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Summary: THE WORD "EASTER" HAS NOTHING TO DO AT ALL WITH THE RESSURECTION OF JESUS CHRIST:

“ Easter” has nothing to do with the resurrection of our Lord Jesus Christ! Rather, this day in the pagan tradition celebrates the return of Semiramis into her reincarnated form of the Spring Goddess. The pagans even have an equivalent to our Good Friday! It is "Easter Friday", and has historically been timed to be the third full moon from the start of the year. And Since the marrying of pagan Easter to Jesus’ resurrection, Good Friday is permanently fixed on the Friday prior to so called Easter.

Easter is steeped in the Babylonian Mysteries, the single most evil idolatrous system ever invented by Satan! All throughout the prophetic Scriptures, we see God declaring His final judgment upon wicked Babylon! **Yet, every year, Christian pastors intone "Easter" as though it were Christian. **

However Many Independent Baptist preachers have begun referring to this day celebrating Jesus’ resurrection as "Resurrection Sunday", not Easter Sunday in order to separate the day from the pagan celebration.

The Babylonians celebrated the day as the return of Ishtar (Easter), the goddess of Spring. This day celebrated the rebirth, or reincarnation, of Nature and the goddess of Nature. According to Babylonian legend, a huge egg fell from heaven, landing in the Euphrates River. The goddess, Ishtar (Easter) broke out of this egg.

Later says the tradition, the feature of an egg nesting was introduced, a nest where the egg could incubate until hatched. A "wicker" or reed basket was conceived in which to place the Ishtar egg.

The Easter Egg Hunt was conceived because, if anyone found her egg while she was being "reborn", she would bestow a blessing upon that lucky person!

And because this was a joyous spring festival, eggs were colored with bright spring colors.

And then of course the The Easter Bunny

Realize, we are dealing with a legend here, and an occult legend at that. These types of legends traditionally play loose and fast with facts. Thus, "Easter" -- or Ishtar -- was a goddess of fertility. Since the bunny is a creature that procreates quickly, it symbolized the sexual act; the egg --symbolized "birth" and "renewal".

And Together, the Easter Bunny and Easter Egg symbolizes the sex act and its offspring, Semiramis and Tammuz.

It is a very serious spiritual matter, when Christian churches incorporate "Resurrection Eggs" as part of their Easter celebration. At the very least, these churches are confusing the minds of their young children, by blurring the dividing line between pagan symbols and their meanings and Christian meanings of Resurrection Day.

Young children who participated in "Resurrection Eggs" in church will be conditioned later in their life to accept the fullness of the pagan tradition revolving around the same symbols. At worst, a church participating in the pagan Easter tradition by promoting "Resurrection Eggs" and perhaps an Easter Egg Hunt, is guilty of combining Christianity with paganism, the very lethal cocktail the Lord Jesus will always reject!

Remember this vs. verse: 1st cor. 6:17"Wherefore come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing"

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Wayne Horton

commented on Apr 16, 2017

Pastor Brown, it's been eight years since you shared this message, but I only just now read it. I would like to share my thoughts on this particular word usage in Acts 12:4. I am a KJB user to the core, and I love this Bible. I am also Independent Baptist. However, in the Textus Receptus, from which the New Testament of the KJB was translated, the word for Easter is πάσχα, or "pascha." This the same word used for "passover" every other time in the New Testament. Now I am entirely in agreement that we should celebrate Resurrection Sunday, not Easter (which is indeed a pagan name). What I have not figured out yet (but I will study it) is why the word Easter was inserted by translators of the King James Bible, when the Greek word is obviously "passover." Thank you for reminding us to celebrate the glorious resurrection of our Lord Jesus Christ, instead of searching for colored eggs.

Kent Hepditch

commented on Apr 18, 2019

Hi gentlemen. As a pastor of 25+ years, I believe it's because the KJV is not as infallible as some tend to think it is. Most other versions are correct in translating it "Passover" and not "Easter". I'm thinking "Easter" was probably a later term that was inserted by well-meaning copyists of scripture, which shows that, although these copyists and KJV translators were probably very sincere, they were only translators the same as the translators of every other version. There are other evidences of copyists inserting and removing words not necessarily found in the oldest manuscripts as well. There's nothing any more divine about the KJV than any other translation. Translators today have earlier manuscripts to translate than the KJV translators. It would only make sense that they would be more accurate. I say that out of respect for KJV users. I won't say Happy Easter, although I don't mind saying that. I'll say Happy Resurrection Weekend! Blessings. Kent

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