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Welcome to Uncompromised Reading Mystery. I almost missed my cue. I was writing something down and I'm usually in at 12 -13 seconds of this intro music. I looked and it was 14 or 15. What in the world?
How are you? Hope to see some of you before heaven. Got to meet quite a few of the listeners over the years. I appreciate it when people say we listen regularly. I'm thankful for that. Just got a good email from a friend in San Diego area.
Man named Luke, not my son, although I'd answer my son's my friend too. I listen, he said, and I'm encouraged, and so I'm thankful for that. Luke, you're a good man. Not just because you listen to Uncompromised Reading.
Cancer is Not Your Shepherd, a 31-day guide to suffering. That's the third book in the 31-day guide series, and the updated Sexual Fidelity, 31-day guide to purity is out. Don't forget, you can always get, I think, my best-selling book, at least in a short amount of time, Gospel Assurance, a 31-day guide to assurance.
I'm working on two other 31-day guides and maybe more. 31-day guide to law gospel. We'll see how long I live. I guess if I had enough 31-day guides, I could make a few hundred bucks. Every little bit counts.
Bidenomics, you never know. Remember Reaganomics? I remember that. I remember when Tip O 'Neill, Democrat, used to get along with Ronald Reagan, Republican. I think I remember when Ronald Reagan was a Democrat.
Yes, that's true. I remember when this song was popular. That's blended with the other song. Oh, I'm synchronizing the two. Not working. Not working. And that's a long intro. Today, part two, supernatural events leading up to the resurrection to help prepare you for the greatest supernatural event that's ever happened, the resurrection of Jesus, the most significant event that's ever happened.
You can either be a naturalist or a supernaturalist. You can have both. You can either be a supernaturalist or you can be a liberal. You can either affirm that God breaks into time and space and does something extraordinary, surpassing the laws of nature, of gravity, of, not of logic, I don't wanna say that.
That's not what I'm after. Laws of physics, laws of periodic tables. When I was in chemistry classes, I had to memorize a lot of that stuff, noble gases and things like that. And like, ah, I'm just not cut out for that.
Probably just didn't wanna do it. Probably grew up in Nebraska, couldn't care less. Omaha, I saw my mom on an old, one of the family members, Pat Abenroth's daughter, Natalie, put a collage of some old probably VHSs together and then posted on YouTube, watching my mom.
Of course, I love my mom, dear Saint and the Lord. And I would watch her and I forgot how she talked. She talked kind of like a hick from Nebraska. And I'm thinking, that's where I got it. That's where I got it.
I love my mom, but come on. I'm not so sure about that.
And how long had you been on that medication? For my whole life.
You can pray for me that my medication, the chemo, not chemotherapy, but a cancer targeting drug, drugs. There's two different ones. I take one pill in the morning with 20 ounces of water. Then I have a couple of cups of coffee and then I have another 20 ounce glass of water.
And then I'm off and running. I was gonna say sometimes literally. Different kind of running. I can't believe I just said that. And then I've got some multivitamins and zinc and D slash K2, K2, is that right?
Or K2 is the mountain. D slash K, is it K2? I don't know. Somebody will email me, but by the time you email me, I have long forgotten this because this is in the future. And then I'm back to the future and off we go.
Cod oil I take. I take some red rice yeast, some flour statins. And then around nighttime, I take four different kinds of cancer pills. And then a little bit later, then I take the same pill that I took in the morning and then at night, a couple others.
And then splice throughout the days, but selectively throughout the day, there's three other kind of pills that I take. That's acyclovir, and that's because my immune system is gonna kind of get shot and they don't want me to get shingles, even though I've had the shingrix.
I think two of those. When vaccinations were vaccinations. I had two vaccinations. So anyway, no compromise radio. That's what we do. Pray that it would work so far so good. I will go in next Tuesday.
Every 28 days, I go in for blood test and some more medicine and maybe just a disclaimer or just a request. Thank you for praying for me. I really appreciate those that are concerned from the bottom of my heart.
And I think I've said this before. If you have articles that you'd like to send me about carrot juice and lime juice or something or broccoli or eating keto or eating no sugar or something or other to help me with my health, wonderful.
I will receive those and be very thankful. If you wanna tell me how bad the pharmaceutical industry is and I shouldn't be taking the two cancer drugs that I'm on now, I should just be living a clean diet.
Please don't send me those. They don't do me any good. I don't believe them. I'm not going to do that. If you wanna do that, fine, but I'm going to be a good steward and I have a wife and four kids and a ministry that the Lord has given me.
I think I've got many more years to go and I'm not going to just say, well, and again, I'm being sarcastic now and simplistic. I know it's not this only, but just be a vegan or just eat clean foods or just eat the super food and the super protein or whatever and you don't have to do the rest.
Obviously, I think there are problems within the pharmaceutical industry. We've seen that in the last few years, have we not? I see dead people. That is exactly true. Just this week, I know somebody who is getting treatment for cancer and they're going to need blood ahead of time for their, as a result of their future treatment and they are asking for a blood type to be given in advance of this procedure for this person having bad cancer and they're asking for non, the hospital is asking for non-vaccinated blood.
That is COVID vaccination blood, non-COVID vaccination blood. So that is very fascinating to me and that could probably be a whole show except I don't do those things, right? I don't do conspiracy theories.
I don't do COVID conspiracies. I don't do building seven fell on its own. I definitely don't do flat earth theories. If you're a flat earther, I'm not and I think your position is sophomoric. You ever heard that, sophomoric?
Remember sophomoric? You're a freshman, you know you don't know anything. I mean, you're just walking in, you're scared. You're like, okay, whether you're a freshman in high school or a freshman in college and then you're a sophomore, you think you know it all.
So sophomore comes from two Greek words, Sophia, moron, moronus, wise fool. You think you're wise, but you're really a fool. I think I'm just gonna start calling people that and said, I can't say raka.
The Lord Jesus told me not to say that in the Sermon on the Mount, but I can say, what a sophomore. When I'm riding the bicycle, you're like, hey, I can't yell out if somebody's trying to cut me off with their five ton truck and I've got a 16 pound bicycle.
I'm way over to the side of the right. I'm not even taking up much room. You're supposed to give me four feet. By law, I'm not being a jerky bicyclist. I don't like jerky bicyclists when I'm even in a car and I can't yell raka.
Sometimes I just yell, what, what? I'm gonna go, sophomore. It's 10 minutes in, I haven't said one, one single Bible verse. We're talking about supernatural signs that lead up to the resurrection. We saw the last time darkness, right, signifying judgment.
Jesus was being judged for not his sins, but our sins since he was sinless. The curtain torn in two from top to bottom, access to God's presence for everyone, not just the high priest once a year, but at any time, any place.
With the mediator, the Lord Jesus, we have access to God. That's Romans 5, two talk, I believe. And now the third supernatural sign, which is new for today, see, I'm catching up really fast, is the earthquake, the earthquake.
Chapter 27 of Matthew, verse 51, and behold, the curtain of the temple was torn in two from top to bottom and the earth shook and the rocks were split. So you could break this up into two if you want, earth shook, rock split, but we put them all together.
Behold, earth shook, rock split. You say, gotcha, because earthquakes aren't supernatural. We can explain them all scientifically, naturally, it's not a supernatural thing. Hey, Palestine sits on a major, a rift there, an earthquake rift, a seismic rift, and they happen a lot, and see, it's just normal.
I mean, you're trying to push it, I know, Mike, with the darkness. Darkness isn't supernatural. Maybe it's an eclipse at noon to three. Well, we ruled that out because of the timing and what was happening and what the Old Testament said about darkness often.
Judgment, same thing here. If you do some study in the Bible about earthquakes, you're going to see, in the Old Testament especially, that earthquakes were regularly the symbols of God's presence, God intervening, sometimes intervening in judgment.
And you can look at the New Testament, the sixth seal in the book of Revelation, judgment. Now, the earthquake might not be, in and of itself, miraculous if it weren't for the timing of it. Jesus dies and there's the earthquake.
Now, how do you work that out? I guess by faithlessness, by unbelief, you can say that just doesn't move me. Or if you're reading with a keen eye, the eye of faith, you can say exactly when Jesus dies, there's an earthquake.
Exactly when Jesus dies, the curtain is torn from top to bottom. How do you climb up there, 60 feet, 80 feet up, and then there's an earthquake? Shaken the earth, splitting the rocks, God's intervention into the affairs of the world.
In Judgment, in Jeremiah 10, in Joel 3, Nahum 1, this is a supernatural event. God is preparing you for the ultimate supernatural event. You see the darkness at noon, you see the curtain torn, you see the earthquake, the timing behind it all.
And now we see fourthly, or fourth, the graves open. This is amazing. Now, finally, I get to say this part, and this is without a joke, this is real.
And how long had you been on that medication? Sorry, wrong one. Sorry.
I see dead people. Okay, that's it. I finally get to use it. This is my Matthew 27, 52 to 53 passage. I see dead people. The tombs were opened. The bodies, many bodies of the saints who had fallen asleep were raised.
And coming out of the tombs after His resurrection, they went into the holy city and appeared to many. I see dead people. That's right. You put up with the 10 minutes of intro for this, but this is worth it, my dear friends.
I have my notes. What in the world? Bodies of saints who had fallen asleep were raised. Now, first question is, besides what in the world, who are these people? Maybe Abraham, Samuel, David, Samson. Maybe he was made alive again and he pushed his way out of the tombs.
Remember, we're not talking about buried underground. We're talking about in a tomb, right? Rock rolled across. You know, you put the body in the tomb, put the rock across there, and then you have the flesh eaten and all that stuff and decaying.
Then you take the bones and put them in an ossuary box, that kind of thing. Then put in the family cave, you know, the side stone rolled up. These people were raised at the Lord's death. And then they hung out Friday night, Saturday, Sabbath.
And then on Sunday, probably Sunday morning, they'd get up and walk into the city. It wasn't really long that they had to hang out. Maybe they were talking to each other while they're hanging out near these tombs.
Shouldn't surprise us that they're not going anywhere on the Sabbath. And their bodies were raised. We're not talking ghosts. We're not talking apparitions. We're not talking about specters. These are bodies.
Now, I don't really think it's a glorified body yet because Jesus has the first fruits of the dead and his glorified body's different. I think this is more like a Lazarus deal where we have a reinvigorated or renewed or, I don't want to really say regenerated because that's going to make you think about regeneration by, you know, the proceeds faith type of thing.
Think of it. These people were looking for the Messiah, hoping for the Messiah, trusting the Messiah. These are saints. These are people that believed in who God was. And maybe they had met Jesus, heard about Jesus, heard his claims, and they're still walking around the resurrection.
You know, you have these rock tombs and here's the earthquake. And Jesus' death is so powerful, it triggers all this. Well, if a body that's in the ground gets up and starts walking around, I think that's pretty supernatural, don't you?
Will you just give me that? The opening of a tomb. We don't know really why they waited until the resurrection of Jesus. God doesn't tell us. It just says that they waited. Okay, Sabbath is my best guess.
But if they're going to get up and walk around and say, Jesus is alive, they probably should wait till Jesus is alive. I personally think this is not Moses walking around. This is not Elijah walking around.
This is not Elisha walking around. This is not Hosea, Malachi, Nahum, David, Solomon, Adam. I think these were people that had died recently. Now, I know Peter, James, and John recognize Moses and Elijah on the Mount of Transfiguration, even though they'd never met them, right?
You're going to get to heaven and you're going to recognize who people are, even though you don't know who they are. You've never seen Moses' face. You're looking for Charlton Heston. I hope Charlton Heston is in heaven.
I mean, I know he narrated the Bible and I think he generally said he believed. I hope so, of course. That'd be wonderful. But it's going to be people that had died recently so they can be recognizable to other people as they walk around.
Maybe Peter, James, and John on that mountain was given special insight by the Spirit of God. Wouldn't doubt it, probably so. When you're in heaven, you'll recognize people because you'll know as you're known.
Certainly so. But just regular people walking around, maybe even unbelievers. I assume that part of this is going to be people that died, trust in the Messiah, are raised from the dead, they wait there for a day, essentially a day, right?
It could be 24 hours and one minute because you count any part of a day as a day. So that's why Jesus died on Friday and the third day he rose again from the dead because we count Friday, then Saturday, then Sunday.
So that counts. It could be, you know, you could say three days from 11 .59 p .m. Friday to 12 .01 a .m. Sunday. That's counting three days as they would count in the Jewish fashion. And you've got unbelievers and they would see people walking around.
Now if it's Moses, I mean, I'm certainly positive he's a good evangelist, but the people wouldn't know. Oh, it's just a regular person out evangelizing. But let's say there was an unbeliever and they buried their loved one a week before Jesus died.
Jesus dies, that person is raised from the dead, literally waits for a day in the tomb area. Let's just call it a cemetery for fun. And cemeteries aren't too fun, but that's another story. I used to take my kids to the cemetery and we would just look at tombs here, tombstones here in Massachusetts.
You can find some pretty old ones. Death Angels on the top and Bible verses. And you find some with Red Sox paraphernalia. You know, he loved Manny. And then you would be walking down the street, you have buried your loved one, and there they are.
Jesus died on the cross and is alive. And you better trust in him. That's what's happening here. Here, the way the text is, just lays it out, simple, no explanation. And as Jesus raised Lazarus, these people are raised.
Jesus says, I'm the resurrection and the life. He who believes in me will live even though he dies and whoever lives and believes in me will never die. That's John 11. John 14, because I live, Jesus said, you also will live.
He said that to his disciples. These dead men walking around, why are they walking around? The day of the living dead. I'm sure they're proclaiming the truth with their body. Jesus resurrects and Jesus is resurrected.
Final supernatural sign paving the way to the resurrection, a great supernatural sign, the great supernatural sign is the opening of a sinner's heart. The opening of a sinner's heart. If you want to take this one away and maybe it's not as explicit as the others, you can, but I don't think you should.
Because as impressive as darkness is, the curtain torn in two, earthquake, graves open, we're all leading to this anyway and it takes a supernatural event to take a heart of stone and turn it into a heart of flesh.
When the centurion, verse 54, and those who were with him, keeping watch over Jesus, saw the earthquake and took what place, they were filled with awe and said, this is just not the one centurion but others, truly this was the Son of God.
The Gentile gets saved because the torn veil means access to everyone, not just Jews, not just men, not just priests, not just high priests, this is the Son of God. And I think, as was Johnson's right, you never hear about a centurion in the New Testament in a negative way.
He sees the darkness, he feels the earth shaking, he sees the way Jesus died, he sees the light come back, he hears what the people next to him are saying about Jesus, the two thieves, and they see how Jesus died, he, the centurion, and the others, they see it.
Father, forgive them, they do not know what they do. Woman, behold thy son, behold thy mother. Usually when you're on the cross, you swear at people, sometimes they cut out your tongue because you swore so many times.
How does Jesus talk? I thirst, today you'll be with me in paradise. Father, into your hands I commit my spirit. And this man is converted. At the cross, at the cross where I first saw the light, and the burden of my soul rolled away, this man was truly the Son of God, Mark chapter 15 says, understanding that loving kindness and truth have met together, righteousness and peace have kissed each other, Psalm 85, right there at the cross.
Remember the poem, who was the guilty? Who brought this upon thee? Alas, my treason, Jesus hath undone thee. T 'was I, Lord Jesus, I was denied, I it was who denied thee, I crucified thee. And the centurion thinks that very thing, right then and there.
The centurion and others, so we have two or three witnesses. This truly is the King of the Jews. What's your response? What's your response to this? Jesus is soon buried, the guard is at the tomb, they seal the tomb, and what happens?
You should be thinking, supernatural, supernatural, supernatural, supernatural, supernatural. I think something supernatural is gonna happen. Mary Magdalene and the other Mary go to the tomb. There's an earthquake there.
There's an angel there. Guards are trembling. The angel says, do not be afraid. I know that you seek Jesus who was crucified. He is not here, for he has risen, as he said. Vindication, promises kept, salvation secured.
Secured. The father says amen to the sons. It is finished. And unlike Pilate, who didn't know there was a way to be really cleansed, he thought he could cleanse his hands with water. But here, you see that you don't have to bear your own judgment.
You don't have to be condemned. Although guilty and a rebel, just like me, before I was saved, Jesus dies for sinners, just like you. And our response, your response should be, I believe. And because of him, you are in Christ Jesus, who became to us wisdom from God, that is righteousness and sanctification and redemption.
That's 1 Corinthians 1 .30. He breaks the power of canceled sin. He sets the prisoner free. That's you, dear friend. That's me. And that's for all those who would ever believe in Jesus, the one who's been raised from the dead.
Isn't that good news? That last 16 minutes was worth the first 10, I think. Amen. Mike Ebendorf, No Compromise Radio Ministry. Supernatural things happen, and it will happen.