Easter | The Pagan
Passover
Spring is the best season of the year for many
people. Warm sunny days; the earth,
springing forth with new life. Flowers,
budding trees, baby animals: all seem to joyfully announce that the long cold
winter is over.
No other Springtime custom encapsulates these
celebrations of new life quite like Easter.
From baby animals, to Easter eggs and Easter egg hunts, to sunrise
Sunday services and more, Easter is a beloved tradition to many people. Easter
Sunday is the highlight of the Roman Catholic liturgical year when the
resurrection of Jesus Christ is celebrated.
According to their Catechism:
Easter is not simply one feast among
others, but the "Feast of feasts," the "Solemnity of solemnities,"
just as the Eucharist is the
"Sacrament of sacraments" (the Great Sacrament). St. Athanasius calls
Easter "the Great Sunday" and the Eastern Churches call Holy Week
"the Great Week." The mystery of the Resurrection, in which Christ
crushed death . . . . (Catechism of the Catholic
Church, Part 2, Sec. 1, Chapter 2, Article 1, #1169.)
The origins of Easter, however, reveal that it
flows directly from ancient paganism.
Shortly after the flood, Nimrod reestablished idolatry in the
earth. After his death, Nimrod was
promoted as the original sun god. His
widow, Semiramis, was called the "queen of heaven." Various cultures continued the idolatry of
these original pagans under different names.
To the Egyptians, Semiramis was Isis.
To the Babylonians, she was Beltis, consort to the god, Bel. To the Cannaanites she was Astarte. The Assyrians called her Ishtar.
The worship of these goddesses involved occult
fertility practices. These degrading rites were practiced even by the Israelites
when in apostasy. Yahuwah clearly
denounced any Israelite involvement in these pagan celebrations.
"Do you not
see what they do in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem? The children gather wood, the fathers kindle
the fire, and the women knead their dough, to make cakes for the queen of
heaven; and they pour out drink offerings to other gods, that they may
provoke Me to anger."
(Jeremiah 7:17-18, NKJV)
"And He said to me, 'Turn again, and you will see greater
abominations that they are doing.' So He
brought me to the door of the north gate of . . .
[Yahuwah's] house; and to my dismay, women were sitting
there weeping for Tammuz."
(Ezekiel 8:13-14, NKJV)
Modern Easter has no basis in the pure religion of
Heaven. All of its traditions are
pagan.
• Rabbits and dyed Easter eggs symbolize fertility.
• Hot cross buns were the "cakes" offered to the queen of
heaven.
• The forty days of weeping for Tammuz are now the 40 days of Lent leading
up to Easter.
• Sunrise services were performed by pagan priests to honor the sun
god.
Celebration of Easter does not honor the death and
resurrection of the Saviour.
Participation in pagan practices honors Satan. No amount of renaming it by Christian names
can purify Easter of its pagan origins.
Easter is much more than a pagan imposter pretending
to be Christian. Lurking behind the pretty
facade, Easter is a cover-up for the greatest fraud of all time: a calendar
change which hides the true day of the resurrection and the true
seventh-day Sabbath. As the years passed and the first Christians died,
paganism began to corrupt the once-pure faith.
The Church in Rome, greedy of ever greater power, sought ways to
increase her influence.
"To conciliate the Pagans to nominal
Christianity, Rome, pursuing its usual policy, took measures to get the
Christian and Pagan festivals amalgamated, and, by a complicated but skilful adjustment
of the calendar, it was found no difficult matter, in general, to get
Paganism and Christianity - now far sunk in idolatry - in this as in so many
other things, to shake hands. . . . This
change of the calendar in regard to Easter was attended with momentous
consequences. It brought into the Church the grossest corruption and the
rankest superstition . . . ."
(Alexander Hislop, The Two Babylons, pp. 105-106.)
This change of calendar also changed the day of
worship. This is admitted by Roman
Catholics who point to it as the sign of their authority.
"Sunday . . . is purely a creation of
the Catholic Church." (American
Catholic Quarterly Review, January 1883)
"They [the Protestants] deem it their
duty to keep the Sunday holy. Why? Because the Catholic Church tells them to do
so. They have no other reason . . . The author of the Sunday law . . . is the
Catholic Church." (Ecclesiastical
Review, February 1914)
One Catholic bishop went so far as to state:
"It was the Catholic Church which made the law obliging
us to keep Sunday holy. The Church made
this law long after the Bible was written.
Hence said law is not in the Bible.
The Cath[olic] Church abolished not only the Sabbath, but all the other
Jewish festivals." (T. Enright,
Bishop of St. Alphonsus Church, St. Louis, Missouri, June, 1905, emphasis
supplied.)
The Jewish festival which was outlawed in favor
of Easter was Passover. All early
Christians kept the feasts of Yahuwah as outlined in Leviticus 23. Paganized Christians still wanted to
celebrate Easter while apostolic Christians, still clinging to a pure faith,
observed Passover.
"Since the second century A.D. there had
been a divergence of opinion about the date for celebrating the paschal
(Easter) anniversary of the Lord's passion (death, burial and
resurrection). The most ancient practice
appears to have been to observe the fourteenth (the Passover date), fifteenth,
and sixteenth days of the lunar month regardless of the day of the [Julian]
week these dates might fall on from year to year. The bishops of Rome, desirous of enhancing
the observance of Sunday as a church festival, ruled that the annual
celebration should always be held on the Friday, Saturday, and Sunday following
the fourteenth day of the lunar month. .
. . This controversy lasted almost two centuries, until [the Emperor]
Constantine intervened in behalf of the Roman bishops and outlawed the other
group." (Robert L. Odom, Sunday in
Roman Paganism, p. 188, emphasis supplied.)
"The point of contention appeared
deceptively simple: Passover versus Easter.
The issues at stake, however, were immense. The only way to determine when Passover
occurs is to use the
Biblical luni-solar calendar . . ." (eLaine Vornholt & L. L. Vornholt-Jones,
Calendar Fraud, p.49)
"These contentions had agitated the
churches of Asia since the time of the Roman bishop Victor, who had persecuted
the churches of Asia for following the '14th-day heresy' as they called it, in
reference to the Passover. . . . The future Easter observance was to be
rendered independent of Jewish calculation." (Grace Amadon, Report of Committee, Part V,
Sec. B., p. 17.)
Here is the real significance of Easter. Sunday is kept as a day of worship because
of Easter Sunday! It is claimed that the
Saviour was resurrected then.
Consequently, it is assumed that the day before Easter Sunday,
Saturday, is the seventh-day Sabbath.
Jews today worship on Saturday, rather than the
Biblical seventh-day Sabbath. However, Jewish scholars admit that the calendar in use for worship today is
not the same as was used in Bible times:
"The New Moon is still, and the Sabbath
originally was, dependent upon the lunar cycle." ("Holidays,” Universal Jewish
Encyclopedia, p. 410.)
The Jews point to the extreme persecution
following the Council of Nicea's decision to set aside Jewish time calculation
as the reason for why they no longer use the Biblical calendar.
"Declaring the new month by observation of
the new moon, and the new year by the arrival of spring, can only be done by
the Sanhedrin. In the time of Hillel II [4th century C.E.], . . . the Romans
prohibited this practice."
("The Jewish Calendar; Changing the Calendar," www.torah.org.)
Jewish scholars understand that Christianity
stepped free of its Biblical roots when the pagan Easter was substituted for
the true Passover.
"At the Council of Nice [Nicæa] the last
thread was snapped which connected Christianity to its parent stock. The festival of Easter had up till now been
celebrated for the most part at the same time as the Jewish Passover, and
indeed upon the days calculated and fixed by the Synhedrion [Sanhedrin] in
Judæa for its celebration; but in future its observance was to be rendered altogether independent of the Jewish
calendar.
"[Emperor Constantine stated], 'For it is
unbecoming beyond measure that on this holiest of festivals we should follow
the customs of the Jews. Henceforward
let us have nothing in common with this odious people; our Saviour has shown us another path. It would indeed be absurd if the Jews were
able to boast that we are not in a position to celebrate the Passover
without the aid of their rules ([time]
calculations).'" (Heinrich Graetz,
History of the Jews, The Jewish Publication Society of America, Vol. II, pp.
563-564, emphasis supplied.)
The truth is, Easter is a fraud. It is not the day upon which the Savior arose
from the grave nor is Saturday the seventh-day Sabbath of the Bible. Easter is and has always been a pagan holiday
celebrating fertility. It was substituted
for Yahuwah's Passover at the Council of Nicæa in the fourth century when the
Church of Rome decided to set aside Hebrew calculation of time.
Now, in this last generation, truth is to be
restored. All who wish to express their
gratitude for the death of their Saviour will commemorate it on the day upon
which He died: Passover. This can only
be calculated by the original calendar of
Creation. Any other observance gives honor to Satan,
the one who has set himself up in opposition to Heaven.
Today you can choose which day represents your
beliefs -Passover or Easter.
You can choose to which power you wish to give honor and worship: the
Saviour or His enemy, Satan. You can choose on which day, calculated by which
calendar, you offer that worship.
The choice is yours
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