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The Resurrection of Jesus
(John 20:1-18)
I. When Jesus gave up the ghost. (Matthew 27:50-54)
A. The veil of the temple was rent. (Hebrews 10:19-20)
Having therefore, brethen, boldness to enter into the holiest by the blood of Jesus, By a new and living way, which he hath consecrated for us, through the veil, that is to say, his flesh.
B. The earth did quake.
The mountains quake at him, and the hills melt. (Nahum 1:5)
The earth shall quake before them; the heavens shall tremble: the sun and the moon shall be dark, and the stars shall withdraw their shining. (Joel 2:10)
The earth shook, the heavens also dropped at the presence of God: even Sinai itself was moved at the presence of God, the God of Israel. (Psalms 68:8)
C. The rocks rent.
And he said, Go forth, and stand upon the mount before the LORD. And, behold, the LORD passed by, and a great and strong wind rent the mountains, and brake in pieces the rocks before the LORD. ( 1 Kings 19:11)
D. The graves were opened. ( 1 Corinthians 15:20)
Wherefore he saith, When he ascended up on high, he led captivity captive, and gave gifts unto men. (Now that he ascended, what is it but that he also descended first into the lower parts of the earth? He that descended is the same also that ascended up far above all heavens, that he might fill all things.
E. There were many resurrection appearances.
But now is Christ risen from the dead, and become the firstfruits of them that slept.
F. Witnesses experienced great fear.
II. The Experience of Mary Magdalene
A. The first to come to the sepulcher. (John 20:1)
B. The first to tell of the empty tomb. (John 20:2)
C. The first to see the angels. (John 20:12)
D. The first to see and speak to Jesus after His resurrenction. (vs. 16-17)
E. The first to witness of the resurrection. (vs. 18)
F. She was the only one who really understood and appreciated His death. (John 12:7)
Then said Jesus, Let her alone: against the day of my burying hath she kept this.
III. The Signifance of the two angels, one at the head the other at the foot.
And thou shalt put into the ark the testimony which I shall give thee. And thou shalt make a mercy seat of pure gold: two cubits and a half shall be the length thereof, and a cubit and a half the breadth thereof. And thou shalt make two cherubims of gold, of beaten work shalt thou make them, in the two ends of the mercy seat. And make one cherub on the one end, and the other cherub on the other end: even of the mercy seat shall ye make the cherubims on the two ends thereof. And the cherubims shall stretch forth their wings on high, covering the mercy seat with their wings, and their faces shall look one to another; toward the mercy seat shall the faces of the cherubims be. And thou shalt put the mercy seat above upon the ark; and in the ark thou shalt put the testimony that I shall give thee. And there I will meet with thee, and I will commune with thee from above the mercy seat, from between the two cherubims which are upon the ark of the testimony, of all things which I will give thee in commandment unto the children of Israel. (Exodus 25:16-22)