The Holiest Day for Christians

 

Christ Crucified, by Michelangelo

Jesus knew what was coming. He knew during Passover's Last Supper who would betray Him, and what would happen during the following day for Him and the man who betrayed Him. He knew the shame coming, the pain, the total desolation, the feeling of abandonment. He also knew what was to come after the cross. He knew about Sunday morning, and endured knowing the joy that was to be His:

Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God. (Hebrews 12:2 KJV)

Which for me, remembering the resurrection, makes Easter the most Holy day in Christiandom. Christmas began the physical life of the man who would spend thirty-three years here, the crucifixion was as He said, the finish, but the resurrection was the proof Jesus' own words:

I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob? God is not the God of the dead, but of the living. (Matthew 22:32 KJV)

There are too many people that do not see the resurrection as reality - they believe the stories of Jesus' death are valid, but not the facts displayed by the disciples over the next forty days:

The former treatise have I made, O Theophilus, of all that Jesus began both to do and teach, Until the day in which he was taken up, after that he through the Holy Ghost had given commandments unto the apostles whom he had chosen: To whom also he shewed 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: (Acts 1:1-3 KJV)

Faith in Jesus' life is necessary for living with Him after ours here:

For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: Not of works, lest any man should boast. For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them. (Ephesians 2:8-10 KJV)

A blood sacrifice had been necessary from the earliest biblical writings, and a blood sacrifice was completed:

And Abraham said, My son, God will provide himself a lamb for a burnt offering: so they went both of them together. (Genesis 22:8 KJV)

For this is my blood of the new testament, which is shed for many for the remission of sins. (Mattthew 26:28)

And he said unto them, This is my blood of the new testament, which is shed for many. (Mark 14:24)

Likewise also the cup after supper, saying, This cup is the new testament in my blood, which is shed for you. (Luke 22:20)

Now that we know the sequence of events, and we've studied the Bible, commentaries, postings such as this, we all have made a decision. As a teen I publicly told a congregation that I believe the Bible's history of Judiasm and Christianity. I know of the Law, and the fulfillment of the Law in Christ. Most people do - a large number of those have neglected to give their views on salvation. Yet the Spirit inspired a better question that I can:

How shall we escape, if we neglect so great salvation; 

which at the first began to be spoken by the Lord, and 

was confirmed unto us by them that heard him; 

God also bearing them witness, 

both with signs and wonders, and with divers miracles, and gifts of the Holy Ghost, according to his own will? (Hebrews 2:3-4 KJV)

Yes - all of the above scriptures were taken from different books of the Bible. Dear Reader, you cannot know whether they were taken out of context, or that they fit across chapters and books to tell a wonderous story, until you learn more and more about God, the inspiration for all the scriptures.

From Genesis through Revelation, the Bible has a single theme - God exists and has a plan for mankind that is eternal. Come, read, question, learn, and do not escape by neglecting so great salvation.

It is part of the Good News, the gospel that Jesus preached:

And Jesus went about all Galilee, teaching in their synagogues, and preaching the gospel of the kingdom, and healing all manner of sickness and all manner of disease among the people. (Matthew 4:23 KJV)

The Greek word translated as "gospel" by Strong's is G2098:

εὐαγγέλιον

euaggelion (yoo-ang-ghel'-ee-on)

From the same as G2097; a good message, that is, the gospel: - gospel.

 G2097 is:

εὐαγγελίζω
euaggelizō (yoo-ang-ghel-id'-zo)
From G2095 and G32; to announce good news (“evangelize”) especially the gospel: - declare, bring (declare, show) glad (good) tidings, preach (the gospel).

I'll leave it up to you to look further into G2095 and G32. However, I caution those who disparage evangelism or evangelists. Jesus was one sharing the good news, just as the angels at His birth and at the empty tomb following the resurrection. Basically, it's what I do here, too - sharing the news that Jesus is Christ, the Messiah for whom Jews awaited through Old Testament prophecies, confirmed when in the Synagogue Jesus said:

And there was delivered unto him the book of the prophet Esaias. And when he had opened the book, he found the place where it was written, The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he hath anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor; he hath sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised, To preach the acceptable year of the Lord. And he closed the book, and he gave it again to the minister, and sat down. And the eyes of all them that were in the synagogue were fastened on him. And he began to say unto them, This day is this scripture fulfilled in your ears. (Luke 4:17-21 KJV)