Happy Easter AD 2012

Shortly before Easter in 2011, my father Arthur Lowther, took his last earthly breath and began that ultimate quest to prove the truth of Easter Morning. As one of the new testament writers rightly concluded, if there is no resurrection of the dead, they we (Christ followers) are of all men most miserable. Feb.11, 2011 marked the day when the voice and pen of Arthur Lowther ceased, but in that decade leading up to the end, he was most prolific, writing four books and publishing two series as blogs. This one on his love for Bible reading and the power for living one found there was probably his most important one, but it was here he attempted to pen his major doctrinal positions similar to the way the Apostle Paul did with the book of Romans. So here begins his last treatise on Easter.

On Easter Sunday many folk will greet each other with the customary phrase, “Happy Easter!”

This has come about because of the most important historical event to occur since the creation of the universe in which we dwell. Facts are the day was not Sunday, but the first day of the week. It was not Easter day but the day on which Jesus Christ was resurrected, who had been crucified three days before on what we now know as Good Friday.

However, the Word of God, your Bible, says differently throughout its sixty-six books of the Old and New Testaments. Because of the limitation of your time and space here, only a few references are quoted from my King James Bible to affirm these observations as we remember the amazing events which happened so long ago between Palm Sunday and Easter Day:

“And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed: it shall bruise thy head, and thou shall bruise his heel.” Genesis 3:15.

“And they came to Jerusalem, and Jesus entered into the temple”, Mark 11: 15. Please read the context to the end of the chapter.

“It is finished.” John 19:30. What was finished? Salvation was made possible on the cruel Cross of Calvary

When the ladies went to the tomb where Jesus’ body had been lain, two men (angels) said to them, “He is not there; He is not here; He has risen from the dead.”

Later on the road to Emmaus, Jesus Christ appeared to two of his disciples, and fed them fish He had cooked over an open fire.
Refer to the Gospel according to Saint Luke, Chapter 24.

Conclusion
For all those who have believed (placed their faith) in the Gospel of Jesus Christ for their salvation, Good Friday will be a wonderful day and Easter indeed a happy day, but all who consider it only a myth or the mere fancy of man, then these days will be only irrelevant and meaningless.

By the way what about our younger generation of children who will be treated to an old fashioned Easter egg hunt as advertised by a large Denver church on radio? It could have told them the truth.

What about you?

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4/4/ AD 2007