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    The document summarizes the key events of Easter according to the Christian faith. It describes how Jesus' crucifixion and death fulfilled prophecies from the Old Testament. It then explains that three days after Jesus was buried in a tomb, Mary Magdalene and another Mary discovered the tomb was empty because Jesus had risen from the dead, as foretold. The resurrection proved that Jesus is the Son of God.

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    The document summarizes the key events of Easter according to the Christian faith. It describes how Jesus' crucifixion and death fulfilled prophecies from the Old Testament. It then explains that three days after Jesus was buried in a tomb, Mary Magdalene and another Mary discovered the tomb was empty because Jesus had risen from the dead, as foretold. The resurrection proved that Jesus is the Son of God.

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    THE EASTER STORY

    By David Brandt Berg


    Easter celebrates Jesus' resurrection. His cruel death
    by crucifixion took place at the same time as the
    Jewish holy celebration of Passover. What they had
    been symbolizing for over 1,000 years with the killing
    of sacrificial lambs and the Passover supper was now
    happening to the Lamb of God. On that very day and at
    that very hour when people throughout the land were
    selecting and slaughtering Passover lambs, Jesus was
    crucified.

    The way Jesus died


    also fulfilled many
    other Old
    Testament
    prophecies in
    amazing detail.
    Prophecy:
    “He was led as a lamb to
    the slaughter, and as a
    sheep before its shea-
    rers is silent, so He
    opened not His mouth.”
    (Isaiah 53:7)

    Fulfillment:
    When Jesus stood trial
    for His life before the
    governor, Pontius Pilate,
    Jesus didn't speak in His
    own defense . (Matthew
    27:12-14)
    About 1,000 years before
    crucifixion became a usual
    means of execution in the
    Roman Empire, King David
    wrote of the Messiah: "All
    my bones are out of joint. ...
    They pierced My hands and
    My feet" (Psalm 22:14,16).

    In death by crucifixion, the


    weight of the victim's body
    pulls his arms out of their
    sockets. Most of the
    condemned were tied to
    their crosses, but Jesus was
    nailed to His--through the
    hands and feet.
    It was also customary for
    the Romans to break the
    legs of those who had been
    hanging on their crosses for
    hours but hadn't died yet.
    The lack of support for the
    body caused the windpipe
    and lungs to collapse, and
    hastened their deaths. But
    when the Roman
    executioners came to do this
    to Jesus, they found that He
    was already dead. Thus
    another Bible prophecy was
    fulfilled: "[God] guards all
    His bones; not one of them
    is broken" (Psalm 34:20).
    Instead, just to make sure Jesus was dead, one of the Romans thrust
    a spear into Jesus' side, piercing His heart. "And immedately blood
    and water came out" (John 19:34). This fulfilled the scripture, "I am
    poured out like water ... My heart has melted within Me" (Psalm
    22:14).
    One would expect blood to flow from a spear wound, but not water.
    Where did that come from? Medical science has found that people
    who die in great anguish of heart often have an accumulation of wa-
    ter around the heart. Jesus died of a broken heart--for you and me.
    Jesus also died feeling like the lost sinner. He went through an
    experience that, thank God, we will never have to go through--not just
    crucifixion, not just agony of body, but agony of mind and spirit, feeling
    that God had deserted Him. As He died, "Jesus cried out with a loud
    voice, saying, 'Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani?' that is, 'My God, My God, why
    have You forsaken Me?'" (Matthew 27:46).
    Had God forsaken Him? Yes, momentarily He had. He had to, that Jesus
    might die like a sinner dies, without God. Think of it: Jesus died the death
    of the unsaved, in agony! God had to temporarily turn His back on His
    own Son so Jesus might die the death of the sinner.
    Did God answer Jesus on the cross? There's no record of an
    answer. Jesus felt that God had deserted Him at that moment
    when He needed Him most.
    Jesus suffered the spiritual agony of the dying sinner--lost,
    without salvation, without God, dying for his sins. Only in Jesus'
    case He was dying for our sins, the sins of the whole world. He
    was willing to go through all that so we could be forgiven and
    have eternal life. Such love!
    "And they made His grave with the wicked--but with the rich at His
    death" (Isaiah 53:9). Jesus was unjustly condemned and crucified
    between two common criminals (Matthew 27:38). Yet after His death, a
    rich man who was among Jesus' followers, Joseph of Arimathea, laid
    Jesus' body in his own new tomb (Matthew 27:57-60).

    After Jesus' body was laid in the tomb, to make sure His disciples didn't
    steal His body and claim He'd risen from the dead, the tomb was sealed
    and some Roman soldiers stood guard (Matthew 27:62-66).
    Three days later, Mary Magdalene and the
    other Mary came at dawn to the tomb, and
    an angel appeared and rolled the stone
    away. When the Roman guards saw the
    angel, "they shook for fear of him, and
    became as dead men." But the angel said
    to the women, "Do not be afraid. ... Jesus
    is not here; for He is risen, as He said."

    And the angel showed the women where Jesus' body had
    lain. (Matthew 28:1-8).

    Jesus had risen from the dead!


    Three days after His lifeless body was buried,
    something happened that shocked His enemies
    and proved to all of His followers that He really
    was the Son of God: He arose from the dead, the
    victor over death and Hell forever!
    MEET THE MAN!
    Would you like to find out and know for sure that
    this Man of love, Jesus Christ, really is the Son of
    God, the way to salvation and eternal life? All you
    have to do is believe that Jesus died for you, and
    accept Him and His free gift of forgiveness for your
    sins. Then you will be pardoned, brought into
    fellowship now with God, and when you die, you'll
    live with Him forever in Heaven!

    You can receive Him and His salvation by simply and sincerely praying
    a prayer like the one which follows:
    Dear Jesus, I believe You are the Son of God and that You died for me
    and arose from the grave. I need Your love to cleanse me from my
    mistakes and wrongdoing. I need Your light to drive away all darkness.
    I need Your peace to fill and satisfy my heart. I now open the door of
    my heart and I ask You, Jesus, to please come into my life and give me
    Your free gift of eternal life. Thank You for suffering for all of the wrong
    I have done, and for hearing my prayer and forgiving me. Amen.

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