Chapter 10.14
Easter
Easter
Rabbits - Easter Eggs – Easter Ham - Easter Lilly – Hot Cross Buns
Lent
- Holy Water – Lighting Candles - Sunrise Services - Parades and Bonnets
Resurrection
Sunday - Ishtar goddess of sex & fertility – Temple Prostitutes
What does rabbits and eggs have to do with
the resurrection of Jesus Christ?
First
Word
As a child I remember me
and my sister getting all new clothes for Easter, Mom got a new pocketbook, hat
and gloves and we all wore a white corsage in our lapel. There were songs on the radio about wearing
an Easter
Bonnet and an Easter Parade up and down 5th Avenue, where ever
that was.
We had Easter baskets that usually had a large chocolate bunny in it and a bunch of plastic eggs with candy inside them, sometimes a nickel too.
After Church and lunch we would go out
into our back yard and hunt for more Easter eggs and see who could find the most. My sister was 7 years older and always won,
but shared with me. The basket would
somehow disappear during the week and would re-appear next year on the fire
place, full of goodies
again.
Mom and Dad were both Sunday School
teachers, so I knew the Easter Story of Jesus, but I never gave a
thought to how candy, rabbits and eggs fit into the picture; it was just FUN.
Voices Embracing Easter
William Tyndale in 1525 translated the Bible from the
Greek and the Hebrew into English. He
translated the word “pascha” using the word ester
to refer to the Passover
festival held after the
Resurrection. In 1534
he added the letter “a” giving us the new word “Easter”.
The meaning of words change over time;
when we use the word Sunday we think of the day that Christ rose from
the dead, it does not occur to us that it is a day to worship the Sun.
Easter (Pascha) also known as Resurrection Sunday is a festival or holiday celebrating the
resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead on the third day after his
crucifixion by the Romans in 30 AD.
The Foundation of the Christian Faith is
based upon Jesus rising from the dead providing proof positive that He is the
Son of God. If Christ did not rise from
the dead then our Faith is a DEAD
FAITH.[1]
This special time is linked to the Passover
of the death angel and to the celebration of the Last Passover meal observed by Christ in the upper room with His
Disciples. Jesus became the Passover Lamb and was
crucified at roughly the same time as the Passover lambs were being slain in
the temple.
Inquiring minds
want to know: Palm Sunday is the Sunday before Easter Sunday; then there is Spy Wednesday, Maundy Thursday,
Good Friday and Holy Saturday
all coming the week before Easter Sunday, each with their own
significance.
Easter Lily
The Easter Lily is symbolic of the resurrection of Jesus
Christ with its white flowers of purity and it’s TRUMPET like shape announcing the resurrection of Christ on Easter morning.
Easter Egg
The custom of the Easter Egg
originated in the early Christian community of Mesopotamia, who stained
eggs RED
in memory of the death of Christ, whose BLOOD was shed at his
crucifixion. Jesus was resurrected back
to life and walked out of the tomb and left it as if it were an
empty shell. The EGG upon observation seems to be as dead
as a stone, yet it really has life in it like Christ's dead body, which was
raised to life
again.
When
the Christian dies and is in the grave, the body remains as an empty
shell, because the soul has already
gained a new
life with God.
The RED Easter egg reminds the Christian of the bloody death of
Christ and the new
life of the resurrection.
The cracking of the eggs against each other’s egg, symbolized the
desire to BREAK the bonds of sin and enter into a new life that issues from the resurrection of Christ, who was the
first among many to be raised from death
into immortality. [2]
Homogenization
of Christianity
You may recall that in the early days of the Church there were those that
wanted to bring old traditions into the new church such as
circumcision.[3] This was pretty much de-bunked and rebuked by Paul indicating that Christianity was “Jesus plus nothing else”.
Paul saw a statue to “The Unknown God” and used it to introduce the One God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob and His Son Jesus the Christ into the pagan community.[4] The early Church in an attempt to adapt
and convert
the pagans to Christianity, introduced the festival of Easter into
the pagan “festival of Ishtar”.
During the fourth and fifth century while the formal church was still being developed, old pagan customs, beliefs and traditions of Easter and Christmas began once again to be blended into Christianity. We
have simply repackaged the pagan rites and practices and RE-BRANDED them
as Christian.
Roman Emperor Constantine with his imperial power and his raw
anti-Semitism summoned the council of Nicaea in 325AD for the final settlement
over the DISPUTE over whether and when to keep Easter or
Passover. What was at stake
was to replace the God-ordained festival of Passover with the pagan Easter festival. It was unanimously and official that Easter was to be kept on Sunday throughout the world, and “That none should
hereafter follow the blindness of the Jews”.
Today the new age movement has homogenized and blended
what they feel is the best from many religions reducing Christianity to just
another religion.
New Age says there are MANY spokes in a wheel that ALL lead to the SAME hub.
Christianity states there is only ONE God and only ONE way to Him.
Passover and the resurrection have been commercialized, homogenized, mixed and replaced with Easter, parades, bunnies, eggs, hunts and other
non-Christian traditions and activities.
Voices Rejecting Easter
The Word Easter appears only once in the King James
Version of the Bible and not at all in most of the other translations. The translators miss-translated the Greek word
pascha as “Easter”, whereas all the other translations of pascha meant “Passover”.[5]
It
is widely believed that Easter has its origins with the goddess of the Anglo-Saxons named Eostre (with similar spellings; Estre, Estara, Eastre, Ostara.)
She was the goddess
of the dawn and was worshiped
by pagans
in the spring; the name is believed to be derived from the Babylonian goddess
Astarte
or Ishtar. (Easter)
Ishtar was a
Mesopotamian goddess of War, Sex and Fertility; her worship included animal sacrifices,
and temple
prostitutes; every primary pagan “god” can be traced back to KING NIMROD, Babylon and the
Tower of Babel and every “goddess” traced to his wife QUEEN SEMIRAMIS.
Departing from the Ordinary
I feel a need
to depart from the ordinary and talk about some FAR OUT MESSED UP stuff; specifically for all the different
spellings of the same god. These
story of the Tower of Babel with slight variations was told over and over again, generation to generation and their
god’s NAMES CHANGED often
depending on the culture and language, but the concept still remains the same.
What I am about to share, I have not found in any one place,
but there are numerous commentaries that help “sort it all out”. There
have been numerous VARIATIONS,
TRADITIONS, MYTHOLOGY and SPECULATION on the WHY of the NAME CHANGES; so it’s OK with me if you disagree with my BS.
The story begins with one of Noah’s sons
named Ham who had a son by the name of Cush, who had a wife named Semiramis and they had a son named Nimrod whose name means “Let Us Revolt”.
GIANTS: As I read the scriptures and commentaries, I see the words mighty
men and mighty men of renown.[6]
I find this very early in Genesis when
they are referring to the Nephilim; the Giants.[7]
Satan caused Angels to leave their assignments in heaven and take
women and sleep with them which produced the Nephilim; the Giants;[8]
they were so evil that it promulgated the Flood of Noah; to start mankind over.[9]
In my Belief System, I believe that Nimrod
was also a GIANT; a by-product of Satan, as it answers so many questions as
to why the people would want to follow him and how he knew so much about the “Secret Arts”. In my BS, I believe that he
was a Giant with a moral and spiritual nature.
Don’t look Upward, Look Inward; after the flood of Noah, NIMROD the grandson of Noah, aided by SATAN, persuaded the people to NOT ascribe their happiness to God, because it was
through THIER
OWN actions that they were happy and he caused them to
believe that it was THEIR OWN courage which procured
this happiness.
(Josephus;
Jewish Historian 33AD)
Scripture originally translated that Nimrod was “a mighty hunter”
before the Lord, but now we know it should have been
translated “in opposition to” the Lord or “in place of” the Lord. It was not
just “before the Lord” it was “IN YOUR FACE” defiance. It is
believed that he hunted down and killed the other Nephilim to eliminate the competition, but in the
process, was killed himself. In the confusing
of the language, their god’s name changed, giving us the different
spellings.
Most Anabaptists, Quakers, Congregationalists and Presbyterian Puritans regard such festivals as Easter an abomination
based on the fact that Easter was not practiced anywhere in scripture and furthermore scripture commands Believers to not
participate in pagans practices to not be yoked with unbelievers.[10] Many have moved away from using the term “Easter” altogether in favor of the phrase “Resurrection Day” or “Resurrection Sunday”.
Paul warned that men would come in among
them secretly, bringing in destructive heresies,[11]
speaking twisted
things[12]
and in their greed they will exploit you with false words in order to draw you away from the
faith; causing your death. A false church has arisen’; a counterfeit
church observing Easter in place of Passover and Lent instead of the Days of Unleavened Bread. Billions of dollars are spent each year
in merchandising and the true gospel is being buried in the pagan customs.
FORGIVE US GOD
Pagan
Symbols
HOLY WATER: Nimrod established secret and
mysterious rites that were
used in idol worship with priests who practiced the sprinkling of holy water.
They had an order of temple “virgins”
dedicated to religious prostitution. The men would wear small “white aprons”
in the temple and flip them up to have sex. (It resembled a
carpenter’s nail apron similar to what we see today and used symbolically by
the MASONS.)
EASTER EGG: Nimrod’s MOTHER “Semiramis” taught that the moon was a goddess
and it went through a 28 day OVULATION period which
developed into a FULL MOON. Through Immaculate Conception, this moon goddess gave
birth to her, (“Semiramis” the
mother of Nimrod) in the form of
a GIANT MOON EGG which fell into
the Euphrates River. She HATCHED out and became known as the goddess Ishtar; the mother goddess of dawn and light, and the moon egg was called “ISHTAR’S EGG”.
Myths of Creation of the ancients centered
on a “cosmogenic
egg” from which the universe was born; ancient Egypt and Persia
exchanged decorated
eggs at the spring equinox as a
symbol of fertility with the coming forth of life from the egg.
MOTHER OF GOD: With the aid of SATAN, Nimrod promoted unspeakable evil and perversions and was SO EVIL that at the death of his father, he married his own mother “Semiramis” or “Ishtar.”
Since King Nimrod was a god and Queen Semiramis was his mother as well as his wife,
she was worshipped as the “Mother of god” and as the “Queen of Heaven”.
BAAL: Nimrod
presented himself as a god-man and developed an
intricate “system of mysteries”. He used terms that appeared to honor God, but
actuality deceived the people. He took
on the name “BAAL” which in English means “Lord” and in Greek means “Adonis”; He claimed he was the
“savior of the world”. [13] Baal was known as the “sun god”; known as the “life giver” and known as the “god of fertility” who promoted sexual sin.
REINCARNATION: When NIMROD WAS KILLED by the enemy, his body was cut up into many pieces and
scattered throughout his kingdom. All
the parts were found except for the reproductive parts, so Queen Semiramis
claimed that Nimrod could not come back to life without all his parts, so he
ascended to the sun and was now called Baal the sun god and
later would be re-born as his own son Tammuz. See
the Word Study on the tower of Babel; Book 7.3
CHRISTMAS TREE: At Nimrod’s death, his mother/wife declared that his
spirit had survived in a full grown Evergreen Tree which sprang up overnight from a dead tree stump.
CHRISTMAS GIFTS: They celebrated the springing forth of life from death on Nimrod’s birthday every December 25th where he would visit the Evergreen Tree and leave GIFTS. NOTE: The wise men did not give gifts to Jesus because it
was His Birthday, it was because you never approached a KING without a gift.
Jeremiah the Prophet warns us to NOT FOLLOW THE TRADITIONS of the pagan
nations[14]
which includes cutting down a tree in
the forest and fastening it to a stand
to keep it from falling over and then decorating it with silver and gold. [15] It’s in the Book
IMMACULATE CONCEPTION:
Queen Semiramis purports that
the rays of the Sun
god Baal caused her to have an immaculate
conception, an (illegitimate) male child
named Tammuz.
She convinced them that her son was the King Nimrod RE-BORN who was the long
awaited “savior
of the world”. So there you
have it; mother
AND child were both immaculately conceived
and
the worship of MADONNA; “Mother and Child” spread over the earth.
EASTER RABBIT: The son Tammuz was especially fond of RABBITS and because he was believed to be the son
of Baal, the sun god, and the son
of Ishtar the moon goddess, the RABBITS became sacred in their religion; a symbol
of fertility and rapid reproduction.
RESURRECTED: The son Tammuz was KILLED by a wild boar
and some of his blood
fell on the stump of an evergreen tree and overnight he came back to life as new evergreen
vegetation.
(Other commentaries
say it was the power of his mother’s tears that fell on the stump.)
LENT:
Ishtar
proclaimed a forty day period of
mourning and sorrow each year on the anniversary of Tammuz’s death, during which
time no
meat was to be eaten.
EASTER SUNDAY: After the forty days of mourning, they
celebrated with RABBITS and EGGS on ISHTAR’S
SUNDAY.
SUNRISE SERVICES: Baal (Nimrod) is worshiped as the fertility god,
the storm
god as well as the SUN GOD; the “House
of the Rising Sun” in the East. Easter sunrises services are
held facing the east as the sun rises.
EASTER HAM: She proclaimed
that because Tammuz
was killed by a wild pig, that a PIG must be eaten on that Sunday that followed;
thus the EASTER HAM.
HOT CROSS BUNS: The pagan Saxons would bake “Cross Buns”
in honor of the goddess Ishtar (Easter) celebrating the rebirth
of the world after the winter and at the beginning of spring. The Cross on the buns made four sections that
represented the four quarters of the moon, as well as the four seasons. It is also found on the wheel of life (bhavacakra) in the Buddhist
religion.
Jerimiah the Prophet said the
children gather wood, the fathers kindle fire, and the women knead
dough, to MAKE
CAKES
for THE QUEEN
OF HEAVEN[16] and they pour
out drink offerings to other gods, and it provokes God to anger. It’s in the Book
SIGN OF THE CROSS: As they worshipped and ate the sacred cakes with what looked
like a Cross
or a “+” on top, they would make the SIGN
of a “+” over their heart.
LIGHTING CANDLES: Ishtar
the goddess/mother told the people that Tammuz had now ascended to his father Baal
(Nimrod) and the two of them “were with them” in the form of a
FLAME
and should now be worshipped in fire, IN THE
FLAME OF CANDLES; as the Father, Mother and Son; a perverted trinity.
Josephus
Book 1:4:2 - Nimrod led people away from God
2 Now it was Nimrod
who excited them to such an affront and contempt of God. He was the grandson of Ham, the son of Noah, a
bold man, and of great strength of hand. He persuaded them NOT to ascribe it to God, as if
it was through his means they were happy, but to believe that it was their own courage
which procured that happiness. He also gradually changed the
government into tyranny,
seeing no other way of turning men from the fear of God, but to bring them into a constant dependence on
his power. He also said he would be revenged on God, if he should have a mind to
drown the world again; for that he would BUILD
A TOWER too
high for the waters to be able to reach! And that he would avenge himself on God for destroying their forefathers! (The Works of
Flavius Josephus.)
The Take Away
TODAY I see no connection
between the original festivals of Easter and the Christian Resurrection Sunday although there
might as well be; with the complete immersion in the commercialization of Easter eggs, Easter
Candy and the Easter bunny, all of which smacks of the pagan symbolism
of fertility. Today the eggs are plastic, multi-colored, and full of
candy which leads to the confusion on what bunnies, eggs
and candy have to do with the resurrection of Jesus Christ and to add to the confusion; rabbits don’t even lay
eggs.
We have so closely held that Easter and
the Resurrection are the same and that anyone who speaks against Easter, is blaspheming God Himself. Easter belongs to the Babylonian goddess Ishtar whose worship is condemned by God, He says
“IN VAIN DO THEY WORSHIP ME,[17]
teaching as doctrines the commandments of men.” Over a span of 40 years after the death and
resurrection of Christ, we find NO disciple nor the Church observing such a
festival as Easter.
The
early founding Puritans found that
Easter compromised the commandments of God and dismissed and rejected it as just another pagan holiday. Satan is a master deceiver who HAS
been able to deceive well-meaning Christians into thinking that the
resurrection of Jesus Christ is celebrated with a brand new “Sunday go to meeting suit”, some Hot Cross buns
and an Easter ham along with some rabbits and a bunch of colored eggs.
In actuality these things demean the
truth of Christ’s death and resurrection.
Traditionally
the Easter Bunny comes the night before Easter in much the same way as Santa Clause comes the night before Christmas. He hides them in the house or the yard for
the Children to find when they wake up.
This fun time gives rise to the tradition of the annual Easter egg hunt.
There
is nothing inherently evil about painting an egg, hiding it and making a game
of finding it,
such things can neither do you HARM nor GOOD.[18]
The Ishtar Gate appeared in Babylon around 2020 BC with “GOLDEN ARCHES”
and when we visit McDonalds today for a hamburger, it doesn’t cross our mind
that the Golden
Arches may have had a pagan origin.[19]
Christ arising from the grave on Sunday doesn’t give rise to thoughts of
worshiping the sun. If our focus is on
Christ, then our children will be taught to understand that the hunt for eggs
is a game of fun, but taught as well the story of Jesus Christ and true meaning of Resurrection Sunday,
THIS IS
THE PARENTS RESPONSIBILITY
After studying all this symbolism I feel quite
taken back that I now know the difference between Easter Sunday and Resurrection Sunday. In the end, it’s a matter of conscious that
must be left up to the discretion of the parents, and each one should be fully
convinced in his own mind how the role of EASTER is
played out in the life of their family.[20]
It’s
in the Book
[2] Acts 26:23 – Christ is the first to rise among many from the dead
[3] Romans 2:29 – Circumcision is a matter of the
spirit of the heart not by the letter of the Law
[4] Acts 17:23 – Unknown God used to introduce
Christianity to the pagans
[5] Acts
12:4 – Pascha miss-translated Easter instead of Passover
[6] Genesis 6:4 – The NEPHILIM, the Giants
mighty men of renowned
[7] Genesis 10:9 – Nimrod a mighty hunter
[8] Genesis 6:4 – The Nephilim had sex with the women of the earth
[9] Numbers 13: 31-33 –
Spies: After the flood of Noah; Giants
[10] 2 Corenthians 6:14-16 – Believers are not be unequally yoked with
unbelievers
[11] 2 Peter 2:1-3 - Men secretly bring in destructive heresies
[12] Acts 20:29-30 – Men will speak twisted things to draw away
[13] Genesis 10:8-9 – Nimrod “Mighty Man” in
opposition to the Lord
[14] Jeremiah
10:1-2 – Do not learn the ways of the pagan nations
[15] Jeremiah 10:3 – Cut down a tree in the Forest -- Jeremiah 10:4-5 –
Decorate the tree with silver & gold & fasten it so it won’t fall over
[16] Jeremiah 7:18 – They make cakes for the QUEEN OF HEAVEN
[17] Matthew 15:8-9 – In vain they do worship me
teaching as doctrines the commandments of men
[19] Isaiah 14:4 – Is the Golden Arches at McDonalds of pagan origin?
[20] Romans 14:5 - Each one should be fully convinced
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