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passage in the Bible where you're like you know what there's a lot of layers here in terms of meaning and I think if we pick at it and we look at other parts of the Bible and we look at the Old Testament and we think about what the author of the book we're looking at is going for and what they tend to do in other

situations we can get to the bottom of it and I think we can get to the bottom of it with

this tricky passage in Matthew 27 that describes people coming back to life. Jesus cries out in a loud

voice he gives up his spirits and Jesus is dead on the cross. At that moment the curtain

of the temple was torn in two from top to bottom. I don't think that

one's that tricky. The earth shook and the rocks split seems like a pretty

straightforward thing, but then verse 52, the tombs broke open and the bodies of

many holy people who had died were raised to life.

They came out of the tombs and after Jesus resurrection they went into the holy city and appeared to many people.

The last couple of days we've been talking about Ezekiel 37.

I don't remember if we hit on the stuff in Daniel and Isaiah

that points to this as well.

I think we had a nod to a couple of the stories. the point is this is

is involving resurrection in first kings, second kings.

The point is this is an Old Testament idea.

Jewish belief had definitely come to a point of saying

all right somehow resurrection of the dead is a sign of the end of things the

coming of the Messianic kingdom There was some kind of expectation of that and the way that

Matthew is paying all of that off right here in the context of the the other payoffs that deal with the problems that are set up from the very beginning,

the problems of sin and death and separation from God, all of that I think theologically works. I think we have gotten to the bottom of it.

Even with difficult passages, I don't think it's usually that tough because of how beautifully

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