EASTER OR PASSOVER?

Which one honors the Savior?

They can’t both be right, because one is thoroughly pagan, giving glory to Lucifer through Babylonian/Roman worship, and one was instituted by the Elohim of Israel, Yahuweh, in Exodus 12-15, and fulfilled by the Messiah of Israel Yahushua on the Feast of Firstfruits somewhere between 29 and 32CE.   These two are radically diametrically opposed. 

“How long will you hop between two opinions”, Elijah asked, “if Baal is elohim, then follow him, and if Yahuweh is Elohim, then follow Him”.  We can’t have both.  We have to choose.  What will it be? --Yahuweh’s Covenant Festivals and His days of worship, or Baal’s festivals and his days of worship?

 

Israel always tried to mix the two worships together, like Christianity does.  But, you can’t worship Yahuweh and Baal at the same time.  One is of the Light of Yahuweh, and one of the dark world of Lucifer.

 

Most people make their selection of beliefs in their own image, and feel secure and content with their belief-systems, surrounded by friends and family who believe the same. Most people fight for their security in their belief-systems.  But, Yahuweh promises that when He comes, “They will know that I am Yahuweh”.  I don’t think it’s a good idea to be at odds with the Elohim of the Universe when He comes to rule and reign, do you?  The Torah (Teachings, Instructions and Right-Rulings of His Kingdom of Light) is eternal.  The Torah (primarily the first 5 books of Scripture--the Foundational Teachings of the whole plan of salvation), His Word, was there before He created the world, and it will be there after He creates the new heavens and the new earth.  He does not change His eternal Covenants or decrees.  When judgment day comes, the Elohim of pure Light won’t accept the darkness or false worship that has been given to Him.  He certainly won’t reward it!!!

 

He calls His people to repent of all false worship, and return to the true worship of Yahuweh--His way.  We can’t just study our Hebrew roots, gather information, and have fun with a Passover Seder, or a visit to Israel at Sukkot.  That’s not putting away the darkness.  We have to totally get rid of the darkness in order to take in the light of truth.  We must repent of, and totally disengage from the whole of the pagan system in order to be received by our Father (II Corinthians 6:14-7:1).  We have to lay down all pagan gods, false gods, idols and beliefs that are lies and deceptions, in order to embrace the Elohim of Israel.  With Him, its all or nothing.

 

You can’t celebrate Pesach (Passover) and then go to an Easter sunrise service, and attend Easter Sunday church, and be in right standing with Yahuweh.  There is no salvation outside of Yahuweh (Isaiah 45:20-22).

 

Oh I know you can do it, in the natural, HOWEVER you’re fooling yourself.  Elohim calls that being “lukewarm”, and/or “doubleminded”--a mixture of paganism and true worship, and you know what Yahushua says that He’ll do with the lukewarm!  I don’t particularly want to be part of His vomit.

 

Let’s look again at Easter, the fertility goddess of the pagans under her many different names, and see what an abomination, a blasphemy she is to the nature of Yahuweh. 

Ostara, or Eastre, or Ishtar, or Astarte, Samaramis, or Diana, (depending on what culture, the names were different) was the goddess of Spring in the regions of the ancient Angles and Saxons.  Every April a festival was celebrated in her honor.  With the advent of Christianity, the names of the old gods and goddesses were put aside, and new names were given to them, which were “christianized”.  But, the festival in honor of the Queen of Heaven, the virgin, the goddess of Spring, the fertility goddess, was still called Easter in those areas (Western Europe). 

 

In contrast, our Creator El Shaddai says:  “Break down their altars, smash their sacred stones and burn their Astarete (Easter) poles in the fire; cut down the idols of their gods and WIPE THEIR NAMES from those places.  YOU MUST NOT WORSHIP YAHUWEH IN THEIR WAY”.  (Deuteronomy chapter 12)  He won’t and can’t look upon any mixture of light and darkness, paganism and truth.

 

Jeremiah 10:2-8 describes the festival of the Winter solstice, Christmas, in its pagan practice of cutting down and decorating the Christmas tree.  He begins with:  “Do not learn the way of the gentiles….”  These are just two of many passages throughout the Tenach (“Old Testament”).

 

The pagan gods and ways were meshed with belief in Messiah Yahushua very early on--even as soon as the end of the 1st century, inspired by the Greek Hellenists and Roman persecution.  By the time the Emperor Constantine became the 1st Pope over his new creation, the Roman Catholic Church, at the Council of Nicea, he enforced immediately that Easter take the place of Pesach, and the worship of Elohim be changed from Shabbat (Sabbath) to Sunday, the day of the sun god.  Jesus, to Constantine, was a fascinating new

sun god.  Mary became the Queen of Heaven--the new vestal virgin.  Peter and Paul took the place of the founders of Rome, Romulus and Remus.  Constantine made sure that the celebrations of the new Church  NOT have anything to do with the Torah, or Hebrew worship.  He made sure that no one in his Church celebrated Shabbat or kept the festivals of Yahuweh, under penalty of death.  The Jews were his new enemy, (the new villain to unite his empire) whom he called “Christ killers”, and he fashioned his sword into the shape of an ancient fertility symbol associated with Easter--the cross--to kill Jews, and anyone else who refused to be baptized into his new Church.  He set himself up as Pontifix Maximus, and ruled the church as Pope. 

 

The “crux” (Latin) or cross was an ancient fertility symbol that had to do with the worship of Easter.  In the spring, a certain star crossed through the constellation of the Virgin (Virgo)--Queen of Heaven, Mother of god--and impregnated her, so that on December 25th she could give birth to the sun god.  It was a yearly ritual.  The symbol of the early believers in Messiah was the Menorah--Revelation 1.

 

The symbol of the early believers, who were Torah-observant as were Yahushua and the Apostles, was NOT a pagan fertility symbol!  This fertility symbol went back to Nimrod and his wife and sun god child Tammuz.  This unholy trinity came through into the Roman church--the Father, the sun god who died and rose again each year, and the Mother of God, (mother of the sun god)--the Queen of Heaven.   

 

Constantine supposedly saw a cross in the sky and heard the words “In this sign conquer”.  Well, if he even had such a vision, he knew that sign had nothing to do with the Torah-observant believers in Yahushua. But, he needed a villain in order to unite his empire. Sounds like an idea out of the pit of hell actually.  He fashioned his sword into the shape of a cross and used it to slaughter Jews and believers in Yahushua who were Torah-observant.  The Roman Catholic Church instituted the Crusades and the Inquisition, to slaughter Jews and purge out of the church anyone who kept the Torah. Even today the Jesuits, which was created to defend the Vatican by the sword, are still the “hit men” of the Vatican, killing those in
”Catholic countries”, who won’t submit to the Pope.  They are responsible for the slaughter of millions of believers in Mexico, Central and South America and parts of Africa and other countries, which are basically Catholic.  In Mexico, many Jesuits have been seen carrying big machine guns. 

 

So, the “cross” and Easter to the pagans were inseparable.  Our Messiah, Yahushua, was nailed to a stake, a pole, a tree, with His hands over His head.  Even the Greek word “stauros” is true to that truth. It means a stake, pole or tree.  The word “cross” is only used in the Messianic Scriptures 28 times.  Yahushua was not nailed to a “cross”, a pole with a crossbeam.  The Jesus of the Church was nailed to a fertility symbol.  This is blasphemy. The crucifix was invented to blaspheme and mock the 2nd commandment of Yahuweh.  See Isaiah 45:20-22--it is talking about the crucifix.  It cannot save anyone.  Only Yahuweh can save anyone.

 

Easter is also known as “Mother Earth”.  She came to earth in an egg--now you believe that don’t you!  She was worshipped with eggs and bunnies--fertility symbols, and the cross symbol.  She is still worshipped today by New Age believers as Mother Earth, Gaia, or Mother Nature. 

 

John Henry Newman’s book, The Essay on the Development of Christine Doctrine, published in 1878, in chapter 8 states:  “The rulers of the Church from early times were prepared, should the occasion arise, to adopt, to imitate, or to sanctify the existing rites and customs of the population, as well as the philosophy of the educated class.  The use of temples and those dedicated to particular saints, and ornamented occasion with branches of trees (wreaths), incense, lamps, candles, votive offerings on recovering from illness, holy water, holy days and seasons (the entire Church calendar), use of calendars, processions, blessings on the fields, sacerdotal vestments, the ring in marriage, chants, the Kyrie Elesion--are all of Pagan origin, and sanctified by adoption into the Church”.  Now there it is!

 

Also another fantastic reference book is Alexander Hyslop’s The Two Babylons (1858).  It was always known by the Catholic “fathers” that Rome was the second Babylon.  Rome adopted the cultures of Babylon, Persia, and Greece, and parts of Egyptian worship into its system.  This adopted worship was then fused with Christianity, and became the basis of the Roman Catholic Church.  The Reformation did little to change this foundation, and so as history tells us, the Protestant Church and its 2,000 denominations, are the daughters of Rome. 

From Lew White’s Fossilized Customs, pages 13-14: “Christianity’s `Pagan Connection’ started with one man more than any other.  In 325CE, the Roman Emperor Constantine I convened what is now called the Nicene Council, gathering 220 elders together, in order to unify basic doctrines, and establish common

practices.   The universalizing produced the Roman Catholic Church (RCC).  The Latin word `Catholic’ means universal.  There was no `Catholic’ on planet earth prior to this Council.  Constantine’s Council sought to institute new tolerances for Pagan patterns, and outlaw the patterns that the Savior lived by and taught.  Constantine had already proclaimed (321CE) that now it came time to `syncretize’ more Paganism.”  The word “syncretize” (to bring everything into “sinc” or alignment) is used to mean: to absorb one belief into another, to merge or mesh belief.  Making the “sign of the cross”, for example, became popular by 310CE, among pagans and Hellenised believers, as part of this sycnretizing program.

 

The syncretizing of paganism with Messianic belief began before John died.  The Jews and gentiles who had adopted Greco/Roman culture hated the Torah, and so they were happy to receive eternal life through the one they labeled “Jesus”--the Greek god of healing--but they did not want to be obedient to the Kingdom Torah of Yahuweh.  So, there you have it--basic Christianity.  Basic replacement theology says that the Church replaced the Jews, the Torah, and the God of the Jews.  They replaced Yahuweh’s gospel with a cheap Gnostic, Platonic Greek Philosophy of grace and disobedience.

 

Later on a Jewish false messiah, in the 1700’s, named Shabbai Zvi, merged his belief with the Roman Church, and also with the new Illuminati movement.  His belief was that, as the new messiah, he could announce that God had thrown out the Torah, and now sexual freedom and all sorts of freedoms were allowed.  All “law” was lifted, he said, and people could believe and also engage in anything they wanted.   This, of course, played nicely into the hands of the Lucifer worshippers of today, who are the elite leaders of the one world government and the leaders of the one world religion, the Vatican.   

 

White says: “In order to blend practices into universal behavior, the real Shabbat was outlawed, along with Passover and other annual “Jewish” observances  Even Constantine’s own historian, Bishop Eusebius, admitted that Constantine was responsible for the day being changed from Shabbat to Sunday.

 

If Jews or Torah-observant people were caught keeping Shabbat, Passover, or other Festivals, or not eating pork, they were killed.  Even with the Church’s 300 years of Inquisition, the keeping of the Torah was met with torture and death. If you want more information about these things, I recommend Dr. Michael Brown’s book, “Our Hands Are Stained With Blood”. 

The Edict of Milan outlawed synagogues, but Constantine’s Council at Nicea (325CE) boldly outlawed the Torah.

 

On Easter Sunday, millions get up to see the sunrise, even though Messiah, who had been in the heart of the earth 72 hours, from Wednesday afternoon that week of Pesach, rose “early on the first day of the week”, or Saturday night.  The Jewish days start at sunset, so “early” meant that He probably came out of the grave about 8:00PM on Saturday night.  He wasn’t seen by the grieving women until sunrise, when they came to the tomb to bring spices for his body.

 

The ancient pagan rite of Easter-worship included the resurrection of the sun god.  His worshippers were to  face the eastern sun as it rose and cry “He is risen; He is risen from the dead”.  The winter was over, and the sun god had risen to lighten the world at the Spring Equinox.  At the same time, the mother goddess was re-impregnated to have another sun god at the winter Saturnalia, December 25th.

 

This year (2004), the Passover (Pesach) Seder (meal) will be on the night of April 5th, beginning the 14th of Nisan as instructed in Exodus 12.  Messiah Yahushua, and His disciples, kept this Pesach week, which represented the Feasts of Passover, Unleavened Bread, and First Fruits.  These three Festivals, or appointments by Yahuweh (see Leviticus 23) were designed as pictures of His death, burial and resurrection.  In I Corinthians chapter 5, Rav Sha’ul (Paul) tells us to keep the Feast of Passover.   In I Corinthians 15, Rav Sha’ul tells us that Yahushua is our First Fruits.  He was the “first fruits” from the dead unto resurrection and eternal life.

 

Isn’t it time to get 100% out of the pagan calendar of Rome and into Elohim’s calendar of joy and peace and freedom!!   Isn’t it time to be honest with yourself, and stop the pagan abominations that will end you up with no rewards, and no right to rule and reign with Him in His Kingdom, and maybe even damnation?

 

Once truth comes, you are responsible for obeying it.  It is time to discard Santa, and the Easter bunny, and the Sunday worship, and get out of the pagan whore church system that Father is soon to destroy with fire.  His wrath is coming on the disobedient and rebellious church system.  We must thoroughly repent and turn from of our involvement in what is an abomination to Him.   He calls the Church system a “whore” because it practices spiritual adultery against Him.  He demands that we have no other gods before Him.

 

I exhort you to be serious about obeying the Word of Yahuweh, and our Savior Yahushua.

 

I wish you Shalom as you celebrate His Festivals and Set-Apart days in His way.

 

Love to you all,

author, March 23, 2004