His Victory
HIS VICTORY
Christ's resurrection was also His victory over the world, Satan, death, Hades, and the tomb. These five things caused the Lord Jesus to be put into the tomb. But when He came forth from the tomb in resurrection, this was His victory over the world, Satan, death, Hades, and the tomb. As Peter says in Acts 2:24, "Whom God raised up, having loosed the pangs of death, since it was not possible for Him to be held by it." Because Christ is resurrection (John 11:25), death could not hold Him. It is impossible for death to hold resurrection; resurrection overcomes death.
HIS GLORIFICATION
Christ's resurrection was also His glorifica tion. Christ's resurrection brought Him into glory (Luke 24:26; 1 Cor. 15:43a; Acts 3:13a, 15a).
The Lord's divine nature, His divine being, was concealed and confined within His flesh. Through death the confinement of His human ity, His flesh, was broken, and then in resurrec tion He was released as the very God with His nature and riches. Because He was released from the confinement of His flesh in resurrection, He was glorified. This was the reason the Lord said