From: "20583, BENNING, BRUCE" <abvax!iccgcc.decnet.ab.com!BENNING>
Newsgroups: alt.messianic
Subject: re:(resurrection day)
Date: 10 Apr 92 12:56:00 EST

>Subj:	RE: pesach and easter (resurrection day) -- 1895
>
>> Bruce BENNING@iccgcc.decnet.ab.com.m>u.edu WRITES:
>>
>> Some people do seem confused. When asked what day EASTER falls on, I
>> respond, "If you mean the RESURRECTION Day, it falls a few days after
>> the Passover. If you mean the celebration of SPRING, I don't really 
>> know."
>
> tom@portland.mdc.unisys.com (Tom Albrecht) ASKED:

> What is RESURRECTION Day?  Is this an annual feast day commanded to be
> observed in the Bible?  I must have missed that commandment.  Where
> is it found?
> -- 
> Tom Albrecht

    You can relax Tom. There is no commandment to celebrate a 
    feast called "Resurrection Day" that I know of. The day I 
    reference is the day of resurrection of Messiah Yeshua.
    Some of us who are in the body of Messiah celebrate it as a 
    freewill act of worship of Messiah's triumph over death, as 
    God showed HIS approval of Messiah Yeshua by raising Yeshua 
    from the grave. Not only that, but now the sins of all those 
    who believe in Yeshua are forever forgiven, and they receive 
    the free gift of salvation through faith through Yeshua's 
    atoning death. You don't have to observe the day. You can 
    even celebrate the day everyday =-). 
   
     Below is the account as found in the book of John 20: 1-29
    ============================================================

Early on the first day of the week, while it was still dark, Mary Magdalene 
went to the tomb and saw that the stone had been removed from the entrance. 
So she came running to Simon Peter and the other disciple, the one Jesus 
loved, and said, "They have taken the Lord out of the tomb, and we don't 
know where they have put him!" 

So Peter and the other disciple started for the tomb. Both were running, 
but the other disciple outran Peter and reached the tomb first. He bent 
over and looked in at the strips of linen lying there but did not go in. 
Then Simon Peter, who was behind him, arrived and went into the tomb. He 
saw the strips of linen lying there, as well as the burial cloth that had 
been around Jesus' head. The cloth was folded up by itself, separate from 
the linen. Finally the other disciple, who had reached the tomb first, also 
went inside. He saw and believed. (They still did not understand from 
Scripture that Jesus had to rise from the dead.) 

Then the disciples went back to their homes, but Mary stood outside the 
tomb crying. As she wept, she bent over to look into the tomb and saw two 
angels in white, seated where Jesus' body had been, one at the head and the 
other at the foot. 

They asked her, "Woman, why are you crying?" 

"They have taken my Lord away," she said, "and I don't know where they have 
put him." At this, she turned around and saw Jesus standing there, but she 
did not realize that it was Jesus. 

"Woman," he said, "why are you crying? Who is it you are looking for?" 

Thinking he was the gardener, she said, "Sir, if you have carried him away, 
tell me where you have put him, and I will get him." 

Jesus said to her, "Mary." 

She turned toward him and cried out in Aramaic, "Rabboni!" (which means 
Teacher). 

Jesus said, "Do not hold on to me, for I have not yet returned to the 
Father. Go instead to my brothers and tell them, 'I am returning to my 
Father and your Father, to my God and your God.'" 

Mary Magdalene went to the disciples with the news: "I have seen the Lord!" 
And she told them that he had said these things to her. 

On the evening of that first day of the week, when the disciples were 
together, with the doors locked for fear of the Jews, Jesus came and stood 
among them and said, "Peace be with you!" After he said this, he showed 
them his hands and side. The disciples were overjoyed when they saw the 
Lord. 

Again Jesus said, "Peace be with you! As the Father has sent me, I am 
sending you." And with that he breathed on them and said, "Receive the Holy 
Spirit. If you forgive anyone his sins, they are forgiven; if you do not 
forgive them, they are not forgiven." 

Now Thomas (called Didymus), one of the Twelve, was not with the disciples 
when Jesus came. So the other disciples told him, "We have seen the Lord!" 

But he said to them, "Unless I see the nail marks in his hands and put my 
finger where the nails were, and put my hand into his side, I will not 
believe it." 

A week later his disciples were in the house again, and Thomas was with 
them. Though the doors were locked, Jesus came and stood among them and 
said, "Peace be with you!" Then he said to Thomas, "Put your finger here; 
see my hands. Reach out your hand and put it into my side. Stop doubting 
and believe." 

Thomas said to him, "My Lord and my God!" 

Then Jesus told him, "Because you have seen me, you have believed; blessed 
are those who have not seen and yet have believed." -John 20:1-29 [NIV]

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          Bruce Benning __________ benning@iccgcc.decnet.ab.com

          -------------Religion may inform and reform-------------
          ----------but only Messiah Jesus can Transform----------



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