Witness Lee teaches Resurrection

Scriptural Basis—The Facts

As such a crucial item of the Christian faith, the resurrection of Christ is strongly supported throughout the Bible, and especially in the New Testament. First, Christ’s resurrection is foreshadowed in the Old Testament through prophecies and types. Then in the New Testament Gospels, the Lord Jesus repeatedly prophesied of His coming resurrection. Furthermore, the earlier apostles and disciples, who were eyewitnesses of Christ’s resurrection (Acts 1:22), took this fact as the focus of their gospel preaching (Acts 2:32; 4:33). They witnessed of the resurrected Christ not only by their teaching but also by their living, as portrayed in the Acts and the Epistles (Witness Lee, Recovery Version, 1 Corinthians 15:5, note 1).

Prophecies

The resurrection of Jesus Christ was foretold in the Old Testament as well as by the Lord Jesus Himself in the New Testament. In the Gospels, the Lord Jesus repeatedly spoke to His disciples of His death and resurrection before it took place.

Types

These types in the Old Testament point to the resurrection of Christ.

Accounts of His Resurrection

The account of Christ’s resurrection is recorded in each of the four Gospels.

Witnesses of the Resurrected Christ

The Lord Jesus “presented Himself alive to His disciples after His suffering by many irrefutable proofs, appearing to them through a period of forty days” (Acts 1:3). The angels and the Holy Spirit also testified of His resurrection (Matthew 28:5-6; John 20:11-13; Acts 5:29-32).

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