Resurrection Day and New Creations

Almost 2000 years ago Yeshua was killed late on the 14^th Nisan and resurrected either on Shabbat (Sabbath) or early on Sunday. 

The first day of the week after the weekly Sabbath that fell during the Week of Unleavened Bread/Passover (the first day of Passover also being declared a special Sabbath) was the day of the wave-sheaf offering, the day when the High Priest would offer the ‘first-fruits’ of the year’s harvest before the Almighty at the Temple.

It was on this day that the resurrected Yeshua presented himself, as the wave-sheaf offering and the first-fruits of a New Creation, the first human being to be granted and receive eternal life since Adam and Eve.

But in being the ‘first-fruits’ offering, he declared that others could also become new creations in the Coming Age, the Kingdom of God.

As we enter this day, the first day of the week, it seems appropriate to cry out with joy, ‘He has Risen’!

We, thanks to Yeshua, are able to be ‘born from above’ and also become ‘New Creations’! So in a sense we may consider this our re-birthday!

“Therefore, if anyone is united with the Messiah, he is a new creation — the old has passed; look, what has come is fresh and new! And it is all from God, who through the Messiah has reconciled us to himself and has given us the work of that reconciliation, which is that God in the Messiah was reconciling mankind to himself, not counting their sins against them, and entrusting to us the message of reconciliation.

Therefore we are ambassadors of the Messiah; in effect, God is making his appeal through us. What we do is appeal on behalf of the Messiah, “Be reconciled to God! God made this sinless man be a sin offering on our behalf, so that in union with him we might fully share in God’s righteousness.” – 2 Corinthians 5:17-21 (CJB)

May today be a day of great joy and celebration; a day of great anticipation as, with the ‘certain expectation’ (hope) based on trust in the unfailing mercy of the Almighty, you look forward to your new life in the new world to come!

For background see  my article, The Passover and The Messiah