Being stretched out behind the stone was real for Jesus and it is real for you. It looks like demonic powers have triumphed. It seems that the alliance of hate, injustice, lies, darkness and death have won over love, justice, truth, light and life. We live these tomb times. They are not easy. Tombs are cold and dreary. There appears nothing to warm our souls. The enemy says it is over. Wait! I am feeling the earth shaking! Something is happening!
When it was evening, there came a rich man from Arimathea, named Joseph, who himself had also become a disciple of Jesus. This man went to Pilate and asked for the body of Jesus. Then Pilate ordered it to be given to him. And Joseph took the body and wrapped it in a clean linen cloth, and laid it in his own new tomb, which he had hewn out in the rock; and he rolled a large stone against the entrance of the tomb and went away. And Mary Magdalene was there, and the other Mary, sitting opposite the grave. Matthew 27:57-61 (NASB)
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