From Background Notes [BN] for August 18th & 19th
written by Pastor Bob Brown:
Did anybody but Jesus know what to expect when the stone was taken away? What sort of language can make sense out of what was about to happen? As we noted early in our series, few people actually thought that dead people could or should rise from their graves. With the exception of a few texts from the Old Testament, supported by certain sects of Judaism…
Did anybody but Jesus know what to expect when the stone was taken away? What sort of language can make sense out of what was about to happen? As we noted early in our series, few people actually thought that dead people could or should rise from their graves. With the exception of a few texts from the Old Testament, supported by certain sects of Judaism…
…people only thought about life in an unknown realm where human beings continued to exist as disembodied souls in a place called Sheol in the Hebrew and Hades in the Greek. Ask a non-Jew about life after death and they would tell you it’s a mixed bag where a few famous people have their stories told by the Greek poets. Or, the dead appear as apparitions with tales of fortune or woe for the living. Burying the dead was important for both Jews and Greeks. Denying burial to a Greek doomed him to a restless wandering among living as a spirit. Recall the tragedy by Sophocles, Antigone, were King Creon denies burial to Polynices for crimes against the state (and against his brother, Eteocles). [BN, 1]
Join us this week in Study, Worship, Praise and Celebration at Chicago First Church of the Nazarene:
* Saturday 6:00pm
* Sunday 8:30am & 11:00am, 5:30pm
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