Author: charles cohenour

Ecclesiastes 12:13 Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter: Fear God, and keep his commandments: for this is the whole duty of man.

Ecclesiastes 12:14 For God shall bring every work into judgment, with every secret thing, whether it be good, or whether it be evil.

There are a number of things that can be finalized in truth and in righteousness after this study is pondered and considered about Matthew 27.

We have seen evidence both physical and scriptural regarding the story in Matthew that explains the inaccuracy of the misrepresentation of OTW doctrine. Some examples are straight forward and to be noted.

• There is no other biblical mention of a mass pre-resurrection before the First or Second Resurrection if Matthew 27:52-53 is an actual resurrection.
• The divine intervention of the eclipse with the darkness that it brought could NOT have happened during the OTW resurrection.
• The veil was the second veil inside Herod’s Temple, behind the first veil and with no lighting available to see what was going on inside. The account of the veil being rent had to have happened and been revealed to Matthew sometime after the crucifixion of Christ. The priests of the temple would have told the story of the torn veil to someone or to Matthew.
• The distance from Mt. Calvary to the Temple would have been too overwhelming for even a young man to see all the events mentioned from Mt. Calvary.
• The earthquake was so severe that everyone would have been focused on their own safety, instead of watching the temple.
• Every witness had to have told their stories to Matthew, Mark, Luke and John sometime after the events.
• It was not claimed that any saint who rose from the dead was an OTW, or any known person.
• The resurrection of the saints took place later, after the resurrection of Christ, and at NO specific time.
• There are no scriptures directly linked to a physical resurrection in Matthew 27:52-53.
• If this was an actual resurrection of the OTW, the doctrine never addresses the life times of these saints after their resurrections nor their deaths.
• How could the church successfully carry out a Conspiracy of Silence keeping all the rising patriarchs hidden?  
• How could they have kept the patriarchs quiet and forbidden them to preach?
• If these OTW resurrected did die, then the problem left behind would be their physical bodies and their Jewish burial practices.How could the church provide shelter, clothing, food and care for the rest of the resurrected lives?

Matthew’s story contains various events that could not have happened simultaneously or in succession.

These events were written from Matthew’s first hand experience and some of the events were told to Matthew by other witnesses. These events were witnessed by many different people from many different perspectives at many different times.

Matthew’s story was written long after the crucifixion and the story was a sum of information gathered from approximately five or more witnesses.

According to this passage, the events are not sequential and this is an essential point in understanding this account of the crucifixion story. This passage is a carefully written historical account of the many different things that happened during the crucifixion. Describes the reaction of people in Matthew’s time and shows how the death of Christ had effects, one being the spiritual resurrection of Matthew 27:52-53, explaining the significance of his resurrection.

This is a story about the tragedy of our Savior’s death and the effect it had on the future of the people and nation during that time period. Matthew has used a form of free flowing prose called a Stream of Consciousness which is a form of Indirect Internal Dialogue. This dialogue lets Matthew jump topics and insert Matthew 27:52-53 to acknowledge the immediate benefit and power of the resurrection of Jesus, which Matthew later witnessed on the Day of Pentecost. Matthew is letting the reader know how the resurrection of Jesus aligns directly with the resurrection of the saints in Christ.

A truthful consideration of the facts and an understanding of the spirit leads to this conclusion. According to Matthew, the resurrection of saints is a spiritual baptism of the Holy Spirit. This leads to the account of this resurrection on the Day of Pentecost, which Matthew himself witnessed and preached.

Pinning down a teacher or preacher to claim the truth of these saints’ resurrection will never be allowed to happen. This is because teachers and preachers need this false doctrine to be a pivotal point for their agendas.

No OTW were resurrected after the time of Jesus’ resurrection, and the notion of a pre-resurrection is a myth. The truth is the doctrine of the OTW resurrection currently taught as a physical resurrection of the saints of Hebrew 11 in Matthew 27:52-53 is a FALSE doctrine.