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Bro. Don Bergstrom
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Bro. James Knox
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How Many Times
Have We Read Something In The
Bible
Yet Failed To See How Important
It Is?
Why did Jesus fold the linen
burial cloth after His
resurrection?
I never noticed this.
The
Gospel of John (20:7) tells us
that the napkin,
which
was placed over the face of
Jesus, was not just thrown aside
like
the grave clothes.
The
Bible takes an entire verse to
tell us that the
napkin
was neatly folded, and was
placed at the head of that stony coffin.
Early
Sunday morning, while it was
still dark, Mary
Magdalene
came to the tomb and found that
the stone had been rolled
away from
the entrance.
She
ran and found Simon Peter and
the other disciple,
the
one whom Jesus loved. She said,
'They have taken the Lord's body
out of
the tomb, I don 't know
where they have put him!'
Peter
and the other disciple ran to
the tomb to see. The
other
disciple outran Peter and got
there first. He stooped and
looked in
and saw the linen cloth lying
there, he didn't go in.
Then
Simon Peter arrived and went
inside. He also
noticed
the linen wrappings lying there,
while the cloth that had
covered
Jesus' head was folded up and
lying to the side.
Is
that important? Absolutely!
Is
it really significant? Yes!
In
order to understand the
significance of the folded
napkin,
you have to understand
a little Hebrew
tradition of that day. The
folded
napkin had to do with the Master
and Servant, and every Hebrew
boy
knew this tradition.
When
the servant set the dinner table
for the master, he
made
sure that it was exactly the way
the master wanted it .
The
table was furnished perfectly,
and then the servant
would
wait, just out of sight, until
the master had finished eating,
and the
servant would not dare touch
that table, until the master was
finished.
Now
if the master were done eating,
he would rise from
the
table, wipe his fingers, his
mouth, and clean his beard, and
would wad
up that napkin and toss it onto
the table.
The
servant would then know to clear
the table. For in
those
days, the wadded napkin meant,
'I'm done'.
But
if the master got up from the
table, and folded his
napkin,
and laid it beside his plate,
the servant would not dare
touch the
table, because.........
The
folded napkin meant, 'I'm coming
back!'
He
is Coming Back!
"All that is necessary for the
triumph of evil is that good men do
nothing." (Edmund Burke)
