The Reviving Truth of Christ

The most wonderful event in human history up to this point in time is being commemorated today by Christians all over the world.

Some of them observed the Passover and Feast of Unleavened Bread, others stuck with Easter.

Whichever route the Christians go, the LORD is glorified.

Let us ponder upon the richness of Jesus’s life and death, followed by His ultimate triumph over the grave.

It’s enough to make one pause and reflect at the glory of Yahweh.

He is the God of the impossible.

Dead men don’t rise. That’s a fact of nature. Yet, forgoing the laws of physics, to show His supernatural power, God raised Jesus from the dead.

This event assures the world that one day He will judge the living and the dead at the last period of human history before the glorious, peace-filled Millennium.

“...because He has fixed a day on which He will judge the world in righteousness by a man whom He has appointed; and of this He has given assurance to all by raising Him from the dead” (Acts 17:31 [ESV]).

Jesus’s body will never be found by archaeologists, because it is somewhere in the heavens, and He is our great High Priest after the order of Melchizedek.

He died for our sins, past, present, and future. But He was raised from the dead to enable us to enter eternity and obtain a glorious new body.

“... who will transform our lowly body to be like His glorious body, by the power that enables Him even to subject all things to Himself” (Philippians 3:21 [ESV]).

Jesus is the Second Adam, the true Son of God who, interestingly, has no earthly Y chromosome (credit to Douglas Hamp for his dialogues on this subject matter). Sin spread to all men and women through the actions of the original primordial couple of the time of Eden.

But life and eternal life all the more came through Jesus, who will one day raise us up incorruptible into a body that cannot die and will be immortal (likely with a different genetic makeup but we’ll still be us).

No sickness, no pain, no tears, and physics-breaking life as there will be no entropy with these bodies.

Easter is about the Firstfruits of that resurrection, the archetype by which the rest of humanity will become like He is.

His death paid for our iniquities, but His everlasting life paid for our destiny.

Easter is a large truth in the Christian walk, something which cannot be shaken.

It is the beginning of understanding humanity was meant to live forever with God in close union.

We will see loved ones again, also born into new bodies. This is an incredible hope to which I look forward to every day.

Jesus is the ultimate truth, and this time of year reflects that in His lasting, historical, and worldwide impact.

He who conquered the grave, who made Pilate ask in astonishment, “What is truth?”

The Holy One, blessed be He, is alone exalted above all other names—the Messiah who defeated the grave to show Satan he’s already lost.

Happy Resurrection Day to all who would call Him their Lord!