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 ESUS RESURRECTED A FRIEND named Lazarus. He cried
before he did it, showing love and compassion for
that person, in John 11:33-35 it was said:
“When Jesus therefore saw her weeping, and the Jews
also weeping which came with her, he groaned in the
spirit, and was troubled, And said, Where have ye
laid him? They said unto him, Lord, come and see.
Jesus wept.”
Then in John 11:43-44, it was further stated:
“And when he thus had spoken, he cried with a loud
voice, Lazarus, come forth. And he that was dead
came forth, bound hand and foot with graveclothes:
and his face was bound about with a napkin. . .”
Peter resurrected Dorcas, a lady-philanthropist at
her own right. Acts 9:36-37 says,
“Now there was at Joppa a certain disciple named
Tabitha, which by interpretation is called Dorcas:
this woman was full of good works and almsdeeds
which she did. And it came to pass in those days,
that she was sick, and died: whom when they had
washed, they laid her in upper chamber . . .”
And in Acts 9:40-41 it was written:
“But Peter put them all forth and kneeled down, and
prayed; and turning him to the body said, Tabitha,
arise. And she opened her eyes: and when she saw
Peter, she sat up. And he gave her his hand, and
lifted her up; and when he had called the saints and
widows, presented her alive.”
Saint Paul resurrected Eutychus, who attended a
Christian gathering up to the wee hour of the
morning. Let us read what was stated in Acts
20:9-10:
“And there sat in a window a certain young man named
Eutychus, being fallen into a deep sleep: and as
Paul was long preaching, he sunk down with sleep,
and fell down from the third loft, and was taken up
dead. And Paul went down and fell on him, and
embracing him said, Trouble not yourselves; for his
life is in him.”
This wonderful and divine act did not start during
the time of Jesus, but during the era of the early
prophets. Elijah resurrected the son of the only
widow who received him in the land of Sidon - I
Kings 17:17-24,
“And it came to pass after these things, that the
son of the woman, the mistress of the house, fell
sick; and his sickness was so sore, that there was
no breath left in him. And she said unto Elijah,
What have I to do with thee, O thou man of God? art
thou come forth unto me to call my sin to
remembrance, and to slay my son? And he said unto
her, give me thy son. And he took him out of her
bosom, and carried him up into a loft, where he
abode, and laid him upon his own bed. And he cried
unto the Lord, and said, O Lord my God, hast thou
also brought evil upon the widow with whom I
sojourn, by slaying her son?
And he stretched himself upon the child three times,
and cried unto the Lord, and said, O Lord my God, I
pray thee, let this child’s soul come into him
again. And the Lord heard the voice of Elijah; and
the soul of the child came into him again, and he
revived. And Elijah took the child, and brought him
down out of the chamber into the house, and
delivered him unto his mother: and Elijah said, See,
thy son liveth.
And the woman said to Elijah, Now by this I know
that thou art a man of God, and that the word of the
Lord in thy mouth is truth.”
Another good example is when the bones of Elisha
came in contact with a dead man and the latter was
resurrected. Let us read in II Kings 13:20-21,
“And Elisha died, and they buried him. And the bands
of the Moabites invaded the land at the coming in of
the year. And it came to pass, as they were burying
a man, that, behold, they spied a band of men; and
they cast the man into the sepulchre of Elisha: and
when the man was let down, and touched the bones of
Elisha, he revived, and stood up on his feet.”
Thus, the resurrection of the dead is an ancient
tradition in the history of God’s servants. But why
did Paul said, in his dispensation, that Christians
must leave the fundamental doctrine of the
resurrection of the dead?
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