Jesus and the Whole of HIstory

- But when the right time came, God sent his Son, born of a woman, subject to the law. (Galatians 4:4)

"He will revive us after two days; He will raise us up on the third day, That we may live before Him. (Hosea 6:2)

A Slice of Infinity snippets:
...Witnesses were radically transformed by beholding him, not merely because a resurrected man stood before them, but because the resurrection radically validated everything Jesus said and did among them. The claim of Christ that the kingdom of God was already at hand was suddenly and unavoidably revealed as true.

... “To anyone who earnestly shared the apocalyptic hope in the general resurrection, the resurrection of Jesus would have revealed the meaning of universal history. It glimpsed the end of history. The meaning of the whole was made known through the lens of this one end-time event.”

... Jesus was a clue to the meaning of history for those who first heard it, a solid hope for the present age, and a glimpse of the future glory to come.... As Paul once declared emphatically, we emphatically echo today: “I want to know Christ and the power of his resurrection and the fellowship of sharing in his sufferings, becoming like him in his death, and so, somehow, to attain to the resurrection from the dead” (Philippians 3:10-11).

To behold the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ is to see the meaning of the whole of history. To know the power of the resurrection is to know the rest of the story, even as we wait eagerly to receive that ending face to face. From this expectant perspective, our Christology even today can thus confess: Awake, O sleeper! Arise from the dead, and Christ will shine on you.

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