THE RESURRECTION OF OUR LORD

Waiapu Church Gazette, Volume 31, Issue 1, 1 March 1940, Page 7

THE RESURRECTION OF OUR LORD

Victory Setting us Free On Good Friday evening our Lord's Body had been laid m the cave, which was Joseph's . tomb; there it lay all the Sabbath (Saturday), the soldiers keeping guard outside. No one came near, for. they might not, on the Sabbath. ;.' But very early next day, m the grey dawn, came two women, bringing sweet spices. The sun was just rising as they reached the tomb. Arid, brighter than the sun, more like a flash of lightning, came an Angel, and rolled away the stone from' the opening. ■ ; -: ; 1" He. called the women to come near and look m; they looked— the tomb was empty. For, m the stillness of the night the Great Conqueror had risen. "He is risen, as He said," said the Angel. "Go, tell His disciples." The women ran with their glorious riews, full of awe and joy. And as they went, the Risen Lord met them m His new glory and beauty* saying: "All Hail!" And they c f ame and fell at His feet and worshipped Him. Our Lord had always said that He would rise, again, on ."the ijhird day." Arid Sunday was the '"tiiird^ d£ty" m the way Jews always counted, i.e., counting Friday as a whole day. Yet the disciples do not seem to have believed that He really would: at first they would not believe that He really had. But when they saw ; for themselves, then they had to believe, and at last they saw that He must be God indeed. ;