Hey Bible readers, I'm Tara Lee Cobble and I'm your host for the Bible recap.

If you're doing our New Testament plan, today we finished our first and second books,

and if you're doing the whole Bible, we finished our 40th and 41st books.

Congratulations!

It's also kind of a big day in Bible reading plans regardless because it's Resurrection

Day.

First Corinthians 15, when Paul writes about this moment 30 years after the fact, he says,

if Christ has not been raised, then our preaching is in vain and your faith is in vain.

The death and resurrection of Christ is the hinge point of history and the foundation

of our faith.

Roughly three days of past since Jesus was crucified, and it's now the pre-dawn hours

of Sunday morning.

While it's still dark, there's another earthquake that happens concurrent with the appearance

of an angel, and it seems they may be working in tandem to roll the stone away.

We've talked about this before, but angels always appear as human males, which is one reason

why Mark's Gospel may refer to the angel as a young man.

Angels are often dressed in white, and while scripture never shows them with wings or

halos, their appearance is usually described as radiant or like lightning.

There are some scripture-based theories that they may be very large, like bigger than

Shackbig, and when they encounter humans, they often open with the phrase fear not, probably

because of their size and because it seems like they can travel at the speed of thought

and manifest out of thin air.

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