Matthew 27:64 Command therefore that the sepulchre be made sure until the third day, lest his disciples come by night, and steal him away, and say unto the people, He is risen from the dead: so the last error shall be worse than the first.

Looking for something a little different for Easter Sunday I began searching the scriptures for something that I might have overlooked in all my readings of this glorious event that happened this day, so long ago. Praise the Lord, I found this.

“So the last error shall be worse than the first.”

Here we have words from the chief priests and the Pharisees to Pilate. They are saying, we made a mistake, let’s not make things worse. Let us not compound our mistake. We buried our mistake, let’s not have it dug up again.

I see a change in attitude here between when they begged Pilate to crucify Jesus and His burial. I do not know what that entailed. I don’t even want to speculate. What I would like to concentrate upon is the issue of mistakes and not allowing the last mistake to be the worst mistake.

We have all made mistakes. We know it. What are you going to do about it? The past is the past and there is nothing I can do about it. True? Yes, of course it is true. So what are we to do about it? Hidden within the verses after the one quoted is another profound offering.

V 65-66 Pilate said unto them, Ye have a watch: go your way, make it as sure as ye can. So they went, and made the sepulchre sure, sealing the stone, and setting a watch.

Be sure that the last choice you make is the right choice, be as sure as you can. We who believe have been baptized into Christs death, we have been sealed by the Holy Spirit and we wait and watch for His second coming. Those mistakes, our sin, Jesus took and laid them before the Father to be reconciled by faith in Christ, the one who is the Atonement.

Your last mistake, if you make it, will be your worst, that being to reject that free will offering of forgiveness of your mistakes. Choose wisely, make sure. 

Isaiah 28

¹⁸ And your covenant with death shall be disannulled, and your agreement with hell shall not stand; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, then ye shall be trodden down by it.

¹⁹ From the time that it goeth forth it shall take you: for morning by morning shall it pass over, by day and by night: and it shall be a vexation only to understand the report.

²⁰ For the bed is shorter than that a man can stretch himself on it: and the covering narrower than that he can wrap himself in it.

²¹ For the Lord shall rise up as in mount Perazim, he shall be wroth as in the valley of Gibeon, that he may do his work, his strange work; and bring to pass his act, his strange act.

²² Now therefore be ye not mockers, lest your bands be made strong: for I have heard from the Lord God of hosts a consumption, even determined upon the whole earth.

Here it is the Saturday between Good Friday and Easter Sunday. Why did we not give this day a special name? Where did Jesus go and what did Jesus do for that period of time just before sunset Friday until just after sunset Sunday? There are many words written about that period of time and no good clear argument can be made to understand exactly what happened.

V 19 implies that we shall receive a report of what happened and it shall be a vexation, a frustration of the spirit, to try and understand it. We will be in our perfected resurrected form when we get the report. V 21 speaks to a strange work and a strange act. A strange thing is a thing that has not been explained.

What makes any of us think that we should satisfy our own curiosity about the Lord’s doing this day when we are told that it will be hard to accept even after He explains it to us?

Where the scriptures are silent, perhaps we should follow the example.

Silent Saturday? Observe the time in prayerful meditation about what He has done.