It was essentially interrogated with two forms of question, one trying to accuse him of Beelzebub
and seeking information from him or an admission from him that their assertion was true.
The others sought a sign from the Lord, but their sign was always on an earthly level
because they saw in the power of the Messiah someone whom they wished to bring about their kingdom.
And so today our Lord essentially answers both arguments,
for indeed those who sought the sign would truly receive the sign,
and the final sign that had gone unfilled.
For if the Lord had left everything done that he had did and did not fulfill the sign of Jonah,
then all would have been lost and all hope to humanity, for it would not have been this Messiah.
For in the sign of Jonah, that is, in its fulfillment, the resurrection of our Lord from his death,
he fulfills the sign of Jonah and indeed conquers the kingdom of death for all eternity.
For now it can truly be said that death no longer has any sting
because Christ in his resurrection has overcome the sting of death
and conquered that weapon of Satan that had destroyed cultures and people from the fall of our first parents.
And so we see in the fulfillment of this final sign the very basis of our hope,
for if we do not believe in the resurrection, true hope cannot reign in our souls
and we will not seek.
This moment is not intended to imitate the Queen of Sheba
for she symbolizes the gentile peoples
who would come to hear the wisdom of Solomon,
or more rather, the fulfillment of whom Solomon foretold, Christ himself.
And, hence, they would seek from Holy Mother Church the wisdom of God Himself,
and also they would seek that preaching, that teaching of Holy Mother Church,
for it was the teaching of the One who truly rose from the dead,
and so,
buoys all of us up with a true hope that we too can overcome death if we persevere in the wisdom
and teachings of Holy Mother Church, for they are the wisdom and teachings of her founder, and hence
they are the wisdom and teaching of Christ who alone has conquered death. And so let us go forward
with a firm hope, for we believe in that sign by which the Lord would answer all questions
and show himself truly, not only to be the Son of Man, but to be the Son of God, for it would be
impossible for anyone to rise from the dead under his own powers unless he was true God. And so our
Lord shows himself in the resurrection to be true God and true man, and he does something that not
even the demons can imitate, for no one can raise themselves from the dead unless he be God. And so
our Lord
answers both questions by showing in his resurrection that he is the one foretold from
the fall of our first parents, but also that is the Redeemer to come into the world. But more
importantly, he also shows that he is the one whom alone exists, the I Am spoken to Moses, from whom
alone all things have their existence, and who alone can sustain all things. And so let us be
sustained by one of those principles of the Lord.
Let us be sustained by one of those principles of the Lord, by which we truly believe that Christ has risen
from the dead and in so doing has conquered the kingdom of wrath, the kingdom of Satan, and has
established the kingdom of mercy and the way to heaven. Let us persevere in that hope, knowing that
Christ has conquered all things in his resurrection and indeed has even conquered the souls of all men
if they only allow themselves to be formed by the grace of God and to intercede for those who are
to the mystery and ultimately they will receive that reward which the Lord had promised who can
neither deceive nor be deceived and so in following the wisdom and teaching of the church we follow
the wisdom of Christ and we follow it beyond the shores of this life to the very shores of
eternal life where we will enjoy our good God together for all eternity
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