The Day Between
Christ died yesterday.
He defeats death tomorrow.
We know that. But they did not.
What were Mary and the disciples thinking/feeling today?
The day between.
Los
Christ died yesterday.
He defeats death tomorrow.
We know that. But they did not.
What were Mary and the disciples thinking/feeling today?
The day between.
Los
RAIN IT DOWN
I can’t even imagine…
can’t be put into words.
It was the Sabbath. So it’s not like they could have even occupied themselves with something else to try to forget about it.
great thought…
adrift?
hopeful?
vengeful?
undoubtedly, sad.
I was just thinking about that this morning. I woke up with part of a Caedmon’s Call song (My absolute favorite band) stuck in my head. It goes:
“It’s like that long Saturday
between Your death and the rising day
when no one wrote a word
wondered ‘is this the end?’
But you were down there in the well,
Saving those that fell.”
Undoubtedly, those left behind were confused and lost, but Jesus had more important things to do at the moment.
Maybe it was a test to see who’s faith would last even one day without their God tangible and real in front of them, instead of like the rest of us, faith in the unseen.
Guess what our sermon was about? What did Jesus do on the first Easter: that morning, that evening, that afternoon.
That afternoon? That isn’t in the Gospels. No, but…
Daniel 7… start at verse 9
We do believe in the second coming but my pastor made the strongest case that Daniel 7 happened in the afternoon after He told Mary “Don’t touch me because I haven’t ascended to the Father yet (not the 40 days later on) so that you can be with the Father and go tell my dim-witted disciples” to the evening when He showed Himself to the aforementioned disciples.
I have to post up my pastor’s sermon and my notes as soon as it is done. I volunteered last night so I can go in tonight and just absorbed it all. I am so glad I am going to hear this sermon twice and perhaps again tomorrow morning.
Ugh, I am ahead of myself. (I keep going inbetween Crucified on Wednesday, risen on Friday and Crucified on Friday, risen on Sunday camps.)
Today was the day Jesus descended into Hades, walked up to Satan and Death and told them, “Give me the keys and by the way, your dominion is no longer yours but mine.”
Whoa…
Satan thought he won when Jesus was crucified. Then the next day, Satan lost his dominion. Going from the extreme win to the extreme loss. *tiny violins
You don’t know me…(I am a blog stalker!) I saw you on LA Ink…then found your blog through some other blogs I read…I love how you love Jesus! Anyway, I thought that too this morning when I woke up…hard to imagine!
doesn’t the bible make a point about Jesus being dead three days?
they had to go a couple days there with their grief and confusion, trying to regroup and figure out what to do next.
Hiding in Emmaus… maybe. Can’t imagine the feelings and thoughts either. Fear? Disappointment?
I would imagine sorrow. Unbelievable sorrow. I would think it would have been too soon to be feeling much else.
Grieved, stayed in Jerusalem, kept the Sabbath, ate meals and talked and cried – that’s what I’ve done when someone I loved died – except for the being in Jerusalem and keeping the Sabbath part. I was thinking about what were they doing early this morning – even more I was thinking of what HE was doing – freeing the believing people from Sheol and preparing for the next part of his earthly ministry.
This thought has consumed me for the past couple of weeks. We are stoked about tomorrow because we know it is coming. Can’t even begin to understand the loss of hope on this day. Incredible.
My thought would be unbelievable heartache and doubt. I don’t know what they thought, but my faith would have been shot. Here’s the guy who says he’s King of the Jew’s, the Messiah, the Son of God and now he’s… dead. What do you do with that? We have the luxury of knowing that Sunday is coming, but they didn’t.
I was just thinking that same thing when I woke up this morning. Hard to imagine.