day no. 16,819: recreative acts

Exodus 12:1-2

The LORD said to Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt, “This month shall be for you the beginning of months. It shall be the first month of the year for you."

The Exodus of Israel was a recreative act. It remade the world. Time itself was reorganized as a result. The history of the world was now going to be set to Exodus Standard Time with the Passover being the new linchpin of all history. Anything before was now measured by how long it occurred prior to the Exodus and how it advanced the narrative to that point. Everything that came after was now referred to by how long afterwards it took place and how it was influenced by it. The world was now B.E. and A.E. (before Exodus and After Egypt).

The import of the Passover required a new calendar. Time bent and bowed to the gravity of this event so that history pointed ahead to it and the future referenced back to it. The Exodus constituted a new orientation and consummation of all time, establishing a new arche and reference point. In modern parlance, the Passover was "A Great Reset."

This event then set precedence and established the example of God in defining His world by punctuated points of divine interference. Only a new world could justify a new calendar and the Exodus redefined the world. This recreation was its new reference point.

That is until Christ entered the chat.

The Resurrection is the ultimate reset. It not only began a new month or year, but a new creation all together, so much so, that the Lord’s Day is now the Sabbath. To put it in perspective, Easter morning is so potent it eclipsed the Exodus. It surpassed it in glory and fulfilled it in substance of which it was only a shadow. And that is saying something considering how earth shattering and time altering the Exodus was. The resurrection of Christ does not diminish the import of the Exodus; the import of the Exodus highlights the reach of the Resurrection. A new world and new times require a new reference point.

Easter is the end of the world.

The Resurrection supersedes the Passover as the event upon which all times before are by  it consumed and all times going ahead are defined by it. It is the standard by which everything is measured and the reference point from which all progress is established. Easter brought the former things to an end and in its Resurrection established the end to which all things now advance.

Isaiah 9:7

Of the increase of his government and peace there shall be no end, upon the throne of David, and upon his kingdom, to order it, and to establish it with judgment and with justice from henceforth even for ever. The zeal of the LORD of hosts will perform this.

When Christ came out of the grave, He pulled a new world through with Him. B.C. and A.D. are the final statement on all time and history. Every event before and since is in reference to the Resurrection and the entire future is being determined by it.

Habakkuk 2:14

For the earth shall be filled with the knowledge of the glory of the LORD, as the waters cover the sea.