#JesusResurection #easter #newadam #restoredgarden #newgenesis
Genesis 1:1-3,
In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. 2 Now the earth was formless and empty, darkness was over the surface of the deep,and the Spirit of God was hovering over the waters.
3 And God said, “Let there be light,” and there was light. 4 God saw that the light was good, and he separated the light from the darkness. 5 God called the light “day,” and the darkness he called “night.” And there was evening, and there was morning—the first day.
Genesis 2
2 By the seventh day God had finished the work he had been doing; so on the seventh day he rested from all his work. 3 Then God blessed the seventh day and made it holy, because on it he rested from all the work of creating that he had done.
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7 Then the Lord God formed a man[a] from the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living being.
8 Now the Lord God had planted a garden in the east, in Eden; and there he put the man he had formed.
Matthew 28:1
After the Sabbath, at dawn on the first day of the week, Mary Magdalene and the other Mary went to look at the tomb.
2 There was a violent earthquake, for an angel of the Lord came down from heaven and, going to the tomb, rolled back the stone and sat on it.
3 His appearance was like lightning, and his clothes were white as snow.
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18 Then Jesus came to them and said, “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me.
19 Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit,
John 20:1 - 22
Early on the first day of the week, while it was still dark, Mary Magdalene went to the tomb and saw that the stone had been removed from the entrance.
15 He asked her, “Woman, why are you crying? Who is it you are looking for?”
Thinking he was the gardener, she said, “Sir, if you have carried him away, tell me where you have put him, and I will get him.”
16 Jesus said to her, “Mary.”
22 And with that he breathed on them and said, “Receive the Holy Spirit.
God creates "the heavens and the earth"
The "First Day" begins with light in darkness
Adam is placed in a garden to tend it
God breathes physical life into Adam
Humanity: Mankind is told to multiply and fill the earth
Jesus claims authority over "heaven and earth"
Resurrection occurs on the "First Day" at dawn.
Jesus rises in a garden and is called the "gardener"
Jesus breathes spiritual life into the Disciples
New Humanity: Disciples are told to go and make more disciples
Romans 5, “For just as by the one man’s disobedience the many were made sinners, so by the one man’s obedience the many will be made righteous.”
Matthew 28 and John 20 serve as the theological culmination of the biblical narrative, functioning as the "undoing" of the Fall (Genesis 3) and the "restarting" of the creative work begun in Genesis 1 and 2.
The resurrection on the "first day of the week" represents a new creation, where Jesus, as the second Adam, reverses the curse of sin and death and initiates a restored creation.
Is Resurrection, the first day of new world ?