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Easter is not a Christian holiday.
The word Easter is not even scriptural; it does not exist in true translations
of the bible. Easter was smuggled into the King James Bible in Acts 12:4, where
it was substituted for the original word, “Passover:” “When (Herod) had
apprehended (Peter), he put him in prison, and delivered him to four
quaternions of soldiers to keep him; intending after Easter to bring him forth
to the people.”
As a
matter of fact, the word Easter only appears in the King James Version of
English Bible translations. It does not exist in any other English Bible
translation. Even the King James Version was forced to remove it from its
revised version, known as the New King James Version.
Queen of Heaven
Most
Christians are unaware that Easter is a pagan festival surreptitiously merged
with Christianity. Noah’s son, Ham, married a woman called Ashtoreth. In some
cultures, Ashtoreth is called Ishtar, which is transliterated in English as
Easter. Ashtoreth made herself “the Queen of Heaven,” the goddess of fertility
and became an object of worship. This idol worship of Ashtoreth, later
camouflaged in Christendom as Easter, is specifically forbidden in the
scriptures.
God says: “The women knead 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. Do they provoke me to anger? Do
they not provoke themselves, to the shame of their own faces? Therefore thus
says the Lord GOD: Behold, my anger and my fury will be poured out on this
place.” (Jeremiah
7:17-20).
God punished Israel for succumbing
to the worship of Ashtoreth (Ishtar): “They forsook the LORD and served Baal
and the Ashtoreths. And the anger of the LORD was hot against Israel. So he delivered
them into the hands of plunderers who despoiled them.” (Judges 2:13-14).
Accordingly, Samuel counselled Israel to forsake Ashtoreth
(Ishtar) worship: “Then Samuel spoke to all the house of Israel, saying, ‘If
you return to the LORD with all your hearts, then put away the foreign gods and
the Ashtoreths from among you, and prepare your hearts for the LORD, and serve
him only; and he will deliver you from the hand of the Philistines.” (1 Samuel 7:3).
Sun worship
Ham and
Ashtoreth gave birth to a son called Nimrod. After Ham’s death, Nimrod married
Ashtoreth, his own mother, and became a powerful king of ancient Babylon. When
Nimrod was also killed, Ashtoreth deified him as sun-god or life-giver. Indeed,
Easter means “movement towards the rising sun.” It pertains to the religious
rites of people who worship the sun and the signs of the heavens.
Sun worship is expressly forbidden
in the scriptures. Ezekiel says: “I was then led into the temple’s inner
courtyard, where I saw about twenty-five men standing near the entrance,
between the porch and the altar. Their backs were to the LORD’s temple, and
they were bowing down to the rising sun. God said, ‘Ezekiel, it’s bad enough
that the people of Judah are doing these disgusting things.’” (Ezekiel 8:16-17).
Nevertheless,
following this pagan tradition, “Sunrise Services” are conducted on Easter
Sunday mornings in many Christian denominations.
Hot crossed buns
In Western
Europe, it is traditional to eat hot-crossed buns on Easter Sunday morning.
This is where we get the limerick: “Hot crossed buns; hot crossed buns. One
a-penny, two a-penny, hot crossed buns.”
These
small sweet buns are usually decorated with solar crosses made of white icing.
They were consecrated in ancient Greece to the goddess of the sunrise. In
ancient Babylon, the buns were offered to the Queen of Heaven; the goddess of
Easter.
Pagan Lent
After the
death of Nimrod, Ashtoreth (Ishtar) gave birth to Tammuz, a son she claimed was
Nimrod reborn. When Tammuz was killed by a wild boar, Ashtoreth instituted an
annual ritual of 40 days of mourning for Baal worshippers, when no meat was
allowed to be eaten. This pagan tradition of “weeping for Tammuz” is
specifically proscribed in the scriptures.
God said to Ezekiel: “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 LORD’S house; and to my dismay, women were
sitting there weeping for Tammuz.” (Ezekiel 8:13-14).
Nevertheless, weeping for Tammuz
has been absorbed into Christianity by the institution of Lent; a 40-day period
of fasting and prayer observed in some Christian denominations as a prelude to
Easter. Just like Easter, Lent is not scriptural. Neither the word nor the
custom exist in the Bible. Lent begins, according to Christian tradition, on
Ash Wednesday; which is also pagan. The ashes were said to be the seed of the Indian
fire god, Agni, deemed to have the power to forgive sins.
Easter egg
Because of
their prolific nature in reproduction, rabbits were associated with Ishtar, the
goddess of fertility. This is where Christians borrowed the tradition of the
Easter bunny. Ancient Babylonians believed an egg fell into the Euphrates River
from the moon. Queen Ishtar was apparently “hatched” from this egg. This moon
egg was called Ishtar’s egg; which became in Christendom Easter egg.
Shifting date
Have you
noticed that your birthday falls on different days from year to year? So how
come the celebration of Easter always falls on Friday and on Sunday? Moreover,
unlike your birthday, the date for Easter changes from year to year. Sometimes
it is in March; sometimes in April.
Easter
moves from year to year because the date has nothing to do with the death and
resurrection of Jesus but with the changing cycles of the moon. Easter is
celebrated on the first Sunday after the first Vernal Equinox full moon, which
is consecrated by pagans as Ishtar’s Sunday. This signifies the astronomical
arrival of spring. The pagan belief is that the sun dies at winter (Christmas)
and is reborn at spring (Easter).
Good Saturday
Good
Friday is also a misnomer. Jesus was not crucified on a Friday. The week in
which he was crucified contained two Sabbaths and he was crucified on a
Wednesday. The following Thursday was a high Sabbath day; the first day of
unleavened bread.
Jesus did not resurrect on a
Sunday. He resurrected on a Saturday, which was a regular weekly Sabbath day,
different from the high Sabbath of the preceding Thursday. Mary Magdalene
discovered the empty tomb on Sunday morning, while it was still dark.
Christians should realise that from Friday evening to Sunday morning does not
constitute three days and three nights in the grave, but one day and two
nights.
The
decision to change the day of the resurrection to Sunday was simply a
continuation of the Babylonian tradition. Nimrod was ostensibly resurrected on
a Sunday; a day devoted to worshipping the sun. By AD 321, Constantine
established Sunday as part of the official state religion, and the Sabbath was
statutorily changed from Saturday to Sunday.
Christians should desist from
celebrating Easter: “Thus says the LORD: ‘Learn not the way of the nations, nor
be dismayed at the signs of the heavens because the nations are dismayed at
them, for the customs of the peoples are vanity.’” (Jeremiah 10:2-3).
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