The beginning of God's new world

"Jesus’ resurrection was the event that marked the beginning of God’s new world and gave them hope that God would one day vindicate all His chosen people by reversing the curse of death, raising them bodily from the dead, and giving them eternal, incorruptible, and transformed bodies. Though the old age of sin and decay continued on, the new age had begun. "


— Trevin Wax
Counterfeit Gospels
(Chicago, Ill.: Moody Publishers, 2011), 163