Jesus rose from the dead

A Jewish man lived approximately 2000 years ago, and He was God in a body; God and man.  He was born according to a prophecy: a virgin would conceive and bear a son, and that son would be God, living with and among human kind.  The prophecy was fulfilled.  The man's name was Jesus.  He was the fulfillment of not only the prophecy about a virgin conceiving, but of prophecies that go all the way back to the first man and first woman.

The first man and woman, Adam and Eve, disobeyed God, and as a result were separated from God.  This separation is death, and they brought death to themselves as well as to all of their children, to all of humanity, to you and me.  They did this by listening to a creature instead of the Creator.  Eve listened to an evil spirit speaking through a snake.  Adam listened to Eve.  Neither listened to God, who had commanded them not to eat from one specific tree that He planted in the first garden, the Garden of Eden.  This tree was called "the tree of the knowledge of good and evil."  There was another tree called "the tree of life." They were free to eat from every tree, including the tree of life; there was only one tree forbidden--the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.  They were to trust God, and to express this trust in obedience to His will above their own.  But they distrusted him and trusted in themselves; we inherited their rebellious nature.  But God made a promise, a promise to set them free from the enemy, the evil spirit who had rebelled against God before the rebellion of the first human.  God said, "a son of the woman will crush the head of the snake."  God foretold that one day a man would be born who would destroy the enemy of God and people.

Time passed.  Many were born.  Many nations began.  And a man named Abram was approached by God.  God chose Abram to be the ancestor of the son who would destroy the evil spirit.  Through Abram's descendent all families and nations would be blessed.  God changed Abram's name to Abraham, from "exalted father" to "father of nations," because that is what Abraham would become.  Miraculously, according to God's promise, Abraham had a son, though he was 100 years old, and his barren wife Sarah was 90.  Their son was Isaac.  And Isaac had Jacob and Esau.  And Jacob had 12 sons.  Jacob encountered God, and his name was changed to Israel.  He became the father of the nation of Israel, and his 12 sons became the 12 tribes of Israel.  Judah, one of Jacob's sons, was chosen by God to be the tribe from whom the blessed and promised son would be born.  From Judah, hundreds of years later, came a man named David, who became God's chosen king of Israel.  God promised David that one of his descendants would be the promised son who would save and bless the world.  Hundreds of years passed, and a prophecy came through a prophet named Isaiah, who said a virgin would conceive, as was said earlier.  Jesus was and is the fulfillment of all of these prophecies.

He is the son of the woman who would crush the head of the snake, the evil one.
He is the descendant of Abraham, from the tribe of Judah, from the lineage of David, born of a virgin, born of God, the Son of God.

As it is written, He went around doing good and healing all who were oppressed by the devil, the evil one, the spirit who spoke through a snake in the beginning.  When the time came, Jesus would fulfill His ultimate purpose as the blessing and Savior of the world:

He would die in our place, in every human's place, because every human was born in separation from God, and continued to sin and maintain that separation.  But Jesus died for our sins, for my sins, and for your sins.  He was buried.  And after 3 days, He rose from the dead. He ascended into heaven and is the King and Lord of all things and of everything.

If you, the one reading, will accept who Jesus is and what He did for you, you will become a child of God and live forever, and God's Spirit will live in you, leading you and guiding you, loving you and filling you with love. 

You can accept the Lord Jesus by praying this prayer:

Jesus, I accept you as The Son of God, the Lord of all, that you died in place and rose from the dead.  I accept your Spirit as the Lord and Ruler of my life, from now on.

If you prayed this prayer, let me know in the comments, and we can continue to connect by God's Spirit.