When God Withdraws His Hand with Todd Tomasella and Travis Bryan III

Redemptive Withdrawal (RW)

Ps 22; Micah 1:1-12; 2:3-4; 4:17; Is. 64:6-8; Job 1 & 2

1. Redemptive Withdrawal (RW), the cross, is God's only way of JUDGMENT of people throughout Bible.  It is a restorative way, never a retributive way.  Outside of RW, God has no judgment of humanity.  RW is not like the judgment of man under a law court.  Law judgment is always retaliatory or retributive.  God does not judge in this way, ever.  John 3:17-18; 5:21-22; 7:24; 8:10-11, 14-17, 26, 50; 9:39; John 12:30-33, 47-48; 16:8-10; Ps 9:15-16.  God's RW way of justice is profoundly different from man's and Moses' way.  
2. RW is God's WRATH.  God has no other way of wrath toward human beings.  God's wrath always happens through the principle of the cross when He removes His protective hedge from us and allows Satan to do what he is always bent on doing, attack humanity to the maximum extent permitted.  Ps 78:48-49.  God never directly inflicts based on anger, violence, vengeance or wrath.  He allows the wrath of Satan to do its thing.  Rev 12:12.  All anger, wrath, violence, vengeance originates in Satan.  God limits Satan and takes the blame for what he does.  God allows it always for a redemptive purpose.  He alllows Satan to defeat his own purpose by causing people to die to self so God can raise them up as new creations.  2 Cor 4:10-17.
3. The Cross is the great paradigm for RW.  God removed His protective hand from Jesus and allowed Satan to crucify Him for God's redemptive purpose, the salvation of mankind.  Satan self destructed there at Calvary.  Heb 2:14; John 12:31; Col 2:15.  It is the same for us when Jesus' cross is put upon us by the enemy.  Ps 22:all.

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