SIGH...... just thinking about it makes me frustrated and tired. We are entering into one of my two least favorite times of the year. EASTER. Not this coming Sun Day but the next IS EASTER SUNDAY. It IS a PAGAN HOLIDAY. It occurs each year on the first Sun Day after the first full moon after the 21st of March.
It never ceases to amaze me, how many "happy easter" greetings I get each year, from professed "christians" and "pastors" alike. As if "easter" were a "holy day". THERE IS NOTHING HOLY ABOUT EASTER. Quite the opposite is TRUE.
EASTER IS AN ABOMINATION and a STENCH before MY LORD and SAVIOR. HAYAH (I AM) HATES IDOLATRY.
Act_17:16 Now while Paul waited for them at Athens, his spirit was stirred in him, when he saw the city wholly given to idolatry.
1Co_10:14 Wherefore, my dearly beloved, flee from idolatry.
Gal_5:20 Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies,
Col_3:5 Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness, which is idolatry:
Why do people who call themselves "christians" hold EASTER so dear to their heart? Because they enjoy it. Two times a year, the vast majority of so called "evangelicals" and CATHOLICS cling to holidays. Easter and Saturnalia (christmas as they call it.) Do you think that just because man says its ok, that YEHOVAH is good with it? I PROMISE YOU HE is NOT!
THERE IS NO CONNECTION between "Easter", and the day (3 days after passover) that the LORD resurrected. Read the BIBLE. Find any mention whatsoever of anyone going here, there, anywhere to celebrate "EASTER". It's not there.
The word "Easter" is only found one time, in the book of Acts.
Act 12:3 And because he saw it pleased the Jews, he proceeded further to take Peter also. (Then were the days of unleavened bread.)
Act 12:4 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.
Please note: THE DAYS OF UNLEAVENED BREAD were in progress. When does passover occur each year? It is the day before the beginning of the feast of unleavened bread, a week long celebration of the purity of YEHOVAH's people in communion with HIM because the LAMB had been slain and the blood applied.
Passover occurs on the 14th day of the first month on the Hebrew Calendar. Therefore each year, it is celebrated on a different day of the week. YESHUA became the final PASSOVER LAMB. So there is no more yearly celebration. HIS blood applied is good for all time. Easter occurs on the same day of the week each year. The 1st Sun day, after the full moon. There is no cultural connection until you get to the counsel of Nice, where man kind married pagan idolatry and liturgical cycle of religion. Two religions now one. ACK!!!!!! And yet they continue to call it CHRISTIANITY! NOT!!!!!!!!
Herod did not want to upset the Jews by disturbing the feast of unleavened bread to bring Peter forth, since it pleased the Jews that Peter was apprehended. So the use of the term "easter" is very appropriate in vs 4 above. But there is no bond between the two. It is a marker separate from the Israeli Feast of Passover/unleavened bread.
So when you wish me a "happy easter", I realize that most of you do so in kindness, but also in ignorance. I'm asking you to consider what you are actually saying. You are saying you agree with the union of pagan idolatry and the celebration of the resurrection of my LORD as being one and the same. I DO NOT. I CANNOT. And I know my LORD finds it very offensive, if not down right disgusting.
No where in the Bible does it say my LORD resurrected on the 1st day of the week. It says on the first day of the week, when the Sabbath was concluded, the women went to the tomb and found it empty. So when did HE arise? At the end of the Sabbath, the night before. (sundown on what we call Saturn Day) or the 7th day.
See, when the Sabbath Day was moved from the 7th day to the 1st day, this opened the door to all manner of iniquity and idolatry. Church, pagan idolatry, and Roman empire, all joined together.
If you take a glass bottle, and you put about 1/3 water and 1/3 oil inside, and you shake it real good, then leave it alone for a few minutes, what happens? The oils SEPARATES from the water. You simply cannot mix or homogenize the two. And it is no different with pagan/civil idolatry, and true saving faith. The two will not mix, no matter how hard you try. And so it is in the kingdom of HAYAH. There is no room at all for idolatry. TRUE believers will separate themselves from idolatry and legalism (in any form, religious or civil), just as sure as oil and water will separate.
So please consider this. When a man who is honestly mistaken hears the TRUTH, he/she is either no longer mistaken, or they cease to be honest. Now you think about that.
PLEASE DO NOT SEND ME "EASTER GREETINGS". It is an INSULT to me. LORD have mercy on us all.......... L
