that our body would not die. Even though our bodies die, we will have eternal life when we receive salvation through the final judgment, or we might become eligible to go up to heaven without the judgment. These are the second and first resurrections respectively (Rev. 20:6, cf. Rev. 20:14).

These above words of Jesus are very deep spiritually. When Jesus said, “Unless you eat my flesh and drink my blood, you have no life in you,” his disciples wondered how they were supposed to eat his flesh and how to drink his blood. When Jesus noticed his disciples’ confusion, he explained, saying, “The Spirit gives life; the flesh counts for nothing. The words I have spoken to you are spirit and they are life” (John 6:63).

Think about why Jesus tried to prove his resurrection eleven times by showing his physical body before he went up to heaven. I have told you several times that performing miracles are not favorable for God. Would God have needed to bring ten mighty plagues upon the Pharaoh if he had listened to Moses and released the Israelites from Egypt? No. Would God have needed to kill twenty-three thousand

people in a day if they had obeyed him (1Cor. 10:8)? No.

That’s why Jesus said when some of the Pharisees and teachers of law asked him to demonstrate a miraculous sign, “A wicked and adulterous generation asks for a miraculous sign!” (Matt. 12:39). Because people did not listen to him, he performed lots of miracles for them. But that was not what he wanted to do. “But none will be given it except the sign of the prophet Jonah” (Matt. 12:39). Jesus meant, as Jonah came back from the belly of a big fish after three days, the Son of God would be resurrected after three days. The meaning of the resurrection was very important for him.

After Pharisees, scribes, and priests crucified Jesus on the cross, they came to Pilate, saying “Pilate, Jesus used to say he would be resurrected after three days. If people move his body somewhere else and said he was resurrected, the number of his followers would grow dramatically. The body should be guarded from theft with soldiers. Please send soldiers to his grave.” So soldiers guarded the grave of Jesus.

At dawn, three days after Jesus death, angels appeared. Soldiers