If Jesus had not of died then a new covenant would not have been made, which is the promise between God and his people. The new covenant was going to be that God would be much closer to his people and he did not have to stay in the Holy of Holies. When Jesus has died the curtain had ripped and this freed God and he came out of the Holy of Holies. The old covenant had finished and the new one had begun. This meant that everybody could access God and not just his chosen people. He would be there for everyone and the Temple was not relevant anymore, Jesus was the last crucial sacrifice and he had saved everyone from their sins. This new covenant was possible because everybody’s sins would have been cleansed and freed enabling God to be close with us.
Jesus did not have a good life especially in his three years of ministry, he was tormented mentally and physically which made it even harder for him. We know this because we are told in the Gospel of Mark. Jesus was scourged before he was crucified, nailed to the cross, insulted and had people gambling for his clothes. The Romans were also being sarcastic and had placed a crown of thorns on his head to show people Jesus was the “king”. Christians believe that he was a human being and he suffered. When Jesus was on the cross he said, “Eloi, Eloi, lama sabachthani”, it was Aramaic for, “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?” Jesus was at his lowest point and felt that God had left him, but in the Gospel of Mark we were always told that God is with us and never leaves even when we are facing bad situations. It was also believed that darkness over came the light when Jesus was about to die. The darkness represented the evil and death overcoming the good to rule the world. But when he essentially came to die the light had shone, to Christians this was the end of one story but the beginning of the next.
There was also two prophesies made by Isaiah and Jeremiah. Isaiah talked about someone who would come and suffer greatly, people used to call this man the “suffering servant” and Isaiah had prophesied many times about this. Jeremiah had prophesied about the covenant which will be written on the hearts of the people. When Jesus was in the Garden of Gethsemane he talks about his suffering and he also prophesied about his death and then referred to his resurrection. He talks to God and says, “My soul is overwhelmed with sorrow to the point of death”. He was frightened and felt isolated from the world.
Judgement Day is known in the Islamic, Jewish and Christian religion and sometimes called the Day of the Lord, The Christian belief in the Last Judgement stated that this world will end, the dead will be raised up in the general resurrection, and God will gloriously come to judge the living and the dead. The sinners shall be cast into hell, and the righteous shall live in heaven.
In the Jewish trial Jesus had said that he would knock down the Temple and rebuild it within three days without using his hands. He is referring to his body breaking and then resurrecting. When he died, a Roman man said that “truly is the Son of God”. Mark wanted to get across that everyone is allowed into the Kingdom of God, even though he was a Gentile and not a Jew he was still accepted into the Kingdom of God. The Kingdom of God was the main message Jesus needed to get across to the people of the world before it was too late.
The Sadducees asked Jesus a question in something they did not believe in, which was resurrection. They were interested to know about a lady who got married seven times but all of her husbands had died. They wanted to know when this lady died which husband she would be married to when she was resurrected. Jesus replied angrily by saying “When you are in Heaven you do not think about earthly things, but you are going to be concerned with spiritual things and you are angels in heaven and not people”.
Overall Christians believe that the death of Jesus and life after death is the vital part of Christianity and this is how it started. The death of Jesus did not destroy him and he is still with us in our everyday life.
