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Shiva... The god of Easter

The traditions of man make the word of God of no effect!

Pagan Roots of Ash Wednesday Ash Wednesday was originally a ceremony performed in Roman paganism, who took it from Vedic India. Ashes were called “the seed of the fire god Agni” and were believed to have the power to forgive sins. Ashes were said to be a symbol for the purifying blood of Shiva, in which, one could bathe away

sins. During Rome's New Year Feast of Atonement in March, people wore sackcloth and bathed in ashes to atone for their sins. As the dying god of March, Mars took his worshippers sins with him into death. The carnival fell on dies martis, the Day of Mars. In English, this was Tuesday, because Mars was identified with the Saxon god Tiw. In French the carnival day was Mardi Gras, "Fat Tuesday," the day of merrymaking before Ash Wednesday.

Ashes are the residue of fire, and, just as fire is regarded in mythology and folklore as something which purifies and also regenerate, or brings new life, so the same properties are associated within ashes. (Ed's Note: Wow, a pagan practice which offers regeneration that makes sense… now I don’t need the cross; I can just go to the priest instead - Now back to the history…)

The ancient Jews sacrificed a red heifer by fire, the ashes being used to purify the unclean. The ancient Egyptians burned red-haired men, not as a purification rite but so that their ashes could be scattered on the fields to quicken the seed in the earth. At the root of the custom of burning living creatures in sacred fires to fertilize the soil lies the conviction that ash is the soul of fire and so brings renewal.

An entirely different way of looking at ashes is found among medieval alchemists, who saw them as the dead

body of a substance. If you burned a piece of wood, the smoke rising up was the "soul" of the wood and the ashes left behind were its corpse.

Now please hear me when I say this, these ceremonies are an abomination to God. Easter is replete with this kind of ritual which has nothing to do with the death, burial and resurrection of our Lord Jesus Christ. Please click on the link to the left of this site named “Do not keep Easter” for more information about these abominations.

I want to take you to another issue whish has come up time and time again. The fact that, the word of God, King James Version, mentions Easter and that this is where the church get their tradition of keeping Easter. The interesting thing is, this passage actually confirms the pagan nature of Easter, rather than the other way round. Lets read what the word of God says and look deeper.  

Act 12:1-4 “Now about that time Herod the king stretched forth his hands to vex certain of the church. And he killed James the brother of John with the sword. And because he saw it pleased the Jews, he proceeded further to take Peter also. (Then were the days of unleavened bread.) And when he had apprehended him, he put him in prison, and delivered him to four quaternions of soldiers to keep him; intending after Easter to bring him forth to the people."

 

The first Passover occurred in ancient Egypt when Jehovah, the God of the Hebrews spared the lives of Israel's eldest sons and slaughtered the firstborn of Egypt. That event took place on the evening (night) of the 14th Abib (Nisan), the first month in the sacred calendar. The Passover, which is an event rather than a day, is now commemorated each year on the evening of the same date. The story is well known and is recorded in Exodus chapters 11 and 12.

 

After the Passover came the seven days of Unleavened Bread. (Ed’s Note: When I was a member of an Old Testament cult, we kept the Passover and days of unleavened bread RELIGIOUSLY! The Passover was a solemn event, but the week of unleavened bread was a celebration of getting sin out of our lives, of course, it prefigured Jesus Christ and has now been replaced by the real thing, which is why my keeping these Old Testament feasts was an afront to Christs work on the cross.) The week of unleavened bread begins on the evening of the 14th Abib and finishes on the evening of the 21st Abib.

 

This whole week is sometimes referred to as the Passover week: but, strictly speaking, its proper name is Week of Unleavened Bread. When the Passover and the days of unleavened bread are mentioned in the same passage, as in Acts 12:1-4, we can be certain that the Passover refers to the event which occurs on the evening of the 14th Abib and the days of unleavened bread refer to the week that follows. (i.e. 15-21st Abib or Nisan)

 

The events recorded in Acts 12:3-4 occurred during the days of unleavened bread. In other words, the Passover in that particular year had passed, it was history, and it had gone. Why, then, would Herod wait for an event

which had already passed? Surely Herod knew that the Passover had passed and that the days of unleavened bread were in progress.

 

What, then, was Herod really waiting for before releasing Peter? The answer is: Herod was waiting for Easter to come and go - just as the King James Version says. We can be confident that the translators of the KJV knew full well why in this passage they rendered the word 'Pesah' as 'Easter' and not 'Passover' as at other times. Their combined knowledge of Hebrew and Greek and the vast amount of manuscript evidence before them (thousands of copies, versions, and church-father citations etc.) were all used to arrive at every word in the King James Version. Are we, whose knowledge of these languages is microscopic by comparison, to challenge their judgment?

 

The fact is that Herod, during the days of unleavened bread, was not waiting for the Passover - which had come and gone; he was waiting for Easter just as the KJV says.

 

The events in our story tell us that:

The Passover in that particular year had passed.

The Days of Unleavened Bread (15th - 21st Abib) were in progress.

And Easter was approaching; after which Herod planned to bring out Peter.

 

The question now arises: Was the pagan festival of Easter known at that time? And were the Romans keeping Easter? The answer is - yes. The pagan festival of Easter, with its hot cross buns and Easter Sunday sunrise services was well known in ancient Babylon and Rome centuries before the events recorded in Acts 12. Let me quote a short passage about EASTER from Alexander Hislop's book The Two Babylons. (ISBN 0 7136 0470 0)

 

Quote: "Then look at Easter. What means the term Easter itself? It is not a Christian name. It bears its Chaldean origin on its forehead. Easter is nothing else than Astarte, one of the titles of Beltis, the QUEEN OF HEAVEN, whose name, as pronounced by the people of Nineveh, was evidently identical with that now in common use in this country. That name, as found by Layard on the Assyrian monuments, is Ishtar. The worship of Bel and Astarte was very early introduced into Britain, along with the Druids, "the priests of the groves" (page 103) (Please see http://atschool.eduweb.co.uk/sbs777/vital/kjv/part1-5.html for complete research into this and the reason why I only use the King James Bible)  

God tell us in scripture to have NOTHING to do with the unprofitable works of darkness, please prayerfully consider the following scriptures… 2Corinthians 6:14 - 17 “Be not unequally yoked with unbelievers: for what fellowship have righteousness and iniquity? or what communion hath light with darkness? And what concord hath Christ with Belial?(Ed's Note, or Shiva or any other pagan idol?) or what portion hath a believer with an unbeliever? And what agreement hath a temple of God with idols? for we are a temple of the living God; even as God said, I will dwell in them, and walk in them; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people. Wherefore Come ye out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, And touch no unclean thing; And I will receive you,”

Would you consider people who perform pagan rites in worship of Shiva, to be Christians? Are commanded to TOUCH NO UNCLEAN THING? Easter eggs, little bunnies and hot cross buns… there’s nothing wrong with it, is there?

Well let’s take hot cross buns as one example and shine the light of the word of God on it… Jeremiah 7:17 - 20 “Seest thou not what they do in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem? The children gather wood, and the fathers kindle the fire, and the women knead the dough, to make cakes to the queen of heaven, and to pour out drink offerings unto other gods, that they may provoke me to anger. Do they provoke me to anger? saith the LORD; do they not provoke themselves, to the confusion of their own faces? Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD: Behold, mine anger and my fury shall be poured out upon this place, upon man, and upon beast, and upon the trees of the field, and upon the fruit of the ground; and it shall burn, and shall not be quenched.”

Do we really think we should be eating hot cross buns? We might say, I just like the taste of them… Well go ahead. You say, “You’re being legalistic!” The bible says, “I am the Lord and I change not!” We cry out to God to do something in our churches, yet we are determined to hold on to these pagan practices and still seek blessing form God. The traditions of men make the word of God of none effect! Hot cross buns only appear at this time of year, and we need to leave well alone.

Have you never even asked yourself why Easter is celebrated on a different date every year? I mean, if it commemorates the passion of Christ, wouldn’t it be on the same day each year? Not if it’s a calibration linked to the full moon which is what pagan ester is. Even the Jewish Passover has been done away with by what Christ did on the cross, so why are we even entertaining anything except breaking bread in remembrance of Christ?

I’ve read the testimonies of people who have come out of Satanism, every one of them tell how these “holidays” (Ester, Christmas etc) were times of great fear for the children of Satanists. On these days black ceremonies take place often involving human sacrifice and always including sexual abuse of the children and debauchery among the adults. The children of the Satanists grow up to ether become as bad as their parents or they got saved or died. If they get saved, what do you think they feel about our pagan Easter calibrations?

Many churches will go up to a local hill at daybreak to hold sunrise services and wash their face in the morning dew. What must happen before we wake up to the fact that something is very, very wrong here! Sunrise services point directly to sun worship. How can we call ourselves Christian and be associated with these devilish practices? What is the difference between us and the Catholic Church? Was there a Reformation? 

The other main abomination is Christmas. I have contacted large ministries and asked them why they celebrated Christmas when they know the bible doesn’t tell us what time of the year Christ was born. They all say the same thing, “Christmas is a good time to preach the gospel as people are thinking of Jesus at this time of year…" HOGWASH! People are thinking about getting drunk and getting stuffed with food they don’t need and presents they don’t want. More people commit suicide at Christmas than at any other time of the year.

So, what’s it to be friend? Will we listen to Pastor’s telling us this is a good time of the year for all the churches to get together to celebrate Jesus death and resurrection? A time when we concentrate on what Jesus did for us? Or will you obey the Jesus who said “DO THIS IN REMEMBERANCE OF ME…” Break the bread and drink the wine as OFTEN as you remember ME? Not once a year on pagan festivals, as often as you remember ME! If not, I suggest we are very careful when we do break bread again, because we are admonished to make sure we do it in a worthy manor.

In conclusion, why don't we try reading the book of Acts and do what the early believers did, after all, everything we do outside of scripture is a tradition of man and makes the word of God of none effect. “The things you see Me do, you shall do also…” do we see Jesus rolling eggs down the hill? Did he make the sign of the cross with ashes on His peoples foreheads? Did He command a 40 day fast? Did He tell them, to remember his death, burial and resurrection every year? Did He tell anyone to use pagan rites in

commemoration of Him?

If we can comfortably say yes to any of these questions, we have a bigger problem than we could even imagine and need to get on our knees in repentance, because our belief is not in the Jesus of the bible. Have mercy Lord…

Gordon McGill: Revival Scotland March 2010