Have you ever found yourself as I did and questioned a few traditions that we do as Christians. Today I wanted to take some time to explain why i STOPPED participating in “Easter” traditions and explaining to my children why this is not okay and how Yahweh our God does not see this as something that we should be doing especially if we are dedicating a day for him. Asking, Why?? is it called “EASTER”, what does a rabbit, eggs and egg hunts have to do with our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ The Messiah. I share this information because I love you all and want you to open your eyes to the deception.
LUKE 22: 14 When the hour came, Jesus and his apostles reclined at the table. 15 And he said to them, “I have eagerly desired to eat this Passover with you before I suffer. 16 For I tell you, I will not eat it again until it finds fulfillment in the kingdom of God.”
17 After taking the cup, he gave thanks and said, “Take this and divide it among you. 18 For I tell you I will not drink again from the fruit of the vine until the kingdom of God comes.”
19 And he took bread, gave thanks and broke it, and gave it to them, saying, “This is my body given for you; do this in remembrance of me.”
20 In the same way, after the supper he took the cup, saying, “This cup is the new covenant in my blood, which is poured out for you.[a]
To Clarify:Is it wrong to remember the resurrection? No. It would be wrong to not remember it, if anything it should be remember daily and given thanks daily for it. Is Easter observance the way to do so? It would be disgraceful to not admit there is certainly a lot of pagan influence that has become tied to the resurrection in Easter. Nowhere are bunnies, chicks, or eggs mentioned in the Bible or in connection with Christ’s resurrection.
EASTER
3957 πάσχα pascha
{pas’-khah}
Meaning: 1) the paschal sacrifice (which was
accustomed to be offered for the people’s deliverance of old from Egypt) 2) the
paschal lamb, i.e. the lamb the Israelites were accustomed to slay and eat on
the fourteenth day of the month of Nisan (the first month of their year) in
memory of the day on which their fathers, preparing to depart from Egypt, were
bidden by God to slay and eat a lamb, and to sprinkle their door posts with its
blood, that the destroying angel, seeing the blood, might pass over their
dwellings; Christ crucified is likened to the slain paschal lamb 3) the paschal
supper 4) the paschal feast, the feast of the Passover, extending from the 14th
to the 20th day of the month Nisan
Origin: of Aramaic origin cf 06453; TDNT – 5:896,797;
n n
Usage: AV – Passover 28, Easter 1; 29
Notes:
1 Easter: Gr.
Passover
2 quaternions: a
file of four soldiers
||Acts 12:1-8 KJV||
KJV Acts 12:1 Now about that time Herod the king stretched forth his hands to vex certain of the church.
2 And he killed James the brother of John with the sword.
3 And because he saw it pleased the Jews, he proceeded further to take Peter also. (Then were the days of unleavened bread.)
4 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.
5 Peter therefore was kept in prison: but prayer was made without ceasing of the church unto God for him.
6 And when Herod would have brought him forth, the same night Peter was sleeping between two soldiers, bound with two chains: and the keepers before the door kept the prison.
7 And, behold, the angel of the Lord came upon him, and a light shined in the prison: and he smote Peter on the side, and raised him up, saying, Arise up quickly. And his chains fell off from his hands.
8 And the angel said unto him, Gird thyself, and bind on thy sandals. And so he did. And he saith unto him, Cast thy garment about thee, and follow me.
THE PASSOVER REAFFIRMED FOR GENTILES
||1 Cor. 5:7-8 KJV|| 7 Purge out therefore the old leaven, that ye may be a new lump, as ye are unleavened. For even Christ our passover is sacrificed for us:
8 Therefore let us keep the feast, not with old leaven, neither with the leaven of malice and wickedness; but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth..
Corinthians set straight on false celebration of the pass over
||1 Cor. 11:18-34 KJV|| 18 For first of all, when ye come together in the church, I hear that there be divisions among you; and I partly believe it.
19 For there must be also heresies among you, that they which are approved may be made manifest among you.
20 When ye come together therefore into one place, this is not to eat the Lord’s supper.
21 For in eating every one taketh before other his own supper: and one is hungry, and another is drunken.
22 What? have ye not houses to eat and to drink in? or despise ye the church of God, and shame them that have not? What shall I say to you? shall I praise you in this? I praise you not.
23 For I have received of the Lord that which also I delivered unto you, That the Lord Jesus the same night in which he was betrayed took bread:
24 And when he had given thanks, he brake it, and said, Take, eat: this is my body, which is broken for you: this do in remembrance of me.
25 After the same manner also he took the cup, when he had supped, saying, This cup is the new testament in my blood: this do ye, as oft as ye drink it, in remembrance of me.
26 For as often as ye eat this bread, and drink this cup, ye do shew the Lord’s death till he come.
27 Wherefore whosoever shall eat this bread, and drink this cup of the Lord, unworthily, shall be guilty of the body and blood of the Lord.
28 But let a man examine himself, and so let him eat of that bread, and drink of that cup.
29 For he that eateth and drinketh unworthily, eateth and drinketh damnation to himself, not discerning the Lord’s body.
30 For this cause many are weak and sickly among you, and many sleep.
31 For if we would judge ourselves, we should not be judged.
32 But when we are judged, we are chastened of the Lord, that we should not be condemned with the world.
33 Wherefore, my brethren, when ye come together to eat, tarry one for another.
34 And if any man hunger, let him eat at home; that ye come not together unto condemnation. And the rest will I set in order when I come.
PASSOVER
||Exod. 12:21-24
KJV|| 21 Then Moses called for all the
elders of Israel, and said unto them, Draw out and take you a lamb according to
your families, and kill the passover.
22 And ye shall take a bunch of hyssop, and
dip it in the blood that is in the bason, and strike the lintel and the two
side posts with the blood that is in the bason; and none of you shall go out at
the door of his house until the morning.
23 For the LORD will pass through to smite the
Egyptians; and when he seeth the blood upon the lintel, and on the two side
posts, the LORD will pass over the door, and will not suffer the destroyer to
come in unto your houses to smite you.
24 And ye shall observe this thing for an
ordinance to thee and to thy sons for ever.
||Exod. 12:14 KJV||
14 And this day shall be unto you for a memorial; and ye shall keep it a feast
to the LORD throughout your generations; ye shall keep it a feast by an
ordinance for ever..
||Exod. 12:2-6
KJV|| 2 This month shall be unto you the
beginning of months: it shall be the first month of the year to you.
3 Speak ye unto all the congregation of
Israel, saying, In the
tenth day of this month they shall take to them every man a lamb,
according to the house of their fathers, a lamb for an house:
4 And if the household be too little for the
lamb, let him and his neighbour next unto his house take it according to the
number of the souls; every man according to his eating shall make your count
for the lamb.
5 Your lamb shall be without blemish, a male
of the first year: ye shall take it out from the sheep, or from the goats:
6 And ye shall keep it up until the fourteenth day of the same
month: and the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel shall kill it in
the evening.
||Deut. 16:1 KJV||
Observe the month of Abib,
and keep the passover unto the LORD thy God: for in the month of Abib
the LORD thy God brought thee forth out of Egypt by night.
||Exod. 12:43-13:1
KJV|| 43 And the LORD said unto Moses and Aaron, This is the ordinance of the
passover: There shall no stranger eat thereof:
44 But every man’s servant that is bought for
money, when thou hast circumcised him, then shall he eat thereof.
45 A foreigner and an hired servant shall not
eat thereof.
46 In one house shall it be eaten; thou shalt
not carry forth ought of the flesh abroad out of the house; neither shall ye
break a bone thereof.
47 All the congregation of Israel shall keep
it.
48 And when a stranger shall sojourn with
thee, and will keep the passover to the LORD, let all his males be circumcised,
and then let him come near and keep it; and he shall be as one that is born in
the land: for no
uncircumcised person shall eat thereof.
49 One law shall be to him that is homeborn,
and unto the stranger that sojourneth among you.
50 Thus did all the children of Israel; as the
LORD commanded Moses and Aaron, so did they.
51 And it came to pass the selfsame day, that
the LORD did bring the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt by their
armies.