The Resurrection and Ascension of the LORD Yeshua. Mark CH 16.

Truth In Scripture Pastor Rick Kabrick Sunday, April 21, 2024 The Resurrection and Ascension of the LORD Yeshua. Mark CH 16.
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The climax to Mark’s gospel is the resurrection. With it, Yeshua is declared to be the Son of GOD with power, and the disciples go from acting like defeated followers to fiery witnesses for the LORD. The good news, the Gospel about Yeshua is that through the resurrection of Yeshua, sin was dealt with, death was defeated. It was this message that lay at the heart of the apostles preaching.
That all four gospels also agree that a group of women discovered the empty tomb is significant, for women were not generally treated as reliable witnesses in first-century Judaism. The gospels’ agreement, therefore, is strong evidence for the fact of the resurrection. If the disciples had invented this story, they are unlikely to have made women the primary witnesses to the empty tomb.
We do know they witnessed the arrival of the angel who rolled the stone away and were overwhelmed by terror, becoming like ‘dead men’. They certainly realized something extraordinary had occurred – enough to warrant a report to the Jewish authorities. However, despite the deep impression these events must have left on them, they allow themselves to be bribed into denying them.