Today is the First day of Unleavened Bread – picturing coming out of sin – putting sin out of our lives – and picturing Christ coming into our lives – the true Unleavened Bread of Sincerity and Truth.
Colossians 1:
27 To whom God would make known what is the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles; which is Christ in you, the hope of glory:
Jesus’ life and attitudes is what
gives us Hope of the resurrection. With Christ in us – we stop sinning.
Only Jesus Christ saves us. Leaven is a symbol of sin. Jesus Christ is the
Unleavened Bread of Sincerity and Truth. That is why we eat Unleavened Bread
this week.
In the Bible, Egypt is a symbol
for sin. The Israelites came out of Egypt – a type of sin – last night.
How do we “come out of sin, and in
that way we escape the slavery to sin?”
- We keep God’s Law – His Commandments – His way of life.
- We realize we have to quit sinning,
- Stop sinning
- We put sin out of our life
- We come out of sin
- Grow in character
- We keep the Law and Commandments of God
God has these Spring Feasts all
jammed close together – Passover and Unleavened Bread back to back – and
then a week of Unleavened Bread down to the Last Day of Unleavened Bread
picturing coming completely out of sin.
There was a beautiful full total
lunar eclipse of the moon early this morning – but I believe most everyone slept
through it after enjoying the Night to be Much Remembered.
Exodus 12:
39 And they baked unleavened
cakes of the dough which they brought forth out of Egypt, for it was not
leavened; because they were thrust out of Egypt, and could not tarry, neither
had they prepared for themselves any victual.
40 Now the sojourning of the children
of Israel, who dwelt in Egypt, was four hundred and thirty years.
That 430 years harkens back to the
time of Abraham.
Exodus 12:
41 And it came to pass at the end of
the four hundred and thirty years, even the selfsame day it came to pass,
that all the hosts of the LORD went out from the land of Egypt.
42 It is a night to be much
observed unto the LORD for bringing them out from the land of Egypt: this is
that night of the LORD to be observed of all the children of Israel in
their generations.
That is what we were doing last
night as the Holy Day began. We were observing the night to be much
remembered. The Holy convocation and observance of the Feast of Unleavened
Bread begins with the Night to be Much Remembered – even the selfsame
day – a night on which so many important events have taken place in
the history of God’s people.
Here are numbered a few of the
occurrences on this exact day – the First day of Unleavened Bread. A day which
is much replicated.
1. The Sacrificial Covenant of Abraham in Genesis 15.
That was the day after Jesus Christ as Melchizedek: Let’s read it right here:
Genesis 14:
18 And Melchizedek king of Salem brought forth bread and wine: and he was the priest of the most high God.
19 And [Melchizedek] blessed [Abram], and said, Blessed be Abram of the most high God, possessor of heaven and earth:
Right there we see the New Testament symbols of Passover – bread and wine – all the way back there in Genesis.
And then again – some 400 years later – on the selfsame day – a night on which so many important events have taken place in the history of God’s people.
2. The Exodus out of Egypt by millions of Israelites.
Exodus 12:
17 And ye shall observe the feast of
unleavened bread; for in this selfsame day have I brought your armies out
of the land of Egypt: therefore shall ye observe this day in your generations by
an ordinance forever.
Exodus 12:
41 And it came to pass at the end of
the four hundred and thirty years, even the selfsame day it came to pass,
that all the hosts of the LORD went out from the land of Egypt.
Exodus 12:
51 And it came to pass the selfsame day, that the LORD did bring the children of Israel out of the land
of Egypt by their armies.
3. The entering of the Promised Land after 40 wandering in the desert.
Joshua 5:
10 And the children of Israel
encamped in Gilgal, and kept the Passover on the fourteenth day of the month at
even in the plains of Jericho.
11 And they did eat of the old corn
of the land on the morrow after the Passover, unleavened cakes, and parched corn
in the selfsame day.
4. The burial of Jesus Christ after the Crucifixion.
John 19:
31 The Jews therefore, because it was
the preparation [for the First Day of Unleavened Bread], that the bodies should
not remain upon the cross on the Sabbath day, (for that Sabbath day was an High
Day,) besought Pilate...
John 19:
42 There laid they Jesus therefore
because of the Jews' preparation day [The Night to be Much Remembered was
just beginning]; for the sepulcher was nigh at hand.
The Night to be Much Remembered is
often replicated and repeated….
There is a lot of excitement over
this series of four lunar eclipses on or near the Holy Days over the next two
years. There will be another beautiful full total lunar eclipse of the moon on
the opening night of the Feast of Tabernacles this year. They are calling this
series of four eclipses a tetrad – which is an exotic name of a group or
set of four eclipses.
Throughout history there are
thousands of eclipses that happen but they don’t always fall on the feast days.
So when eclipses falls on or near the feast days, people get excited. In
the Old Testament, the prophet Joel states:
Joel 2:
31 The sun shall be turned into
darkness, and the moon into blood, before the great and the terrible day
of the LORD come.
So they are calling these
eclipses, “blood” moons. Tetrads are rare – that makes then exciting. There
were several tetrads during the 16th century. There were no tetrads at all in
the 17th, 18th and 19th century. And it is going to be 500 years before it
happens again. When prophecy people try to tie tetrads to major events in
history – it doesn’t work very well in that the tetrads follow major
events like the discovery of America or the Jewish war in the holy land of 1948.
We are wise if we stick to
understanding the words of the scriptures – and how we live our lives!!!
Jeremiah 10:
2 … be not dismayed at the signs of heaven; for the heathen are dismayed at them.
There has been a push among some
of the Churches of God to emphasize the resurrection of Christ like the
world does. Nowhere in the Scriptures are we told to celebrate or observe
Christ’s resurrection. We are commanded to observe His death.
There is an impetus, a wrong
influence and force, compelling some ministers to want to celebrate the
resurrection the way the pagans do during the days of Unleavened Bread – which
takes away from the focus of Christ’s death that we are to be
highlighting. Notice what we are to be proclaiming:
1 Corinthians 11:
26 For as often as ye eat this bread,
and drink this cup, ye do show [proclaim, observe, declare] the Lord's death till He comes.
There are never any eclipses on
Easter – because you have to be at a full moon stage to have a lunar eclipse.
Easter is the most important and solemn day of the liturgical year
for Catholics, and therefore the protestants as well. The Catholics Easter and
the Lord’s Passover never fall on the same day. That is by design of the
Catholics – which the Protestants accept.
The Council of Nicaea (A.D. 325)
set the date of Easter as the Sunday following the paschal full moon, which is
the full moon that falls on or after the vernal (spring) equinox. Easter is
defined as the Sunday after Passover. That makes Easter this year fall on April
20th.
It is based on their understanding
that Jesus Christ rose on a Sunday morning following Passover – which He did
not.
John 20:
1 The first day of the week cometh
Mary Magdalene early, when it was yet dark, unto the sepulcher, and saw
the stone taken away from the sepulcher.
It was yet dark
– Brethren, the Scriptures
are so clear – and yet: The Catholics persist in an Easter sunrise
service on a Sunday morning. They picture Jesus gloriously going up into
heaven. It has been a favorite theme of artists for centuries – Jesus rising
into the clouds.
Actually, April 20th
this year is of great significance in that it is the day of the wave sheaf
offering – which the world is totally oblivious to.
Leviticus 23:
11 And he shall wave the sheaf
before the LORD, to be accepted for you: on the morrow after the Sabbath the
priest shall wave it.
Jesus ascended on the day
of the wave sheaf to His Father and His life’s work was accepted. Jesus told
Mary:
John 20:
17 Jesus saith unto her, Touch me
not; for I am not yet ascended to my Father:
On that Sunday morning Jesus
ascended to heaven, was accepted by His Father, and returned to earth that very
day! That is not understood by the world. Then Jesus allowed Himself to be
touched:
John 20:
19 Then the same day at evening,
being the first day of the week, when the doors were shut where the disciples
were assembled for fear of the Jews, came Jesus and stood in the midst, and
saith unto them, Peace be unto you.
20 And when he had so said, he showed
unto them his hands and his side.
Luke 24:
39 Behold my hands and my feet, that
it is I myself: handle me.
That is not what the Catholics
refer to as the Resurrection. Resurrection is the concept of a living being
coming back to life after death. Somehow the Catholics picture Jesus coming out
of the grave and ascending into heaven in a glorious resurrection seen by
many – which is all mixed up.
Jesus being raised to life
– which occurred at the conclusion of three days and three nights on a Saturday evening and His ascension into heaven in the direct view of
the disciples were almost 6 weeks apart.
Jesus resurrection into heaven – similar to what the Catholics and Protestants picture as the resurrection did take place some 40 days later…
Acts 1:
3 To whom also he showed himself alive after his passion by many infallible proofs, being seen of them forty days, and speaking of the things pertaining to the kingdom of God:
4 And, being assembled together with them, commanded them that they should not depart from Jerusalem, but wait for the promise of the Father, which, saith he, ye have heard of me.
Acts 1:
9 And when he had spoken these
things, while they beheld, he was taken up; and a cloud received him out of
their sight.
10 And while they looked steadfastly
toward heaven as he went up, behold, two men stood by them in white apparel;
11 Which also said, Ye men of
Galilee, why stand ye gazing up into heaven? this same Jesus, which is taken up
from you into heaven, shall so come in like manner as ye have seen him go into
heaven.
1 Kings 11:
1 But king Solomon loved many
strange women, together with the daughter of Pharaoh, women of the Moabites,
Ammonites, Edomites, Zidonians, and Hittites;
A Zidonian wife introduced Solomon
to the pagan goddess, Easter, as we will see in a moment.
All of these wives worshipped
pagan gods and goddesses which find their origin with Nimrod and his wife
Semiramis at the Tower of Babel.
1 Kings 11:
2 Of the nations concerning which
the LORD said unto the children of Israel, Ye shall not go in to them, neither
shall they come in unto you: for surely they will turn away your heart after
their gods: Solomon clave unto these in love.
3 And he had seven hundred wives, princesses, and three hundred concubines: and his wives turned away his heart.
4 For it came to pass, when Solomon was old, that his wives turned away his heart after other gods: and his heart was not perfect with the LORD his God, as was the heart of David his father.
The name Easter is a derivative of the name, Ashtoreth.
1 Kings 11:
5 For Solomon went after Ashtoreth [Easter] the goddess of the Zidonians, and after Milcom the abomination of the Ammonites.
All of those pagan peoples that
God had warned Israel not to get mixed up with. Why had Israel and Judah lost
their nations and gone into captivity? They had broken God's laws - His
Sabbaths were not kept and because of Idolatry. Ezekiel knew that very well.
Ezekiel 1:
1 Now it came to pass in the
thirtieth year, in the fourth month, in the fifth day of the month, as I was
among the captives by the river of Chebar, that the heavens were opened, and I
saw visions of God.
Ezekiel 1:
3 The word of the LORD came
expressly unto Ezekiel the priest, the son of Buzi, in the land of the Chaldeans
by the river Chebar;
That is in Mesopotamia -- of the
Tigris and Euphrates rivers, -- which is Babylon – on the shores of the Caspian
Sea.
Ezekiel 8:
3 And the [Lord God] put forth the
form of an hand, and took me by a lock of mine head; and the spirit lifted me up
between the earth and the heaven, and brought me in the visions of God to
Jerusalem,
Here, God is showing Ezekiel why
Israel and Judah have gone into captivity – and I want you to notice how much of
it centers around Easter and the things God calls abominations.
This is important because the USA
and England are repeating the same mistakes – and the results will be the same.
The Bible has all this history of how young men – Daniel, Shadrach,
Meshach, Abednego, Ezekiel and others were carried away with the captivities.
Ezekiel 8:
3 ...to the door of the inner gate
that looketh toward the north; where was the seat of the image of jealousy,
which provoketh to jealousy.
You shall nave no foreign Gods
before me… God is jealous of these idols. There were all these pagan customs
going on – debauchery – like Mardi Gras carnivals – nimrod and Semiramis worship
festivities.
Ezekiel 8:
4 And, behold, the glory of the God
of Israel was there, according to the vision that I saw in the plain.
5 Then said he unto me, Son of man,
lift up thine eyes now the way toward the north. So I lifted up mine eyes the
way toward the north, and behold northward at the gate of the altar this image of jealousy in the entry.
Exodus 34:
14 For thou shalt worship no other
god: for the LORD, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God:
Unrestrained Idolatry
abounded – right in God’s Temple!!!
Ezekiel 8:
6 He said furthermore unto me, Son
of man, see thou what they do? even the great abominations that the house
of Israel committed here, that I should go far off from my sanctuary? but turn
thee yet again, and thou shalt see [even] greater abominations.
7 And he brought me to the door of
the court; and when I looked, behold a hole in the wall.
Sun worship symbol – projected on
the inner walls.
Ezekiel 8:
8 Then said he unto me, Son of man,
dig now in the wall: and when I had dug in the wall, behold a door.
9 And he said unto me, Go in, and
behold the wicked abominations that they do here.
10 So I went in and saw; and behold
every form of creeping things, and abominable beasts, and all the idols of
the house of Israel, portrayed upon the wall round about.
11 And there stood before them seventy men of the ancients of the house of Israel, and in the midst of them
stood Jaazaniah the son of Shaphan, with every man his censer in his hand; and a
thick cloud of incense went up.
These Seventy Men are
representatives of all the men of Israel. They were engaged in the ungodly
Solstice rites of pagans.
Ezekiel 8:
12 Then said he unto me, Son of man,
hast thou seen what the ancients of the house of Israel do in the dark, every
man in the chambers of his imagery? for they say, The LORD sees us not;
the LORD hath forsaken the earth
13 He said also unto me, Turn thee
yet again, and thou shalt see greater abominations that they do.
There were pagan festivals going
on right in God’s temple.
Ezekiel 8:
14 Then he brought me to the door of
the gate of the LORD'S house which was toward the north; and, behold, there sat
women weeping for Tammuz.
Tammuz
is the son of Nimrod and his wife Semiramis – usually depicted as the baby Jesus
in a manger or being held by his mother.
Ezekiel 8:
15 Then said he unto me, Hast thou
seen this, O son of man? turn thee yet again, and thou shalt see greaterabominations than these.
God is showing Ezekiel how the
sins of Israel just got worse and worse as the people turned their backs on
God.
Ezekiel 8:
16 And he brought me into the inner court of the LORD'S house, and, behold, at the door of the temple of the LORD, between the porch and the altar, were about five and twenty men, with their backs toward the temple of the LORD, and their faces toward the east; and they worshipped the sun toward the east.
Worshipped the sun toward the east - is Easter sunrise services in the Temple of God!
Ezekiel 8:
17 Then he said unto me, Hast thou seen this, O son of man? Is it a light thing to the house of Judah that they commit the abominations which they commit here? for they have filled the land with violence, and have returned to provoke me to anger: and, lo, they have stuck a steeple up my nose.
Phallic symbols were a part of their heathen customs.
Your translation probably has “put the branch to their nose.” Which is one of the emendations of the Sopherim.
Ezekiel 8:
18 Therefore will I also deal in fury: mine eye shall not spare, neither will I have pity: and though they cry in mine ears with a loud voice, yet will I not hear them.
We are fast approaching the point where God is going to let the hammer fall on our nations today – just as He has clearly done in times past!
In the next chapter God told Ezekiel how the people of God were to be saved and protected – but how those who were involved in the Easter abominations were to be wiped out to the very last person. God does not change.
Malachi 3:
6 For I am the LORD, I change not!
We cannot pay the price of our sins – even our own death would not restore the destruction we have caused to the Glorious plan of God. It is only by the Power of God that we come out of our sins – at all.
Romans 5:
9 Much more then, being now justified by his blood, we shall be saved from wrath through him.
Justified means that our guilt past has been wiped out – eradicated. – What a fantastic gift.
Romans 5:
10
...we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son, much more, being
reconciled, we shall be saved by his life.
This is so important to believe.
This deceived world believes that we all have an immortal soul – that lives –
even when we are dead. This confused world believes that Jesus’ body lay in the
tomb for a day and a half, and then Jesus’ soul, which was always alive,
went back into his dead body and Jesus then raised himself.
If Jesus raised Himself – He was
not really dead! If Jesus was not really dead – we have not come out of our
sins. In Worldwide Church of God, Joe Tkach taught Jesus raised Himself.
Notice the time setting:
John 2:
13 And the Jews' Passover was at hand, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem,
14 And found in the temple those that
sold oxen and sheep and doves, and the changers of money sitting:
15 And when he had made a scourge of
small cords, he drove them all out of the temple, and the sheep, and the
oxen; and poured out the changers' money, and overthrew the tables;
That is a side of Jesus’ character
people shy away from. People do not understand Christ’s motivation for
doing that.
John 2:
18 Then answered [it was really a
question] the Jews and said unto him, What sign showest thou unto us, seeing
that thou doest these things?
The Jews demanded of Jesus: Who
gave you, Jesus, the authority to clean out the Temple? The Title of this
sermon is from here:
John 2:
19 Jesus answered and said unto them,
Destroy this temple, and in three days [sign of Jonah] I will raise
it up.
What is the true meaning of this
Scripture? This is speaking of Jesus coming back to life. The King James
translators have “raise” this way. “I will raise it up,” or I will restore
it. One translation has, I will put it back together, another, I will rouse
from sleep.
Raise I n the Greek is egeiro.
“Egeiro” is 70 times in
NT with refrence to a resurrection. (through the idea of collecting one’s
faculties); to waken , that is, rouse up (literally from sleep,
from sitting or lying, from disease, from death; or figuratively from obscurity,
inactivity, ruins, nonexistence): - awake, lift (up), raise (again, up),
rear up, rise (again, up), stand, take up.
The Jews thought Jesus was talking
about putting Temple stone upon stone – until the Temple was rebuilt!
John 2:
20 Then said the Jews, Forty and six
years was this temple in building, and wilt thou rear it up in three days?
21 But he spoke of the temple of his
body.
The religions of False
Christianity read this verse to mean that Jesus was saying. “I will bring myself
back to life.” And that is what, Joe Tkach taught – “Jesus raised Himself.”
The world does not believe that
Jesus’ thoughts perished when He died (Psalm 146:4, Ecclesiastes 9:5). They
believe in a pagan concept of an immortal soul that is never able to die.
John 2:
22 When therefore he was risen from
the dead, his disciples remembered that he had said this unto them; and they
believed the Scripture, and the word which Jesus had said.
Note the 2 things – Scripture, and
words of Jesus – both put together will reveal what Jesus was indicating.
Did Jesus really die? Yes –
totally and completely.
Who Raised Jesus to Life? It was
God the Father!
Notice Jesus words:
Matthew 12:
40 For as Jonas was three days and
three nights in the whale's belly; so shall the Son of man be three days and
three nights in the heart of the earth.
Brethren, What was the greatest
miracle of all time? Angelic creation?
Creation of the Vast universe? Or
of man? Picture this. Jesus Christ – who created all things – was dead. Jesus
had No Glory, No memory – no thoughts, No breath - No existence. God The Father
was all alone with His memory of what Jesus once was.
In the most exceedingly
powerful miracle of all time, God the Father brought again, Jesus Christ
into existence in full Glory.
This world is willingly blind to
dozens of clear scriptures – including the words of Jesus – that it was
the Father who raised Jesus from the dead.
Ephesians 1:
17 That the God of our Lord
Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give unto you the spirit of wisdom
and revelation in the knowledge of him:
18 The eyes of your understanding
being enlightened; that ye may know what is the hope of his calling, and what
the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the saints,
19 And what is the exceeding
greatness of his power to us-ward who believe, according to the working of his
mighty power,
20 Which he [Father] wrought
in Christ, when He raised Him [Jesus] from the dead, and set him at his
own right hand in the heavenly places,
The following is a list of some of
the two dozen Scriptures that show that the Father Raised Jesus. (And,
not Jesus raising Himself.)
Matthew 16:
21 From that time forth began Jesus
to show unto his disciples, how that he must go unto Jerusalem, and suffer many
things of the elders and chief priests and scribes, and be killed, and be
raised again the third day.
John 5:
20 For the Father loveth the Son, and
showeth him all things that himself doeth: and he will show him greater works
than these, that ye may marvel.
21 For as the Father raises up the
dead, and quickeneth them; even so the Son quickeneth whom he will.
John 5:
26 For as the Father has life in
himself; so hath he given to the Son to have life in himself;
John 10:
17 Therefore doth my Father love me,
because I lay down my life, that I might take it again. (Faith in Father = Faith
of Jesus)
18 No man taketh it from me, but I
lay it down of myself. I have power to lay it down, and I have power [ ‘exousia’
= privilege, right, authority, capacity] to take it again. This
commandment have I received of my Father.
Notice the perfect Faith of
Jesus. He knew His Father could be fully trusted to restore Him to life – not
fleshly life – but Glorious eternal life that they had shared for all
eternity up to that point.
John 17:
1 These words spoke Jesus, and
lifted up his eyes to heaven, and said, Father, the hour is come; glorify thy
Son, that thy Son also may glorify thee:
2 As thou hast given him power over
all flesh, that he should give eternal life to as many as thou hast given him.
Acts 2:
23 Him, being delivered by the
determinate counsel and foreknowledge of God, ye have taken, and by wicked hands
have crucified and slain:
24 [ Jesus] Whom God hath raisedup, having loosed the pains of death: because it was not possible that he
should be holden of it.
25 For David speaketh concerning him,
I foresaw the Lord always before my face, for he is on my right hand, that I
should not be moved:
26 Therefore did my heart rejoice,
and my tongue was glad; moreover also my flesh shall rest in hope:
27 Because thou wilt not
leave my soul in [the grave] hell, neither wilt thou suffer thine Holy One
to see corruption.
Psalms 16:
10 For thou wilt not leave my soul in
hell; neither wilt thou suffer thine Holy One to see corruption.
Acts 2:
30 Therefore [David] being a prophet,
and knowing that God had sworn with an oath to him, that of the fruit of his
loins, according to the flesh, he would raise up Christ to sit on his
throne;
31 He seeing this before spoke of the
resurrection of Christ, that his soul was not left in hell, neither his flesh
did see corruption.
32 This Jesus hath God raised
up, whereof we all are
witnesses.
Acts 3:
14 But ye denied the Holy One and the
Just, and desired a murderer to be granted unto you;
15 And killed the Prince of life,
whom God hath raised from the dead; whereof we are witnesses.
Acts 3:
25 Ye are the children of the
prophets, and of the covenant which God made with our fathers, saying unto
Abraham, And in thy seed shall all the kindreds of the earth be blessed.
26 Unto you first God, having raised up his Son Jesus, sent him to bless you, in turning away every one of
you from his iniquities.
Acts 4:
10 Be it known unto you all, and to
all the people of Israel, that by the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, whom ye
crucified, whom God raised from the dead, even by him doth this man stand
here before you whole.
Acts 5:
29 Then Peter and the other apostles
answered and said, We ought to obey God rather than men.
30 The God of our fathers raised up Jesus, whom ye slew and hanged on a tree.
31 Him hath God exalted with his
right hand to be a Prince and a Savior, for to give repentance to Israel, and
forgiveness of sins.
Acts10:
39 And we are witnesses of all things
which he did both in the land of the Jews, and in Jerusalem; whom they slew and
hanged on a tree:
40 Him [Jesus] God raised up
the third day, and showed him openly;
41 Not to all the people, but unto
witnesses chosen before of God, even to us, who did eat and drink with him after
he rose from the dead.
42 And he commanded us to preach unto
the people, and to testify that it is he which was ordained of God to be the
Judge of quick and dead.
Acts 13:
29 And when they had fulfilled all that was written of him, they took him down from
the tree, and laid him in a sepulcher.
30 But God raised him from the
dead:
31 And he was seen many days of them
which came up with him from Galilee to Jerusalem, who are his witnesses unto the
people.
32 And we declare unto you glad
tidings, how that the promise which was made unto the fathers,
33 God hath fulfilled the same unto
us their children, in that he hath raised up Jesus again; as it is also
written in the second psalm,
(Psalms 2:7) Thou art my
Son, this day have I begotten thee.
Acts 13:
34 And as concerning that he
raised him up from the dead, now no more to return to corruption, he said on
this wise, I will give you the sure mercies of David.
35 Wherefore he saith also in another
psalm, (Psa 16:10) Thou shalt not suffer thine Holy One to see corruption.
36 For David, after he had served his
own generation by the will of God, fell on sleep, and was laid unto his fathers,
and saw corruption:
37 But he,[Jesus] whom God raised
again, saw no corruption.
38 Be it known unto you therefore,
men and brethren, that through this man is preached unto you the forgiveness of
sins:
Acts 17:
31 Because he [God] hath appointed a day, in the which he will judge the world in
righteousness by that man whom he hath ordained; whereof he hath given assurance
unto all men, in that he hath raised him from the dead.
Romans 4:
24 But for us also, to whom it shall be imputed, if we believe on him that
raised up Jesus our Lord from the dead;
Romans 6:
3 Know ye not, that so many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ were baptized
into his death?
4 Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death: that like as Christ
was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we
also should walk in newness of life.
5 For if we have been planted together in the likeness of his death, we shall be
also in the likeness of his resurrection:
Unleavened Bread pictures coming
out of sin.
Romans 7:
5 For when we were in the flesh, the motions of sins, which were by the law, did
work in our members to bring forth fruit unto death.
Romans 8:
11 But if the Spirit of Him [God] that raised up Jesus from the dead dwell
in you, he that raised up Christ from the dead shall also quicken your
mortal bodies by his Spirit that dwells in you.
Romans 10:
9 That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in
thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved.
1 Corinthians 6:
14 And God hath both raised up the Lord, and will also raise up us by his
own power.
1 Corinthians 15:
14 And if Christ be not risen, then is our preaching vain, and your faith is also
vain.
15 Yea, and we are found false witnesses of God; because we have testified of God that he raised up Christ: whom he raised not up, if so be that the dead
rise not.
16 For if the dead rise not, then is not Christ raised:
17 And if Christ be not raised,
your faith is vain; ye are yet in your sins.
18 Then they also which are fallen asleep in Christ are perished.
19 If in this life only we have hope in Christ, we are of all men most miserable.
20 But now is Christ risen from the dead, and become the firstfruits of them that
slept.
It is Only God who is able to give
life.
2 Corinthians 1:
9 But we had the sentence of death
in ourselves, that we should not trust in ourselves, but in God which raiseth
the dead:
Hebrews 11:
19 Accounting that God was able to raise him [ Isaac] up, even from the dead; from
whence also he received him in a figure.
2 Corinthians 4:
8 We are troubled on every side, yet not distressed; we are perplexed, but not in
despair;
9 Persecuted, but not forsaken; cast down, but not destroyed;
10 Always bearing about in the body the dying of the Lord Jesus, that the life also
of Jesus might be made manifest in our body.
11 For we which live are always delivered unto death for Jesus' sake, that the life
also of Jesus might be made manifest in our mortal flesh.
12 So then death worketh in us, but life in you.
13 We having the same spirit of faith, according as it is written, I believed, and
therefore have I spoken; we also believe, and therefore speak;
14 Knowing that he which raised up the Lord Jesus shall raise up us also by
Jesus, and shall present us with you.
15 For all things are for your sakes, that the abundant grace might through the
thanksgiving of many redound to the glory of God.
16 For which cause we faint not; but though our outward man perish, yet the inward
man is renewed day by day.
17 For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, worketh for us a far more
exceeding and eternal weight of glory;
18 While we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not
seen: for the things which are seen are temporal; but the things which are not
seen are eternal.
2 Corinthians 13:
4 For though he was crucified through weakness, yet he liveth by the power of
God. For we also are weak in him, but we shall live with him by the power of
God toward you.
Galatians 1:
1 Paul, an apostle, (not of men,
neither by man, but by Jesus Christ, and God the Father, who raised him from
the dead;)
Ephesians 2:
4 But God, who is rich in mercy, for his great love wherewith he loved us,
5 Even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us together with Christ, by
(grace ye are saved;)
6 And [God] hath raised us up together,[Jesus and us] and made us sit
together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus:
7 That in the ages to come he might show the exceeding riches of his grace in his
kindness toward us through Christ Jesus.
Philippians 2:
6 Who, being in the form of God,
thought it not robbery to be equal with God:
7 But made himself of no reputation, and took upon him the form of a servant, and
was made in the likeness of men:
8 And being found in fashion as a
man, he humbled himself, and became obedient unto death, even the death of the
cross.
9 Wherefore God also hath highly
exalted him, and given him a name which is above every name:
Colossians 2:
12 Buried with him in baptism,
wherein also ye are risen with him through the faith of the operation of God,
who hath raised him from the dead.
13 And you, being dead in your sins
and the uncircumcision of your flesh, hath he quickened together with him,
having forgiven you all trespasses.
1 Thessalonians 1:
9 For they themselves show of us what manner of entering in we had unto you, and
how ye turned to God from idols to serve the living and true God;
10 And to wait for his Son from
heaven, whom he raised from the dead, even Jesus, which delivered us from
the wrath to come.
Unleavened Bread pictures coming
out of sin.
1 Peter 1:
3 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, which according to his
abundant mercy hath begotten us again unto a lively hope by the resurrection
of Jesus Christ from the dead,
1 Peter 1:
19 But with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish [no sin] and
without spot:
20 Who verily was foreordained before the foundation of the world, but was manifest
in these last times for you,
21 Who by him do believe in God, that raised him [Jesus] up from the dead,
and gave him glory; that your faith and hope might be in God.
22 Seeing ye have purified your souls in obeying the truth through the Spirit unto
unfeigned love of the brethren, see that ye love one another with a pure heart
fervently:
24 Who his own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree, that we, being dead
to sins, should live unto righteousness: by whose stripes ye were healed.
Hebrews 5:
6 As he saith also in another place, Thou art a priest forever after the order of
Melchizedek.
7 Who in the days of his flesh, when he had offered up prayers and supplications
with strong crying and tears unto him that was able to save him from death,
and was heard in that he feared;
Hebrews 13:
20 Now the God of peace, that brought again from the dead our Lord Jesus,
that great shepherd of the sheep, through the blood of the everlasting covenant,
21 Make you perfect in every good work to do his will, working in you that which is
wellpleasing in his sight, through Jesus Christ; to whom be glory forever and
ever. Amen.
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