If you have been taught that Yeshua was crying out to His Heavenly Father because He thought His Father had turned away from Him or had forsaken Him, lets take a closer look and re-think this whole scenario.  

We have probably ALL read in the Bible (or heard preacher's teach) that as Yeshua hung on the cross, He called out in Hebrew “Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani?" or "My God, My God, why hast thou forsaken me?"

Then we are usually taught from some well-meaning pastor or teacher that Heavenly Father had to turn His face away from Yeshua as He could not look upon sin. But, is that really what happened? Or is it more likely that Yeshua, being the world’s greatest Rabbi or teacher who ever lived, continued to teach people, right up until his last dying breath? And that He did not feel for a minute that His Heavenly Father had forsaken Him.

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Think about this: Yeshua, as He hung on the cross, was surrounded by His people, who understood the Hebrew Scriptures and spoke in Hebrew, just like Yeshua did. It is certainly more plausible to think that He was using a very common Hebrew teaching method called Remez.

Think about our English word "Remember" when hearing this Hebrew word "Remez".

The word Remez means "Hint". In this method, the Rabbi "hints" to his students to consider more deeply the current situation at hand by considering a different verse (or set of verses). He then quotes a particular Scripture or set of Scriptures that he knows will "trigger" or "cause" those who are listening to go back in their minds and "remember" what the verses in that area of the scroll talked about, and apply it to the "current" situation.

Another website put it this way: It was a method of study often used by Rabbis where they would quote a verse or part of a verse in order to have students of the Word recall the verses before and after it. Remez was simply a technique used to invoke recall of a scripture. It was not unlike an actor being given part of a sentence to help them recall the rest of their lines. 

By taking them back to a previous example in the Scriptures, Yeshua was certainly using this method of teaching by quoting Psalm 22, which starts out “My God, My God, why have you forsaken me?” This would have caused all those onlookers from Yeshua’s own culture, who had grown up learning the Psalms, to reflect back in their minds to Psalm 22. As they went over the rest of the verses from Psalm 22 in their minds, it would be nearly impossible for them NOT to see that Psalm 22 was being fulfilled before their very eyes.

The Hebrew people knew very well that Psalm 22 was a prophetic “Messianic” psalm written by David, about the coming Messiah. As they went through the remaining verses in their heads, how could they NOT see the Messiah hanging before their very eyes? See the next section below which compares verses from Psalm 22 with verses from the gospel accounts of the crucifixion. Amazing how much of it is "word for word"! And remember that King David wrote this "Messianic" Psalm 1000 years BEFORE the Romans even thought up the method of death called "crucifixion"!