Beautiful! Thank you David. I’m not much into symbolism but, when I viewed your blog this morning, I was struck with the symbolism of it all. You people were there at sunrise to greet the risen Lord, the same time as the first of His followers visited the sepulchre. You were honoring Jesus by remembering Him according to His instructions; they were there to honor Him by their intention/preparations to prepare His body for proper burial.
You saw the sun beginning to rise to dispel the darkness; their first hint of His resurrection was the empty tomb – the first ray of the light which would dispel the darkness of their grief.
Just as the glory of the sunrise spread farther and farther across the sky, the glory of Jesus’ resurrection spread as He revealed Himself to more and more of His followers, revealing personally to them the truth of His resurrection.
As the sun continued to rise, it became so brilliant that no one could gaze upon it. When Jesus returned to Heaven, He took up again the glory that had been His from the beginning but which He had put off in order to put on humanity. Human eyes cannot gaze upon the brightness of that glory but, because of His death, resurrection and ascension, one day we shall see him face to face. Hallelujah!
Jesus is risen! The Christian idea of resurrection is distinctive; we believe in the bodily resurrection of our Lord. The Greeks believed in the immortality of the soul, while the Jews looked for the body to be raised (but they thought it would be exactly the same body). We believe in the transformed, resurrected body suitable for the life of the age to come (I Corinthians 15:42-54). Hallelujah!
Wow, that sunrise is amazing
He is risen indeed!
Beautiful! Thank you David. I’m not much into symbolism but, when I viewed your blog this morning, I was struck with the symbolism of it all. You people were there at sunrise to greet the risen Lord, the same time as the first of His followers visited the sepulchre. You were honoring Jesus by remembering Him according to His instructions; they were there to honor Him by their intention/preparations to prepare His body for proper burial.
You saw the sun beginning to rise to dispel the darkness; their first hint of His resurrection was the empty tomb – the first ray of the light which would dispel the darkness of their grief.
Just as the glory of the sunrise spread farther and farther across the sky, the glory of Jesus’ resurrection spread as He revealed Himself to more and more of His followers, revealing personally to them the truth of His resurrection.
As the sun continued to rise, it became so brilliant that no one could gaze upon it. When Jesus returned to Heaven, He took up again the glory that had been His from the beginning but which He had put off in order to put on humanity. Human eyes cannot gaze upon the brightness of that glory but, because of His death, resurrection and ascension, one day we shall see him face to face. Hallelujah!
Hallelujah, indeed. Again I say Hallelujah!
Jesus is risen! The Christian idea of resurrection is distinctive; we believe in the bodily resurrection of our Lord. The Greeks believed in the immortality of the soul, while the Jews looked for the body to be raised (but they thought it would be exactly the same body). We believe in the transformed, resurrected body suitable for the life of the age to come (I Corinthians 15:42-54). Hallelujah!