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What does the term Easter itself mean? It is not a Christian name. It bears its Chaldean Babylonian origin on its very forehead. The popular observances that still attend the period of it's celebration amply confirm the testimony of history as to it's Babylonian character. The hot cross buns of Good Friday and the dyed eggs of Easter Sunday, figured in the Chaldean rites just as they do now. The "buns" known too by that identical name, were used in the worship of the Queen of Heaven, the goddess of Easter. The prophet Jeremiah takes notice of this kind of offering when he says: Jeremiah 7:18 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. From where comes the eggs? The classic poets are full of the fable of the mystic egg of the Babylonians and thus its tale is told by 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. "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" -- that is, Astarte. Hence the egg became one of the symbols of Astarte or Easter. From where comes the "Easter Bunny"? That a rabbit, or more accurately a hare, became a holiday symbol can be traced to the origin of the word "Easter". According to the Venerable Bede, the English historian who lived from 672 to 735, "the goddess Eastre" was worshipped by the Anglo-Saxons through her earthly symbol, the hare." - Panati's Extraordinary Origins of Everyday Things pg 55 Easter is another example of a Christianized pagan festival. For hundreds of years before the Messiah was crucified the pagans had a festival which basically celebrated the "Queen of Heaven." This spring equinox festival was known by different names in different cultures (Eastre / Ishtar / Astarte), but the same traditions associated with it are pagan customs. YHWH (God) commands us not to worship Him with pagan customs. Deut. 12:30-31 says, "enquire not after their gods, saying, How did these nations serve their gods? even so will I do likewise." You can choose the broad way (the way the world / crowd goes) that leadeth to destruction ... (Matt 7:13) The pagan bunny fertility symbol - Ishtar / Eostre to Easter - spring fertility goddess worship rites. Or you can choose the narrow way (of truth that few people find), which leads to life eternal (Matt. 7:14) - Leviticus 23 eternal feast days and Sabbaths Obey Elohim's (God's) eternal holy days (Lev. 23) for all Israel (including grafted in believers in Yeshua / Jesus) (Rom. 3:31; 11:17, Eph. 2:12-13) Check a good encyclopedia on Easter / Eastre / Ishtar. Shalom Michael Grant tags: Easter, Eastre, Ishtar, Astarte, Eostre, Osiris, Isis, Attis, cupid, baal, baalism, Nimrod, pagan, paganism, fertility, Chaldean, Babylonian, Good Friday, Sunday, crusifixion, Rome, Egypt, Greece, holidays, feast days, Yeshua, Jesus, HaMoshiach, Messiah, God, Elohim, YHWH Post a comment in response: |
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