Throughout history mankind discovered that the tomb was necessary to separate the living population from decaying bodies. Tombs had a finality about them because death was seen as having the last word. Messiah’s empty tomb changed all of that. Death no longer has the last word. Death is now emptied of its power, denied its final claim on us. The Lord the Creator, the Giver of Life claims His own out of the clutches of death. The tomb is empty of our Lord and it is empty of death’s grip on us.
Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life. Whoever believes in me, though he die, yet shall he live, and everyone who lives and believes in me shall never die. Do you believe this?” John 11:25-26 (ESV)
