by Sister Stephanie A. Mayberry
The holiday called easter occurs in the spring. Christians claim that they make it about Jesus, but at its roots, it is a pagan holiday. It is about Ishtar, the goddess of fertility. Without getting too far into all of that, it is basically about sexuality and fertility – that is where the rabbits and eggs come from. They have NOTHING to do with Yeshua but they have EVERYTHING to do with paganism and false gods.
What’s really messed up is the Christians who blatantly call the day easter, celebrating with easter egg hunts, chocolate bunnies, and all the traditional easter symbols – symbols of sexuality and fertility – refuse to hear the truth of its roots. They thrust their children into the midst of pagan false god worship, normalizing it, normalizing the act of taking up the ways of the heathen.
Another group of Christians chooses to celebrate the pagan holiday easter by trying to make it about Jesus. They call it Resurrection Sunday or something similar. And they too put their children in the middle of it all, teaching them that it doesn’t matter how Yehovah said we are to worship Him. What really matters is how they choose to worship Him. In the process, they are teaching them to christianize pagan traditions – an act that Yehovah Himself calls an abomination.
And they will defend it to the death.
Very messed up.
Neither of the scenarios is biblical. In fact, the Bible PROHIBITS it. The Bible expressly forbids celebrating holidays that are or were held by pagans. It says that we are not to worship our God in the way the pagans worship theirs.
In other words, the BIBLE says we can NOT “christianize” the pagan holidays. We see this in Deuteronomy 12:29-31.
29 When the Lord thy God shall cut off the nations from before thee, whither thou goest to possess them, and thou succeedest them, and dwellest in their land;
Deuteronomy 12:29-31
30 Take heed to thyself that thou be not snared by following them, after that they be destroyed from before thee; and that thou enquire not after their gods, saying, How did these nations serve their gods? even so will I do likewise.
31 Thou shalt not do so unto the Lord thy God: for every abomination to the Lord, which he hateth, have they done unto their gods; for even their sons and their daughters they have burnt in the fire to their gods.
It is important to understand that this scripture is NOT dealing with the worship of other gods. It is a warning that we, as believers, are not to adopt CUSTOMS used to worship or honor other gods in order to serve and worship the true God.
Some counter that easter is mentioned in the Bible – and that is true. It is mentioned ONCE in the King James Version of the Bible (Acts 12:3-4). The context? The pagan king, Herod celebrated easter. It was not mistranslated; it was not a mistake. Easter was named and it was named as a pagan tradition. Some versions of the Bible will change that word easter to Passover, but that is not accurate. It was not talking about the biblical feast day of Passover, but the pagan tradition of easter.
The Bible tells us to celebrate Passover, not easter.
Believers who follow the easter tradition, whether they outright call it easter or christianize it by using some other name, are preaching another gospel – another Jesus.
2 For I am jealous over you with godly jealousy: for I have espoused you to one husband, that I may present you as a chaste virgin to Christ.
2 Corinthians 11:2-4
3 But I fear, lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled Eve through his subtilty, so your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ.
4 For if he that cometh preacheth another Jesus, whom we have not preached, or if ye receive another spirit, which ye have not received, or another gospel, which ye have not accepted, ye might well bear with him.
See, Yeshua did not die on that Friday and He did not rise on that Sunday. The timeline is completely off. That lie was created by the Roman Catholic church. It was the Roman Catholic church that brought the pagan festivals like easter and christmas into the church and tried to sell them as “Christian” holidays.
Many people fall for it, especially those who have not studied it out.
We only have to go to scripture to see that the timeline is off. The Bible tells us that Yeshua was in the heart of the Earth for three days and three nights. On the Gregorian calendar (that we use today) it is Wednesday through Saturday. The Hebrew calendar actually numbers the days – 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, Sabbath.
Even the days of the week are pagan – Sunday is actually the day set aside for worship of the sun god – THAT is how ingrained paganism is in our society.
Yeshua is our PASSOVER. Yeshua is NOT easter!
There is so much confusion because people are so rooted in tradition and they never question them. However, we are required, as believers, to line everything up according to the Bible. We are commanded to worship Yeshua in spirit and in truth.
Unfortunately, the church as a whole is moving farther and farther away from truth and carrying well-meaning, sincere believers right along with it.
On easter Sunday Christians all over the world will celebrate this pagan tradition and they call it good. The Bible says otherwise though.
“Do not worship God like the pagans worship their idols.”
Deuteronomy 12:4
Modern Christians may have tried to do away with this law, but the Bible never did. We should not be worshiping Yeshua the way the pagans worship their idols. We should not be trying to christianize the pagan traditions.
What is ironic is that the majority of today’s Christians claim that they are not under Rome. However, every time a Roman holiday rolls around, like christmas, easter, valentines day, and new year (among others), they are right there, celebrating like the pagans.
How did we travel so far away from scripture? If we are truly seeking after Yehovah and trying to live according to His Word, then we must be all in. We have to be completely sold out to Yehovah or we’ll find ourselves sold out to the world. You can’t serve two masters. There is NOTHING about these pagan traditions that is holy or of Yehovah, no matter how you wrap it up.
The true origin of Easter and its symbols are deeply rooted in the worship of false gods. There is no Biblical basis to it at all. Those who celebrate the holiday and consider themselves true believers need to take a prayerful look at what they are doing.
This is yet another “way of the heathen” that we are warned in scripture to not learn.
2 Thus saith the Lord, Learn not the way of the heathen, and be not dismayed at the signs of heaven; for the heathen are dismayed at them.
Jeremiah 10:2
It doesn’t matter what your intentions are, Yehovah’s word makes it clear. You can’t turn a pagan holiday that is rooted in evil into something about God. That’s not me talking, that’s what SCRIPTURE says.
Yehovah gave us seven feasts. He told us how to worship Him. He gave us the instructions and told us exactly what He wanted.
And the modern church has largely rejected it. Today’s Christian has rejected it.
And in keeping their traditions, they are telling Yehovah that they will worship Him the way they want, not the way He wants. They are telling Him that they will only follow Him until they run into something that they don’t want to do.
They choose their pagan traditions over God their creator!
That is idolatry. they have made their pagan traditions idols in their lives.
It’s time to lay those idols down.
My husband and I do not recognize easter or the nonbiblical attempts to “christianize” the pagan tradition.
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