FREAK OUT

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.  Matthew 28: 1-4

There were at least a couple of guards who were stationed by the tomb to make sure that some of those rabble-rousing followers of Jesus didn’t come by and steal the body of Jesus to try to fool the people into believing that He had actually risen from the dead.

Mary Magdalene and just plain Mary got up early and came down to see the tomb and, according to other accounts, were going to anoint Jesus’ body. 

Then, the earth began to shake supernaturally, I guess one could say, as that angel of the Lord broke through into this earthly realm.  Apparently, his aim was bad or else he just wanted to take a stroll while he was here.  For after he arrived, he had to go to the tomb.  At any rate, the angel of the Lord rolled back the stone and sat on it.  I don’t suppose he broke a sweat and had to rest, so I guess he just put himself on display so the guards would just totally freak out.

The Lord is going to supernaturally shake the earth, I believe, in the very near future.  Will you be unprepared as the guards were and totally freak out, or will you be prepared to receive the manifestation of God’s Word when God sends an angel of the Lord to roll away the stone that will signal the Second Coming? 

It is fairly obvious that neither the Romans nor the Jews nor the disciples nor even Jesus’ dearest friends heard or believed Him when He said that He would rise on the third day.  Are you going to be blind-sided as they were by their unbelief?

Father God, Creator of the Heavens and the Earth, the Beginning and the End, help us to listen to you.  Help us to hear your message to us concerning the certain and undeniable truth that the return of Jesus to catch away His Church is on the horizon.  Help us to not be blind-sided.  In the name of Jesus, I ask it and give you the praise for it.  Amen and so be it.  Amen and so be it.