Matt. 28: 5-8 (KJV)
5 And the angel answered and said unto the women, Fear not ye: for I know that ye seek Jesus, which was crucified.
6 He is not here: for he is risen, as he said. Come, see the place where the Lord lay.
7 And go quickly, and tell his disciples that he is risen from the dead; and, behold, he goeth before you into Galilee; there shall ye see him: lo, I have told you.
8 And they departed quickly from the sepulchre with fear and great joy; and did run to bring his disciples word.
28:2 The stone was rolled away, not that Jesus might escape, but that witnesses might see the evidence of an empty tomb.
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He arose upon the
first day of the week: on the first day of the first week
God commanded the light to shine out of darkness; on this day therefore did he
who was to be the Light of the world, shine out of the darkness of the
grave; and the seventh-day Sabbath being buried with Christ, it arose again in
the first-day Sabbath, called the Lord’s day (Rev. 1:10), and no other
day of the week is from henceforward mentioned in all the New Testament than
this, and this often, as the day which Christians religiously observed in
solemn assemblies, to the honor of Christ, John 20:19, 26; Acts 20:7; 1 Cor.
16:2. If the deliverance of Israel out of the land of the north superseded
the remembrance of that out of Egypt (Jer. 23:7, 8), much more doth our
redemption by Christ eclipse the glory of God’s former works. The Sabbath was
instituted in remembrance of the perfecting of the work of creation, Gen.
2:1.
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Man by his revolt
made a breach upon that perfect work, which was never perfectly repaired till
Christ arose from the dead, and the heavens and the earth were again finished,
and the disordered hosts of them modelled anew, and the day on which this was
done was justly blessed and sanctified, and the seventh day from that. He who
on that day arose from the dead, is the same by whom, and for whom, all things
were at first created, and now anew created.
In Christ,
Janet
Irene Thomas
Playwright/Director/Screen
Writer/Producer/Lyricist
Founder/CEO
Bible
Stories Theatre of
Fine
& Performing Arts
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