The Widow of Nain and the Return of Paradise

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Video Creator’s Channel Dr. Steve Turley

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I’ve had the privilege of teaching theology to ninth and twelfth graders of a class of a Christian school here in Delaware” target=”_blank” rel=”noreferrer noopener”>New Castle County Delaware and each year I love to remind my students that the primary symbol that’s emblem eyes our shared faith wasn’t for a fact perhaps the single most detested and despised indeed massive deplorable symbol imaginable in the Roman world. Not only was the cross a sign of torture and death. It was an unmistakable symbol of Rome‘s power and domination over non-Roman regions and populations. Now Now how such an instrument of torture could have transformed into a symbol of life and hope is testimony to the transformative power of the Christian Gospel over the totality of life now for me few stories in the Bible exemplify this transformative power than the story of the widow of Nain. In Luke 7 11 to 17.

The Narrative Is Simple Enough As Jesus

was traveling to the town of name. He was met with a funeral procession carrying the body of a young man. The only son of the widow Jesus having compassion on the widow went over to the body of the young man and raised him from the dead to the the actual fear and astonishment of all Saul. Now Augusta reminds us that this is one of three resurrection narratives in the Gospels. Prior to Christ’s own resurrection, each of which redeems a different stage.

In The Process Of Death And Burial So

Luca go on to describe Jesus raising of Gyruss as daughter in Chapter 8 and John retells the dramatic resurrection of Lazarus and in John Chapter 11. So with all three of these resurrection accounts together, we can see that Jesus redeems the three main phases of death and burial. The place of death. Jairus, his daughter The procession towards the grave the widow’s son the grave itself Lazarus. Yet I believe we missed the true miracle the story if we focus solely on the resurrection of the widow’s son notice how the narrative in Luke 7 begins in verses 11 to 12.

We See Two Crowds Moving In Opposite

directions right one crowd surrounding death while the other surrounds the source of life and Ephraim the Sirians. Words the widow’s son is meeting the Virgin‘s son and moreover, we’re told that this was the widow’s only son now the Greek here is neat it’s mahogany UK, which is the same phrase used of Jesus in John UK God’s only begotten son so thus the widow’s only begotten son is meeting God’s only begotten son and then in verse 13. Luke describes Jesus as Lord kitty awesome agree now two things are significance here first. This is the first time Luke uses the term Lord for Jesus, and this title Kid UK could denote the Messiah in the Hebrew imagination as an ax to 36 or Caesar in a Roman context either way. The title designates the divinely ordained sovereign over the world.

And Here In This Narrative, Jesus Will Demonstrate

his sovereignty over even death itself. Secondly. Jesus attention in verse 13 is not so much in the Sun, but on the widow specifically his compassion extends towards her sorrowful tears, which will find like the waters in Genesis become the occasion for new creation. The Lord then went up to her and it says it taught he touched the beer. In verse 14, a wooden frame upon which a body is carried now in touching the wood that carried the death of an only begotten Son.

Jesus Foreshadows Not Only His Own Death,

but also his subsequent resurrection, which would transfigure the wood of the cross into a tree of life as an echo of those first words let there be light. Jesus says to the young man young man I say to you arise transfiguring his mother’s tears into wells. of joy and a new creation, so as a result, Jesus himself is transformed in the eyes of the crowd as first century Jews. They would have interpreted Jesus actions. A light of Elijah’s miracle of raising the son of the widow of Zarephath from the dead.

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and so the people in verse 14 declared that Jesus was a great prophet who appeared among them, like Elijah. However, unlike Elijah, we see how the whole world transforms in the hands of our Lord death is transformed into life Mourning turns into joy. Separation is eclipsed by reunion. Loss is transfigured into gain darkness turns into light. The two crowns become one United Evangelist for Jesus as heavenly hosts surrounding God and praise, but perhaps most astonishing of all is when we read in the text that Christ gave the son quote back to his.

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Mother Close Now Among The Occasions For

gift-giving in first century was the groom’s gift to the bride. It was referred to as the Maja or the Bridal panel. Now if we see Jesus’s divine compassion is a kind of Bridal payment, then we see that not only has this mother regained her son. This Widow has also found her true husband as such the story The widow of Nain is a story of a widow no longer she is transformed into a beautiful bride adorned for her everlasting bridegroom, in whom all things are made new and thus the funeral procession is transformed into a wedding feast and so the true miracle of the widow of Nain turns out to be Jesus himself. He is the restoration of identic paradise on Earth and is thus able to open the gates of paradise to all wherever there is disease he.

Healing Wherever Theres Sorrow He Brings

joy and wherever there is death. He brings life. Hence the name of the town name which means green pastures, paradise restored goblins.

Summary

Augusta reminds us that this is one of three resurrection narratives in the Gospels . Each of which redeems the three main phases of death and burial . The widow of Nain was raised from the dead to the the the actual fear and astonishment of all Saul . Augusta: How such an instrument of torture could have transformed into a symbol of life and hope is testimony to the transformative power of the Christian Gospel over the totality of life now for me few stories in the Bible exemplify this transformative power than the story of the widow of . Nain . Augusta. Augusta: We missed the true miracle the story if we focus solely on the resurrection of the . widow’s son notice how the narrative in Luke 7 begins in . verses 11 to 12.& We can see that Jesus redeem the three of these resurrection accounts together, we can see . Jesus redeems . The place of death.& Jairus, his daughter The procession towards the grave the grave, the grave itself Lazarus….. Click here to read more and watch the full video