Resurrection Day

The sun rises, the rainbow appears, the good times come again better than before, you are back home, the winter is over, singing breaks the silence, your friend and master defeats the grave.

Anderson

The resurrection is the Great Triumph and Victory.  It is interesting that Christ doesn’t announce it worldwide in great glory (yet).  He appears person by person to his friends. There is something deeply appropriate about that. Friends and family are most of the point of victory. Even his more dramatic appearance in the Americas involved the people touching him one by one.    It also  has something to do with the body.  Christ’s resurrection is ultimately about him becoming a body forever, which means being in one place at one time and making physical contact.   In some senses this sounds like a limit, it is a limit, but apparently the inability to be limited is awful.  The spirits waiting Christ on Saturday called it bondage.  Apparently there is something infinitely precious about walking with your friends, eating with your friends, chatting with a woman you are close to in a garden, letting the children touch the mark in your hands.   So infinitely precious that physical contact of that kind is more or less the point of creation.

The King of Kings says “come unto me” and means it literally.

Personally, you won the unexpected total victory.  It all went wrong, there was no hope, but it all turned out even better than you or anyone else imagined.  It only turned out this way because it all went wrong.

In Lehi’s Dream, the Great and Spacious Building falls into the pit it dug for itself.

Christ Comes Again

In Lehi’s dream, what we call the Second Coming is part and parcel of Christ’s victory.  Which raises an interesting question?  When is the Second Coming?  From one point of view, it has already happened.   The Second Coming of Christ is when he comes after death and he has already done that.  From that point of view, the Second Coming has already happened, is happening, and will continue to happen.  From that point of view obviously no one knows the day and the hour; it’s like asking what year is this decade.

Look again at that second point of view.  If the Resurrection and meeting Christ haven’t happened yet for you, then you are still in the Saturday of time.  Resurrection Sunday  hasn’t happened yet for you.  The great day is still to come.