Psalm 22:1 My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?

he was reminding those who were watching that his death was prophesied in that psalm

because among other things, He is the Lord of Time.

It would be a better thing to wonder how David knew Jesus would say this on the cross.

The obvious solution: read the psalm - the entire psalm - and see if the author of the psalm has a point. Hint: after you read it, it will be very obvious to you that the author did NOT believe that God had abandoned him!

http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=psa%20...

Interestingly (as the gospel teaches us), Jesus quoted this particular psalm in Aramaic - which means that only the local natives (local Jewish people) would understand the reference. Naturally, religious Jewish people of the time being **thoroughly familiar with the psalms**, quoting the first line of that psalm would have immediately brought the entire psalm (and its message) to the mind of those Aramaic-speaking Jewish people present.

In evidence that Jehovah had removed his hedge of protective care, Christ cried out while on the torture stake: “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?” (Matthew 27:46; Psalm 22:1) Although keenly sensing that God had withdrawn his protection, Jesus, like Job, “did not sin or ascribe anything improper to God.” (Job 1:22)

The Messiah would seem forsaken by God. (Read Psalm 22:1.) In accord with prophecy, “at the ninth hour [about three o’clock in the afternoon] Jesus called out with a loud voice: ‘Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani?’ which means, when translated: ‘My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?’” (Mark 15:34) Jesus had not lost faith in his heavenly Father. God abandoned Jesus to his enemies by taking away His protection so that Christ’s integrity might be fully tested. And by crying out as he did, Jesus fulfilled Psalm 22:1.

Jesus wasn't a happy camper then . But the Father demands that each of us totally submit our will to His . And it usually takes a volunteer martyrdom to do that . For 2 opposite wills can not exist together .

God turned his face away from sin

God could not look upon sin.

When his son was dying

i could not watch.

This cry is a fulfillment of Psalm 22:1, one of many parallels between that psalm and the specific events of the crucifixion. It has been difficult to understand in what sense Jesus was “forsaken” by God. It is certain that God approved His work. It is certain that He was innocent. He had done nothing to forfeit the favor of God. As His own Son - holy, harmless, undefiled, and obedient - God still loved Him. In none of these senses could God have forsaken Him.

However, Isaiah tells us that “he bore our griefs and carried our sorrows; that he was wounded for our transgressions, and bruised for our iniquities; that the chastisement of our peace was laid upon him; that by his stripes we are healed” (Isaiah 53:4-5). He redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a curse for us (Galatians 3:13). He was made a sin-offering, and He died in our place, on our account, that He might bring us near to God. It was this, doubtless, which caused His intense sufferings. It was the manifestation of God’s hatred of sin, in some way which He has not explained, that Jesus experienced in that terrible hour. It was suffering endured by Him that was due to us, and suffering by which, and by which alone, we can be saved from eternal death.

In those awful moments, Jesus was expressing His feelings of abandonment as God placed the sins of the world on Him – and because of that had to “turn away” from Jesus. As Jesus was feeling that weight of sin, He was experiencing separation from God for the only time in all of eternity. It was at this time that 2 Corinthians 5:21 occurred, “God made Him who had no sin to be sin for us, so that in Him we might become the righteousness of God.” Jesus became sin for us, so He felt the loneliness and abandonment that sin always produces, except that in His case, it was not His sin – it was ours.

He was human and in great pain, I cant even imagine the amount of pain he must of gone through.

i always felt what he went through was too much, for me that level of pain and hardship is hard for me to reconcile.

Because he got tricked into being a patsy for god, and by the time he figured it out it was far to late in the game.

Or, because he was delusional and there is no god.

If there was a real god it wouldn't allow any of the crap that goes on, on earth!!! No real gods or devils or heavens or hells exist anywhere outside of any ones inculcated minds !!!