Have you ever thought about why Easter is always on a Sunday? Yet, the date for Easter never falls on the same Sunday each year – isn’t that strange? If we’re honoring the resurrection of the Messiah, why isn’t it a fixed date? Just think about it – if someone in your family dies, do you change the day each year? No, it’s a fixed date. So, in remembering the death of, let’s say, your grandfather, would you say he died somewhere between March 1st and April 30th? Either someone is confused or they don’t really know. Here’s what you need to know: Easter is regulated by the solar system – it comes when days and nights are of equal lengths. Leviticus 23:5 says, on the fourteenth day of the first month at twilight is the Lord’s Passover. So then, what is Passover? The Hebrew word is Pesach – it commemorates the emancipation of the Israelites from slavery in ancient Egypt. In Hebrew, it means to pass over, because the death angel passed over the homes of the Israelites, but the firstborn of the Egyptians died. The death angel knew that whenever he saw the blood applied to the doorpost of a home, he needed to pass over that house. So now we have Passover and we have Easter: one is biblical, the other has pagan roots. If you’re going to choose to remember this time, then choose to remember Passover not Easter.
The traditional story of Easter being that the Messiah was crucified on Friday at noon, and He got up from the grave on Easter Sunday morning is a lie perpetuated by the Roman Catholic Church. A careful study of the Bible shows that Messiah was in the grave three days and three nights, just like He said. The resurrection is a significant event for believers and the traditions we’ve adopted has tainted the gospel. I don’t care how you try to manipulate the days, if you can count to three, you know that you cannot get three days and three nights from Friday noon to Sunday morning. What then is Easter? This was really a day to worship the sun god. The word Easter is of Saxon origin Eastra or Eostre denoting a goddess of spring and new life in whose honor sacrifices were offered about Passover time each year. By the 8th century anglo-saxons had adopted the name to designate the celebration of Christ’s resurrection. An article entitled, Origin of Easter: From pagan festivals and Christianity to bunnies and chocolate eggs written by Penny Travers in 2017 discusses rabbits and eggs as ancient symbols of new life. It states, “many of the pagan customs associated with the celebration of spring eventually became absorbed within Christianity as symbols of the resurrection of Jesus. During the Middle Ages, people began decorating eggs and eating them as a treat following mass on Easter Sunday after fasting through Lent. Rabbits and hares are also associated with fertility and were symbols linked to the goddess Eostre. The first association of the rabbit with Easter was a mention of the “Easter hare” in a book by German professor of medicine Georg Franck von Franckenau published in 1722”.
We find in scripture where Yah rebukes religious leaders for their traditions:
- Mark 7:7-9 (NKJV) = …and in vain they worship me, teaching as doctrines the commandments of men. For laying aside the commandment of God you hold the tradition of men – the washing of pitchers and cups, and many other such things you do. He said to them, all too well you reject the commandment of God, that you may keep your tradition
- Mark 7:13 (NKJV) = …making the word of God of no effect through your tradition which you have handed down. And many such things you do
Yah is telling them they are making the gospel ineffective because of their traditions that they are passing down and we now have accepted these traditions to be true. We didn’t study to show ourselves approved. How did this religion, this tradition of Easter, come to be? It came from Babylon. They were worshipping the goddess of fertility and they worshipped her in the spring because they said she caused everything to grow – she was a goddess of reproduction, and this was done in her honor. During the time of Constantine, the Roman Catholic Church decided to blend this day in with Passover. Ask yourself, what does a bunny have to do with the Resurrection? Why is the focal point on the bunny and the eggs? Why is the focal point at Christmas Santa Claus, and the toys and gifts? These are pagan holidays that are masking as Christian or biblical holidays. This is why Easter is always on a Sunday. The celebration was a pagan holiday so that the Romans could continue worshipping their pagan gods. Now you know the truth, what are you going to do with it? Learn more as we go in detail in the accompanying video, Easter Sunday Myth | Christ Said Three Days and Three Nights.
