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From Heaven With Love
Jesus refused the homage of His people until He ascended to
the heavenly courts and from God Himself heard the assurance that
His atonement for the sins of men had been ample, that through His
blood all might attain eternal life. The Father ratified the covenant
made with Christ, that He would receive repentant and obedient men
and would love them even as He loves His Son. All power in heaven
and on earth was given to the Prince of life, and He returned to His
followers in a world of sin, that He might impart of His power and
glory to His followers.
While the Saviour was in God’s presence, receiving gifts for His
church, the disciples mourned and wept. The day of rejoicing to
all heaven was to them a day of confusion and perplexity. Their
unbelief in the testimony of the women gives evidence of how low
their faith had sunk. They could not believe the news. It was too
good to be true, they thought. They had heard so much of the so-
called scientific theories of the Sadducees that they scarcely knew
what the resurrection from the dead could mean.
“Go your way,” the angels had said to the women, “tell His
disciples and Peter that He goeth before you into Galilee: there shall
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ye see Him, as He said unto you.” The message of these angels to
the disciples should have convinced them of its truth. Such words
could have come only from the messengers of their risen Lord.
Since the death of Christ, Peter had been bowed down with
remorse. His shameful denial of the Lord was ever before him. Of
all the disciples, he had suffered most bitterly. To him the assurance
was given that his repentance was accepted. He was mentioned by
name.
When Mary Magdalene had told the disciples she had seen the
Lord, she repeated the call to the meeting in Galilee. And a third
time the message was sent to them. After He had ascended to the
Father, Jesus appeared to the other women, saying, “Go tell My
brethren that they go into Galilee, and there shall they see Me.”
Christ’s first work after His resurrection was to convince His
disciples of His undiminished love and tender regard for them. He
would draw the bonds of love still closer around them. Go tell My
brethren, He said, that they meet Me in Galilee.