Resurrections that advanced

Whilst Jesus was on His way to visit Jairus’ dying daughter (Mark 5:21-24), a woman with a blood issue touched His garment in faith and was made whole of her sickness (Mark 5:25-34). The woman had faith for her healing, and when Jesus arrived at the house of Jairus to see his daughter who had since died (Mark 5:35), Jesus had faith for her resurrection, and she was brought back to life.

The order of events here shows that faith for healing comes first before there can be faith for a resurrection. This is because Divine healing is the earnest of the resurrection, so if you have faith for healing, then that will develop into rapturing faith, a faith that will change the body to glorified condition; rapturing faith!

The gospels record three accounts of Jesus raising the dead, and each resurrection was more advanced than the previous. The first account is that of Jairus’ daughter in Mark chapter five. She had died in her home and had not yet had a funeral nor been buried when Jesus raised her to life. The second account is that of the son of the widow of Nain in Luke chapter seven. The young man had died and been put in a casket, but was raised back to life during the funeral procession. The third account is that of Lazarus in John chapter eleven. Lazarus had died, the funeral was over, and he lay buried in a tomb when Jesus came and raised him back to life.

The bodies of Jairus’ daughter and that of the widow’s son were still whole when Jesus raised them, but Lazarus’ body was decomposing and stank. So when Jesus raised Lazarus back to life, not only did the soul and spirit return to the body, but missing atoms formed again around the rotting corpse to make it completely whole. The raising of Lazarus was the most advanced resurrection and showed that God will bring back to life seven church ages of New Testament saints; their theophanies will return to the earth, and the atoms of their bodies will gather around the theophany to form a glorified body.