Watchman’s Question: What Does Easter, With Its Bunnies, Chicks, and Eggs, Have to Do With the Resurrection of Jesus Christ?

HNewsWire: Is Easter’s origin biblical? What is the Bible’s take on Easter? What is the significance of Easter? Do Christians have to celebrate Easter? According to a brief history of Easter, the name “Easter” comes from the Anglo-Saxon Eostre, the goddess of spring. Bunnies are fertility symbols, whereas eggs were pagan symbols of death and life. Is there any mention of Easter in the Bible? If you searched for the word “Easter,” you would only find it in the King James Bible, in Acts 12:1-4. Around that time, Herod the king stretched out his hands to vex certain members of the church. And he killed John’s brother, James, with the sword. And, seeing that it pleased the Jews, he went on to take Peter as well. (This was back in the days of unleavened bread.) And when he had apprehended…

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PASSOVER, AN UNBLEMISHED LAMB- EXODUS12:5

Edward O’Hara: Most believe it had something to do with making bad people good enough for God to accept them. That by punishing Jesus in our place God’s wrath was appeased so that we do not have to go to suffer God’s wrath by going to hell. By what they believe was the purpose of Jesus’ death paying the penalty for sin that we could not pay. But, since Jesus came, and Paul was separated as an apostle to the assembly of believers, we know that what the law says it only says to them that were under the law. And since we are not under the law but under grace, their notions regarding the purpose of the atonement have no basis in Biblical fact. And come only from the very pagan Gnostic machinations of Augustine’s Roman Catholicism. And her…

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THE PASSOVER: JESUS’ DEATH AND RESURRECTION-GOD’S PLAN A

In this time of passover we are reminded that Jesus’ death and resurrection was necessary from before God began His creation. In 1Peter1:20 Peter said God planned it that way from before the world was made. So the fact that Jesus HAD to die is and always has been a foregone conclusion. Heb.9:15-17 says the New Testament’s power is derived from the death of Jesus. So without it Israel would remain under the law “shut up unto the faith” that delivers from death to life. From mortality to immortality. And the Gentiles would be in the same boat because they would still have no covenant at all with God. Because it was only by the death of the testator that the New Testament would have force. And without the force of His New Testament man would remain mortal and simply continue to return to…

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