The meaning of resurrection

 

The meaning of resurrection

 

If a country applies a certain system, gives up on it, introduces another system, and even that is not good, and reapplies the previous system, people say that the system has been revived. Revival means returning to the previous state. This is the meaning in our word resurrection. It is not perfect, but it can convey the meaning of resurrection to a considerable extent.

A person is born, lives, and dies. If we apply the above words, the previous does not mean the time when one was alive in the world, but the state before one was born. Before being born in the flesh, it means the state of the spirit, an angel. Before, one was an angelic spirit, but after committing a crime against God, one became a human being in the flesh. However, if one were to return to the past, one would return to being an angel in the kingdom of God.

The spirit was imprisoned in the body, so we became human, but we were born as spiritual sinners who could not know about the kingdom of God. However, when we repent to God, we are united with the atoning death of Jesus Christ, and the sinner is forgiven and returns to the kingdom of God. To be united means to believe that the sinner also died with Jesus.

After death there is resurrection, which means returning to the spirit of the angels. The Sadducees thought that the body would be resurrected after death and then be resurrected again, so they asked Jesus a question. Luke 20:29-33 "There were therefore seven brethren: And the first took a wife, and died without children. And the second took her to wife, and he died childless. And the third took her; and in like manner the seven also: and they left no children, and died. Last of all the woman died also. Therefore in the resurrection whose wife of them is she? for seven had her to wife."

Jesus' answer is, "they which shall be accounted worthy to obtain that world, and the resurrection from the dead, neither marry, nor are given in marriage:" which means it is not a physical resurrection.

In Luke 20:36-38, “Neither can they die any more: for they are equal unto the angels; and are the children of God, being the children of the resurrection. Now that the dead are raised, even Moses shewed at the bush, when he called the Lord the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob. For he is not a God of the dead, but of the living: for all live unto him.” Jesus connects the resurrection with angels. The God of the living means the God of the spiritually resurrected.

In this way, resurrection has the meaning of returning to the past. If the resurrection returns to the spirit of an angel, the spirit of that angel must put on the angel’s clothes that were taken away. These angel’s clothes are replaced with the expressions of the clothes of righteousness, the body of the spirit, or the tabernacle. When the spirit puts on the body of the spirit, the complete resurrection is accomplished. Jesus also rose from the dead and appeared to the disciples in a spiritual body. Humans cannot see God, who is a spirit. In order to be seen, a body is needed. In the Old Testament, when God appeared to the chosen people, He appeared in a spiritual body. God suddenly appeared in human form and then suddenly disappeared. At this time, the eyes that saw God would be spiritual eyes.

The Bible explains resurrection as a fruit. In Mark 4:2-9, “And he taught them many things by parables, and told them in his doctrine, Hearken; Behold, there went out a sower to sow: And it came to pass, as he sowed, some fell by the way side, and the fowls of the air came and devoured it up. And some fell on stony ground, where it had not much earth; and immediately it sprang up, because it had no depth of earth: But when the sun was up, it was scorched; and because it had no root, it withered away. And some fell among the thorns, and the thorns grew up, and choked it, and it yielded no fruit. And the other fell on good ground, and did yield fruit that sprang up and increased; and brought forth, some thirty, and some sixty, and some an hundred. And he said unto them, He that hath ears to hear, let him hear.』

Those who bear the fruit of resurrection are the good soil (spirit). When the word of God (seed) about resurrection falls on the heart, it bears fruit. The good soil is formed when we abandon fleshly thoughts and receive the word through spiritual ears.

Romans 6:5 "For if we have been planted together in the likeness of his death, we shall also be in the likeness of his resurrection:" Those who are in Christ are united with Christ, and therefore their death and resurrection are also united. Those who are in Christ died with Jesus' body. Then, it means that God will resurrect the dead. Those who are in Christ have already died with Jesus and have already been resurrected.

Church people say that we are saved by believe Jesus, but the Greek Bible says that we are saved by believing in Jesus. Galatians 2:16.『 εἰδότες δὲ ὅτι οὐ δικαιοῦται ἄνθρωπος ἐξ ἔργων νόμου ἐὰν μὴ διὰ πίστεως Χριστοῦ Ἰησοῦ, καὶ ἡμεῖς εἰς Χριστὸν Ἰησοῦν ἐπιστεύσαμεν, ἵνα δικαιωθῶμεν ἐκ πίστεως Χριστοῦ καὶ οὐκ ἐξ ἔργων νόμου, ὅτι ἐξ ἔργων νόμου οὐ δικαιωθήσεται πᾶσα σάρξ.』

『 Knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law, but by the faith of Jesus Christ, even we have believed in Jesus Christ, that we might be justified by the faith of Christ, and not by the works of the law: for by the works of the law shall no flesh be justified. 』(KJV)

Peter's discrimination between Jews and Gentiles while eating came from legalism. However, justification is by faith. However, "through faith in Jesus Christ" (dia pisteos Jesus Christou διὰ πίστεως Χριστοῦ Ἰησοῦ) in the original Greek means through the faith of Jesus Christ. It does not mean the faith that I believe in, but the faith that the saint dies on the cross with Jesus Christ (denies himself) and enters into Jesus Christ, who is ho logos, and is united with his faith (the faith that dies on the cross and is resurrected). The subject of faith is not me, but Jesus Christ.