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From Dr. David Jeremiah
Fives: The Wounds of Christ
August 15, 2026
To Him who loved us and washed us from our sins in His own blood… to Him be glory and dominion forever and ever. Amen.
Revelation 1:5-6
Recommended Reading:
Revelation 1:1-81 The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave Him to show His servants—things which must shortly take place. And He sent and signified it by His angel to His servant John, 2 who bore witness to the word of God, and to the testimony of Jesus Christ, to all things that he saw. 3 Blessed is he who reads and those who hear the words of this prophecy, and keep those things which are written in it; for the time is near.4 John, to the seven churches which are in Asia:Grace to you and peace from Him who is and who was and who is to come, and from the seven Spirits who are before His throne, 5 and from Jesus Christ, the faithful witness, the firstborn from the dead, and the ruler over the kings of the earth.To Him who loved us and washed[{{f}}] us from our sins in His own blood, 6 and has made us kings[{{f}}] and priests to His God and Father, to Him be glory and dominion forever and ever. Amen.7 Behold, He is coming with clouds, and every eye will see Him, even they who pierced Him. And all the tribes of the earth will mourn because of Him. Even so, Amen.8 “I am the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End,”[c] says the Lord,[{{f}}] “who is and who was and who is to come, the Almighty.”
Revelation 1:1-8
If you visit the Ulm Museum in Germany, you can find a remarkable panel from the old Buxheim monastery dating to around 1500—Arma Christi with Five Wounds. It portrays not the full figure of Christ but the five wounds of the crucifixion—His hands, feet, and side. Theologians and artists have long pondered the five wounds of Christ. But the precious blood of Jesus flowed from more than five wounds. Think of the puncture wounds from the crown of thorns and His shredded back tortured by the scourge.
Our minds are too finite, our souls are too limited, and our imaginations are too small to fully comprehend the love Jesus showed us on the Cross. Perhaps we’ll not be able to grasp all the ramifications of His death even in heaven, for it is bound up in the infinite mystery of the grace of God.
But we can say, “Thank You!”
The blood of Christ, Thy spotless Lamb, O God, is all my plea; naught else could for my sin atone; I have no merit of my own, which I can bring to Thee.
William S. W. Pond
