Easter

It is human nature, for a person to despise knowledge that shows they have been wrong. The foolish person does not enjoy being corrected. He wants only to entertain his own thoughts.

Ancient King Solomon said it this way.....
A fool hath no delight in understanding, but that his heart may discover itself [Proverbs 18:2]

Let's not be the foolish ones.  Let's look at God's point of view, before moving on.

Take heed to thyself that thou be not snared by following them, after that they be destroyed from before thee; and that thous enquire not after their gods, saying, How did these nations serve their gods? even so will I do likewise. [Deuteronomy 12:30]

Thou shalt not do so unto the LORD thy God: for every abomination to the LORD, which he hateth, have they done unto their gods; for even their sons and their daughters they have burnt in the fire to their gods. [Deuteronomy 12:31]

The Easter celebration came from these people. Pagan nations that worshipped the gods of fertility and nature such as Ishtar and Astarte, various names for the Chaldean Queen of Heaven.

Vines Complete Expository Dictionary of Old and New Testament Words, says this:  "The term 'Easter' is not of Christian origin. It is another for of Astarte, one of the titles of the Chaldean goddess, the queen of heaven."

She is mentioned by that title in the Bible in Jeremiah 7:18 and 44:17-19, 25 and referred to in 1 Kings 11:5, 33 and 2 Kings 23:13 by the Hebrew form of her name Ashtoreth.

Easter was very different from the Old Testament Passover or the Passover of the New Testament as understood and practiced by the early Church based on the teachings of Jesus Christ and the apostles.

Easter was a pagan festival originating in the worship of other gods, and was introduced much later into an apostate Christianity in a deliberate attempt to make such festivals acceptable.

Human beings replaced the symbolism of the biblical Passover with Easter eggs and Easter rabbits, pagan symbols of fertility. These symbols demean the truth of Christ's death and resurrection.

Notice what The Encyclopedia Britannica says about this transition:
"There is no indication of the observation of the Easter festival in the New Testament, or in the writings of the apostolic Fathers... The first Christians continued to observe the Jewish festivals, though in a new spirit, as commemorations of events which those festivals foreshadowed..."

Easter, a pagan festival with its pagan fertility symbols, replaced the God-ordained festivals that Jesus Christ, the apostles and the early Church observed. But this didn't happen immediately.

Not until A.D. 325 - almost three centuries after Jesus Christ was crucified and resurrected was the matter settled. Regrettably, it was not settled on the basis of biblical truth, but on the basis of antisemitism and raw ecclesiastical and imperial power.

Jeremiah 7:17-18
The origin of hot-cross buns:
"Seest thou not what they do in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem? The children gather wood, and the fathers kindle the fire, and women knead their dough, to make cakes to the queen of heaven, and to pour out drink offerings unto other gods, that they may provoke me to anger."

Easter correctly belongs to the Babylonian goddess it is named after - Astarte, also known as Ashtoreth or Ishtar, whose worship is directly and explicitly condemned in the Bible.

The ancient religious practices and fertility symbols associated with her cult existed long before Christ, and regrettably they have largely replaced and obscured the truth of His death and resurrection.

Easter eggs and bunnies are fertility symbols used in ritual worship of "other" gods.

Over 300 years after Christ, the "state" (Rome) declared that the pagan holidays were to be incorporated into Christianity. Anyone caught observing those days shown to ancient Israel by God, were to be persecuted. Sunday worship was enforced as well, as an act of the state.

Today, in America, there is suppose to be a separation of church and state.... even declared as such by our very Constitution!  However, our children in public schools, are expected to witness, even take part in, pagan rituals forced upon Christianity by an ancient Roman decree! Pagan festivals that are NOT allowed by the very God of Christianity!

If you are a teacher, or a school administrator who has wondered why certain parents do not allow their children to take part in Easter celebrations....... now you know.

An entire day is often set aside for such activities in our public schools. Often times, an entire week of Easter activities, in one form or another, is set aside to lead up to such a climax.

Is Easter celebration part of the Law of the Land, or not?  If not, they why is it listed as an UNEXCUSED absence, if out of conviction, a parent keeps their child out of school during such a state-forced, pagan festival?

Must a 21st century American citizen answer to 4th century Rome, or else suffer a penalty by not complying with the laws of the current state?

This educational tract is by C. Kenneth Rockwell, especially for use of all parents who have had to try to explain why they keep their children away from such Pagan-based observances.



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