Death's power had been shown as weak and impotent. God s Son had experienced it and conquered it. From that day forward, everything had changed. Everyone, everything, and every experience was transformed and bathed in resurrection light. This is the inexplicable beauty and power of Easter.
Easter announces that the risen one is also calling our name.
Easter announces that our experiences of deep loss, grief, and confusion are also bathed in a resurrection light of hope and newness. Because of Easter, we know not only that death is conquered, but that God is actively at work in our world transforming all of reality until the day when we are all gathered on the mountain as the prophet Isaiah said. God destroyed the shroud that was cast over all people. He is at work today wiping away all tears. He is planning the party on that mountain when all people and all things will be fully reconciled to Him.