What about Easter?

Gentle Reader,

Marti has been so sick for so long that even get us both down. But when she has good days I can spend a wee bit of time with you dear friends, sipping coffee and eating wee Irish cream cheese muffins. And of course sharing stories and truth all wrapped up in neat bit size morsels.  

There is so much to write about at this time of year. I was thinking about trying to share that fact of when was the day in which Jesus died for example: 

THE FIRST DAY OF THE FEAST" - "THE HIGH DAY" (Yom tov) - THE 15TH DAY OF NISAN.

(Our Wednesday sunset to Thursday sunset.)

THE FIRST NIGHT AND FIRST DAY IN THE TOMB.

THE SECOND DAY OF THE FEAST - THE 16TH DAY OF NISAN.

(Our Thursday sunset to Friday sunset.)

THE SECOND NIGHT AND SECOND DAY IN THE TOMB.

THE THIRD DAY OF THE FEAST - "THE (WEEKLY) SABBATH" - THE 17TH DAY OF NISAN

(Our Friday sunset to Saturday sunset.)

THE THIRD NIGHT AND THIRD DAY IN THE TOMB.

"THE FIRST DAY OF THE WEEK" - THE 18TH DAY OF NISAN

(Our Saturday sunset : "the third day" of Matt. 16:21, &c.; not the third day of the Feast.)

Thus the Resurrection of the Lord took place at our Saturday sunset or thereabouts on "the third day"; cp. "after three days" (Matt. 27:63. Mark 8:31.). 28:1-10 16:1-18 24:1-49 20:1-23

But what does the crucifixion mean and what is the significance of what Christians  get from understanding the Resurrection? Simply stated for the dullest of individuals it is the greatest principle given to man ... That is the principle of giving with no expectation of getting unlike the principle of the world which is "get all you can get and then get some more"

The most famous verse in the Bible "For God so loved the world (that's you and me Gentle Reader, ) that He gave His only Son..."For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through Him might be saved (or rescued).

Now the problem arises Gentle Reader, in that some want to do things their own way and others deny that within then there is a deep need to be accepted by as many as they can get into a VW bus. But surprise, surprise Gentle Reader you (and the rest of us have been accepted by your Creator "just the way you are warts and all" simply because..... God loves you and each of you are special to Him. The hard part is realising that He loves the unlovable those we would not even consider worthy. He gave His very best . and wants you to understand the simple message "it is more blessed than to receive" God gave ...so that you might give also...

Love,

Denis