CHAPTER 27: THE DEATHS AND BURIAL OF THE RESURRECTED SAINTS

CHAPTER 27: THE DEATHS AND BURIAL OF THE RESURRECTED SAINTS

Matthew 27:52 And the graves were opened; and many bodies of the saints which slept arose,.

If verse Matthew 27:52 is literally a factual account of the bodies of the saints resurrecting out of their graves was it possible that one of the saints was Moses who walked in from across the Jordan River into the holy city? Did Daniel and Noah have their gravesites outside the walls of Jerusalem? Did any other Old Testament saints who had died in far-reaching places wander into the holy city from the sight of their graves? How long would it take for Daniel to wander from Babylon? Among those resurrected with a body, perhaps the most horrific case was the headless corpse of John the Baptist. Could his body walk into the holy city, waiting for his head to roll out of the King's palace?

This resurrection of Matthew 27 would transform every previous resurrection scripture into a miracle within a miracle. All resurrection miracles before and during Jesus' time on earth had not included a NEW BODY. With every previous resurrection, the resurrected were given life in the exact body they had died in. None were placed in a regenerated or recreated body. It was always the same body they had died in.

Not only did they resurrect in the OTW, but they were given brand-new bodies as well. Not only did they resurrect with brand-new bodies...they traveled vast distances and moved their actual grave sites to just outside of Jerusalem!

If recreated the OTW resurrected bodies would have been devoid of any physical or mental abnormalities. They would have been healthy, more healthy than at any time in their previous lives.

Teachers of the Doctrine of the OTW, however, claim that these miraculously healthy resurrected saints had a flaw. This is because they were designed by God to die quickly after receiving the blessings of baptism and perfection.

There is no discussion of how the doctrine's teachers learn this about the bodies of the saints except to say it is a divine supposition. Any denial of this would be considered blasphemy. Teachers of this doctrine teach that a quick exit was provided by God to keep any undo attention from the church because of the notability of the resurrected saints.

Likewise, to stay aligned with this belief in quick death, all Worthies would have died close to the same time due to their shared time of resurrection.

Yet, there is no explanation offered by the same teachers for the immense problems caused by a mass or near mass death situation. How would the early Christian church explain the mass death of sixty-eight or possibly thousands of saints? What would they do in order to be able to go unnoticed within Jewish burial traditions? Wouldn’t burying so many people at one time bring notice to the church causing more persecution?

Even if the resurrected saints had died on separate occasions, the constant burials would have had a significant impact upon the people of the city of Jerusalem as well as the Church of Jesus Christ.

A preparation and burial tradition for just one saint provides attention from the local community to the departed. If all the saints of the resurrection died at the same time in the city, what kind of repercussions would they have had?

Depending on the Jewish interpretation of the Old Testament Law, burial had to occur within 24 hours Deuteronomy 21:23. This was due in part to the climate in Israel, and partly because the body was considered to be ceremonially unclean. Therefore, it had to be prepared for burial as soon as possible.

Shortly after death, family members would come to mourn and prepare the body for burial. The body was washed, anointed with various oils and spices, and wrapped with special white linen grave clothes that contained spices John 19:39-40.

How would the church explain the absence of families in the bodies of sixty-eight or perhaps to the thousands of possibly resurrected saints?

The burial practices of Israel during the time of Jesus included family and friends gathering in very intense periods of mourning, involving loud expressions of sorrow and lamentation. Those who grieved frequently wore sackcloth mourning clothes, made of rough goat-hair fabric, as an expression of sorrow. After the body was prepared, it was carried to the cemetery in a procession. This included professional mourners hired to express the appropriate communal grief, often being accompanied by someone playing the flute.

The period of mourning varied. Some believe that it lasted seven days as it does today in the Orthodox Jewish tradition. However, a rabbinical document refers to the mourning period lasting three days, possibly because after this amount of time it was evident that the person was actually dead. Following the sealing of the tomb, mourning continued for a total of thirty days.

How could the church cover up a succession of saints dying so quickly? Imagine the problem of successive burials of the resurrected, and the seemingly continued funeral processions.

The church’s integrity would have been completely lost, and the church would have been recognized as the Church of Death not the Church of Eternal Life.

This is part of the doctrine of the OTW, yet another fabrication within the secret coverup. One of the most blatant inaccuracies of The Doctrine of the OTW is that the burials were maliciously misplaced. They were also not considered to be information regarding the hidden doctrine of the OTW and are shrouded in the divine secrecy of the church of Jesus Christ.