The Forsakenness of Christ on the Cross

The father in some sense allowed him o to bear our sin and wrath, which i think would have to require a sort of forsakenness. He is not for he has not despised or abhorred the affliction of the afflicted. And verse 24 is really speaking of that, because it says, you heard me when I cried,. That's speaking of his ultimate deliverance on the cross. It doesn't mean that the father literally left him in the sense that he wasn't going to be faithful to him any more. But there was a total withdrawal of all divine comfort, of all a sense of divine intimacy and lovet. The father had to haveema d with the son, at

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