To resurrect is to come back to life, it is to come back from the dead, it is to come back into a position of being erect from a place of lying flat or falling to the ground.
Every time I think of the word resurrection, I imagine power.
It takes power to come back to life from the dead.
It takes that which is superior, strong, powerful and divine to resurrect from the dead.
It takes some degree of strength and power to resurrect a dead thing or make erect that which was bent over or lying flat
Jesus Christ is the Resurrection.
He called Himself the "resurrection and the life."
His death showed he was human, but His resurrection showed He is divine, He is God.
When He was here on earth, he was a hundred percent man and a hundred percent God, this is called the hypostatic union.
Jesus Christ is also the great Eagle.
He is the great Eagle who bears us on His wings.
He is the great eagle who bore the children of Israel on His wings as they journeyed out of Egypt into the promised land.
The eagle and the phoenix are interesting birds.
While one is a present day creature and legend of the air, the other is a legendary and mythical creature with debates around whether they exist or not.
I believe phoenix exist.
The eagle and the phoenix are both intriguing creatures who have quite a lot in common.
It is debatable that the eagle is a descendant of the phoenix.
The similarity between both in form and renewal ability is uncanny.
The phoenix is a bird associated with renewal and resurrection.
Qualities we see in Master Jesus and which He promises and gives to His followers.
Eagles have a wonderful ability to renew their youth and their strength.
The Lord promises to "satisfy our mouth with good things and renew our youth like eagles."
Eagles renews their strength, the scriptures promise that "they that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength, they shall mount up with wings like eagles, they shall walk and not be weary and run and not faint"
Basically, there is a promise that we become eagle like.
The Lord identifies with the eagle among all the birds of the earth.
The eagle is the most remarkable of birds, just like a phoenix it renews itself; resurrected from what was a death like state to newness.
Just like Jesus Christ did through His resurrection and with the power used to accomplish that now transferred to His followers, we can live an eternal resurrected life.
Jesus rose from the dead like a phoenix rises from the ashes!
He is the ''resurrection and the life''
Eagles and phoenix's both undergo a resurrection and life kind of experience.
Eagles undergo periods of rest and renewal and the sharpening of their beaks and regrowing of their talons to rise or resurrect to a certain newness.
Newness of life.
Life.
That is a beautiful word!
You have to associate color, beauty, energy, order, balance and peace with life.
These are what we see in nature.
They are qualities the Lord is also able to infuse into an individual's life, for He s the life!
The phoenix is a bird that burns to ashes once it's life cycle has come to an end.
In a miraculous manner it resurrects from its ashes a rewed bird, blazing in fire and glory!
It rises, it resurrects to new life.
Words like rise, arise, resurrect, new and life are words associated with the scriptures especially in the New Testament.
They are words associated with God and also believers- His people, His church, His followers, His sons and daughters.
They are words also associated with the eagle and the phoenix.
It is worth noting that one of the four faces of the Cherubim angel is described as an eagle in the Book of Ezekiel..
I am the resurrection and the life is such a profound statement, its a deep declaration and a revelation with depth!
Such beautiful words Jesus spoke to His friend Martha.
Jesus told her, “I am the resurrection and the life. Anyone who believes in me will live, even after dying.
Everyone who lives in me and believes in me will never ever die. Do you believe this, Martha?”
