The Revelation of Jesus with Rick Sterling!

Royal Funeral~

Today marks the Royal Funeral for Prince Philip, the Duke of Edinburgh. He rides to his grave in a Land Rover that he helped design, followed by a royal limousine that carries his wife of 73 years Queen Elizabeth, and on foot by Prince Charles and the other Royal Family members. It is a sad day for both England, and the the Royal Family. There of course is also a church service that has all the trappings of a High Church funeral befitting the Prince. 

I find it interesting that over 2000 years ago on Wednesday March 22, 30 C.E., The Passover, before sunset in Israel, another Royal Prince died and was buried, but without fanfare, and without any of the trappings of a Royal funeral. If anyone deserved a Royal Funeral it was this man, Jesus of Nazareth, who had been executed by His Father for the purpose of paying the penalty for the disobedience of His own Kingdom, the death of whom made it possible for His righteous Kingdom to access Eternal Life through that payment. 

Instead, Jesus was removed from the cross, and hurried into the tomb by certain of His followers, in order to have His body at rest before the sun set, that began the Passover, the first day of the Feast of Unleavened Bread (a Festival Sabbath). No fanfare, no solemn service, no acknowlegement of a job well done. Nothing.

Yet those of us that know that Jesus is the King of the Kingdom of the Heavens, and know what He did by coming to this earth and bringing the truth about how salvation works from the Father, and offering eternal life to His Kingdom as a reward for the obedience to the Commandments that was lost in Eden. 

It is HIS words that bring life eternal, and those words must become a part of those that would be in His Kingdom. By His resurrection His words are made real in our lives. We will live as long as His words live in us.