Gift from Creator Tells the Good Story 28
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A NEW SUNRISE FOR A NEW WORLD
1Then, on the first day of the week following the Day of Resting, as the sun began to rise, Strong Tears (Mary) of the village of Creator’s High Lodge (Magdala) and Brooding Tears (Mary) went to see the burial cave.
2Suddenly the earth began to shake, and a spirit-messenger from the spirit-world above came down from the sky, walked to the burial cave, rolled the stone away—and sat down on it! 3He was shining as bright as a flash of lightning, and his regalia was pure white like freshly fallen snow.
4The soldiers staggered back, trembling with fear, and fell to the ground like dead men.
5-6“Do not fear!” the spirit-messenger said to the women. “The one you are looking for is not here. Creator Sets Free (Jesus), who was killed on the cross, has come back to life again—just as he said. Look! Here is where they laid him. 7Now hurry and go tell his followers that he has risen from the dead. Tell them he is going ahead of them to Circle of Nations (Galilee), and they will see him there. Now remember what I have told you!”
HE APPEARS TO THE WOMEN
8The women ran from the burial cave to bring the good news to his followers. Their hearts were trembling with fear and great joy. 9Suddenly, Creator Sets Free (Jesus) was standing in front of them.
“It is a good morning!” he smiled and said to them.
They came close, held tightly to his feet, and gave great honor to him.
10“Do not fear!” he told them. “Go and tell my brothers to go to Circle of Nations (Galilee), and there they will see me.”
THE SOLDIERS ARE PAID TO KEEP QUIET
11After the women had left the burial cave, some of the soldiers who were guarding the place went to Village of Peace (Jerusalem) and reported everything to the head holy men. 12So they gathered a council together to make a plan.
They decided to pay the soldiers well to make up a story. 13“Tell the people that his followers came and stole his body while you were sleeping,” they said. 14“Do not worry about the governor hearing of this. We will pay him whatever it takes to keep you from trouble.”
Normally the People of Iron (Romans) would have put to death any soldiers who would have let someone steal a body they had been ordered to guard.
15So the soldiers took the money and did as they were told, and even to this day their story has been told far and wide among all the tribes.
FINAL INSTRUCTIONS
It was now time for Creator Sets Free (Jesus) to return to the spirit-world above. It had now been forty days since he had come back to life again. So he gathered his followers, one last time, to give them their final instructions.
16The remaining eleven of his followers journeyed to Circle of Nations (Galilee). There, at the mountain where Creator Sets Free (Jesus) had told them to go, they met with him. 17When they saw him, they gave to him the honor he deserved—but there were some who still doubted.
18“All the authority of the spirit-world above and the earth below has been given to me,” he told them. 19“So now I am sending you into all nations to teach them how to walk the road with me. You will represent me as you perform the purification ceremony#28:19 Baptism with them, initiating them into the life of beauty and harmony represented in the name of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. 20You will then teach them all the ways that I have instructed you to walk in.”
Creator Sets Free (Jesus) then looked into their faces with love and great affection. He lifted his hands toward them and spoke these final blessing words over them.
“Never forget,” he said as he began to rise up into the spirit-world above. “I will always be with you, your invisible guide, walking beside you, until the new age has fully come.”
Aho! May it be so!
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