WEBVTT - Hour 2: The Resurrection Appearances of Jesus Christ 0:00:07.880 --> 0:00:10.520 Hello friends. It's time for the second hour of Open 0:00:10.520 --> 0:00:13.760 Line with Doctor Michael Redlich. I'm Michael Redlich, professor of 0:00:13.760 --> 0:00:17.200 Jewish studies and Bible at Moody Bible Institute, and I'm 0:00:17.200 --> 0:00:19.400 coming to you from the Moody Radio Studios at Moody 0:00:19.400 --> 0:00:23.560 Bible Institute in downtown Chicago. Although normally you call with 0:00:23.560 --> 0:00:26.920 your questions about the Bible, God, and the spiritual life, 0:00:26.920 --> 0:00:30.040 that's not what we're going to do today. Instead, there 0:00:30.040 --> 0:00:32.760 will be a conversation, a little Bible study, if you will, 0:00:32.800 --> 0:00:37.040 between me and my good friend, Doctor Michael Van Laningham, 0:00:37.040 --> 0:00:40.120 the smartest guy about the New Testament that I know. 0:00:40.760 --> 0:00:43.600 He always waves his hand off when I say that. Specifically, 0:00:43.960 --> 0:00:47.120 we are going to talk about the New Testament records 0:00:47.120 --> 0:00:51.639 about the resurrection of the Lord Jesus. Obviously, tomorrow is 0:00:51.640 --> 0:00:56.000 Resurrection Sunday, and people are always talking about the resurrection 0:00:56.000 --> 0:00:58.680 appearances as they are recorded in the Gospels and even 0:00:58.680 --> 0:01:02.340 as they're mentioned in the epistles. And so we're going 0:01:02.380 --> 0:01:04.140 to talk about those. And not only will we talk 0:01:04.140 --> 0:01:06.140 about how to work them all together, but we are 0:01:06.140 --> 0:01:10.380 going to talk about how important and significant they are. 0:01:11.260 --> 0:01:13.700 You can still keep in touch with online via our 0:01:13.700 --> 0:01:19.100 website openline. Radio.com. That's Openline radio.org. You can go there. 0:01:19.100 --> 0:01:21.620 There's links there for anything you might need. If you 0:01:21.620 --> 0:01:24.420 want to send an email, if you want to send 0:01:24.459 --> 0:01:26.459 a message on Facebook, you can do that, but no 0:01:26.459 --> 0:01:29.340 calls today. Just write to us if you like. I 0:01:29.380 --> 0:01:31.420 hope you have your Bibles open. I hope you have 0:01:31.420 --> 0:01:34.620 a second cup of coffee because we're ready to talk 0:01:34.660 --> 0:01:38.100 about the scriptures. Okay, Michael, thank you for coming in 0:01:38.140 --> 0:01:39.100 to talk about this. 0:01:39.140 --> 0:01:41.860 My pleasure. Michael. It's always good to see you and 0:01:41.860 --> 0:01:43.979 to be able to do this and to talk about 0:01:43.980 --> 0:01:46.339 the resurrection Easter. That's pretty cool. 0:01:46.380 --> 0:01:50.100 Yeah, I think that that's, uh, the most important issue 0:01:50.260 --> 0:01:53.700 that we have. You know, I've often said this, that 0:01:53.740 --> 0:01:57.940 there are about 20,000 Jewish men who were crucified by 0:01:57.940 --> 0:02:02.040 the Romans. If Jesus were not raised from the dead, 0:02:02.400 --> 0:02:05.600 he'd be just one of them, right? But the resurrection 0:02:05.600 --> 0:02:08.480 is what makes it all different. And one of my 0:02:08.520 --> 0:02:13.280 key frustrations here is I often hear people share the gospel, 0:02:13.280 --> 0:02:16.280 and I'm grateful, by the way, that people share the gospel. 0:02:16.840 --> 0:02:22.680 And I hear advertisements on various Christian radio networks, you know, 0:02:22.720 --> 0:02:27.400 promoting proclaiming the gospel. And sometimes, sadly, they will talk 0:02:27.400 --> 0:02:30.480 all about how Jesus died for us and never mentioned 0:02:30.520 --> 0:02:31.440 the resurrection. 0:02:31.440 --> 0:02:34.200 And and it's interesting in the book of acts, there are, 0:02:34.240 --> 0:02:38.480 I think, five different occasions where Christian evangelists or apostles 0:02:38.680 --> 0:02:42.919 are witnessing to unbelievers. And if my memory serves me correctly, 0:02:42.919 --> 0:02:47.920 on every single occasion, those evangelists refer to the resurrection. 0:02:47.919 --> 0:02:50.680 We don't normally do that, but they did. And I 0:02:50.680 --> 0:02:52.239 think that's instructive for us. 0:02:52.280 --> 0:02:55.040 Yeah, I've noticed, uh, back in the day when I 0:02:55.040 --> 0:02:59.180 was doing my doctoral dissertation Anyway, I did some research 0:02:59.220 --> 0:03:02.740 on how the book of acts proclaimed the gospel, and 0:03:02.740 --> 0:03:05.580 there were two essential methods that they used in the 0:03:05.580 --> 0:03:10.380 book of acts. One was through using messianic prophecy. That 0:03:10.380 --> 0:03:13.739 was one evidence that they used the evidence of messianic prophecy. 0:03:13.740 --> 0:03:16.660 And the second evidence was the fact of the resurrection 0:03:16.980 --> 0:03:19.419 that Jesus has raised from the dead was most crucial. 0:03:19.740 --> 0:03:22.300 So anyway, we're going to look at some of the 0:03:22.300 --> 0:03:24.340 resurrection appearances. And the reason why I think this is 0:03:24.340 --> 0:03:26.980 so important is one of the main questions I get 0:03:26.980 --> 0:03:32.139 throughout the year is people trying to harmonize the Gospels 0:03:32.139 --> 0:03:36.940 and harmonize how everything fit together. Bible chronology. It's really 0:03:36.940 --> 0:03:40.420 not my strong suit, but people say, well, you know, 0:03:40.460 --> 0:03:42.980 you have this gospel and it contradicts that gospel, and 0:03:43.020 --> 0:03:46.260 I don't think they contradict, I think they complement. And 0:03:46.420 --> 0:03:50.900 so often we've got these resurrection appearances and frequently people 0:03:50.900 --> 0:03:52.660 will call with questions about that. So what I want 0:03:52.700 --> 0:03:55.510 to do, if we can is kind of work our 0:03:55.510 --> 0:03:59.990 way through what the gospels say and harmonize them. Show 0:03:59.990 --> 0:04:04.190 how they fit together in terms of how the resurrection happened. Now, 0:04:04.190 --> 0:04:06.870 here's what's really important is I think each writer wrote 0:04:06.870 --> 0:04:09.630 from their own perspective. They didn't necessarily feel like they 0:04:09.630 --> 0:04:10.950 had to put all the facts in. They were just 0:04:10.950 --> 0:04:14.150 putting the facts in that fit with their message. On 0:04:14.150 --> 0:04:16.950 the other hand, they didn't contradict each other. What they 0:04:16.950 --> 0:04:20.589 do is they actually complement each other. So okay, so 0:04:20.630 --> 0:04:24.230 let's begin. What's the first step in the whole story 0:04:24.230 --> 0:04:25.429 about the resurrection? 0:04:26.190 --> 0:04:30.590 Well, it's, um, the the tomb being opened and the 0:04:30.589 --> 0:04:33.589 body being apparent that it's gone. Mhm. 0:04:33.870 --> 0:04:35.870 Yeah. That's I guess you could look at that in 0:04:35.870 --> 0:04:38.789 a variety of places in Mark 16, Luke 24, I 0:04:38.790 --> 0:04:42.190 want to look at Matthew 28. And the reason why 0:04:42.190 --> 0:04:46.110 I think that's interesting in Matthew is he doesn't really 0:04:46.110 --> 0:04:47.710 put it in chronological order. 0:04:48.230 --> 0:04:48.750 Right. 0:04:49.390 --> 0:04:55.610 He starts with, uh, verse One, he says, after the Sabbath, 0:04:55.610 --> 0:04:57.849 on the first day of the week was dawning, Mary 0:04:57.890 --> 0:05:00.410 Magdalene and the other Mary went to view the tomb. 0:05:01.010 --> 0:05:03.290 And then it says, suddenly there was a violent earthquake. Now, 0:05:03.290 --> 0:05:05.770 I think the earthquake happened just before they got to 0:05:05.770 --> 0:05:10.250 the tomb, right? But but nevertheless, uh, and the other 0:05:10.250 --> 0:05:12.610 gospels all show it that way. So that's one of 0:05:12.610 --> 0:05:15.970 the first contradictions that people often point out, that if 0:05:15.970 --> 0:05:18.130 you look at the other gospels. Is that right? Is 0:05:18.130 --> 0:05:18.850 that how they do it? 0:05:18.850 --> 0:05:20.850 That is exactly how they do it, right? 0:05:20.890 --> 0:05:23.970 So how do we justify that verse one and verse 0:05:23.970 --> 0:05:26.450 two being sort of out of order? 0:05:26.810 --> 0:05:29.370 I you know, I'm not quite sure actually, Michael, it 0:05:29.370 --> 0:05:32.250 is interesting. I think there's some other things as well, um, 0:05:32.250 --> 0:05:37.049 where you've got people being referred to as being resurrected, 0:05:37.089 --> 0:05:40.610 brought out of the tombs, um, earthquakes taking place. But 0:05:40.610 --> 0:05:44.409 that's actually after the resurrection. But it's included in Matthew 0:05:44.410 --> 0:05:48.690 27 before, before narrative account. And I think that's being done. 0:05:48.690 --> 0:05:52.790 So it's a not interrupt the actual, uh, reference to 0:05:52.830 --> 0:05:56.310 the resurrection of Jesus. They don't. Matthew doesn't want to 0:05:56.310 --> 0:05:59.630 interject that with other things. And so it seems to 0:05:59.630 --> 0:06:02.870 me that, um, it's very it's quite possible, I think, 0:06:02.870 --> 0:06:07.109 in verse one that Mary is coming to look at 0:06:07.110 --> 0:06:11.110 the tomb. Mary. Um, both Mary Magdalene and Mary, the 0:06:11.110 --> 0:06:15.670 mother of James, and, um, and Salome, actually, from another 0:06:15.670 --> 0:06:19.750 passage come. And perhaps it's while they're coming that this 0:06:19.750 --> 0:06:22.070 earthquake happens. But I don't think we have a contradiction. 0:06:22.070 --> 0:06:24.070 I don't think it's a contradiction. I think that's exactly it, 0:06:24.070 --> 0:06:26.110 the way Matthew's telling it is. This is why they're 0:06:26.150 --> 0:06:28.430 on their way. They're going to do this. And then 0:06:28.630 --> 0:06:33.270 the resurrection happens and they get there. Right. And and 0:06:33.270 --> 0:06:35.510 what do they see there? I think that's so cool. 0:06:36.790 --> 0:06:40.910 They see, uh, it says there was an angel of 0:06:40.910 --> 0:06:43.510 the Lord descended from heaven and approached the tomb. He 0:06:43.510 --> 0:06:47.270 rolled back the stone and was sitting on it. I 0:06:47.270 --> 0:06:51.330 just can't fathom what that would have been We'd like 0:06:51.370 --> 0:06:54.450 to see him kind of nonchalantly sitting on the Rollaway stone, 0:06:54.490 --> 0:06:56.570 don't you think? What a great image. 0:06:56.610 --> 0:06:59.250 Yeah, it's it's something to think about. I've heard all 0:06:59.290 --> 0:07:01.409 the also, by the way, that there are scholars who 0:07:01.410 --> 0:07:05.290 maintain that the verb rolled away doesn't really mean rolled away. 0:07:05.290 --> 0:07:07.969 It means moved away, and that the stone may have 0:07:07.970 --> 0:07:11.890 actually been a fairly large square stone with perhaps a 0:07:11.890 --> 0:07:16.130 couple of those stuck into the opening. And so rather 0:07:16.130 --> 0:07:19.810 than have the angels sit on a stone laying almost 0:07:19.810 --> 0:07:22.210 flat on the ground, which would be sort of awkward, 0:07:22.250 --> 0:07:25.330 he's actually sitting on the stone as if it's more 0:07:25.330 --> 0:07:29.610 of a cube bench like thing. It doesn't. It doesn't 0:07:29.610 --> 0:07:31.970 really matter. It doesn't really matter at all. But he's there. 0:07:31.970 --> 0:07:34.130 And can you imagine the reaction of the women? 0:07:34.170 --> 0:07:36.570 Yeah. And his appearance was like lightning and his robe 0:07:36.570 --> 0:07:40.370 was white as snow. And the guards, these tough Roman guards, 0:07:40.370 --> 0:07:44.370 they're so frightened that they. They became like dead men. Right? Yeah. 0:07:44.410 --> 0:07:46.810 So it is. But that's not an appearance of the Messiah. 0:07:46.810 --> 0:07:48.810 That's just an appearance of an angel. Right. And an 0:07:48.810 --> 0:07:54.510 empty tomb. And so they visit the tomb and they 0:07:54.510 --> 0:07:59.190 discover that he is missing. And where do we go 0:07:59.190 --> 0:08:00.790 from there? What's the next step? 0:08:00.990 --> 0:08:05.710 Well, I find it interesting that, um. What what the 0:08:05.710 --> 0:08:10.070 angel tells them. It's really interesting in in Matthew 28. 0:08:10.470 --> 0:08:15.550 You've got people being told to tell others about this. Yeah. 0:08:15.590 --> 0:08:18.710 In verse seven, the angel says, go quickly. Tell his 0:08:18.710 --> 0:08:22.150 disciples he's risen from the dead. Then look at verse ten. 0:08:22.870 --> 0:08:26.710 He says, Then Jesus appears. Right. Yeah. Uh, then Jesus 0:08:26.710 --> 0:08:29.750 said to them, do not be afraid. Go and take 0:08:29.790 --> 0:08:32.310 a word to my brethren to leave for Galilee. And 0:08:32.309 --> 0:08:36.870 there they will see me. And uh, in verse 15, 0:08:38.110 --> 0:08:42.510 even the soldiers tell people of something that gives a 0:08:42.510 --> 0:08:47.150 sort of a backward, a back door argument supporting the 0:08:47.150 --> 0:08:50.490 resurrection that the body's been stolen. And so they're going 0:08:50.530 --> 0:08:53.290 to tell people that. And then in verse 19, of course, 0:08:53.290 --> 0:08:58.449 in the, in the um, in the Great Commission, you know, go, uh, 0:08:58.570 --> 0:09:02.010 tell them. Yeah, teach them everything. So. 0:09:02.330 --> 0:09:05.050 Well, anyway. Right, right from the beginning, even before the 0:09:05.090 --> 0:09:08.449 resurrection appearance. Right there from the angel. Right. There's the 0:09:08.450 --> 0:09:13.930 the announcement or the the command to go tell. Right. 0:09:13.970 --> 0:09:14.970 Go tell the disciples. 0:09:15.010 --> 0:09:16.929 That's I think this is one of the emphases in 0:09:16.929 --> 0:09:19.770 Matthew is that they need to go. They need to tell. 0:09:20.130 --> 0:09:22.050 And I think the implication for us is we ought 0:09:22.050 --> 0:09:22.850 to be doing the same. 0:09:22.890 --> 0:09:25.650 Yeah, yeah. That's the I think that that's one of 0:09:25.650 --> 0:09:28.970 the more interesting things that we are really compelled to 0:09:29.010 --> 0:09:33.770 proclaim this. Uh, it's my wife's favorite verse. Just so 0:09:33.770 --> 0:09:37.050 you know, yours is Romans 828. I've heard you say 0:09:37.050 --> 0:09:41.250 that so many times. Uh, but my wife's favorite verse, interestingly, 0:09:41.250 --> 0:09:46.250 is second Timothy two eight. And, uh, it's because, uh, 0:09:46.250 --> 0:09:49.870 she loves that Jesus is the king. Yeah. That he's 0:09:49.870 --> 0:09:52.470 fully human. And the king. And the resurrection. She loves 0:09:52.470 --> 0:09:55.350 that because it proves he's God. And, uh. And so 0:09:55.350 --> 0:09:58.790 she's she loves second Timothy two eight. Uh, keep your 0:09:58.790 --> 0:10:03.150 attention on Jesus, the Messiah, risen from the dead, descended 0:10:03.150 --> 0:10:07.150 from David. And, uh, and that's what that ought to be. 0:10:07.150 --> 0:10:10.950 Our message. Yeah. Uh, then, because Paul goes on to say, 0:10:11.110 --> 0:10:14.670 according to my gospel. Right. Uh, this is the good news. 0:10:14.670 --> 0:10:18.030 Jesus is not just someone who died for us. He's 0:10:18.030 --> 0:10:20.950 raised from the dead, proves he's God. So anyway, we're 0:10:20.950 --> 0:10:23.310 going to talk about harmonizing some of the other appearances 0:10:23.510 --> 0:10:25.670 in just a moment. And we're going to work our 0:10:25.670 --> 0:10:28.710 way through all these resurrection appearances. Really appreciate those comments 0:10:28.710 --> 0:10:34.390 on Matthew 28. You're listening to a special resurrection focused 0:10:34.390 --> 0:10:38.190 open line on Moody Radio's Bible Study Across America. 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Just go to our website, 0:11:22.920 --> 0:11:36.200 online radio.org or call (886) 447-1222. Welcome back to Open Line 0:11:36.200 --> 0:11:38.120 with Doctor Michael Redlick. If you want to know a 0:11:38.120 --> 0:11:39.960 little bit more about me, you can head over to 0:11:40.000 --> 0:11:43.480 my own personal web page. You can go to openlibrary.org. 0:11:43.520 --> 0:11:45.860 That's the open line web page. Scroll down and you'll 0:11:45.860 --> 0:11:48.100 see a link with my smiling face, and you can 0:11:48.100 --> 0:11:49.740 click on that and it will take you to my 0:11:49.740 --> 0:11:53.460 personal homepage. And there's that page has links to books 0:11:53.460 --> 0:11:57.460 I've written, DVDs, I've done, speaking engagements, my blog, even 0:11:57.460 --> 0:12:00.179 a link to trips to Israel. If you're interested, you 0:12:00.179 --> 0:12:03.940 can go over there. Uh, this morning I am talking 0:12:03.940 --> 0:12:08.180 with my guest, uh, Doctor Michael Van Laningham, the other Michael, 0:12:08.260 --> 0:12:11.540 as some people call him. Uh, my colleague here at 0:12:11.540 --> 0:12:14.380 Moody Bible Institute and also the co-editor of the Moody 0:12:14.380 --> 0:12:18.579 Bible Commentary. And we are talking about the resurrection appearances 0:12:18.580 --> 0:12:21.020 because people think you can't make heads or tails out 0:12:21.020 --> 0:12:23.140 of all the New Testament comments about it. And I 0:12:23.140 --> 0:12:26.740 think we can. We've already talked about the the stone 0:12:27.500 --> 0:12:30.100 being moved away and an angel telling the women to 0:12:30.140 --> 0:12:34.020 go tell, uh, what next happens really is that one 0:12:34.020 --> 0:12:35.300 of the women goes to tell. 0:12:35.860 --> 0:12:39.939 Yeah in in John 20 and verse two it says, uh, 0:12:39.940 --> 0:12:43.760 she and that's uh, Mary Magdalene Eggeling ran and came 0:12:43.760 --> 0:12:46.439 to Simon Peter and to the other disciple I'm reading now. 0:12:46.720 --> 0:12:48.680 She ran and came to Simon Peter, and to the 0:12:48.679 --> 0:12:51.360 other disciple whom Jesus loved, and said to them, they've 0:12:51.400 --> 0:12:53.840 taken away the Lord out of the tomb, and we 0:12:53.840 --> 0:12:57.000 do not know where they have laid him. That follows 0:12:57.000 --> 0:13:00.640 from verse one, where she comes to the tomb early, 0:13:00.640 --> 0:13:03.040 when it was dark and found the stone had already 0:13:03.040 --> 0:13:05.520 been taken away from the tomb. So she goes and tells. 0:13:05.679 --> 0:13:07.880 She didn't wait for the angel to say what he 0:13:07.880 --> 0:13:12.960 said to Salome and to the other Mary. She just 0:13:12.960 --> 0:13:14.679 turns around and heads out, I don't know where the 0:13:14.679 --> 0:13:17.720 body is. I don't know where it is exactly. And but, 0:13:17.760 --> 0:13:19.360 you know, I think it's interesting that she goes to 0:13:19.400 --> 0:13:22.240 the one that she thought could help her. So she 0:13:22.240 --> 0:13:25.760 tells Peter and John. Right. And of course, what do 0:13:25.800 --> 0:13:26.679 Peter and John do? 0:13:28.160 --> 0:13:32.480 Well, um, they run to the tomb. Yeah. Yeah. Um, 0:13:32.480 --> 0:13:36.160 you know, before that, though, in, in, uh, Matthew 28, 0:13:36.160 --> 0:13:39.200 5 to 7, Mary, the mother of James and Salome 0:13:39.240 --> 0:13:40.560 saw an angel. Yeah. 0:13:40.700 --> 0:13:42.260 Inside the tube. Yeah. 0:13:42.780 --> 0:13:45.420 Who announced the resurrection? Directed the women to tell the 0:13:45.420 --> 0:13:50.340 disciples that Jesus would meet them in Galilee. Um, again, 0:13:50.340 --> 0:13:54.460 Matthew 28 5 to 7, where the angel says, let 0:13:54.460 --> 0:13:56.420 him go to Galilee. They'll see Jesus there. 0:13:56.460 --> 0:13:59.380 Now, here's an interesting question someone asked me last week, 0:13:59.580 --> 0:14:03.020 they said was the first appearance of the Lord Jesus, 0:14:03.020 --> 0:14:05.780 because he says he'll meet them in Galilee was the 0:14:05.780 --> 0:14:09.420 first appearance to the apostles in Galilee. It wasn't. Uh, 0:14:10.140 --> 0:14:12.260 I think they should have gone right away, but apparently 0:14:12.260 --> 0:14:13.060 they delayed. 0:14:13.100 --> 0:14:13.580 Right. 0:14:14.020 --> 0:14:16.780 And so twice he tells them to to meet them. 0:14:17.100 --> 0:14:20.500 The angel tells them, and the Lord Jesus, uh, announces 0:14:20.500 --> 0:14:22.740 that he'll meet them in Galilee. But they don't go. 0:14:22.780 --> 0:14:25.700 They stay in Jerusalem for a few days, and apparently 0:14:25.700 --> 0:14:29.380 they were planning on going. Uh, what do you. Is 0:14:29.380 --> 0:14:30.540 that how you resolve that? 0:14:31.380 --> 0:14:35.220 Um, it. Yeah, I would say that that's probably the 0:14:35.220 --> 0:14:39.880 best explanation as to as to why that is the case. Um, because. 0:14:39.880 --> 0:14:41.640 He appears to them in Jerusalem before he appears. 0:14:41.640 --> 0:14:44.760 To them. He does. And so, um, I don't know 0:14:44.760 --> 0:14:49.040 that they're being disobedient. There may have been confusion, understandable confusion, 0:14:49.040 --> 0:14:51.920 but for whatever reason they delay. And he appears to 0:14:51.920 --> 0:14:53.200 them before Galilee. 0:14:53.240 --> 0:15:00.200 Yeah. He does. Uh, so they they make their way, uh, to, uh, 0:15:00.600 --> 0:15:05.040 to the disciples. They talk about this, uh, and what 0:15:05.040 --> 0:15:07.880 does it say? Uh, that they left the tomb quickly 0:15:07.880 --> 0:15:10.440 with fear and great joy. This is Matthew 28 A 0:15:10.440 --> 0:15:13.080 and ran to report to his disciples what the angel 0:15:13.080 --> 0:15:17.240 had told them that he was risen. Um. And now 0:15:17.280 --> 0:15:20.800 other women appear. Is that what happens next? 0:15:20.840 --> 0:15:25.400 Right? Um. Joanna, um, one of the women from Galilee 0:15:25.960 --> 0:15:29.720 arrives at the tomb carrying oil, perfumed oil, to anoint 0:15:29.720 --> 0:15:35.800 the body of Jesus. And, um, a they the other 0:15:35.800 --> 0:15:39.780 women from Galilee and Joanna meet two men. Apparently they're angels, 0:15:39.780 --> 0:15:43.340 according to Luke 24, verse four and 23. And then 0:15:43.340 --> 0:15:46.820 they returned to report the angel's message of the resurrection 0:15:46.820 --> 0:15:49.660 to the 11 and to all the rest. And we 0:15:49.700 --> 0:15:53.860 find that in Luke chapter 24, verses one through nine. Um, 0:15:53.900 --> 0:15:59.340 in Luke 24 2223, the disciples recap that episode, they say, 0:15:59.340 --> 0:16:02.860 but also some women among us amazed us when they 0:16:02.860 --> 0:16:04.460 were at the tomb early in the morning and did 0:16:04.460 --> 0:16:07.300 not find his body. They came saying they had also 0:16:07.300 --> 0:16:10.860 seen a vision of angels who said that he was alive. 0:16:11.020 --> 0:16:14.740 Yeah. Okay, so here's the question that people ask why 0:16:14.740 --> 0:16:17.420 do they want to anoint Jesus with perfumed oil? 0:16:17.460 --> 0:16:22.900 Yeah, they that's that's not for embalming. The Egyptians did embalming. 0:16:22.900 --> 0:16:26.900 The Jewish people didn't actually embalm the tombs that that 0:16:26.900 --> 0:16:29.220 rich people were buried in, because not everybody was buried 0:16:29.260 --> 0:16:33.380 in a tomb. Tombs were enormously expensive. Most people, when 0:16:33.380 --> 0:16:36.140 they died, were buried in the ground after being placed 0:16:36.140 --> 0:16:39.120 inside a shroud. But when the people were buried in 0:16:39.120 --> 0:16:42.880 a tomb, the tombs were not typically airtight. And so 0:16:42.880 --> 0:16:47.000 they were oftentimes anointed with these spices and these perfumed 0:16:47.000 --> 0:16:50.920 oils to cut the odors of decomposition, which would have 0:16:50.920 --> 0:16:54.480 been tremendously offensive. And so that's what they are doing. 0:16:54.520 --> 0:16:57.600 They're trying to take a step to honor the the 0:16:57.640 --> 0:17:01.360 body of Jesus in preparation for him being buried in 0:17:01.360 --> 0:17:01.920 a tomb. 0:17:02.320 --> 0:17:07.040 Yeah. And I think that's so interesting to me is that, uh, 0:17:07.280 --> 0:17:10.679 Mary in John 12, she's mentioned as one who anoints 0:17:10.720 --> 0:17:15.360 Jesus before his death. And it's in Matthew, I think 0:17:15.359 --> 0:17:19.080 it's about chapter 26. It talks there about how she 0:17:19.080 --> 0:17:22.440 anointed him in preparation for his burial. Right. With, with. 0:17:22.480 --> 0:17:24.399 And so I think it's interesting she's not one of 0:17:24.400 --> 0:17:27.840 the ones that shows up here. She anticipated this, and 0:17:27.840 --> 0:17:30.600 she wants to honor him even before he dies in 0:17:30.600 --> 0:17:33.240 this way. It's really interesting. But they do come and 0:17:33.240 --> 0:17:36.449 that's why they're doing this. And the other question that 0:17:37.170 --> 0:17:38.850 I'll tell you how I answer it, because I don't 0:17:38.850 --> 0:17:40.490 know the answer to all these things, but I can 0:17:40.530 --> 0:17:42.210 guess people want to know, well, how did they expect 0:17:42.210 --> 0:17:45.890 to move that that stone? I think they must have 0:17:45.930 --> 0:17:48.290 thought they'd get those soldiers to help or something like that. 0:17:48.410 --> 0:17:51.050 Could be. Or that maybe they would find others who 0:17:51.050 --> 0:17:52.969 would gather at the tomb as well, and altogether they 0:17:52.970 --> 0:17:55.570 would move the stone and then anoint his body. And 0:17:55.970 --> 0:17:56.770 who knows? 0:17:56.770 --> 0:17:59.290 I don't know, I just I just don't know. Uh, 0:17:59.410 --> 0:18:01.730 but they certainly thought that they could they could get 0:18:01.730 --> 0:18:06.730 in there and do that. So. Um, okay. Uh, so 0:18:06.770 --> 0:18:13.409 then the very next event that happens is that, uh, 0:18:14.410 --> 0:18:17.810 Peter and John run to the tomb, right? 0:18:18.050 --> 0:18:22.290 Um, when Mary Magdalene heads back to the city and 0:18:22.290 --> 0:18:25.410 she finds some of the other disciples, Peter and John here, 0:18:25.690 --> 0:18:28.250 and maybe some others as well. Hear what she has 0:18:28.250 --> 0:18:31.810 to say. And they run to the tomb. On the 0:18:31.810 --> 0:18:36.310 way they do not meet Mary and Salome. They, when 0:18:36.310 --> 0:18:39.109 they get to the tomb, they see the Graveclothes, and 0:18:39.109 --> 0:18:42.109 then they head back to the city themselves. It says 0:18:42.150 --> 0:18:46.070 in in Luke 2424, some of those who were with 0:18:46.070 --> 0:18:48.030 us went to the tomb and found it exactly as 0:18:48.030 --> 0:18:51.109 the women also had said, but him they did not see. 0:18:51.150 --> 0:18:55.950 And in Luke 2412, just before that it says, Peter 0:18:55.990 --> 0:18:58.590 got up and ran to the tomb. Stooping and looking in, 0:18:58.590 --> 0:19:01.510 he saw the linen wrappings only, and he went to 0:19:01.550 --> 0:19:04.149 his home, marveling at what had happened. 0:19:04.430 --> 0:19:07.870 Yeah, in the John passage that speaks about this, says 0:19:07.869 --> 0:19:11.710 they saw the linen linen wrappings lying there and there 0:19:11.710 --> 0:19:14.150 rolled up in a place by itself. And it's sort 0:19:14.150 --> 0:19:18.270 of tidy, folded, rolled up or folded up. And there's 0:19:18.270 --> 0:19:20.510 been a lot of speculation about this that I've been 0:19:20.510 --> 0:19:23.590 hearing on the internet about some a lot of people 0:19:23.590 --> 0:19:26.750 call with questions. What does the folded face cloth. 0:19:27.070 --> 0:19:28.110 The folded napkin. 0:19:28.150 --> 0:19:32.189 The folded napkin mean? And, uh, first of all, I 0:19:32.190 --> 0:19:35.369 think people make a mistake. They say this cultural background because, 0:19:35.410 --> 0:19:37.090 you know, with the internet, all sorts of wrong things 0:19:37.090 --> 0:19:37.810 can get out there. 0:19:37.850 --> 0:19:38.410 Oh, really? 0:19:38.450 --> 0:19:40.209 Oh, yeah. Ever heard of that? Oh, no. Yeah. 0:19:40.730 --> 0:19:42.210 I thought everything on the internet is true. 0:19:42.250 --> 0:19:44.969 Yeah. Well, no, this one isn't. At least know the 0:19:45.010 --> 0:19:49.250 cultural background that that people cite. As they say, when 0:19:49.250 --> 0:19:51.770 you go to a meal in a Jewish cultural home, 0:19:51.770 --> 0:19:54.890 first century, that if you still were coming back for more, 0:19:54.930 --> 0:19:57.489 that you folded your napkin. Otherwise you wrinkled it up 0:19:57.490 --> 0:19:58.170 and tossed it aside. 0:19:58.210 --> 0:19:59.330 Have you ever heard of that? 0:19:59.369 --> 0:20:01.570 No. It's nowhere in the. It's nowhere in Jewish culture. 0:20:01.609 --> 0:20:02.490 Nowhere in the Mishna. 0:20:02.530 --> 0:20:03.210 I mean, I don't. 0:20:03.210 --> 0:20:04.609 I don't know, a 10th of it as you do. 0:20:04.609 --> 0:20:06.889 But I've never heard anything even remotely like that. 0:20:06.930 --> 0:20:09.609 No. And I've read through the mission of trying to see. 0:20:09.609 --> 0:20:11.650 But the other thing is, even if it were true, 0:20:11.850 --> 0:20:14.290 this is not a meal that's not a napkin like 0:20:14.330 --> 0:20:16.129 a napkin that you have at a meal. It's a 0:20:16.130 --> 0:20:18.889 face cloth that was used for burial. And so it 0:20:18.890 --> 0:20:21.889 has nothing to do with that. We don't know. It 0:20:21.890 --> 0:20:24.330 doesn't say why everything is so laid out there orderly, 0:20:24.330 --> 0:20:26.690 because the Bible doesn't tell us. But I can speculate, 0:20:26.690 --> 0:20:29.410 since the first word for Mary Magdalene was they've taken 0:20:29.410 --> 0:20:33.510 his body grave robbers. And so they come there. Peter 0:20:33.510 --> 0:20:36.750 and John. And they see that it's all neatly folded. 0:20:36.750 --> 0:20:39.429 Grave robbers don't do that, right. Something other than a 0:20:39.430 --> 0:20:40.629 grave robbery has happened here. 0:20:40.670 --> 0:20:43.109 They would go in and just thrash everything around and 0:20:43.109 --> 0:20:45.230 grab the body and take off, or grab stuff and 0:20:45.230 --> 0:20:47.270 take off. But they would not be careful about folding 0:20:47.270 --> 0:20:47.790 things up. 0:20:47.830 --> 0:20:51.550 Yeah. So to me, this is that's, I think, crucial. 0:20:51.590 --> 0:20:53.669 But still. Do you know what I think is interesting 0:20:53.710 --> 0:20:57.870 at this point? The Lord Jesus has not yet appeared. Right. 0:20:57.910 --> 0:21:00.870 And it is right after this that there is that 0:21:00.869 --> 0:21:05.870 the disciples leave. They go back. And Mary Magdalene, who 0:21:05.869 --> 0:21:10.270 is so heartbroken, she is weeping at the grave. Right. 0:21:10.310 --> 0:21:12.110 And that's what's next, right? 0:21:12.390 --> 0:21:17.550 That's what's next. Uh, Mary Magdalene, um, follows Peter and 0:21:17.550 --> 0:21:19.629 John when they go back to the when they go 0:21:19.630 --> 0:21:22.110 to the tomb and they see the grave clothes all 0:21:22.109 --> 0:21:26.629 folded up. Mary follows them back there. They all see 0:21:26.670 --> 0:21:33.850 two angels inside. And then Mary meets Jesus. It says 0:21:34.970 --> 0:21:40.370 in verse 13 of John chapter 20. They said to her, 0:21:40.369 --> 0:21:44.170 the angels did, woman, why are you weeping? She said 0:21:44.170 --> 0:21:46.449 to them, because they have taken away, my lord. I 0:21:46.450 --> 0:21:48.770 do not know where they have laid him. When she 0:21:48.770 --> 0:21:52.690 had said this, she turned around and saw Jesus standing there, 0:21:52.810 --> 0:21:55.090 and did not know that it was Jesus. Jesus said 0:21:55.090 --> 0:21:58.290 to her, woman, why are you weeping? Whom are you seeking? 0:21:58.570 --> 0:22:00.810 Supposing him to be the gardener, she said, sir, if 0:22:00.850 --> 0:22:03.570 you have carried him away, tell me where you've laid him, 0:22:03.570 --> 0:22:07.369 and I will, uh. I will take him away. Jesus 0:22:07.369 --> 0:22:10.370 said to her. Mary. She turned and said to him 0:22:10.369 --> 0:22:13.730 in Hebrew, Rabboni, which means teacher. Jesus said to her, 0:22:13.730 --> 0:22:16.170 stop clinging to me, for I have not ascended to 0:22:16.210 --> 0:22:18.850 the to the father, but go to my brethren, and 0:22:18.850 --> 0:22:21.129 say to them, I ascend to my father, and to 0:22:21.130 --> 0:22:23.490 your father, and my God, and your God. 0:22:23.650 --> 0:22:27.930 Yeah, that's one of my favorite scenes. Uh, this woman 0:22:27.930 --> 0:22:31.590 is so heartbroken at the death of Jesus. And, uh, 0:22:31.590 --> 0:22:35.629 and now that pain of loss is made worse because 0:22:35.630 --> 0:22:41.629 she thinks someone has taken his body. And now some 0:22:41.630 --> 0:22:45.229 people say, why didn't she recognize him? Did did Jesus 0:22:45.230 --> 0:22:49.429 look different? I don't think that's the case. You know, 0:22:49.470 --> 0:22:52.470 she was in the garden. It was early morning. He 0:22:52.470 --> 0:22:54.670 may have been in the distance. He wasn't standing next 0:22:54.670 --> 0:22:57.990 to her. And what was she doing? She was weeping. 0:22:57.990 --> 0:23:02.750 She was crying hysterically. I mean, that's pretty clear from 0:23:02.750 --> 0:23:07.389 what it's saying, that that she was just heartbrokenly weeping. 0:23:08.030 --> 0:23:10.790 And so she thought, oh, there's someone else here early. 0:23:10.830 --> 0:23:12.430 Must be the gardener, right? 0:23:13.070 --> 0:23:16.430 It's funny too, if you don't expect to see somebody 0:23:16.430 --> 0:23:19.230 or you see somebody out of the normal context where 0:23:19.230 --> 0:23:21.630 you know them, that happens to me all the time. 0:23:21.630 --> 0:23:23.510 Where I'll know a student from a study abroad in 0:23:23.510 --> 0:23:25.909 Israel from two years ago. And we were close and 0:23:25.910 --> 0:23:27.880 we had a great time there. And then they show 0:23:27.880 --> 0:23:31.240 up later at here at Moody in your class, in 0:23:31.240 --> 0:23:33.480 my class and I go, do I know you? You know, 0:23:33.520 --> 0:23:35.400 I said, you look kind of familiar to me. And 0:23:35.400 --> 0:23:38.159 so it's embarrassing, but but I wonder if some of 0:23:38.200 --> 0:23:41.400 that isn't what's going on here. Mary would not have 0:23:41.400 --> 0:23:45.040 expected to have seen Jesus alive. She didn't. She hadn't 0:23:45.040 --> 0:23:48.040 read this story yet. Plus, the last time she saw him, 0:23:48.040 --> 0:23:52.040 he was beat up, crucified. He was in bad shape. 0:23:52.080 --> 0:23:53.520 Yeah. How could he look like this? 0:23:53.560 --> 0:23:55.880 And he wouldn't look like this now, in the resurrection. 0:23:55.920 --> 0:23:58.440 Yeah. And, uh, now, the other thing that people often 0:23:58.440 --> 0:24:02.320 ask me about this passage, and I think you and 0:24:02.320 --> 0:24:05.840 I are agreed on this. People say, well, if the 0:24:05.840 --> 0:24:09.640 Lord Jesus has not yet ascended to his father, right? Uh, 0:24:09.760 --> 0:24:13.680 that that he he has just been for three days, 0:24:13.680 --> 0:24:16.880 three nights in the tomb. But his spirit was in hell. 0:24:17.000 --> 0:24:19.240 And that's why he says, don't touch me, for I 0:24:19.240 --> 0:24:22.800 have not yet ascended to the father. Uh, quick answer 0:24:22.800 --> 0:24:23.359 on that. 0:24:23.680 --> 0:24:25.619 Yeah, I would say that that's that's reading really an 0:24:25.619 --> 0:24:28.140 awful lot of theology in here that I don't think 0:24:28.140 --> 0:24:30.100 you can actually get from the text. It seems better 0:24:30.100 --> 0:24:33.420 to me that she's clinging to him and he's saying, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. 0:24:33.420 --> 0:24:35.940 I haven't ascended yet. I'm going to be around here 0:24:35.940 --> 0:24:39.980 for a while and so we'll have a chance to interact. 0:24:39.980 --> 0:24:42.500 But right now, don't don't be. Don't be clinging. 0:24:42.540 --> 0:24:43.460 She's not just touching him. 0:24:43.460 --> 0:24:44.340 She's she's. 0:24:44.340 --> 0:24:44.740 Grabbing. 0:24:44.780 --> 0:24:47.379 Grabbing him. Don't, don't. This is not a time for clinging. 0:24:47.420 --> 0:24:51.180 Go and tell. Go tell the disciples I'm. I'm risen. Yeah, 0:24:51.220 --> 0:24:52.220 that's what's going on here. 0:24:52.220 --> 0:24:55.619 Yeah, yeah. When? When the Lord Jesus died, uh, his 0:24:55.619 --> 0:24:57.580 spirit ascended to the father. He said, father, into your 0:24:57.580 --> 0:24:59.780 hands I commend my spirit. He said to the the 0:24:59.780 --> 0:25:01.899 thief on the cross next to him, this day you'll 0:25:01.900 --> 0:25:06.820 be together with me in Paradise. Uh, his spirit, uh, 0:25:06.820 --> 0:25:09.300 at his physical body's death, went to the father. 0:25:09.300 --> 0:25:10.980 And this body stayed in the tomb. 0:25:11.300 --> 0:25:14.900 And then at the resurrection, he's telling her I'm. My 0:25:14.900 --> 0:25:17.060 ascension is yet 40 days away. Right. That's what. 0:25:17.060 --> 0:25:18.060 I'm going to be around for. 0:25:18.060 --> 0:25:20.180 A while. I'll be around. And I think that's that's 0:25:20.180 --> 0:25:23.020 important to understand. When we look at this, there's not 0:25:23.020 --> 0:25:26.160 something supernatural, mystical happening there, right? You know, which is 0:25:26.160 --> 0:25:28.920 how people want to do it well or see it well. 0:25:28.960 --> 0:25:30.439 I can't believe it. We're going to be back to 0:25:30.440 --> 0:25:34.280 talk more about the resurrection in just a moment. 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The last one we 0:26:59.700 --> 0:27:03.300 talked about was Mary Magdalene meeting her Lord, risen Lord, 0:27:03.300 --> 0:27:06.220 and being told to go back and tell the disciples, 0:27:06.220 --> 0:27:06.940 does she obey? 0:27:08.020 --> 0:27:08.660 Yes. 0:27:08.700 --> 0:27:09.619 Yeah. What does she do? 0:27:09.660 --> 0:27:13.980 Well, she goes and and and in Luke chapter 20, 0:27:14.020 --> 0:27:17.100 verse 18 says, Mary Magdalene came announcing to the disciples, 0:27:17.260 --> 0:27:20.659 I have seen the Lord now before she saw an 0:27:20.660 --> 0:27:25.240 empty grave. Yeah. Now she says I've seen him in 0:27:25.240 --> 0:27:26.159 the resurrection. 0:27:26.480 --> 0:27:29.399 Isn't that great? Yeah. What? And now this changed her. 0:27:29.440 --> 0:27:31.480 Remember what she was like at the start of that 0:27:31.480 --> 0:27:36.320 passage in John 20? She's weeping. She's hysterically crying, and 0:27:36.760 --> 0:27:37.960 she has been transformed. 0:27:38.000 --> 0:27:38.800 Not anymore. 0:27:38.840 --> 0:27:42.520 Yeah. Now she's declaring with joy. I think I've seen 0:27:42.520 --> 0:27:43.800 the Lord. He's alive. 0:27:43.840 --> 0:27:47.080 And if he hadn't actually been raised, she would not 0:27:47.080 --> 0:27:48.400 have had that kind of change. 0:27:48.440 --> 0:27:51.840 No, no. And that's one of the things that over 0:27:51.840 --> 0:27:55.840 and over we see the resurrection changes people. Right? And 0:27:55.840 --> 0:27:58.520 that's the transforming power of the resurrection. And right here, 0:27:58.760 --> 0:28:02.680 Mary Magdalene goes from sorrow to great joy, great sorrow 0:28:02.720 --> 0:28:05.760 to great joy. And I think that that principle of 0:28:05.760 --> 0:28:08.760 the resurrection, when we meet Jesus, you know, our life 0:28:08.760 --> 0:28:12.200 is not going to be all, you know, unicorn and bliss, 0:28:12.240 --> 0:28:15.920 you know. You know, it's just happiness and joy. But 0:28:15.920 --> 0:28:19.760 there will be an intrinsic joy. Whatever the difficulties that 0:28:19.900 --> 0:28:22.300 we have in life. And I've talked to people who 0:28:22.340 --> 0:28:26.580 have had tremendous sorrow just caused by their own sinful lives, 0:28:26.820 --> 0:28:29.379 and they talk about the great change of coming to 0:28:29.420 --> 0:28:33.740 know Jesus is being brought to joy. And I think 0:28:33.740 --> 0:28:36.540 that that's the great model here from Mary Magdalene. 0:28:36.580 --> 0:28:37.060 Right? 0:28:37.140 --> 0:28:41.860 Yeah. So okay, then Mary, the mother of James and 0:28:41.860 --> 0:28:47.020 Salome met Jesus, and they were directed to tell the 0:28:47.020 --> 0:28:50.820 brethren to go to Galilee. So again, once again, they're 0:28:50.820 --> 0:28:52.700 going to go tell them to go to Galilee. 0:28:52.740 --> 0:28:56.100 Right. And so and so now you know again Mary, 0:28:56.620 --> 0:28:59.260 the mother of James and Salome. Now they meet Jesus 0:28:59.260 --> 0:28:59.860 as well. 0:28:59.940 --> 0:29:04.220 Mhm. And that's in Matthew 28. They meet Jesus and 0:29:04.580 --> 0:29:07.180 he tells them, Go to Galilee, which they will do ultimately, 0:29:07.180 --> 0:29:11.140 but they will also, uh, for now they're going to 0:29:11.140 --> 0:29:13.700 stay in Jerusalem. Maybe they're delaying, maybe I don't think 0:29:13.700 --> 0:29:17.980 they're disobeying so much as delaying. But I actually think 0:29:17.980 --> 0:29:20.160 the Lord Jesus said, and he said, Go to Galilee. 0:29:20.160 --> 0:29:21.920 I think he wanted them to go to Galilee right then. 0:29:22.480 --> 0:29:25.440 And it could be because because of the next point. Yeah. Um, 0:29:26.480 --> 0:29:29.320 that they may not have believed the reports of these people, 0:29:29.520 --> 0:29:31.920 that they'd seen the Lord. And so why go to Galilee? 0:29:31.960 --> 0:29:33.960 Because Jesus tell them to go to Galilee when they 0:29:34.120 --> 0:29:34.920 still don't. Really. 0:29:34.960 --> 0:29:36.240 That's one of those things. You think I want to 0:29:36.240 --> 0:29:38.560 see that with my own eyes before I start believing that? 0:29:38.600 --> 0:29:42.280 It is interesting. The next thing in Luke 24 1011 0:29:42.760 --> 0:29:47.240 it says, um, and now they'd had reports from Mary Magdalene, Joanna, 0:29:47.240 --> 0:29:50.440 and the women from Galilee, Mary and Salome. But the 0:29:50.440 --> 0:29:54.280 disciples on the whole refused to believe. The report says. 0:29:54.320 --> 0:29:57.160 These words appeared to be nonsense. 0:29:57.200 --> 0:30:01.959 Yeah, that's exactly right. Luke 24, verse 11. Um, but 0:30:01.960 --> 0:30:04.440 these words appear to them as nonsense, and they would 0:30:04.440 --> 0:30:07.120 not believe them. Yeah. Understandable. 0:30:07.360 --> 0:30:10.360 Yeah, it's understandable. But, you know, I often think about 0:30:10.360 --> 0:30:13.200 how in the Gospels, uh, it talks about how the 0:30:13.200 --> 0:30:15.720 Lord Jesus would say, I'm going to Jerusalem, and there 0:30:15.760 --> 0:30:18.970 the Son of Man will be crucified. And he'll be 0:30:18.970 --> 0:30:22.290 raised on the third day. And they're like, no, no, no. 0:30:22.330 --> 0:30:25.810 I remember in Matthew 16 Peter says, no, no, no, no, 0:30:25.810 --> 0:30:26.690 that's not how it's going to. 0:30:26.770 --> 0:30:28.290 That's not going to, that's not how it goes. 0:30:28.330 --> 0:30:30.489 Yeah, right. So they didn't even want to believe that 0:30:30.490 --> 0:30:32.970 he was going to be crucified, let alone raised. They 0:30:32.970 --> 0:30:38.170 were not. It's it's just so incomprehensible right now. One 0:30:38.170 --> 0:30:39.970 of my favorite appearances. And again, this is one of 0:30:39.970 --> 0:30:42.290 the ones where they don't recognize Jesus because probably because 0:30:42.290 --> 0:30:45.209 they were not expecting him. It's not. This is Cleopas 0:30:45.210 --> 0:30:49.729 and his friends. Uh, and friend, I should say. Uh, 0:30:50.290 --> 0:30:55.850 and they are, uh, they're part of the wider group 0:30:55.850 --> 0:30:59.730 of disciples. But they're not the 11 that remain. And 0:31:00.410 --> 0:31:04.890 they they meet the Lord Jesus in the it's described 0:31:05.130 --> 0:31:08.250 on a road to Emmaus, which is just outside of Jerusalem. 0:31:08.250 --> 0:31:11.810 And it is interesting, though, that there is some suggestion 0:31:12.330 --> 0:31:15.370 that it was actually hidden from them. They they were 0:31:15.870 --> 0:31:18.350 not allowed by the Lord to recognize Jesus. In verse 0:31:18.350 --> 0:31:22.670 16 it says, but their eyes were prevented from recognizing him. 0:31:22.710 --> 0:31:25.830 And then in verse 30 and verse 31 it says, 0:31:25.830 --> 0:31:28.670 then their eyes were opened and they recognized him. And 0:31:28.670 --> 0:31:30.990 so I think there was something more going on here 0:31:30.990 --> 0:31:34.470 as to why they were prevented from recognizing him. I 0:31:34.470 --> 0:31:35.470 don't know, but. 0:31:35.470 --> 0:31:38.030 Maybe it was their lack of faith in the resurrection. 0:31:38.070 --> 0:31:40.910 Maybe, maybe there was more that he needed to interact 0:31:40.910 --> 0:31:44.430 with them about before they would really believe it. I don't, 0:31:44.430 --> 0:31:45.470 I don't know, hard to say. 0:31:45.510 --> 0:31:47.630 I do think it's interesting what they say to this 0:31:48.030 --> 0:31:51.550 stranger they don't recognize. They say to him, are you 0:31:51.550 --> 0:31:54.070 the only one in Jerusalem that doesn't know what happened? 0:31:54.110 --> 0:31:57.230 Right, right. And he goes and he says to them, um, 0:31:57.270 --> 0:31:59.430 what events are you talking about? You know, this is 0:31:59.430 --> 0:32:02.830 one of these these times where on occasion, God asks 0:32:02.830 --> 0:32:07.070 questions of people. Yeah. And and God knows what's going on. 0:32:07.070 --> 0:32:10.670 Jesus knows what's happening, but it's to draw them out. 0:32:10.710 --> 0:32:13.470 It's to include them in an opportunity to learn and 0:32:13.470 --> 0:32:17.210 grow and make progress and develop and. And I love 0:32:17.250 --> 0:32:19.810 the fact that he he sort of welcomes them to 0:32:19.850 --> 0:32:21.930 be able to do that by sharing with him. 0:32:21.970 --> 0:32:24.530 Yeah. And what I think is so interesting about it too, 0:32:24.570 --> 0:32:28.250 is they are asking, are you ignorant? Right. You know, 0:32:28.290 --> 0:32:29.530 but who is really ignorant? 0:32:29.570 --> 0:32:30.850 Yeah. Well they were, they were. 0:32:30.890 --> 0:32:34.290 Yeah. They're blinded to the whole thing. And then what 0:32:34.290 --> 0:32:39.570 does he do? He immediately begins to teach them the scriptures. Yep. Uh, 0:32:39.890 --> 0:32:44.290 and he says that beginning with, uh, he says to 0:32:44.330 --> 0:32:47.170 them how unwise and slow of heart you are to 0:32:47.210 --> 0:32:50.090 believe in your hearts. All the prophets have spoken. Didn't 0:32:50.130 --> 0:32:52.850 the Messiah have to suffer these things and enter into 0:32:52.890 --> 0:32:56.010 his glory? Then, beginning with Moses and all the prophets, 0:32:56.010 --> 0:33:00.650 he interpreted them, uh, for them the things concerning himself 0:33:00.650 --> 0:33:05.450 in all the scriptures. Now, I just think that is remarkable. 0:33:05.450 --> 0:33:08.010 I would love to have been a mouse in the 0:33:08.010 --> 0:33:10.770 corner on that talk. I mean, there is, Michael, you know, 0:33:10.770 --> 0:33:14.110 there's so much discussion in scholarly circles about how the 0:33:14.110 --> 0:33:17.270 New Testament writers use the Old Testament and and what 0:33:17.270 --> 0:33:20.030 they're doing with all of that. And and I it 0:33:20.030 --> 0:33:23.310 would have been so wonderful to have heard Jesus unpack 0:33:23.350 --> 0:33:28.270 the Hebrew Scriptures as a proof of pointing toward him 0:33:28.270 --> 0:33:30.910 in order to convince these two on the road to Emmaus. 0:33:30.950 --> 0:33:33.750 Yeah. And it says that they said, were not our 0:33:33.750 --> 0:33:37.190 hearts on fire as he explained the scriptures to us. Uh, 0:33:37.190 --> 0:33:41.310 so it must have been a really powerful, powerful, uh, 0:33:41.310 --> 0:33:45.270 Bible study. Uh, I think that's it's just remarkable that 0:33:45.270 --> 0:33:48.670 they did that. And so, anyway, they have this meeting 0:33:49.430 --> 0:33:52.390 with him on the road to Emmaus. I think that 0:33:52.390 --> 0:33:56.070 is great. And I agree with you, the Lord Jesus. 0:33:56.110 --> 0:33:59.350 This is something that A.T. Robertson once said. He said 0:33:59.350 --> 0:34:01.350 the Lord Jesus seemed to be able to find himself 0:34:01.350 --> 0:34:05.190 in the Hebrew Scriptures, something that contemporary scholars aren't able 0:34:05.190 --> 0:34:08.350 to do. That's crazy right? I care about that so much. 0:34:08.350 --> 0:34:09.390 I actually wrote a book about it. 0:34:09.430 --> 0:34:11.109 I know, I know, which is a great book, by 0:34:11.110 --> 0:34:12.490 the way. It's a great book. 0:34:12.530 --> 0:34:14.609 But I care about it that the messianic hope was 0:34:14.610 --> 0:34:18.129 really there in the Hebrew Bible. Right. Okay. So let's 0:34:18.130 --> 0:34:21.250 move on, because we're going to run out of time. Right. Uh. 0:34:21.610 --> 0:34:22.569 Next appearance. 0:34:22.850 --> 0:34:26.770 Well, apparently, somehow, somewhere in here. Jesus then appeared to Peter. 0:34:26.810 --> 0:34:30.049 First Corinthians 15 and verse five. Yeah. Talks about that. 0:34:30.050 --> 0:34:32.930 He appeared to Cephas and then to the 12. And 0:34:32.930 --> 0:34:35.609 then in Luke 2434 says, I think the same is 0:34:35.610 --> 0:34:38.410 referring to the same thing. The Lord has really risen 0:34:38.410 --> 0:34:40.810 and has appeared to Simon, that is, to Peter. 0:34:40.930 --> 0:34:42.770 So it's mentioned that it happened, but we don't have 0:34:42.770 --> 0:34:43.569 the narrative of it. 0:34:43.610 --> 0:34:45.650 We don't have a narrative of it. And I'm wondering 0:34:45.650 --> 0:34:50.210 if maybe this is where Jesus and Peter meet for 0:34:50.210 --> 0:34:54.570 the very first time. For there maybe to be some reproof, 0:34:54.570 --> 0:34:55.930 but restoration. 0:34:56.410 --> 0:34:56.890 Mhm. 0:34:56.930 --> 0:34:57.570 Hard to say. 0:34:57.610 --> 0:35:00.210 Yeah. Maybe this is the reproof because later on it's 0:35:00.210 --> 0:35:01.330 the restoration. Right. 0:35:01.489 --> 0:35:02.250 That's. That's right. 0:35:02.290 --> 0:35:05.569 Yeah. That's it. Uh, because Peter denied the Lord. Or 0:35:05.610 --> 0:35:07.850 maybe it was just to show him. We don't know that. 0:35:08.010 --> 0:35:11.190 That it was reproof. Uh, maybe it was just to 0:35:11.230 --> 0:35:13.790 show him that he was raised right. But they didn't 0:35:13.790 --> 0:35:17.070 interact long. But at least Peter now knows it's true. 0:35:17.190 --> 0:35:21.030 And now, in Luke 24, it's almost as if it's 0:35:21.030 --> 0:35:23.950 just going on right at the same level. Although there's 0:35:23.950 --> 0:35:27.509 these other things that happened in between. Luke, he's not 0:35:27.550 --> 0:35:31.109 caring about all that so much. And so we're going 0:35:31.150 --> 0:35:32.989 to talk about the next one in just a moment. 0:35:33.870 --> 0:35:35.950 We're going to talk about the Bible study in the 0:35:35.950 --> 0:35:40.310 upper room with the disciples. 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Click on that and you'll be taken 0:36:59.570 --> 0:37:01.129 to a page where you can sign up for your 0:37:01.130 --> 0:37:15.380 very own copy of Passover A time for redemption. Welcome 0:37:15.380 --> 0:37:18.060 back to Open Line with me. Doctor Michael Ray Melnick. 0:37:18.060 --> 0:37:21.700 Joining me right now is my guest once again all our. 0:37:22.060 --> 0:37:25.100 The other Michael Michael Van Laningham. And we're talking about 0:37:25.100 --> 0:37:28.940 the resurrection. Let's talk more. What you have are a 0:37:28.940 --> 0:37:32.900 couple of other appearances that follow. Right after the teachings 0:37:32.900 --> 0:37:35.740 of the Cleopus and his friend on the road and 0:37:36.219 --> 0:37:38.220 and those kinds of things, what happened next. 0:37:38.660 --> 0:37:43.780 That that very night, Sunday night, Resurrection Sunday. Jesus appears 0:37:43.780 --> 0:37:47.260 to the 11, but Thomas is not there. 0:37:47.500 --> 0:37:49.420 So they're called the 11. But there's really only ten. 0:37:49.940 --> 0:37:52.620 That's that's true. Yeah. At that point, there's Thomas is 0:37:52.620 --> 0:37:55.219 not there. Um, but a one week later it says 0:37:55.219 --> 0:37:58.259 in John 20, starting at verse 26, after eight days, 0:37:58.260 --> 0:38:01.140 his disciples were again inside, and Thomas with them. Now 0:38:01.180 --> 0:38:06.760 Thomas is there. Jesus came and said, peace be with you, Thomas. 0:38:06.800 --> 0:38:09.200 You know, he says, Thomas, look, touch my hands. Put 0:38:09.200 --> 0:38:12.560 your hand in my side. It's me. Thomas says, my 0:38:12.560 --> 0:38:15.480 Lord and my God. Also in that in the in 0:38:15.520 --> 0:38:19.640 the week before that, when Jesus appears, he actually eats. 0:38:19.680 --> 0:38:22.879 He says, look, I'm not just like Casper the Friendly ghost, 0:38:22.920 --> 0:38:24.920 you know? He says, you got food, give me food. 0:38:24.920 --> 0:38:26.560 And he eats and you can't see the food going 0:38:26.560 --> 0:38:29.480 down his gullet or anything like that. Um, and so 0:38:29.480 --> 0:38:32.600 he really was raised. But so now Thomas season, he believes. 0:38:32.600 --> 0:38:35.200 That's a great transformation because people call him Doubting Thomas. 0:38:35.200 --> 0:38:37.480 But what does Thomas always say? Unless I see him, 0:38:37.520 --> 0:38:43.239 unless I touch those wounds, I will not believe. He's unbelieving. Thomas, right? 0:38:43.280 --> 0:38:46.160 And Thomas is transformed from unbelief to faith. 0:38:46.200 --> 0:38:46.720 It's amazing. 0:38:46.760 --> 0:38:49.160 Yeah. And, you know, once I had a there was 0:38:49.160 --> 0:38:52.200 a couple in my congregation many, many years ago, she 0:38:52.200 --> 0:38:56.040 came from a muslim background and her husband was a 0:38:56.040 --> 0:38:59.200 committed believer. And she would come to services from time 0:38:59.200 --> 0:39:01.120 to time and say, oh, I could never believe this, 0:39:01.440 --> 0:39:06.100 because you believe that Jesus is God. Scott, and one 0:39:06.100 --> 0:39:08.060 day she came with him. On a day when I 0:39:08.060 --> 0:39:12.900 was speaking about unbelieving, Thomas turned to believing Thomas, and 0:39:13.820 --> 0:39:16.100 at the end of it just she says, I know 0:39:16.100 --> 0:39:20.620 he's alive. I'm ready. I believe. And that's how she 0:39:20.620 --> 0:39:23.660 came to faith, not just as her Redeemer, but as 0:39:23.660 --> 0:39:26.500 her her God. That she believed Jesus was God. It 0:39:26.500 --> 0:39:30.339 was really cool. Uh, okay. The next encounter is at 0:39:30.340 --> 0:39:33.819 the Sea of Tiberius. Or the lake. Lake Kinneret, Sea 0:39:33.820 --> 0:39:38.100 of Galilee. And that's where he speaks with Peter. 0:39:38.660 --> 0:39:41.460 Right there. Peter's out fishing. In fact, Peter just says, 0:39:41.460 --> 0:39:43.620 I don't know if he's dejected or not, but he 0:39:43.620 --> 0:39:50.020 says in John 2121 three, I'm going fishing. Yeah. You know, 0:39:50.060 --> 0:39:52.259 who knows why he says that? And so they go. 0:39:52.300 --> 0:39:53.660 Don't you think he was saying, you know what, I'm 0:39:53.660 --> 0:39:55.420 not very good at being a disciple. I've denied the 0:39:55.420 --> 0:39:57.020 Lord three times. I think I'll go back to what 0:39:57.020 --> 0:39:59.180 I was also not good at, but maybe better at. 0:39:59.219 --> 0:40:00.899 Yeah, I probably won't be all that good at being 0:40:00.900 --> 0:40:02.339 a fisher of men. So I'm going to go fish 0:40:02.340 --> 0:40:03.800 for fish. Yeah, exactly. 0:40:04.239 --> 0:40:06.920 Yeah. And then so he meets Peter. And I think 0:40:06.920 --> 0:40:10.440 that this is a remarkable encounter. And you're the Greek scholar. 0:40:10.760 --> 0:40:15.239 And so three times the Lord Jesus asks Peter, do 0:40:15.239 --> 0:40:18.480 you love me? And he uses the verb from agapao. 0:40:18.800 --> 0:40:24.439 And three times Peter responds by saying with the word, 0:40:24.440 --> 0:40:27.920 I love you phileo. So what's up? 0:40:28.160 --> 0:40:30.440 Well, it's hard to say, actually. Michael. It could be 0:40:30.440 --> 0:40:34.280 just a stylistic change. It could be that that, um, 0:40:34.440 --> 0:40:36.640 that Peter is saying, you know, Lord, I don't have 0:40:36.640 --> 0:40:39.399 the sort of agape love, the sort of deeper kind 0:40:39.400 --> 0:40:41.880 of love that maybe I should have. But I do 0:40:41.880 --> 0:40:45.000 have tremendous affection for you. I have the fill for you. 0:40:45.200 --> 0:40:46.920 Don't you think by that time it was in the 0:40:46.920 --> 0:40:48.840 Koine Greek, it was pretty much they were synonymous. 0:40:48.840 --> 0:40:51.520 I think they were actually, I really do. So it's 0:40:51.520 --> 0:40:54.160 very hard to say. But at the very least, one 0:40:54.160 --> 0:40:58.000 thing that's interesting is that when Jesus comes and he 0:40:58.000 --> 0:40:59.839 appears to them in verse nine, it says, so when 0:40:59.840 --> 0:41:02.339 they got out on the land, they saw a charcoal 0:41:02.340 --> 0:41:07.420 fire already laid and fish placed on it, and bread. 0:41:07.460 --> 0:41:09.580 The only other place in any of the Gospels where 0:41:09.580 --> 0:41:13.379 it mentions a charcoal fire. Fire is in John chapter 18, 0:41:13.700 --> 0:41:16.580 where that happens in the courtyard of the high priest. 0:41:16.580 --> 0:41:19.339 And Peter is there, and on that occasion he denies 0:41:19.340 --> 0:41:22.780 Jesus three times. So now we have another charcoal fire. 0:41:22.940 --> 0:41:28.100 But Jesus, I think, emphasizes and reminds Peter. Peter does 0:41:28.100 --> 0:41:33.540 love Jesus. And Jesus's job for Peter in being restored 0:41:33.540 --> 0:41:35.219 is to take care of his lambs. 0:41:35.260 --> 0:41:38.299 Yeah. Feed my sheep. So really, what he's doing is 0:41:38.300 --> 0:41:42.940 once again transforming Peter through the resurrection from a failure 0:41:43.140 --> 0:41:46.860 to a shepherd to a faithful servant. And I think 0:41:46.860 --> 0:41:49.860 that that's remarkable, because now he gives him three times 0:41:49.860 --> 0:41:53.460 to affirm his love for him after his three denials. Okay. 0:41:53.620 --> 0:41:59.420 Next very important appearance is on a mountaintop in Galilee. 0:42:00.360 --> 0:42:02.320 And what happens there? The great commission. 0:42:02.360 --> 0:42:05.080 Great commission. All authority has been given to me in 0:42:05.080 --> 0:42:07.239 heaven and on earth. Go therefore, and make disciples of 0:42:07.239 --> 0:42:10.160 all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the father, son, 0:42:10.160 --> 0:42:12.440 and the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all that 0:42:12.440 --> 0:42:15.000 I have commanded you. And lo, I am with you always, 0:42:15.000 --> 0:42:18.120 even to the end of the age. Very, very important text. 0:42:18.160 --> 0:42:19.600 Important episode here. 0:42:19.640 --> 0:42:21.439 So they were told right from the beginning. Go tell 0:42:21.440 --> 0:42:23.960 them the Lord is risen. Go tell. Now the disciples 0:42:23.960 --> 0:42:27.520 are told. Go tell the whole world about this. And 0:42:27.920 --> 0:42:29.439 you know, some people say, well, that doesn't really apply 0:42:29.440 --> 0:42:31.719 to us. That's to the 12. What I always look 0:42:31.760 --> 0:42:33.600 at is he says, I am with you even to 0:42:33.640 --> 0:42:34.799 the end of the age. 0:42:34.840 --> 0:42:35.160 Right? 0:42:35.200 --> 0:42:36.680 That means it's not just them. 0:42:36.719 --> 0:42:38.720 No it's not. It's. We're to be like them. 0:42:38.760 --> 0:42:41.040 Yeah. Uh, to the end of the age, we're supposed 0:42:41.040 --> 0:42:44.759 to be proclaiming that good news. Uh, of Jesus being 0:42:44.960 --> 0:42:47.439 dying for us and being raised again. And that's what's 0:42:47.440 --> 0:42:53.360 going to transform people. Uh, now Jesus appears to 500 brethren. 0:42:53.400 --> 0:42:54.520 Where does that happen? 0:42:54.800 --> 0:42:58.500 Well, best guess is that that happens also in Galilee. 0:42:59.700 --> 0:43:02.819 Hard to say for sure, but we get a hint 0:43:02.820 --> 0:43:06.580 of that in Luke 24, verses 44 to 49. He 0:43:06.580 --> 0:43:08.700 reminds them of the kinds of things that he has 0:43:08.739 --> 0:43:13.060 taught them. And then in first Corinthians 15 six it says, 0:43:13.060 --> 0:43:15.859 after that he appeared to more than 500 brethren at 0:43:15.860 --> 0:43:18.460 one time, most of whom remain until now, but some 0:43:18.500 --> 0:43:21.060 have fallen asleep. I think probably the best idea is 0:43:21.060 --> 0:43:22.299 that that's in Galilee. 0:43:22.820 --> 0:43:28.020 Yeah, and that's what sometime after that, he appears to James, right? 0:43:28.340 --> 0:43:31.460 That's his brother Jacob, actually. Don't you think? Yep. Uh, 0:43:31.940 --> 0:43:35.980 English says James. But yeah. Jacobus. In the Greek it is. Uh. 0:43:35.980 --> 0:43:38.500 And then to all the apostles. Do you think that is. 0:43:38.660 --> 0:43:41.100 I mean, they obviously have met as a group before, 0:43:41.620 --> 0:43:43.980 but maybe individually with the apostles. What do you think? 0:43:44.100 --> 0:43:47.580 Um, again, could be very hard to say. I think 0:43:47.620 --> 0:43:49.739 it I think it could be just another meeting with 0:43:49.739 --> 0:43:52.540 all the apostles to somewhere, probably in Galilee. 0:43:52.580 --> 0:43:54.500 And because it says in acts one that he was 0:43:54.500 --> 0:43:56.219 with them for 40 days teaching them all about the 0:43:56.219 --> 0:43:56.940 kingdom of God. 0:43:57.070 --> 0:43:58.710 He was with them all kinds of times. 0:43:58.750 --> 0:44:02.710 Yeah. So now the thing about the 500 brethren, some 0:44:02.710 --> 0:44:07.189 people have said this is just an hallucination. When people 0:44:07.190 --> 0:44:11.029 think they saw someone that they've feared dying. Is there 0:44:11.030 --> 0:44:13.550 such a thing as a 500 person hallucination? 0:44:13.590 --> 0:44:18.270 I think that's very unlikely. I you know, I think, um, um, 0:44:18.910 --> 0:44:21.670 not only is it unlikely, I don't impossible. It's impossible. 0:44:21.670 --> 0:44:23.430 I don't believe that that happened. The Bible doesn't say 0:44:23.430 --> 0:44:25.150 that it happened. They saw him. 0:44:25.190 --> 0:44:27.910 Yeah, but when you have 500 people to see something, 0:44:27.950 --> 0:44:28.710 it's amazing. 0:44:28.750 --> 0:44:31.350 You know, if somebody's super deep in grief, maybe they're 0:44:31.350 --> 0:44:33.910 going to be so emotionally distraught. They might see something 0:44:33.950 --> 0:44:36.630 and see their loved one or whatever. But that's not 0:44:36.670 --> 0:44:38.350 that's not going to happen with that many people who 0:44:38.350 --> 0:44:40.710 are level headed and who have been followers of Jesus, 0:44:40.710 --> 0:44:42.989 and they are probably not going to be prone to 0:44:43.030 --> 0:44:47.150 such sort of, um, difficulty mental, emotional. 0:44:47.190 --> 0:44:50.110 So we've got the 500. We've got James, and then 0:44:50.150 --> 0:44:55.070 we've got the last resurrection appearance recorded is really, uh, 0:44:56.170 --> 0:45:00.490 Before his ascension. Is that would you say. Aha. 0:45:01.050 --> 0:45:05.170 Yeah. And acts one six through 11 they say, Jesus, 0:45:05.170 --> 0:45:07.690 are you going to restore the kingdom now to Israel? 0:45:07.690 --> 0:45:10.210 And he says not. You don't need to know the timing, 0:45:10.690 --> 0:45:11.810 but which. 0:45:11.810 --> 0:45:13.410 By the way, means he will restore the kingdom. 0:45:13.450 --> 0:45:13.770 He will. 0:45:13.810 --> 0:45:14.569 Oh, yeah. Just not. 0:45:14.570 --> 0:45:16.210 Now. He's going to do that. Yeah. And then he says, 0:45:16.210 --> 0:45:18.689 you're going to be my witnesses in Jerusalem, Judea, even 0:45:18.690 --> 0:45:20.730 to the remotest parts of the earth. And then he 0:45:20.730 --> 0:45:23.330 ascends from there into heaven, and they watch him go, 0:45:23.330 --> 0:45:26.049 and two angels show up and say the same way 0:45:26.050 --> 0:45:29.969 he left. He is coming back. It'll be physical. It'll 0:45:30.010 --> 0:45:34.330 be to this spot. There will be a literal, physical 0:45:34.330 --> 0:45:37.890 second coming, not just a spiritual second coming, like some 0:45:37.890 --> 0:45:38.529 people say. 0:45:38.730 --> 0:45:42.729 Just like first Corinthians. Uh, first Corinthians, Zechariah 14 says 0:45:42.730 --> 0:45:46.049 his feet will stand on the Mount of Olives. Olives, right? Yeah. 0:45:46.050 --> 0:45:48.530 It's going to be just exactly, literally. 0:45:48.570 --> 0:45:49.170 Literally. 0:45:49.210 --> 0:45:49.530 To. 0:45:49.570 --> 0:45:49.810 That. 0:45:49.810 --> 0:45:52.009 Spot. Yeah. So some people say, well, he comes to 0:45:52.050 --> 0:45:53.770 us sort of spiritually in our hearts. 0:45:53.810 --> 0:45:54.390 And he does. 0:45:54.390 --> 0:45:55.750 He does. But that's not enough. 0:45:55.790 --> 0:45:56.109 That's not. 0:45:56.110 --> 0:45:58.350 Enough. We have to be looking for his appearance more. 0:45:58.390 --> 0:46:00.669 That's the blessed hope. Thank you for joining me. This 0:46:00.670 --> 0:46:03.950 is a great quick Bible study. I appreciate it so much. 0:46:03.950 --> 0:46:06.870 Thank you, Mike Vanlandingham, for helping me do this. 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