What is the Real Meaning of
Easter?

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It's easy enough to prove that Jesus was made the Christ in the past. Peter explains it in Acts chapter 2. After the Apostles spoke to a large audience of people "from every nation under heaven" (Acts 2:5) in all their various foreign languages, Peter explained that this was a fulfillment of an Old Testament prophecy. He further explains how Jesus had already fulfilled the Davidic prophecies about the enthroning of the Messiah:

Acts 2 14 But Peter, standing up with the eleven, raised his voice and said to them... “This is what was spoken by the prophet Joel:

     17 ‘And it shall come to pass in the last days, says God,
     That I will pour out of My Spirit on all flesh;
     Your sons and your daughters shall prophesy,
     Your young men shall see visions,
     Your old men shall dream dreams.
     18 And on My menservants and on My maidservants
     I will pour out My Spirit in those days;
     And they shall prophesy.
Prophets often used astronomical language to describe the "de-creation" of empires. This is political language, not "scientific" language. See Isaiah 13:9-10 [Prophesying the fall of Babylon to the Medes in 539 B.C.]; Isaiah 34:4 [prophesying the fall of Edom]; Amos 8:9 [foretelling the doom of Samaria (722 B.C.)]; Ezekiel 32:7-8 [judgment of Egypt], etc. Most Christians are "preterists" regarding those prophecies: they were fulfilled centuries ago. Politically, not "literally."
     19 I will show wonders in heaven above
     And signs in the earth beneath:
     Blood and fire and vapor of smoke.
     20 The sun shall be turned into darkness,
     And the moon into blood,
     Before the coming of the great and awesome
          day of the Lord.
     21 And it shall come to pass
     That whoever calls on the name of the Lord
     Shall be saved.’

22 “Men of Israel, hear these words: Jesus of Nazareth, a Man attested by God to you by miracles, wonders, and signs which God did through Him in your midst, as you yourselves also know— 23 Him, being delivered by the determined purpose and foreknowledge of God, you have taken by lawless hands, have crucified, and put to death; 24 whom God raised up, having loosed the pains of death, because it was not possible that He should be held by it. 25 For David says [Psalm 16:8–11] concerning Him:

     ‘I foresaw the Lord always before my face,
     For He is at my right hand, that I may not be shaken.
     26 Therefore my heart rejoiced, and my tongue was glad;
     Moreover my flesh also will rest in hope.
     27 For You will not leave my soul in Hades,
     Nor will You allow Your Holy One to see corruption.
     28 You have made known to me the ways of life;
     You will make me full of joy in Your presence.’

29 “Men and brethren, let me speak freely to you of the patriarch David, that he is both dead and buried, and his tomb is with us to this day. 30 Therefore, being a prophet, and knowing that God had sworn with an oath to him that of the fruit of his body, according to the flesh, He would raise up the Christ to sit on his throne, 31 he, foreseeing this, spoke concerning the resurrection of the Christ, that His soul was not left in Hades, nor did His flesh see corruption. 32 This Jesus God has raised up, of which we are all witnesses. 33 Therefore being exalted to the right hand of God, and having received from the Father the promise of the Holy Spirit, He poured out this which you now see and hear.

34 “For David did not ascend into the heavens, but he says [Psalm 110:1] himself:

     ‘The Lord said to my Lord,
     “Sit at My right hand,
     35 Till I make Your enemies Your footstool.”’

36 “Therefore let all the house of Israel know assuredly that God has made this Jesus, whom you crucified, both Lord and Christ.”

37 Now when they heard this, they were cut to the heart, and said to Peter and the rest of the apostles, “Men and brethren, what shall we do?”

38 Then Peter said to them, “Repent, and let every one of you be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins; and you shall receive the gift of the Holy Spirit. 39 For the promise is to you and to your children, and to all who are afar off, as many as the Lord our God will call.” 40 And with many other words he testified and exhorted them, saying, “Be saved from this perverse generation.” 

God made Jesus of Nazareth the Christ -- 2000 years ago -- fulfilling the Old Testament prophecies concerning the throne of David. Peter and other devout Jews came to believe this; Christians should believe this; today's Jews do not. What was happening in Peter's "present" happened in our "past." This is "preterism."