Aslan, Resurrection, & Easter

"It means," said Aslan, "that though the Witch knew the Deep Magic, there is a
magic deeper still which she did not know. Her knowledge goes back only to the
dawn of time. But if she could have looked a little further back, into the
stillness and the darkness before Time dawned, she would have read there a
different incantation. She would have known that when a willing victim who had
committed no treachery was killed in a traitor's stead, the Table would crack
and Death itself would start working backward."

It's just like C.S. Lewis, author of The Lion, The Witch And The Wardrobe from which this excerpt is taken, to make light work of heavy theological concepts. Lewis is a master of simplicity; not watering down, but explaining in a way that is truly understandable. Here the concept is resurrection--from dead to live. Resurrection is a reversal of death and Lewis seems to define or describe resurrection as a dynamic reality that marches on bit by bit.

This profound simplicity makes me ask what may seem like ridiculous questions. Questions about increased life expectancy throughout history. The human race is living longer than ever before. I wonder about the idea of global warming and its spiritual implications. Are the climate changes the result of resurrection; God working toward the new Earth? Lewis does, after all, describe Narnia (pre-Aslan) as always winter and never Christmas.

Celebrating Easter makes me wonder about how Jesus' empty tomb goes beyond metaphorical symbolism describing the spiritual life. Not only did Jesus' resurrection defeat sin and offer a second chance morally but it set in motion a physical (actual) reality that "death would start working backward". Death kick-starts life and so shouldn't we expect to experience the sights and sounds of that new beginning?

The backtracking began and continues with the Christ. Jesus said to his inner circle as he appeared to them,

"Thus it is written, that the Christ would suffer and rise again from the dead
the third day, and that repentance for forgiveness of sins would be proclaimed
in His name to all the nations, beginning from Jerusalem. You are my
witnesses of these things. (Luke 24:46-48)