Last night I was watching tv while I was in bed.  A preacher was on and although I rarely watch televangelists i kept watching.  I was really curious because this guy had a full set behind him that was a replica of the Garden Tomb in Jerusalem.  Since I have been there I was really astonished by the detail.  Anyway, the guy rambled with some strange and kind of sketchy facts about the garden tomb and I was about to turn it off when he said something pretty profound.  He said that it was a providential that Jesus was taken off the cross and put in the tomb.  It preserved the body from being thrown on the refuse heap outside of the city and later incinerated.  As a result the body of Christ still bore the marks of the crucifixion.  Now I know of course, God could have resurrected and incinerated Christ as easily as he resurrected a dead Jesus, but I think how amazing it is that Jesus was resurrected from a sealed tomb.  Think about it.  There is no way that the swoon theory has merit when he was sealed in that tomb for 2 nights.  It isn’t like he woke up on a garbage heap and then showed himself to his disciples, he was locked in a tomb dead, wrapped up, if there was any chance he was still alive he would have bled out or died from exhaustion while inside the tomb.  As it is we know exactly where his body was, sealed away, far away from any tampering until his Glorious resurrection.  We serve an amazing God who thought about everything.  Even providing his son an iron clad story of where he was while he was dead.  I am including some pictures of the garden tomb so you can appreciate its beauty.