The intermediate moment of the resurrection - the time of faith

Imagine this couple of women, early morning, Sunday, they are depressed and sad because the Lord has been crucified, he has died, they are not thinking about his resurrection or anything like that. For these women the The death of Jesus is something resounding, unappealable, definitive, and they are simply going to adore the body of the Lord with aromatic spices, wrap it, in the appropriate canvases according to the time, completely prepare their body for its permanent stay in a dark cave where He now himself hastily laid there after his crucifixion, in these women there is no hope or even suspicion that something momentous has happened.

When they arrived at the tomb they found something extraordinary, and it is that they found the stone removed from the tomb, it had been removed, a very heavy stone that was rolled on a rail and closed the entrance to the tomb. And entering the tomb they did not find the body of the Lord Jesus, why? Because the Lord was no longer there, he had risen. It says that "being perplexed, behold, two men in shining garments stood next to them," and they understood that these were supernatural beings. He says that as they were afraid and lowered their faces to the ground in reverence and fear, these two angelic beings asked them, and this is where I want you to meditate, "Why do you search among the dead for the one who lives? He is not here, if not that he has risen. "

This passage introduces us to what I call the in-between time of the resurrection. The resurrection of Jesus was already a fact but it had not yet been felt in all its public manifestations, something had happened that would change history forever, but no one had found out about this fact yet, it was simply an ontological reality, but there was no no observer to note it.

I want to talk about precisely that. When God does things and we still have not realized that He has done them, and we continue to live as if He had not done them. When God does transforming things, sometimes in our life, sometimes in history, and He does them sovereignly, and in the spiritual world that is already an undeniable reality, it is a structure of the universe, but still in the world of time and of space, of circumstances, that has not yet become apparent, it has not become fully observable and real, and what happens in that intermediate time, in the time when God gives his word and that is transmitted to our world and us We realize it, what happens in that time? That desert time, that time of definition, that time of limbo in a sense, of that time is what I want to talk about. That is what I call the time of faith.

Sometimes God does transcendental things, in the realm of his Spirit, of his Kingdom, of eternity, in heaven, sometimes He does transforming things in the world, he operates on reality, but it takes some time for that fact of God is transmitted to the realm in which we live, the realm of time and space. For example, when Christ was resurrected, the Bible says that He there on the cross defeated the principalities and powers, he took away the dominion of the devil over the universe. Already the yoke of slavery in which humanity lived was taken away, and the freedom of the human being, of the man was made possible by the resurrection, the Kingdom of God came and dwelt in our midst, in fact when Christ came to Earth already the world had radically changed, there was hope for humanity, things could happen that could not happen otherwise.

He says that the Kingdom of God is already within and in our midst, however, we know that history still continues with its madness, children still die prematurely, there are still wars, there are still exploitations in the world, there is disease. There is a time of disconnection and mismatch, between the act of God, in the spiritual realm, and the full manifestation of the consequences of that gesture of God, that action of God in the realm of time and space.

Many times God gives a word but it takes time for that word to be fulfilled in the realm of reality, that is what I call the territory of faith, and we are always living in one way or another in that territory through of our lives. The Lord had done something very powerful, he had resurrected his Son, that tomb was illuminated with a powerful light. But there was no one to see it, the miracle happened but there was a time until people realized it. Meanwhile they lived in a time of sadness, of mourning, of disappointment, of feeling that God had not done all that He had promised them. So we see that sometimes God does transcendental things in the spiritual realm and takes time for us to perceive it in time and space.

Sometimes we pray for something and God says yes, but it takes time for that miracle to take place, because God works supernaturally through the natural, we see it repeatedly, it is a secret that this passage teaches us.

When God says something you have to believe it, if God says I am going to do something you have to believe, hope and live within the promise of God. If God has said I am going to make your life flourish, I have impregnated you with a promise, believe it, and go to the bank and wait for it, because it will certainly come, even if the vision is late, wait for it because it will be fulfilled says Abacuc chapter 2, we have to believe him to the Lord, we have to believe that He is faithful, and while we wait for the moment of resurrection and on Sunday that we see the open tomb, we must ask and confess, God said, He will fulfill it.

To go deeper: The fig tree did not dry up in an instant - living in the intermediate time of faith (Sermon by Dr. Roberto Miranda)