Jesus rose on the third day

  Jesus and his witnesses guarantee that his resurrection on the third day was "according to the Scriptures." The desire for the resurrection extends back a long ways beyond the unfilled burial place to the expectations and predictions of God's old-contract individuals. Simultaneously, Jesus' rising initiates God's new creation in the present and focuses us to the day when every one of the burial places will be exhausted - and God's kin will rise to meet their Lord with restored bodies.   We are almost twenty years into the twenty-first century, and Christians all around the world are as yet trusting in the resurrection. This trust isn't new. We have longed for resurrection since God initially stirred confidence in the earliest Old Testament holy people. Similarly, resurrection additionally ought to have been feared by rebels who continue in their unbelief, for after resurrection comes the judgment.   Following the first creation of humankind, Jesu...