Death.
The many traditions that have grown up around this time of the year are associated with New Life, flowers, bunnies and eggs. Life is indeed the outcome, but it was of death first and these symbols have nothing much to do with the reality of these middle-eastern events.
Jesus had to die on the tree of cursing, so that His death as the Passover Lamb all who believed in Him would come to a knowledge of Salvation and enter into relationship with God once more through the final atonement.
2 Corinthians 6:2, Isaiah 49:8, Matthew 26:26-28, Acts 2:23, 1 Corinthians 5:8, Hebrews 3:15.
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