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not yet been crucified. Even before His crucifix ion, Christ was the resurrection. In John 11:25 He said, "I am the resurrection and the life." He did not say, "I shall be the resurrection," for He was the resurrection already. When the Lord told Martha that her brother would rise again, she, through her poor expounding of the Scrip tures, postponed the resurrection for two thou sand years to the coming age. When she did that, the Lord seemed to say, "I am the resurrection now. With Me, the eternal One, there is no time element. The past, present, and future are all the same to Me." Eternal means to have no time element. Both before and after His crucifixion, He is the resurrected Christ. It is the resurrected Christ who can be life to us and can be bread to feed us. We are feeding on the resurrected Christ.
The number five signifies responsibility, the responsibility of Christ in feeding us. The num ber five is composed of four plus one. The number four represents the creatures (Rev. 4:6), and the number one represents the Creator (1 Cor. 8:6). The Creator and the creatures added together take responsibility. The number five is not composed of three plus two, but of four plus one. Look at your hand. It is composed of four