The Photo-Drama of Creation - The Herald

"Quickened in Spirit"
Because still natural men, the disciples could not
comprehend spiritual things--until Pentecost. It was
necessary, therefore, that Jesus' resurrection should be
humanly demonstrated. Only believers could receive the
Pentecostal
illumination. They must believe, and know also that
He is no longer a man, but again a spirit being.
The third day after Calvary the women who carried embalming
spices found the sepulchre empty. Mary met Jesus,
but knew Him not, for He appeared as a gardener. Jesus
revealed Himself by His voice. He said, "I have not yet
ascended to My Father and your Father, to My God and your
God." The news spread. St. Peter and St. John were
amazed, and both ran to the sepulchre. They saw nothing
but the vacant tomb and the folded clothes.
Later the same day, two of them journeyed to Emmaus.
They were conversing eagerly when Jesus, in another form,
unrecognized by them, joined them. He quietly explained to
them the types and prophecies which foretold Jesus' death as
man's Redeemer, saying, "Thus it behooved Messiah to suffer
and to enter into His glory." Telling the experience afterward
they said, "Did not our hearts burn within us as He
talked with us by the way and opened unto us the Scriptures?"
At their evening meal, He revealed Himself, and vanished.
The same evening many of them were gathered in the upper
room discussing the remarkable events of the day, the doors
being shut, yea, bolted, for fear of the Jews. Suddenly while
the doors were still shut, Jesus appeared in their midst, still
differently. This time He appeared like His former self.
Even this affrighted them, though He told them that what
they saw was flesh and blood, and proved it by eating. He
was no longer the fleshly Jesus; in His resurrection He returned
to the spirit condition. (1 Corinthians 15:44.) But,
He had power to materialize, as the holy angels (and Himself,
before made flesh) had done.
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