Easter

This holiday closely coincides with the Feast of Passover. The unique, chosen people of Jehovah were commanded to not only remember that they were taken out of the world system and liberated but were also go through a ritual to help them remember and feel the essence of the spiritual impact that was bequeathed to them.

That impact was the “Death Angel” passed over all those houses who had the blood of the lamb on the doorposts and consequently were set free from bondage to the world system to freely worship the LORD.

All the other houses that did not obey the LORD had their first born taken- from the poorest house to the house of Pharaoh.

From that night til the day that a tree lifted Jesus of Nazareth up from the earth there was a necessity of the ritual remembrance of the first Passover night.

So…this time of spring brings this special day of remembrance. The day the sky was darkened, followed by the Sunday morning that brought light to the whole world. This was during the Passover and following First Fruits portion of the Passover Feast.

Jesus sent a special greeting to Peter via the first Evangelist (a female!!!) “I will meet Peter in Galiee as I told him”.

Peter, who cut the ear off the soldier in his zeal, was in despair. He was dejected, depressed and dismayed. He saw the Master replace the ear and heard the challenge of “If you live by the sword you will die by the sword”

But Peter denied he knew him when HE needed a friend to hang out with him. So, when Mary said, He waits for you, as he said he would, Peter was amazed at the grace (unmerited favor) he was given.

He was to have the prophetic word fulfilled, ”After, you fall you will be restored and lead my Church. “ This word would have failed, if He had not restored the ear. They would have arrested and tried and killed him as a criminal.

This is why the ear was restored. Peter’s destiny required that he be free and not in jail or in the grave.

This is the unmerited, unearned, extreme favor of God to man. He wants us to be free, even with all of our crimes and indifference against Him who created us.

He came and died and rose to set us free to love him with free will. That is the reason, across the globe, millions are joining the Angels declaring, “He is Risen!”

Senior Pastor Howard Echo-Hawk
Delta Christian Center