Comments on The Passover, the Cross and Resurrection of Jesus. By Chuck Stilwell

The early disciples and followers of Jesus recognized him as a man who was born of a virgin (Mary),

but inseminated by the Holy Spirit of God. In recent times the actual place of the three crosses was located with a crack in the ground right below the middle cross. Blood was actually found 20 below the cross having seeped through the crack and onto what could be the actual mercy seat which had been hidden there by Jeremiah right before the Babylonian captivity of the Hebrews of that era.
The exciting part, though not common knowledge, is that since blood never technically looses its properties, the blood on the “mercy seat”, if it truly is the mercy seat of the Hebrew worship, has only the properties of a male, but without the properties necessary to show the male had a human father. I think that is very interesting, since Jesus and others proclaimed though he was human that he came to earth miraculously as God in human form. I wonder if Jesus always knew that !???

Anyway, it does make the account of the last particular Passover meal Jesus had with a select few impactful. He made a covenant with them. He foretold his betrayal, his crucifixion and even his resurrection from the dead. When he defeated death and rose from the grave without the grave clothes, and instead what might be termed clothes from out of this world, at least 500 others were raised from death at the time according to the accounts. Then, amazingly, he wasn’t recognized at first until he broke bread with a few men in Emmaus after he had spoken to them about the scriptures and how they revealed him to anyone who would open their minds and spirits to understand them.
So, my take is this: Jesus came to put things back in order like they were with the first man who had such an amazing paradise in which to live. He paid the penalty once for all mankind that had been pronounced over our first created parents and who were sent out of the garden paradise. No longer were various sacrifices necessary, even though all around the world many cultures still do so, since they have not really met Jesus or his Holy Spirit.

Jesus said that if we would take him at his word and commit ourselves to him in this life, not only would he show us how to live life abundantly, but that his spirit would live in us to help direct our paths in this life. He also put to rest that God was not the one causing harm or calamity. He made it clear that God was not our enemy, but that the enemy many of us call Satan or the Devil only comes to steal, kill and destroy. In the same discourse he declares that he, Jesus, came to give us life and that abundantly.

He further decreed that not only would those who were committed to his new covenant be with him when they pass on from this present life to another eternal one, but that when all things that have been prophesied and been accomplished in the earth, he would bring us back as co-rulers with him in a perfectly newly created earth.

Quite something to think about! Read about it in the New Testament of the Bible as a starting place.
Happy Resurrection Day!