| EASTER IS A N T I- C H R I S T |
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| Astarte, fertility goddess |
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| Is "Easter" in the Bible? The word "easter" occurs once in the King James Version, but it is a mistranslation (Acts 12:4). The original Greek word is pascha, the ordinary word for the passover. Originally, "easter" was a spring festival in honor of the Teutonic goddess Eastre - the queen of light and spring. As early as the eighth century this name was transfered by the Anglo-Saxons to the "Christian" holiday designed to celebrate Christ's ressurection. (see pg. 145, Westminster Dictionary of the Bible) By Whose Authority, then, did "Easter" enter the churches? It was the prelates of the Latin and Greek Churches who fought bitterly over these holidays. To this day, the papists keep "christmas" on a different day than the "orthodox". The Easterns have holy thursday instead of good friday. If you celebrate these days on the dates appointed by the Pope, then it is fair to ask if you are in communion with Rome. All man-made days of this sort are schismatic. What does God say about Man-Made days? And Jeroboam ordained a feast in the eighth month, on the fifteenth day of the month, like unto the feast that is in Judah, and he offered upon the altar. So did he at Bethel ... so he offered upon the altar which he had made at Bethel the fifteenth day of the eighth month, even in the month which he had devised in his own heart; and ordained a feast unto the children of Israel ... And behold, there came a man of God out of Judah by the word of the LORD ... and said ... O altar, altar, thus saith the LORD ... Josiah ... shall ... offer the priests of the high places that burn incense upon thee ... the altar shall be rent ... Jereboam ... put forth his hand from the altar, saying, lay hold on him. And his hand, which he put forth against him, dried up, so that he could not pull it in again to him. 1 Kings 12:32-13:4 Ye observe days, and months, and times, and years. I am afraid for you, lest I have bestowed upon you labor in vain. Galatians 4:10&11 Does the Creed of a Presbyterian allow for "Easter"? Not at all. The Westminster Directory for Publick Worship says that "Festival days, vulgarly called Holy-days, having no warrant in the word of God, are not to be continued." If you celebrate Palm Sunday, Ash Wednesday, Maundy Thursday, Good Friday or Easter Sunday, you are breaking the Westminster Standards to keep a pagan fertility ritual. God gives us 52 Sabbaths every year to remember Christ's ressurection. "Easter" has nothing to do with that. |
| Goddess of the Spring |
| In your Ishtar bonnet, with nimrod's horns upon it You'll be the blindest pagan in the Ishtar parade. Wear the four-leaf clover, hide painted eggs all over And worship old Osiris in the Ishtar parade. Then the Papacy Will laugh with glee Her mystery Fools fail to see Babylonia will guide you And you'll find that you're Headed back to the Whore. Then hell will write the sonnet, about your Ishtar bonnet And praise the pagans marching in the Ishtar parade. |
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