From the Cattedrale Patriarchale di San Marco. Notice that here the Conquering Jesus is stepping on a crouching, chained Satan (a common theme) while using His cross as a kind of walking stick or shepherd's staff.
Posted on 04/04/2015 7:39:54 AM PDT by Salvation
Plus I’m a lot more kind to myself than most strangers are.
Not only was his cross a bridge, to break down the wall between Jew and Gentile. But he himself is the ladder in Jacobs dream, that the angels ascended and descended upon.
From the Cattedrale Patriarchale di San Marco. Notice that here the Conquering Jesus is stepping on a crouching, chained Satan (a common theme) while using His cross as a kind of walking stick or shepherd's staff.
He died so we could live. A true captain of saints and angels.
After Jesus arose, he was walking on a road and saw two disciples (I think it was), and he told them not to touch him now as he hadn’t gone to the Father yet. I am pressed for time or I would look up that scripture.
Glory to God, let the tears stream down the faces of a thousand saints.
Tears of sadness and joy.
Also, scripture says when Christ arose, dead people also arose and walked among the people for a time. Wish I had more time to post those scriptures.
God exists outside of time and space. We are constrained by it, though He is not.
Sometimes I have a hard time with it.
Just go with it.
I hear you. It is just a limit of my human mind.
The concept of time is one of the last things children learn. Are we there yet?
(Actually, I think He could bilocate before His resurrection, too.)
Yeah, he appeared and disappeared, walked through walls, walked on water, rose into the air... rose from the dead, is there anything he couldn’t do? Is there anything too hard for our God?
And yet he was humble. Humbled himself as a man.... bore the shame and humiliation of the cross...
Filled with compassion and love for the men who hated him, lied to him, abandoned him during his darkest hours.
He rose above us, yet lived and died for us.
He could have called a legion of angels, but chose instead to suffer and die in order to purchase our salvation.
with his own blood. We were purchased with his blood.
more precious than silver or gold.
They were in a waiting place waiting for Christ.
Christ tells the Good Thief, “Today you will be with me in Paradise.”
That “Paradise” is the waiting place.
Jesus was the first one into heaven. You have read how some of the believers arose from their graves in Jerusalem and were visible to the believers, but not those who put Jesus to death, aren’t you?
cc. Mrs. Don-o
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