Matthew 28:11–15
The Bible4Jesus.com Podcast
About this episode
It is not a lovely story, not a helpful metaphor, not a spiritual feeling in the heart. An angel descended, the ground shook, a stone that took multiple men to move was tossed aside like a bottle cap, and a detachment of professional Roman soldiers fainted dead away like terrified schoolgirls. When this kind of raw, cosmic power is unleashed in the world, you cannot remain neutral to it. You cannot simply shrug and go about your business. The first reaction is worship, which we see in the women who met the risen Lord. It is to see the blinding light of God's glory and to immediately start building a thicker, blacker set of curtains. What we are about to witness is the birth of the first great anti-Christian conspiracy theory. They had even taken extraordinary measures to prevent any deception.