Why were there 3 Crosses??? Part One

Three crosses – three different men

There were three crosses on Calvary on the day Jesus Christ was crucified.
“And when they had come to the place called Calvary [the Place of a Skull] there they crucified him, and the criminals, one on the right hand and the other on the left.” Luke 23:33.
It was not by accident that Jesus was crucified with two thieves. Isaiah had prophesied: “Therefore I will divide Him a portion with the great, and He shall divide the spoil with the strong, because He poured out His soul unto death, and He was numbered with the transgressors, and He bore the sin of many, and made intercession for the transgressors.” Isaiah 53:12.

The first man

“Then one of the criminals who were hanged blasphemed Him, saying, ‘If You are the Christ [Messiah], save Yourself and us.’” Luke 23:39.
This robber represents the world that wants to be saved without acknowledging the judgment: If You are the Messiah, then take away the judgment; let us escape and You with us. Show us what You can do. If you are a Christian, then you must please me and satisfy my demands. If You are the Messiah, then go up to Jerusalem for the feast and show Yourself to the people; cast Yourself down from the temple’s pinnacle and command stones to become bread. Display Your glory and Your talents so that people can truly see and understand that the Messiah is among us. This is the kind of Messiah the world desires, and one day their desire will be fulfilled in the Antichrist.
However, Christ’s mission was not to let the world escape judgment or to perform signs and miracles in the presence of the beast and earn its approval. He came to crucify the world and to bring it into death, so that everyone who dies with Him might receive life.
The thief was hanging on the cross. He could blaspheme all he wanted, but he was condemned to death, and the nails of the cross firmly held their prey. In this same way, the world is also crucified, because we reckon that if one is crucified for all, then we are all crucified; and if one died for all, then we are all dead. The Spirit brings convictions about the judgment that is to come, because the prince of this world has been judged. These convictions are the nails which an ungodly person can never tear out of his heart. The world can try – as the thief did – to save its life, but it will not succeed; it will lose it.