Those coming out of the Graves and walking through Jerusalem weren't Resurrected as you f!lsely claim
I agreed and I never taught it! So why did you make false accusation like that? Geez!
they (Were Raised From The Dead) just as Lazarus and Tabitha were, and the very verses you post supports this fact that the resurrection takes place on the future "Last Day"
Wrong on
both counts.
Read the verse carefully:
Matthew 27:52–53
"And the
graves were opened; and
many bodies of the saints which
slept arose, And
came out of the graves after his resurrection, and
went into the holy city, and
appeared unto many."
It says, "
bodies of the saints." It did NOT say Saints. It did NOT say the souls. It says the BODIES.
Read the context again:
Matthew 27:50-53
- "Jesus, when he had cried again with a loud voice, yielded up the ghost.
- And, behold, the veil of the temple was rent in twain from the top to the bottom; and the earth did quake, and the rocks rent;
- And the graves were opened; and many bodies of the saints which slept arose,
- And came out of the graves after his resurrection, and went into the holy city, and appeared unto many."
Thus, the Instant we read here that Christ died, the veil was torn from top to bottom and many people see
this miracle of graves opening and bodies resurrected. These are
not the glorified bodies of the saints, as glorified bodies do not appear as normal human bodies. This was obviously done as another
sign that Christ was the resurrection and the Life, just as when He raised Lazarus.
Allow me to explain... Saints are not in the ground. They are not in their earthly bodies. Worms are in those bodies. Those bodies are but a pile of dust, okay? So, if those saints were saved (which they were), then they were already
absent from the bodies that were revealed as coming out of the earthly graves, and were present with the Lord. When Moses spoke with Christ in the garden, He wasn't in a body, He was in
His glorified body. Remember, Christ having been slain from the foundation of the world.
What we really are
clearly told here, is that the
bodies "of" the saints came out of the grave after His resurrection, and appeared unto many. Not the souls of the saints, or the saints, but the
bodies of the saints. They are not the "resurrected" bodies. These "bodies" [soma] came out of the grave after His resurrection and went into the Holy city and appeared unto many
as a sign. By the normal use of grammatical expression, we would understand bodies coming out of the grave (on Earth) and appearing unto many, as referring to things happening on Earth. It doesn't say nor imply that dead bodies went into heaven and appeared unto Spirits, or to God in Heaven. There is no reason to "read into this text" that they went into heaven and appeared unto many spirits there, but ample reason that they should
appear unto men on earth as a sign, and those men
TESTIFIED of this. "People" of the city saw them.
Please understand this. It is for "God's purposes" it was called that here. And that is how the testimony of Jerusalem would be recorded that we understand the
deeper spiritual meaning of bodies rising out of the grave after Christ's resurrection and going into it. Since Jerusalem is "called" the Holy City. The Building is "called" the Holy Temple. The nation "called Israel, the Holy nation. This is done in scripture specifically
because God is "signifying" by this, the deeper Spiritual truth. Namely, the actual resurrection of the saints from "Spiritual death" unto New Jerusalem, manifested in this bodily resurrection from physical death and these bodies going into earthly Jerusalem. Selah!
Vis-à-vis, the resurrection of Lazarus spiritually, is manifested to us in the resurrection of Lazarus physically. The healing of people spiritually, is manifested to us by the healing of people physically. The Poisoning of men spiritually, is manifested to us by the poisoning of men physically. The feeding of the hungry spiritually, is manifested to us by the feeding of the hungry physically. The list of such miraculous phenomenon goes on and on, get it? And the point of
"ALL" of them is some spiritual truth that transcends these physical miracles on earth. So even as physical healing really has nothing to do with true salvation, so bodies of Saints' corpses leaving the grave and appearing to many in the Holy City of Jerusalem, has
nothing to do with spiritual resurrection. But it is a
"picture" or snapshot of this true Resurrection for all to consider. And that's why it's in the Bible.
I know that some people will ask me what happened to the bodies of the aints after appeared to many in Jerusalem where people "saw" them. Again, God didn't tell us, so I guess its not important then. It's beside the point, which of course many are missing. We could ask, what happened to the ass that saw the messenger of God standing in the way, and fell down and spoke to Balaam? W
ell, I'd say it's beside the point what happened to it! The point is, that was a
miraculous manifestation, a
miracle or
sign to
illustrate some spiritual truth. That is it! Not to demonstrate that all asses can talk. Likewise, the saints bodes had
obviously had long since decayed and rotted away. Thus for any body to come out of the grave, it had to be
reconstituted miraculously for a purpose! It wasn't the saints that rose from that corpse, as they weren't dead, nor in the grave. The bodies of the Saints remained long enough to appear unto many in the Holy City as a miracle. But the miracle is over! Seems like God wanted us to know that. Ergo, what happens to a miraculous manifestation afterward is immaterial.
And... no, the bodies of the Saints will not be "resurrected" on the Last Day as you believe, it already too place at the Cross.
Selah!
