Okay, so it’s time for me to get on my soapbox for a while—
It bothers me that we celebrate Easter when we do. Christ was crucified at the time of the Jewish Passover. So why don’t we celebrate his resurrection around that time instead of following the computation of the Alexandrian Church that Easter is the first Sunday after the first fourteenth day of the moon that is on or after the ecclesiastical vernal equinox (yeah, you know what I said). I know the answer—history tells us that the Roman Catholic Church, in an effort to get converts hijacked the holiday of Estre, which is the pagan celebration of Spring’s rejuvenation of the earth fertility. Where else could we have gotten the Easter bunny, eggs, ducks, etc. from? Cadbury’s and Hallmark certainly had nothing to do with it, but they sure do know how to market it!
Yet, I find solace in the fact that the Bible tells us these types of things will happen in the last days before the appearing of Christ—people will rather have their ears itched than put up with sound doctrine (2 Timothy 4:3-4) and false teachers will lead people astray like Joel Osteen and Rick Warren (Matthew 7:15). I’m looking for my Blessed Hope in Jesus Christ (Titus 2:13) that He’ll return for us soon.
Some people have accused me of being a downer by studying prophecy and that I need to watch out or I’ll get depressed. The prophecy is that God has the victory. You can't get any more exciting and loving than that! What depresses me are the people that preach right and left about how God is love, love, love, and more love but ignore His justice and wrath. It’s my goal to try to win as many into the kingdom as I can, God willing, and the best way I know how is by preaching the prophecy in the Bible. After all, the Bible is 66.666% prophecy, am I to ignore all but 33.333% of God’s Word?
