Easter: Right or Wrong?

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Easter: Right or Wrong?

The celebration of Easter Sunday is hailed as the most important religious holiday of what claims to be Christianity, yet the holiday does not have its origin from the teachings of Christ and his apostles, or anywhere else in the Holy Bible. The word "Easter," the English word for "Ishtar," is found only once in the King James Version of the Bible, (Acts 12:4) and there, it was intentionally mistranslated from the Greek word pascha, which in reality should have been Passover. It was correctly translated Passover in 28 other locations in the KJV New Testament. Easter was not celebrated as a “so called Christian holiday” until after the "Catholic Nicene Council" was convened in 325 AD. Prior to that time, and until today, the holiday by that name was and is a Pagan holiday.

This holiday was celebrated for thousands of years before the birth of Jesus Christ. Easter was a religious celebration to the Pagan "Queen of Heaven," the Mother of life, the Goddess Ishtar, or Artemis, the Goddess of fertility. Jesus Christ was crucified at the exact time the Passover lambs were being slaughtered for the "Passover" meal, on the day preceding the first day of the "Feast of Unleavened Bread," the fourth day of the week, before sundown. After sundown they ate the "Passover" meal. The next day was the first day of the "Feast of Unleavened Bread," a "high day," a special Holy Day Sabbath, the fifth day of the week. He resurrected on the third day of the "Feast of Unleavened Bread," on the seventh day Sabbath before sundown. Thus, he was in the grave (the heart of the earth) three days and three nights, as he had predicted to his disciples. (See Matthew 12;40) Christ and his followers kept the "Passover" and the "Feast of Unleavened Bread." They did not in any way keep the Pagan holiday of Easter. Christ's followers were forbidden to keep any Pagan customs or Pagan traditions. These customs and traditions were decreed to be abominations by God himself throughout the old testament. The Pagan customs of Easter eggs and the Easter rabbit are associated with this holiday due to their life giving reproductive characteristics. The inference that the Easter rabbit laid the Easter eggs is an abominable lie and has no place in true Christian worship. Easter sunrise service is an ancient pagan custom of worship to the Sun God "Tammuz" which at the time of the vernal equinox, was returning into the northern hemisphere from its journey to the south.

The vernal equinox is the time of the year when the sun crosses the equator in its trek northward. To the pagan religious worshippers, it is a time to celebrate the return of life and reproduction to animal and plant life as well. This is why Ishtar, or Easter, was chosen to be celebrated at this time of the year. To compound this abominable "anti-Christian" falsehood of Easter, we are told to believe that Christ was crucified on Friday (Good Friday) and rose on Easter Sunday morning,. Thus making Jesus Christ a liar when he said he would be in the grave three days and three nights. Even a child can count and see there are not three days and three nights between Friday and Sunday morning. The abominable lie is further compounded by saying that Christ resurrected on the morning of the first day of the week. The Bible in no way supports this claim.

If we are to believe the scriptures, Christ was put in the grave on Wednesday evening before sunset. If Christ was not a liar as some of the teachings of Christianity depict, then He rose from the grave on Saturday evening before sunset. If the grave was found open and empty early Sunday morning, a reasonable person can only conclude he resurrected the evening before Sunday morning, before the end of the Seventh day Sabbath, or Saturday afternoon before sundown. "True Christians," or "Followers Of Christ," which would like to follow the scriptures accurately, would do well to observe the God-ordained "Passover" and the "Feast of Unleavened Bread." This is the holiday celebration which would correctly commemorate the "death, burial, and resurrection of Jesus Christ. The leaders of Christianity have deceived their followers into worshipping at "Easter" instead of "Passover" and the "Feast of Unleavened Bread," to commemorate the "death, burial, and the resurrection of Jesus Christ."