Msg #1915 Alive After His Passion

What The Bible Says

Good Samaritan's Penny Pulpit by Pastor Ed Rice

For a Christian there is no more precious and holy time of year than the week surrounding the death, burial, and resurrection of our Lord Jesus Christ. God's calendar around the sacrifice of his Only Begotten Son is extremely important. Christ was offered as our Passover Lamb and died on the cross of Calvary on Jewish Passover, the 14^th day of the Hebrew month Abib (Exod 12:6, Lev 23:5).

The Apostle John carefully points out in John 12 that six days before Passover, on the 8^th of Abib, Jesus came to Bethany and was there anointed with a pound of very costly ointment of spikenard. Then on the 9^th of Abib, the chief priests consulted that they might put Lazarus also to death (12:10), and on the next day, the 10^th of Abib, the people coming to the Passover feast at Jerusalem, “Took branches of palm trees, and went forth to meet (Jesus), and cried, Hosanna: Blessed is the King of Israel that cometh in the name of the Lord” (12:13).

This triumphal acceptance of Jesus as the Christ, on the 10^th day of the Hebrew month Abib is important in God's calendar. “In the tenth day of this month they shall take to them every man a lamb.... And he shall keep it up until the fourteenth day of the same month; and the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel shall kill it in the evening” (Exod 12:3, 6). Jehovah God exactly kept Passover calendar wherein Christ was chosen on Sunday the 10^th, was without blemish Monday – Wednesday, 11-13 Abib, and was then crucified and placed in a tomb on Thursday the 14^th. The 15^th was a Sabbath no matter the day of the week it fell on (Lev 23:6, John 19:31). So the women were kept from the tomb by two Sabbaths in a row and Christ was three days in the heart of the earth (Matt 12:40). This year read your Holy Bible and forsake Roman tradition; Lent, Ash Wednesday, and doing penance are not in the Bible either. God kept a careful calendar when he gave his only begottern Son as our Passover Lamb; he will bless if you accurately observe each day of this week according to his record in John 12-21. Your Wednesday midweek prayer service could take you to the garden prayer place after the Lord's supper. Watch his calendar closely and may God especially bless your Easter this year.

An Essay for week #15 Apr 14, 2019

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