Easter
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Ezekiel 8: 14-18 "Then he brought me to the door of the gate of the Lord's house which was toward the north; and behold, there sat women weeping for Tammuz."
(Tammuz=Nimrod, the sun god)
"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 the Lord's house, and, behold at the door of the temple of the Lord, between the porch and the altar, were about five and twenty men, with their faces toward the east, and they worshipped the sun toward the east.
Then he said to 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."
(This is the only place in the Bible where men are described as observing a sun rise worship service. As millions do every Easter Sunday morning as the sun rises in their worship service.The pagans turned their backs on God's temple, faced the sun at its rising and worshiped the mythical sun god and the goddess of spring, "Easter".)
Jer. 7:18-19 "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 the Lord: do they not provoke themselves to the confusion of their own faces?"
(These cakes are still baked today at Easter and called hot cross buns. The cross or X is an ancient symbol for the solar wheel and is the symbol of the sun and the 'queen of heaven' or Semiramus, the mother-wife of Nimrod. Some feel that these hot cross buns are Satan's counterfeit for unleavened bread.)
Ex 12:24 "And ye shall observe this thing for as ordinance to thee and thy sons forever."
(Passover is forever)
(Yahshua, early apostles and converted Gentile Christians observed the holy days mentioned in Lev.23
Acts 2:1, 18:21, 20:6&16, 1Cor 5: 7-8, 16:8.)
from The American Book of Days by Douglas- article Easter
"The name of a feast, according to the Venerable Bede, comes from Eostre, A Teutonic goddess whose festival was celebrated in the spring. The name was given to the Christian festival in celebration of the resurrected Eostre, it was who, according to the legend, opened portals of Valhalla to recieve Baldur, called the white god because of his purity and also the sun god because his brow supplied light to mankind. It was Baldur who, after he had been murdered by Utgard Loki, the enemy of goodness and truth, spent half the year in Valhalla and the other half with the pale goddess of the lower regions.
There is no doubt that the church in its early days adopted the old pagan customs and gave a Christian meaning to them.
The egg, as a symbol of New Life is much older than Christianity and the coloring of it at the spring festival is also of very ancient origin. The Egyptians, the Persians, the Greeks and the Romans used it this way. Eggs were eaten during the spring festival from very early times. Children are told that the rabbit lays the Easter eggs in a garden for the children to find. This is an adaption of the pagan custom of regarding the rabbit as an emblem of fertility, that is, of new life."
