The One Who Can Save
Robert Dawson
Revelation 5:1-10
In the fall of 2010, a mining accident at the San Jose copper-gold mine near the town of Copiapó in northern Chile captured the world's attention.
33 men were trapped 2,300 feet, almost a half mile, below the surface after sections of the mine caved in. The collapse forced the miners into survival mode. They ate two spoonfuls of tuna, a sip of milk and a bite of peaches every other day, hoping they could last long enough for someone to rescue them
For two months they prayed for rescue, which was a seemingly impossible task.
While they held on and prayed, rescue teams, consulting with NASA, worked feverishly to come up with a rescue plan. They drilled a small communication tunnel. When the drill bit was pulled back to the surface there was a note taped to it that said, ''We are well in the shelter, the 33 of us.''
Engineers and rescue teams designed and built a 13-foot-tall capsule about 21 inches in width to lower down the excavation tunnel that had been drilled through over 2300 feet of solid rock to extract the miners.
Finally, rescue day had come. Manuel Gonzalez, a rescue expert, was lowered into the mine to assist the miners into the capsule which would be pulled through the almost ½ mile of rock to safety.
It is an amazing story. No one had ever been trapped underground for that length of time, 69 days, and lived to tell the tale.
When those miners were trapped beneath all that rock, sealed in what should have been a massive stone tomb, the one thing they knew was that there was nothing they could do to rescue themselves and that if help was to be found it had to come from above. It had to come from somewhere else. It had to come from someone else.
Today, as we celebrate Easter, we are reminded of another amazing rescue story. The story of our rescue, the rescue of fallen humanity, one buried beneath the weight and rubble of sin, and God's judgement and wrath.
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Robert Dawson
Revelation 5:1-10
In the fall of 2010, a mining accident at the San Jose copper-gold mine near the town of Copiapó in northern Chile captured the world's attention.
33 men were trapped 2,300 feet, almost a half mile, below the surface after sections of the mine caved in. The collapse forced the miners into survival mode. They ate two spoonfuls of tuna, a sip of milk and a bite of peaches every other day, hoping they could last long enough for someone to rescue them
For two months they prayed for rescue, which was a seemingly impossible task.
While they held on and prayed, rescue teams, consulting with NASA, worked feverishly to come up with a rescue plan. They drilled a small communication tunnel. When the drill bit was pulled back to the surface there was a note taped to it that said, ''We are well in the shelter, the 33 of us.''
Engineers and rescue teams designed and built a 13-foot-tall capsule about 21 inches in width to lower down the excavation tunnel that had been drilled through over 2300 feet of solid rock to extract the miners.
Finally, rescue day had come. Manuel Gonzalez, a rescue expert, was lowered into the mine to assist the miners into the capsule which would be pulled through the almost ½ mile of rock to safety.
It is an amazing story. No one had ever been trapped underground for that length of time, 69 days, and lived to tell the tale.
When those miners were trapped beneath all that rock, sealed in what should have been a massive stone tomb, the one thing they knew was that there was nothing they could do to rescue themselves and that if help was to be found it had to come from above. It had to come from somewhere else. It had to come from someone else.
Today, as we celebrate Easter, we are reminded of another amazing rescue story. The story of our rescue, the rescue of fallen humanity, one buried beneath the weight and rubble of sin, and God's judgement and wrath.
Like th ...
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