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THE RESURRECTIO.
BY Rev. SAMUEL HEIECKE
Luke, 20th chapter, 37th and 38th verses.
Why does Easter occur 11 different days in different
years? — Easter is the day on which the Christian church
commemorates our Saviour's resurrection. It is a word of
Saxon origin, and imports a goddess of the East. This
goddess was Astarte, in honor of whom sacrifices were
annually offered about the passover time of the year —
the spring ; and hence the Saxon name Easter became
attached, by association of ideas, to the Christian festival
of the Resurrection.
ow, that the dead are raised, even Moses showed at
the bush, when he called the Lord, the God of Abraham,
of Isaac, and of Jacob, ''For he is not the God of the
dead, but of the living, for all live unto him."
First. We will inquire when Moses was at the bush ?
Second. What is implied by reference to the bush?
Third. When did Abraham live? 1948 years from
A. M.
Fourth. When did Isaac live ? 100 vears A. M. from
Abraham.
Fifth. When did Jacob live ? 60 years A. M. from
Isaac, showing thereby that the prophets had foretold the
sufferings, and death, and resurrection of Christ.
First, then, when was Moses at the bush ? Moses was
the son of Amram and Jochebed, Hebrews, in bondage
under King Pharaoh, who ordered all children to be de-
stroyed. The parents of this child made an ark of bul-
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rushes, near Egypt, and put him in it, in order to pre-
serve his life. Pharaoh's daughter, with her maidens, went
to bathe, and saw this little ark. And she said to one of
her maidens, *' Fetch it to me, that I may see what it is."
It was brought, and opened ; and lo, and behold ! a beau-
tiful child was therein ; and it wept. And the sympathies
of the king's daughter were moved. She said, ''This is
one of the Hebrew children ; I will take it and adopt it
for my son. ow the little sister Miriam was near among
the flags, and knowing that the king's daughter would not
be troubled to raise the child herself, but would need a
nurse, she ran, and inquires, ''Do you want a nurse?"
Pharaoh's daughter said, "Yes, go get me a nurse." And
the little girl ran home, almost out of breath, saying,
" Mother, mother, go get the little brother, for Pharaoh's
daughter said she will raise him, and adopt him for her
son, and wants a nurse. So, the mother went, and Pha-
raoh's daughter bargained with her to raise him to a cer-
tain age, and return him, and she would pay her the
wages. (Exodus, 2d chapter, 4th to 7th verse inclusive.)
So the mother brought him up, and returned him, and re-
ceived her wages (A. D. 2433, A. M.) Moses was now
educated in all the wisdom of the Egyptians (Acts, 7th
chapter, 29th verse), until he was 40 years old (Hebrews,
nth chapter, 24th verse), when he refused to'^be called
the son of Pharaoh's daughter. He now went to live with
Jethro, the priest, in the land of Midian. Here he learned
of all the acts and doings of his own Hebrew brethren
for 40 years more (Acts, 7th chapter.)
And now, at the age of 80 years (2513 years, A. M.),
we are brought to the second inquiry in regard to the bush
God appeared to Moses in — a bush all on fire, and still
the bush did not consume. He told Moses that he should
be the deliverer of his people out of bondage literally.
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258 SERMOS.
God had made provisions to save all mankind spiritually ;
" For God so loved the world, that he gave his only be-
gotten, his well-beloved Son, that whosoever believed in
his coming, his sufferings, his resurrection, need not per-
ish, but have eternal life." ow, by the command of
God, Moses delivered the Hebrews through the Red Sea,
and led them in the wilderness yet 40 years more, making
in all 120 years to the end of his life.
Then these people were governed by judges 390 years
making 430 years. First, King Saul reigned 40 years ;
then King David reigned 40 years ; then Solom.on reigned
40 years. Then the prophetic age was ushered in — Isaiah,
180 years; Jeremiah, 131 years; Lamentations, 41 years;
Ezekiel, 14 years; Daniel, 40 years ; Zechariah, 16 years;
Malachi, 122 years — to Christ, 397 ; in all, 4004 years.
Christ now grew up in favor with God and man, and at
the age of 30 years he came to John the Baptist, to be
initiated into the office of prophet, priest, and king, for
these three offices he came to fulfill. This was the mode,
according to the Jewish law. He now preached his own
everlasting gospel, and gave the most undeniable proof of
his divinity by the greatest miracles ever wrought, such
as opening the eyes of the blind, unstopping the ears of
the deaf, curing palsy, leprosies, fevers, and raising the
dead. But the Jews, descendants of Judah, denied him.
They said he blasphemed, calling himself God, when he
was only a man. They tried him, condemned him, nailed
him upon a cross, and hung him between heaven and
earth. They spit upon him, they mocked him, they
pierced him in his side. He hung three hours in day-
light. The sight was so awful that the sun refused to
shine, and darkness covered the face of nature. The earth
shook from its centre to its circumference. He hung three
more hours in darkness, and then cried, " It is finished ;"
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the plan of salvation is completed, for which I agreed to
suffer and die nearly 4,000 years ago. He gave up the
Ghost ; Joseph, of Arimathea, and icodemus took down
the body, embalmed it, and laid it in a new sepulchre ;
and the king set a guard of sixty mxen round it to secure it.
But on the morning of the third day he rose, and was seen
by Mary ; then by two on their way to Emmaus ; then by
the twelve disciples. (Luke 24th chapter. ) He was among
and with them yet forty days. He instructed them to go
to Jerusalem on the day of the Feast of Tabernacles. He
then took about 500 brethren out upon a mountain, and
ascended up into heaven in their presence. They went to
Jerusalem as he directed, and while they were all of one
mind — according to promise — the Holy Ghost fell on
them, as with cloven tongues of fire, and sat on every
believer. And they spake as with other tongues. There
had been sixteen different languages at this time « they now
understood one another, and praised God with one voice.
And the multitude ran together, and were confounded,
and some said one thing, and some another. Some
thought they were drunk with new wine. But Peter stood
up among them, saying, ''These are not drunk with new
wine, as ye suppose ; but this is that which the prophet
Joel spoke of, that in the last .days the old men shall dream
dreams, and the young men shall see visions." And
Peter now charged home upon those wicked Jews who
crucified the Lord of life and glory, and put him to an
open shame. And while Peter was preaching, they cried
out, ''Men and brethren, what shall we do? We are
verily guilty." And Peter exhorted them to believe on
the Lord Jesus Christ, that they might be saved ; and
three thousand were converted, baptized and added to the
church. Soon after five thousand more believed. (Acts,
4th chapter.)
26o SERMOS.
So we fully establish the resurrection of Christ, and by
it the resurrection of all mankind at the last day ; for the
dead shall rise, both great and small, and appear before
the bar of God, to account for the deeds done in the body,
whether they be good or bad. May God assist us to live
aright, that when we have finished our course, we may live
with him in heaven with saints in the good world, where
we may honor and adore him forever and ever. Amen.
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