Easter celebrates the Lord's resurrection from death. Jesus demonstrated that life does not end with physical death. He was crucified on the third day following his physical death on the cross. Easter literally means 'passover'. The Jews celebrated passover in remembrance of when God let the angel of death harvest those without a mark of blood on their doors. Jesus also spares those washed in His blood, from spiritual death. People are born in spiritual death and remain in death without the atoning sacrifice of Jesus. When the dead are resurrected, being called by the Lord, they overcome physical death as well.
16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.
