Chapter 28. Famous People Who Suffered
Loneliness And Depression
Their Woes Increase As The Risen Christ
Rocks Their World!
And as some spake of the temple, how it was adorned with goodly stones
and gifts, he (Jesus) said, “As for those things which ye behold, the days
will come in which there shall not be left one stone upon another, that
shall not be thrown down.” The siege that destroyed Jerusalem killed
an estimated million people. Those Christians who remembered Christ’s
warning were able to flee to Pella before the city was destroyed.
An earthquake rumbled through, and the temple veil was torn from the top
to the bottom, indicating that Jesus had opened the Holy of Holies for the
common people to walk into the presence of God. As Matthew described these
hair-raising terrors (from the chief priests’ point of view) in Matthew
37:50, things went from bad to worse!
Jesus, when he had cried again with a loud voice, yielded up the
ghost. And, behold, the veil of the temple was rent in twain from the top to
the bottom, and the earth did quake, and the rocks rent; and the graves
were opened, and many bodies of the saints which slept, arose, and came out
of the graves after his resurrection, and went into the holy city, and
appeared to many. (Remember how Belshazzar’s bodily functions
betrayed his fear and depression when the disembodied hand wrote his doom on
the wall-causing his hips to rock and his knees to smote, one against the
other? Well, Christian singles, is it too far a stretch to imagine that the
enemies of Jesus experienced Belshazzar’s rocking hips and smoting knees?
After all, the sun went out at mid day, an earthquake rumbled, the veil in
the temple was rent in two, and now, the ultimate horror, the graves of the
saints were opened and all they heard from everyone was, “I see dead
people.”
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