Happy Resurrection Day, the cornerstone of our Faith.
FirstFruits (Bikkurim)
EASTER---Resurrection Sunday
The
Lord's Day
"The
Power of His Resurrection"
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I AM THE RESURRECTION AND THE
LIFE
Physical Resurrection....Glorified Body
1 Corinthians
15:14 tells us that if Christ is not
risen, then our faith in Him is in vain. But Jesus
indeed IS risen, and His resurrection vindicates,
authenticates and verifies all that He ever said and
did.
Acts 17:31
Now there is no excuse for any
person not to believe in Jesus Christ as the Son of
God, once he has heard the Gospel.
Matthew
28 ..... Mark 16........Luke 24......John 20...... 1 Corinth.
15.....John 11......1 Thess.
4:14...... 2
Corinth. 5
" You ask me how I know He
lives....He lives within my heart "!...plus we have
the revealed Word of God.
Others can claim to be God, and can even feign
resurrections (anti-Christ) but they do not
walk around in glorified bodies that are not subject
to matter and gravity. They may use holograms and
digitization to deceive (and it is true that a Great Delusion IS coming upon
this world soon...
2 Thessalonians
2:11.
Even though there were resurrections in the Old and
New Testaments before the death of Jesus, none of
those resurrected people came back to life with a
Glorified Body...not Lazarus or anyone who was brought
back from the dead. They died later on and will
receive their glorified bodies at the Rapture, or on
the Last Day. Only Jesus Christ rose with a Glorified
Body that was not subject to matter or gravity.
The truth remains... Jesus Christ is NOW living in a
resurrected, Glorified body. He is the FIRST one to
come forth from the grave in a Glorified Body, thus
making Him the FIRSTFRUIT of all resurrections. Others
came forth from their graves that same Easter morning
in Glorified Bodies also
( Matthew 27:52,53), but Jesus was
and always will be the FIRST fruit of the
Firstfruits...
"the first begotten of the dead " Revelation 1:5
"Matthew 27: 52, 53...."And the graves were opened;
and many bodies of the saints which slept arose, And
came out of the graves AFTER
His resurrection, and went
into the holy city, and appeared unto many." (capitols this author).
Later that evening, from Bethany , Jesus took these
Glorified saints with Him to heaven.
Luke 24. ........
Ephesians 4: 8
and 10..."Wherefore He saith, "When
He ascended up on high,
He led captivity captive, and gave gifts unto men....He that
descended is the same also that ascended up far
above all heavens, that He might fill all things".
" Father, I will that they also, Whom Thou hast
given Me, BE WITH ME where I am; that they may
behold My glory, which Thou hast given Me: for Thou
lovedst Me before the foundation of the world". John 17:24
(capitols this author)
Those that also rose in
Glorified Bodies on that Easter Sunday long ago are
referred to as
"the BARLEY Sheaf
". That is why the
Biblically correct term for this feast day is
"FIRSTFRUITS....Bikkurim" (plural).
The
Counting of the Omer represents
the anticipation of the final
WHEAT
Harvest when all the Church will be raised and
glorified:
"But every man in his own order: Christ the
FIRSTfruits;
afterward they that are Christ 's at His
coming......
No political or religious leader was ever raised
from the dead in a glorified body.
You can still go to Lenin's tomb etc.
[ There are recorded
resurrections of individuals
in the Old and New Testaments , yet such persons
returned to a mortal body, subject to aging and death.
They did not have a glorified body.]
Nevertheless, there will be a fake resurrection in the last days.
" I AM He that liveth and was dead; and behold I AM
alive forevermore, Amen;
and have the keys of hell and of death ". Rev. 1: 18
RESURRECTION VERIFIES
The Christian Faith is so
uncontestable and irrefutable, and yet it is
resisted continually by those who would rather
believe in Science and Technology as their
deliverer. Acts 7:51
They will follow a pied-piper, rather than God.
The showdown is soon to come in History's
unraveling. The non-believers are in a lose-lose
situation. They sense this, and therefore resent the
Blessed Hope that Christians have.
(otherwise they wouldn't challenge every belief
found in the Word of God, the Holy Bible.)
Eventually Believers will be martyred for their
Faith in Jesus Christ as God, as His resurrection
testifies. But great is our reward in heaven. For as
He rose, we also shall live again.....
all because of Easter Sunday 33 A.D.
SPIRITUAL RESURRECTION...the POWER to
OVERCOME
" That you may know Him and the
power of His resurrection "
Philippians 3:10 also Ezekiel 37: 1-14 and Ezek. 36: 26, 27
And this resurrection power is
not confined to one day in History. Each day the
Believer in Jesus Christ can experience power in
overcoming sin, temptations, difficulties and
trials.
"God is faithful, Who will not
suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but
will with the temptation also make a way of escape."
1 Corinthians.
10:13.
Anytime we face difficulties, and disappointments---
admitting our sins, faults, failures and mistakes,---
then we need to overcome the temptation to slip,
slide, stagnate and pull back. We need to "fall
forward" as Greg Laurie says.
When
Our Lord died, He looked like such a failure to His
family and friends, to the 11 apostles and even to
the skeptical religious crowd. And all of the
demon-world thought they had the biggest failure on
their hands. But our Lord made an open display of
them, "triumphing over them
and He overcame death ". "Colossians 2:15
I AM ......the resurrection and the Life " John 11:25
The complete Trinity involved in
the Resurrection
Jesus overcame death by the
power of the Father
(Acts 2:24 .... Acts 3:15 ..... Acts 10:40 .... Romans 10:9 .......Ephesians 1:20 )
and of the Holy
Spirit (
1 Peter 3:18 )
and by His
own person .....
" I lay down My life, that I might take it again. No
man taketh it from Me, but I lay it down of Myself.
I have power to lay it down, and I have power to take
it again."
John 10: 17, 18
"I AM the
resurrection and the Life" John 11:25
Our Lord always bore within
Himself the power to overcome adversity and even
death.
Of
ourselves, we do not have that power. But we can apply
that power through Jesus Christ in our lifetime. We
obtain that power when we become Born anew in Jesus
Christ...when we receive His Salvation.
Then, even when our bodies fail us, our consciousness
(soul and spirit) remains alive always.. So in that
sense, we never die. But the Believer actually goes on
living.......
" He that believeth in Me, though he were dead, yet
shall he live:
And whosoever liveth and believeth in Me shall never
die.
Believest thou this ? "John 11: 25, 26
When Christ conquered death, He
conquered the power of our adversary.
So that no matter what happens to us, we can rise again by the
power inherited from our union with Jesus Christ in
obedience to His Lordship. Sin and
oppression, rejection and depression can hurt, but it
cannot remain in the realization of the victory we
have in Christ Jesus.
We put this Resurrection-power into practice when we
focus our minds on the things that are above, and not
on the things which are here below:
"If ye then be risen with Christ, seek those things
which are above, where Christ sitteth on the right
hand of God." Colossians 3:1
"And be not conformed to this
world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your
mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and
acceptable, and perfect will of God." Romans 12: 2
"That I may know Him and the
power of His resurrection,
and the
fellowship of His sufferings,
being made conformable unto His
death." Philippians 3:10