Professing Christians celebrate Easter as a day of worship, often asserting that Jesus instituted a new day of worship when He rose from the grave on what they consider the first Easter Sunday morning. This belief leads them to disregard the command to keep the seventh-day Sabbath. However, Scripture indicates that Jesus rose from the grave after being in the tomb for three days and three nights, totaling 72 hours, as He Himself stated. Traditional arguments that He rose on Sunday morning are contradicted by the timing of events, which show He was crucified on Wednesday and rose as the Sabbath ended, not on Sunday. Furthermore, the notion of Easter sunrise services is unsupported, as Mary Magdalene found the tomb empty early on the first day of the week while it was still dark, and counting back 72 hours from any supposed Sunday dawn points to a Thursday dawn, whereas Scripture explicitly states He was buried at sunset. Thus, Jesus did not rise on Sunday, the day mistakenly called the Lord's day by some, but on the true seventh-day Sabbath, of which He declared Himself Lord.

Tomorrow is Easter, but for us, it is merely the middle day of the Feast of Unleavened Bread. Millions will wake up early, wear their finest and possibly new clothing, and attend Easter sunrise services. Some young girls might wear Easter bonnets. If the weather permits, children will participate in Easter egg hunts or Easter egg rolls. Families will gather, perhaps at grandma's house, for an Easter dinner featuring ham as the main course. The focus will be on Easter candy, Easter clothes, and Easter eggs, with little mention of Jesus, even at the Easter sunrise service. The religious aspects of Easter are diminishing, similar to what has happened with Christmas. Easter is becoming another occasion for sales, particularly of candy, costumes, and clothing, rivaling Halloween and Christmas in merchandise sales. Easter is not mentioned in the Bible as a true biblical holiday. The only supposed reference to Easter in the Bible is in Acts 12, but the Greek word used is "pascha," meaning Passover. The entire eight days of Passover and Unleavened Bread were referred to as Passover at the time. The translators, possibly trying to introduce Easter, used the term instead of the correct Passover and Days of Unleavened Bread. Easter did not gain significant traction in the church until about 75 years after the apostle John's death, primarily in Rome under Bishop Sixtus, who allowed Easter to be observed on Sunday instead of Passover. The Council of Nicea in 325 AD decided to keep Easter on Sunday, rejecting the so-called Jewish Passover. The apostles, however, kept the biblical holy days as commanded in Leviticus 23, planning their travels around these days to preach, with no mention of Easter. In I Corinthians 11 and Luke 22, there are clear commands to observe the Passover in remembrance of Christ's death on Nisan the 14th, with no biblical command to observe the resurrection. Easter originates from paganism and was incorporated into the church to appease pagans and those within the church who embraced pagan practices, with no true Christian basis.

Easter, which supplanted Passover throughout most of Christendom, was chosen by the Roman Church due to an intense prejudice against Jews and the widespread celebration of Easter among pagan cultures. The Roman Church effectively banned the practice of keeping the Passover on Nisan 14 at the Council of Nicea in AD 325, setting rules to calculate the date of Easter for the entire Church. Easter celebrations were syncretized with pagan spring festivals, leading to traditions like the Easter Bunny, dyeing eggs, and giving candy. Easter celebrates the resurrection of Jesus, believed by most professing Christians to have occurred at sunrise on the Sunday morning after His death. However, neither Jesus nor His apostles mention observing or memorializing His resurrection.