I’m really curious why we don’t have any written record of
Lazarus’ reminiscences’ of his life after death (or near death experiences as
the pop media likes to call it.) After all,
it was a pretty big deal and I’m sure people were pretty darn curious. I also would think Lazarus would be blabbing
the story all over town about what he saw and learned. I mean, look at what we have today. Seems like everybody wants to talk or make a
movie about their life after death.
Now, make no mistake.
I’m not suggesting any of this is fake or that there is no life after
death. I’m just unbelievably curious why
we have no comments of record on the experience from those that Jesus brought back to life. I can sort of understand the little girl and
the others, but Lazarus was a well know and likely wealthy guy. Is it possible that he was brain damaged by
being dead four days? Did he not have
the faculties to tell of his experience, or perhaps was he rendered unable to
recall due to being dead so long? Did
God use the Men In Black’s neuralizer to remove any recall of the events? Or was Lazarus just clever enough to figure
out that the Pharisees and Saducees would likely kill him if he started telling his
story? Perhaps Jesus told him, “Hey
Dude, you know this thing will just get weird for you if you make a big deal
about it. Better keep it on the low
down.”
What is important to remember is the issue really wasn’t a
dead man’s experience, but rather that Jesus had the power over even death and
life. The focus needed to be on that to
demonstrate that belief in Him being part of God and that our salvation rested
on belief in Him was main point to be learned.
I suspect the locals didn’t question the existence of heaven (well maybe
the Sadducees did) and weren’t all that interested in Lazarus’ accounts of his
trip.
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