Resurrection

And of course, to be resurrected means to stand upright again.

In fact, in Greek, Anastasia literally means, like the word stasis, where our word state comes from, like what's your state? Like Anastasis literally means to stand up.

So these are like indications of the concept of resurrection that you're pointing out to us, that we see the infusion of that breath of life going into their dead bones in chapter 37.

So I guess the imagery here for Ezekiel is that even though you're outside of the covenant land, I'm still gonna resurrect you, if you will.

It does not make any difference what happens to the human body.

The Lord Jesus Christ is going to find me in the resurrection and bring me forth, as it says in Philippians 3, by the power that he has to subdue all things to himself.

Now, in the next place, let us consider this question from the point of view of what happened before the time of Christ and to those who were saved and those who were lost.

Let's take Cain and Abel as an example.

Now, the proof of this lies in several verses in the Bible.

In Ephesians chapter four and verse eight, it says that when He ascended on high, He took captivity captive and gave gifts unto men.

We also read in Matthew that on the day of the resurrection, the tombs were opened and the dead walked in the streets of Jerusalem.

The Lord God Almighty permitted some of the people to go back and be seen by those who were there.

Ooh.

Anastasis, which is resurrection.

Ooh, which again, everyone was confused when Hillsong released their song Anastasis.

Yeah.

It was like, you know, praise the name.