Jesus’ resurrection is something that happened in the past that points to the future of all who belong to Him. Not only that, but we get a foretaste of resurrection even now as we are spiritually “made alive” with Christ—raised from the dead in a spiritual sense even as our outer bodies are wasting away.15 So Easter is about the glory of Jesus’ resurrection from the dead, and the power of this event—like a nuclear bomb sending ripples into all of creation—catches us up in the shockwave, raising us from our sin and death and promising bodily resurrection when Christ returns in the future.
