The Solid Roots study entitled "Jesus Our Savior" discusses this last point in depth. I would encourage you to read and study the lesson.      Why did Jesus say this? When Jesus said, "My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?" He was clearly implying that He felt separated from God the Father. The Greek word for "forsaksen" is EGKATALEIPO which means to "leave, abandon, or leave behind." So why and how could God the Father leave Christ? Our first question is, "Can God leave God?" The answer is no. God cannot leave Himself. Jesus did not mean that God had abandoned or deserted God. (We know that Jesus is God.)      We believe Jesus was referring to His sense of separation from the Father. Isaiah 59:2 communicates to us an important fact about God,     . . . your iniquities have separated you from your God; your sins have hidden his face from you . . . (NASB) Isaiah 59:2   At the momemt the sin of the world was placed on Christ (Isa 53:5), God turned away from Christ. The full impact of this abandonment was realized in astonishing disbelief by Jesus because He was also a man. Because Jesus was the God-man, the impact of the break in the close fellowship with the Father was an anguishing heart break. As God, Jesus' heart broke, and as man He must have been bewildered.    Conclusion: There is a great Old Testament example of what happened to our sins and in a figurative way to Christ on the cross. It is found in Leviticus 16:5-28. It is about a scapegoat,     Then Aaron shall lay both of his hands on the head of the live goat, and confess over it all the iniquities of the sons of Israel, and all their transgressions in regard to all their sins; and he shall lay them on the head of the goat and send it away into the wilderness by the hand of a man who stands in readiness. "And the goat shall bear on itself all their iniquities to a solitary land; and he shall release the goat in the wilderness. (NASB) Leviticus 15:21-22   Is this what happened to Christ? I believe this scapegoat was a symbol of Jesus. Not only were the sins of the world placed on Jesus, but Jesus with our sins was separated from God - God in some sense distanced Himself from the God-man Jesus Christ.       < Back
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