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Bible Trilogy III – Part 1

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Lift up your heads, O gates, and be lifted up, O ancient doors, that the King of glory may come in! [Psalm 24:7]

Today we begin the third portion of our Bible Trilogy. The first portion came from Psalm 22 and had to do with the crucifixion of the Lord Jesus. The second portion came from Psalm 23 and had to do with the burial of the Lord Jesus. The third portion, as can be gathered by the Bible quotation above, comes from Psalm 24 and has to do with the resurrection of the Lord Jesus.

We noted in the first portion that three events mark the Gospel:

Jesus’ crucifixion
Jesus’ burial
Jesus’ resurrection

We direct you to 1 Corinthians 15:3-4 for Biblical affirmation of this truth. Those three events comprise the three portions of our Bible Trilogy. The three psalms (22, 23, and 24) prophetically present the death, burial, and resurrection of the Lord Jesus Christ.

On the cross just prior to surrendering His spirit to the Father’s care and dying, Jesus cried aloud, “My God, My God, why have You forsaken Me?” Then He was placed in Joseph of Arimathea’s new tomb, with a humongous stone sealing the entrance. He remained there for three days.

On the first day of the week before sunrise, the humongous stone was rolled away. No, Jesus’ disciples didn’t do it. Neither did the Roman soldiers do it. And the Jewish authorities certainly didn’t do it. They paid the Roman soldiers to claim they did it, so the truth of Jesus’ resurrection wouldn’t get out into public circulation.

In fact the stone wasn’t even rolled away from the entrance of the tomb so Jesus could get out. It was rolled away so man could get in. Man needed to enter the tomb in order to discover that the body of the Lord Jesus was no longer there!

The person who rolled away the stone was an angel of the Lord (cf., Matthew 28:2). He descended from heaven, rolled the stone away from the entrance, and then sat on the stone! According to the account in Matthew 28, when the angel moved the stone an earthquake occurred. That, and the angel’s brilliant appearance, sent the Roman soldiers scampering like roaches when the lights come on!

God sent the angel to roll away the stone, you see, as a witness of the resurrection. So long as the stone blocked the entrance, no one would know that the body of Jesus was no longer in the tomb.

The import of this information is vital. We will explain how so in our next study. For now let’s spend time alone with Jesus.

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