Hello, John and
Doves,
This year, 2018, Easter is on the Feast of First Fruits.
16 Nisan 5778 is from twilight Saturday, 31 March 2018, to
Sunday, 1 April 2018.
Regarding this concurrence of dates, it is written,
Christ the Wisdom and Power of God
18 For the word of the cross is folly to those who are
perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of
God. 19 For it is written,
“I will destroy the wisdom of the wise,
and the discernment of the discerning I will thwart.”
20 Where is the one who is wise? Where is the scribe? Where is
the debater of this age? Has not God made foolish the wisdom
of the world? 21 For since, in the wisdom of God, the world
did not know God through wisdom, it pleased God through the
folly of what we preach to save those who believe. 22 For Jews
demand signs and Greeks seek wisdom, 23 but we preach Christ
crucified, a stumbling block to Jews and folly to Gentiles, 24
but to those who are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the
power of God and the wisdom of God. 25 For the foolishness of
God is wiser than men, and the weakness of God is stronger
than men.
26 For consider your calling, brothers: not many of you were
wise according to worldly standards, not many were powerful,
not many were of noble birth. 27 But God chose what is foolish
in the world to shame the wise; God chose what is weak in the
world to shame the strong; 28 God chose what is low and
despised in the world, even things that are not, to bring to
nothing things that are, 29 so that no human being might
boast in the presence of God. 30 And because of him you are in
Christ Jesus, who became to us wisdom from God, righteousness
and sanctification and redemption, 31 so that, as it is
written, “Let the one who boasts, boast in the Lord.”
~Blessings everlasting,
Mike
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