RESURRECTION
DAY (Everyday is Resurrection Day)
The
word Easter appears once in the King James version of the Bible. Herod has put
Peter in prison, "intending after
Easter to bring him forth to the people" (Acts 12:4). Yet in the original
Greek text the word is not Easter, but Pesach, that is Passover. So why was the
name changed?
"Asherah"
the Greek form of this word from the Septuagint is "Astarte", who is
the Babylonian goddess of the sea, sea being symbolic of people, and consort of
the god El. She was the mother of several gods, including Baal, the Babylonian
god of the sun. These deities were soon adopted by the Canaanites when they
named these female deities the Ashereh or Asherim. During a celebration of this
god, the children of the Canaanite parents would often go and hunt for eggs,
which were symbolic of sex, fertility and new life. It was believed that these
eggs came from rabbits, which in the pagan world were symbolic of lust, sexual
prowess and reproduction. The Canaanites, however, were not the only ones who worshipped
rabbits as deities. Decorating eggs came about to honor their pagan gods and
were often presented as gifts to other families to bring them fertility and sexual
success during the coming year.
Out
of this practice came many other variations of these pagan festivals until the
Roman Catholic Church adopted the Asherah worship and named it EASTER around
155 A.D. According to the CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA, Easter was named after a pagan
goddess of the Anglo-Saxons named Eostre, the goddess of the dawn. A great controversy arose between the
Catholic Church and the Greek Orthodox Church in 325 A.D. on whether to
celebrate Easter on Sundays or on whatever day the Jewish Passover fell upon.
Unfortunately, the Greeks lost a lot of followers and the Catholics contended
that keeping Easter on Sundays would stimulate the practices of both the Christian
world and the pagan worshippers. Hence, since
the original practice of Asherah worship we now have in our time the
celebration of Easter, a world system holiday to the true festival of the
Passover which was instituted in the Bible and completed in the New Testament
when Christ died on the cross as our Passover Lamb. The true celebration should
be the Resurrection and the Life John 3:36.
...For
indeed Christ, our Passover, was sacrificed for us. (I Cor 5:7)
I
prefer to say Resurrection Day which for a believer is everyday. Resurrection
is a person (Jesus Christ) and He lives in you.
(Rom
8:11) But if the Spirit of the One
who raised up Jesus from the dead dwells in you, the One who
raised up Christ from the dead shall also make your mortal bodies alive
by His Spirit who dwells in you.
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WHY WAS JESUS CRUCIFIED ON A CROSS?
A CROSS MEANS-- Death to self, self-denial
KEY SCRIPTURES: Deut. 21:22-23; Matt. 16:24; 27:22-26; Rom. 6:6; Gal. 2:20; 3:13-14; 5:24; 6:14.
FOUNDATIONAL INFORMATION: Jesus was crucified on a tree- the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. (self) He carried the cross piece through the streets. A cross was an upright wooden stake or post on which Jesus was executed, displayed as a criminal and enemy of the state. "Cross" is from the Greek "stauros" (Strong's #4716) which means "a stake or post (as set upright), (specifically) a pole or cross (as an instrument of capital punishment); figuratively, exposure to death, self-denial; by implication, the atonement of Christ." The verb "stauroo" means "to impale on the cross; figuratively, to extinguish (subdue) passion or selfishness; metaphorically, the putting off of the flesh with its passions and lusts."
Jesus Christ was crucified on the cross/tree at Calvary for the sin of the world (Matt. 27:22-26; Jn.1:29 ). He died not for us, but AS US. His cross was
carried by Simon of Cyrene (Matt. 27:32; Mk. 15:21 ; Lk. 23:26 ).
Jesus said to his disciples, "If any man will come after Me, let him deny
himself, and take up his cross, and follow Me" (Matt. 10:38; 16:24; Lk.
14:27). Jesus, making peace by His blood, reconciled both Jew and Greek unto
God in one Body by the cross (Eph. 2:11 -16;
Col. 1:20). There were three men crucified: the Man on the middle cross was God
in the flesh; the thief on the right who repented and was remembered (put back
together) was Adam in the flesh (Lk. 23:42 );
the thief on the right who returned to be crucified was satan in the flesh (see
Lk. 4:3, 9, 13; 23:39 ;
Col. 2:15). Satan is not the thief of John 10:10 anymore. Jesus' death on the
cross overcame the old man and the devil (Eph. 4:22 -27; Heb. 2;14-18; 1 Jn. 3:8). Jesus the Savior who
was crucified has become both Lord and Christ (Acts 2:36 ).
A CROSS MEANS-- Death to self, self-denial
KEY SCRIPTURES: Deut. 21:22-23; Matt. 16:24; 27:22-26; Rom. 6:6; Gal. 2:20; 3:13-14; 5:24; 6:14.
FOUNDATIONAL INFORMATION: Jesus was crucified on a tree- the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. (self) He carried the cross piece through the streets. A cross was an upright wooden stake or post on which Jesus was executed, displayed as a criminal and enemy of the state. "Cross" is from the Greek "stauros" (Strong's #4716) which means "a stake or post (as set upright), (specifically) a pole or cross (as an instrument of capital punishment); figuratively, exposure to death, self-denial; by implication, the atonement of Christ." The verb "stauroo" means "to impale on the cross; figuratively, to extinguish (subdue) passion or selfishness; metaphorically, the putting off of the flesh with its passions and lusts."
Jesus Christ was crucified on the cross/tree at Calvary for the sin of the world (Matt. 27:22-26; Jn.
Paul declared, "I am (have been) crucified with Christ:
nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ lives in me: and the life which I
now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and
gave Himself for me" (Gal. 2:20 ).
The preaching of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us
who are being saved it is the power of God (1 Cor. 1:17 -18). The apostle wrote to the Galatians, "But
God forbid that I should glory, save in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by
whom the world is crucified unto me, and I unto the world" (Gal. 6:14 ). Our old man has been
crucified with Him; we have crucified the flesh with its affections and lusts (Rom.
6:6; Gal. 5:24 ).
Good Friday should actually be "Good Wednesday". Jesus was crucified on Wednesday, which was Nisan 14 (Jewish Calendar). The day after Jesus died was a High Sabbath (not a weekly Saturday Sabbath). He died at 3:00pm in the afternoon, the same time as the temple sacrifice. The veil was rent from the Holy of Holies during the sacrifice.
They
took him from the cross and put him in the tomb. Christian calendars differ
from Jewish calendars. Jewish days begin at sunset at 6pm. "DAWN" is considered sunset.
Nisan 14 (Wednesday) at 6pm
begins the next day - that's when they put Him in the tomb. This day is the
High Sabbath/Unleavened Bread Feast. 72 hours later as they made the First
Fruit harvest offering, waving sheaves, Jesus comes forth fulfilling the sign
of Jonah (3 days in the belly of the whale). At Firstfruits (dusk) at the close
of the Sabbath (Saturday) is when he arose. When he appeared to Mary it was
actually evening, not morning. When Jesus arose, people were then at the Temple Mount
singing songs of David offering wave offerings - barley sheaves. Jesus
fulfilled the Firstfruits Celebration and became the first for us coming forth
from the dead (through Christ) and walking in newness of life. Jesus fulfilled
Passover (New Birth of Believer), Unleavened Bread (Put off old), and First
Fruits (Put on the New).
So we don't celebrate Easter.
Easter,
Ishtar, Ashtaroth, is a sex goddess. Pagans worshiped her and the sun. Sun rise
worship, Lent, Good Friday, bunnies, eggs, were used in the Roman church to
satisfy pagans wanting to join them. Israel forsook Yahweh & did evil, they
served Baal & Ashtaroth. (Judges 2:11-13) NO one saw Yahshua rise. After
the Sabbath was past, (Sun down) Mary went to the tomb, & was dark by the
time she got there (Mark 16:1) Yahshua rose just before the sun set on that
Sabbath evening, the most Holy and Sanctified Day of the week. NOT Easter
morning, the most satanic day of the year. Yahshua said, "In vain do they
worship Me, teaching for doctrines the commandments of men." Love of The
Father is to keep His Commandments. (1 John 5:2,3)
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