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Friday, March 7, 2014

On the road to Emmaus

After Christ arose he was seen by many. Mary Magdalene being the first.My favorite account is on the road to Emmaus. It gives us a lot of insight to resurrection and being translated. For those who believe that Christ is still dead it is obvious they have not read the scriptures and if they have they either have forgotten or they do not understand what they have read.Again and again Christ or angels remind them this was the plan that Christ should be crucified and on the third day rise again. We are so like them. We have the Bible even as the people in Christ day had what we now call the old testament, we believe in Christ and yet we do not understand any more than they did.
  As Christ walked with them on the road to Emmaus he opened to them the scriptures beginning at Moses. And when their eyes were opened he vanished out of their sight. So we understand then that a translated being has the ability to become invisible. They said one to another, did not our hearts burn with in us as he talked with us and while he opened to us the scriptures. As they are telling the others of their experience Jesus himself stood in their mist.
When Christ or his angels appear to us it is when we are thinking about him. Not necessarily when we are reading the scriptures or praying but sometimes in our darkest moments when trouble has us in it's grip and we call on his name. That same burning in our chest can be there in a fox hole with live shells exploding around us either figurative or actual IF we think of him. 
He said unto them, why are ye troubled? Why do thoughts arise in your hearts? Handle me and see that it is me. "For a Spirit hath not flesh and bone, as ye see me have." Then he said unto them. "Do ye have here any meat?" and he ate with them. In John chapter 22 where he asked Simon Peter, "lovest thou me" he had dined with them. And so we see that Christ is real, he is alive.  

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