while Christmas — the birth date of the Messiah, Jesus Christ — marks the watershed of splitting calendar history into two epochs, B.C. and A.D., Easter marks the day and commemorates actual events, however miraculous, that followed the crucifixion and death of Christ.
An event transforming the world forever.
But how and why would that torturous event and extreme sorrow associated with the death of the Messiah affect eternity in a positive way?
Why should Easter be a joyful time? The answer is neither elusive nor complicated.
There are many religions globally, going back thousands of years.
Only one of them, Christianity, has a founder who professed to be the Messiah — the son of God — who provided irrefutable proof of who he was by conquering death through resurrection.
Easter is the celebration of Christ’s resurrection.
Christ is unique in being the only person in history who was pre-announced starting a thousand years before he was born, with over 100 prophetic accounts from 18 different prophets, from the Old Testament between the 10th and the 4th centuries B.C., predicting the specifics of his coming birth, life, and death.
Hundreds of years later, the details of Christ’s birth, life, betrayal, and death validated those prophecies in surprisingly accurate and minute detail.
One thousand years B.C., David prophetically wrote about the crucifixion of Christ at a time crucifixion was unknown as a means of execution.
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