He's Alive!

I cannot keep this to myself. Amen!:

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“The pyramids of Egypt are famous because they contained the mummified
bodies of ancient Egyptian kings. Westminster Abbey in London is renowned
because in it rests the bodies of English nobles and notables. Mohammad’s
tomb is noted for the stone coffin and the bones it contains.

The Taj Majal was built as a memorial to a wife of one of India’s Shahs.
Arlington Cemetery in Washington, D.C., is revered, for it is the honored
resting place of many outstanding Americans.

The garden tomb of Jesus is famous not because of what is inside, but because
it is empty!” The tomb of Jesus Christ was only a 15-minute walk from the center
of Jerusalem, so the empty tomb could have easily been confirmed or disproved
by anyone who went to inspect it.

The unbelieving Jewish leaders were unable to disprove the fact that the tomb
was empty, so they bribed the Roman guards to lie and say that Christ’s disciples
stole the body (Matt. 28:11-15).

Further, after Christ arose, the apostles did not immediately travel to far-off Athens
or Rome to preach that Christ had risen from the dead. Instead, they stayed and
preached in Jerusalem (Acts 2:5-32; 3:1-15), the very city where, if what they were
proclaiming about the resurrection and the empty tomb was false, it could have
been easily refuted.

The only explanation for the empty tomb is The Truth found in Scripture: Christ,
Who promised to rise again, rose again, “as He said” (Matt. 28:6 cf. 20:17-19).
It’s been said well that “No tabloid will ever print the startling news that the
mummified body of Jesus of Nazareth has been discovered in old Jerusalem.
Christians have no carefully embalmed body enclosed in a glass case to worship…
...we have an empty tomb.

The glorious fact that the empty tomb proclaims to us is that life for us does
not stop when death comes. Death is not a wall, but a door.” “Come, see” was
the invitation (Matt. 28:6). On resurrection morning, an angel “rolled back the
stone from the door” (v. 2) of the tomb. The angel did not move the stone to
let Christ out; he moved the stone to let the world in, so anyone could see
that He rose from the dead. Even today, the invitation for the resurrection is
the same, “Come, see.”

Read and examine the Scriptures, and you will find that the tomb is empty.
Come, see the miracle, power, and Truth of Christ’s resurrection, and believe it.
Christ was raised to show that He Fully Paid the price for all our sins at the Cross
(Rom. 4:25). The work of salvation is complete! When you trust that Christ died for
your sins and rose again, you are saved from all your sins and have the gift of
eternal life (1 Cor. 15:3-4; Rom. 6:23; Eph. 1:13; 2:8-9).

Then the instruction is also the same as what the angel told the women at the
empty tomb, “Go…tell” (Matt. 28:7). Tell others the good news. Don’t keep The Truth
to yourself. Go and tell others about the Savior, that He lives and that He saves!"

(P Sadler - also available as a Bible tract: here)



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The arial map shows the Garden Tomb is adjacent to a large bus depot which has been there a long time. He is still telling us to go into all the world spreading the good news. Now with the internet, messages like yours can speak to the entire world without even having to get on a bus. Thank you for the beautiful and true message.

Peter's testimony

Acts 2 HNV with some edits

22 “Men of Israel, hear these words! Yeshua of Nazareth, a Man approved by YAH to you by mighty works and wonders and signs which YAH did by Him among you, even as you yourselves know, 23 Him, being delivered up by the determined counsel and foreknowledge of YAH, you have taken by the hand of lawless men, crucified and killed; 24 Whom YAH raised up, having freed Him from the agony of death, because it was not possible that He should be held by it. 25 For David says concerning Him,
‘I saw YHVH always before My face,
for He is on My right hand, that I should not be moved.
26 Therefore My heart was glad, and My tongue rejoiced.
Moreover My flesh also will dwell in hope,
27 because You(the Father) will not leave My soul in Sheol,
neither will You allow Your Holy One to see decay.
28 You made known to Me the ways of life.
You will make Me full of gladness with Your presence.’*
29 “Brothers, I may tell you freely of the patriarch David, that he both died and was buried, and his tomb is with us to this day. 30 Therefore, being a prophet, and knowing that YAH had sworn with an oath to him that of the Fruit of his body, according to the flesh, He would raise up the Messiah to sit on His throne, 31 he foreseeing this, spoke about the resurrection of the Messiah, that His soul wasn’t left in Sheol, and His flesh didn’t see decay. 32 This Yeshua YAH raised up, to which we all are witnesses. 33 Being therefore exalted by the right hand of YAH, and having received from the Father the promise of the Holy Spirit, He has poured out this which you now see and hear. 34 For David didn’t ascend into the heavens, but he says himself,
‘YHVH said to my Adon, “Sit by My right hand
35 until I make Your enemies a footstool for Your feet.” ' (from Psalm 110:1)
36 “Let all the house of Israel therefore know certainly that YAH has made Him both Adonai and Messiah, this Yeshua whom you crucified.”

This quote from Psalm 16:8-11 is actually the Son praying. David received His prayer by the Holy Spirit Who revealed it to Him as David described before he died. This is also why knowing the actual Names and titles used is so important. The Son is expressing His faith in the promise of life in the law to Him as He prays this prayer.

Acts 2

25 For David says concerning Him,
‘I saw YHVH always before My face,
for He is on My right hand, that I should not be moved.
26 Therefore My heart was glad, and My tongue rejoiced.
Moreover My flesh also will dwell in hope,
27 because You(the Father) will not leave My soul in Sheol,
neither will You allow Your Holy One to see decay.
28 You made known to Me the ways of life.
You will make Me full of gladness with Your presence.’

Acts 3 (Peter speaking after healing the lame man)

12 When Peter saw it, he responded to the people, “You men of Israel, why do you marvel at this man? Why do you fasten your eyes on us, as though by our own power or godliness we had made him walk? 13 The EL of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, the EL of our fathers, has glorified His Servant Yeshua, Whom you delivered up and denied in the presence of Pilate, when he had determined to release Him. 14 But you denied the Holy and Righteous One and asked for a murderer to be granted to you, 15 and killed the Prince of life, Whom YAH raised from the dead, to which we are witnesses. 16 By faith in His Name, His Name has made this man strong, whom you see and know. Yes, the faith which is through Him has given him this perfect soundness in the presence of you all.
17 “Now, brothers, I know that you did this in ignorance, as did also your rulers. 18 But the things which YAH announced by the mouth of all His prophets, that Messiah should suffer, He thus fulfilled.
19 “Repent therefore, and turn again, that your sins may be blotted out, so that there may come times of refreshing from the presence of the Adonai, 20 and that He may send Messiah Yeshua, Who was ordained for you before, 21 Whom heaven must receive until the times of restoration of all things, which YAH spoke long ago by the mouth of His holy prophets. 22 For Moses indeed said to the fathers, ‘YHVH thy Elohim will raise up a Prophet for you from among your brothers, like me. You shall listen to Him in all things whatever He says to you. 23 It will be that every soul that will not listen to that Prophet will be utterly destroyed from among the people.’* 24 Yes, and all the prophets from Samuel and those who followed after, as many as have spoken, also told of these days. 25 You are the children of the prophets, and of the covenant which YAH made with our fathers, saying to Abraham, ‘All the families of the earth will be blessed through your Offspring.’ 26 YAH, having raised up His Servant Yeshua, sent Him to you first to bless you, in turning away every one of you from your wickedness.”

Critics a long long time ago came up with the theory that Jesus only swooned on the cross. That the cool of the tomb revived Jesus and He could appear alive to others later.

This theory is completely flawed..

1) The way the Romans executed people on the cross was brutal and most people would die before being put on the cross from the beatings and blood loss.

2) The account of the Roman soldier stabbing him in the side.. and blood and water coming out. This is a medical condition called pericardal effusion.. where liquid has built up in the lungs and mixed with blood. It is from the exhausting process of having to lift your whole body up on the cross to breathe.

So.. let's just say.. against all odds.. Jesus survives the beatings and cross experience. (Already being illogical)

Then.. bruised, beaten, bloody.. near death.. He is wrapped in swaddling cloth in the tomb.. that would have constricted His breathing and He would have died from suffocation if there was any life left in Him.

So.. let's just say.. against all odds.. Jesus survives the cloth.. somehow. Even though barely able to breathe, bloodied and bruised. (Being completely outlandish)

Now He is somehow supposed to have rolled away the stone of the tomb.

So let's just say.. against everything logical and all reason.. He moves the stone away.. even though mostly dead. (This is ridiculous)

Now He has to get past the Roman guards assigned to protect the tomb.

So let's just say.. impossibly.. He gets passed the guards.

How.. is He going to convince the disciples He is the risen Lord, in this beaten, bloodied, exhausted, broken, mostly dead state?

op: He's Alive!

"Because He Lives, I can face..." ( today, And ) "...tomorrow..." ♫ 😇 ↑

pending God's Great GRACE Departure!

Amen.

Were you there when He rose frooooom..

Frooom the graaaaaaave!

Weeere yooou theeeeeere?!

Selah