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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Origin of Easter

Easter is a day that is honored by nearly all of contemporary Christianity and is used to celebrate the resurrection of Jesus Christ. The holiday often involves a church service at sunrise, a feast which includes an "Easter Ham", decorated eggs and stories about rabbits.

Those who love truth learn to ask questions, and many questions must be asked regarding the holiday of Easter. Is it truly the day when Jesus arose from the dead? Where did all of the strange customs come from, which have nothing to do with the resurrection of our Saviour?

 The first thing we must understand is that professing Christians were not the only ones who celebrated a festival called "Easter." "Ishtar", which is pronounced "Easter" was a day that commemorated the resurrection of one of their gods that they called "Tammuz", who was believed to be the only begotten son of the moon-goddess and the sun-god.

In those ancient times, there was a man named Nimrod, who was the grandson of one of Noah's son named Ham. Ham had a son named Cush who married a woman named Semiramis. Cush and Semiramis then had a son named him "Nimrod." After the death of his father, Nimrod married his own mother and became a powerful King.

The Bible tells of of this man, Nimrod, in Genesis 10:8-10 as follows: "And Cush begat Nimrod: he began to be a mighty one in the earth. He was a mighty hunter before the Lord: wherefore it is said, even as Nimrod the mighty hunter before the Lord. And the beginning of his kingdom was Babel, and Erech, and Accad,and Calneh, in the land of Shinar."

Nimrod became a god-man to the people and Semiramis, his wife and mother, became the powerful Queen of ancient Babylon. Nimrod was eventually killed by an enemy, and his body was cut in pieces and sent to various parts of his kingdom.

Semiramis had all of the parts gathered, except for one part that could not be found. That missing part was his reproductive organ. Semiramis claimed that Nimrod could not come back to life without it and told the people of Babylon that Nimrod had ascended to the sun and was now to be called "Baal", the sun god. Queen Semiramis also proclaimed that Baal would be present on earth in the form of a flame, whether candle or lamp, when used in worship.

Semiramis was creating a mystery religion, and with the help of Satan, she set herself up as a goddess.

The 'Queen of the Night' Relief, Old Babylonian, 
1800-1750 BC.  From southern Iraq.  
British Museum, London.

Semiramis claimed that she was immaculately conceived. She taught that the moon was a goddess that went through a 28 day cycle and ovulated when full. She further claimed that she came down from the moon in a giant moon egg that fell into the Euphrates River. This was to have happened at the time of the first full moon after the spring equinox.

Semiramis became known as "Ishtar" which is pronounced "Easter", and her moon egg became known as "Ishtar's" egg." Ishtar soon became pregnant and claimed that it was the rays of the sun-god Baal that caused her to conceive.

The son that she brought forth was named Tammuz. Tammuz was noted to be especially fond of rabbits, and they became sacred in the ancient religion, because Tammuz was believed to be the son of the sun-god, Baal. Tammuz, like his supposed father, became a hunter.

The day came when Tammuz was killed by a wild pig. Queen Ishtar told the people that Tammuz was now ascended to his father, Baal, and that the two of them would be with the worshippers in the sacred candle or lamp flame as Father, Son and Spirit.

Columbia. Here you can see Queen Semiramis of Babylon (goddess of the moon), holding the torch with the eternal flame of Nimrod (sun god).

Ishtar, who was now worshiped as the "Mother of God and Queen of Heaven", continued to build her mystery religion. The queen told the worshipers that when Tammuz was killed by the wild pig, some of his blood fell on the stump of an evergreen tree, and the stump grew into a full new tree overnight. This made the evergreen tree sacred by the blood of Tammuz. She also proclaimed a forty day period of time of sorrow each year prior to the anniversary of the death of Tammuz.

During this time, no meat was to be eaten. Worshipers were to meditate upon the sacred mysteries of Baal and Tammuz, and to make the sign of the "T" in front of their hearts as they worshiped. They also ate sacred cakes with the marking of a "T" or cross on the top.

Every year, on the first Sunday after the first full moon after the spring equinox, a celebration was made. It was Ishtar's Sunday and was celebrated with rabbits and eggs. Ishtar also proclaimed that because Tammuz was killed by a pig, that a pig must be eaten on that Sunday.

By now, the readers should have made the connection that paganism has infiltrated the contemporary "Christian" churches, and further study indicates that this paganism came in by way of the Roman Catholic System.

The truth is that Easter has nothing whatsoever to do with the resurrection of our Lord Jesus Christ. We also know that Easter can be as much as three weeks away from the Passover, because the pagan holiday is always set as the first Sunday after the first full moon after the spring equinox.

Some have wondered why the word "Easter" is in the the King James Bible. It is because Acts, chapter 12, tells us that it was the evil King Herod, who was planning to celebrate Easter, and not the Christians.

The true Passover and pagan Easter sometimes coincide, but in some years, they are a great distance apart. So much more could be said, and there is much more information, if you are a seeker of the truth.

We know that the Bible tells us in John 4:24, "God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth."

The truth is that the forty days of Lent, eggs, rabbits, hot cross buns and the Easter ham have everything to do with the ancient pagan religion of Mystery Babylon.These are all antichrist activities!

 Satan is a master deceiver, and has filled the lives of well-meaning, professing Christians with idolatry. These things bring the wrath of God upon children of disobedience, who try to make pagan customs of Baal worship Christian. We must answer for our activities and for what we teach our children.

These customs of Easter honor Baal, who is also Satan, and is still worshipped as the "Rising Sun" and his house is the "House of the Rising Sun." How many churches have "sunrise services" on Ishtar's day and face the rising sun in the East?  How many will use colored eggs and rabbit stories, as they did in ancient Babylon. These things are no joke, any more than Judgement day is a joke.

I pray to God that this tract will cause you to search for more truth.
These are the last days, and it is time to repent, come out and be separate.

David J.  Meyer

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Another very good article with more information here.

Even if done in ignorance, is it not an offense to God to carry on traditions that are steeped in idolatrous worship and profane practices? 

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