Matthew wrote the following: ‘After the sabbath, at dawn on the first day of the week, Mary Magdalene and the other Mary went to look at the tomb. There was a violent earthquake, for an angel of the Lord came down from heaven and, going to the tomb, rolled back the stone, and sat on it. His appearance was like lightning, and his clothes were white as snow. The guards were so afraid of him that they shook and became like dead men.’ (Matthew 28: 1-4) The Holy Spirit gives us here a small account as to what happened to the guards and their reaction to the revelation of a mighty angel, an event unknown and unseen in the world hither to. Many in their days, as in ours do not believe in the existence of God, of angels. Spiritual things very real, which are normal for such celestial beings; al... read more

I believe that Jesus revealed Himself to Mary Magdalene first, to give women the respect they deserve. I remember when I was the pastor of a church, in France, at one point, its oversight needed a replacement, as one of the brothers of it, moved away. Among the members that I presented to the Church membership, for his replacement, was a very faithful dedicated woman. The astonishment of the majority was amazing, in that Roman Catholic country, and it proved my point. When the vote was carried out, she was adopted by the majority. This is not a century ago, at the time of writing it is around twenty-five years ago! Nobody can evangelise, preach, or teach the people of God without the anointing of the Holy Spirit, and it is the Lord that gives these ministries to His Church. I have been,... read more

Mark alone mentions a woman called Salome, being one of the three that went early to the tomb to anoint the body of the Lord. The apostle John, mentions that by the cross stood His mother and His mother’s sister; His Mother’s sister is identify as Salome, the wife of Zebedee, so, it is strongly possible that James and John, were cousins of the Lord Jesus! I believe that the apostle John mentions only Mary Magdalene, because she did not return with the other women, as I mentioned above, and in her despair, she lingered trying to find somebody, that knew something, as to what really happened to the Lord. Following what I wrote above, when Jesus spoke to her, bent down and crying, for some reason she did not recognise His voice at first but: Thinking that it was the gardener, she said: Sir... read more

Nevertheless, what they tried to stop, happened, and a big shock was about to reach them, because some of the guards witnessed the greatest divine intervention of God, for it is written: ‘There was a violent earthquake, for the angel of the Lord came down from heaven and, going to the tomb, rolled back the stone, and sat on it. His appearance was like lightning and his clothes were white as snow. The guards were so afraid of him that they shook and became like dead! Still shaking they run away for fear of their lives: the guards went into the city and reported to the chief priests everything that happened.’: (Matthew 28: 2-4 -- 11). It is not mentioned that the guards saw Jesus come out, for He was out already, but these murderers, when the guards told them what happened early that... read more

So, Peter and John, left the grave pronto! It could be that they were afraid that the Jews were watching them, not knowing what they planned to do to/or with them, they stayed in their rooms behind locked doors for fear of them! Realising that Jesus was taken from the tomb, added to their fears! I can imagine that they felt completely disturbed, for in their minds they thought that it could only be the Jews, that for an unknown reason, took away Christ’s body, they may have done it so that they, His disciples, did not make His tomb a meeting place, and turn it into a shrine. Such a thing was the last thing that they wanted. It was for that reason that they sealed the tomb, and put guards to make sure that His disciples did not come to take his body, and that the Lord’s body remained und... read more

Coming back to the appearances of Jesus Christ, as written in the twentieth chapter of the Gospel of the apostle John, where he mentions how Mary Magdalene finding the tomb empty, distraught and in tears at what she found, her mind in turmoil, runs to tell it to the disciples and found the apostles Peter and John, all excited and out of breath, exclaimed: ‘They have taken the Lord out of the tomb, and we don’t know where they have put him!’ Hearing this they immediately run to the tomb, Peter went in and: ‘saw the strips of linen lying there as well as the burial cloth that had been around Jesus’s head, the cloth was folded by itself, separate from the linen.’ John fearful, would not enter the empty tomb, but once Peter entered it, he followed, and he adds: ‘He saw and believed. After t... read more

So, going back to the gospel of Mark, I need to state again, that it is now accepted that those last verses of it are authentic. (Mark 16: 9-29) I say this because the outpouring of the Holy Spirit, or baptism the with the Holy Spirit is not ended, God restored it definitely to the Church at the beginning of the twentieth century, called the latter rain. But most of the established, humanised Church, did not accept it, including Evangelicals! What the Jews did with the Law, the church, as it likes to be called, this unholy establishment, did with the Gospel; it violated it by replacing its power with precepts of men, Yet, Jesus clearly teaches that men can never, not even the Pope, never mind the country curate, forgive sins, for they are direct acts of rebellion to God! This, they try... read more

Mark ends his gospel with these words: ‘Later Jesus appeared to the eleven as they were eating; He rebuked them for their lack of faith and their stubborn refusal to believe those that had seen Him after he had risen. He said to them, ‘Go into all the world and preach the good news to all creation. Whoever believes and is baptised will be saved, but whoever does not believe will be condemned. And these signs will accompany those who believe: in my name they will drive out demons; they will speak in new tongues; they will pick up snakes with their hands; and when they drink deadly poison, it will not hurt them at all; they will place their hands on sick people and they will get well.’ After the Lord Jesus had spoken to them, He was taken up into heaven and he sat at the right hand of God... read more

The four Gospels mention in detail, step by step, how Jesus appeared and talked with His disciples, ate in their presence and they realised that he was truly alive, that it was not a phantom, but the same Jesus, in a glorified body, Jesus Christ, their beloved Master, resurrected from the dead, appearing, and suddenly disappearing! But they arrived at the stage, that they were fully convinced, and could rejoice over this tremendous miracle, it is my advice that you read it all, and enjoy what is the most challenging message in the world, the greatest miracle ever, for Jesus is the only one, the first man, the Son of God, was alive in an immortal glorified body! victorious over death, and yet, still bearing the marks of the nails in His hands and feet, and the open wound in in His side,... read more

The apostle John remains true to his favourite subject ‘love.’ In the last two chapters of His Gospel, he mentions how Jesus systematically, with great tact and much love appeared to His disciples, from Mary Magdalene on the Sunday at dawn to more than five hundred on the mount of Olives that saw Him ascend to back to heaven. In the twentieth chapter He mentions how she, finding the tomb empty, distraught at what she found, she run to tell it to the disciples, broken up no doubt! finding Simon Peter and John exclaimed: ‘They have taken the Lord out of the tomb, and we don’t know where they have put him.’ Hearing this they both run, Peter went in and: ‘saw the strips of linen lying there as well as the burial cloth that had been around Jesus’s head, the cloth was folded by itself, separa... read more