Second Coming of Jesus Christ on Easter Sunday?
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Interesting Question:
The actual introduction of Easter-Sunday appears to have occurred somewhere around AD 132-135 in Palestine after Emperor Hadrian ruthlessly crushed the Barkokeba revolt.
Virtually all Christian sects today celebrate Easter-Sunday, BUT this was not always the case. In fact, virtually all Christians celebrated the Passover. Although most who profess Christianity now celebrate it, Easter-Sunday was not observed by the second century Christians in Asia Minor. They observed Passover.
In fact Easter Sunday itself was not an annual tradition until made so at the Council of Nicea (325). It was then ruled that Easter Sunday would be celebrated on the Sunday immediately following that full moon which came after the vernal equinox. At the same time the Council decided that the vernal equinox would be March 21 in the Julian calendar (Eusebius, Vit. Const. 3.18).
No where in scripture however does the Bible mention that the Resurrection is to be celebrated as some type of Holiday. Jesus specifically mentioned that Christians were to observe the Passover as He did (Luke 22:14-20).
In fact many argue today that Easter Sunday itself is simply a remembrance of the Passover.
I do not know of any of the Church Fathers believing they could determine the date Christ would return specifically as to coinciding with Easter Sunday itself.
Interesting Question - putting me to a bit of research
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The earliest reference I find to trying to time the second coming of Christ is from Gregory the Great about 600 CE and it is in regards to Christmas. This period is known as advent and here. It is a four-week preparation time, similar to Lent.
He preached this on the first Sunday.
I. As our adorable Saviour will expect at His coming to find us ready, Hewarns us of the terrors that will accompany the latter days in order to wean us from the love of this world; and He foretells the misery which will be the prelude to this inevitable time, so that, if we neglect in the quietness of this life to fear a God of compassion, the fearful spectacle of the approaching last judgment may impress us with a wholesome dread.
The idea is Christ was born at Christmas and would return at Christmas.
After Gregory the Great the four Sundays before Christmas began to be devoted to the preparation for the coming of our Lord in the flesh and for his second coming to the final judgment. http://www.ccel.org/ccel/schaff/hcc3.iii.x.iv.html
As to Passover mentioned in the Exsultet, it would refer to being set free from bondage. But not particularly to Christ's second coming.
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