Road to Emmaus

The place was Jerusalem and the year was 32 c.e. It was three days after the Passover festival and the first day of the week. Two men were beginning their two hour walk back to their home town of Emmaus. They were sad because only three days earlier their leader named Jesus, who was their teacher and their hope for the future was killed.

As they walked along with their faces long and depressed, they were interrupted by a strange man who asked them, "Why are you two so sad?"

Not knowing that this was Jesus walking with them, they yelled out at him, "Are you a the only stranger in Jerusalem, and don't you know happened a few days ago?"

He said to them, "What things?"

So they said to him, "The things concerning Jesus of Nazareth, who was a Prophet mighty in deed and word before God and all the people, and how the chief priests and our rulers condemned him to death, and crucified him. But we were hoping that it was he who was going to redeem Israel. Besides all this, today is the third day since these things happened. Yes, and certain women of our company who arrived at the tomb early today, astonished us. When they did not find his body they came to us saying that they had also seen a vision of angels who said he was alive. And two of the men in our group went to the tomb and found it just as the women had said; but him they did not see."

Then the "Stranger" who was Jesus disguising his identity said to them, "O foolish ones, and slow of heart to believe in all that the prophets have spoken! Wasn't the the Messiah, the Christ to have suffered these things and to enter into his glory?"

So beginning at the books of Moses - Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, Deuteronomy and all of the books of the Prophets, he explained to them in all the Scriptures the things concerning himself.

Then it was recorded that their hearts burned within them after he had revealed that he was Jesus and left the two men. They understood clearly and realized that the burning in their hearts was the great warm love of the creator filling their souls with his loving kindness and tender mercies.

So come along on this narrative of a book and see Jesus' story displayed through the entire Old Testament Bible.

Perhaps as you read and see this narrative displayed you too will see the pictures of Jesus and your heart and soul will burn with the goodness of God. As you get to know Jesus clearer than ever before it may be like driving up into the mountains and out of the fog. Like seeing the mountain range and breathing in the fresh, clear, crisp and clean air for the first time.

So come along and join Jesus walking with him on the Road to Emmaus. May your heart burn with him as well.