Have you ever had big plans fall through at the last minute? You've spent an entire year planning an epic family vacation, only to have one of the kids come down with an attack of appendicitis the night before leaving. Vacation is ruined; no one is going anywhere.... It's the first time you are hosting the family Thanksgiving dinner, and you've spent countless hours and way more dollars than you wanted making it perfect. And the day everyone is to arrive your part of the country is hit with a freak snow storm. All travel is shut down. Your plans are completely undone.
In Jesus' death and burial, it appears that God's great plan of restoration for the world is undone. Jesus - the coming King, the Savior, the Messiah, the Hope for all the world - is dead. Wrapped in grave clothes and closed in a tomb, the story comes to a tragic end. God's plans and everyone's hopes are undone. But on that morning at Jesus' tomb, Mary and the others discover...
