Title: Unbelievers and the truth
Such a dramatic even as the descent of an angel from God, and the rolling away of the stone, and the commotion which ensued, and the general confusion among the guards, and not one of the disciples was present to witness the immediate aftermath of the Lord’s resurrection. Only unbelievers were there present, although not in an antagonizing way, but bound only by their duties. And it is to the guards’ credit that the truth about everything that had happened was conveyed, definitely to the writer of this gospel, although initially to another group of unbelievers, this time to those who had an axe to grind against the Lord Jesus, the chief priests. And here the conspiracy to waylay the truth was conceived and initiated.
God, in His great mercy and wisdom, does reveal the majestic, the out-of-the-ordinary even to unbelievers, and sometimes to unbelievers alone, as in the case of the guards securing the Lord Jesus’ resting place. To the finite mind, this would have been an unacceptable procedure of handling a delicate piece of evidence, what with the fact that everything depended upon it for the certainty of
what we claim to believe in.
But such is the nature of God’s truth: it cannot be sent out without being revealed to those for whom it was intended, even if it had to be conveyed by those who oppose it with their lives.
