Season 9: ...The Nails He Chose to Bear

S15 Main Cast

Jesus Christ

The eternal Son of God and promised Messiah — who calmed the Galilean storm, washed His disciples' feet, bore our judgment on the cross, rose as Firstfruits, and returns on a white horse as King of Kings.

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S9 Main Cast

The Roman Centurion at the Cross

The hardened Roman commander overseeing the crucifixion at Golgotha — whose soldiers drove the nails into the unspared Substitute, and who confessed at the earthquake and torn veil, 'Truly this was the Son of God!'

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S9 Main Cast

The Ram Caught in the Thicket

The substitute ram discovered behind Abraham on Mount Moriah with its horns entangled in a thicket of thorns — offered up 'instead of his son' as a prophetic shadow of Christ crowned with thorns.

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S9 Main Cast

Abraham

Father of the covenant nation and head of the Messianic genealogy — who split the altar wood before dawn, climbed Mount Moriah for three days with his promised son Isaac, and named the mountain Jehovah Jireh.

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S9 Main Cast

Isaac

The miracle son of Abraham and Sarah who carried the altar wood up Mount Moriah, asked 'Where is the lamb for a burnt offering?', and was spared when God provided the ram in the thicket.

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S9 Main Cast

The Israelite Father at the First Passover

The covenant head of household in Goshen who examined the lamb for four days, slaughtered it at twilight, dipped a bunch of hyssop into the basin, and painted the blood across the lintel and two doorposts.

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S9 Main Cast

The Unblemished Passover Lamb

The spotless year-old male lamb brought inside the Israelite home on the tenth of Nisan, examined for four days, and slain at twilight so its blood on the wooden doorposts spared the firstborn from judgment.

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S9 Main Cast

The Destroyer

The heavenly executor of the tenth plague at midnight in Egypt — legally forbidden by the LORD from entering any doorway marked with the blood of the Passover lamb.

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S11 Main Cast

Moses

The prophet and lawgiver who commanded the Passover blood on Egypt's doors, struck the Rock at Rephidim so rivers gushed for a rebellious camp, and ascended smoking Mount Sinai.

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S14 Main Cast

The People of Israel

The covenant nation delivered from Egypt — who drank from the smitten Rock at Rephidim, trembled before the fire of Sinai, reaped Canaan's first grain at Gilgal, and fell on their faces on Mount Carmel crying, 'The LORD, He is God!'

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S9 Main Cast

Ezekiel the Prophet

Exiled priest-prophet in Babylon who was set down by the Spirit in a valley of sun-bleached skeletons and obeyed the command to prophesy to the dry bones and summon the four winds of breath until an exceedingly great army stood on its feet.

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S9 Main Cast

The Valley of Dry Bones

The sun-bleached skeletons scattered across Ezekiel's vision plain — representing hopeless, exiled Israel — that rattled bone to bone at the spoken Word and stood as a mighty army when the breath of God entered them.

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S11 Main Cast

Joshua, Son of Nun

Moses' faithful successor who commanded the priests to step into the flood-stage Jordan with the Ark, celebrated the Passover at Gilgal when the forty-year manna ceased, and led Israel's conquest of Canaan.

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S14 Main Cast

The Ark of the Covenant

The gold-overlaid chest of God's throne presence — carried into the flood-stage Jordan to part the waters in Joshua 3, and placed inside Dagon's temple in 1 Samuel 5 where the idol fell headless before it.

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S9 Main Cast

The Priests Who Carried the Ark

The consecrated Levitical priests who hoisted the golden poles of the Ark onto their shoulders, stepped barefoot into the flood-stage Jordan River first, and stood firm on dry ground in the middle of the riverbed until every Israelite had crossed.

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