EASTER and the EMPTY TOMB is all about CHRIST IN YOU! A revolutionary look at the Resurrection

The text discusses the deeper, metaphorical meanings behind biblical scriptures, suggesting that the literal interpretations often hide profound spiritual truths. It emphasizes that understanding these truths can lead to personal growth and enlightenment. The author uses the story of Mary Magdalene and the empty tomb as an example, suggesting that the story symbolizes the revelation of truth within us, freeing us from our limitations. The text encourages us to seek these deeper meanings in order to fully comprehend our potential and purpose.
This text encourages us to seek truth and understand God’s will, reminding us that Jesus is always with us, often revealed during shared meals. It urges humility, love for others, and being a positive influence in the world. It ends with a message of self-worth and love.

Now, I don’t know if you know this or not, but a lot of things that you’ve been told in Scripture are not exactly the way they appear. You see, there’s a literal meaning, and then there’s a metaphoric meaning. There’s a natural meaning and a spiritual one. But if you’ve ever caught any of my livestreams, and if you haven’t, you should be subscribed so you do, you’ll see that when we actually break down the literal text, and we go to the word origins, and we dissect this, precept upon precept, right? We take these words and we peel them back to find the truth hidden beneath.

There’s another story found in these Gospels. There’s another meaning to the empty tomb. When it says in the book of John, on the first day of the week, the actual word for week means Sabbath. And it wasn’t the first day of the week, it was actually one Sabbath. There is one Sabbath that is approaching. It’s a Sabbath rest. It’s the day that I talk about on this channel. It’s the day where I say the truth is revealed within us, and we’re set free from all of our lies, where that stone has been taken away.

The thing that has been there keeping us from the truth, the thing that has been there hiding the truth from our understanding, the thing that has been there keeping us from our potential, from our purpose, from our true life and nature and calling. When that thing is removed, the truth is set free. And guess what? That’s the story in the book of John. In fact, in the book of John chapter 20, the very first line, if you break down every one of these words, I mean, the truth is like hidden. It’s buried right in there.

It’s going to blow your mind. The first day of the week comes Mary Magdalene early when it was yet dark onto the tomb and sees the stone was taken away from the sepulcher. In other videos, I’ve probably explained to you how names have meaning. Mary means man’s rebellion, Joseph and Mary and Jesus. Joseph means God is added. Mary means their rebellion. Jesus means salvation. God has added to man’s rebellion salvation. Names have meaning. There is a truth that is hidden on every single level. And it isn’t until that seventh day, that day of rest where it’s revealed.

So when we see Mary Magdalene approaching first, we understand it as a picture of man’s rebellious heart. The word Magdalene actually means tower, as in like the Tower of Babel, as in a proud, ignorant people. And on that Sabbath day, which is what it means literally, a proud and ignorant people come to the understanding of the sepulcher. Which in scripture, by the way, is a picture of man’s intellect. Jesus called the Pharisees white washed tombs. In fact, in other scriptures, you find out that their throat, their words, an empty sepulcher, a tomb.

And what is a tomb? A tomb is where you bury the truth, where the truth is hidden. It died. Jesus was put to death at a place called Golgotha, which means the truth is like literally put to death at the place of the skull in our thoughts. So Mary Magdalene, this rebellious and ignorant people, they come to this understanding of the tomb early. It was early. It was still very dark, like the day we’re in today. People are still ignorant of the truth. It’s early, but Mary came to the tomb, came to the sepulcher, and saw that it was taken away.

And when you look at that word taken away and you find out what it means, and you realize that the stone is also symbolic of Christ being taken, the word taken away actually means raised up. As if the truth was raised up out of the tomb. When you take the word origins of that one verse in chapter 20 of John, this is what it reads. The Sabbath rest appeared to a rebellious and proud people during a time of great ignorance. In that day they came to understand that Christ was raised up from within them.

It is interesting to note that Christ is raised from the dead, and that word dead is a plural word, which means many. It’s almost like the dead are those who are ignorant. So we start to see that this literal story, this literal beautiful story, speaking of something that is going on today within each and every one of us. So what happens next is Mary then runs and she goes and she tells everyone how the stone had been taken away. They’ve taken away the Lord out of the tomb and we know not where they’ve laid him.

But when you peel back the layers and you look at the words, what really is happening here is that once that was revealed to those rebellious and ignorant people that are now coming to the knowledge of the truth, the word then in that next verse means consequently. Consequently, when the truth was revealed, it then runs, which means to spread the doctrine quickly. You see, the hope of glory is Christ in you. The hope of glory is you understanding that you are a child of God. Jesus actually says to Mary that I go to my father and to your father, to my God and to your God, making it clear to a rebellious, ignorant people in the dawning of a new day, in the darkness, though it’d be early, that God’s truth will be written on their hearts and that they won’t need to go door to door telling anyone to know the Lord anymore because that day everyone will know the Lord because the truth of God is written within you.

The day that that stone is taken away, the day that Christ is heralded on high, the day that you realize that Christ comes, erkeme, in the flesh, in you. Now, a lot of people are going to say, no, that’s not true, Jacob. Jesus is going to rise in his body. Very, very true indeed. And yet, who is the body of Christ? He actually reveals this a little bit later in that chapter in John, where he stands in their midst. The doors were closed tight. The disciples and everyone, they were all scared. They were in fear for the lives and in their midst, within them, Christ appeared.

And he showed them his hands. Does the hand say to the foot that it is not part of the body? We are the body of Christ. We are the body of Christ. Now, when Mary told the disciples, a lot of them, they didn’t believe at first, right? They had to go and look themselves because as the scripture says, they didn’t actually believe when it said that Jesus would rise from the dead. Because the scripture says they did not know that Christ was going to rise again from the dead, which is interesting because that word again means that it would happen again and again and again, as if there is nothing new under the sun, as if the same was in the beginning, much like back then.

People are going to have a problem believing this. They’re going to have a problem believing the greater things than these that we are to do. They’re going to have a problem believing because just like Peter and the other disciple at that time, they did not know the scripture was not yet revealed that Jesus, that Christ would rise from the dead. Even though we are told Christ in you is the hope of glory, even though we are told that we are the body of Christ, that we are supposed to take the name of Christ and that we are to take on the mind of Christ, even though that we’re told this again and again and again, even though Jesus himself said, I need to go away because you’re looking at me and you think that this is all there is so that I can go and prepare a place for you that where I am, there you are also the father’s house, which just happens to be you, the temple of God.

Paul understood this. That’s why he said, I know no man after the flesh. I used to know Jesus after the flesh, but now I know all after the spirit of God. Paul said, I am crucified with Christ. He understood that within him, that Christ literally took upon his sin and died within him so that he could also rise him back again to life. And that’s the day that we’re in. And that’s what’s going to be happening for each and every one of us. We’re going to come to this tomb ourselves. And if we’re like the disciples and we stoop down before entering in, we humble ourselves before entering in and realizing where Christ truly is.

We’ll find him because those who seek find, I believe we are coming upon a new day, a new day, a day where the truth of God is going to be revealed and it’s going to be shouted from the rooftops, a day where all of our fears and all of our worry and all of our dread will be gone. Just like those on the road to Emmaus who were waiting for a literal physical return of Jesus, which he physically literally returned and will return again. You too will be walking and not even know, as Mary didn’t know, that Christ was there in your midst all along.

Usually in Scripture, he’s revealed when you sit down and you break bread and you start to eat. And I hope that this was a meal that was satisfying to each and every one of you. So don’t take my word for it. Seek the truth no matter what the cost. Go to the empty tomb and stoop yourself down. Get humble and look in and ask God, what is your will? Because it’s God’s will that must be done, not ours in this world after all. I love each and every one of you. Don’t forget to hug and love your neighbors and your friends and be the light that Christ is in this world.

Don’t ever forget you’re more than you know and I love each and every one of you and I’ll talk to you soon. Bye-bye. [tr:trw].