Holidays - Easter Explanation - by Jennifer Lang

 

EASTER:

        Easter is the other most prominent holiday that Christians celebrate that they think relates to Yahushuwa, and they combine pagan worship with it. In reality, it has NOTHING to do with our Messiah Yahushuwa. The very word ‘Easter’ comes from ‘Eostre’ also spelled ‘Eastre’ or ‘Astarte’, who is the demonic pagan spring goddess or symbol of fertility (pictured right), also called ‘Venus’ (pictured left), Ishtar, Isis, Beltis, and Aphrodite - different names in different countries. Nimrod’s mother/wife, Semiramis, is said to have reincarnated into the Spring Goddess, called the Queen of Heaven, Mother of God, Eostre (Easter), and the Easter celebration is about her, not about the resurrection of Yahushuwa. Pagan Babylonian legend says that after Semiramis died, she fell from heaven into the Euphrates River in an egg. See the section about Easter Eggs to learn more. Easter was a celebration of the conception of Tammuz and was a drunken sex orgy. The women had to lay down and have sex with male worshippers, who gave them money (temple prostitution). They sacrificed babies and drank their blood. The date of Easter Sunday is usually the first Sunday after the first Full Moon occurring on or after the March equinox.

        Easter is mentioned once in the Bible, but only out of translation error. In Acts 12:4 where it says “And when he had apprehended him, 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” the word ‘Easter’ should have been translated ‘Passover’ or ‘Pasch’. It was translated Easter in the King James Version because that is what the translators called it, not because the original Greek text called it Easter. It was not called Easter in the Bible days. The New International Version, New American Standard Version and the Amplified Bible all correctly translate it as the Passover, because those ancient people celebrated the resurrection of Yahushuwa at the time of the Passover, on the Feast of Firstfruits, which falls on Sunday during Passover season. There is often around a month’s difference between the time of the Creator’s Passover and the pagan Easter, although occasionally they fall on the same day. After violence and bloodshed, the festival of the pagan goddess superseded the celebration which honored Yahushuwa.

       Easter actually has NOTHING to do with the death and resurrection of our Messiah. The Passover does. He died on the Passover (as our Passover Lamb), which was on a Wednesday in that year, He was in the grave for three days and three nights, as it says in the book of Jonah.

 

1 Corinthians 5:7-8 “Purge out therefore the old leaven, that ye may be a new lump, as ye are unleavened. For even Yahushuwa our passover is sacrificed for us: Therefore let us keep the feast, not with old leaven, neither with the leaven of malice and wickedness; but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and t truth.”

John 1:29 “The next day John saw Yahushuwa coming toward him and said, "Behold! The Lamb of Yahuwah who takes away the sin of the world!”

Jonah 1:17 “Now Yahuwah had prepared a great fish to swallow Jonah. And Jonah was in the belly of the fish three days and three nights.”

Matthew 12:40 “For as Jonas was three days and three nights in the whale's belly; so shall the Son of man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.”

Three days and three nights is seventy-two hours. He did NOT die on a ‘good Friday’ and then raise from the dead on Sunday morning, a day and a half later! Simple math! He rose from the dead as the first day of the week was beginning (early Sunday morning, which on the Hebrew calendar begins at sunset Saturday), and which is called the Feast of Firstfruits (as He was the firstfruits to raise from the dead).

 

            1 Corinthians 15:20  (RNV) “But now the Anointed is risen from the dead and has become the firstfruits of those who have fallen asleep.”

 

        Feast of Firstfruits is always on a Sunday during Passover week, regardless of when Passover begins. Celebrating Passover is one of the commandments of Yahuwah. Celebrating Easter is forbidden, because it’s a pagan holiday. You need to study out the Feast days of Yahuwah and do them instead of pagan holidays. You say “Oh no! It’s too complicated!” No it’s not. It’s just new to you. You have done the wrong holidays all of your life so it’s time to make a change and start obeying Yahuwah and doing His commanded holy days instead of manmade pagan holidays. It’s not hard. We don’t have to do the sacrifices part of them, nor go to ‘the temple’, so they are not complicated at all.

        Yahushuwa instructs us to keep the Passover in remembrance of Him. This is NOT communion as the Catholics taught us. 1 Corinthians 11:25 “After the same manner also he took the cup, when he had supped, saying, this cup is the new testament in my blood: this do ye, as oft as ye drink it, in remembrance of me.” And we are instructed by Paul to keep the Feast of Unleavened Bread, which starts the day after Passover and lasts a week, and is considered part of the Passover. 1 Corinthians 5:7 “Purge out therefore the old leaven, that ye may be a new lump, as ye are unleavened. For even Christ our passover is sacrificed for us: Therefore let us keep the feast, not with old leaven, neither with the leaven of malice and wickedness; but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.”

        Ministers like to teach that we are not instructed to keep the Passover – that it is a ‘Jewish’ holiday, but these verses show that even in the New Testament we are instructed to do it. If it wasn’t in the N.T., that wouldn’t mean we aren’t to do it, but this is some extra confirmation for doubting minds. Now, even though it is not a weekly communion, I personally do not think it is a bad thing to take the bread and wine more often than once a year (without the rest of the Passover activities) because if it helps us ‘remember’ what He did for us on the cross more often, that would be a good thing, right? I know people who would disagree with me and say no, just on Passover, but I don’t see a reason why it would do any harm. I don’t want to call that ‘communion’ since it’s a Catholic term and not a Biblical term, but I’d say I was taking the bread and wine in remembrance of Yahushuwa’s sacrifice for us.

        I learned long ago that Easter is a pagan holiday devoted to a fertility goddess (demon) named Ishtar, pronounced Easter, also called Astarte, and it was the Assyrian and Babylonian goddess of fertility and sex. Christians were commanded by the rulers to celebrate it instead of Passover in 341 C.E. Babies were sacrificed at the altar of Ishtar and their blood was used to dye eggs with. That is where the tradition of coloring Easter eggs came from. And the rabbits represent fertility and sex. Ishtar was believed to be both male and female, and have the power to change people’s genders, which sounds just like what people are doing in today’s times!

        By the way, Easter is an important day to Satanists and witches as well as Halloween. Their spells are more powerful and successful, their activities are more intense. Halloween is a ‘high holiday’ for them, and Easter isn’t far behind. A LOT of demonic power goes on as they do their rituals with the help of demonic entities. It would be beneficial if believers would spend some time on those days in intercessory prayer for the victims of ritual abuse.

        I studied on that topic in the past and learned that the victims and also former leaders of the occult go through much torment during Easter and Halloween. Workers in psychiatric hospitals said that especially during Easter the patients would suffer greatly with mental breakdowns from the memories combined with demonic power operating during those times. Police said they have a lot of occult activities where people are tortured or sacrificed on those holidays, that they have to investigate. The evil that goes with Halloween and Easter is not just a thing of the past. It’s still going on. Let’s refuse to have anything to do with these holidays except for prayer for the victims!

        I knew beforehand that Easter was a pagan holiday. I had stopped calling Easter by that pagan goddesses’ name and celebrated it as Resurrection Day for several years. All I knew about Passover was that it was the day Yahuwah passed over the houses of the Hebrew children when He killed all the firstborns of the Egyptians, and had to do with the Hebrews fleeing slavery in Egypt, crossing the Red Sea and the water drowning the Egyptians. But I didn’t know anything about how the Passover was relevant concerning Yahushuwa, because the pastors, teachers and Christians I met never taught me.

        Then one day someone told me about how Yahushuwa had died on the Passover as our Passover lamb, and it was not associated at all with Easter until Constantine forced them to be combined, and it suddenly made sense, so I started celebrating Passover instead of Easter. Now that wasn’t hard! Christians make things seem so complicated because they want to ignore the word of Yahuwah and keep their own traditions! Most people consider it a 'Jewish holiday', but all of Yahuwah's people are commanded to celebrate it. When we get 'born-again' we become one of His people, and are expected to follow His instructions/commandments.

 

        The EASTER BUNNY has nothing to do with Yahushuwa. Nothing about Easter does. And what do eggs have to do with rabbits? The rabbits don't know! The bunny is a fertility symbol. Rabbits are known for producing many offspring, so they are very fertile. Also, because hares are said to be born with their eyes open, the Egyptians considered them sacred to their ‘open-eyed moon’. Since Easter’s date is set by the moon’s orbit, the hares were associated with it. They were sacred to the goddess Eostre as well, and people believed they laid eggs for the good children on the evening before Easter. 

        Now we call this the Easter bunny and people tell children the lie that he brings baskets of eggs and goodies for them. They hide eggs all over the house and yard for children to hunt for, telling them the bunny brought them. The Easter bunny should not be included when celebrating the resurrection of Yahushuwa, not even for the children.

        EASTER EGGS have other meanings also. The egg was part of the Druids’ sacred emblem of their order. The Greeks and Egyptians used eggs in their religious rites and hung them up in their temples for mystic purposes.

There is an Egyptian story that says a huge egg fell out of heaven and landed in the Euphrates River. It was rolled to the bank by fish, sat on by doves and hatched, and Ishtar, the reincarnation of Semiramis, was born from it. They changed her name to Astarte (she actually has many names as I’ve already mentioned), the Syrian fertility goddess, one of the names that Easter came from. Eggs are also symbols of fertility.

Another story is that the egg represents the ark that saved Noah’s family during the great flood, as the egg saves the baby chick until it hatches. As the fathers of the whole world were inside the ark (the rest of mankind was drowned), the egg contained the elements of the new world inside it. As the ark floated, the egg floated until it came to shore and the dove hatched it. The dove in this story represents the dove that brought Noah the first twig of greenery after the flood subsided. 

I think this is just a sugar-coated story that makes it seem Biblical, and some use eggs on Passover because of this, but this is not okay. It’s just incorporating the pagan ritual into a Passover activity, and the Passover instructions in the Bible do not say to do this. It amazes me how the people took these two beliefs of Easter demonic pagan worship and the worship of Yahuwah, and tried to make them into one. Yet the Roman church consecrated the egg of Astarte as a symbol of the resurrection of Yahushuwa. Pope Paul V even had them pray at Easter:

“Bless, O Lord, we beseech Thee, this thy creature of eggs, that it may become a wholesome sustenance unto thy servants, eating it in remembrance of our Lord Jesus Christ…”₁₁₄

 

        Coloring the eggs comes from the pagan goddess requiring the people to sacrifice babies and use their blood to color eggs with red blood, in honor of her. The pagans put colored eggs in the fields to promote fertility of the crops, and they were hidden in the nests of rabbits (another fertility symbol) so the ‘evil spirits’ would not find them.

From all these different pagan beliefs we got our tradition of coloring Easter eggs, hiding them, hunting for them and eating them on Easter Sunday. If your children do Easter egg hunts they are participating in a pagan ritual. 

There is really nothing wrong with colored eggs as a form of artwork, but why not color them another time of year just for the fun of it, and celebrate the resurrection of Yahushuwa during the Passover on the Feast of Firstfruits, when He really did rise again?

        EASTER HAM - After Semiramis was believed to reincarnate as Eostre (Eastre, Astarte, Ishtar – there are so many names for the same pagan gods that it drives me nuts!), she got pregnant by the rays of the sun-god Baal (the ascended Nimrod – her husband/son) and had another son named Tammuz. He was believed to be killed by a wild boar one day when he was hunting, and Astarte told the people that Tammuz and his father were with the worshippers in the lamp flame as Father, Son and Spirit. They celebrated this day eating ham, because Tamuz was killed by a wild boar.

        LENT was a fasting time that lasted forty days during Easter season. The tradition of fasting for Lent is a tradition that comes from the Babylonian god Tammuz. He died at the age of 40, and every day of Lent is considered one year of Tammuz’ life and the time is spent in fasting meat to weep and mourn for Tammuz. They believed he was in purgatory (a holding place for the dead that doesn’t exist) and that they could help Tammuz get out of there.        

        Some people, such as the Catholics, still observe this, yet it came directly from the Babylonian god and goddess worship. The worshippers made the sign of the cross over their chest. The Catholics observe this also. It had nothing to do with the resurrection of Yahushuwa. This has nothing to do with other kinds of fasting. Fasting is a good way to make your spirit more sensitive to the Holy Spirit. It also helps you to be able to cast some kinds of demons out of people.

 

Mark 9:25-29 “When Yahushuwa saw that the people came running together, he rebuked the foul spirit, saying unto him, Thou dumb and deaf spirit, I charge thee, come out of him, and enter no more into him. And the spirit cried, and rent him sore, and came out of him: and he was as one dead; insomuch that many said, He is dead. But Yahushuwa took him by the hand, and lifted him up; and he arose. And when he was come into the house, his disciples asked him privately, Why could not we cast him out? And he said unto them, This kind can come forth by nothing, but by prayer and fasting.”

 

The fasting which takes place because of the observance of Lent comes from pagan worship. Believers should celebrate the resurrection of Yahushuwa during Passover week, on the Feast of Firstfruits, and ‘feast’ not ‘fast’ (because the Bible has no commandment to fast during this time.)

Ezekiel 8:14-18 deals with the practice of Lent:

“Then he brought me to the door of the gate of Yahuwah’s house which was toward the north; and, behold, there sat women weeping for Tammuz. Then said he unto me, Hast thou seen this, O son of man? turn thee yet again, and thou shalt see greater abominations than these. And he brought me into the inner court of Yahuwah’s house, and, behold, at the door of the temple of Yahuwah, between the porch and the altar, were about five and twenty men, with their backs toward the temple of Yahuwah, and their faces toward the east; and they worshipped the sun toward the east. Then he said unto me, Hast thou seen this, O son of man? Is it a light thing to the house of Judah that they commit the abominations which they commit here? for they have filled the land with violence, and have returned to provoke me to anger: and, lo, they put the branch to their nose. Therefore will I also deal in fury: mine eye shall not spare, neither will I have pity: and though they cry in mine ears with a loud voice, yet will I not hear them.”

 

        HOT CROSS BUNS are made for Good Friday, the day most people think that Yahushuwa died, but they were used to worship Eastre fifteen-hundred years before Yahushuwa. They were offered to the gods, and were called ‘Boun’, and are where we got our word ‘bun’.

 

Jeremiah 7:17-21 talks about the hot cross buns and pagan worship:

“Seest thou not what they do in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem? The children gather wood, and the fathers kindle the fire, and the women knead their dough, to make cakes to the queen of heaven, and to pour out drink offerings unto other gods, that they may provoke me to anger. Do they provoke me to anger? saith Yahuwah do they not provoke themselves to the confusion of their own faces? Therefore thus saith Yahuwah; Behold, mine anger and my fury shall be poured out upon this place, upon man, and upon beast, and upon the trees of the field, and upon the fruit of the ground; and it shall burn, and shall not be quenched. Thus saith Yahuwah of hosts, the God of Israel; Put your burnt offerings unto your sacrifices, and eat flesh. For I spake not unto your fathers, nor commanded them in the day that I brought them out of the land of Egypt, concerning burnt offerings or sacrifices: But this thing commanded I them, saying, Obey my voice, and I will be your God, and ye shall be my people: and walk ye in all the ways that I have commanded you, that it may be well unto you.”

Jeremiah 44:19-23 “And when we burned incense to the queen of heaven, and poured out drink offerings unto her, did we make her cakes to worship her, and pour out drink offerings unto her, without our men? Then Jeremiah said unto all the people, to the men, and to the women, and to all the people which had given him that answer, saying, The incense that ye burned in the cities of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem, ye, and your fathers, your kings, and your princes, and the people of the land, did not Yahuwah remember them, and came it not into his mind? So that Yahuwah could no longer bear, because of the evil of your doings, and because of the abominations which ye have committed; therefore is your land a desolation, and an astonishment, and a curse, without an inhabitant, as at this day. Because ye have burned incense, and because ye have sinned against Yahuwah, and have not obeyed the voice of Yahuwah, nor walked in his law, nor in his statutes, nor in his testimonies; therefore this evil is happened unto you, as at this day”

Jeremiah 44:27-29 “Behold, I will watch over them for evil, and not for good: and all the men of Judah that are in the land of Egypt shall be consumed by the sword and by the famine, until there be an end of them. Yet a small number that escape the sword shall return out of the land of Egypt into the land of Judah, and all the remnant of Judah, that are gone into the land of Egypt to sojourn there, shall know whose words shall stand, mine, or theirs. And this shall be a sign unto you, saith Yahuwah, that I will punish you in this place, that ye may know that my words shall surely stand against you for evil:”

 

        POMEGRANATE is a popular fruit on Easter in some places The many seeds it contains symbolize fertility. Astarte was considered an incarnation of god’s spirit and the mother of mankind, the gods, knowledge, etc. The statues and carvings or drawings that represent her show her holding a pomegranate in her hand that signifies the fruit of the tree of knowledge. She invites people to this fruit. This represents the fruit that Adam and Eve ate, which separated them from Yahuwah. It was the devil who tempted them to eat.

        EASTER ORANGE: In places where there were no pomegranates they used oranges. There is a story of gardens of the Hesperides in the West that represent a perversion of the story of the Garden of Eden in the East. The evil serpent was the one who prohibited them from eating of the forbidden fruit in this story, instead of the one who tempted them. Hercules, one representation of the pagan messiah, subdued or killed the serpent so the poor people could eat the fruit. They reversed Yahuwah and the devil. Yahuwah, who prohibited the eating of the fruit in real life, was portrayed as an ungenerous devil. The devil, who tempted man to eat the fruit in the true story, was a hero who broke man free of this unfair yoke of Jehovah. Hercules, the hero, is really satan, but is celebrated as the deliverer of mankind. This is all what the Easter orange stands for, and of course, it too is pagan. Again I will say that I think it is good to know where the traditions came from and what they stood for.

  

        EASTER DRESS AND BONNET: Ancient people began the custom of wearing a new outfit on Easter because it is in the Spring when new things spring up and are fresh. It was considered rude to greet the spring goddess in old, used clothing, so this was something done to appease a pagan demon god!  The Easter bonnet was made from a circle of flowers to represent the round sun and its causing the Springtime. There’s nothing wrong with wearing new dresses or hats, but this is where the custom of doing this on Easter came from.

           

        The white EASTER LILY symbolizes purity. Its cup is V-shaped and stands for the cup of life. There is nothing evil about an Easter Lily except its name.

Easter is another time of year when demonic powers are high, as I said Christmas is. Satanists celebrate the Black Mass or Black Sabbath on Easter. The devil hates Yahushuwa so much and hates the fact that He died for our sins and triumphed over him. Because of this, he has people, usually men, sacrificed every Easter in a way similar to the way Yahushuwa was. The men represent ‘Jesus’, and the devil tells the followers he has triumphed over Jesus.

Babies are also a favorite sacrifice on Easter. Detective Jack Frazier said:

 

“We’ve been getting a lot of information about occult holidays. We think we’ve discovered a correlation between Easter week and occult related crime. From Palm Sunday to Easter Sunday is the week for killing babies. We watch for kidnappings and that sort of thing. The patients we’re dealing with have told us that babies are killed during those days. One person says she has seen six babies killed during that time period. Before we say something like this it has been verified with a minimum of five separate people who don’t know each other, who have never spoken to each other. Minimum five people. Some of these people have to be sedated during Easter. It’s a bad, bad week for many of them.”₁₁₅

 

Easter Sunday is NOT something that believers should celebrate, but is a time when believers should be remembering the innocent ones who are sacrificed, and praying for their deliverance, and praying for the deliverance of those in the occult. Sometimes people get so wrapped up in their own lives and celebrations that they forget to intercede for those who suffer at the hands of the evil one during the very moments they are laughing and singing!