Monday, September 19, 2016

Ang Pagsasalaysay sa mga Bulag ng Pagkapako ni Hesu Kristo sa Kalbaryo

Ang Pagsasalaysay sa mga Bulag ng Pagkapako ni Hesu Kristo sa Kalbaryo
oil on wood
6 x 4"
Marius Black
2005



Put on someone's shoes for a minute, imagine you lived when Jesus was being crucified, and yeah, it's your past life so you really didn't came from the future. Let's make things worse, back then there are many people who were poor, very poor. That’s you; what's more, you're friggin’ blind. And you don't really know who this Messiah they are talking about, probably you've heard of him before, rumors or gossips but you don't really believe he is the son of God because you're still blind.

On this rare occasion, you heard the news that this man you always hear of as a savior is being punished, so you get confused. Because why would they crucify a man of peace as you heard of. You are curious and you come to the place where they all die, at Golgotha, the Skull Mountain. Upon getting there, you can hear these people fussing, crying and cursing. You can hear the crying and the suffering, and all the heat is making the gloomy feel of the crucifixion even more real to you. 

Then finally you have the chance and you ask someone, perhaps one of the few
believers of Jesus Christ for he tells you a very good description of what was
happening to him, a description you'll remember for the rest of your life. 

You ask:
"Can you describe what is happening at the Skull Mountain, young man?"

This description was given to you; 

"At the Skull mountain, where they persecute and punish all men who gets sentenced by the law, there are many skulls, they call it that so men would remember that there have been many deaths there, that it is a place where the people forget who has died there for there are so many...

In the mountain now, there is a man they call the messiah, he is being punished by a crime he is totally innocent of. The punishment is crucifixion. He is now crucified at a seemingly ivory like cross, ivory like for it seem so hard and strong and heavy that whatever he does, he is unable to escape the nails he’s buried in.

Like other crucifixions, he is nailed down with 3 nails, they are huge and colored black, they are thin but long and strong. Blood spewed out as they nail him in, heavy pounds, as the blood running was of a melting red candle.  Red as of the raspberry wine. He bled more that anyone else. 

He is being persecuted by the Roman guards; they taunt him and make fun of him as they are mounted at their horses. If you can see them, you think you are being fooled by your eyes, because it seems that you can see through their souls, that they are no longer in human form. It gives you a feeling that they will, for certain, suffer the fires of hell. 

That it is being showed now because they are seen like skeletons, like they are being burned now for what they are doing. Their eyes are gone, what’s left is a red glow of evil, even their horses are already soulless, they are already dead. Even with armor of metal and steel. No one could protect them from the hellfire that is going to eat their flesh, their soul. They are already dead.

From a far, two men are also being crucified, one is of no regret, he is a thief, and his soul, is already gone, a victim of the fire as well. But the other one, the other one has repented from sin, he spoke to the messiah before his death, and asked for forgiveness, his soul only shows of pain, of enormous pain, of grief and suffering for he still looked human when he passed.

And this man they call the messiah, his suffering will put you on a trance. This man was suffering an even greater pain, even greater than the other man who died on the cross, this man; it was as if he was skinless. Because he is suffering from a pain that he did not want and deserve but he still goes through with it accepting it with every breath he takes. He was stripped off his clothes and just by looking at him, makes you believe that he is innocent. His pain, it is like being skinned alive. 

It was of great pain, and agony and torture, but what he is implying with the pain he endured and took was, even though he was tortured like this,
he still loves.

He loves his family, friends and yes even his enemies. He is a man of universal love, which he has proven again with his sacrifice. 

His mother is before his feet, she is embracing the cross, the very cross that took her son’s life away, she is crying as if her eyes are gone. She has cried in blood, because there are no more tears to cry about. Truly a mother’s love is beyond almost every kind of love for her child. On her knees, there grew a white flower that may symbolize her purity and virginity. Beside his mother, was a woman, she was young but she was of sin, she is a prostitute. But she loved him, no one knew what kind of love, she is also weeping for him. They were both crying out their souls. And at her knees there also grew a white flower, a white flower she destroyed upon as she knelt, she was given the purity and virginity, but she destroyed it entirely in the eyes of most people who barely know her.

And as a last attempt to end all attempts, a soldier on his horse comes forth to see if the one they called King of Kings has died. The soldier lunges his spear as if he was a devil that enjoyed lunging his pitchfork to the messiah’s right rib, and it all ends. The sky turned black, as if the world was at its end. The sky falls of the sun’s light. 

Blood spewed more from the stab and with this fatal wound, he died. He bled as if it drained all his blood, he bled as if he was a man with out a doubt of what happened, he bled as if his blood was wine, that could wash away sin, he bled like a normal man which he claims he is and he is not, for his body is only man but his soul is the son of God. He bled for his friends, his believers, his mother, even for his enemies... 

He bled for you."

Marius Black
Manila,
2005

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