The Miracle of Christianity as we are in the world but are not of this world: Read and what's your view
1) Women were the first to spread the Good News of the Resurrection of Jesus Christ. They told this Good News to Peter and some other disciples who did not believe her so Peter had to go and see the empty tomb by Himself in order to believe. Strong women of God are dedicated women of God that follows Jesus even in the hardest moments and are still willing to do more for Jesus Christ even when all hope seems to be lost and dead. STRONG WOMEN OF GOD ARE DARING HUMAN BEINGS. When the men of God were nowhere to be found, they still followed Jesus Christ up to His tomb (grave).
WHO FIRST SPREAD THE WORD OF GOD AFTER HIS RESURRECTION FROM THE DEAD?👇
(A) MARY MAGDALENE
(B) JOANNA
(C) MARY, THE MOTHER OF JAMES
(D) OTHER WOMEN WITH THEM
NOTE THAT THE NUMBER OF THE OTHER WOMEN WAS NOT SPECIFIED, WHAT IF IT LOOKED LIKE A PEACEFUL PROTEST GROUP, SMALL OR BIG PEACEFUL PROTEST GROUP? MARRIED AND SINGLE WOMEN MUST HAVE BEEN INCLUDED IN THIS GROUP OF WOMEN WHO WERE THE FIRST HUMAN BEINGS (PARTICULARLY, THE CHILDREN OF GOD) ON EARTH WHO BORE TRUE WITNESS (WITHOUT LIES) TO THE RESURRECTION OF CHRIST JESUS👆.
According to Luke 23: 54-56; Luke 24: 1-12
"It was the day of Preparation, and the Sabbath was beginning. THE WOMEN WHO HAD COME WITH HIM FROM GALILEE FOLLOWED AND SAW THE TOMB AND HOW HIS BODY WAS LAID. THEN THEY RETURNED AND PREPARED SPICED AND OINTMENTS. ON THE SABBATH THEY RESTED ACCORDING TO THE COMMANDMENT. BUT ON THE FIRST DAY OF THE WEEK, AT EARLY DAWN, THEY WENT TO THE TOMB, TAKING THE SPICED THEY HAD PREPARED. AND THEY FOUND THE STONE ROLLED AWAY FROM THE TOMB, BUT WHEN THEY WENT IN THEY DID NOT FIND THE BODY OF THE LORD JESUS. WHILE THEY WERE PERPLEXED ABOUT THIS, BEHOLD, TWO MEN STOOD BY THEM IN DAZZLING APPAREL. AND AS THEY WERE FRIGHTENED AND BOWED THEIR FACES TO THE GROUND, THE MEN SAID TO THEM, WHY DO YOU SEEK THE LIVING AMONG THE DEAD? HE IS NOT HERE, BUT HAS RISEN. REMEMBER HOW HE TOLD YOU, WHILE HE WAS STILL IN GALILEE, THAT THE SON OF MAN MUST BE DELIVERED INTO THE HANDS OF SINFUL MEN AND BE CRUCIFIED AND ON THE THIRD DAY RISE. AND THEY REMEMBERED HIS WORDS, AND RETURNING FROM THE TOMB THEY TOLD ALL THESE THINGS TO THE ELEVEN AND TO ALL THE REST. NOW IT WAS MARY MAGDALENE AND JOANNA AND MARY THE MOTHER OF JAMES AND THE OTHER WOMEN WITH THEM WHO TOLD THESE THINGS TO THE APOSTLES, BUT THESE WORDS SEEMED TO THEM AN IDLE TALE, AND THEY DID NOT BELIEVE THEM. BUT PETER ROSE AND RAN TO THE TOMB, STOOPING AND LOOKING IN, HE SAW THE LINEN CLOTHS BY THEMSELVES; AND HE WENT HOME MARVELING AT WHAT HAD HAPPENED.
NOTE THAT👆: "THE ELEVEN" MENTIONED IN THE ABOVE BIBLE PASSAGE WERE ALL OF THE TWELVE APOSTLES OF OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST EXCEPT "JUDAS ISCARIOT."
2) More proof that women can see visions, women can see angels, women can hear from God, women know the Good News etc: A young female virgin, called Mary, believed Angel Gabriel when he came to her with the message of God about the birth of Jesus Christ through her, she believed him and also accepted the task even if she knew that no one would believe her if she told them. It took the Angel of God to tell Joseph in a dream for him to believe. That was how hard and impossible that task must have seemed. Who would believe a Virgin will conceive, they would have tagged Mary, the Mother of God, a prostitute and a wayward woman if care was not taken. But she believed God will not allow her live in shame and followed God's plan for her till the end.
According to Luke 1: 26-38
'IN THE SIXTH MONTH THE ANGEL GABRIEL WAS SENT FROM GOD TO THE CITY OF GALILEE NAMED NAZARETH, TO A VIRGIN BETROTHED TO A MAN WHOSE NAME WAS JOSEPH OF THE HOUSE OF DAVID. AND THE VIRGIN'S NAME WAS MARY. AND HE CAME TO HER AND SAID, GREETINGS, O FAVORED ONE, THE LORD IS WITH YOU!" BUT SHE WAS GREATLY TROUBLED AT THE SAYING, AND TRIED TO DISCERN WHAT SORT OF GREETING THIS MIGHT BE. AND THE ANGEL SAID TO HER, DO NOT BE AFRAID, MARY, FOR YOU HAVE FOUND FAVOR WITH GOD. AND BEHOLD, YOU WILL CONCEIVE IN YOUR WOMB AND BEAR A SON, AND YOU SHALL CALL HIS NAME JESUS. HE WILL BE GREAT AND WILL BE CALLED THE SON OF THE MOST HIGH. AND THE LORD GOD WILL GIVE TO HIM THE THRONE OF HIS FATHER DAVID. AND HE WILL REIGN OVER THE HOUSE OF JACOB FOREVER, AND OF HIS KINGDOM THERE WILL BE NO END. AND MARY SAID TO THE ANGEL, "HOW WILL THIS BE, SINCE I AM A VIRGIN?" AND THE ANGEL ANSWERED HER, THE HOLY SPIRIT WILL COME UPON YOU, AND THE POWER OF THE MOST HIGH WILL OVERSHADOW YOU; THEREFORE THE CHILD TO BE BORN WILL BE CALLED HOLY-THE SON OF GOD. AND BEHOLD, YOUR RELATIVE ELIZABETH IN HER OLD AGE HAS ALSO CONCEIVED A SON, AND THIS IS THE SIXTH MONTH WITH HER WHO WAS CALLED BARREN."FOR NOTHING WILL BE IMPOSSIBLE WITH GOD." AND MARY SAID, "BEHOLD, I AM THE SERVANT OF THE LORD; LET IT BE TO ME ACCORDING TO YOUR WORD." AND THE ANGEL DEPARTED FROM HER.
3) Mary Magdalene saw Jesus Christ first before any man did. Jesus Christ is God, the Son. She saw God, the Son even if she was a woman but just like others who later saw Jesus Christ after His death, she did not recognize Him immediately until He allowed her to recognize Him. The fact is Based on the Holy Bible we know and read, Mary Magdalene saw Jesus Christ first in her weeping and great sorrows of feeling that she had lost our Lord Jesus Christ, her Great Lord and Master to the hands of cruel death and humiliation. The pain and sorrows was too much for her to bear so Jesus Christ Himself had to appear to her in a simple poor man's form (this was why she thought he was just an ordinary Gardner and not some rich graveside visitor) to console his bereaved friend.
(a) Mary Magdalene first announced His resurrection only that she didn't know where Jesus was after seeing the empty tomb.
(b) Mary Magdalene first saw Jesus Christ before the others like Simon Peter and the rest and she announced it to them.
NOTE THAT MARY MAGDALENE NEVER KEEPS QUIET WHEN IT COMES TO THE MESSAGE OF THE LORD WHETHER IT IS LOOKING BAD OR GOOD TO OTHERS even if they don't believe her.
(c) Our Risen Lord Jesus Christ told Mary Magdalene that His Heavenly Father (who is God, the Father) is her (that is, Mary Magdalene's) Father.
(d) Mary Magdalene was also told by Our Risen Lord Jesus Christ that His God (that is, God the Father because we already know now that Jesus Christ is God, the Son) is already her God.
(e) Each time Mary Magdalene went to spread the Good News of the Risen Lord Jesus Christ she made sure to start from the existing children of God (the disciples and, most especially, the apostles). She told them the truth she witnessed of Jesus Christ in details without any compromise but with the intent to spread the Good News as expected of her already.
According to John 20: 1- 18
NOW ON THE FIRST DAY OF THE WEEK MARY MAGDALENE CAME TO THE TOMB EARLY, WHILE IT WAS STILL DARK, AND SAW THAT THE STONE HAD BEEN TAKEN AWAY FROM THE TOMB. SO SHE RAN AND WENT TO SIMON PETER AND THE OTHER DISCIPLE, THE ONE WHOM JESUS LOVED, AND SAID TO THEM, "THEY HAVE TAKEN THE LORD OUT OF THE TOMB, AND WE DO NOT KNOW WHERE THEY HAVE LAID HIM." SO PETER WENT OUT WITH THE OTHER DISCIPLE, AND THEY WERE GOING TOWARD THE TOMB. BOTH OF THEM WERE RUNNING TOGETHER, BUT THE OTHER DISCIPLE OUTRAN PETER AND REACHED THE TOMB FIRST. AND STOOPING TO LOOK IN, HE SAW THE LINEN CLOTHS LYING THERE, BUT HE DID NOT GO IN. THEN SIMON PETER CAME, FOLLOWING HIM, AND WENT INTO THE TOMB. HE SAW THE LINEN CLOTHS LYING THERE, AND THE FACE CLOTH, WHICH HAD BEEN ON JESUS' HEAD, NOT LYING WITH THE LINEN CLOTHS BUT FOLDED UP IN A PLACE BY ITSELF. THEN THE OTHER DISCIPLE, WHO HAD REACHED THE TOMB FIRST, ALSO WENT IN, AND HE SAW AND BELIEVED; FOR AS YET THEY DID NOT UNDERSTAND THE SCRIPTURE, THAT HE MUST RISE FROM THE DEAD. THEN THE DISCIPLES WENT BACK TO THEIR HOMES. BUT MARY STOOD WEEPING OUTSIDE THE TOMB, AND AS SHE WEPT SHE STOOPED TO LOOK INTO THE TOMB. AND SHE SAW TWO ANGELS IN WHITE, SITTING WHERE THE BODY OF JESUS HAD LAIN, ONE AT THE HEAD AND ONE AT THE FEET. THEY SAID TO HER, "WOMAN, WHY ARE YOU WEEPING?" SHE SAID TO THEM, "THEY HAVE TAKEN AWAY MY LORD, AND I DO NOT KNOW WHERE THEY HAVE LAID HIM." HAVING SAID THIS, SHE TURNED AROUND AND SAW JESUS STANDING, BUT SHE DID NOT KNOW THAT IT WAS JESUS. JESUS SAID TO HER, "WOMAN, WHY ARE YOU WEEPING? WHOM ARE YOU SEEKING?" SUPPOSING HIM TO BE THE GARDENER, SHE SAID TO HIM, "SIR, IF YOU HAVE CARRIED HIM AWAY, TELL ME WHERE YOU HAVE LAID HIM, AND I WILL TAKE HIM AWAY." JESUS SAID TO HER, "MARY," SHE TURNED AND SAID TO HIM IN ARAMAIC, "RABBONI" (WHICH MEANS TEACHER). JESUS SAID TO HER, "DO NOT CLING TO ME, FOR I HAVE NOT YET ASCENDED TO THE FATHER; BUT GO TO MY BROTHERS AND SAY TO THEM, "I AM ASCENDING TO MY FATHER AND YOUR FATHER, TO MY GOD AND YOUR GOD." MARY MAGDALENE WENT TO ANNOUNCE TO THE DISCIPLES, " I HAVE SEEN THE LORD"-AND THAT HE HAD SAID THESE THINGS TO HER.
4) Based on the Holy Bible, the Virgin Mary first experienced the HOLY SPIRIT when Jesus Christ, her baby was conceived through this same Holy Spirit. She became filled with the Holy Spirit even before Jesus Christ was born. Note that Jesus Christ is the reason why she got filled with the Holy Spirit in the first place. Her presence in turn filled another woman called Elizabeth, the barren wife of Zechariah, who recently got pregnant with John the Baptist, with the Holy Spirit and the Holy Spirit made Elizabeth cry out for joy.
{For me as the writer, I say: O MY GOD! God is good oooo. Women have been blessed with the Holy Spirit even before Jesus Christ was born through God}.
According to Luke 1: 39-56
'IN THOSE DAYS MARY AROSE AND WENT WITH HASTE INTO THE HILL COUNTRY, TO A TOWN IN JUDAH, AND SHE ENTERED THE HOUSE OF ZECHARIAH AND GREETED ELIZABETH. AND WHEN ELIZABETH HEARD THE GREETING OF MARY, THE BABY LEAPED IN HER WOMB. AND ELIZABETH WAS FILLED WITH THE HOLY SPIRIT, AND SHE EXCLAIMED WITH A LOUD CRY, "BLESSED ARE YOU AMONG WOMEN, AND BLESSED IS THE FRUIT OF YOUR WOMB! AND WHY IS THIS GRANTED TO ME THAT THE MOTHER OF MY LORD SHOULD COME TO ME? FOR BEHOLD, WHEN THE SOUND OF YOUR GREETING CAME TO MY EARS, THE BABY IN MY WOMB LEAPED FOR JOY. "AND BLESSED IS SHE WHO BELIEVED THAT THERE WOULD BE A FULFILLMENT OF WHAT WAS SPOKEN TO HER FROM THE LORD." AND MARY SAID, "MY SOUL MAGNIFIES THE LORD, AND MY SPIRIT REJOICES IN GOD MY SAVIOR, FOR HE HAS LOOKED ON THE HUMBLE ESTATE OF HIS SERVANT. FOR BEHOLD, FROM NOW ON ALL GENERATIONS WILL CALL ME BLESSED; FOR HE WHO IS MIGHTY HAS DONE GREAT THINGS FOR ME, AND HOLY IS HIS NAME. AND HIS MERCY IS FOR THOSE WHO FEAR HIM FROM GENERATION AND GENERATION. HE HAS SHOWN STRENGTH WITH HIS ARM; HE HAS SCATTERED THE PROUD IN THE THOUGHTS OF THEIR HEARTS; HE HAS BROUGHT DOWN THE MIGHTY FROM THEIR THRONES AND EXALTED THOSE OF HUMBLE ESTATE; HE HAS FILLED THE HUNGRY WITH GOOD THINGS, AND THE RICH HE HAS SENT AWAY EMPTY. HE HAS HELPED HIS SERVANT ISRAEL, IN REMEMBRANCE OF HIS MERCY, AS HE SPOKE TO OUR FATHERS, TO ABRAHAM AND TO HIS OFFSPRING FOREVER." AND MARY REMAINED WITH HER ABOUT THREE MONTHS AND RETURNED TO HER HOME.
5) The Holy Spirit is meant for all women also. Old and young, slim or fat etc..Women/Female servants of God spread the word of God by the Great Power of the Holy Spirit. All women can call upon the Lord God by themselves and get saved.
Note that👇:
(a) The Holy Spirit also filled the women too early in the morning alongside the other disciples at the third hour of the day which we all know as 3:00am
(b) Real Prophetesses exist by the power of the Holy Spirit just the same way as the Male Prophets.
(c) Females can be servants of God just like Males can be servants of God.
(d) Women of God (Female servants of God) can also perform miracles, signs and wonders through the Power of the Holy Spirit.
According to Acts 2: 15-21
"FOR THESE PEOPLE ARE NOT DRUNK, AS YOU SUPPOSE, SINCE IT IS ONLY THE THIRD HOUR OF THE DAY. BUT THIS IS WHAT WAS UTTERED THROUGH THE "PROPHET JOEL": AND IN THE LAST DAYS IT SHALL BE, GOD DECLARES, THAT I WILL POUR OUT MY SPIRIT ON ALL FLESH, AND YOUR SONS AND YOUR DAUGHTERS SHALL PROPHESY, AND YOUR YOUNG MEN SHALL SEE VISIONS AND YOUR OLD MEN SHALL DREAM DREAMS, EVEN ON MY MALE SERVANTS AND MY FEMALE SERVANTS IN THOSE DAYS I WILL POUR OUT MY SPIRIT, AND THEY SHALL PROPHESY. AND I WILL SHOW WONDERS IN THE HEAVENS ABOVE AND SIGNS ON THE EARTH BELOW, BLOOD, AND FIRE, AND VAPOUR; THE SUN SHALL BE TURNED TO DARKNESS AND THE MOON TO BLOOD, BEFORE THE DAY OF THE LORD COMES, THE GREAT AND MAGNIFICENT DAY, AND IT SHALL COME TO PASS THAT EVERYONE WHO CALLS UPON THE NAME OF THE LORD SHALL BE SAVED.
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