This combination occurs about 100 times. Scripture does not use words loosely or at random, or in their relation to other words in a casual fashion, but with the utmost precision of meaning. If the student of Scripture will keep this in mind, and apply it to all places where the combination, JESUS CHRIST, is found, he will gather the idea of a Divine Person coming into this world, becoming Man, never ceasing to be what He was from all eternity, the Son of the Father, living a blameless life, going about doing good, dying a sacrificial death on the cross for God's glory, establishing Divine righteousness, rising the third day according to the Scriptures, and ascending to glory. In other words in thinking of Jesus Christ, you begin with our Lord as on earth, and end in the glory. Take a couple of illustrations of this. We read, "The birth of Jesus Christ was on this wise." (Matt. 1:1818Now the birth of Jesus Christ was on this wise: When as his mother Mary was espoused to Joseph, before they came together, she was found with child of the Holy Ghost. (Matthew 1:18)). Here most evidently the Lord had His whole life before Him, as well as His death and resurrection. Again we read, "By the which will we are sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all." (Heb. 10:1010By the which will we are sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all. (Hebrews 10:10)).
Here again our minds are led to think of the dying of our Lord on the cross, and the blessing that is wrapped up in that death for all, who put their trust in Him. The Apostle Peter, too, writes of the sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ; of the resurrection of Jesus Christ; of the kingdom of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ; all these allusions have to do with the earth, though ending in the glory.