Studying the miracles in the Bible I got to wondering. Today with our medical knowledge we know that if a person dies
and they get immediate medical attention, they can be 'brought back'. If the heart stops, CPR can be given, electric shock to restart the heart, etc.
But would that really be considered being brought back from the dead?
I think to really be a miracle we need to look to the story of Lazarus.
Yeshua purposely stayed away when he heard his friend Lazarus was sick, then he told his disciples that he had died, but he did not
immediately go to see the family. This he said was for the Glorification of the LORD.
When he gets there with his disciples he finds he has been dead for four days.
When he gets there and asks to see where they buried him, they take him there and ask them to roll away the stone.
Martha, the sister of Lazarus says to him, 'Lord, by this time he stinketh: for he hath been dead four days.'
And after 4 days, he surely would have.
After praying to the Father he commands Lazarus to come out of the tomb.
This is truly a miracle, even without a description of how he looked after being 'unwrapped'.
Now Peter is said to have also raised from the dead, a pious woman named Tabitha. She died and was attended to and laid out on a bed. Peter was staying not far away and was called to the house.
Peter goes there and after hearing about how good a women she was goes into her alone and prays on his knees then turns to the body and speaks to her to arise. This was told about town and many believed in Yeshua after this.
Paul is also accredited with raising someone from the dead, but did he?
Acts 20: 7 And upon the first day of the week, when the disciples came together to break bread, Paul preached unto them, ready to depart on the morrow; and continued his speech until midnight. 8 And there were many lights in the upper chamber, where they were gathered together. 9And there sat in a window a certain young man named Eutychus, being fallen into a deep sleep: and as Paul was long preaching, he sunk down with sleep, and fell down from the third loft, and was taken up dead.
10 And Paul went down, and fell on him, and embracing him said, Trouble not yourselves; for his life is in him. 11 When he therefore was come up again, and had broken bread, and eaten, and talked a long while, even till break of day, so he departed. 12 And they brought the young man alive, and were not a little comforted.
So was Eutychus really dead? Or was he knocked out? or had the breath knocked out of him?
and they get immediate medical attention, they can be 'brought back'. If the heart stops, CPR can be given, electric shock to restart the heart, etc.
But would that really be considered being brought back from the dead?
I think to really be a miracle we need to look to the story of Lazarus.
Yeshua purposely stayed away when he heard his friend Lazarus was sick, then he told his disciples that he had died, but he did not
immediately go to see the family. This he said was for the Glorification of the LORD.
When he gets there with his disciples he finds he has been dead for four days.
Now when I person dies, the body immediately starts to break down. In fact it starts within four minutes of death.
As soon as blood circulation and respiration stop, the body has no way of getting oxygen or removing wastes. Excess carbon dioxide causes an acidic environment, causing membranes in cells to rupture. The membranes release enzymes that begin eating the cells from the inside out. Internal organs begin decomposition.
3-5 days later the body will start to bloat from processes within, kind of like a fermentation, foam starts to form and leak from the mouth and nose. I won't go any further because this is sufficient for our discussion.
When he gets there and asks to see where they buried him, they take him there and ask them to roll away the stone.
Martha, the sister of Lazarus says to him, 'Lord, by this time he stinketh: for he hath been dead four days.'
And after 4 days, he surely would have.
After praying to the Father he commands Lazarus to come out of the tomb.
And he that was dead came forth, bound hand and foot with graveclothes: and his face was bound about with a napkin. Jesus saith unto them, Loose him, and let him go.
This is truly a miracle, even without a description of how he looked after being 'unwrapped'.
Now Peter is said to have also raised from the dead, a pious woman named Tabitha. She died and was attended to and laid out on a bed. Peter was staying not far away and was called to the house.
Peter goes there and after hearing about how good a women she was goes into her alone and prays on his knees then turns to the body and speaks to her to arise. This was told about town and many believed in Yeshua after this.
Paul is also accredited with raising someone from the dead, but did he?
Acts 20: 7 And upon the first day of the week, when the disciples came together to break bread, Paul preached unto them, ready to depart on the morrow; and continued his speech until midnight. 8 And there were many lights in the upper chamber, where they were gathered together. 9And there sat in a window a certain young man named Eutychus, being fallen into a deep sleep: and as Paul was long preaching, he sunk down with sleep, and fell down from the third loft, and was taken up dead.
10 And Paul went down, and fell on him, and embracing him said, Trouble not yourselves; for his life is in him. 11 When he therefore was come up again, and had broken bread, and eaten, and talked a long while, even till break of day, so he departed. 12 And they brought the young man alive, and were not a little comforted.
So was Eutychus really dead? Or was he knocked out? or had the breath knocked out of him?
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