The Birth, Death and Resurrection of Jesus Christ:

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The Birth, Death and Resurrection of Jesus
Christ

• The Evidence

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The Birth of Jesusin Bethlehem of Judea

• Foretold by the prophet Micah
• Micah 52 You O BETHLEHEM Ephrathah, though you
  are small among the clans of JUDAH, out of you
  will come for me one who will be ruler over
  ISRAEL.

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Jesus was the Lion of Judah

• Genesis 499-10-You are a lion's cub, O Judah
  you return from the prey, my son. Like a lion he
  crouches and lies down, like a lioness--who dares
  to rouse him? The sceptre will not depart from
  Judah, nor the ruler's staff from between his
  feet, until he comes to whom it belongs and the
  obedience of the nations is his.

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Prophecy that Jesus was the long awaited Messiah

• Isaiah 9 6-7 For to us a child is born, to us
  a son is given, and the government will be on his
  shoulders. And he will be called Wonderful
  Counsellor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father,
  Prince of Peace.
• Of the increase of his government and peace there
  will be no end. He will reign on David's throne
  and over his kingdom, establishing and upholding
  it with justice and righteousness from that time
  on and forever. The zeal of the LORD Almighty
  will accomplish this.

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The Virgin Birth was Foretold by Isaiah

• Isaiah 714 The Lord himself will give you a
  sign. The Virgin will be with child and will
  give birth to a son and will call him Immanuel
  (God with us).

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Luke 226 The angel Gabriel told Mary You
will be with child and give birth to a son. You
are to give him the name Jesus.

• How will this be, Mary asked the angel since
  I am a virgin?
• The Holy Spirit will come upon you and the
  power of the Most High will overshadow you. So
  the holy one will to be born will be called the
  Son of God.

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Signs in the Sky marking the Birth of Jesus

• The stars showed the constellation Virgo
  "birthing" the new moon.
• The star Regulus circled Jupiter (The
  King planet) 3 times signifying the coronation
  of the KING.
• The triple conjunction took place at a new
  moon marking the Jewish New Year Rosh
  Hashana.
• It took place within Leo, showing a
  connection with the Jewish tribe of
• Judah (and prophecies of the
  Jewish Messiah).

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The Star of Bethlehem

• Signified birth.
• Signified kingship.
• It had a connection with the Jewish nation.
• It rose in the east, like other stars.
• It appeared at a precise time.
• Herod didn't know when it appeared, only expert
  Magi astronomers.
• It lasted for several months.
• It was ahead of the Magi as they went south
  from Jerusalem
• 
  to Bethlehem.

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Who were the Wise Men?

• The Magi may have been Jewish wise men or
  astronomers descended from Jews living in
  Babylon during the Exile.
• They were probably familiar with Daniels
  prophecy
• Daniel 925 "Know and understand this From the
  issuing of the decree to restore and rebuild
  Jerusalem until the Anointed One, (Messiah) the
  ruler, comes, there will be seven 'sevens,' and
  sixty-two 'sevens.' It will be rebuilt with
  streets and a trench, but in times of trouble.26
  After the sixty-two 'sevens,' the Anointed One
  will be cut off and will have nothing. (crucified)

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Amazingly Revelation 121-5 describes the
celestial picture

• A great and wondrous sign appeared in heaven a
  woman clothed with the sun, with the moon under
  her feet and a crown of twelve stars on her head.
  She was pregnant and cried out in pain as she was
  about to give birth. Then another sign appeared
  in heaven an enormous red dragon with seven
  heads and ten horns and seven crowns on his
  heads. (Satan) His tail swept a third of the
  stars out of the sky and flung them to the earth.
  The dragon stood in front of the woman who was
  about to give birth, so that he might devour her
  child the moment it was born. She gave birth to a
  son, a male child, who will rule all the nations
  with an iron sceptre...

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Eye Witness Accounts of the Death and
Resurrection The Gospels and Pauls Letters

• These were written by the disciples and apostles,
• each from a slightly different perspective

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The Trials of Jesus (Luke 2266-71, 231-25)

• Jesus was tried for
• blasphemy by the Jewish leaders, for saying He
  was the Son of God.
• by King Herod.
• Pilate, the Roman Governor, for sedition i.e.
  for saying He was the King of the Jews.
• He was scourged and crucified.

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The Scourging was brutal and prolonged
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Jesus was too weak from the scourging to to carry
His cross

• As they led Him away, they seized Simon from
  Cyrene, who was on his way in from the country,
  and put the cross on him and made him carry it
  behind Jesus. (Luke 2326)

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Isaiahs Prophecy about the Crucifixion (Isaiah
53 1-5)
Who has believed our message and to whom has the
arm of the LORD been revealed? He grew up before
him like a tender shoot, and like a root out of
dry ground. He had no beauty or majesty to
attract us to him, nothing in his appearance that
we should desire him. He was despised and
rejected by men, a man of sorrows, and familiar
with suffering. Like one from whom men hide their
faces he was despised, and we esteemed him not.
Surely he took up our infirmities and carried
our sorrows, yet we considered him stricken by
God, smitten by him, and afflicted. But he was
pierced for our transgressions, he was crushed
for our iniquities the punishment that brought
us peace was upon him, and by his wounds we are
healed.
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• Crucifixion was designed to cause maximum pain
  and suffering

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Davids Prophetic and Graphic Description of the
Crucifixion in Psalm 22
But I am a worm and not a man, scorned by men
and despised by the people. All who see me mock
me they hurl insults, shaking their heads "He
trusts in the LORD let the LORD rescue him. Let
him deliver him, since he delights in him..... Do
not be far from me, for trouble is near and there
is no one to help. Many bulls surround me strong
bulls of Bashan encircle me. Roaring lions
tearing their prey open their mouths wide against
me. I am poured out like water, and all my bones
are out of joint. My heart has turned to wax it
has melted away within me. My strength is dried
up like a potsherd, and my tongue sticks to the
roof of my mouth you lay me in the dust of
death. Dogs have surrounded me a band of evil
men has encircled me, they have pierced my hands
and my feet. I can count all my bones people
stare and gloat over me. They divide my garments
among them and cast lots for my clothing.
(verses 6- 18)
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Isaiahs Prophecy about the Crucifixion (Isaiah
53 6- 9)
We all, like sheep, have gone astray, each of us
has turned to his own way and the LORD has laid
on him the iniquity of us all. He was oppressed
and afflicted, yet he did not open his mouth he
was led like a lamb to the slaughter, and as a
sheep before her shearers is silent, so he did
not open his mouth. By oppression and judgment
he was taken away. And who can speak of his
descendants? For he was cut off from the land of
the living for the transgression of my people he
was stricken. He was assigned a grave with the
wicked, and with the rich in his death, though he
had done no violence, nor was any deceit in his
mouth.
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Isaiahs Prophecy about the Crucifixion (Isaiah
53 10-12)
Yet it was the LORD's will to crush him and
cause him to suffer, and though the LORD makes
his life a guilt offering, he will see his
offspring and prolong his days, and the will of
the LORD will prosper in his hand. After the
suffering of his soul, he will see the light of
life and be satisfied by his knowledge my
righteous servant will justify many, and he will
bear their iniquities. Therefore I will give him
a portion among the great, and he will divide the
spoils with the strong, because he poured out his
life unto death, and was numbered with the
transgressors. For he bore the sin of many, and
made intercession for the transgressors.
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The Crucifixion Scriptures fulfilled

• But when they came to Jesus and found that he
  was already dead, they did not break his legs.
  Instead, one of the soldiers pierced Jesus' side
  with a spear, bringing a sudden flow of blood and
  water. The man who saw it has given testimony,
  and his testimony is true. He knows that he tells
  the truth, and he testifies so that you also may
  believe. These things happened so that the
  scripture would be fulfilled "Not one of his
  bones will be broken," and, as another scripture
  says, "They will look on the one they have
  pierced. (John 1935)

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The Crucifixion Jesus Words from the Cross were
recorded

• Dear woman, here is your son,(John) and to the
  disciple here is your mother.(Mary) (John 19
  26-27)
• I am thirsty (John 1928)
• My God, my God, why have you forsaken me? (
  Matthew 2746, Psalm 221)
• It is finished.
• Father, into your hands I commit my
  spirit.(Luke 2346)

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The Sign over the Cross

• The sign was written in Hebrew, Latin and Greek.
• It was probably large and could be easily read
  from the busy road by the Damascus Gate.
• Jesus was the "featured criminal" and was
  sentenced to death under Roman Law for "sedition
  against the Roman state", and under Jewish law
  for "the sin of blasphemy.

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Name Of God Written Over The Cross  Pilate wrote
a title and had it put it on the Cross JESUS OF
NAZARETH, THE KING OF THE JEWS". "JESUS OF
NAZARETH, ( John 19 19) In Hebrew Yeshua
Ha'Nazarei W'Melech Ha'Yehudim In code YHWH,
the Name of God, which was blasphemous to the
Sanhedrin. "Therefore the chief priests of the
Jews said to Pilate, "Do not write, 'The King of
the Jews,' but, 'He said, "I am the King of the
Jews".' Pilate answered, "What I have written, I
have written.  (John 1921-22)
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Blood on the Mercy Seat Ron Wyatts Discoveries

• Ron Wyatt, an amateur bible archaeologist from
  Tennessee, claimed to have discovered the Ark of
  the Covenant 20 feet below Golgotha, the
  crucifixion site in 1982.
• He found blood on the west side of the Mercy
  Seat of the Ark of the Covenant, which he
  believed had trickled down a crack caused by the
  earthquake on the day of the Crucifixion.

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Blood on the Mercy Seat

• This fulfilled Leviticus 1615-16, where the High
  Priest would go into the Holy of Holies on the
  Day of Atonement (Yom Kippur)
• "He shall then slaughter the goat for the sin
  offering for the people and take its blood behind
  the curtain and do with it as he did with the
  bull's blood He shall sprinkle it on the
  atonement cover and in front of it. In this way
  he will make atonement for the Most Holy Place
  because of the uncleanness and rebellion of the
  Israelites, whatever their sins have been. He is
  to do the same for the Tent of Meeting, which is
  among them in the midst of their uncleanness.

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AFTER THE CRUCIFIXION The body of Jesus was taken
down from the cross The disciples took
Jesus' Body down from the Cross shortly after His
death at 3 pm. They had only three hours during
which to bury Jesus' Body, before the start of
the Passover at 6 pm. They therefore had to act
quickly, and did not have time for the full
Jewish traditional burial in "windings", which
took many hours.

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Jesus Body was laid in the Tomb of Joseph of
Arimathea

• Joseph of Arimathea, a member of the Sanhedrin,
  asked Pilate for Jesus body.
• He took the body and wrapped it in a clean linen
  cloth and placed it in his own new tomb that he
  had cut out of the rock. He rolled a big stone in
  front of the entrance to the tomb.
• (Matthew 27 59-60).

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The Garden TombGeneral Gordon discovered this
rock tomb near Golgotha, the place of crucifixion
in 1883. It is believed to be the tomb of
Joseph of Arimathea, where Jesus was buried.

• There is a groove for a rolling stone, which
  would have covered the entrance, a crack in the
  rock probably caused by an earthquake and a cross
  on the wall, a sign indicating that the early
  church met here!

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The Empty Tomb

• Early on the first day of the week, while it was
  still dark, Mary Magdalene went to the tomb and
  saw that the stone had been removed from the
  entrance.. Simon Peter saw the strips of linen
  lying there as well as the burial cloth that had
  been around Jesus head. The cloth was folded up
  by itself separate from the linen. (John 201,
  6-7a)

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After His Resurrection, Jesus Christ appeared to
the disciples in Jerusalem and Galilee-

• He appeared to Mary at the Tomb and the
  disciples, showing them His hands and side. He
  showed His scars to Doubting Thomas, (John 20).
  He talked to disciples on the road to Emmaus (
  Luke 2413-49) and He cooked breakfast for the
  disciples on the lakeside. (John 21)

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After His Resurrection, Jesus Christ appeared
to-

• Mary Magdalene by the Tomb (John 2010-18)
• Mary and the other women (Matthew 281-10)
• Peter (1 Corinthians 155)
• 2 disciples on the road to Emmaus (Luke
  2413-35)
• 10 disciples (Luke 2436-49)
• 11 disciples in a room (John 2024-31)
• 7 disciples by the Sea of Galilee (John 21)
• all the disciples (Matthew 2816-20)
• 500 people (1 Corinthians 156)
• James (1 Corinthians 157)
• all the disciples again before He ascended to
  Heaven
• (Acts 14-8) accompanied by two men in white
  clothes
• (possibly Moses and Elijah)
• Saul on his way to Damascus (Acts 91-9) who
  became Paul.

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Josephus recorded Jesus appearance on the Third
Day

• Flavius Josephus was a Jewish Pharisee and Jewish
  historian born in 37 AD. He wrote
• "Now there was about this time Jesus, a wise
  man, if it be lawful to call him a man, for he
  was a doer of wonderful works ... Pilate ...
  condemned him to the cross ... he appeared to
  them alive again on the third day."

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After His suffering, he showed himself to these
men and gave many convincing proofs that he was
alive. He appeared to them over a period of
forty days and spoke about the kingdom of God.
(Acts 13)---------------------------------------
------------------------------------------That
which was from the beginning, which we have
heard, which we have seen with our eyes, which we
have looked at and our hands have touched -
this we proclaim concerning the Word of Life. (1
John 11)

• Concerning the crucifixion
• The man who saw it has given testimony. And his
  testimony is true. He knows that he tells the
  truth and he testifies so that you also may
  believe. (John 1935)

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The Evidence for the Shroud of Turin being Jesus
Burial Cloth

• The mysterious shroud bears faint ghostly images
  of a crucified man, with all the wounds of
  scourging and crucifixion.
• It has undergone a huge number of tests to prove
  its authenticity.

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The Shroud was a Sindon like Marks Cloak

• A Sindon (Greek) was a large flat piece of
  linen cloth.
• "Now a certain young man followed Him, having a
  linen cloth (Sindon) thrown around his naked
  body. And the young men laid hold of him, and he
  left the linen and fled from them naked. (Mark
  1451,52)
• This was in contrast to the usual winding cloth
  (Greek Keiriais) used to wrap Lazarus' body
• "And he who had died came out bound hand and foot
  with grave clothes, (Greek Keiriais) and his
  face was wrapped with a cloth. Jesus said to
  them, "Loose him, and let him go.(John 11.44)

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The Shroud of Turin the Burial Cloth of Jesus

• It is a large piece of yellow coloured linen 14
  feet 3 inches long and 3 feet, 7 inches wide.
• There are also blood marks present on the scalp,
  right chest wall, both wrists and both ankles.
• It been kept in a silver chest in the Chapel of
  the Holy Shroud in the Cathedral of St. John the
  Baptist in Turin, Italy, since 1578.

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The Image on the Shroud of Turin was
supernaturally created at the Resurrection

• Soft X- Rays may have been Radiated at the
  Resurrection
• An excess of C-14 isotope was present in the
  Shroud.
• The Image on the Shroud pre-dated all other X-ray
  radiographs by nearly 1,900 years!

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The Resurrection was similar to the
Transfiguration- a phenomenon caused by a
supernatural emission of light and subatomic
particles moving at the speed of light.

• During the Transfiguration, Jesus Christ's Body
  became as bright as the sun and His clothes as
  white as light.
• It is believed that Jesus also entered
  Eternity, as evidenced by the appearance of Moses
  and Elijah.

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according to Theoretical Physics

• At the speed of light Time ceases to exist, and
  Eternity is entered.
• We believe that as Jesus' Body entered Eternity,
  Time ceased to exist
• the molecules of His Body were moving at the
  speed of light emitting both light and subatomic
  particles.
• this radiation was possibly similar to cosmic
  radiation.
• We are told in the Bible that "God is Light" (1
  John 15).
• The Shroud almost certainly became "as white
  as light".
• Moses' face shone with light, so we believe that
  The Shroud probably also shone with light.

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THE FIRST PHOTOGRAPH OF THE SHROUD IN 1898

• Interest in the Shroud dramatically increased
  when the Italian photographer, Secundo Pia, took
  the first photograph of the Shroud in 1898.
• Both pictures above have a mixture of
  photo-positive and photo-negative images. The
  picture on the left is a photo-positive picture
  of the face on the Shroud, with red blood marks
  from the Crown of Thorns.
• There is a faint image of a face, which is in
  photo-negative, making it difficult to
  understand.

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The Blood Stains

• There are blood marks on the scalp, both wrists,
  the right chest wall, and both ankles.
• There are multiple laceration wounds from the
  scourging.
• The blood is Type AB, the rarest blood group.
• It contains a high level of bright red Bilirubin,
  
• a bile pigment, found in high levels in the blood
  of torture victims.

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Scourge marks on the back and lower limbs shown
on Photo Images

• White photo-negative images indicate profuse
  bleeding from the wounds in the scalp, and feet.
• This is because the Blood of Jesus Christ
  actually stained the Shroud, before the Image was
  created at His Resurrection.

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Piercing the Chest

• There is a large blood stain over the right chest
  wall area, consistent with the post mortem wound
  to the chest.
• There is a penetrating skin wound in the right
  chest wall produced by a sharp puncturing
  instrument, almost certainly a Roman spear.
• The spear wound is between the 5th and 6th Right
  ribs.

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The Nailing of the Hands 1

• In mediaeval paintings the nails were always
  painted inserted into the palms, rather than the
  wrists.
• Experiments on dead bodies shows that the weight
  of a human body cannot be supported by nails
  through both palms.

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The Nailing of the Hands 2

• Examination of the area of the hands shows the
  left hand over the right hand (remember the image
  is transposed in a photo - negative image).
• There is also a puncture wound in both wrists,
  from which blood is seeping, draining up both
  forearms on the Shroud.

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The Nailing of the Feet

• The feet were crossed over and one long nail
  driven through both feet.
• The image on the right is an X-ray showing the
  probable position of the nail, between the 2nd
  and 3rd Metatarsal spaces.

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The Crown of Thorns- arrows show the copious
blood flow on the head

• The crown was probably made from a bush of thorns
  from the
• Lote bush, which grows wild in the Jerusalem
  area.
• The thorns are up to two inches long, and caused
  profuse bleeding. Mark 1517-18 "And they
  clothed Him with purple and they twisted a crown
  of thorns, put it on His head, and began to
  salute Him, "Hail, King of the Jews!"

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Pollen and spores from 58 species have been
identified. 20 are known to grow in Jerusalem
itself and 8 others grow in the vicinity in the
Judean desert or the Dead Sea area. Professor
Danin found a high density of pollen grains on
the shroud which he identified as Tumbleweed
GUNDELIA TOURNEF ZYGOPHYLLUM DUMOSUM. These
two species co-exist in a limited area only, in
Israel.

• Pollen Grains found on the Shroud

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It was Jewish custom to place small coins
over the eyes of a dead body, to keep the eyelids
closed.( Jean-Philippe Fontanille of
www.menorahcoinproject.org)

• The Coins Over The Eyes On The Shroud

Professor Alan Whanger's research seems to
indicate that the coins placed over the
anatomical eyelids on the Shroud were both minted
by Pontius Pilate in the year AD 29.
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3-D Images from the Shroud

• Mask
• In 1976 it was discovered that a photograph of
  the Shroud produced a three dimensional image
  when placed under a VP8 Image Analysing Computer.

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Conclusion Jesus was not confined to the normal
physical laws of time and space.

• Jesus still bore the marks of the wounds in
  His hands, feet, and chest.
  (John 2020).
• He could be seen and touched as a physical
  body of flesh and bone. (Matthew 289,
  Luke 2437-39).
• He invited people to examine His Body
• (Luke 2439-40, John 2020, 27).
• He ate and drank with His disciples after His
  Resurrection
• (Luke 2441-43 Acts 1041).
• Jesus could appear and disappear in a closed
  room, indicating that He was not confined to the
  normal physical laws of time and space.

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At the Resurrection, Jesus Body was
changed from a dead Body to a Resurrected
Glorified Body.

• How John described the risen Christ
• "His head and hair were white like wool, as white
  as snow, and His eyes like a flame of fire His
  feet were like fine brass, as if refined in a
  furnace, and His voice as the sound of many
  waters" (Revelation 114-16)

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Hes Alive, Hes RisenAfter the Resurrection
Jesus ascended to heaven and is seated at the
right hand of the Father. (Mark 16 19)

• He is coming back to judge the living and the
  dead.
• (Revelation 5, 2011-13)
• References www.bethlehemstar.net Rick Larson
• www.finalfrontier.org. Richard Kent
• www.wyattmuseum.com Ron Wyatt