What is Easter?
For many, Easter Sunday is a day to get together with family, hunt for Easter eggs and maybe get a visit from the Easter bunny. Your family might share a special meal like roast lamb, or baked treats like hot cross buns. My family celebrates Easter with a lunch where everyone–including my cousins, aunts and uncles–brings a dish to share. For people of different faith backgrounds, Easter is a celebration of springtime. But for Christians like us, the meaning of Easter is much more.
Easter, also known as Resurrection Sunday, is one of the most important holidays in Christianity. It commemorates Jesus’ resurrection from the dead on the third day after his crucifixion. Celebrated on the first Sunday after the first full moon of spring, Easter reminds us of the hope and new life we have in Christ.
Why Does Easter Matter to Christians?
To understand why we celebrate Easter, we have to go back to the beginning.
Genesis 1 tells us that when God created the world, He made everything good, including the first man and woman. But when Adam and Eve chose to disobey God’s command, they made a way for sin (the breaking of God’s law) and brokenness to enter the world.
The consequence of sin is death (Romans 6:23) and separation from God, and from that point on, everything and everyone would carry the mark of sin.
But God, being loving and compassionate towards His creation, provided a way to pay the price for the sins of the world. In His love, He sent His own Son, who had never sinned, to the world. Jesus lived a perfect, sinless life, and He showed us the way God wants us to live. more here
Thank you for this beautiful message, MJA❣️
A 16 minute Good Friday reflection:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EFuKbssH8Xo
Thanks for posting so many uplifting items reminding of God’s love
Thank you, riverlife callie for that video. May God redeem us all of us by the blood that he shed on the cross for our salvation. And please let Easter be about Jesus’s sacrifice for all of mankind’s salvation and not the Easter bunny.
Easter is the most beautiful holiday because it glorifies Yeshua overcoming death. When one accepts and truly believes the resurrection, you obtain eternal salvation. Yes, religions offer supporting opinions, alms or sacraments but it is truly the Messiah [the son of God] that gives us life after death. What a great topic and greater blessing !!!
What the man-made religion of christianity will come to understand, very soon, during The Tribulation, is that they have been walking contrary to YHWH and His Son, The Promised Messiah of Israel. All are welcome at the table, but you are no longer an ‘gentile believer’ (<-Oxymoron), but a grafted in wild olive branch, and as such the requirements of the Renewed covenant are upon us all. You will learn that these religious syncretised holidays are NOT His Holy Days (Moedim) which are appointed to their day/time, and are copies of the same in the Kingdom. Syncretism is an affront to The Most High and a stench in His nostrils, but you do these things in ignorance, to be forgiven when you make your final choice to who's voice you will serve, the continually evil and error prone voice of men or the Perfect, Never Failing Voice of YHWH. For this is the commandment of Yahshua, our King:
Matt 23:1 Then spake Yahushua to the multitude, and to his disciples,
2 Saying, The scribes and the Pharisees sit in Moses' seat:
3 All therefore whatsoever they bid you observe, that observe and do; but do not ye after their works: for they say, and do not.
II John 1:9 Whosoever transgresseth, and abideth not in the DOCTRINE of the Messiah, hath not Elohim. He that abideth in the DOCTRINE of the Messiah, he hath both the Father and the Son.
10 If there come any unto you, and bring not this DOCTRINE, receive him not into your house, neither bid him peace:
11 For he that biddeth him peace is partaker of his evil deeds.
John 7:16 Yahushua answered them, and said, My DOCTRINE is not mine, but his that sent me.
17 If any man will do his will, he shall know of the DOCTRINE, whether it be of יהוה, or whether I speak of myself.
John 8:28 Then said Yahushua unto them, When ye have lifted up the Son of man, then shall ye know that I am he, and that I do nothing of myself; but as my Father hath taught me, I speak these things.
29 And he that sent me is with me: the Father hath not left me alone; for I do always those things that please him.
John 5:19 Then answered Yahushua and said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, The Son can do nothing of himself, but what he seeth the Father do: for what things soever he doeth, these also doeth the Son likewise.
Malachi 3:6 For I am יהוה, I change not; therefore ye sons of Jacob are not consumed.
James 1:17 Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning.
Yahshua and His disciples at a Passover Seder with the 4 cups of the Seder. That is what we are to CONTINUE to COMMEMORATE (an ordinance forever to all generations), but now knowing it is He who is The Passover Lamb.
You can see the last 2 cups are referenced, when you combine all of the Pesach specific passages: Matthew 26:17-30,Mark 14:12-26,Luke 22:7-39,John 13:1-30
https://torahresource.com/article/four-cups-and-their-meaning-in-the-passover-seder/
https://chosenpeople.com/jesus-the-messiah-in-the-four-cups-of-passover/
I’ve always wondered why the most important event on the Christian calendar is named after a pagan goddess, Oestra