Death and resurrection of the cross

Death and resurrection of the cross

 

At the time of the early church, there was much controversy about the resurrection. Controversy over those who believe in the resurrection and those who do not. And there was a controversy over whether resurrection was “physical survival or spiritual survival.” So in the end, it comes down to a debate about whether to be alive physically or spiritually.

John 3:13 『And no man hath ascended up to heaven, but he that came down from heaven, even the Son of man which is in heaven.』 If the incorrect translation is translated again through the Greek Bible, 『in heaven Unless the Son of God comes out of heaven, no one can enter heaven.” Except the Son of Man, no one has ascended to heaven without seeing death. The Son of Man is the first man, Adam, and the first to come out of heaven. In Ephesians 1:15, “Wherefore I also, after I heard of your faith in the Lord Jesus, and love unto all the saints,”

In the second resurrection, Enoch ascended to heaven. No one saw Enoch die. Enoch is the eighth descendant after the first man, Adam, and symbolizes the new creation and resurrection. In Hebrews 11:5, “By faith Enoch was translated that he should not see death; and he was not found, because God had translated him: for before his translation he had this testimony, that he pleased God.” Enoch was resurrected (transformed), and no one could find him, because he had not seen death. The reason is that God translated him before his transformation.

No one saw Moses die. Moses died at the age of 120. He died as a representative of the law. Moses is the shadow of Jesus Christ. In the end, both died, but no one saw their bodies, and they were resurrected and ascended to heaven. Jesus Christ is the last Adam. Jesus died on the cross, Christ was resurrected, and before resurrection, Jesus' body already disappeared. Jesus' body was buried and placed in a tomb on Friday, but God removed his body on Saturday (the Sabbath), and Christ was resurrected as a spirit on Sunday.

The Jews did not want to leave the body on the cross on the Sabbath. In Numbers 19:11-22, corpses are considered unclean. Rest is called nephash in Hebrew, and has the same root as nephesh. Nefesh means living being, and Nefash means breathing, vitality, and life. Therefore, corpse and rest have different meanings. Rest means getting rid of the body and replacing it with life.

Jesus healed on the Sabbath. In Matthew 12:9-13, Jesus heals a man with a withered hand on the Sabbath; in Luke 13-14, Jesus heals a woman with a bent body on the Sabbath; He heals a man with dropsy; , Healed a 38-year-old sick man. Jesus healed the sick and demon-possessed on the Sabbath. This is the removal of death and the removal of sin on the Sabbath. The disciples were picking grain in the wheat field on the Sabbath. Only by peeling the ear can the inside be revealed. This symbolizes eating the fruit of resurrection.

However, the Jews stoned those who broke the Sabbath to death. This comes from the Sabbath regulations in Exodus (Exodus 31:14-15; 35:2). God told us to kill those who broke the Sabbath. There, God repeats the word kill twice. Exodus 31:15 『Six days may work be done; but in the seventh is the sabbath of rest, holy to the LORD: whosoever doeth any work in the sabbath day, he shall surely be put to death. The Hebrew Bible says, “Kill (mut) and kill (mut).” The two deaths symbolize water baptism and fire baptism. Breaking the Sabbath is disobedience and death on the cross. Having a corpse on the Sabbath violates the holiness of God, and the corpse must be destroyed (die and die). Becoming a corpse means dying to sin (water baptism). Removing the body means removing the clothes (baptism of fire).

Even in the saints' hearts, the saints must get rid of the corpses of their old self. Just as the Israelites killed the seven tribes of Canaan, believers must also kill the fleshly ego in their hearts. The physical self appears in seven forms.

The Sabbath is the seventh day, the day on which creation is completed, and this day signifies life. For the Sabbath tomb to be transformed into life, the corpse (old person) must be removed, and when the old person is removed, a new person appears. Ephesians 4:22-24 『That ye put off concerning the former conversation the old man, which is corrupt according to the deceitful lusts; And be renewed in the spirit of your mind; And that ye put on the new man, which after God is created in righteousness and true holiness.』Saints take off the clothes of the old man (disappear) and put on the new man (appear)

The world is a grave, but it changes into heaven because of Christ. So, the old temple must be destroyed. Genesis 2:1 “On the seventh day the armies of heaven and the armies of earth were formed.” It was translated incorrectly. Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them. “all the host of them” means the army (chava). So, on the seventh day, the heavenly army (angels) and the earthly army (people: evil angelic spirits) are united and that is the rest. The tomb represents the earth, and for heaven and earth to become one, the tomb symbolizing the earth must be opened. Matthew 27:52 『And the graves were opened; and many bodies of the saints who slept arose,』The day after the Sabbath, Christ was resurrected. Matthew 27:53 『And he came out of the graves after his resurrection, and went into the holy city, and appeared unto many.』

No one could find Jesus' body. However, they found the resurrected body of Christ. Why do people believe that corpses are transformed into spiritual bodies? Their mortal bodies are too precious. The flesh is the body of sin, and the reason it is considered precious is because the body of sin has not died. The Bible shows that resurrection has nothing to do with the corpse. However, even today, pastors teach and believe in the resurrection of the body. When we say, “What a great sin the false prophets are,” as Jude points out, it is the same sin as Noah’s flood and the judgment of fire in Sodom and Gomorrah.

The resurrected Christ first encounters Mary Magdalene. Mary Magdalene remained at her tomb even after her disciples returned to her home. In John 20:17, Jesus saith unto her, Touch me not; for I am not yet ascended to my Father: but go to my brethren, and say unto them, I ascend unto my Father, and your Father; and to my God, and your God.』Touch means not to hold on and embrace. Mary appears to be trying not to miss Jesus again. She is not to hold on to Christ because He has not yet gone to His Father's house. For the time being, he will be with Mary and her disciples in the world.

On the road to Emmaus, Jesus met two disciples and talked to them, but at first he did not show them his resurrected body. And in John 20:19-20, “Then the same day at evening, being the first day of the week, when the doors were shut where the disciples were assembled for fear of the Jews, came Jesus and stood in the midst, and saith unto them, Peace be unto you. And when he had so said, he shewed unto them his hands and his side. Then the disciples were glad, when they saw the LORD..』 When the disciples heard Mary's words, they were not interested in the resurrection, but when Jesus appeared to them, the disciples were surprised. The door was obviously closed, but Jesus broke through the wall and entered the disciples. The resurrected body of Jesus is different from the body of this world.

In John 20:24-25, “But Thomas, one of the twelve, called Didymus, was not with them when Jesus came. The other disciples therefore said unto him, We have seen the LORD. But he said unto them, Except I shall see in his hands the print of the nails, and put my finger into the print of the nails, and thrust my hand into his side, I will not believe.』

Thomas did not believe in the resurrection of Jesus. When Jesus appeared to his disciples, Thomas was not there. Although the other disciples said, “We have seen the Lord,” Thomas could not accept “the words of his companions that a dead man who had been crucified and buried in a stone tomb appeared before his eyes.”

In John 20:26-27, “And after eight days again his disciples were within, and Thomas with them: then came Jesus, the doors being shut, and stood in the midst, and said, Peace be unto you. Then saith he to Thomas, Reach hither thy finger, and behold my hands; and reach hither thy hand, and thrust it into my side: and be not faithless, but believing..” However, in Luke 24:39 it says, “Behold my hands and my feet, that it is I myself: handle me, and see; It says, “for a spirit hath not flesh and bones, as ye see me have.”

Looking at this in the Greek Bible, 『αὐτός ψηλαφήσατέ με καὶ ἴδετε ὅτι πνεῦμα σάρκα καὶ ὀστέα οὐκ ἔχει καθὼς ἐμὲ θε ωρεῖτε θεωρεῖτε ἔχοντα』

Translated again, “He touched me and saw that I was a spirit body, and I had no bones, “as I see you with bones.”』

What Thomas saw was not the nail and intestine marks that were present when Jesus was dead, but rather the sight of those marks being transformed. Likewise, the disciples, like Thomas, must have been surprised and delighted by the sight of such resurrection. The English Bible is translated as if “Jesus had flesh and bones,” which can create the illusion in the disciples that “he has returned to his former body.” However, his resurrected body is a spiritual body (πνεῦμα σάρκα pneuma sarca). And the resurrected person has no bones. In other words, it is not a body like a person needs bones to move in this world.

The physical body of Jesus before his death is the body of a person who must die. The Bible says that the body of a person who must die is the body of sin because it is the body of the first man, Adam.

Romans 6:6 『Knowing this, that our old man is crucified with him, that the body of sin might be destroyed, that henceforth we should not serve sin.』The body of sin cannot become a holy body. The body of sin must die, and a new life, the spiritual body, is born. New life is resurrection life and comes from heaven through the power of the Holy Spirit. Peter is saying that those who are born from heaven are holy.

1 Peter 1:16 『Because it is written, Be ye holy; for I am holy.』(διότι γέγραπται · ἅγιοι ἔσεσθε, ὅτι ἐγὼ ἅγιος.) γενεσθε (Genesde) means γίγνομαι (Gygnomai: to be born, to be produced) )'s second-person passive voice, 『Be born holy』 will be. If this is translated again, it means, “I am holy, so you must be born (reborn) in holiness.”

Romans 6:8 『Now if we be dead with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with him』εἰ(if) δὲ ἀπεθάνομεν(be dead) σὺν Χριστῷ, πιστεύομεν ὅτι καὶ συζήσομεν(live with) αὐτῷ,( (Greek Bible))

A (εἰ) is a subjunctive conjunction. To say something as if something has happened. Those who are in Christ are those who died with Christ. Apedanomen (ἀπεθάνομεν) means to die instantaneously with Christ. Sjesomen (συζήσομεν) is a future tense that means we become new life together. It is a compound word of “Xu (together)” and “Jiao” (live). The believer becomes a being who shares the life of Christ (symbiotic relationship). This happens instantly when a believer receives the Holy Spirit. This means that saints are also born into heaven with Christ and become holy beings. Even though believers have a body that must die, they become so spiritually.

The present resurrection taking place for believers

1 Corinthians 15:51-52 『Behold, I shew you a mystery; We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed, In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed.』

This is “a picture of a new temple being built in the hearts of believers in the blink of an eye.” The old temple dies and a new temple is built. This is the moment when we change from a physical subject to a spiritual subject. Even when the new temple enters the heart, the destroyed appearance of the old temple remains. The spiritual self must be separated from the physical self until it is completely destroyed. It is the same as when the Israelites entered Canaan and fought against the seven nations.

In 2 Peter 3:10, “But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up.” The day of the Lord does not mean the final judgment, but the day of the saints. It means that a new temple comes into your heart. The day that comes into the hearts of believers comes quickly for some people and late for others.

It is translated as ‘the sky is leaving with a loud sound’, which expresses the death of the old people. When a substance is dissolved in hot fire, it means that the physical body (old person) dies, and thus becomes a new creation.

“Saints living in the present” have their physical bodies (souls) die, are born as spiritual bodies from heaven, and receive the Hologos (Christ as the Word).

1 Thessalonians 4:16-18 『For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first: Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord. Wherefore comfort one another with these words.』Because of this Bible verse, many believers have a misunderstanding: they believe that they will be raptured at the second coming of Jesus.

Due to the second coming of Christ in the resurrected bodies (new temple) of the saints, the kingdom of God becomes within the hearts of the saints. For believers, Christ has already returned. So, it becomes a temple and the kingdom of God. That's why you become a Parusian. Those outside of Christ who do not believe in Jesus do not know when the second coming of Christ will occur, but he will come as the Lord of judgment.