“And, behold, there was a great earthquake: for the angel of the Lord descended from heaven, and came and rolled back the stone from the door, and sat upon it.”
(Matthew 28:2)
The women had asked among themselves as they were on their way to Jesus’ tomb, “Who shall roll us away the stone from the door of the sepulcher?” Mark 16:3) They had not understood Jesus’ teaching about the resurrection. They thought that they were to get someone to help them roll the stone away.
We have questions concerning other things impossible for our feeble hands to do. “How can we cross the Red Sea?” “How shall we cross the Jordan River?” “How will we defeat the city of Jericho?” “My income is small and how shall I possibly tithe and give anything to the Lord through the church?”
The Bible says an angel came and rolled back the stone. The stone was removed to let the women in, not to let Jesus out. In His resurrection body it did not matter whether or not the stone was removed. On our resurrection morning no one will be called on to remove the soil from over our graves. We will be called out by the power of God without disturbing a single blade of grass.
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