WE REJOICE IN HOPE OF THE GLORY OF GOD – Romans 5

This marvelous peace is exactly the blessing which troubled man most needs and so incessantly seeks, even if his seeking is but an unfulfilled subconscious longing after it.

CHRIST AND MAN’S SIN – John 1

Christ bore our sins in his own body on the tree, thus accomplishing what no typical lamb ever achieved.

THE SEVEN CALVARY MIRACLES PART SEVEN – THE RESURRECTION OF THE SAINTS – Matthew 27

Seven is a perfect number because it is divisible only by itself and by unity; moreover the derivative, as in the accompanying diagram, reveals the most common pattern in nature.

God rested on Day Seven.

THE SEVEN CALVARY MIRACLES PART FIVE – THE OPENING OF THE GRAVES OF THE RIGHTEOUS – Matthew 27

At first it seems those two events occurred simultaneously; but the next verse notes that it was “after his resurrection” that they actually came out of their graves and appeared in the city, thus the mention of the saints in Matthew 27:52 is for the purpose of revealing which graves were opened.

THE SEVEN CALVARY MIRACLES PART FOUR – THE EARTHQUAKE – Matthew 27

First, even the most ordinary of earthquakes would in this case, due to its timing, have been strongly suggestive of the supernatural; but this was far more and utterly different from any ordinary earthquake.

CONCERNING ANGELS – Hebrews 1

The angels have the nature of servants, or “ministers,” as stated here, and thus must ever be accounted inferior to Jesus our Lord; despite this, however, those shining creatures of the unseen world possess a magnificence beyond our imagination; and the service they give to God and their activities on behalf of the saints, so mysteriously mentioned here, are matters of surpassing interest and curiosity.

THE SEVEN CALVARY MIRACLES PART THREE – THE RIPPING OF THE CURTAIN OF THE TEMPLE – Matthew 27

The veil has been torn in two. Do not let it come back. Take it away forever. Let it come no more between the face of the redeemed and that of the Redeemer!