Proverbs 10:6-7:
6 Blessings are upon the head of the [uncompromisingly] righteous (the upright, in right standing with God) but the mouth of the wicked conceals violence. 7 The memory of the [uncompromisingly] righteous is a blessing, but the name of the wicked shall rot.
As you can see from the Amplified Bible verses above, the righteous are those who have received Jesus of Nazareth as Lord and personal Saviour! We are in right standing with the One, True, Most High, Living, Almighty God of the Bible, through the precious blood of Jesus! We walk in the Blessing. Verse 7 says that even the memory of our lives is a blessing to those who remember us! But the lives of the wicked are not only sad and pitiful while they live, but even the very memory of them "stinks"! Look at these verses in the Message Bible:
6 Blessings accrue on a good and honest life, but the mouth of the wicked is a dark cave of abuse. 7 A good and honest life is a blessed memorial; a wicked life leaves a rotten stench.
Many times you can tell an unbeliever by the words of their mouth. It is truly sad when a believer sounds just like the world! Obey James 1:19 so that when you DO speak, you speak as the oracles of God (1 Peter 4:11)!
In John 20 Mary finds the empty tomb and tells Peter and "the other disciple", whom we know to be John. Look ate verse 8:
8 Then the other disciple, who had reached the tomb first, went it too; and he saw and was convinced and believed.
What did he see that convinced him and caused him to believe? Look at verses 5-6:
5 And stooping down, he saw the linen cloths lying there, but did not enter. 6 Then Simon Peter came up, following him, and went into the tomb and saw the linen cloths lying there;
What was so remarkable about what they saw? Do you remember that it said in chapter 19 that Joseph of Arimathaea and Nicodemus brought 100 pounds of burial spices and wrapped the body of Jesus in the burial cloths with the spices "as the manner of the Jews is to bury"? If you read about Jewish burial customs of the time, you will see that they would wind linen strips of cloth around and around the body, from the feet up. These strips had been covered with liquid spices, 100 pounds of them, that would harden to form a type of cocoon. THAT is what these men saw when they arrived at the empty tomb! The grave clothes had not been cut, but were laying just as they had been left, when the body of Jesus was supernaturally resurrected! Meditate on that for awhile! GLORY TO GOD! Here are two pictures of what may be the empty tomb:
A diagram of the inside of the tomb.
He is not here for He is RISEN!
In 2 Samuel 7:22-24 David is speaking to the One, True God about the nation of Israel:
22 Therefore You are great, O LORD God; for none is like You, nor is there any God besides You, according to all [You have made] our ears to hear. 23 What [other] one nation is there like Your people Israel, whom God went to redeem to be a people for Himself and to make for Himself a name? You have done great and terrible things for Yourself and for Your land, before Your people, whom You redeemed and delivered for Yourself from Egypt, from the nations and their gods. 24 And You have established for Yourself Your people Israel to be Your people forever, and You, LORD, became their God.
Remember that the "gifts and calling of God are without repentance" (Romans 11:29)! He called Israel to be His people, and He called the Church of Jesus of Nazareth to be His people, too! See Romans 9:24-26. The Jewish people never stopped being God's people! Soon and very soon Jesus Himself will APPEAR for the Church! Then we will rise and meet Him in the air! That will commence the final 7 years of Jewish History, where the Word of God says that all Israel shall be saved! See Romans 11:25-26. We are living in THE most exciting time to be alive on the earth! Make sure that you are being a blessing to ALL of God's chosen people! continue to pray for the peace and prosperity of the nation of Israel and the city of Jerusalem!
Shalom in Him!
