Because He lives.
So this entry is going to be divided into two primary sections, that being, what Jesus Christ is exactly in being the 'first' and the 'last' of, and the notion of aesthetics in relation to God and his ultimate will. These are two really important topics that I feel serve as fundamental pillars or anchors pertaining to ones conscious mind in provide a foundation or central guiding force for a persons will or meaning while living their life.
This is very much something I am writing about that is completely my opinion. This is a very scary topic to write such a meaningful opinion upon Jesus Christ that is founded entirely upon opinion. I am stating this as a preface to first highlight that this is not at all declaration that has been written with the notion of an explicit legitimate fact or absolute truth I am attempting to communicate. It is also a warning to hopefully dissuade you from reading this and having any impulse at all to settle upon an absolute conclusion.
So in the Bible, in the book of Revelation 22:13, it is written: "I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end, the first and the last." This scripture in reference from the King James Bible is not a matter of opinion but rather it was a mental communication of some sort, referred to as a revelation that happened to John during his exile on the island of Patmos. This mental communication was either from Jesus Christ or from God concerning Jesus Christ, claimed John in his writing within the book of Revelation. This has to do with my interpretation of what Jesus Christ may have intended to mean when he proclaimed that he was the first and the last of his existence to be a human sacrifice in relation to the approval of God/Yahweh. I personally have recently thought that he made his proclamation precisely to address the entire sacrificial tradition or practice and its application in relation to his father, God/Yahweh. I personally have no evidence at all to support this theory of mine but I thought that it especially demonstrated how glorious and wonderful the loving grace, salvation and choice Jesus Christ made really was to be willing to be crucified as a payment of sin for those whom followed him has their Messiah. When thinking of it as a payment that someone makes with their very own body and life to resolve, I think it is also very important to know that the act of sacrificing living things as forms of payment was not exclusive to nonhuman animal life in Christ's times. There was also people who practiced making human sacrifices back then. Such a thing as sacrificing a human life as a form of payment to satisfy whatever form of debt is in itself incredibly extreme and outright unacceptable. To then think that perhaps Jesus Christ had taken note of these “human sacrificial practices” during his life and perhaps he sought to bring this practice or tradition to its absolute end. For such a practice objectifies life and renders it into a vehicle or a currency as of a means of payment. Perhaps he saw that such a manner of thinking was built upon a foundation that inherently negated the miraculous beautiful gift of life, relative to the alternative forms of existing things, such as: nonliving things or material objects. Perhaps after witnessing people reasonably and systematically arriving at conclusions that seemed to justify to large groups of people whom were engaging in the practice of human sacrifice, I personally speculate that Jesus may then have sought to bring the practice of sacrifice to an ultimate end.
Another thing that I find very interesting about Jesus Christ's conviction to try to bring this type of practice to its complete and total end is the fact that the law created by his father God/Yahweh whom instructed this purifying practice to Moses. For a son to try to bring an ancient and firm tradition to its complete and total conclusion or end is a very very surprising plan to act upon. Almost always whenever I think of an absolutely essential and very fundamental traditional practice within the unit of a family, they are almost always treated with great reverence and tremendous respect. To then attempt to entirely being a form of payment or currency for a incredibly important practice to its utter and complete end is, within the structure of a family, is just about unheard of. It is the act of turning the most powerful and essential process of a fundamental sequence upside down and destroying itself entirely. This is a very wonderful and completely loving and self sacrificial task to go through with considering that it will most certainly result in tremendous damage upon whatever thing was the cause of such a terribly violent destructive collapse to occur. Jesus Christ then must then have known absolutely that is was a practice to be done away with permanently since then it would then be saving the lives of innocent children who had no choice nor chance what-so-ever to contest or oppose such an unspeakable practices such a child sacrifice.
So now I want to switch gears entirely and basically talk about almost the complete opposite type of subject. I want to know talk about the concept of Godly aesthetics. What then does the Lord God hold to be considered beautiful and wonderful? How could God/Yahweh contend with the notion of sacrifice and even sacrificing his one and only son? How then could God expect his creations that possessed the quality of life to engage in the practice and act of sacrifice of innocent living things? I know to my natural conscious, it intuitively seems to be inherently a terrible and evil course of action when considering sacrificing a innocent living thing. God/Yahweh is and has always been throughout my entire life been described to possess the characteristic of being incapable of engaging with anything at all evil. Jesus Christ as well I have never ever imagined to be a Man whom engaged in the practice of sacrificing an innocent living creatures. How then could such a violent and destructive act like sacrificing a living thing have any origins at all with God/Yahweh? Since this question seems to have a whole lot of meaning to it, and because I can not at all imagine Jesus Christ taking part in such an unspeakable act, I do believe that it illustrates the true glory of God/Yahweh very well. Think of something so pure and so very full of light that it could not at all be anywhere even remotely close to something incredibly impure and very clouded with darkness. To keep certain standards at their absolute firm limits than there must be absolute rules that can never ever be broken. Such standards must be as rigid and unchangeable forever and ever. Jesus knew this was a characteristic of his fathers character. Because of His very high and imperishable standards, Jesus himself knew that in order for his believers and followers to have any ability at all to ever have any help from his father presence, they must then meet the very strict and absolute requirements the presence of his father required no matter the case. This is where the incredible and astounding beauty of the plan and mission that Christ Jesus came to fulfill in order to save as many of his fathers creations from the evil works of Satan/Lucifer. I believe part of why Jesus Christ did what he did was to eternally remove the terrible requirement of having to sacrifice a pure living thing of this world as a form of payment to his father. I do still also still believe that Yahweh is indeed a God of absolute truth and honors everything in accordance of his regardless of the place or time. His old truth and standard I do not believe is revoked and made untrue by some new truth. Truth in respect to God/Yahweh is true and continuous throughout time forever and ever. He did indeed have rules and standards that were also in effect for the eligibility of his old legal decrees to remain in effect. To my incredibly limited knowledge, I am quite sure his old covenant standards were mostly all entirely lost thousands of years ago. Christ Jesus is the one and only hope in relation to eternal life and being in the presence of God/Yahweh in heaven for eternity that I am aware of.
I now want to just write out the beautiful first part of the hymn, Because He Lives:
God sent his son,
they called Him Jesus.
He came to Love,
Heal and forgive.
He lived and died,
to buy my pardon.
An empty grave is there to prove my Savior lives!
Because He lives,
I can face tomorrow.
Because He lives, all fear is gone;
Because I know, He holds the future.
And life is worth the living, just because He lives!