HOUR THREE - JONATHAN GRAY - WWW.BEFOREUS.COM - 2012 AND REAL PROPHECY IN THE BIBLE - PART 2 CONTINUED FROM LAST WEEK ---- AND ... CONTINUING DISCUSSION OF THE FORBIDDEN SECRET eBOOK - LATEST CHAPTERS RE THE RESURRECTION OF JESUS AND CHRISTMAS ...
"Peter, on Pentecost day 50 days later, did not speak to the crowd as a man who knew he was proclaiming a lie, but as one conscious of the undeniable fact that Jesus Messiah had risen from the dead. That was the main theme of his gripping message. Nobody could contradict him. No one attempted to deny it. The evidence of Jesus' resurrection swept on, to close pagan temples, to cast down idols, to lift men into nobility, and bring hope to a society in despair. "Jesus had said, 'I am the resurrection and the life.' Let me ask you, my friend, Could YOU say that?" "Yes, I could say that!" "But could you make anyone believe it?" There was silence. This greatest of all miracles was universally believed throughout the entire confines of the early Christian movement. A powerful impact was felt because the immediate followers of Jesus who had SEEN HIM PUBLICLY EXECUTED and PUBLICLY BURIED, these same people had even WALKED AND TALKED WITH HIM AFTER HIS RESURRECTION. A forceful, firm belief in all that he was, and in all that he claimed to be, has gripped men, delivered them from the power of enslaving habits and accomplished miracles of transformation in human lives, for multitudes in each generation ever since. If Jesus had not risen from the dead, there would never have been Christianity — nor the New Testament writings.
