You caused judgment to be heard from heaven; the earth feared and was still, when God arose to judgment, to deliver all the oppressed of the earth.
When Jesus Christ, the Second Person of the Holy Trinity, became man and died on a Roman cross, a judgment was taking place. Sin and death were being judged, as it were, and through His death and resurrection all the oppressed of the earth—oppressed by sin and death—are delivered.
It is as if the bars of our prison have been broken down by the death and resurrection of the God-Man. And yet we must walk out of the prison by faith, repenting of our sins that put us there in the first place, in order to obtain the deliverance that has been gloriously wrought for us.
