there was an earthquake and the stone was rolled away and it actually says that the guards were shaken I like to say they were freaked out you know the power that brought Jesus out of the Grave that very power is available to you to live your Christian Life you can have the same power in your life every day that brought Jesus back from the dead many historians have said that the resurrection of Jesus Christ is one of the best attested to events in the history of the world he came out of the Grave Victorious over death and it is an

established fact he had put his foot on the throat of Satan and come out Victorious over the grave Israel is a very special place for anyone who goes and I always wondered until recently why when you walk the streets of Jerusalem or you walk in Israel there’s this kind of aura that comes over you and I finally figured it out I was reading and studying for a book and I found five passages that said that Jerusalem was God’s City Israel is God’s Nation it’s where his people are in terms of the future and so when you go to Israel it’s

really amazing and I’ve had some pretty interesting experiences in Israel but never more impressive never more important never more moving than this amen every year we have a service in the garden there and I always go into the tomb and just stand there for a moment and realize that I’m in the place where my Lord was and that he came forth in victory over the grave and that’s why I have the life that I have in Christ and I always like to tell them the story of what it must have been like for the first people that came to the

tomb on that first Easter Sunday the the Bible says it was Mary Magdalene and the other Mary that’s how they describe the visitors and they came early on Easter morning having in their mind at least an idea of seeing some soldiers a stone they had heard the rumors of what had happened when they approached the tomb they were quite surprised soldiers were gone that’s quite an interesting story because you see the Jewish officials had panicked because thousands were turning to Christ and they had heard of jesus’ prediction that he would