When we first read about the resurrection and we follow the scriptures best we can from the Sunday of resurrection until Pentecost, there are a lot of events that take place that we sometimes aren’t aware of. They happen so fast that we just kinda skip over them. After a decent amount of research on my part, I was able to find several websites I found this about the resurrection to Pentecost.  We found there were many differences of opinion, and we tried to put all of those together and look at it from the point of being accurate were scripture was concerned. Most of us are not theologians and so we have to read something and try to understand it to the best of our abilities, but what we’re going to see here are some theoretical suggestions based on fact from the Bible. So I encourage you to read these and if you have an objection to them then look elsewhere. But most of all allow the Holy Spirit to speak to you and help you discern what it is we’re trying to pass on to you. After each event, I will list the scriptures from the Bible, where those events can be found.

So we will start with resurrection day. Early Sunday morning and angel came in wrote back the stone of Jesus’s tomb, the guards being fearful and couldn’t believe what they were saying. They just fell out or became dead. Matthew 28:2–4.

Mary Magdalene, marry, the mother of James and Salome came to the tune with spices they found the stone ruled away.  Matthew 28:1, Mark 16:1–4, Luke 24:1–3, and John 20:1.

In the next event, we find the women entering the tomb and finding the angel within now Luke records that there were two of them two angels and and the Angels tell them Jesus has risen. He instructed him to go and tell the disciples and Peter and that he will meet them in Galilee. Matthew 28:5–7, Mark 16:5–7, Luke 24:4–6.

The next two events listed in the order that they took place was it Mary Magdalene ran and told Peter and John they’ve taken the Lord away and I don’t know where he is. John 20:2 then Peter and John run to the tomb and of course, John out runs Peter, but he waits for Peter before he enters the tune. It is written in some places at John believe after seeing the empty tomb of course, he was in a state of wonderment. After seeing the grave clothes in the empty tomb, John and Peter left and went back to where they were staying. Luke 24:12, John 20:3–10.

We encounter Mary Magdalene again, she was alone and weeping at the tomb. When Jesus appeared to her. She believed for a moment that he might be the keeper of the grave and she asked if he knew where Jesus’s body was. John 20:11–15.

It is at this point that Jesus revealed himself to her as he spoke her name and told her not to touch him because he is not yet ascended to his father. John 20:15–17.

Now the next two events as the other women were on their way to tell the disciples that Jesus had risen, Jesus appeared to them. They fell at his feet and worshiped him. Matthew 28:9 Mary Magdalene, and a group of women report to a group of disciples into the 11 that they have seen Jesus. Matthew 28:8, Mark 16:9–10, Luke 24:9–10, John 20:18.

I’m going to let this next one stand on its own. The disciples they didn’t believe that Jesus had risen with the exception of John who is said to have believed. Mark 16:1124:11, John 20:8.

Then Jesus appears to disciples on their way to Emmaus and he opens their understanding by speaking of Old Testament scripture to them about himself. They rushed back to Jerusalem to let the others know that Jesus is alive. Mark 16:12 

The two arrive late on Sunday evening and found the 11 and others who were with them and told them that they had talked with Jesus. Mark: 14, Luke 24:33–35. They of course did not believe these two men either. Mark 16:13.

Now,  that same evening. We’re still on Resurrection day now just after the report of the two from Emmaus Jesus appeared within the room and said “Peace be unto you.”

Mark 16:14, Luke 24:36, John 20:19. 

The men were afraid when they thought it was a ghost. Jesus told them touch me. They would see he was not a ghost that he has flesh and bone and he showed them his hands and his side. Then he ate some food with them to prove that he was not a ghost. Luke 24:37–43, John 20:20.

During that same evening on resurrection day, Jesus spoke with them and helped them to understand what was going on to the best that he could he spoke of Old Testament scriptures and told him that it would be in Jerusalem that they would receive the promise of the father and being filled with the power from on high. Luke 24:45–49, John 20:22.

There is one discrepancy that we will notice in this next event that Thomas was not with the apostles on this day, even though the scripture states that the two from  Emmaus had reported to the 11 on that evening that and Jesus ended up in the same room to proclaim his resurrection. John 20:24.

When Thomas did return to the group of disciples in the 11 apostles, they told him of the appearance of Jesus he did not believe he said he would have to put his fingers into his hands and then his hand into Jesus’s side before he could believe. John 20:25.

Next week, we will pick up on the eighth day after the resurrection and follow on through to the end of this timetable. So I do look forward to you joining us in “The Pew” next week. I want to be very plain. The source that I used for this information was from a website as follows iamfc.us we should be greatly indebted to the people who did this because this is the first actual events in sort of a time lapse that I’ve seen that are very, very plain and clear and can be followed through the Scriptures so we’re very thankful for that. See you next week.

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