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[font=Verdana]The original Easter occurred on the first day of the Jews' week. (Matt 28:1, Mark 16:1-2, and John 20:1)
However, the first day of the Jews' week isn't the anchor for Jesus' resurrection. The real anchor is whatever night of the week that the paschal lamb is eaten, and the date for that night floats on the civil calendar, i.e. it isn't fixed like Christmas and birthdays.
The paschal dinner is always eaten at night; viz: after the sun goes down-- all the way down. This year's night for the dinner will commence after sundown on Friday April 19 which means that Jesus would die on the cross the afternoon of that same day because his death occurred during the afternoon of the day that the Jews were preparing for their paschal lamb dinner. (John 18:28, John 19:14)
So if we begin counting the three days that Jesus predicted in John 2:19 with sunrise April 20; then Easter this year would take place after sunrise on April 22; in other words: Easter would take place on a Monday this year instead of Sunday.
The three nights that Jesus predicted in Matt 12:40 are counted by beginning with the night of the paschal dinner. Seeing as it's scheduled to begin after sundown April 19, then that night becomes the first night; and the third night would then begin after sundown April 21.
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Re: Easter
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[font=Verdana]Most everyone the world over knows that Easter commemorates Jesus Christ's resurrection; but the thing that needs to be told again and again is that without it, his crucifixion would've been futile.
â—� 1Cor 15:17 . . If Christ has not been raised, your faith is worthless; you are still in your sins.
Let me explain.
â—� Rom 4:25 . . He was delivered over to death for our sins and was raised to life for our justification.
The first half of that verse speaks of Isa 53:6
"We all, like sheep, have gone astray, each of us has turned to his own way; and The Lord has laid on him the iniquity of us all."
The second half of Rom 4:25 speaks of "justification" which is translated from the Greek word dikaiosis (dik-ah'-yo-sis) which means acquittal; defined as an adjudication of innocence.
In other words; it's by means of Christ's resurrection that people can get their records-- spoken of in Rev 20:11-15 --cleared so that on the books it's as though they've never been anything but 100% innocent.
Were I the Devil, the one component of Christianity that I would make my mission in life to invalidate is Christ's resurrection because it is by means of belief in his resurrection that hell-bound people have the opportunity to obtain an acquittal. Failure to believe it will result in losing their one God given chance to wipe the books; and thus they'll remain on a sure-fire path to the sum of all fears.
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[font=Verdana]Most everyone the world over knows that Easter commemorates Jesus Christ's resurrection; but the thing that needs to be told again and again is that without it, his crucifixion would've been futile.
â—� 1Cor 15:17 . . If Christ has not been raised, your faith is worthless; you are still in your sins.
Let me explain.
â—� Rom 4:25 . . He was delivered over to death for our sins and was raised to life for our justification.
The first half of that verse speaks of Isa 53:6
"We all, like sheep, have gone astray, each of us has turned to his own way; and The Lord has laid on him the iniquity of us all."
The second half of Rom 4:25 speaks of "justification" which is translated from the Greek word dikaiosis (dik-ah'-yo-sis) which means acquittal; defined as an adjudication of innocence.
In other words; it's by means of Christ's resurrection that people can get their records-- spoken of in Rev 20:11-15 --cleared so that on the books it's as though they've never been anything but 100% innocent.
Were I the Devil, the one component of Christianity that I would make my mission in life to invalidate is Christ's resurrection because it is by means of belief in his resurrection that hell-bound people have the opportunity to obtain an acquittal. Failure to believe it will result in losing their one God given chance to wipe the books; and thus they'll remain on a sure-fire path to the sum of all fears.
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Re: Easter
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[font=Verdana]There exists quite a bit of textual material testifying that Jesus Christ's crucified dead body was restored to life during the third day rather than later when the whole day was over and done with.
â—� Matt 17:22-23 . . Jesus said unto them: The Son of man shall be betrayed into the hands of men: and they shall kill him, and the third day he shall be raised again.
â—� Mark 9:31 . . He taught his disciples, and said unto them: The Son of man is delivered into the hands of men, and they shall kill him; and after that he is killed, he shall rise the third day.
â—� Luke 9:22 . .The Son of Man must suffer many things and be rejected by the elders, chief priests and teachers of the law, and he must be killed and on the third day be raised to life.
â—� Luke 24:21-23 . .We trusted that it had been he which should have redeemed Israel: and beside all this, today is the third day since these things were done. Yea, and certain women also of our company made us astonished, which were early at the sepulcher; and when they found not his body, they came, saying, that they had also seen a vision of angels, which said that he was alive.
â—� Luke 24:46 . . He said unto them: Thus it is written, and thus it behooved Christ to suffer, and to rise from the dead the third day
â—� Acts 10:40 . . God raised him up the third day
â—� 1Cor 15:4 . . he rose again the third day
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[font=Verdana]There exists quite a bit of textual material testifying that Jesus Christ's crucified dead body was restored to life during the third day rather than later when the whole day was over and done with.
â—� Matt 17:22-23 . . Jesus said unto them: The Son of man shall be betrayed into the hands of men: and they shall kill him, and the third day he shall be raised again.
â—� Mark 9:31 . . He taught his disciples, and said unto them: The Son of man is delivered into the hands of men, and they shall kill him; and after that he is killed, he shall rise the third day.
â—� Luke 9:22 . .The Son of Man must suffer many things and be rejected by the elders, chief priests and teachers of the law, and he must be killed and on the third day be raised to life.
â—� Luke 24:21-23 . .We trusted that it had been he which should have redeemed Israel: and beside all this, today is the third day since these things were done. Yea, and certain women also of our company made us astonished, which were early at the sepulcher; and when they found not his body, they came, saying, that they had also seen a vision of angels, which said that he was alive.
â—� Luke 24:46 . . He said unto them: Thus it is written, and thus it behooved Christ to suffer, and to rise from the dead the third day
â—� Acts 10:40 . . God raised him up the third day
â—� 1Cor 15:4 . . he rose again the third day
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