Entombment of Jesus Christ

Luke 23:50-56 

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“Now there was a man named Joseph, a member of the Council,
a good and upright man, 
who had not consented to their decision and action.
He came from the Judean town of Arimathea,
and he himself was waiting for the kingdom of God.“
Luke 23:50-51

For many, the death of Jesus Christ meant the end to the hope of establishing the Kingdom of God. His death meant it was over. They would remain in the way life always was before, living to be “good and upright” without experiencing the Kingdom of God.

Many of the Jewish people were hoping Jesus Christ was the Messiah that would set up the Kingdom of God here on earth. Similar to today, the majority of people are hoping to set up an earthly utopia. To make that happen, they rely on the thing that has power over physiology, externalities, and is able to form their thoughts, emotions, words and behaviors. It enables the image of the beast to live and speak through them as they are conformed to their place in life within the global culture. They are conformed to their mark in life as they are groomed to the mark of the beast.

As Jesus Christ began to be betrayed, mocked, ridiculed, punished, and eventually executed, His followers began to abandon the hope of Him being the Messiah. Even today, because of the ridicule, mockery, and affliction, many followers of Christ are abandoning the idea of eternal life in the New Jerusalem. The dead body of Christ is easily seen in the hands of prominent community leaders who are described as good and upright people. They have given up on the testimony of Jesus Christ, even though they did not personally consent to the killing of the Gospel. They are people who had wished for a better world through Christ, but now the Gospel is dead. Now they can only be described as “good and upright” without holding to their hope of the eternal Kingdom of God through faith in Jesus Christ.

“Going to Pilate, he asked for Jesus’ body. 
Then he took it down, wrapped it in linen cloth and placed it in a tomb cut in the rock,
one in which no one had yet been laid. 
It was Preparation Day, and the Sabbath was about to begin.”
Luke 23:52-54

Every time that I buy something related to Jesus Christ, I feel like I’m storing up dead relics that no longer have any meaning. I have three Bibles and two electronic Bibles, I have t-shirts that lift up the name of Jesus Christ, I have a twenty-four-inch Cross, I have a full-set manger scene, and a wall poster that lifts up the name of Jesus. It’s as if those things are just sitting in a tomb. Visitors ignore the manger scene, cross, and wall poster. People who read my t-shirts take it as an invitation to use and abuse me, and the Bibles are like talking about “Anne Frank’s Diary.” All of the things related to Jesus Christ are placed in a tomb cut in a rock to make it extremely difficult to access. Jesus Christ is isolated into a tomb a a burial for His body.

The thing which forms what people think, feel, do, and say has been set up as God in the temple of God, our body, while Jesus Christ is laid to rest.

While “good and righteous” people are entombing Jesus Christ, I cherish every “relic” that I own that lifts up His name. Even though it feels like I’m living in a Christian tomb of Christian artifacts, I will honor Jesus Christ until the day that I die or until He returns, whichever comes first.

“The women who had come with Jesus from Galilee followed Joseph
and saw the tomb and how His body was laid in it. 
Then they went home and prepared spices and perfumes. 
But they rested on the Sabbath in obedience to the commandment.”
Luke 23:55-56

I am just like the women who had come with Jesus from Galilee (Some people even refer to me as being a woman because I live my life for the Lord Jesus Christ). I see how the world is entombing Christ in such a way to block access to even His dead body. They want no remembrance of Him at all. The Christ-centered “relics” in my apartment and my t-shirts are something they are quietly eliminating, one generation at a time and one person at a time. Yet, I prepare spices and perfumes to spread all over His body from head to toe. Those spices and perfumes are every good thought, emotion, word, and behavior that I can give to Him in this anti-Christian world. I am resting from buying into the “good and upright without Jesus Christ” way of thinking. I am resting from being a part of those trying to build an earthly eutopia. I will prepare spices and perfumes for Jesus Christ until the day of His return, or until the day that I die, and I will be resurrected to be with Him forever.

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“….to you who do not hold to her teaching and have not learned Satan’s so-called deep secrets,“
‘I will not impose any other burden on you, except to hold on to what you have until I come.’”
“I am coming soon. Hold on to what you have, so that no one will take your crown.”
Revelation 2:24-25, 3:1