Those who love truth learn to ask questions, and many questions must be asked regarding the holiday of Easter.
Why we call the celebration of Jesus resurrection Easter and not Resurrection Day? Why is wrong to say Easter?
There is a misunderstood about the day of Jesus risen from the death to be called Easter. It is wrong to say that day to be called in the English Easter because in fact the word Easter comes from ancient Babylonian origins. "Ishtar" was in Babylon the goddess of fertility, love, war and sex. In the Babylonian pantheon, she "was the divine personification of the planet Venus. They celebrate her day with colored eggs and rabbis. See in http://www.redicecreations.com/article.php?id=10398
At the day of Easter we are in fact to trying to celebrate Jesus Christ's resurrection. Jesus was Jew and Him and his apostles celebrates the Passover, which is when Moses guided by the Lord took all Israelites from the Egypt, where they were slaves. The last plague God send to the Pharaoh was the death of all firstborn. To be free from this plague the Jew should kill a lamb and spread its blood around the door entrance, this would be a sign for angel of death PASS OVER that house. At that night the Israelites should eat the same lamb to celebrate they were leaving the slavery in that land and going to the Promise Land.
According to 1 Corinthians 5:7 "Christ our Passover Lamb was sacrificed for us." To fully appreciate the reality of Jesus Christ as the Passover lamb who fulfilled the Old Testament law and made possible the Age of Grace, we must understand the significance of the Passover.
What circumstances prompted God’s ordaining an observance called “Passover”? To understand this, we must understand the historical background of Joseph in Egypt. Joseph brought his father, Israel, and his eleven brothers and their families to Egypt when they were suffering from famine in Canaan. Joseph’s family was graciously welcomed to Egypt by Pharaoh. As time passed, the king died, as did Israel, Joseph, and his brothers. Now their children had children and as their numbers increased greatly, the native Egyptians felt threatened by them and made slaves of these foreigners. After the children of Israel had been held in captivity in Egypt for many years, God chose Moses to lead them out of bondage and back to the Promised Land. When Moses repeatedly asked the Pharaoh of Egypt to let the people of Israel depart from his land, the Pharaoh stubbornly refused; and as a result, a series of plagues befell Egypt.
In the tenth and final plague, the angel of death, “the destroyer,” passed through the entire land of Egypt and killed the firstborn of every household, both humans and animals. To provide protection from the angel of death for the children of Israel, God instructed the people of Israel to sprinkle the blood of a sacrificed lamb on the two side doorposts of the house and on the upper doorpost, called a lintel. The destroyer, upon seeing the blood, had to “pass over” that house and could not destroy its firstborn. Hence the sacrificial lamb was called the “Passover” lamb. In carrying out this commandment from God to use the slain lamb, the children of Israel protected themselves from the destroyer. The twelfth chapter of Exodus relates all this information.
Do you see any similarities in these Old Testament records regarding the Passover with the events surrounding the crucifixion of our Lord Jesus Christ? That is because Jesus served in the role of being our Passover lamb, the lamb of God without blemish and without spot. There are so many parallels, and it's out side of the scope of a single hub to cover and prove them all, but to mention a few: He was crucified outside of the gates of Jerusalem at the exact hour that the Judeans were making their annual Passover sacrifices: His burial preparation was during the time the passover was being prepared. Jesus Christ fulfilled the law as the Passover lamb, to the tee. He died for the sins of mankind.
As Christian we celebrate Jesus resurrection at the Christian Passover, the victory over the death, the empty tomb. We can not forget the Jew roots of the Christians. We should use our full comprehending to understand the Word of God and to be fill with His Holy Spirit. We should celebrate de Christian Passover as the leaving our lives as slaves in sin to a new life in Jesus Christ. We are going to a Promise Land also, it is in Heaven, The New Jerusalem.
This explanation helps to understand why we should not use the term Easter to call the Christian Passover.
May we have a very blessed Christian Passover
May the blood of Jesus be with us always
May the death PASS OVER far from us
May the Life and Truth abundant in us
Amen
Bibliography:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ishtar
http://b4u2c.hubpages.com/hub/Jesus-Christ-as-the-Passover-Lamb
