Why Orthodox Christian Easter Is Later than the Catholic One

As Greek-Orthodox Christians prepare to celebrate Easter on Sunday,April 12th, we would like to shed some light on the reasons why the Orthodox Christian Church celebrates the Resurrection of Jesus Christ later than the Catholic one. While the issue is somewhat complicated, it may be summarized in the two factors at work that cause this conflict in dates:

1) The issue of the calendar; and 2) the adherence by the Orthodox to the early practices of the Christian Church.

The first factor, the calendar, has to do with the fact that the Christian Orthodox Church continues to follow the Julian calendar when calculating the date of Pascha (Easter). The rest of Christianity uses the Gregorian calendar. There is a thirteen-day difference between the two calendars, the Julian calendar being thirteen (13) days behind the Gregorian.

The other factor at work is that the Orthodox Church continues to adhere to the rule set forth by the First Ecumenical Council, held in Nicea in 325 AD, that requires that Pascha must take place after the Jewish Passover in order to maintain the Biblical sequence of Christ’s Passion. The rest of Christianity ignores this requirement, which means that on occasion Western Easter takes place either before or during the Jewish Passover.

Ezekiel 46 details exactly what you refute.

In this manner, says the Sovereign YHWH, the gate of the inner court that looks toward the east shall be shut the 6 WORK DAYS; but on the Sabbath Day it shall be opened, And on the Day of the New Moon it shall be opened. 46:1

New Moon Day ( also known as the first day of the month in scripture.

6 Work days ( days 2-7 of His month)

Sabbath day (day 8 of His month)

The pattern continues into the 2nd week and you can see why Passover is on the 14th day of His month.

The 9th day through the 14th days of the month are the 6 work days.

And the 14th day is the 6th work day of the 2nd week.

Just like the Father, the Son finished His Work on the last work day of the respective weeks.

The 15th day is a natural weekly Sabbath every month and a ‘high’ sabbath in the 1st and 7th months because of the Feasts.

The 16th day would be the 1st work day of the 3rd week in His months.
A day that is the feast of first fruits in scripture for the 1st month.

The Savior’s death, burial and resurrection follows that template,
And christendom accepts that template with good Friday every year.

Problem is, passover ‘floats’ or appears to, around the different days on the pope Gregory calendar.
So, Judaism is as blind as Christendom.

You will see the last work ‘day’ in the 3rd week would be the 21st day (16-21) . It would make the third Sabbath of the month the 22nd day.

There are two instances in Torah that confirms the 22nd day is a Sabbath. Once in the details of the Feast of Tabernacles which they say the 22nd is a holy convocation /sabbath (called the 8th day by Jews today because it follows the 7 day feast -15th-21st days in the 7th month.

The other 22nd day Sabbath needs some study.It occurs in exodus 16 and is observed in the 2nd month of His calendar.

They were instructed (while camping) on the 15th day of the 2nd month that manna will be provided the next 6 days that they can collect (beginning on the 16th)
They collected and on the sixth work day, it was declared that tomorrow would be the Sabbath, a rest.

That would mean that their first Sabbath before Sinai, was on the 22nd and then the 29th days and those are not conflicted with the template Ezekiel was given..

Now, it may mean nothing to Christendom except that the Savior’s major life events (with study) can be shown to follow that pattern.

Everything Israel was taught pointed to the King.

The day He was born was on a New Moon Day (thanks to revelation 12 And astronomy)

He was then due to be circumcised on the ‘8th day, according to Jewish law.
That 8th day would have been a weekly Sabbath Day with a birth on the New Moon.

The dedication in the temple came 40 days for His mother’s purification (again Jewish law).

40 days from the 1st day of one month falls on the 10th day of the next month. We can see tjthat there is a rather important Sabbath that occurs annually on the 10th day of one month.

The baptism is a little of a theory with only hintsin scripture.
He was 30 years oLD at baptism to begin His ministry (Jewish law).
The only clue that we have is that immediately after His baptism He was led into the wilderness for 40 days which is the shadow picture that purification that occurred from His Birth.
And with the other major events lining up with the template in scripture, I tend to think this could stand on the rock..

We already know He laid His life down as the Lamb on the Feast of Passover, the 14th Day as law states.
He was laid in the tomb and rested (even in death He obeyed the Sabbath) on the 15th day, the first day of unleavened bread (per law)

He was then raised as the First Fruits on the 16th day of the month. The first ‘work day’ of the 3rd week.
Feast of first fruits observed the day after the Sabbath (per law)

With the calendar in scripture, and observed in His sky with the sun, moon and stars , one can get the absolute Truth that the Word became flesh and dwelt among us. Right down to the absolute perfect literal fulfillment of the appointed days ( new moons, sabbaths and feasts) that He taught Israel in the wilderness.

Today is His 6th work day. The 21st day of His month.
Jews and some Christians say today is a Sabbath.
It has caused them to come up with postponement rules for the Feasts if they conflict with their pope approved Jewish Sabbath.
If today is His 6th day, tomorrow , Sun’s day, will be the 22nd day and His weekly Sabbath.
And there are months Muslims have their Friday prayers on His Sabbath too while Jews And Christians are working..

It is an unbelievable blessing to see this..
And prophecy says the Roman Kingdom would be a vessel to change times and laws..

Without accepting the plain template He showed Ezekeil , one will not see it.

Ask your priest,rabbi, pastor why scripture differentiates between the Sabbath, new moon days and the 6 work days. Why isn’t there 5 work days and the new moon would be included in the count of 7 and not 8...
It is a fair question that I asked.
I asked, sought and knocked from the Creator of all, things.
That’s why I no longer call today Saturday or sabbath.. I call it His 6th day. And in a couple weeks, Rome’s Monday will be His Sabbath and I have been blessed that He gave me a job that allows me to observe His Calendar. Most would find t harmful to ones career, job, business, schooling to be so different with their timekeeping,

Maybe Genesis confirms there is some time consuming event that occurred to make the earth waste and void before He spoke light and He called the light day.
Some actually so theorize that we are in the 2nd earth age..
And a New Moon day each month before the 1st ‘work day’, would commemorate that rather well.
You don’t buy this, find out what day history says the 7 day mach of Jericho started on..

The book of jasher, a book referenced in holy scripture, says it began on the 1st day of the month.
New moon day, day 1
Six more days of marching with the last being the day the walls fell,
And we only get to 7.

The pope’s calendar would show there would have been a Sabbath violation when they just spent 40 years learning about His Sabbath.

His calendar says there was no Sabbath violation.

He changes not..

May He bless your study

A new moon day, 6 work days and the seventh day Sabbath happens once every month.

And what follows is three more equal weeks of six work days and seventh day sabbath.

There is 1 new moon day, 24 work days and 4 seven day Sabbaths
And total of 29 days.

And then there are months where the moons phase is closer to 30 than 29.

Which is why science says the phase of the moon is 29.5 Average.

His new moon each month refutes the continuous seven day since the beginning of time.. and confirms that Rome is counterfeit.

Again, you don’t have an answer for why the new moon day is not clumped into one of the 6 work days when He was instructing Ezekeil..

His work week has always been 6 days and then a Sabbath.
But there is one time, every month, that there are 7 days before there is a Sabbath, thanks to the New Moon Day.
A day that isn’t defined as a work day or as the Sabbath.

A day sun worshippers will ignore.
A day that Israel barely observes and when it has one on its calendar (like their 7th month), they are willing to move it around so it doesn’t mess with their Sabbath.
A day the Messiah of Israel was born when the sun clothed the woman and the moon was under her feet.
(That day in 2014 when the sun clothed the woman and the moon was under her feet was September 26th.) A day neither Jews or Christians paid attention to..

That is prophetic!!!

That is a reference Paul used for Ezekiel 45:17 which details a future where drink and meat offerings were going to be administered.

A look at a millennial kingdom.

Paul says those drink offerings, meat offerings that were detailed were shadows of things to come.

Those new moons, Sabbaths and feasts according to prophets are not done away with.
Isaiah 66:22-24 says new moons and Sabbaths will be around with the new heavens and new earth..

Now Ezekiel does hint that there will be a time when all those offerings will be shown again, but we would not they would be not for atonement but for instruction when David sits as prince and the Messiah as King.
(If one believes in a literal 1000 year reign)

The burnt offerings, meal offerings, drink offerings have been satisfied by one perfect offering,
Read Ezekiel 45:17 and read Colossians 2:16 together and you may see why Paul mention those offerings were shadows to come.. ( not the past - unless one sees Ezekiel fulfilled already) and why the same exact order was used.
There are no more meat offerings, drink offerings that are to occur on feasts or the new moon or the sabbaths.
Paul inst saying new moons, feasts or sabbatha have been done away with.
Prophets like Ezekiel and Isaiah’s prophecies say just the opposite.

The savior’s major life events fell on new moons, Sabbaths and feasts.

Not December 25 or good Friday or easter.

Those have zero to do with the body of the Messiah..
You are free to ignore it all..
Then you may miss that Rome’s Jesus is a false Christ..with another gospel according to Rome’s catechism, not according to scripture..

But we are saved by grace through faith.
Faith in a counterfeit I pray, is still saved..

I doubt most people know that Ezekiel 45:17 was the exact verse Paul was giving them in that letter..

I know I didn’t. And then I saw a bible that cross referenced that very verse..
And it was then I saw the word ‘offering’ was omitted from the one in collossians but the order was the exact same..

And I re read that 2 collossians and I got a different understanding of that verse and chapter than I had before I knew about Ezekiel’s unfulfilled prophecy..

If one gets the understanding that those aren’t Jewish feasts and appointed times for assembly but HIS Feasts and appointed times that He has ordained, they will look at this like December 25, Saturday, Sunday, easter Sunday , etc as rudiments of this world..

Those were important days to Israel not because of what Israel and Moses did when they did it..
Those new moons, Sabbaths and feasts are important for what The Son did when He came.
Judaism misses that and sadly, so does christendom..

And because of that, things that are found in scripture are considered weak and beggarly and things found in the world ( December 25, good Friday, easter Sunday, Saturday, pope Gregory calendar as some examples) are deemed worthy substitutes.

The world is welcome to its interpretations thanks to places like Rome, people are more than happy with them..

Just so long as they dont read parts of Daniel or revelation..

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