christ, as a propitiation to destroy sin and death, and to recover mankind to Himself and to His purpose for them. Rom 3:25. This purpose is for sons of men to be born of God’s divine life and to be brought to glory in the image and likeness of the Father, Son and Holy Spirit. Gen 1:26.
To understand the true work of propitiation, we must first consider the beginning of God’s judgement. The judgement of God was first provoked by the fall of Lucifer and his angels. God created the angels perfect and complete for the works of service to which He appointed them. Eze 28:15. They are called to obey God, being sent forth by Him as ministering spirits to serve the heirs of salvation. Heb 1:14. The name of the Lord is in the angels, and they have been given great might and power to fulfil the mandate that belongs to the sphere of service to which they were appointed.
Significantly, the works that pertain to the mandate of angels are not scripted for them by the Lord, who respects their initiative as spiritual identities within their sphere of service. Accordingly, essential to their creation is the choice to serve in obedience to God. However, if an angel departs from their estate, they cannot be redeemed or recovered. That is, on the day that the angels sinned, their eternal destruction was declared and was irrevocable. 2Pe 2:4. Jud 1:6.
Further Study:
Hebrews 1
References:
Gen 2:17
But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat of it you shall surely die.
Rom 3:25
Whom God set forth as a propitiation by His blood, through faith, to demonstrate His righteousness, because in His forbearance God had passed over the sins that were previously committed.
Gen 1:26
Then God said, ‘Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness; let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the air, and over the cattle, over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.’
Eze 28:15
You were perfect in your ways from the day you were created, till iniquity was found in you.
Heb 1:14
Are they not all ministering spirits sent forth to minister for those who will inherit salvation?
2Pe 2:4
For if God did not spare the angels who sinned but cast them down to hell and delivered them into chains of darkness, to be reserved for judgement.
Jud 1:6
And the angels who did not keep their proper domain, but left their own abode, He has reserved in everlasting chains under darkness for the judgement of the great day.