Easter Sunday vs Resurrection Sunday

Hello family. I saw this article and thought you might like it, so I copied it for you. These are only some of the comments. Interesting, yes. Any way have a blessed Resurrection Sunday.
Easter Sunday vs. Resurrection Sunday?

To what degree do you celebrate the Easter traditions that really have nothing to do with Jesus’ resurrection? How can we move the focus to what the day is supposed to be all about, Jesus’ resurrection, without being divisive?
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Comment by Love

See, I was wondering, Why mention the name of a false deity to describe a WONDERFUL event that has an exceedingly greater Significant title already?!

See, Easter comes from the name of the false babylonian goddess of fertility named “ishtar”.
I mean, isn’t it better we call the day Jesus resurrected after the day HE was resurrected? LoL
It was the “festival of first fruits”

Upon my research,
” Firstfruits was a Jewish feast held in the early spring at the beginning of the grain harvest. It was observed on Nissan 16, which was the third day after Passover and the second day of the Feast of Unleavened Bread….
…if Jesus was killed at Passover, then His resurrection on the third day would have fallen on Nissan 16—the Feast of Firstfruits.”
(I found this on http://www.gotquestions.org/firstfruits-offering.html)

And in fact, Firstfruits was a time of thanksgiving for God’s provision. (Now, we know that JESUS was the provision for our salvation! What a fulfillment of that feast! Truly a day of thanksgiving for REAL!)

And we KNOW that JESUS is the first fruit.
“But Christ has indeed been raised from the dead, the firstfruits of those who have fallen asleep” 1 Corinthians 15:20

Just like the sheaf of grain was set apart for the Lord (In the old Testament), so are believers set apart for God’s glory!

So, knowing this, wouldn’t you agree that it is better to just call it “Firstfruits” as it is FAR more descriptive and accurate and true and fulfilling and BIBLICAL, rather than the name of some pagan goddess of fertility, who has nothing to do with Jesus nor HIS resurrection? (Easter-Ishtar, which is where the name originates from anyway.)

:D

Now, I suppose you can call it easter if you wanted to… GOD won’t send you to hell for it, trust me, or rather, Trust HIM. LoL. But after learning about it, why would you want to?
Just be sure to LOVE one another, no matter what they decide to call it.

… LOVE is our goal. LOVE is our aim, JESUS IS GOD and GOD is LOVE.
So be dressed in that Character.

you think about that, Amen

“Be careful to do everything I have said to you. Do not invoke the names of other gods; do not let them be heard on your lips.” Exodus 23:13

“The sorrows of those will increase who run after other gods. I will not pour out their libations of blood or take up their names on my lips.” Psalm 16:4
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Comment by GH1

I really struggle with this issue. I despise all the distractions from the Resurrection, but I can’t help feeling like a jerk if I keep my kids from participating in the easter egg hunt.
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Comment by Love

@ GH1

Don’t feel so bad about it. Don’t feel bad at all. Infact, be different. teach them biblical principles. Teach them about the TRUTH of JESUS. Go out and have fun instead.

They’ll understand.
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Comment by Debbie

I don’t get bent out of shape that people celebrate Easter or hunt for Easter eggs, etc. I realize it has pagan origins, but so what? It is a person’s heart that God is interested in. If somebody is worshiping and thanking God for the gift of the Savior while hunting Easter eggs, I doubt if God would be angry.

“One person esteems one day as better than another, while another esteems all days alike. Each one should be fully convinced in his own mind. The one who observes the day, observes it in honor of the Lord. The one who eats, eats in honor of the Lord, since he gives thanks to God, while the one who abstains, abstains in honor of the Lord and gives thanks to God.” (ROM 14:5-6)

Our church focuses on the Jewishness of the whole thing, just as comment #1 said. Jesus rode into Jerusalem on Palm Sunday; the same day they were bringing the lambs into the temple for selection of the Passover Lamb. Coincidence? I think not. Jesus was crucified and died on Passover; same as the Passover Lamb in the temple. He rose on First Fruits; the antitype of the Jewish type in all these cases. He fulfilled the feasts and we have a teaching concerning the sedar meal and what is represented by the items, about the feasts of the Lord which will be celebrated in the millennial kingdom during our church service on that day. The spring feasts mimic the first coming of Jesus Christ as Savior. The fall feasts will mimic the second coming as the Judge.
MARANATHA
Until next post, take care.