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?
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
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 (
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
sun god. Mary
became the Queen of Heaven--the new vestal virgin. Peter and Paul took the place of the founders
of
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.
”Catholic countries”, who won’t submit to the Pope. They are responsible for the slaughter of
millions of believers in
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
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.
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
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
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
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
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,