![]() ![]() Do you believe this? Rising Up at the Judgment ![]() The power that God’s Son has displayed in the promised land is certainly impressive and mindboggling, but it will be surpassed in scope when he gives life to all the dead that have ever lived. The language in John 5:29 alludes to Daniel 12:2, for that Old Testament verse is the clearest expression of the future resurrection-for both the righteous and the wicked-that will establish everlasting states. ![]() If Jesus is their Savior, they will be raised “to the resurrection of life.” If Jesus is not their Savior, then he is their Judge, and they will be raised “to the resurrection of judgment.” His words include believers and unbelievers because he speaks of “those who have done good” and “those who have done evil.” That duality is the division of mankind based on what people have done with Jesus. The end of these verses is about the coming bodily resurrection of all people. In union with him, sinners live now, though outwardly they are still wasting away. 3 He is bread and light, salvation and resurrection. At the beginning of these verses, Jesus is teaching that there is true life here and now for sinners-the spiritual life which he alone gives. These five verses may be the most significant statements Jesus ever made about the general resurrection. Do not marvel at this, for an hour is coming when all who are in the tombs will hear his voice and come out, those who have done good to the resurrection of life, and those who have done evil to the resurrection of judgment. And he has given him authority to execute judgment, because he is the Son of Man. For as the Father has life in himself, so he has granted the Son also to have life in himself. Truly, truly, I say to you, an hour is coming, and is now here, when the dead will hear the voice of the Son of God, and those who hear will live. Disease and demons must submit to him, and his dominion will subdue death as well. Just as the widow’s son and Jairus’s daughter and Lazarus obeyed the voice of Jesus and revived, so also the tombs will open at the voice of Jesus. The deliverance of people from death during the ministry of Jesus was a foreshadowing of that final day when all the dead will be raised. Do you believe this? When All in the Tombs Will Hear Him The age of the resurrection has dawned in him. This life would be sin-defeating and death-conquering. Whoever believes in me, though he die, yet shall he live, and everyone who lives and believes in me shall never die. His way is life and light because he is life and light. Whoever follows me will not walk in darkness, but will have the light of life” (8:12). “I am the bread of life whoever comes to me shall not hunger, and whoever believes in me shall never thirst” (John 6:35). For people with eyes to truly see, his deeds demonstrated who he was and is.īut his claims reveal his identity as well. He pronounced beatitudes for the meek, the mourning, and the merciful. The helpless and the destitute were objects of his blessing. As he traveled throughout the promised land, his light dawned on the needy and the outcast. The ministry of Jesus invaded this world like light piercing the darkness. Chase traces the theme of resurrection hope throughout Scripture, explaining how an understanding of resurrection is essential to faith now, in addition to a longing for what is to come. Resurrection Hope and the Death of Death Mitchell L. ![]()
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