Easter Story Board

This is a story board. It explains the significance of Easter in light of the big picture. The concept was designed by Telos X, the graphics which make it speak by http://csstanley.com/blog/
I will sketch out below a few of the ideas contained in this story board. I also look forward to hearing from some of you as to what you see in the story as it is presented here.

May your Easter worship inspire you to live like exiled royalty with hope that the King has risen and he will return!

God is the Alpha and Omega in Whom we live

Thus says the LORD, the King of Israel and his Redeemer, the LORD of hosts: "I am the first and I am the last; besides me there is no god. (Isaiah 44:6)

"I am the Alpha and the Omega," says the Lord God, "who is and who was and who is to come, the Almighty." (Revelation 1:8)

And he said to me, "It is done! I am the Alpha and the Omega, the beginning and the end. To the thirsty I will give from the spring of the water of life without payment. (Revelation 21:6)

The background for the Easter Story Board reveals that God (YHWH) is the Alpha and Omega, the Beginning and the End, First and Last. What does that mean? All of reality, including time and space, exist in God; God is involved in the unfolding of history, butHe is also above it. As Paul explained to the Greek philosophers using their own thinking:

Acts 17:24-31 The God who made the world and everything in it, being Lord of heaven and earth, does not live in temples made by man, ... he is actually not far from each one of us, (28) for "'In him we live and move and have our being'; as even some of your own poets have said, "'For we are indeed his offspring.' ... (30) The times of ignorance God overlooked, but now he commands all people everywhere to repent, (31) because he has fixed a day on which he will judge the world in righteousness by a man whom he has appointed; and of this he has given assurance to all by raising him from the dead."

First Adam's death; Second Adam's life

Romans 5:12-15 Therefore, just as sin came into the world through one man, and death through sin, and so death spread to all men because all sinned-- (13) for sin indeed was in the world before the law was given, but sin is not counted where there is no law. (14) Yet death reigned from Adam to Moses, even over those whose sinning was not like the transgression of Adam, who was a type of the one who was to come. (15) But the free gift is not like the trespass. For if many died through one man's trespass, much more have the grace of God and the free gift by the grace of that one man Jesus Christ abounded for many.

Easter is the judgment of humanity for the sin of Adam abandoning his role as God's regent over creation. That is what happened on the cross.

1 Peter 3:18 For Christ also suffered once for sins, the righteous for the unrighteous, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh but made alive in the spirit...

The resurrection is the first of many. Jesus' resurrection not only shows that God the Father accepted his sacrifice for Adam's race, it also shows that their is a new humanity. The resurrected Christ is the Hope for the Omega community, the renewed world. As Christ has overcome death with life, those who surrender their rebellion and declare their loyalty by grace through faith in Christ will likewise live beyond death. The fallen world is passing away, the undying world is coming!