Truth About The Crucifixion — Page 156
the Old Testament does it say that the Messiah had to die, or would die on the cross" he said, and in support of this he cited verses from the 53rd Chapter of Isaiah. . The resurrection was just the resuscitation. Christ may have appeared dead when he was taken down from the cross, but in reality he was still alive. His breathing and other life signs may have stopped, but enough oxygen was still circulating in his blood to keep vital centres such as the brain alive. . Once in the tomb the calm allowed him to revive. . Here I end the Wilcox report about the backgrounds. . Ladies and Gentlemen, Jews, Christians and Muslims!. I thought it was necessary to give brief details of the background in order to understand the explanation of the ascension of Jesus and the possible tomb of Christ's body in Srinagar,. Kashmir. . In 1947 when I saw the vision there was no written record of the shroud. All the evidence to confirm what I had seen started later emerging one after the other, year after year, out of the shroud of Jesus himself. The most meaningful and demonstrative evidence of the truth of events that were shown to me in Stuttgart, is the miraculous discoveries from Jesus. Christ's own burial shroud. . I have asked myself, why then what I saw in this real vision like a technicolour film about the ascension of Jesus should also not be true? At the time, in 1947, I was 25 years of age and I did not entirely grasp the significant implications of the ascension as it appeared to me in the vision. Indeed it has taken many years before I could perceive and absorb its meaning. . And this is what I saw. Hundreds of people talking and walking towards a green tract of land. The land was strikingly green, and there were hedges scattered over it. Jesus was there. . And Jesus was there after his crucifixion because I could see the healed wounds on his wrist. Jesus was speaking to the people and still more people kept coming. . After a while Jesus looked strained, perhaps tired by a long speech. He then walked away with two men. But it seemed to me that this was not the end of the session because another man now began to speak to the crowd who were either sitting or standing around. Jesus, with the two men, was walking towards the hedges and then I saw him lying down on the 161