{"id":71,"date":"2010-03-09T23:09:21","date_gmt":"2010-03-10T07:09:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ihsteps.com\/wordpress\/?p=71"},"modified":"2020-05-30T21:51:06","modified_gmt":"2020-05-31T04:51:06","slug":"a-stone-rolled-away-by-tammy-maseberg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inhisstepsministry.com\/?p=71","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;A Stone Rolled Away&#8221; by Tammy Maseberg"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was reading the account in John this morning of when Jesus&#8217; empty tomb was discovered.\u00a0 In the commentary in my King James Version, it said that the stone was not rolled away so that Jesus could get out.\u00a0 No, it was pushed aside so that people could get in and see that He had risen. <!--nextpage--> <\/p>\n<p>I had never thought about it that way.\u00a0 <em>Of course <\/em>a big rock wasn&#8217;t going to keep Jesus in the grave!\u00a0 I was almost embarrassed that I had assumed the stone was removed for Jesus&#8217; benefit.\u00a0 How we put our Savior in such a box in our human minds!\u00a0 People needed to be able to see that Jesus&#8217; tomb was empty and that He, indeed, had risen from the dead.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Think about it&#8211;if the stone would&#8217;ve remained over the entrance, so many wouldn&#8217;t have seen the miracle.\u00a0 Of course, God knew that an empty tomb would be the &#8220;proof&#8221; that many people needed to believe in the resurrection.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>What an awesome God we serve!\u00a0 I&#8217;m so glad the tomb is empty and death was conquered.\u00a0 Aren&#8217;t you?<\/p>\n<p>In His Name,<\/p>\n<p>Tammy<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was reading the account in John this morning of when Jesus&#8217; empty tomb was discovered.\u00a0 In the commentary in my King James Version, it said that the stone was not rolled away so that Jesus could get out.\u00a0 No, it was pushed aside so that people could get in and see that He had [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[23],"class_list":["post-71","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a-word-from-tammy-maseberg","tag-empty-tomb","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inhisstepsministry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/inhisstepsministry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/inhisstepsministry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inhisstepsministry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inhisstepsministry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=71"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/inhisstepsministry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":431,"href":"https:\/\/inhisstepsministry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71\/revisions\/431"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inhisstepsministry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=71"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inhisstepsministry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=71"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inhisstepsministry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=71"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}