"There is an order to this resurrection: Christ was raised as the first of the harvest; then all who belong to Christ will be raised when He comes back." (1 Corinthians 15:23 NLT)
It is true and important to say that the resurrection of Jesus proved both who He was and that the Father had accepted what He did for us. But these truths do not say enough. Jesus’ resurrection was not only proof of what He did, it is itself something that He did for us. Through His resurrection, Jesus became the new Adam, the first person to experience all that God had intended for humans since creation. He became the source of the resurrection life we enjoy now, and the guarantee that at death we too will enter fully into the same quality of existence.
-- Mark Strom in “The Symphony of Scripture”
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