But the truth is that Christ HAS been raised up, the first in a long legacy of those who are going to leave the cemeteries. Listen, friend, this is good news which makes Bill Gates' fictional income tax offer seem like a Cracker Jack prize. It either happened . . . The Christian faith is lost. Preaching is lost.
Salvation is lost.
Your hope of ever living again on the other side of the grave is lost. Well, let me tell you something. I love the description found in a great old book coming out of our Adventist archives, entitled The Desire of Ages. Christ was still a prisoner in His narrow tomb. And there were unseen watchers.