A beauty of Scripture is in the details. Little things mean so much. The connections…I have one to suggest today.
What caught my attention in Luke’s Easter account is the “idleness”
of the disciples when the women bring the news of the angels. Vs. 11, “But these words (of the women)
seemed to them (the disciples minus Peter) an idle tale, and they did
not believe them.”
The echo of this episode is from Genesis 3. In that story, Satan approaches Eve with the First
Temptation of Humanity, which she then shares with Adam. There is a unity in their action which Adam
then fractures when he lays the blame for eating the pomegranate (Apple? Banana? Biblical mystery).
In Luke 24, the angels appear to Mary Magdalene, Joanna,
Mary the mother of James, and the other women.
Instead of a deception, it is about redemption. What Satan had torn asunder in deceiving Eve
and Adam has been repaired and renewed.
But unlike Satan, the angels are not speaking their own
words, but repeating what the women already know. “Remember how he told you, while he was still
in Galilee, that the Son of Man must be handed over to sinners, and be
crucified, and on the third day rise again?”
Then they remembered.
With the gentlemen, it took a moment. I get that. Not that men are thick or anything...but that a crucified, broken, bloody body was back?
I love the details. I will fully admit, I may be completely off
with this, regardless, God’s inspiration of Scripture is beautiful. Thanks for taking the moment to think about this
with me.
Peace
pastor pete
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