[20] He was foreknown before the foundation of the world but was made manifest in the last times for the sake of you [21] who through him are believers in God, who raised him from the dead and gave him glory, so that your faith and hope are in God. (1 Peter 1:19-21 ESV)Christ was always part of the plan. As a lamb is raised and protected intended for a sacrifice, or the fattened calf is so fattened in preparation for a feast, Christ was, before any of creation, planned to be the mode by which God's perfect will would come to pass.
This was written just after the time of Christ's manifest human life. This was written in a time where Christ's physical "footprints" were still fresh; many who had seen him face to face were still alive and could recall moments and conversations with him never recorded by biblical scribes.
Christ enables us to believe in the Father - and particularly, Christ's resurrection is the crux on which it all sits. Without the resurrection from the dead, Death would still be victorious- it would have succeeded in silencing Christ in the same way that it had countless prophets before him as they eventually each succumbed to the grave. Only in the resurrection are the prophecies fulfilled and God proven to keep his word.
And because Christ was able to lay claim to victory over Death, we are then able to partake in that victory as well via our status as heirs- via the inheritance. Faith and Hope can remain in God because the resurrection shows that he has the power and authority over both life and death, and that he follows through on his word.
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