Easter Sunday, sunrise services, eggs, bunnies, baskets, hot cross buns and a big ham dinner. What do any of these have in common with the death and resurrection of our Savior, Yahshua? Answer: Nothing. Nothing at all. In fact every single thing has it's origins long before He was even born, let alone his death. They have their roots far back in ancient Babylon with the emergence of goddess worship starting with Semiramis, the wife of Nimrod and mother of Tammuz.
One of the many names of Semiramis is Isis. Isis is translated as Easter. In Roman times there was a great spring festival to the goddess Isis and people worshiped the spring and the end of the long, cold winter. Eggs and bunnies were icons of fertility. This spring fertility festival was important to the people of ancient times because they believed if they worshiped their gods and goddesses then they would have abundance in their fields and their flocks in the coming year.
When the Roman Emperor Constantine made Christianity the state religion in the mid-300's A.D. he strove to merge all of the different pagan religions into this new religion. He and the Bishops of Rome took all of the pagan festivals and worked to line them up with something that both the Christians and the pagans would accept. He knew that without unity in religion that his government would be a failure as it was so fractured at the time. Constantine knew that unless he incorporated much of the pagan religion
into this new state religion that the people would revolt. He did it
not because he believed but because he wanted a peaceful reign.
The pagan spring festival of fertility and the goddess Isis became Easter and the celebration of the Saviors death and resurrection. This has several problems attached to it:
- Our Savior, Yahshua, died and was resurrected at the time of Passover. Easter is celebrated not according to the Passover but according to the Roman calendar.
- Our Savior, Yahshua, was in the ground for three days and three nights and was not resurrected on a Sunday morning but a Sabbath evening. The religious Easter says that He died on Friday afternoon and rose on Sunday morning. No matter how you try to figure that out it is only 2 nights and 1 full day plus 2 parts of other days. This was done to fit their pagan calendar and not based on the truth. Yahshua died on Passover. He was put into the grave just before sunset because sunset marked the arrival of the first day of Unleavened Bread - a high Sabbath Feast Day. No one could do any work on that day. Three full days and nights later he rose just before sunset. Sunset resurrection not sunrise. Sunrise is very important to pagan festivals. Remember that much of the pagan religions revolve around sun worship.
Ask yourself what these pagan icons such as bunnies and eggs have to do with our Savior? Why have churches all over adopted these symbols of paganism into their worship practices? This is exactly what the Israelites did during the time of the prophet Jeremiah and he constantly warned them that Yahwhe was angry with what they were doing.
The father of lies is Satan. Satan is wily and sneaky. He does not hold up a big banner that says follow my pagan ways and come away from following the true God Yahweh. He has cute little bunny rabbits made out of yummy chocolate, adorable little girls dressed up in Easter bonnets and little children decorating colorful eggs, never saying that all of these things are things that he loves because he knows the truth. He knows that he is leading people away from true worship of the true Creator.
He has millions of people get up early on Easter morning and run to churches who have sunrise celebrations. The sun, which is Tammuz, which is of course Satan in human form. Then they have Easter eggs hunts on church lawns or hand out egg shaped jelly beans which have colors named after something that our Savior did. Ouch! Then they have big dinners with the centerpiece being a ham, something that our Savior would never have touched. We have bought all of the lies from the father of lies.
Again, many will say, but we have turned something pagan into something good and godly because we don't think of those pagan things when we do it, we think of our Savior. OK then I will again say that is exactly what the Hebrews used to do and Yahweh hated it then and He hates it now. Read the book of Jeremiah. All through the book Jeremiah is warning the Hebrews to get rid of all of the pagan customs they had adopted in their worship of Him. Get rid of them or else. They refused and the "or else" happened. They were taken into captivity. First the northern kingdom of the 10 northern tribes. Then Judah and the southern kingdom were taken into Babylon. Yahweh is serious about how He wants worship of Him to be. We are not allowed to make it the way we want it. We are not allowed to take pagan traditions and turn them into something we want in order to worship Him the way we want. It's NOT about us. We are not he Creator of all things.
Joshua 24:14 And now, fear Yahweh, serve Him in perfection and in truth, and put away the mighty ones which your fathers served beyond the River and in Mitsrayim, and serve Yahweh!
Joshua 24:15 And if it seems evil in your eyes to serve Yahweh, choose for yourselves this day whom you are going to serve, whether the mighty ones which your fathers served that were beyond the River, or the mighty ones of the Amorites, in whose land you dwell. But I and my house, we serve Yahweh.
When we choose to serve Yahweh we must serve Him how He wants to be served, not how we want to serve Him. That is not our right. The Word has many examples of people wanting to do things their own way rather than His way and every time they lose out. When you choose whom you will serve you are also choosing your eternal destination. So please choose wisely.
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