He is Risen!

As we enter into Good Friday and the Easter weekend, let us be thankful that God loved us enough to send His Son, Jesus Christ of Nazareth to be sacrificed for our individual sin, as well as the sins of all mankind. The rejoicing and grateful celebrations on Easter morning most certainly out weighed the sorrow of the crucifixion as Christs' disciples realized he had indeed risen. " On the first day of the week, very early in the morning, the women took the spices they had prepared and went to the tomb. They found the stone rolled away from the tomb, but when they entered, they did not find the body of the Lord Jesus. While they were wondering about this, suddenly two men in clothes that gleamed like lightning stood beside them. In their fright the women bowed down with their faces to the ground, but the men said to them, "Why do you look for the living among the dead? He is not here; He has risen! Remember how He told you, while He was still with you in Galilee: 'The Son of Man must be delivered into the hands of sinful men, be crucified and on the third day be raised again.' "
Luke 24:1-7.  Our world needs so much help. Praise God for the One He sent!!!!
 Our deliverer Jesus Christ of Nazareth!!!

Blessed Is He Who Comes In The Name Of The Lord!

  

   Most of us don't know when we're going to die, barring those tortured souls who commit suicide. If we did,
odds are, we would do all we could to prevent it. Jesus not only knew He was days away from being crucified as He entered Jerusalem, but allowed the crowd of followers to put Him upon a donkey and parade Him into town throwing palm branches and cloaks in the path in His honor!

   " When He came near the place where the road goes down the Mount of Olives, the whole crowd of disciples

began joyfully praising God in loud voices for all the miracles they had seen: 'Blessed is He who comes in the name of the Lord! Peace in Heaven and glory in the highest! Some of the Pharisees in the crowd said to Jesus, Teacher, rebuke your disciples! I tell you, He replied, if they keep quiet, the stones will cry out.' "

 Luke 19: 37-40.

    As we celebrate Palm Sunday, let us contemplate on the courage Christ had to go directly into the face of His tremendous suffering that was to come later that week. and, to think He did it all for you and I!

   "For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believes in Him shall not perish but have everlasting Life." John 3:16.

Significant Archeological Find For Chritianity!

The news recently about the un-earthing of 70 small metal books purportedly originally from Jordan, is being described as possibly as important to Christianity as the discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls! Some are saying this may be the sealed book referred to in Revelations 5, which Christ alone is worthy to open. "And one of the elders said unto me, Weep not: behold, the Lion of the tribe of Judah, the Root of David, has prevailed to open the book, and to loose the seven seals thereof." Revelations 5:5. Now do all of these booklets comprise separate chapters of 1 volume, or is one of these 70 booklets 'the' book itself?
The number seventy is significant in that it is the number of years the Israelites were held in captivity in Babylon.
At any rate as a believer in Jesus Christ, it is important that a find like this points towards what we already know is the truth, but it isn't necessary to our faith that these books be proven out as Christian. It will be interesting to see what further research yields on this!