Most Americans hip to Easter’s real meaning?
‘the true knowledge has become abundant in the time of the end.’—Daniel 12:4.
http://freethoughtnation.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=322:most-americans-hip-to-easters-real-meaning&catid=47:astrotheology
"thank you ISHTAR BUNNY!" HEHEHE….Fertility cults of mystery Babylon Yeah babble on, and ON the subject of some one else profiting from your ignorance.
What does The fertility rights of Rabbits, Colored Eggs, Ishtar Bonnets…have to do with our Lord and King Jesus Christ?
What is the origin of Easter and the customs associated with it?
The Encyclopædia Britannica comments: “There is no indication of the observance of the Easter festival in the New Testament, or in the writings of the apostolic Fathers. The sanctity of special times was an idea absent from the minds of the first Christians.”—(1910), Vol. VIII, p. 828.
The Catholic Encyclopedia tells us: “A great many pagan customs, celebrating the return of spring, gravitated to Easter. The egg is the emblem of the germinating life of early spring. . . . The rabbit is a pagan symbol and has always been an emblem of fertility.”—(1913), Vol. V, p. 227.
In the book The Two Babylons, by Alexander Hislop, we read: “What means the term Easter itself? It is not a Christian name. It bears its Chaldean origin on its very forehead. Easter is nothing else than Astarte, one of the titles of Beltis, the queen of heaven, whose name, . . . as found by Layard on the Assyrian monuments, is Ishtar. . . . Such is the history of Easter. The popular observances that still attend the period of its celebration amply confirm the testimony of history as to its Babylonian character. The hot cross buns of Good Friday, and the dyed eggs of Pasch or Easter Sunday, figured in the Chaldean rites just as they do now.”—(New York, 1943), pp. 103, 107, 108; compare Jeremiah 7:18.
Beliefs and Customs That Displease God : http://www.watchtower.org/e/rq/article_11.htm
You mean the original, Pagan meaning of Easter or what Easter has come to be known as? I like to celebrate my risen Lord in a variety of ways.
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I already knew this. This is why I laugh at Christians during "their" holidays.
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Seems like we had this similar discussion around Christmas.
Gosh, Just look it up in Meriam Webster Dictionary.
Easter: a feast that commemorates Christ’s resurrection and is observed with variations of date due to different calendars on the first Sunday after the paschal full moon
Without dictionaries we can have no understanding of what words mean. If in doubt of a word’s meaning consult a standard dictionary.
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To just keep it real here, christianity stole "Easter" from the Pagan Greeks.
There are no kings except what your masters plant into your mind.
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What is the origin of Easter and the customs associated with it?
The Encyclopædia Britannica comments: “There is no indication of the observance of the Easter festival in the New Testament, or in the writings of the apostolic Fathers. The sanctity of special times was an idea absent from the minds of the first Christians.”—(1910), Vol. VIII, p. 828.
The Catholic Encyclopedia tells us: “A great many pagan customs, celebrating the return of spring, gravitated to Easter. The egg is the emblem of the germinating life of early spring. . . . The rabbit is a pagan symbol and has always been an emblem of fertility.”—(1913), Vol. V, p. 227.
In the book The Two Babylons, by Alexander Hislop, we read: “What means the term Easter itself? It is not a Christian name. It bears its Chaldean origin on its very forehead. Easter is nothing else than Astarte, one of the titles of Beltis, the queen of heaven, whose name, . . . as found by Layard on the Assyrian monuments, is Ishtar. . . . Such is the history of Easter. The popular observances that still attend the period of its celebration amply confirm the testimony of history as to its Babylonian character. The hot cross buns of Good Friday, and the dyed eggs of Pasch or Easter Sunday, figured in the Chaldean rites just as they do now.”—(New York, 1943), pp. 103, 107, 108; compare Jeremiah 7:18.
Beliefs and Customs That Displease God : http://www.watchtower.org/e/rq/article_11.htm
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Barna Survey indicates most Amercicans clueless about Easter:
http://www.barna.org/barna-update/article/13-culture/356-most-americans-consider-easter-a-religious-holiday-but-fewer-correctly-identify-its-meaning
"the time of the end" is Christ: is the end of the law: Rom 10:4
What came by Jesus Christ is grace and truth, not law and lie.
As for Easter, it’s so problem-attic it should be canceled
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http://www.godshew.org/EasterProblems.html
Sadly you show you do not know the hypocrisy being practiced here!!
Easter is set by the first full moon after the vernal equinox. This is the one day in the year when day and night are roughly equal!
It varies by more than a month over the years and so it simply cannot represent the date of anyone’s death!!!
It is in fact a combination of several pagan festivals most notably the spring festival.
The name Easter comes from “Eastre” an Anglo-Saxon pagan goddess. Also the Norse goddess,Ostara who took her name from the Teutonic lunar goddess Eostre
Even the Chinese have the festival of Ching Ming where flowers and sweets are put on their ancestors graves!!
The egg and the rabbit are symbols of springtime and rebirth along with the custom of giving flowers etc!!
The Venerable Bede, an early Christian writer pointed out that the Christian church absorbed Pagan practices when it found the population unwilling to give up the festivals. Thus a lot of what Christians now see as Christians practices are in fact pagan!!!
Fun to watch the Christians worshiping a pagan festival though – makes it just like Christmas when they do the same thing!!!
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Most of the celebrants of Easter do not have a clue about what they are doing.
Any sane, honest, and reasonably intelligent person can read a calendar. When is Passover this year? It was 3/28 after sunset. When did the events of the crucifixion week take place? During Passover, and the beginnings of the Days of Unleavened Bread, which started tonight 3/29 at sunset. What is being celebrated next weekend????? Not anything that has to do with Messiah Yahshua! The concept of a Good Friday crucifixion and a Sunday morning resurrection is a complete falsehood that has led to the deception of those who would be followers of the Christ for centuries. It is one of the traditions of men that we are warned against following. Christians should celebrate Passover as did our Savior.
The truth is that the resurrection was near the end of the weekly 7th day Sabbath (our Saturday) exactly 72 hours after He was placed in the tomb. Anyone who tells you anything else is calling Christ a liar. If it was NOT 72 hours, then He is NOT your Savior. The only sign that He gave that proves His identity is Matthew 12:40. Three days and three nights cannot possibly fit into Friday evening to before sunrise Sunday. You cannot even count, if you believe in a Friday crucifixion, Sunday as a day because the scriptures say He was already risen BEFORE the women got to the tomb and that it was still dark.
Several links where you can study the truth for yourself:
http://www.tomorrowsworld.org/cgi-bin/tw…
http://www.ucg.org/booklets/JC/
To truly understand what went on during the week of the crucifixion, you need to study the Biblical Holy Days:
http://media.pcog.org/en/Literature/PAG_…
To give you a basic overview, because you really need to study this vital truth for yourself, in the Bible, the days start and end at sunset:
Crucifixion week:
Our Tuesday evening (Sunset started the 14th day of Exodus 10-12) Yeshua ate the Passover with His disciples and instituted the bread and wine ceremony as a memorial to His death. That night He was betrayed, arrested, taken to the High Priest’s house. The next morning (our Wednesday) very early before the morning sacrifices began at the Temple, He was taken to the Sanhedrin. Peter denied Him, most likely about the time the Temple Crier (Not a rooster) was calling for the morning sacrifices to begin.
After being shuttled back and forth between Herod and Pilate, He is finally condemned, tortured, and crucified and died on the cross late Wednesday afternoon and was placed in the tomb before the sunset that ended that day. This was the preparation day for the 1st High Sabbath of the year, the first day of Unleavened Bread (Again read the Exodus account and Leviticus 23).
This period of time from sunrise Wednesday to sunset Wednesday is also the preparation day for the High day Sabbath mentioned in John’s account.
Night 1
Sunset Wednesday to Sunrise Thursday. The High Day Sabbath, the first day of Unleavened Bread, or the Passover of the Jews, mentioned in John’s account (19:31) began at this sunset
Day1
Sunrise Thursday to sunset Thursday. It is still the High day Sabbath.
Night 2
Sunset Thursday to sunrise Friday began the preparation day for the weekly Sabbath.
Day 2
Sunrise Friday to sunset Friday. This is the daytime portion of the preparation day for the weekly Sabbath, during which the disciple prepared the spices for the final burial of Yeshua.
Night 3
Sunset Friday to sunrise Saturday, the weekly Sabbath began at sunset Friday and the disciples rested according to the commandment.
Day 3
Sunrise Saturday (Sabbath)to just before sunset Saturday (Sabbath), 72 hours after being placed in the grave before the first Holy Day ends the 3rd day.
This is so easily proven from the Bible that it is ridiculous that people still believe in a Good Friday/Easter Sunday scenario. Like so many other practices and beliefs of traditional Christianity, it is rooted in pagan worship of heathen gods and has no Biblical basis whatsoever.
Bottom line; Which do we love more, God and the truth or the false traditions of man? Should those professing to follow the Creator God and His Son not take heed of the following warning?
De 12:30 Take heed to thyself that thou be not snared by following them, after that they be destroyed from before thee; and that thou enquire not after their gods, saying, How did these nations serve their gods? even so will I do likewise.
http://www.coghomeschool.org/site/cog_ar…
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Americans might be "hip" to the real meaning of Easter, but it doesn’t stop them for celebrating and participating. Just check out the malls and grocery stores.
Truth seekers know it’s a pagan celebration….therefore we shun it!
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The fertility rights of Rabbits, Colored Eggs, Ishtar Bonnets…have to do with our Lord and King Jesus Christ?
Jesus Christ! Who was He?
Apart from being the greatest Man that ever lived.
He was also the most Powerful!
Who else in entire history has ever gone on record as having stilled a raging storm at sea with a mere gesture – no one.
Not satisfied by attempting to insult Him and His God through pagan practices at Xmas supposedily to honour Jesus by attempting to ascribe Saternalia worship and all it’s filth to Him, persons led by pagan god’s, now attempt to transfer Astrate fertility worship to Him.
Yet those who use these pagan practices dare associate Astarte fertility worship with Jesus Christ.
Astarte was associated with sacred prostitution, as is also the case with Ishtar. In the Book of Genesis, the Jewish patriarch Judah is portrayed as having sexual intercourse with his daughter-in-law Tamar, who has disguised herself as a sacred prostitute—most probably of Astarte—at the town of Timnath; and from this union the lineage of Judah is perpetuated.
The biblical writers speak against Astarte frequently, citing Israelite worship of her as the cause of God’s abandonment of His people during the period of judges:
They forsook the Lord, the God of their fathers, who had brought them out of Egypt. They followed and worshiped various gods of the peoples around them. They provoked the Lord to anger because they forsook him and served Baal and the Ashtoreths. In his anger against Israel the Lord handed them over to raiders who plundered them. (Judges 2:12-14)
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Pagan worship is not acceptable to Almighty God, nor to His Son, Jesus Christ.