Psalm 22:7
7 All they that see [ra'ah] me laugh me to scorn: [la`ag] they shoot out [patuwr] the lip, [saphah] they shake [nuwa`] the
head, [ro'sh] saying, KJV-Interlinear
7 All
who see me sneer at me; They separate with the lip, they wag the head, saying, NASB
While Jesus was hanging
on the cross, as well as when He was being tried in the several trials prior to
the cross, the public and official attitude was one of mocking and ridicule.
A spiritually ignorant
people, when coming together, become a mob.
A mob is held together by emotion and their target is the common victim
they presume to be guilty until proven innocent.
However, a mob in never interested
in truth or facts. It is only interested
in the punishment that helps them to vent their anger, whatever it is in life.
Individuals in life, when
they lack spiritual resources within their soul, will drift into self-destruction. They reject truth, they reject that which would
help them, they will destroy anything and everything that could be of proper
benefit to them.
Their life is one of
misery and they will go out of their way to make sure that everyone else is
miserable, even and especially when it results in their own destruction. They simply reject that they will suffer as a
result of their own actions.
Jesus is the quintessential
example of this principle.
He is God, He is the
savior, He is the sun total of everyone's future and life and destiny, and yet
the response that He received was one of mocking, spitting, ridicule, derision. He was hated when there was nothing about Him
to hate. And that is the way of
spiritual ignorance. Ignorance of truth
means ignorance of function in life.
