"The CUP Of Trembling" (Passover 2025).

Today we celebrate Passover, April 14, 2025. This is the true meaning of the world's "Easter".

We know that Jesus suffered physical pain, emotional trauma, and spiritual agony.

Today I want to deal with Luke chapter 22:42, which states, "Father, if thou be willing, remove this CUP from me; nevertheless, not my will, but thine, be done". Notice Jesus referenced the "CUP". This cup represents "spiritual abandonment from His Father". That is why, on the cross, he cried out, "My God, my God, why have You forsaken me?" Isaiah 51:17 & 22, makes a reference to this cup of trembling. Verse 17 is talking to Jerusalem.

The word says, " you have drank at the hand of the Lord, the cup of His fury; you have drank the dregs of the cup of trembling and have wrung them out". The cup of trembling, represents, God's wrath. That cup of God's wrath is to be consumed, even to the very bottom. (An example would be: coffee grounds that are left in the bottom of the cup. That which normally would be thrown out, had to be drunk).

What is all drunk, represents the full punishment of God. Jesus drank ALL suffering, ALL sickness, ALL pain, ALL sin ever committed. It was at this level that Jesus is forsaken, abandoned, deserted, stranded by God Himself, and he felt all of this intense pain of loss and loneliness, in the core of his being. For justice to be done, someone had to drink this cup and Jesus became and took upon himself, that curse of sin, so that very curse would be wiped out. It was this profound abandonment from his Father, that came closer to breaking Jesus, than anything else. That cup of trembling that Jesus drank; he turned into; a cup of salvation and life, for ALL who accept him, as Lord. So, he is our Passover Lamb, who drank ALL the dregs of God's wrath, so we might have life abundantly.

The continuing of "THE CUP"

I am continuing on The Cup of Trembling. A few days ago, during devotions, The Lord brought back to me, the post on The Cup of Trembling. He said, when He instituted the New Covenant at Passover, before the Crucifixion, He partook of the broken body and the blood that He shed to make ALL things new. He willingly became sin, sickness, disease, pain, emotional and mental trauma. He gave FREELY EVERY drop of blood, from the scourging, to the piercing of the spear in His side. The word tells us that the life is in the blood and we live by the blood and the bread of life, which is Jesus. He was born in Bethlehem, which in Hebrew, means "House of Bread". He left NOTHING undone. Total salvation was secured.

A few days ago, while reading in Matthew 26:27, during the Passover supper, Jesus was at the table with His disciples. They had partaken of the bread, representing His body, and He lifted up the cup of wine, representing His blood, and He then said to them, as He offered His cup, "Take, drink ye ALL of it". What did He mean by this? I had always assumed He was talking about, drinking the juice in remembrance of what He had done. But there is far more depth to the simple words, "ALL of it". I felt the Lord say to me, drink ALL of it Sandra, drink ALL of it. If Jesus did the complete work on the Cross, then what should our response be to His salvation that He gave us? This one word has been speaking to me, "Inheritance". As He drank the cup of suffering, we are to drink the cup of victory, ALL of it. He left NOTHING undone. We are to receive ALL of it. God is NOT a respecter of persons. He doesn't bless some and not others. ALL who receive Him and His work, are to receive ALL which He had done, ALL of it.

About a year ago, the Lord spoke this through a friend, "May Jesus receive the reward of His suffering". That reward is when we walk in the VICTORY of the "ALL of it".

So, that final Passover night, He was encouraging them to drink ALL of it, ALL that He was doing. There are two sides to the cup. The willingness of Him to suffer and the willingness of us to drink ALL of His victory. The reality of the Victory is from the position that He placed us.