67-Guards-Endnotes



	TEMPLE GUARDS ENDNOTES OF SCHOLARLY SOURCES *{Where Document name is cited first, it is Quoted}*

[1]�� THE BIBLE, MATTHEW 27:19 - While court was still in session, Pilate's wife sent him a message:� "Don't get mixed up in judging this noble man.� I've just been through a long and troubled night because of a dream about him."

[2]�� THE BIBLE, LEVITICUS 23:3-5; 27-32 Sabbath technically means day of rest so that, in addition to the seventh day of each week, all sacred assemblies, regardless of which day of the week they fell on, were considered sabbaths] ~ The seventh day is a Sabbath of rest, a day of sacred assembly....the sacred assemblies you are to proclaim at their appointed times.� The Lord's Passover begins at twilight on the fourteenth day of the first month....The tenth day of this seventh month is the Day of Atonement.� Hold a sacred assembly....It is a sabbath of rest for you....From the evening of the ninth day of the month until the following evening you are to observe your sabbath.

[3]�� THE BIBLE, MATTHEW 27:62-63; 12:40 [NIV] - The next day, the one after Preparation Day, the chief priests and the Pharisees went to Pilate.� "Sir," they said, "we remember that while he was still alive that deceiver said, 'After three days I will rise again.' "...."For as Jonah was three days and three nights in the belly of a huge fish, so the Son of Man will be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth."

[4]�� THE BIBLE, MATTHEW 27:64 [NIV] - "So give the order for the tomb to be made secure until the third day.� Otherwise, his disciples may come and steal the body and tell the people that he has been raised from the dead.� This last deception will be worse than the first."

[5]�� THE BIBLE, MATTHEW 27:65 - "Take a guard," Pilate answered.� "Go, make the tomb as secure as you know how."

[6]���� According to early Bible accounts in 1 Chronicles 9:22-30, temple guards were used similar to bank guards today.� There were 212 of them originally set up by King David 1000 years prior to Jesus' time.� They were armed, and guarded each entrance to the Temple.� They also guarded the Temple treasuries since they did not have banks then.� Apparently there was a check-out system, and whenever priests needed gold or brass implements to carry out worship, the guards were in charge of that.� They also guarded the food store rooms of the priests, and the donations of worshippers.� At night they locked the doors, guarded the building all night, then unlocked them each morning.� They were all Levites, one of the twelve tribes of Israel, set aside for occupations strictly in service to God.

[7]�� THE BIBLE, MATTHEW 27:66 [NIV] - So they went and made the tomb secure by putting a seal on the stone and posting the guard.

[8]�� THE BIBLE, REVELATION 20:14 [NIV] - Then death and Hades were thrown into the lake of fire.� The lake of fire is the second death.

[9]�� THE BIBLE, EXODUS 12:3-14 - Annually, on the tenth day of this month....all lambs shall be killed....Everyone shall eat roast lamb that night....This observance shall be called the Lord's Passover.

[10]�� SEE VOLUME I, ANGELS' SONG, "Two Fathers, One Son," "Walking Tall" and "Lost in Wonder"

[11]�� THE BIBLE, LUKE 2:10-14 - I'm here to announce a great and joyful event that is meant for everybody worldwide:� a Savior has just been born in David's town, a Savior who is Messiah and Master.� At once the angel was joined by a hugh angelic choir singing God's praises:� "Glory to God in the heavenly heights, peace to all men and women on earth who please him."

[12]�� THE BIBLE, HEBREWS 1:6, 2:9 - When he [God] presents his honored Son to the world, he says, "All angels must worship him"....What we do see is Jesus, made "not quiet as high as angels," and then, through the experience of death, crowned so much higher than any angel, with a glory bright with Eden's dawn light."� In that death, by God's grace, he fully experienced death in every person's place.

[13]�� THE BIBLE, REVELATION 1:18 - Don't fear:� I am First, I am Last.� I'm Alive.� I died, but I came to life, and my life is now forever.� See these keys in my hand?� They open and lock Death's doors, and they open and lock Hell's gates.

[14]�� THE BIBLE, PSALM 36:9; JOHN 4:14 - For you are the Fountain of Life....The water I give will be an artisan spring within, gushing fountains of endless life.

[15]�� THE BIBLE, REVELATION 1:5 - ....Jesus Christ - Loyal Witness, Firstborn from the dead, Ruler.

[16]�� THE BIBLE, EPHESIANS 1:19-20 [NIV]; 1 CORINTHIANS 6:14 - ...his incomparably great power for us who believe.� That power is like the working of his mighty strength, which he exerted in Christ when he raised him from the dead....God honored the Master's body by raising it from the grave.� He'll treat yours with the same resurrection power.

[17]�� THE BIBLE, EPHESIANS 3:16-19 - With both feet planted firmly on love, you'll be able to take in with all Christians the extravagant dimensions of Christ's love.� Reach out and experience the breadth!� Test its length!� Plumb the depths!� Rise to the heights!...God can do anything, you know - far more than you could ever imagine or guess or request in your wildest dreams!

[18]�� THE BIBLE, JOHN 3:19-21 - This is the crisis we're in:� God-light streamed into the world, but men and women everywhere ran for the darkness.� They went for the darkness because they were not really interested in pleasing god.� Everyone who makes a practice of doing evil, addicted to denial and illusion, hates God-light and won't come near it, fearing a painful exposure.� But anyone working and living in truth and reality welcomes God-light so the work can be seen for the God-work it is.

[19]�� THE BIBLE, JOHN 11:25-26 - You don't have to wait for the End.� I am, right now, Resurrection and Life.� the one who believes in me, even though he or she dies, will live.� And everyone who lives believing in me does not ultimately die at all.

[20]�� THE BIBLE, JOHN 8:32; 17:17b [NIV] - Then you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free....Your word is truth.

[21]�� THE BIBLE, REVELATION 9:1,11 - I saw a Star plummet from Heaven to earth.� The Star was handed a key to the Well of the Abyss....the Angel of the Abyss....Destroyer.

[22]�� THE BIBLE, JOHN 10:7-9 - I am the Gate for the sheep....I am the Gate.� Anyone who goes through me will be cared for.

[23]�� THE BIBLE, REVELATION 1:18 -See these keys in my hand?� They open and lock Death's doors, they open and lock Hell's gates.

[24]�� THE BIBLE, ROMANS 6:23 - Work hard for sin your whole life and your pension is death.� But God's gift is real life, eternal life, delivered by Jesus, our Master.

[25]�� THE BIBLE, ROMANS 5:20b-21 - When it's sin versus grace, grace wins hands down.� All sin can do is threaten us with death, and that's the end of it.� Grace, because God is putting everything together again through the Messiah, invites us into life - a life that goes on and on and on, world without end.

[26]�� THE BIBLE, ROMANS 8:37-39 - Do you think anyone is going to be able to drive a wedge between us and Christ's love for us?� There is no way!� Not trouble, not hard times, not hatred, not hunger, not homelessness, not bullying threats, not backstabbing, not even the worst sins listed in Scripture:� "They kill us in cold blood because they hate you.� We're sitting ducks; they pick us off one by one."� None of this fazes us because Jesus loves us.� I'm absolutely convinced that nothing ~ nothing living or dead, angelic or demonic, today or tomorrow, high or low, thinkable or unthinkable ~ absolutely nothing can get between us and God's love because of the way that Jesus our Master has embraced us.

[27]�� THE BIBLE, EXODUS 33:18; 34:6-7a [NIV] - And Moses said, "Now show me your glory"....And he passed in front of Moses proclaiming, "The Lord, the Lord, the compassionate and gracious God, slow to anger, abounding in love and faithfulness, maintaining love to thousands, and forgiving wickedness, rebellion and sin."

[28]�� THE BIBLE, 1 CORINTHIANS 15:55-58a - "Death swallowed by triumphant Life!� Who got the last word, oh, Death?� Oh, Death, who's afraid of you now?"� It was sin that made death so frightening and law-code built that gave sin its leverage, its destructive power.� But now in a single victorious stroke of Life, all three ~ sin, guilt, death ~ are gone, the gift of our Master, Jesus Christ.� Thank God!� With all this going for us, my dear, dear friends, stand your ground.

[29]�� THE BIBLE, ROMANS 6:5-6 - That's what baptism into the life of Jesus means.� When we are lowered into the water, it is like the burial of Jesus, when we are raised up out of the water, it is like the resurrection of Jesus.� Each of us is raised into a light-filled world by our Father so that we can see where we're going in our new grace-sovereign country.

[30]�� THE BIBLE, MATTHEW 28:2-4 - Suddenly the earth reeled and rocked under their feet as God's angel came down from heaven, came right up to where they were standing.� He rolled back the stone and then sat on it.� Shafts of lightning blazed from him.� His garments shimmered snow-white.� The guards at the tomb were scared to death.� They were so frightened, they couldn't move.

[31]�� THE BIBLE, JOHN 20:1 - ....saw that the stone was moved away from the entrance.� [NOTE:� The Greek word translated here as moved is "airo" meaning to lift up and take away, or to fly away.� This was the same word used in John 19:31 where the Jews requested the bodies on the cross be taken away.]

[32]�� THE BIBLE, MATTHEW 28:11 - Meanwhile, the guards had scattered, but a few of them went into the city and told the high priests everything that had happened.�

[33]�� SEE VOLUME 5, FLOOD GATES, "Portals of Paradise"

[34]�� THE BIBLE, MATTHEW 28:12-15 - They called a meeting of the religious leaders and came up with a plan:� They took a large sum of money and gave it to the soldiers, bribing them to say, "His disciples came in the night and stole the body while we were sleeping."� They assured them, "If the governor hears about your sleeping on duty, we will make sure you don't get blamed."� The soldiers took the bribe and did as they were told.� That story, cooked up in the Jewish High Council, is still going around.

[35]�� THE BIBLE, ISAIAH 5:19-20 - They even mock the Holy One of Israel and dare the Lord to punish them.� "Hurry up and punish us, O Lord," they say, "We want to see what you can do!"� They say that what is right is wrong, and what is wrong is right; that black is white and white is black; bitter is sweet and sweet is bitter.

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