God wanted Jesus to enter the tomb for several reasons in fact, one of which has received too little attention.
First, while undercover operatives LEARN the secrets they’re to steal, Jesus KNEW all that death held for humanity, and KNEW it held no power over him. Indeed, the Glorified Christ assured his servant John, “I hold the keys of death and hades” Revelation 1:18. Second, secreting his Son for the few hours in the grave proved to be the ONLY TIME Jesus spent AWAY from his public ministry. Third, while Isaiah predicted Christ’s assumption of all human infirmities, diseases and sins, 53:4, 6, Matthew 8:17, that left but one experience he lacked in being LIKE us…the one experience humanity has always feared most by having NO answer to it. Hebrews 2:9-18, especially 9, 14-18 addresses that experience. Had God willed, Jesus could have miraculously descended from the cross after paying the penalty for human sin, which he achieved particularly in the 3-hour span preceding his death. What a phenomenon he would have been! And how universally he would have been hailed and worshipped. And it would have left him one experience shy of being perfectly like humanity. Since…keep that word in mind…SINCE humanity, alone of God’s creation, FEARS death, Jesus perfectly identified with us by DYING. He came as Savior to forgive, so his sacrifice forgave the sins of the world. His death proved that he also understood what it meant to him to die. And his resurrection proved that death had no power over him, and therefore, has none over us if we follow Christ! In summary:
THEN…PRAISE GOD…UP FROM THE GRAVE HE AROSE! Fini
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