Does the bible teach us to observe bunnies, eggs, and sunrise service or does it teach something else?
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Where is Easter in the Bible?
Does the bible teach us to observe bunnies, eggs, and sunrise service or does it teach something else?
Since Tuesday, April 4th week, our assembly and hundreds of thousands of other believers observed the death and resurrection of Yeshua, Jesus, the Messiah differently that almost all Christians on the planet. On Tuesday evening, we washed each other’s feet. On Wednesday evening we observed Passover and Yeshua’s crucifixion. On Thursday we observed a holiday known as the First Day of Unleavened Bread. On Saturday we observed the Sabbath, which would have been the last day Yeshua was in the tomb. For most Christians, this pattern is completely foreign. But when we look at what the New Testament says, this is how we are supposed to observe. Yeshua told us explicitly to wash each other’s feet and have bread and wine on a very specific night, the night He was betrayed. Paul repeats this command in 1 Corinthians 11. Paul wrote to the Corinthians perhaps 20 years after Yeshua’s betrayal, showing this practice had been taught to that gentile congregation and was well established.
But how did we get here? How did we get to a theological place where we have parted ways with traditional Christianity and have adopted this biblical, yet very different practice than the rest of the Christian world? We started asking questions. Question like: Where is Easter in the Bible? What do bunnies have to do with the death and resurrection of the Messiah? What to died eggs have to do with the death and resurrection of the Messiah? What does searching for died eggs have to do with the Messiah? Why are we emphasizing sunrise on Sunday instead of the Night He was Betrayed, like Paul writes? Why are we eating ham in honor of the Jewish Messiah?
When you love God and His Son, how you worship them matters. If you love someone, won’t you want to do what they want you to do? When your kids obey you, isn’t that them showing their faith and belief in you? Of course it is. The way we got here was to take a very basic, child like approach to the faith once delivered. How does God want to be worshiped and am I doing that? Am I doing what my Father in heaven wants me to do to honor Him? These are the first four of the ten commandments. You have no other God before Him, you have no idols, you don’t take the name of Yahweh in vain, and you keep the Sabbath. This is how He introduced Himself to the mixed multitude at Mt. Sinai and He does not change. Those of us who have made the switch to worshiping the way Yahweh tells us in the scriptures took this approach. We put the practices of mainstream Christianity to the test. We searched the scriptures to see if they were true. And they failed the test. While we were searching, we found there actually are ways that Yahweh wants to be worshiped. And through the shed blood of His resurrected Son, we have been adopted into the family of Yahweh and have decided to worship Him on His terms, just as Yeshua did to the point of death.