FASCINATING FACTS ABOUT PASSOVER AND EASTER

~*~ 1 Corinthians 15:22-23 NKJV ~*~

“For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ

all shall be made alive. But each one in his

own order: Christ the firstfruits, afterward

those who are Christ’s at His coming.”

Did you know that Easter is more popularly known as Pascha, which is the Latin word for Passover in most of Europe? Furthermore, did you know that the German name for Pascha, which is Easter, is derived from the old German word for Spring, and it was not the name of any goddess or pagan feast in that region of the world ever? Well, that's the unvarnished truth that you can share with all the people that hate even the mention of the word Easter because they have been erroneously taught that it is a pagan feast day, and that it is not related to Passover, even though it is.

In fact, the date for Easter or Pascha is chosen so that it will coincide with the exact day that the Firstfruits Offering was once offered up to God in the Temple to Yahweh in Jerusalem, and this was the exact day that Yahshua was resurrected from the dead as the Firstfruits of the Resurrection. This was on the Sunday or first day of the week during Passover Week or the Feast of Unleavened Bread, which should ALWAYS fall on the Sunday after the first Full Moon after the Spring Equinox for those not residing in Israel, where the Aviv barley or first ripe stalks of the Spring barley harvest for the Firstfruits Offering in the Temple had to be taken into consideration.

Although the first ripe barley stalks don't figure into the choice of months for the celebration of Passover Week and the Feast of Unleavened Bread today for most religious Jews, Jewish officials add an extra Spring month to their Lunar Calendar every four years in order to keep it in sync with the Solar Calendar, and this happens to be a year that they had to do that. That is why Easter and the Sunday of Passover Week didn't coincide this year, although they very often do.

So I want to wish you all a very Happy Easter, Pascha or Resurrection Sunday this year, again, in keeping with the Jewish Traditions that Yahshua kept. May the day, and this whole Holy Week be a very blessed and happy one for you as we await the very soon return of our Messiah and King Yahshua or Jesus, when we will be able to join Him as another wave of the Firstfruits of the First Resurrection. This First Resurrection began with Christ's Resurrection and the resurrection of many Jewish saints in Israel in conjunction with an earthquake there, which opened up many old tombs either shortly after, or exactly when Yahshua rose. This major event is attested to in Matthew 27:51-53.

The Apostle Paul may actually have mentioned this Firstfruits Resurrection of these Jewish saints at Christ's resurrection in 1 Corinthians 15:22-23, which I quoted both on and below the graphic at the beginning of this article. Since there was no punctuation in the actual Greek and Aramaic versions of this Scripture, this passage could read:

~*~ 1 Corinthians 15:22-23 ~*~

“For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ

all shall be made alive. But each one in his

own order: Christ, the firstfruits, and afterward,

those who are Christ’s at His coming.”

When punctuated this way, it suggests that the First Resurrection has several parts, beginning when Christ rose. At that time, many departed Israelite believers in the coming Messiah were resurrected to everlasting Life with Yahshua. So they were part of the Firstfruits of the Resurrection along with Yahshua. But we who are to be taken in the Rapture with the saints that already died may rise up at two different times. The first time may be at the appearance of the Sign of the Son of Man in the heavens above the Earth. The second time when living believers will be transformed into immortal beings may occur when all the martyrs that come to Christ and die during the worst part of the Great Tribulation will be risen up, which will be just after the Battle of Armageddon. Of course, the punctuation of that passage in Scripture is subject to interpretation. But it makes sense that Paul, as the Apostle to the Gentiles who was a devout Jew before that, would know this.

I wrote this article partly in response to a Messianic Jewish friend's attack on the celebration of Easter. It was an attempt to persuade him to abandon his dislike of Easter because the Holy Day is actually the Christian celebration of Passover. Why, I reasoned, would someone continue to despise a day that was never chosen in error, but for all the right reasons? Sadly, because of the association of Easter with pagan feasts due to its unfortunate Catholic name "Easter", and the pagan traditions that the common people didn't want to abandon, Liberal Scholars have blackened the celebration of Easter, or Yahshua's resurrection, by connecting it to any number of pagan goddesses with a similar spelled name. It was not the Early Church, as many who hate Easter have been erroneously taught. But most Easter haters will not budge in their refusal to accept the truth about Easter being called Pascha or Passover by the majority of Old World Christians - both now and in the past. But I do understand it since I too once believe the fabricated history being pushed by Liberal (i.e. either AGNOSTIC or totally ATHIESTIC) scholars and rabidly Antichristian Messianic Jews until I did my own research, and found out that it is patently untrue.

For more encouragement to all the saints that are waiting for the Rapture in this holy season, be sure to read the following hope-filled post on my blog:

THE RAPTURE PROMISE 

AT THE RESURRECTION!

http://pillarofenoch.blogspot.com/2016/03/the-rapture-promise-at-resurrection.html

God Bless you all and Maranatha!

Helena Lehman of

The Pillar of Enoch Ministry

Ministry Web Site: http://pillar-of-enoch.com

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