Looking Forward To The Eighth Day

[Nate Cline]

Easter is the day we celebrate the Lord's resurrection. Christ's rising from the dead assures us with the promise of our own resurrection. This is why we call Sunday the Lord's day. It points us forward to the day when it truly will be on earth as it is in heaven. This is why baptismal fonts historically have eight sides. The new Christian is being placed into the eighth day by their baptism. It was to direct them to the new kingdom into which they were being brought by faith in Christ. it may seem like an odd way to word things. After all, our weeks have seven days.
This is precisely the idea. At this time, every week repeats. We are suffering because of our sin, and the sin of others. Yet, when Jesus returns, it will be a new day. There will be no suffering, and death will have finally been wiped away from us.
Each Sunday, we are to be shown that new day. We hear about it from the pulpit. We see a foretaste of it in the Lord's supper. We look with hope to when all things will be new, and we shall see our savior. He is risen, And the promise of that new day will be fulfilled just as much as the tomb is empty.