Hollywood actress Jen Lilley recently delivered a series of Gospel-themed videos explaining the true meaning of Easter and why she sees transformative power in the biblical narrative.
“Easter means everything to me,” Lilley said in the first video released by TV network Great American Family. “The detail and the great lengths that God the Father went through to adopt me as his child astounds me.”
In her first clip, delivered in honor of Palm Sunday, the actress provided parallels between the Jewish celebration of Passover and Jesus’ sacrifice.
“Easter is actually a celebration of Passover, which is a remembrance of being saved from death and delivered out of slavery out of Egypt,” Lilley said. “And each year for Passover, a family would bring a lamb to be killed.”
Watch her explain:
Lilley noted how these lambs were taken into Jerusalem to be inspected. She said people would wave palm leaves as the lambs were brought into the city.
She then paralleled how Jesus’ story includes a mirrored detail about His own entrance into Jerusalem before His death. Known as the triumphal entry, Scripture proclaims in Matthew 21:1-17, Mark 11:1-11, Luke 19:29-40, and John 12:12-19 that people laid down
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