Posted on 04/16/2006 9:07:24 AM PDT by The Lumster
The Pagan Origin Of Easter
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Easter is a day that is honered by nearly all of contemporary Christianity and is used to celebrate the resurrection of Jesus Christ. The holiday often involves a church service at sunrise, a feast which includes an "Easter Ham", decorated eggs and stories about rabbits.
Those who love truth learn to ask questions, and many questions must be asked regarding the holiday of Easter.
Is it truly the day when Jesus arose from the dead? Where did all of the strange customs come from, which have nothing to do with the resurrection of our Saviour?
The purpose of this tract is to help answer those questions, and to help those who seek truth to draw their own conclusions.
The first thing we must understand is that professing Christians were not the only ones who celebrated a festival called "Easter."
"Ishtar", which is pronounced "Easter" was a day that commemorated the resurrection of one of their gods that they called "Tammuz", who was believed to be the only begotten son of the moon-goddess and the sun-god.
In those ancient times, there was a man named Nimrod, who was the grandson of one of Noah's son named Ham.
Ham had a son named Cush who married a woman named Semiramis.Cush and Semiramis then had a son named him "Nimrod."
After the death of his father, Nimrod married his own mother and became a powerful King.
The Bible tells of of this man, Nimrod, in Genesis 10:8-10 as follows: "And Cush begat Nimrod: he began to be a mighty one in the earth. He was a mighty hunter before the Lord: wherefore it is said, even as Nimrod the mighty hunter before the Lord. And the beginning of his kingdom was Babel, and Erech, and Accad,and Calneh, in the land of Shinar."
Nimrod became a god-man to the people and Semiramis, his wife and mother, became the powerful Queen of ancient Babylon.
Nimrod was eventually killed by an enemy, and his body was cut in pieces and sent to various parts of his kingdom.
Semiramis had all of the parts gathered, except for one part that could not be found.
That missing part was his reproductive organ. Semiramis claimed that Nimrod could not come back to life without it and told the people of Babylon that Nimrod had ascended to the sun and was now to be called "Baal", the sun god.
Queen Semiramis also proclaimed that Baal would be present on earth in the form of a flame, whether candle or lamp, when used in worship.
Semiramis was creating a mystery religion, and with the help of Satan, she set herself up as a goddess.
Semiramis claimed that she was immaculately conceived.
She taught that the moon was a goddess that went through a 28 day cycle and ovulated when full.
She further claimed that she came down from the moon in a giant moon egg that fell into the Euphrates River.
This was to have happened at the time of the first full moon after the spring equinox.
Semiramis became known as "Ishtar" which is pronounced "Easter", and her moon egg became known as "Ishtar's" egg."
Ishtar soon became pregnant and claimed that it was the rays of the sun-god Baal that caused her to conceive.
The son that she brought forth was named Tammuz.
Tammuz was noted to be especially fond of rabbits, and they became sacred in the ancient religion, because Tammuz was believed to be the son of the sun-god, Baal. Tammuz, like his supposed father, became a hunter.
The day came when Tammuz was killed by a wild pig.
Queen Ishtar told the people that Tammuz was now ascended to his father, Baal, and that the two of them would be with the worshippers in the sacred candle or lamp flame as Father, Son and Spirit.
Ishtar, who was now worshipped as the "Mother of God and Queen of Heaven", continued to build her mystery religion.
The queen told the worshippers that when Tammuz was killed by the wild pig, some of his blood fell on the stump of an evergreen tree, and the stump grew into a full new tree overnight. This made the evergreen tree sacred by the blood of Tammuz.
She also proclaimed a forty day period of time of sorrow each year prior to the anniversary of the death of Tammuz.
During this time, no meat was to be eaten.
Worshippers were to meditate upon the sacred mysteries of Baal and Tammuz, and to make the sign of the "T" in front of their hearts as they worshipped.
They also ate sacred cakes with the marking of a "T" or cross on the top.
Every year, on the first Sunday after the first full moon after the spring equinox, a celebration was made.
It was Ishtar's Sunday and was celebrated with rabbits and eggs.
Ishtar also proclaimed that because Tammuz was killed by a pig, that a pig must be eaten on that Sunday.
By now, the readers of this tract should have made the connection that paganism has infiltrated the contemporary "Christian" churches, and further study indicates that this paganism came in by way of the Roman Catholic System.
The truth is that Easter has nothing whatsoever to do with the resurrection of our Lord Jesus Christ.
We also know that Easter can be as much as three weeks away from the Passover, because the pagan holiday is always set as the first Sunday after the first full moon after the spring equinox.
Some have wondered why the word "Easter" is in the the King James Bible.
It is because Acts, chapter 12, tells us that it was the evil King Herod, who was planning to celebrate Easter, and not the Christians.
The true Passover and pagan Easter sometimes coincide, but in some years, they are a great distance apart.
So much more could be said, and we have much more information for you, if you are a seeker of the truth.
We know that the Bible tells us in John 4:24, "God is a spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth."
The truth is that the forty days of Lent, eggs, rabbits,hot cross buns and the Easter ham have everything to do with the ancient pagan religion of Mystery Babylon.These are all antichrist activities!
Satan is a master deceiver, and has filled the lives of well-meaning, professing Christians with idolatry.
These things bring the wrath of God upon children of disobedience, who try to make pagan customs of Baal worship Christian.
You must answer for your activities and for what you teach your children.
These customs of Easter honor Baal, who is also Satan, and is still worshipped as the "Rising Sun" and his house is the "House of the Rising Sun."
How many churches have "sunrise services" on Ishtar's day and face the rising sun in the East?
How many will use colored eggs and rabbit stories, as they did in ancient Babylon.
These things are no joke, any more than Judgement day is a joke.
I pray to God that this tract will cause you to search for more truth.
We will be glad to help you by providing more information and by praying for you.
These are the last days, and it is time to repent, come out and be separate.
David J. Meyer
Last Trumpet Ministries International PO Box 806 Beaver Dam, WI 53916
http://www.lasttrumpetministries.org/
April Peeps should be eaten in late May.
LOL!!LOL!!
Thanks for your post, it might help some here of a certain persuasion to open their eyes.
Nope, actually ham became a tradition in Northern Europe only for practical reasons. We eat lamb on Pascha, for symbolic reasons, though even ham is yummy after being off all animal products (except shellfish, and fish on Annunciation day and Palm Sunday) for 49 days.
Nope, same legal father, not same mother.
Jesus siblings were Joseph's children by Salome, his first wife. The Blessed Theotokos, Mary, is Ever-Virgin.
In the East we remember these things. After all, St. James was our first Bishop of Jerusalem.
This thread seems like it would be more appropriate on the Relgion Forum.
Miss Grammar might edit the above to read, 'David also programmed computers, designed, and analyzed security systems.'
It's very nasty to do computer programming!
LOL! Beat me to it!!!!
We in the West (Latin rite), remember these things too. :-)
The King James Version was derived ultimately from the greek (Aramaic) and the greek manuscripts use the word PASCHA.
See http://www.greeknewtestament.com/B44C012.htm#V4
Regardless, the events of the Crucifixtion and Ressurrection, Ascension and Session are all fundamental in basic understanding of our Lord's history. Pagan and even any uneducated or doctoral thesis on the issue other than those basics, misses the significance of faith in Christ and one's eternal destiny. The Passover is far more significant with respect to the work of Christ on the Cross than any and all pagan aspirations.
I agree that it says passover...what I don't agree to is which. I haven't really studied this enough yet as to why the writers put this word down, but I do know that this could not have been the real passover. They would have kept him in jail for a year.
Thanks for the link.
I'm not as much an expert on the definitive timeline as perhaps I should be. From my perspective, there are far too many correlations in OT Prophecy which were fulfilled by the time being the Passover than to argue otherwise. If an apparant contradiction arises, I suspect to err on the side of Prophecy and Divine Revelation would be more trustworthy than appealing to pagan counterfeits for any access to God.
Additional significance occurs in the timeline after His death on the Cross. Ressurrection after 3 days, 40 days on earth, then 10 days after His ascension, the Feast of Pentecost and the beginning of the Church Age, indwelling of the Holy Spirit.
Other than the flood and Creation, and what lies ahead, those 60 days had to have been some of the most significant in all human history.
(Amazes me how some people are only preoccupied with chocolate rabbits and allusions to anything pagan.)
That is the most disgusting pagan-loving blasphemy ever posted here.
These correlations are very important...that is why we must keep God's word intact...in this case in English.
If we don't, then we get guys like Spong and groups like this:
http://www.lgbtran.org/Profile.asp?A=S&ID=54
It is pagan to say the Theotokos is Ever-Virgin? You have an interesting view of history and theology.
I have to laugh the above is well, since it is all too close to the truth.
The "one world religion" the antiChrist will set up will include some stuff that sounds Christian in the mishmash...
Not just anti-Catholic!
That depends.....
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