EASTER PAGAN PASSOVER

Easter | 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.)

Artemis of Ephesus (Semaramis in one of her many guises).
1st century CE Roman copy of the cult statue of the Temple of Ephesus.
Statue in the Museum of Efes (Turkey).
Note: She is clothed with eggs.

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

"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 the Lords house; and to my dismay, women were sitting there
weeping for Tammuz." (Ezekiel 8:13-14

Modern Easter has no basis in the pure religion of Heaven. All of its
traditions are pagan.

Easter (Ishtar) Eggs
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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
Jesus. 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 God 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 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.

"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 Christ was
resurrected then. Consequently, it is assumed that the day before
Easter Sunday, Saturday, is the seventh-day Sabbath.

Jews today worship on Saturday the Biblical seventh-day
Sabbath.


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.

"[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.

The truth is, Easter is a fraud. It is not the day upon which the
Jesus 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 God's Passover at
the Council of Nicæa in the fourth century.

Now, in this last generation, truth is to be restored. All who wish
to express their gratitude for the death of their Christ will
commemorate it on the day upon which He died: Passover.

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
Christ or His enemy, Satan.

The choice is yours.