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Published on Monday, 30 March 2009 02:11

Written by Ryan Hicks

EASTER

By Ryan Hicks

Jeremiah 10:2
2   Thus saith the Lord, Learn not the way of the heathen, and be not dismayed at the signs of heaven; for the heathen are dismayed at them.

Easter is a pagan holiday changed and distorted to appear to be Christian and honoring Christ. It is no more Christian than anything in the Babylonian religion. Yet, many "Christians" have come to accept it as truth and have thus learned the way of the heathen.

THE ORIGIN OF EASTER

The term Easter comes from Chaldean origin. It is a term for the pagan festival in honor of Ishtar (pronounced like "Easter"), which was the Babylonian goddess called the Queen of Heaven. It is this same "Queen of Heaven" that Israel was rebuked for worshiping many times (1 Samuel 7:3; 1 Kings 11:5, 33; 2 Kings 23:13; Jeremiah 7:18; 44:18). This goddess was called Eastre or Astarte by the Saxons, Venus by the Syrians, Ishtar by the people of Ninevah (pronounced almost identical to our "Easter"), and Ashtoreth by the Hebrews.

COMMON PAGAN TRAITS

The following is a brief list of a few of the common pagan traits hoisted upon the Church by the pagan popery and his followers.

 

• Mary, the Queen of Heaven - She is worshipped and prayed to only by the Roman Catholic cult and other devilish religions. The old idol, Astarte, was simply renamed to give her the appearance of being the mother of Jesus. This was blended with all kinds of myths about Mary, thus ending in her exaltation to Mediatorship with Christ and her being the Catholic's goddess. Generally they will not refer to her as a goddess (although they do call her the Queen of Heaven), whatever they call her she remains a pagan goddess that they worship and pray to.


• Hot cross buns - These were part of the Babylonian rites. These sacred cakes or buns (called bouns) were made of fine flour and honey. They are strictly condemned by God.
  

  Jeremiah 7:18-19
  18   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.
  19   Do they provoke me to anger? saith the LORD: do they not provoke themselves to the confusion of their own faces?

  Taking part in the taking of hot cross buns is a pagan and godless practice that is done to provoke the Lord to anger. All Christians should abstain and thoroughly rebuke such filth and wickedness.
  

• The Easter Egg - This, like all of Easter, is of pagan origin and is continued paganism even in its pretend Christian forms. It was commonly seen as a symbol for the universe by the Chinese, Romans, Gauls, Egyptians, etc. It was sometimes believed that the universe and everything in it came from a great egg. It many times represented the rebirth during the spring (not spiritual rebirth). Hyginus, the Egyptian, the learned keeper of the Palatine library at Rome, in the time of Augustus, who was skilled in all the wisdom of his native country, said,
  

  "An egg of wondrous size is said to have fallen from heaven into the river Euphrates. The fishes rolled it to the bank, where the doves having settled upon it, and hatched it, out came Venus, who afterwards was called the Syrian Goddess [also known as Astarte, the Queen of Heaven]"

   

• The Easter Bunny - This is the symbol of the goddess Eastre, who was worshipped by the Anglo-Saxons through this symbol.

Now the Christianized pagans have all kinds of excuses for keeping Christ-Mass, Easter, and other pagan holidays. They will try to link Jesus' resurrection from the dead with the celebration of the idol goddess Astarte (Easter). They will say that simply because Easter is of pagan origin does not mean that we can not make it Christian. God forbade it, and yet these people want to rebel against God so they can please the world.

I have heard all kinds of fool theories connected to Easter, Christ-Mass, Halloween, and other pagan days of celebration. It seems that the people that claim to be Christians, and yet have the world in them, will do everything in their power to legitimize ungodly and Satanic days of worship.

Easter, which was celebrated centuries before Christ, is mentioned in the Bible as being celebrated by King Herod (Acts 12:4). Many new translations pervert this due to their love of pagan holidays and have it to read "passover," but see my article Supposed Translating Errors In The King James Bible.

Easter Sunday sunrise services are just another pagan day of sun worship disguised as "Christianity." The Lord Jesus Christ was NOT resurrected on Sunday at sunrise, that is another foolish myth of pagans that goes with their Good Friday myth.

Rom 14:5-6
5 One man esteemeth one day above another: another esteemeth every day alike. Let every man be fully persuaded in his own mind.
6  He that regardeth the day, regardeth it unto the Lord; and he that regardeth not the day, to the Lord he doth not regard it. He that eateth, eateth to the Lord, for he giveth God thanks; and he that eateth not, to the Lord he eateth not, and giveth God thanks.

The verses above are commonly used to excuse pagan days of worship, but this was referring to the Jewish holy days as given by God for the Old Testament, and not anti-God pagan holidays.

1 Corinthians 10:21
21 Ye cannot drink the cup of the Lord, and the cup of devils: ye cannot be partakers of the Lord's table, and of the table of devils.

Just because you think you can mix paganism and Christianity and somehow "redeem" the paganism and make it right does not mean you are correct. You cannot partake of the Lord's table and of the table of devils. You have to choose which master you are going to serve? Are you going to compromise and try to fit in with the world with your pagan holidays dressed up and given Christian terminology or are you going to walk with a clean heart before God? Are you going to walk in compromise and defeat, or walk in holiness and faith?

If you are a person claiming that you are celebrating the resurrection of our Lord Jesus Christ on Easter then how do you explain choosing to celebrate it on the day pagans worship the goddess Easter and not the day Jesus was resurrected? Why do you not celebrate the resurrection on the actual day of the year that Jesus was resurrected? Can you not see how you have been duped into worshiping a pagan goddess instead of the risen Lord?

Easter, Christ-Mass, and other pagan holidays have nothing at all to do with God, Christ, and the Holy Spirit, and trying to change them into Christian celebrations is profaning the things of God and is desperately wicked.

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