The Emmaus Road – Part Three

On the day of His resurrection, Jesus enters into conversation with two disciples who were still wallowing in self pity and disbelief. After a brief but strongly worded rebuke, Jesus explains to them clearly from the beginning starting with Moses and all the Prophets everything recorded in the Bible concerning Himself.

The disciples listened to Jesus with hearts set on fire. He opened their minds to understand the Scriptures. Even then the disciples did not recognize Him. As they approached the village they constrained Him to stay awhile longer with them and He did so.

That night during supper Jesus took the bread, gave thanks, broke it and began to give it to them. At that moment their eyes that were blind to the knowledge of Him was opened and they truly recognized Him. Then Jesus disappeared from their sight. When their inner eyes opened to recognize Jesus crucified and resurrected, it was no longer necessary for Jesus to be physically present.

In the garden of Eden the conniving devil convinced our Adamic parents that their eyes will be opened when they ate of the ‘Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil’ but instead it blinded them to the grace of God. The knowledge made them hide from their loving God. Now under the new covenant, when we partake of the ‘Lord’s Table’ the scales that blinded our eyes from seeing God falls off and we are enabled to see Him as He is. Like the disciples in this incident we too are set on fire - Fire that begets Fire.