It’s safe to say nobody else is making a Good Friday message about Letitia James and the Biden pardons… so why would I make a connection like that one?

Simple.

If polls say only about 18% of self-described Christians have a Christian understanding of the Trinity, and the Trinity is the basic building block of faith… it’s safe to say there’s a lot more we don’t really understand. Including the crucifixion.

Since ClashDaily talks about the news cycle, we know our audience is familiar with concepts like the Letitia James prosecutions and the Joe Biden pardons. If we can understand what’s driving our response to those stories, we can better understand what’s really going on as Jesus faces the Cross.

Letitia James faces criminal investigation

Letitia James was not a name the average American had ever heard of until she punched her ticket to fame by prosecuting one Donald J. Trump.

This wasn’t your ordinary instance of a prosecutor coming over a fact pattern that indicates possible wrongdoing, followed by bringing the evidence of that crime to a court for a judge to weigh in on.

No.

Her entire reason for seeking to become attorney general was so that she could show up to work, prosecute Donald Trump, and go home again. She described herself that way on the campaign trail. She promised to be a huge pain in Trump’s ass. She really threw her back into taking his scalp, cooking up untested novel legal theories in which there was no actual victim, and the ‘victimized’ bank was eager to keep doing business with Trump. But she insisted on charging him anyway. And she was openly excited about an opportunity to force his hand in forcing the sale of a building just to pay the fee associated with the appeal.

And now, she’s under investigation for — can you believe it — fraudulent practices relating to her own real estate loans. Questions about falsifying her state of residence, claiming to be married to her father, and misrepresenting the number of rental units in a building to qualify for loan terms not available at the other size.

She is now under investigation after a criminal referral for her alleged wrongdoing.

The Biden Pardons

After four years of unrelenting persecution of political enemies for a wide range of reasons, Joe Biden waited until the final days and even the final hours of his term in office before he made stacks and stacks of pardons and commutations.

We knew the Hunter Biden one was coming. It was outrageous, but Joe had the lawful power to pardon his son. Everyone knew he was going to do so. But the pardon was not for the charges Hunter currently faced. It was a blanket pardon for anything and everything he had done — back to when daddy was still Veep. At the very least, such a blanket pardon violated the ‘spirit’ of the pardon process, using it not as a corrective so much as a ‘get out of consequences free’ card.

Then came the other pardons. Biden’s entire family got pardoned. So did people like Fauci, Mark Milley, and EVERYONE connected with the J6 ‘Unselect’ Committee.

Biden’s allies LOVED the idea that Trump’s DOJ couldn’t lay a glove on any of these people. Until we heard about the autopen scandal, invalidating many of the supposed pardons.

The Relevance Question

So what does all of this have to do with the Cross, Good Friday and Easter?

Let’s start with the objection to the cross. That God would require divine judgment on sin of the kind whose only resolution was the death of a sinless sacrifice is jarring to most of us. In a culture that has reduced sacrifice to the symbolic or financial, it’s almost unthinkable.

But what do we see in Letitia James? We see a woman who wants to see justice served in that the wrongdoing of others is punished, but she’s absolutely indignant when the finger of blame is pointed her way.

If we’re honest, there is something of our own story in her reaction. Every one of us has been wronged by someone. From deep inside of us is that voice crying out for vindication. For scores to be settled and ledgers to be put right. In short, we want ‘justice’.

But that demand cuts both ways, does it not? How many of our own errors and omissions, selfish decisions or outright malice evoked that very same cry in the heart of another?

But if God is merciful, He’ll understand. He’ll forgive.

Is that a fact?

Does that make Him GOOD?

Did it make Joe Biden ‘Good’ when blanket pardons were given to people like Anthony Fauci or the Biden Crime Family? People who had many times over evoked that same cry of ‘justice’ in the people they had wronged?

Proverbs has a powerful condemnation of judges justifying wicked men:

He who justifies the wicked and he who condemns the righteous
are both alike an abomination to the Lord. — Prov 17:15.

There is an objectivity to justice that is concerned only with the right response to right and wrong action.

But that puts God in a difficult position, doesn’t it?

If He is to be true to himself and remain a righteous judge, he must punish wrongdoing and answer those billions and billions of cries for justice.

What then? If God treats us as our sin deserves, we are all dead men walking.

Condemning the righteous and justifying the wicked are both an abomination.

Romans 3 gives us the needle God had to thread, the tension between mercy and justice: “It was to show his righteousness at the present time, so that he might be just and the justifier of the one who has faith in Jesus.”

God needs a method to justify humanity in a way that does not negate justice itself.

Jesus wrestled with exactly that question in Gethsemene the night he was arrested. “My Father, if this cannot pass unless I drink it, your will be done.”

Jesus stood as a willing volunteer. God did not unjustly condemn an innocent man. Nor did he wink at sin and tell us all was forgiven.

Real sin called for real judgment. Consequences.

A balanced ledger.

Unlike all the rest of us, Jesus did nothing to earn the ‘wages of sin‘… which explains the ‘why’ behind Easter morning when he rose again, 3 days later.

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