Since enLighten began playing this recording about a month ago, we’ve received numerous E-mail and telephone messages about it … who’s recording is it, where can we read the words, where can we purchase the CD?
To answer all of these questions … it was written and recorded by Milton Ostrander, known as Big Mo, the recording can be purchased from Big Mo’s website, and we provide the words here for you to read and ponder at your leisure:
IT WAS MIDNIGHT, ON A SATURDAY, WHEN THE ANNOUNCEMENT WAS MADE, THEY WERE HAVING JESUS’S FUNERAL OUTSIDE HIS GARDEN GRAVE
SO GREAT WAS THE CROWD THAT GATHERED AT THAT DARK LONELY PLACE, AS THEY TOLD OF THE GREATNESS OF JESUS, A LOOK OF LOSS ON EACH FACE
TEARS FILLED THE EYES OF MANY, OTHERS WERE SEIZED BY FEAR, IF HE WAS WHO HE CLAIMED TO BE, THEN HOW DID HE WIND UP HERE
“ALL I KNOW IS I COULD NOT SEE” BARTEMAUS CRIED ALOUD, “THEN JESUS OPENED MY BLINDED EYES” AND A HUSH COVERED THE CROWD
“I WAS CAUGHT IN THE ACT OF ADULTRY WHEN THEY THREW ME AT HIS FEET” MARY CRIED, “ALL I KNOW IS THAT HE SHOWED REAL MERCY TO ME”
“I ONLY HAD A PICNIC LUNCH” I HEARD A SMALL BOY SAY, “JESUS BLESSED THE FIVE LOAVES AND TWO SMALL FISH, AND MADE AN ALL-YOU-CAN-EAT BUFFET”
ON AND ON THEY JUST KEPT COMING WITH AMAZING STORIES TO TELL, LIKE THE WOMAN WHO WAS FOREVER CHANGED WHEN SHE MET JESUS AT THE WELL
“HEY, LET ME TELL YOU MY STORY,” LAZURUS LOUDLY SAID … “JESUS GAVE LIFE BACK TO ME, AND I KNOW I WAS DEAD”
ON AND ON THEY JUST KEPT COMING, SO GREAT WAS HIS FAME, “IF THEY THINK THEY CAN HOLD HIM HERE“, SOMEONE SAID, “WHY THEY’RE ALL INSANE”
THEN ALL AT ONCE THE PLACE GOT QUIET, EXCEPT FOR A HIDEOUS SOUND … LAUGHING, SATAN HIMSELF SHOWED UP, JUST WALKING … PACING UP AND DOWN
“FOOLS, ALL OF YOU” I HEARD SATAN CRY, “YOUR GOD IS DEAD AND BURIED, WHY, YOU ALL SAW HIM DIE”
BUT THEN, LIKE A MIGHTY RUSHING WIND, IN WALKED THE HOLY GHOST, SATAN TOOK TWO STEPS BACK, TREMBLING, SURROUNDED BY A HEAVENLY HOST
“WHY ARE YOU HERE?” SATAN SCREAMED, WHEN THE HOLY GHOST TURNED ABRUPT … “THE MASTER LEFT A WAKE UP CALL WITH THE FATHER, AND I JUST CAME TO WAKE HIM UP”
“WHEN SHOULD I MOVE THE STONE?” MICHAEL, THE ANGEL OF WAR, ASKED, “WHEN YOU SEE THE SUNRISE,” THE HOLY GHOST SAID, “THEN YOU CAN DO THE TASK”
“WATCH THE STONE” SATAN CRIED AS DEMONS FILLED THE PLACE, “OVER MY DEAD BODY WILL HE EVER RISE.” THE HOLY GHOST SAID “WHATEVER IT TAKES”
THEN THE FIRST RAY OF SUNSHINE BROKE THROUGH WITH MORNING LIGHT, WHAT HAPPENED NEXT WAS AWESOME, AND SUCH AN AMAZING AND GLORIOUS SIGHT,
WITH JUST A LITTLE PUSH, MICHAEL ROLLED THE STONE AWAY … ON THE COLD HARD SLAB OF DEATH, THERE THE BODY OF JESUS LAY
DEMONS TRIED TO HOLD HIM DOWN AS DEATH STRATTLED HIS CHEST, “HOLD HIM FAST” SATAN SCREAMED. DEATH REPLIED, “I’M DOING MY BEST”
THEN A DEMON SHREEKED, “I SAW HIM MOVE.” ANOTHER CRIED “IT’S TRUE, I DON’T THINK WE CAN HOLD HIM HERE, WE’RE DOING ALL WE CAN DO”
IT WAS SUCH AN AMAZING THING TO SEE, DEATH ITSELF GIVING BIRTH, AS THE MORNING SUN CAME UP, THUNDER ROLLED AND A QUAKE SHOOK THE EARTH
“OH MY GOD” I HEARD DEATH SAY, AS JESUS OPENED UP HIS EYES. YOU SHOULD HAVE SEEN THE LOOK ON DEATH’S FACE WHEN JESUS SAID, “YOU GOT THAT RIGHT”
IT SHOWED IN SATAN’S EYES, AS WITH FEAR HIS HEART WAS SEIZED … SATAN TREMBLED AND DEMONS RAN AS JESUS SHOOK THE KEYS
OH GRAVE, WHERE IS YOUR VICTORY, OH DEATH WHERE IS YOUR STING, AS ALL OF HELL WAS SHAKEN, ALL OF HEAVEN BEGAN TO SING
YOU COULD HEAR THE APPLAUSE OF HEAVEN, AS GOD HIMSELF ROSE FROM THE THRONE. DEATH HAD BEEN DEFEATED AND THERE WAS A CELEBRATION GOING ON,
SO I GUESS THIS FUNERAL IS OVER, HE’S NO LONGER IN THE GROUND, JESUS ROSE WITH GREAT POWER, PROVING YOU CAN’T KEEP A GOOD MAN DOWN,
SO WITH A GREAT OVATION OF PRAISE … LIFT YOUR VOICE AND SHOUT, SATAN HAS LOST THE BATTLE AND OF THAT THERE IS NO DOUBT,
NOW LET ALL THE EARTH REJOICE, AND ALL CREATION SING, JESUS IS ALIVE AND WELL, AND FOREVER THE KING OF KINGS!
© 2008 by Milton “Big Mo” Ostrander – Tentop Publishing, BMI
The angel said to the women, “Do not be afraid, for I know that you are looking for Jesus, who was crucified. He is not here; he has risen, just as he said.”
Matthew 28:5 & 6
