Dear Editor,

Nearly two thousand years ago, the first Good Friday and Easter occurred wherein the Godhead’s Great Salvation was pioneered and perfected in Jesus the Christ’s body of flesh through suffering.-Jn 6:51, Heb 2:9-18, RSV

Not only did Jesus die for my sins but because of my sins that will occasion the death of my body too. But before he died, Jesus fulfilled the Great Commandment stated in Mk 12:29-31, “Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one; and you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind, and with all your strength. The second is this, ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.'”

Jesus lived this teaching. First by atoning for his own murder in his imperative prayer to God the Father to forgive the unbelievers responsible for the ultimate, horrific crime and then, by asking the ultimate question when God revealed to him that the end of the world and the universe was at hand due to unbelief as he had prophesied in Mt 24:34-36, “Truly, I say to you, this generation will not pass away till all these things take place. Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will not pass away. But of that day and hour no one knows, not even the angels of heaven, nor the Son, but the Father only.”

While being deemed “sin” by us sinners, Jesus’ ultimate question prompted by God’s revelation to him actually adjudicated the very status of the world and the universe according to the authority he received at his baptism by, once again, affirming his oneness with God in perfect love.-Mt 3:15-17, I Jn 4:14-18.

Jesus always lived by revelation from the Father as he declared in Jn 5:17, 22-23a, 26-27, “My Father is working still, and I am working. … The Father judges no one, but has given all judgment to the Son, that all may honor the Son, even as they honor the Father. … For, as the Father has life in himself, so he has granted the Son also to have life in himself, and has given him authority to execute judgment because he is the Son of man.”

As proclaimed in Heb 1:3, “He reflects the glory of God and bears the very stamp of his nature, upholding the universe by his word of power. When he had made purification for sins, he sat down at the right hand of the Majesty on high. … ” Jesus lived Jn 3:16, “For God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.”

Jesus the Christ’s resurrection certified to this day that “flesh and bone” do inherit the Kingdom of Heaven.-Lk 24:25-27, 36-44.

As he proclaimed in Jn 17:26 before Gethsemane &andGolgotha, “I made known to them thy name, and I will make it known, that the love with which thou hast loved me may be in them, and I in them.”

Jesus the Christ is the Godhead’s Eternal Gift!-Jn 14:18-23, Mt 1:18-23, Jn 16:6-15, Eph 2:8-9, Acts 4:12

Happy Easter!

William M. Yavelak

Belmont