How churches observe Christ’s death and resurrection
The message we get from Christian churches is that Easter has powerful religious significance. It is said to commemorate the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ, through which believers have hope of eternal life. It does this while:
-naming the observance after the pagan goddess Ishtar.
-straining to make pagan fertility symbols of eggs and rabbits relevant to Christian observance of Christ’s death and resurrection. There may be easter egg hunts and festivities at church.
-having a sunrise service which has no scriptural support and is actually a pagan practice worshipping the sun god. See Ezekiel 8:16: Then He brought me into the inner court of the Lord’s house. And behold, at the entrance of the temple of the lord, between the porch and the altar, were about twenty-five men with their backs to the temple of the Lord and their faces toward the east; and they were prostrating themselves eastward toward the sun. (This was sunrise.)
– disregarding the correct dates of Christ’s death and resurrection. All prophecy that stated Christ would be in the grave 3 days and nights were dismissed. Christ did not die on “Good Friday”, but on a Wednesday day of preparation for Thursday evening Passover meal. After 3 days, on Saturday late, Christ rose. The Sunday morning Easter resurrection date was chosen solely to be on the date of the Ishtar pagan fertility festival. The dates are different enough that the “Easter morning” date could be weeks before or after Christ’s actual resurrection date.
-many churches observe Lent in the 40-day period leading to Easter, an observance that has no scriptural support. Lent begins with Ash Wednesday, a day when ashes are smeared on foreheads to mark a t or cross. This derives from Nordic paganism, wherein Odin’s Day is Wednesday and putting ashes above the brow was said to bring protection of the Norse god Odin. During Lent, Christians are encouraged to fast and make personal sacrifices preparing for Easter. To break this fast, it is tradition to eat ham, and cakes or hot cross buns on Easter. People make a sign of a cross in front of their hearts as they worship.
Before Ash Wednesday is a week-long celebration called Carnival, which ends with Mardi Gras or Fat Tuesday. This is not celebrated in churches but in the streets with feasts, parties, and parades. In this celebration people live in excess preparing for Lent’s restrictions. If this celebration of excess is wrong, the church does not address it.
In Christian homes in the United States, it has been estimated that more than 88% color Easter eggs with their kids, and have Easter baskets. Many kids are told the Easter bunny brought the basket. There are Easter egg hunts. Chocolate bunnies, chicks and eggs are eaten, with more candy sold that day than any other day of the year except for Halloween. There is usually an Easter ham on the day’s menu, as well as hot cross buns or cakes. This has been considered a wholesome family tradition for Christians
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The origins of Easter
Jesus was crucified, dead, and buried on the day of preparation before Passover. That day should be easy to figure, for anyone interested. Leviticus 23:4-6 says Passover should begin on the 14th day of the 1st month of Abib, at evening. However, the Council of Nicea in 325 AD designated “Easter” to be observed on the first Sunday after the first full moon following the spring equinox. The name “Easter” is pronounced the same as the moon goddess “Ishtar”, and the calendar date is that of her spring fertility festival. Those sitting on the Council of Nicea were very familiar with this religion, and had most likely been part of it before becoming Christian. They incorporated much of it into the Christian religion.
Noah had 3 sons: Shem, Japeth, Ham. After Noah’s Ark and the flood, Ham showed his rebelliousness by having sex with his mother (Noah’s wife). Canaan, the result of this union, was cursed by Noah. Another son of Ham was Cush. Cush also followed the family’s pure rebellion from God. Cush’s son Nimrod commissioned the building of the Tower of Babel in a state in Mesopotamia, in Babylon. He set himself to be worshipped as the sun god. Nimrod’s actions were grievous to Noah’s more righteous son Shem, and he killed Nimrod. He cut him up in pieces, and sent the pieces all over to show that he was no god. Nimrod’s mother/wife was Samuramis, and she found a way to stay in power. She proclaimed herself the moon goddess, calling herself Ishtar, and she said she was divinely created. She said she came to earth from the moon in a giant moon egg that fell into the Euphrates River. She became pregnant and told Nimrod’s followers Nimrod did not really die but he ascended to the sun and was to now be known as Baal. She said that she had been impregnated by rays from the sun god Nimrod/Baal. She named the baby Tammuz, and he was celebrated as a god, the son of the sun god Nimrod/Baal and the moon god Ishtar. Ishtar claimed her birth was virgin, and called herself the virgin Madonna. The birthdate of Tammuz was December 25.
When Tammuz was killed by a wild boar at 40 years of age, Ishtar began Ishtar Sunday festivals that were a sex orgy that celebrated fertility and the conception of Tammuz on the 1st Sunday after the full moon that followed the spring equinox. This was not a celebration of resurrection but re-conception. Rabbits were regarded as fertility symbols and eggs were regarded as symbols of new life. Worshippers celebrated by baking cakes with a cross on top to Ishtar, getting drunk, engaging in sex orgies, and engaging in prostitution in the temple of Ishtar. Women were required to celebrate the conception of Tammuz by lying down in the temple and having sex with whoever entered. Priests sacrificed babies, and worshipers drank the blood and dyed eggs in the blood. Ishtar was the goddess of fertility, and the egg is how she reproduces. The Ishtar eggs would “hatch” on December 25, 9 months later, on the day Tammuz would be reborn. Many of the babies born around December 25 were sacrificed at the next Ishtar Sunday festival.
Ishtar proclaimed a 40 day period of time for sorrow when her son was killed by the wild boar. The 40 days symbolized the 40 years Tammuz lived. The 40 day period was to be observed in the days leading up to the festival of Ishtar, and no meat was to be eaten during this time. The day after the last day of the 40 day period, everyone had to eat ham in remembrance of Tammuz, who was killed by a wild boar. This 40 day period for sorrow became known as Lent in the Roman Catholic Church.
Followers continued their worship and sacrifices of Baal, Ishtar, and Tammuz, but because of constant defeat by God through Shem, what was once done by the pagans in the open began to be done now in secret. It became a mystery revealed only to those worthy, a mystery religion. It spread to Egypt, Persia, Greece, Rome. Where it spread, it was assimilated by the beliefs in place. When King Solomon built the temple in Jerusalem and married women from different countries having different religions, he established altars to their gods. Evidently he and his pagan friends thought their wisdom was not for the masses, because today’s masons and freemasons claim to have a history going back to King Solomon. There are many pagan beliefs, but they all share a framework and purpose, to oppose the true God.
Romans were pagan before their “conversion” to Christianity. They would not give up the religion they knew so easily. Examples: most of the vatican Roman Catholic statues and portraits of Mary with baby Jesus are really Ishtar and baby Tammuz. Also, the observances of Christ’s birth and death were fit into the pagan framework they knew. Since pagan religions follow the basic pattern of Christianity, as shown in the chart below, the Roman government and church simply blended them into the mix also. Spanish explorers were surprised to see Incas worshipping statues of a moon god Madonna married to a sun god Inti, holding a sun god child. Following a familiar pattern, these people readily converted to the Roman Catholic religion. See the following chart of gods:
Civilization Father god Mother god Reborn son
Babylonian Nimrod Ishtar Tammuz
Egyptian Ra Isis Horus
Greek Zeus Artemis Adonis
Roman Jupiter Diana Apollo
Nordic Odin Joro Thor
Leciferian Lucifer Diana Antichrist
Roman Catholic God Virgin Mary Jesus
What God says about pagan religions
When the children of Israel were about to cross the Jordan to possess the promised land, God spoke to Moses to tell the people to destroy all signs of the pagan religion they saw, and to not let any of the displaced people with their culture and religion remain among them. They ultimately did not follow this, and the seeds were planted for them to become no different from their pagan neighbors. This brought punishment from God, as He warned:
And the Lord spoke unto Moses, saying, “Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, “I am the Lord your God. After the doings of the land of Egypt, wherein ye dwelt, shall ye not do; and after the doings of the land of Caanan, to which I bring you, shall ye not do; neither shall ye walk in their ordinances. Ye shall do mine ordinances, and keep my statutes, to walk in them: I am the Lord your God. Ye shall therefore keep my statutes, and mine ordinances, which if a man do, he shall live in them: I am the Lord.”” Leviticus 18:1-5
And the Lord spoke unto Moses in the plains of Moab by the Jordan near Jerico, saying, “Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, When ye are passed over the Jordan into the land of Canaan, Then ye shall drive out all the inhabitants of the land from before you, and destroy all their stone idols, and destroy all their melted images, and demolish all their high places; And ye shall dispossess the inhabitants of the land, and dwell therein; for I have given you the land to possess… But if ye will not drive out the inhabitants of the land from before you, then it shall come to pass that those whom ye let remain of them shall become barbs in your eyes, and thorns in your sides, and shall vex you in the land wherein ye dwell. Moreover, it shall come to pass that I shall do unto you, as I thought to do unto them. Numbers 33:50-53, 55-56.
When the Lord thy God shall cut off the nations from before thee, where thou goest to possess them, and thou succeedest them, and dwellest in their land, Take heed to thyself that thou be not snared by following them, after they are destroyed from before thee, and that though inquire not after their gods, saying, “How did these nations serve their gods? Even so will I do likewise.” 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 have they burned in the fire to their gods. Whatsoever thing I command you, observe to do it; thou shalt not add thereto, nor diminish from it. Deuteronomy 29-32.
And there shall cling nothing of the cursed thing to thine hand; that the lord may turn from the fierceness of his anger, and show thee mercy, and have compassion upon thee, and multiply thee, as he hath sworn unto thy fathers, When thou shalt hearken to the voice of the Lord thy God, to keep all his commandments which I commanded thee this day, to do that which is right in the eyes of the Lord thy God. Deuteronomy 13:17-18. For thou art an holy people unto the Lord thy God, and the Lord hath chosen thee to be a peculiar people unto himself, above all the nations that are upon the earth. Deuteronomy 14:2
God directs punishment for anyone trying to pull God’s people into pagan worship:
Ye shall walk after the Lord your God, and fear him, and keep his commandments, and obey his voice, and ye shall serve him, and cleave unto him. And that prophet, or that dreamer of dreams, shall be put to death, because he hath spoken to turn you away from the lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, and redeemed you out of the land of bondage, to thrust thee out of the way which the Lord thy God commanded thee to walk in. So shalt thou put the evil away from the midst of thee. Deuteronomy 13:4-5.
Pagan evil has not been put away from us, and the mother goddess Semiramis/Ishtar is referenced as the whore of Babylon in Revelation 17. The Roman Catholic Church with its influence on all Christian religions has taken on that mantle in its promotion of her religion through all nations.
Summary
In The Art of War, by Sun Tzu, the strategy is given “Know your enemy”. God warns us to not be familiar with pagan religions, and I did not like reporting on this subject in such detail. I have seen unbalanced people take things and go with it, thinking such things were interesting or cool or against norms. However, after seeing what I have presented, no one that wants to follow God has an excuse to continue following the church’s pagan practices. The enemy’s strategy is revealed, and God’s thoughts on the matter is revealed.
We live in a ‘Christian’ world where there is a demand that Christ be conformed to the mainstream church, rather than the church being conformed to Christ. Because of this, if God were to release a move of the spirit into the current wineskin, the church would be very uncomfortable and not bear it. God says in the later days there will be a people who will be a peculiar people, dedicated to Him. That means they will not be a part of the mainstream church. It is time to align with churches and people who are ready to get things right. I knew publishing this information was serious, and would cause dissention. I prayed to be sure I was doing the right thing before I published. I had a prophecy a few years ago that made no sense at the time. God was answering this prayer then. I was told I had God’s protection from a sickness that most would get. Now I know the sickness was coronavirus, the epidemic is now essentially over, and I did not get sick. It was a sign to me as I’m about to publish, that God’s hand of approval was upon me. God knows how to get his message across.
For those who want to lean on “God knows my heart, such things don’t matter”, you’re saying you had rather follow the standard pagans follow than become separate for Christ. This quote is for you:
A lie doesn’t become truth, wrong doesn’t become right, and evil doesn’t become good just because it’s accepted by a majority. -Booker T. Washington
