The Meaning of Easter

And as many miracles as they [i.e. the apostles] had witnessed, as many people they had seen rise from the dead with the touch of the man Jesus, they still found it hard that he, whom they had seen upon the cross, could bring himself back. But he did. And he appeared to them. And you all know the rest of that.

There is more to it, but the point is, Beloveds, that all of this was done to keep your attention, to hold you to the great truth that you are forever and this physical life you lead is only a mere shadow existence. It is a limitation that you have poured your limitless self into and pretend you are a victim thereof. And that was the whole purpose of why Jesus came.

…Now the early church fathers, having been taught in the old ways of how to run an organization, decided that they didn’t know or understand any of this stuff. So they brought it down into the old pagan ideas of a sacrifice in order to appease an angry God and that is where you get the idea that Jesus died for your sins.

Beloveds, you are so loved by God and so care for that there is no possibility that this God of love could ever inflict upon any living thing unbearable pain. There is nothing in that God that would bring you sorrow or limitation or judgment or condemnation or anything. For the God that is in you is pure love, unspeakable joy, a foreverness.

This that the man Jesus came to do was not to make him something to be worshiped. He never meant for you to worship him. He meant for you to follow his example and to lift yourselves out of the limitations that you have created and into the freedom that you are. That was the whole purpose behind it and nothing more.

You are life. And he came to demonstrate that life cannot be withheld from anything, including a physical form, if you so desire. And that is what he came to teach you and that is the lesson to be learned.

Love! Know you how you often walk the second mile with people you love? Know you how, when you know a little more or are a little wiser than they are, and you watch them make foolish mistakes, you shake your head, and you think, ‘When will they learn?’ But you go back, and you offer a helping hand, do you not? You love them past their errors.

So it was with the man Jesus. He came to love you past all your mistakes. He turned around and he walked back, and he said, ‘Here, let me take your hand. Let me show you how. This is what you do.’ He literally did it and that’s the meaning of Easter.”

04/22/2025 Blog. Archangel Gabriel, THE EASTER STORY, Pgs. 25-27. Copyright 2016 Sacred Garden Fellowship. All rights reserved. To purchase this booklet, please contact: sherry@sacredgardenfellowship.