[Salvation]

Matthew asserts that many (indicating more than a few, but not necessarily thousands, hundreds or even dozens) rose bodily and appeared to many (again, indicating more than a few, but not necessarily thousands, hundreds or even dozens). This is similar to the way that Scripture reports the appearances of Jesus, who was seen “not to all the people, but to … witnesses chosen by God in advance, who ate and drank with him after he rose from the dead” (Acts 10:41).

[Salvation]

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[sparklite2]

does not lend itself to simple or satisfying explanations

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As Judge Judy says, “If it doesn’t make sense, it probably isn’t true.”

[time4good]

I always took this as twofold: 1. they were ‘saints’ - i.e., saved by the same forward-looking Faith that the Bible says Abraham was saved by - and 2. therefore it’s to me an action by God, in His supernatural way, fulfilling Ezekiel’s prophecy but doing it with the benefit of comforting those of Jesus’ disciples that were mourning - to let them know that these things must come about as the prophets of old had spoken about. That Jesus would die for the sins of the world but be raised again and break the power of Sin and Death.

I also consider the verses that said Jesus, when he died, descended to the depths of Hell and raised captivity captive, i.e., those saints waiting for the Resurrection. Just a thought.

[JPG]

The Romans recorded everything, and the fact there is not one word of this 'miracle' of people leaving their graves, says it is a spiritual truth (raising one from spiritual death to spiritual life through belief) and not a literal, psychical one.

Jesus showed this when he told the young man who wanted to follow him, but first had to bury his father, "Let the dead bury the dead." Plenty of spiritually dead people around to handle that task.

[tired&retired]

This is quite simple to understand and is the reason Jesus is my savior. He died and blazed the trail through the darkness to Heaven for us.

When I died and went to Heaven, a bright light surrounded me as I left my physical body. It filled me with so much Love and bliss that I had no choice to follow it.

The light was a portal through the layer of darkness separating us from Heaven. It serves as an etheric fence to block evil souls from entering Heaven as when they see the gargoyles and evil in the darkness, their fear blocks them from passing through.

When the light of Heaven shines through the portal, it is a joy to cross over. God’s perfect Love casts out all fear.

When He’s us died, the layer of darkness descended upon earth. ( Per Matthew 27.)

This allowed Jesus to open the door to the room (heaven) he was preparing for us. This in turn made the journey possible for other Saints that were stuck here until Jesus blazed the trail.

This same process is happening again. The turmoil of Heavenly energies hitting earth again will create many earthquakes and turmoil. Heaven on earth can only happen by earth passing through the darkness again.

I write this from my own experiences passing through the darkness to Heaven and coming back here in my physical body several times.

We truly are entering wonderful times.

[SaxxonWoods]

The Rapture happened already, how about that.

[SaxxonWoods]

The Rapture happened already, how about that.

[Big Red Badger]

Mysterious Passage;

For God So Loved the World...

[Ms. AntiFeminazi]

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[af_vet_1981]

Matthew asserts that many (indicating more than a few, but not necessarily thousands, hundreds or even dozens) rose bodily and appeared to many (again, indicating more than a few, but not necessarily thousands, hundreds or even dozens).

While this may be a taste of what is to come, it does not seem to fit the prophecy in Ezekiel in scope or detail.
1. The bones are the כָּל-בֵּית יִשְׂרָאֵל (all the House of Israel)
2. The LORD will bring them into the land of Israel where they will dwell forever in a covenant of peace
3. They shall know who the LORD is when He does this
4. The LORD will gather the dispersed of Israel from the nations and bring them into the land of Israel
5. The LORD will make them one nation in the land of Israel with one King
6. The LORD shall save and cleanse them and they shall keep His commandments
7. His sanctuary and tablernacle shall be in the midst of them forever and the nations (Gentiles) shall know the LORD does this.

The hand of the Lord was upon me, and brought me forth in the spirit of the Lord: and set me down in the midst of a plain that was full of bones. And he led me about through them on every side: now they were very many upon the face of the plain, and they were exceeding dry. And he said to me: Son of man, dost thou think these bones shall live? And I answered: O Lord God, thou knowest. And he said to me: Prophesy concerning these bones; and say to them: Ye dry bones, hear the word of the Lord. Thus saith the Lord God to these bones: Behold, I will send spirit into you, and you shall live. And I will lay sinews upon you, and will cause flesh to grow over you, and will cover you with skin: and I will give you spirit and you shall live, and you shall know that I am the Lord. And I prophesied as he had commanded me: and as I prophesied there was a noise, and behold a commotion: and the bones came together, each one to its joint. And I saw, and behold the sinews, and the flesh came up upon them: and the skin was stretched out over them, but there was no spirit in them. And he said to me: Prophesy to the spirit, prophesy, O son of man, and say to the spirit: Thus saith the Lord God: Come, spirit, from the four winds, and blow upon these slain, and let them live again. And I prophesied as he had commanded me: and the spirit came into them, and they lived: and they stood up upon their feet, an exceeding great army. And he said to me: Son of man: All these bones are the house of Israel: they say: Our bones are dried up, and our hope is lost, and we are cut off. Therefore prophesy, and say to them: Thus saith the Lord God: Behold I will open your graves, and will bring you out of your sepulchres, O my people: and will bring you into the land of Israel. And you shall know that I am the Lord, when I shall have opened your sepulchres, and shall have brought you out of your graves, O my people: And shall have put my spirit in you, and you shall live, and I shall make you rest upon your own land: and you shall know that I the Lord have spoken, and done it, saith the Lord God: And the word of the Lord came to me, saying: And thou son of man, take thee a stick: and write upon it: Of Juda, and of the children of Israel his associates: and take another stick and write upon it: For Joseph the stick of Ephraim, and for all the house of Israel, and of his associates. And join them one to the other into one stick, and they shall become one in thy hand. And when the children of thy people shall speak to thee, saying: Wilt thou not tell us what thou meanest by this? Say to them: Thus saith the Lord God: Behold, I will take the stick of Joseph, which is in the hand of Ephraim, and the tribes of Israel that are associated with him, and I will put them together with the stick of Juda, and will make them one stick: and they shall be one in his hand. And the sticks whereon thou hast written, shall be in thy hand, before their eyes. And thou shalt say to them: Thus saith the Lord God: Behold, I will take the children of Israel from the midst of the nations whither they are gone: and I will gather them on every side, and will bring them to their own land. And I will make them one nation in the land on the mountains of Israel, and one king shall be king over them all: and they shall no more be two nations, neither shall they be divided any more into two kingdoms. Nor shall they be defiled any more with their idols, nor with their abominations, nor with all their iniquities: and I will save them out of all the places in which they have sinned, and I will cleanse them: and they shall be my people, and I will be their God. And my servant David shall be king over them, and they shall have one shepherd: they shall walk in my judgments, and shall keep my commandments, and shall do them. And they shall dwell in the land which I gave to my servant Jacob, wherein your fathers dwelt, and they shall dwell in it, they and their children, and their children's children, for ever: and David my servant shall be their prince for ever. And I will make a covenant of peace with them, it shall be an everlasting covenant with them: and I will establish them, and will multiply them, and will set my sanctuary in the midst of them for ever. And my tabernacle shall be with them: and I will be their God, and they shall be my people. And the nations shall know that I am the Lord the sanctifier of Israel, when my sanctuary shall be in the midst of them for ever.

Ezekiel, Catholic chapter thirty seven, in its entirety,
Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition (DRA)

[Zuriel]

When Christ died the veil was rent, and there was an earthquake, which broke rocks and opened graves. It says that many bodies of the saints that slept arose.

But the next verse seems to indicate that they didn’t come out of the graves until after the resurrection. Did they lay there awake for three days, until Jesus Christ arose from the dead?

My question is this: is it possible that these were really no different than Lazarus. Dead is dead; whether 4 days, or 4 years. Lazarus wasn’t raised with a glorified body.

[ravenwolf]

Hosea 6:2

“After two days will he revive us: in the third day he will raise us up, and we shall live in his sight.”

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I believe it was just visual proof of the resurrection.

Hosea 6:2 shows that others went with Jesus.