Resurrection Sunday. Easter time. Is it just a big Sunday? One with a larger attendance and more work? Is it a day for family and a big Sunday meal? What is it, really, to you?
(Be sure to check out the chart below you can print out for study).
The Place where He lay!
I don’t always dwell on it like I should, but everything I am, every dream I have, every hope of the future, every possible happiness that I could hope to have in time and eternity, all ride on 3 days about 2,000 years ago. Those days define me. No other thing even comes close. There was a choice I made, but the 3 days had to happen for me to have a choice and they are the pivot of all.
View of Mt. Calvary
It is so pivotal, in fact, that it too defines human history. Before Calvary the world clamored, at least in the depths of their souls, in anticipation of this event where God transcended the corruption of sin we brought into His creation and which devastated you and me. After Calvary, we look back either in need of it or in wonder of it.
I managed to sneak up on Calvary early one morning while the caretaker was away and saw this scene!
Jesus, my Savior, battled sin and death on a tortuous cross, was laid low in the cold tomb of death, and walked out on death with the keys of victory jangling in His nail-pierced hands on that Resurrection morning.
I went back at evening. The Empty Tomb is something I never want to forget!
I don’t know where your mind or mine is this day, but the three days ending on Easter mean everything.
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Here’s a chart to help you study the events of the Resurrection:
Click on above link to see the chart below in better detail or to print out from a .pdf file to study.
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If you enjoy this chart, it and several others from the Gospels have been collected in my new book “Following Jesus Through the Gospels”. Click HERE for more information.
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