Resurrection after Death

​Ekhristos anesti. Alithos anesti! Piekhristos aftonf. Khen oumethmi aftonf!

​This is the spirit-igniting shout of jubilation by the first church ushering in the age of the kingdom. On Holy Great Friday, with the Golgotha hymn, Adam was entrusted in the blood of the crucified Jesus Christ; and on Holy Joyous Saturday, with myrrh and oil, Adam was buried thus ending the age of the old mankind. On Holy Glorious Sunday, the light of the new life resurrected forth from the dark grave of the first Adam; and Jesus Christ, the second Adam, the first fruit and head of the new creation rose from the dead announcing the onset of the coming age and the appearance of the kingdom of God within the human heart. 
​Holy Great Friday embraced the most awesome incidents in the history of mankind. It was a day not only of terminating our pains and sins for which Jesus Christ assumed accountability and carried in His body on the cross; ​but it was a day of total eradication and final annihilation of the element, essence, source and master of darkness. God had convicted sin and the world in His body. ​

Consequently Jesus Christ died on the cross carrying in His body the curse that belonged to Adam and his descendents. With the thorn of death pierced deep into His forehead, the righteous Jesus Christ died on behalf of all sinners after having fulfilled the law verdict previously bestowed by sin on everybody. 

​“if One died for all, then all died” (2 Corinthians 5:14)

​The death and burial of all humanity in Jesus Christ has put an end to the first humanity with all its curses preparing us for the day of the new recreation. For Jesus Christ, His resurrection accomplished in His very severely wounded, dead body and pierced open side was in itself just a mere resurrection from the dead. But, for us our human body it was an impartation of a new creation to our human body. “Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; old things have passed away; behold, all things have become new” (2 Corinthians 5:17). 

Resurrection as a Transition from Darkness to Light

At the crucifixion, Jesus Christ issued to the world His verdict marking the last hour in the age of the old world and first Adam. “When I was with you daily in the temple, you did not try to seize Me. But this is your hour, and the power of darkness” (Luke 22:53). “Now is the judgment of this world; now the ruler of this world will be cast out” (John 12 31). At the resurrection Jesus Christ pronounced the new world and the second Adam recreated for God to be in Him, with Jesus Christ as His king and the Holy 

Spirit ​as the giver of spiritual birth and renewal to all those who believe and get baptized transitioning them from the darkness of Satan to his wonderful light. “He has delivered us from the power of darkness and conveyed us into the kingdom of the Son of His love” (Colossians 1:13). 
​​If Jesus Christ’s resurrection was essentially and primarily rising “from the dead” for the One who ascended is the one who came down (John 3:13) and the One who rose is the One who died first our resurrection must also be rising from the dead. Therefore, rising, by necessity has to be preceded by dying.
Jesus Christ’s glorified, magnified resurrection had its starting point in a dark grave, with real death, total selfless submission and commitment in the hands of the father and brave, willing obedience that walked the walk in steps anchored in love till the cross!
It is impossible to taste the joy of resurrection before going through death and the burial rituals. Whoever wants to rise with Jesus Christ has to be baptized to Jesus Christ’s death, be buried with Him in willful love.
It is impossible for the Father to move us into the Kingdom of the Son of His love while there is still in us some darkness left. For, it is impossible for the old creation to transition to the new orbit of the resurrection because the process is exclusively spiritual. Whoever is born of the flesh is flesh; and according to the flesh he lives, thinks, and rejoices and his joy, sadness, fears, regrets and assurance are all drawn from and revolve around the flesh and the world with all its enticements and delusions.
Resurrection is the beginning of the second birth by the Spirit. Whoever is born of the Spirit is spiritual and all the details of his life are according to the spirit; and according to the Spirit he lives, thinks, and his joy, sadness, fears, regrets and assurance are all drawn from and revolve around the Spirit and are done for the glory of God and according to His will.
​The carnal man and spiritual man both live on this planet. The former does everything in response to the flesh and dies with the flesh. The latter does everything according to the Spirit; and therefore lives above the world and will never taste death. 

Resurrection as a New Age and New Door ​

​The cross has put an end to the age of no-salvation, that age of the old creation, of the sinful Adam, of death and all the afflictions on the earth. The Resurrection has started the everlasting age, that age of Jesus Christ and new creation, the age of the new man born from above for the Kingdom of God. The cross has become like a fiery sword standing to guard the way to the Kingdom of God blocking the way to anyone or anything that belonged to the old creation. The Resurrection is the Iron Gate with which God has fastened the salvation era, granted the joy of the kingdom, and lighted the road to everlasting life.
​However, the salvation era and the joy of the kingdom do not have their onset with the Resurrection but at the cross and its pain. For, in the mystery of pain and death we get baptized to Jesus Christ, to a new, resurrected life on which neither suffering nor death has authority except in an appropriate measure required to deepen salvation, clarify vision, and ease the path.

​For those who are new in their walk towards the glorified kingdom, the cross seems an inevitable load wished to be removed or done without as if wanting to put on the new heavenly man over the old patched one.
Those who have preferred the road and approached the light, regard the cross as an essential inevitable necessity for which they have scented the fragrant breeze of the Resurrection from afar and heard the sound of the true Salvation hymn from behind the gates of the body. They had their spirits awakened and prepared for the coming great event. That great event facilitated the crossing from death to life, from darkens to light, from the authority of Satan to the Kingdom of God, from the bonds of the old man to the liberty of the children of God in glory. That great event granted and guaranteed the passage from death to life after it had been impossible “For if we have been united together in the likeness of His death, certainly we also shall be in the likeness of His resurrection” (Romans 6:5). This verse presents the first act of unity in the likeness of Jesus Christ’s death as a past tense act.
​The second act is presented in the perpetual future. This means that unity with Jesus Christ in His death is one subject and unity with Him in His Resurrection is another one. In His death we were truly in Him, within His human body which is ours because through His incarnation He took what was ours and died with it. His Resurrection does not procure unity by default. For, it is essential that the risen Jesus Christ come to us. We were in Jesus Christ at His death, but after His resurrection He comes to us, and makes a dwelling. But Jesus Christ cannot make His Resurrection an act of a new life except within those who have accomplished the complete death of the old man. That is what he had taught repeatedly time and time again. ​