And what is the first thing Jake does when he taps into his power in 8r8k? (Besides the force of the Hopesplosion causing the soldiers dogpiling him to spontaneously disintegrate of course.)

He forces the hand of fate, willing Jade back to life like he grabbed the pendulum of the godtier clock to stop it dead center. In the flash itself we see it conveyed as Jake symbolically holding her life in his hand, we see it in the way her comeback has her glowing white with Hope powers before they shift to the familiar rainbow of a usual godtier resurrection.