What Are the Diverse Meanings of the Lord Jesus’ Resurrection?

[Follow God]

In the eyes of man, when one dies, he will become a soul that makes others feel scared and a distance with him. Likewise, when people saw the Lord Jesus after His resurrection, their first reaction was supposed to fear, avoid, and evade Him. In this way, there would have been a large distance between man and the Lord Jesus, and man would have also been brought back to the age of the Old Testament when he believed in the invisible and intangible God. As a matter of fact, people indeed felt terrified when they first saw the Lord Jesus after His resurrection, but why did they later feel that He was intimate, rather than scary or strange? What was behind this?
Then I eagerly turned to chapter 24, verses 36-43 of the Gospel of Lu, “And as they thus spoke, Jesus himself stood in the middle of them, and said to them, Peace be to you. But they were terrified and affrighted, and supposed that they had seen a spirit. And he said to them, Why are you troubled? and why do thoughts arise in your hearts? Behold my hands and my feet, that it is I myself: handle me, and see; for a spirit has not flesh and bones, as you see me have. And when he had thus spoken, he showed them his hands and his feet. And while they yet believed not for joy, and wondered, he said to them, Have you here any meat? And they gave him a piece of a broiled fish, and of an honeycomb. And he took it, and did eat before them.” From these scriptures, we can see that God knows man’s weakness, and the fear in their hearts when they saw the spiritual body of the resurrected Lord. But as God loves and cares about man, He didn’t want to see man removing themselves from Him or putting Him at a distance. Hence, God thoughtfully appeared to man in His form of flesh and blood, not in a formless spiritual body. As I was reading, the scenes came to my mind little by little where the Lord Jesus appeared to His disciples following the resurrection and ate broiled fish with them. The Lord was so amiable, and I was brought closer to Him in an instant. I felt warmth in my heart, and even more an impulse. I wished that I could have lived in that time and personally witnessed the resurrected Lord Jesus. How blessed it would be! When the disciples saw all that happening, they must have felt the intimacy and loveliness of the Lord more than I did, as well as the incomparable joy of regaining something that has been lost. The Lord Jesus resurrected could still be seen and touched, was made of flesh and blood, and ate and drank with people, who was the same as the Lord Jesus that had not yet been crucified. So people could stay with Him again, no longer feared Him or felt strange with Him, and their relationship with the Lord Jesus was restored to the intimate relationship they had with Him when He was in the flesh. From this, we can see God’s unchanging hopes and concern for mankind, and also His meticulous care and cherishing of humans.

 

[for_his_glory]

Jesus spoke all these things about His life, death and resurrection to the disciples while they were with Him during His ministry here on earth. They had no idea of what Jesus was telling them as they had no Spiritual understanding as of yet nor did the crowds that followed Him.

I think many of us would fear some one out of nowhere that suddenly appeared before us like Jesus did that day, especially knowing he was dead. The first thing Jesus spoke was "Peace be unto you", but they still feared that of what they could not understand until Jesus started speaking to them. They thought they had Jesus back with them, but did not realize He would be taken up to sit at the right hand of God. But, look what Jesus said to them in the upper room that day that is hope for all of us:

John 14:25 These things have I spoken unto you, being yet present with you. 26 But the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in my name, he shall teach you all things, and bring all things to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto you. 27 Peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you: not as the world giveth, give I unto you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid. 28 Ye have heard how I said unto you, I go away, and come again unto you. If ye loved me, ye would rejoice, because I said, I go unto the Father: for my Father is greater than I. 29 And now I have told you before it come to pass, that, when it is come to pass, ye might believe.