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Happy Resurrection Sunday (Anti-Christian origins of "Easter")
ChristianAnswers.net ^ | 1998 | Paul S. Taylor

Posted on 04/05/2015 6:23:52 AM PDT by Texas Eagle

Babel was the origin of an idolatrous system that swept the world. The Bible says of her, “Babylon… the nations drank her wine; Therefore the nations are deranged” (Jeremiah 51:7). idolatry originated in the area of Babylonia—the most ancient of religious systems.”[8]

Basically, almost every vile, profane and idolatrous practice you can think of originated at Babel with Queen Easter/Ishtar (Semiramis), the Mother Goddess and Nimrod. As the people scattered from Babel with their different languages, they, of course, used different names for Nimrod (Tammuz) and Semiramis. Some called the Mother Goddess “ISHTAR” (originally pronounced “Easter”).[9] In other lands, she was called Eostre, Astarte, Ostera, and Eastre. Other names for Semiramis, the Mother Goddess include: Wife of Baal, Ashtaroth or Ashtoreth, and Queen of Heaven.[10] The Mother goddess was frequently worshipped as the goddess of fertility—and as a sort of Mother Nature and goddess of Spring and sexual love and birth. She was also worshipped as a mediator between god and man. Sexual orgies and temple prostitutes were often used in her worship and in attempting to gain her favor.

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To: Mrs. Don-o

Interesting. Germanic?


101 posted on 04/05/2015 9:05:16 AM PDT by defconw (Fight all error, and do it with good humor, patience, kindness and love. -St. John Cantius)
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To: CatherineofAragon
Happy Resurrection Sunday to you!

If you want to celebrate a demonic sex goddess, you go right ahead. I'll celebrate the risen Christ.

102 posted on 04/05/2015 9:07:37 AM PDT by Texas Eagle
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To: Texas Eagle

Dear Protestants of all stripes,

Please get over yourselves this Holy Easter morning.
Your ancestors broke away from the Church and have been trying to justify their actions for hundreds of years. The latest attempt to smear Easter is nothing new.

If your objective is to purge every Catholic influence from your “bible -based” religion, then you will have nothing left. Starting with No holidays. Of course you realize that you will have to throw away the bible too.....


103 posted on 04/05/2015 9:08:26 AM PDT by 4PublicSchools (Proud protectionist of American interests.)
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To: 4PublicSchools
Your ancestors broke away from the Church and have been trying to justify their actions for hundreds of years.

Don't get me started.

104 posted on 04/05/2015 9:09:58 AM PDT by Texas Eagle
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To: 4PublicSchools

Please don’t lump all Protestants with that self-aggrandizing attention seeker.

Thanks.


105 posted on 04/05/2015 9:10:02 AM PDT by CatherineofAragon ("This is a Laztatorship. You don't like it, get a day's rations and get out of this office.")
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To: CatherineofAragon
Please don’t lump all Protestants with that self-aggrandizing attention seeker.

Hey. I'm right here.

106 posted on 04/05/2015 9:13:52 AM PDT by Texas Eagle
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To: defconw

Sonntag; Montag; Dienstag; Mittwoch; Donnerstag; Freitag; Samstag.


107 posted on 04/05/2015 9:15:21 AM PDT by Mrs. Don-o (Happy Easter.)
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To: Texas Eagle
Where do you people get your psychologist degrees?

Happy Easter!

Strictly from tired experience. But "lunacy" was referring to whatever crank worked up the original theory, no doubt to upset his Anglican enemies—not the bearer of the tale. I'm sorry that my post seemed to imply otherwise.

And I don't think there's anything wrong with calling it "Resurrection Sunday." After all, Surrexit Dominus vere! The Lord is truly risen.

God bless to you and yours.

108 posted on 04/05/2015 9:15:45 AM PDT by SamuraiScot
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To: SamuraiScot
God bless to you and yours.

Thank you. To you and yours as well.

Wait. Is that with a capital "G" or one of your lower case demonic "g"s?

Mine's with a capital.

109 posted on 04/05/2015 9:17:32 AM PDT by Texas Eagle
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To: Texas Eagle

1 John 4

16And so we know and rely on the love God has for us. God is love. Whoever lives in love lives in God, and God in them. 17This is how love is made complete among us so that we will have confidence on the day of judgment: In this world we are like Jesus. 18There is no fear in love. But perfect love drives out fear, because fear has to do with punishment. The one who fears is not made perfect in love.


110 posted on 04/05/2015 9:23:10 AM PDT by ifinnegan
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To: Mrs. Don-o

The original, 1611 edition of the King James Bible includes the ‘Apocrypha’. These books are included in the Bible we read from here at home (The Jerusalem Bible). Some books are omitted from these that I think should be included...Enoch, for instance. Jude quotes from Enoch in his short epistle.


111 posted on 04/05/2015 9:50:44 AM PDT by GGpaX4DumpedTea (I am a Tea Party descendant...steeped in the Constitutional Republic given to us by the Founders)
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To: Texas Eagle; Mrs. Don-o

“I’m trying to drive out the demon of a Babylonian sex goddess from having anything to do with the Holiest day of the year.”

Ah, yes! As Mrs. Don-o says, ‘Happy Holidays’...Holy Days...Holiest Day!

Happy Holidays, this Easter (or I mean Resurrection) Day!

Relax, sit back, enjoy the Lilies! Spread good cheer! He is risen! He is risen Indeed!

And while you’re at it, partake of His Body and His Blood, as He commanded, in Remembrance of Him.

Mat 26:26-28 “And as they were eating, Jesus took bread, and blessed it, and brake it, and gave it to the disciples, and said, Take, eat; this is my body. (27) And he took the cup, and gave thanks, and gave it to them, saying, Drink ye all of it; (28) For this is my blood of the new testament, which is shed for many for the remission of sins.”

Do it often!


112 posted on 04/05/2015 10:22:52 AM PDT by GGpaX4DumpedTea (I am a Tea Party descendant...steeped in the Constitutional Republic given to us by the Founders)
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To: Texas Eagle

You’re closer to the truth than you are being given credit for.


The Pagan Origin Of Easter

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


113 posted on 04/05/2015 10:31:43 AM PDT by zipper (In their heart of hearts, all Democrats are communists)
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To: GGpaX4DumpedTea
Very interesting.

I don't know the whole history of it, but I think the Deuterocanonicals were included in every edition of the KJV until 1640.

114 posted on 04/05/2015 10:56:39 AM PDT by Mrs. Don-o
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To: Mrs. Don-o

I cited the 1611 edition because I know that for sure...I have an electronic copy on my computer. And btw, I enjoy your posts.


115 posted on 04/05/2015 11:00:14 AM PDT by GGpaX4DumpedTea (I am a Tea Party descendant...steeped in the Constitutional Republic given to us by the Founders)
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To: GGpaX4DumpedTea

Thank you, GGpa. I hope you and your loved ones will be very blessed!


116 posted on 04/05/2015 11:05:07 AM PDT by Mrs. Don-o (Happy Easter!)
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To: Mrs. Don-o

We are Blessed! Thank you! He blesses us, and we pray His blessings on you and yours this Resurrection Day!


117 posted on 04/05/2015 11:18:53 AM PDT by GGpaX4DumpedTea (I am a Tea Party descendant...steeped in the Constitutional Republic given to us by the Founders)
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To: zipper
You’re closer to the truth than you are being given credit for.

If "Satan is a master deceiver, and has filled the lives of well-meaning, professing Christians with idolatry," then perhaps the readers of this tract shouldn't have too much trouble concluding that a great number of members of this site are unwitting idolaters. Would you agree?

(I'm not saying that the conclusion would be untrue because it is distasteful; I am saying that if I believed that I was on a forum full of idolaters, my posting behavior would be rather interesting.)

118 posted on 04/05/2015 12:00:00 PM PDT by Lonely Bull
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To: Mrs. Don-o

All these agricultural images kinda puts the “harrowing of hell” in a possible different light, methinks.


119 posted on 04/05/2015 12:08:22 PM PDT by don-o (He will not share His glory and He will NOT be mocked! Blessed be the name of the Lord forever!)
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To: Mrs. Don-o
"I love this picture. Christ disguised as gardener!"

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That brings to mind the reason the two disciples on the "Road to Emmaus" did not recognize who the risen Jesus was at first. It was because of the "Groucho" disguise He was wearing...





Happy Easter to all!


By the way, etymology of the word "bless":


bless:    Old English bletsian, bledsian, Northumbrian bloedsian "to consecrate, make holy, give thanks," from Proto-Germanic *blodison "hallow with blood, mark with blood," from *blotham "blood". Originally a blood sprinkling on pagan altars.



For any who are troubled by the term "Happy Easter", I'll just say,

Happy Ostrich!

120 posted on 04/05/2015 12:35:36 PM PDT by Heart-Rest ("I have set before you life and death, blessing and curse; therefore choose life." - Deut. 30:19)
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