Most important day in Christian year

The Resurrection of Christ (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

What is the most important day in the Christian year? 
Ask the average person in the United States and chances are you will hear

Christmas.

But in the early centuries of the church, first they remembered the Last Supper and the gathering for the remembrance of the exodus out of Egypt. In later years several Christians started to put the accent on the day of the resurrection, finding that more important than the Egyptian exodus.

Some may think that

From its earliest days, the church annually celebrated the anniversary of Jesus' resurrection, often calling the holiday the Christian Passover. (The Greek name for Passover was Pasch, so Easter is sometimes called Paschal; Easter is an English word... Read More

but that was not at all the case. Eostre feast or Easter was the pagan Spring festival, very popular in the West of Israel, and the Roman Empire.

The real followers of rabbi Jeshua, very well knew that God had ordered to yearly remember the exodus of God's people out of Egypt. They kept to the same Jewish remembrance day as the Jews, for years, until there came division by those who agreed to go with the Roman requirement to integrate the Roman pagan gods in their religion, starting the trinitarian Catholic Church.

Though not all members of "the Way", like the Jewish sect was often called, agreed to accept that human doctrine of a three-headed god and to let their holy days to coincide with the Greek-Roman pagan festivals. The true Christians kept celebrating the by God given holidays, which where the Jewish religious holidays and festivals.

Today nothing should be different. We too should celebrate those special or set apart (holy) days which where ordered by God for man to remember or to keep special in their heart.
as such the 14th to 22th Nisan should be a special time, where on the 14th of Nisan we take more time to remember what Christ Jesus has done for mankind.

Coming April the 10th it shall be that special remembrance day when real Christians come together to think about the Gift which is given to mankind., the Grace of Salvation, which is given for free, but which each individual has to accept and take the responsibility for himself or herself concerning the faith in Jesus, the Way to God.

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Please read also

1. 1691 years ago on June the 20th in 325
2. Altered to fit a Trinity
3. Who Celebrates Easter as Religious Holiday
4. High Holidays not only for Israel
5. Eostre, Easter, White god, chocolate eggs, Easter bunnies and metaphorical resurrection
6. 14-15 Nisan and Easter
7. Seven days of Passover
8. Peter Cottontail and a Bunny laying Eastereggs
9. Fraternal week-end at Easter in Paris
10. Risen With Him

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Additional reading

1. Spring playing hide and seek
2. Family happiness and little things we do
3. Christian values, traditions, real or false stories, pure and upright belief
4. Looking for answers on the question Is there a God #2 Pantheon of gods and celebrations
5. Who Gets to Say What the Bible Says?
6. Being Religious and Spiritual 8 Spiritual, Mystic and not or well religious
7. Necessity of a revelation of creation 2 Organisation of a system of things
8. Holidays, holy days and traditions
9. Seven Bible Feasts of JHWH
10. Easter holiday, fun and rejoicing
11. Entrance of a king to question our position #1 Coming in the Name of the Lord
12. Entrance of a king to question our position #2 Who do we want to see and to be
13. A Messiah to die
14. Not bounded by labels but liberated in Christ
15. The Weekend that changed the world
16. Pesach and a lot of brokenness in the world
17. 14 Nisan a day to remember #4 A Lamb slain
18. Welcome to Easter 2014
19. Easter: Origins in a pagan Christ
20. Exodus 9: Liar Liar
21. Hanukkahgiving or Thanksgivvukah
22. Irminsul, dies natalis solis invicti, birthday of light, Christmas and Saturnalia
23. Christmas in Ancient Rome (AKA Saturnalia)
24. Different approach in organisation of services #1
25. Why we do not keep to a Sabbath or a Sunday or Lord’s Day #3 Days to be kept holy or set apart
26. For ever changed by spiritual experience
27. White Privilege Conference (WPC) wanting to keep the press out for obvious reasons

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Evil in this world not bringing us down

 

Whilst evil threatens to overcome the world let us look for the Good and follow the Way.
We have been given God's Word to make us stronger and to be able to resit to evil.

By the Word of God we are given hope in which we can rejoice. By the message of the Holy Scriptures we can “rejoice in hope of the glory of God” Romans 5:2– and may this sustain us in “our sufferings”.

We may look ahead to Paul’s wonderful point in chapter 8,

 “the sufferings of this present time are not worth comparing with the glory that is to be revealed to us” (verse 18).

May we, by God's grace, be a part of his kingdom age.

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Not all christians are followers of a Greco-Roman culture

On Fossilized customs some Messianic Christians take all the Christians to be followers of a Greco-Roman culture of names, terms, and festivals, all adopted intact from Pagan sources, yet adapted or mixed carefully with ideas and people from the Hebrew Scriptures.

 We do agree that the majority of Christendom has gone far away from the teachings of Jeshua or Yahush(u)a, the Nazarene who is know better known as Christ Jesus, and of his Jewish beliefs and the first apostles their beliefs. There are even Christians who do not want to recognise that Jesus was a Jew.

 Though at first the Jesus movement was a restricted Jewish cult. After the death and resurrection of Christ on Pentecost many new Jews entered the community. Later were there discussions about non-Jews wanting to join the community, if they had to become Jews and have to be circumcised or not. The apostles tried to keep to the teachings of their master rabbi Jeshua (Jesus), but soon other teachers mixed the teachings of the 'new hype' with traditional teachings of other groups or philosophies. It became so bad the apostles warned their community to be careful for the false teachers. Like any new movement it had real followers and copycats.

The Natsarim were identified as the original followers of Yahusha or Jeshua at Acts 24:5, and with all those who wanted to join the Christ movement 'The Way', were persecuted, despised, and suppressed by the early Christian "church fathers", who were quite different.

 Soon there were people who did find some interesting things in those teachings, but did not like to loose the popularity of the folks. So to keep it interesting and agreeable for everyone they did not want to go against the attitudes and traditions of the people they did want to win for them. Therefore those teachers mixed together practices and beliefs of other systems and not to go against the men in power took on lots of heathen Roman and Greek teachings. They created a system of syncretism. These heresies began through the teachings of Simon Magus, and eventually became the institution known as Roman Catholicism.

Holy Trinity by Fridolin Leiber (1853–1912) (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

With Constantine the Holy Trinity was the solution for many teachers to be able to assure their power and to create their own rich empires of a so called Christian belief. The balance of power brought several schisms, like the Eastern Orthodox Catholicism, and later the Reformation in the 16th century further fragmented the movement; but much error remained from the adherence to the early "church fathers" and their writings.

 These "church fathers" persecuted and despised the first followers of Jeshua or Yahusha, the Natsarim or the sect which was called 'The Way'. They considered the Natsarim or real followers of Christ "heretics" because they obeyed the Torah.

Throughout the ages Natsarin continued their teachings and where the witnesses came new members found truth in the Torah teachings.Disciples from the talmidim educated new teachers who continued to go out in the world to proclaim the Good News. More and more people became baptised by the different 'Christian' groups. Though the trinitarians won ground and conquered many regions, small communities tried to keep the proper teachings of the apostles clean.

When bookprinting brought the possibility to bring the Holy Scriptures in the language of the people to many, several Christians their eyes became opened when they saw what was written in those Holy books and what the Church had told them what was in Scriptures. The Church could not hide the truth any more and more people became to see and understand what was really written in the Sacred Books.

All through Europe small communities of people studying the Bible made that many movements came into existence which had their first priority to follow the teachings of the Word of God, the Holy Bible and not any more the teachings of a indoctrinating Church.

Many believers became aware what was the importance of been properly baptised and formed in the tradition of the first century Christians. Anabaptists and Baptists who worshipped only One God tried to get more people to the Word of God by witnessing all over the world. But also the Baptist movement got burdened by the American Baptist Church Unions who wanted the Trinitarian teaching their main belief. In the 80ies and 90ies of the previous century many Baptists did not want to adhere the trinitarian teachings and looked for refuge by other non-trinitarian denominations.

One of the many small groups, may be a very tiny denomination, but that does not mean they are afraid to be lost in oblivion. As brethren and sisters in Christ they keep following the teachings of the Master Rabbi Jeshua, and take the Word of God as the most important teacher of all. For them every answer can be found in the Holy Scripture and it is God who pulls people into His World. Under the guidance of the teachings of Christ and in the faith that God accepted the ransom of this Nazarene man, the Christadelphians love Jesus, love their family and love their neighbours, believing or not believing people, respecting them as part of God His Creation.

Having celebrated the death of Christ, those brethren in Christ want to share with others the Good News of the Kingdom of God and look forward with other people all over the world to the return of the resurrected son of God.

In case you want to know more of those very small communities, which can be found all over the world, and who not want to commit themselves to human traditions, but prefer to live according to the Law of God, you are welcome to contact them in your region, or if you do not know where to find them, you may contact us so that we can bring you in contact with a Christadelphian community nearby.

We advise you to take up the Bible and read the words of it like they come to you, stripped from all the denominational and doctrinal teachings, remembering that God wanted everybody to hear and understand His Word. He did not create a difficult Zigzaw puzzle too difficult for uneducated people to decipher. No Gods Word is simple and can be understood by every one, when they are willing to open their ears and eyes.

Dare to start the quest and find others who are wiling to study the Bible with you.

We are here to help you if you want.
Good luck.

In a Christadelphian community you may perhaps not find loads of people, no mega churches, no exuberant pop-songs or loud sounding modern music and pin-up girls dancing around.
In the small communities you might find loving people who are concerned about others and who are prepared to jump in for somebody else. The good works we do are not installed in media adverts or made known with a loud voice. The actions we undertake do not instantly produce large crowds, but the effect we might hope, shall lasts longer and in the end there will be coming more people. But naturally everything begins small. We are like a mustard seed, which you are able to plant in your own garden.

In our churches you probably would not see many miracles happening. But you might hear particular stories  and also hear about miracles. Miracles done all the time lose their drawing power. Do know that love done all the time increases its drawing power.

We do hope you shall come to find out that the Brethren in Christ, or Christadelphians are people who do love the truth of the Bible and feel blessed by the blessing of God which they want to share with others in love. The Christadelphian community is not concerned about figures, quantity, and  the ego, but about quality and care about others.

Please do find also to read:

1. Bible Word of God, inspired and infallible
2. Fear of God reason to return to Holy Scriptures
3. Christadelphian People

Read also:

Christadelphians or Messianic Christians or Messianic Jews

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Angels

ANGELS

“For He shall give His angels charge over thee, to keep thee in all thy way.  Psalm 91: 11

A.             Angels are Yahweh’s messengers that do His will.

At God’s command they protect, save, or kill.

They carry out God’s judgement upon wicked men.

Some have appeared and been seen now and then.

N.              Now salvation in Christ Jesus through God’s Word.

Is much nearer than when we first heard.

Yahweh opened our hearts in Jesus our King.

                  When with joy we were baptized into Him.

G.              God’s angels minister to our needs each day.

As we worship Him, study, preach and pray.

We each have an angel by our side.

Though unseen by us they help and guide.

     

E.              Eternity in paradise on earth is God’s prize.

Seen by our faith and through spiritual eyes.

Jesus the King will receive power and praise.

Adored by angels, and those God will raise.   

  

L.              Look and follow Jesus He is The Way.

He will grant us eternity on judgement day.

Remain in God’s love, your future is sure.

Changed & immortal like angels, if we endure.

     S.          Salvation from Yahweh by His son, only Him.

  Because of obedience to Christ Jesus our King.

  Our future transformation from the world we hate.

  Ministering angels will protect us as we wait.

“And to you who are troubled rest with us, when The Lord Jesus shall be revealed

from heaven with His mighty angels.” 2 Thessalonian 1: 7

 

Bro. D Pickering  (1997)

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