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Easter – Baptized Paganism

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Sacrificing our children to Moloch

 

Isaiah 1
14 Your appointed festivals (Sunday, Easter, Christmas, etc. all Babylonian Rituals) I hate with all My being.

 

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Deuteronomy 12:31
You must not worship Yahuah your God in their (Babylonian) way, because in worshiping their (Babylonian Trinity) gods, they do all kinds of detestable things Yahuah hates. They even burn their sons and daughters in the fire as sacrifices to their gods (all Christian/Babylonian holidays are directed at our children).

We today are “sacrificing our children to Moloch” as we follow 666-as written in GreekJesus Christ who is the false Messiah or Antichrist.  We have targeted these pagan Babylonian festivals directly at our children!  We are literally sacrificing the eternal lives of our children by keeping these pagan SUN worshipping rituals making the excuse that “oh… but they are harmless, we do keep them because they are for the children!”  We must realize that is the point!  The spirit of the Dragon has always wanted our children and we are delivering our children to him on a silver platter!

666-as written in GreekJesus Christ the Antichrist represents the Mystery Religion of Babylonian festivals NOT the Holy Days of Yahuah defined in Scripture that Yahusha the Messiah kept and brought to their fullest expression spiritually.

 

 

 

Keeping The Law and the Festivals of Yahuah teach us the role of The Messiah

The Festivals or Holy Days of Yahuah are his witness to the true Messiah and stand as SUN blazing condemnation of the Antichrist 666-as written in GreekJesus Christ.  I explain these most Holy Days which are times appointed by Yahuah when we “meet our Father” on a specific days to worship Him in My book The Yahushaic Covenant.  I break down the most important one of all in My book the Passover Season as the Passover is the narrow gate that leads us out of bondage to sin and into the promised land.

Yahuah's festivals are rehearsals for future events and through them the Plan of Salvation through a Messiah is revealed. A rehearsal with Yahuah is like a rehearsal for a play. This suggests that the festivals are a teaching tool to prepare us to celebrate the fulfillment of the festival, at some time in the future and how to recognize the true Messiah from the false one.  To rehearse properly we need to know:

1.      The correct words of the script.

2.      The correct actions and props.

3.      The correct costume.

4.      The correct date and time.

A rehearsal is practice for the real thing. By celebrating the festivals dictated by Yahuah, on Mount Sinai, we will be in the right place, at the right time, wearing the right clothes, saying the right words, and doing the right things. Thus even if we were not highly Torah educated, or were distracted by the task that Yahuah gave us, even then we would be perfectly positioned to fulfill his will. To begin to understand the rehearsals of Yahuah will entail looking at the Hebrew word that means “rehearse”. The Hebrew word "miqra" is translated as "sacred assemblies" or “holy convocation” depending on which translation one uses.

Strong's defines the Hebrew word "miqra" as:

4744 miqra', mik-raw';
from 7121; something called out, i.e. a public meeting (the act, the persons, or the place); also a rehearsal:-assembly, calling, convocation, reading.

Thus we see that mikra defines an assembly of people for the purposes of rehearsing a future event. The first use of miqra is found in:

Exodus 12:16 
And in the first day there shall be an holy convocation (mikra/rehearsal), and in the seventh day there shall be an holy convocation (mikra/rehearsal) to you; no manner of work shall be done in them, save that which every man must eat, that only may be done of you.

The rehearsals, the festivals, of Yahuah, are spelled out in Leviticus chapter 23. The first verse to speak of these rehearsals is:

Leviticus 23:2
"Speak to the Israelites and say to them: 'These are My appointed feasts, the appointed feasts of Yahuah, which you are to proclaim as sacred assemblies (mikra/rehearsal).

Leviticus 23:4
"'These are Yahuah’s appointed feasts, the sacred assemblies (mikra/rehearsal) you are to proclaim at their appointed times:

The Spring Festivals are dress rehearsals and celebrations that pointed to Yahusha coming as the Passover Lamb.  The Fall Festivals are dress rehearsals and celebrations of Yahusha returning as the Conquering King.  The Apostle Sha’ul taught every assembly he established to KEEP The Torah, The Sabbath, the New Moon celebrations, and the Festivals of Yahuah:

Colossians 2
16
Therefore do not let anyone judge you by what you eat or drink (as they kept Kosher Laws), or with regard to a religious festival (as they kept The Festivals of Yahuah), a New Moon celebration (as they celebrated each month) or a Sabbath day (as they kept the 4th Commandment and celebrated weekly).
17 These (things Sha’ul taught them to do, remember they were Gentiles not Jews) are a shadow (physical rehearsals) of the things that were to come (Spiritual Truths); the reality, however, is found in The Yahushaic Covenant.

 

The False Messiah is known by pagan festivals

The Antichrist will be the “image of a man” in whom the Ordained Times of Yahuah known as the Feasts of Yahuah or Holy Days will be changed to Babylonian festivals, i.e. Holidays.

Daniel 7:25
He (the Antichrist/False Messiah) will defy the Most High and oppress the holy people of the Most High. He will try to change their sacred festivals and the laws of Yahuah.

There is only one “image of a man” in history who has successfully fulfilled this prophecy and that is Jesus Christ.  In the name and image of Jesus the Feasts of Yahuah were changed to the Babylonian holidays by the Beast (Christianity).  Yahuah gave us his moedim or holy days so that we would know the true Messiah and not fall for the false Messiah.  Yahuah’s Holy Days that he commanded we keep and were kept by Yahusha are:

·         The Spring Festivals: Passover, First Fruits, and Shav’uot

·         The Fall Festivals: Trumpets, Day of Atonement, and Tabernacles.

We know the false Messiah is a false “image” of the true Messiah who is worshipped in our hearts above Yahuah as God.  We can identify the false Messiah because there will only be one “image of a man” in history that will be seemingly based on the life of the true Messiah but in his name a false gospel will be preached.  That “false gospel” is that The Law of Yahuah has been abolished, the Sabbath changed to the day of the Sun god i.e. Sunday, and the Appointed Times (Festivals of Yahuah) have been changed to Babylonian rituals.

This is exactly what was done in the name of Hesus Horus Krishna aka Jesus H. Christ at the council of Nicaea.  Constantine created an image based on the life of Yahusha and in that image he changed The Sabbath to Sunday, change the name of the Messiah from coming in the name of Yahuah to another name, and he changed the Feasts of Yahuah to pagan sun worship rituals. Yahusha warned us that another false Messiah would come.  Not in the name of Yahuah as Yahusha did as Yahusha’s name means “Yahuah’s Salvation”.  This false Messiah would come in his own name (Jesus) and we would follow his example not Yahusha’s.

John 5
43
I have come in My Father’s name (Yahusha), and you do not accept me; but if someone else comes in his own name (Jesus), you will accept him (and follow him).

Yahuah through Isaiah declares he hates these pagan festivals that have replace his Ordained Holy Days kept by those who “claim” they know him but have been deceived:

Isaiah 1
14
Your New Moon feasts and your appointed festivals (Sunday, Easter, Christmas, etc. all Babylonian Rituals) I hate with all My being. They have become a burden to me; I am weary of bearing them. 15 When you spread out your hands in prayer, I hide My eyes from you; even when you offer many prayers, I am not listening (because you are not keeping Yahuah’s Holy Days). Your hands are full of blood (of the Ishtar Pig, Easter sacrifice of the Earthly pig Jesus)!

It is because we stopped keeping the very rehearsals that help us identify the true Messiah that most have fallen for the False Messiah Jesus H. Christ.  Had we kept The Sabbath and understood it we would never have fallen for Sunday worship as the day of rest.  Had we kept Passover we would have never fallen for Easter and so forth. Yahuah gave us these Ordained Times because they literally define Yahusha as the true Messiah and condemn Jesus as The False Image of Yahusha who proclaims a false gospel message.  Let’s evaluate the rituals that define Jesus Christ.

 

 

The Resurrection Day of Tammuz (Easter)

Semaramis became known as the fertility goddess Ishtar.  She took on many names in different cultures including Isis, Diana, Astarte, Ishtar, Aphrodite, Venus, and Easter.  She was even identified with Mary as Mary was falsely deified and took on the titles “Mother of God” and “Queen of Heaven”.   Her son Tammuz took on many names as well such as Horus, Apollo, Sol, Krishna, Hercules, Mithra, and finally Jesus.  The name Jesus H. Christ, in fact, originated by Constantine as Hesus Horus Krishna.  “Hesus Horus Krishna” evolved into Jesus H. Christ over the years.  All names of Tammuz put together for the son of the sun god and member of the Trinity (worshipped on Sunday the day of his sun god).  Semaramis instituted a holy day in her Babylonian Religion in honor of the supposed “death/resurrection” of her son Tammuz. 

Below is a picture of the Semaramis and Tammuz, the “Madonna/Child” and “Mary/Jesus”…

 

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Notice the “child” in these images is not a baby but a small fully developed man.  While protesting Catholics (called Protestants) deny worship of this pagan deity… they in deed contradict that denial in action as they openly do just that on Sunday, Christmas and Easter.  In the images above we see to the left the idol of Ishtar/Tammuz renamed Jesus/Mary.  The idol of the Madonna/Child renamed Jesus/Mary.  We see a painting of Jesus/Mary all the exact same Babylonian deities.  We need to begin admitting the obvious truth; these idols were not renamed because the pagans now believed in Yahusha the Messiah.  No, Tammuz and Ishtar/Semaramis simply had their names changed in the False Religion of Christianity; which is a carbon copy of The Mystery Religion of Babylon! 

What we now call “halos” were nothing more than images of the Sun clearly demonstrating who these “paintings” were really representing.  Not Yahusha but Tammuz.  Not Miriam but Ishtar/Semaramis. The real truth behind the “cross of Jesus” and the “halos” around Jesus and Mary is simple.  Jesus is Tammuz and Mary is Ishtar, they were the renamed and became the latest versions of the Babylonian Madonna and Child.  This is clearly depicted below in the bottom right image as we see the images of the Sun god behind them, the X of Tammuz (the cross of the equinox from The Zodiac) written on The Sun over “Jesus”, and the crown on the Queen of Heaven and “Tammuz” in the upper right image of Jesus/Mary.

 

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Their still remains idols in the Vatican of “Tammuz the great hunter” to this day… their (Christianity’s) REAL Messiah they renamed Jesus or Hesus or Iesous or I.H.S. which means… Hail Zeus or Son of Zeus.  The picture below is Tammuz the Great Hunter idol in The Vatican.

 

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We still pass on images of Tammuz son of Semaramis today as Cupid, son of Venus.  Still depicted as the “mighty hunter” complete with a bow and arrow!

 

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mighty hunter

 

We still “hunt Ishtar eggs” in honor of Tammuz the Great Hunter on Ishtar’s day and eat ham in his honor.  We just call it by its English name Easter but every ritual remains the same as in ancient Babylon.  No longer do we keep Passover and eat Lamb as commanded by the Messiah (strengthening the Law of YAHUAH) as he kept Passover on the 14th of Abib (eve of Passover) just before he gave his body as the Passover Lamb.  The last thing Yahusha said before dying on Passover was… KEEP PASSOVER!

Luke 22:19
19 And when he had taken some bread and given thanks (on the eve of Passover), He broke it and gave it to them, saying, "This (Passover Dinner) is My body (Passover Lamb) which is given (sacrificed) for you; do this (keep Passover) in remembrance of Me."

No… we now keep Ishtar and eat HAM!!! The most abominable “beast” in the Torah in honor Tammuz who was killed by a pig.  The fact, that Jesus of the Christian Church is in reality the Babylonian Tammuz, reincarnated Nimrod son of Ba’al to this day is denied by Christianity as they have been given over by YAHUAH to believe a lie.  They have literally fallen for Nimrod/Semaramis/Tammuz under another name as they became Isis/Horus/Seb or I.H.S the monogram for Hesus Horus Krishna all names for Tammuz.  Hesus Horus Krishna evolved into Jesus H. Christ in English.  But in Latin it remains I.H.S. in the middle of Sol Invictus, the same “invincible Sun” worshipped from Nimrod to Constantine!

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This is the symbol of the sun with the pagan Babylonian Trinity of Isis Horus and Seb (I.H.S) with the elevated Cross of Tammuz.  IHS is the very monogram of Jesus H. Christ and carried around by the high priest of Ba’al today with the cross of Tammuz blazoned on top in the center of the Sun:

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I will get into all of this in detail in this book series.

 

 

 

Forty Days of Weeping for Tammuz

Lent and Ash Wednesday 

When Tammuz was forty years old, he was hunting in the woods and he was killed by a wild boar (a pig) that is why we eat “ham” on Easter/Ishtar Day even though it is against YAHUAH’s commandments to eat pig. He took after his father Nimrod in that he was a “mighty hunter.” After Tammuz died, his mother Semaramis began a custom in Babylon called “forty days of weeping for Tammuz” where people were commanded to fast and pray for Tammuz in the underworld. They exchanged one day of pleasure in this life for each year of Tammuz’s life.

Today in the Roman Catholic Church this has been renamed “Lent.” These forty days of fasting from something would begin on what is called “Ash Wednesday” in the Catholic Church and many protestant Churches with the Cross of Tammuz being written in ash on the forehead of the “faithful”. The priest would take ashes and place a “mark” on our foreheads of a cross as he would recite a declaration about how we were “created from ashes and to ashes we shall return.”  We were all told that when we celebrated Lent that we were commemorating the time when our Messiah fasted and prayed in the wilderness for “forty days and forty nights.”

That is what I was made to believe that Lent was all about. But the truth of the matter is that our Messiah fasted and prayed during the “Forty Days of Repentance” leading up to Yom Kippur.  It had NOTHING to do with “Lent” or Easter. Here we see YAHUAH condemning this practice called “weeping for Tammuz” which today is called Lent:

Ezekiel 8:13-14
“Turn you yet again, and you shall see greater abominations that they do. Then he brought me to the door of the gate of YAHUAH’s house which was toward the north; and, behold, there sat women weeping for Tammuz. Then said he unto me, Have you seen this, O son of man?”

Today in many cultures people make “Easter Bread” or “hot crossed buns”. Do people realize that they are inadvertently offering up cakes to the Queen of Heaven?

Jeremiah 7:18-19
“The children gather wood, and the fathers kindle the fire, and the women knead their 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? says YAHUAH: do they not provoke themselves to the confusion of their own faces? Therefore thus says the YAHUAH your God; Behold, My anger and My fury shall be poured out upon this place.”

Semaramis, (Nimrod’s mother), became known in other cultures as “Magna Mater,” the “Great Mother,” and she was worshipped as Mother Earth. The Sun “mated” with the Earth each spring, and the “Rites of Spring” symbolized by the “May Pole” and “Easter” came 9 moons (months) before December 25th on the “birth” of the winter Sun. Her Assyrian name is Ishtar which is where we derive the name “Easter.” Easter, the goddess of the dawn is the universal goddess of fertility throughout history since the Tower of Babel. She began as Nimrod’s wife Semaramis, and then after YAHUAH scattered the nations and confused their languages at the Tower of Babel (Genesis 10-11), her image with her baby son Tammuz migrated to other nations under different names.

The Romans called her Astarte but later she was called Venus, and the Phoenicians called her Ashterah. The Hebrews called her Astoroth, the consort of Ba’al. Her emblem is the flower of the lily. She is the “goddess of the dawn,” and her statue stands on a bridge in France. The French made a colossus of this image, and it now stands in New York Harbor, facing “East,” referring to the name Ishtar or Easter.   We call this idol of her The Statue of Liberty.  Why is she facing the East?

Ezekiel 8:16
And he brought me into the inner court of YAHUAH’s house, and, behold, at the door of the temple of YAHUAH, between the porch and the altar, were about five and twenty men, with their backs toward the temple of YAHUAH, and their faces toward the east; and they worshipped the sun toward the east.

The French Illuminati donated this statue to America in order to bring the spirit of Jezebel’s influence upon our nation!  I covered this earlier on the section on pagan Trinities. The torch that she carries is the “light of Lucifer” the same “light” of Freemasonry. Easter is a day that is honored by nearly all of contemporary Christianity and is used to celebrate the resurrection of Jesus Christ which now we know is actually Tammuz not Yahusha.  The holiday often involves a church service at sunrise (sun worship), a feast which includes an "Easter Ham" (the abominable sacrifice), decorated eggs and stories about rabbits.  Below is a quick summary of exactly “what” Easter really is all about.

 


 

Detailed Origin of Easter

"Ishtar", which is pronounced "Easter" was a day that commemorated the resurrection of one of their gods that they called "Tammuz", who was believed to be the only begotten son of the moon-goddess and the sun-god. In those ancient times, there was a man named Nimrod, who was the grandson of one of Noah's sons named Ham. Ham had a son named Cush who married a woman named Semaramis. Cush and Semaramis then had a son and named him "Nimrod." After the death of his father, Nimrod married his own mother and became a powerful King. The Bible tells of this man, Nimrod, in Genesis 10:8-10 as follows: "And Cush begat Nimrod: he began to be a mighty one in the Earth. He was a mighty hunter “in the Face of YAHUAH”: wherefore it is said, even as Nimrod the mighty hunter in the Face of YAHUAH. And the beginning of His Kingdom was Babel, and Erech, and Accad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar." Nimrod became a god-man to the people and Semaramis, his wife and mother, became the powerful Queen of ancient Babylon. Nimrod was eventually killed by an enemy, and his body was cut in pieces and sent to various parts of His Kingdom. Semaramis had all of the parts gathered, except for one part that could not be found. That missing part was his reproductive organ. Semaramis claimed that Nimrod could not come back to life without it and told the people of Babylon that Nimrod had ascended to the sun and was now to be called "Baal", the sun god.

Queen Semaramis also proclaimed that Baal would be present on Earth in the form of a flame, whether candle or lamp, when used in worship. Semaramis was creating a Mystery religion, and with the help of Satan, she set herself up as a goddess. Semaramis claimed that she was immaculately conceived. She taught that the moon was a goddess that went through a 28 day cycle and ovulated when full. She further claimed that she came down from the moon in a giant moon egg that fell into the Euphrates River as she emerged as the moon fertility goddess Ishtar.

The Easter Egg

This was to have happened at the time of the first full moon after the spring equinox. Semaramis became known as "Ishtar" which is pronounced "Easter", and her moon egg became known as the "Ishtar's" egg." Every year, on the first Sunday after the first full moon after the spring equinox, a celebration was made. It was Ishtar's Sunday and was celebrated with rabbits and eggs.  The “Ishtar Eggs” were dyed in the blood of babies sacrificed to Tammuz with the “cross of Tammuz” emblazoned on them as the children would “hunt” the eggs in the likeness of Tammuz and Nimrod the mighty hunters.

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Ishtar also proclaimed that because Tammuz was killed by a pig, that a pig must be eaten on that Ishtar’s Sunday.   At this point we begin to “see” what exact abominable “beast” replaced the sacrifice of the Passover Lamb.  It was then and is still now, the Easter Pig of Ishtar!  I will go into this in detail later in this book series.

The Easter Bunny

Tammuz was noted to be especially fond of rabbits, and they became sacred in the ancient religion, because Tammuz was believed to be the son of the sun-god, Baal.  The rabbit is one of the most fertile creatures on Earth and held sacred to the fertility religion Semaramis had created in Babylon. Easter egg hunting originated with Tammuz, who, like his supposed father, became a hunter. The day came when Tammuz was killed by a wild pig. Queen Ishtar told the people that Tammuz was now ascended to his father, Baal, and that the two of them would be with the worshippers in the sacred candle or lamp flame as Father, Son and Spirit.

The Evergreen Tree and Lent and Fasting

Ishtar, who was now worshipped as the "Mother of God and Queen of Heaven", continued to build her Mystery religion. The queen told the worshippers that when Tammuz was killed by the wild pig, some of his blood fell on the stump of an evergreen tree, and the stump grew into a full new tree overnight. This made the evergreen tree sacred by the blood of Tammuz. She also proclaimed a forty day period of time of sorrow each year prior to the anniversary of the death of Tammuz. During this time, no meat was to be eaten.

The Cross of Tammuz

Worshippers were to meditate upon the sacred Mysteries of Baal and Tammuz, and to make the sign of the "T" in front of their hearts as they worshipped.   Today this is called “The Sign of the Cross” made over the heart of Christians as we read from the Catholic Encyclopedia

http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/13785a.htm

The cross was originally traced by Christians with the thumb or finger on their own foreheads. This practice is attested by numberless allusions in Patristic literature, and it was clearly associated in idea with certain references in Scripture, notably Ezekiel 9:4 (of the mark of the letter Tau); Exodus 17:9-14; and especially Apocalypse 7:3, 9:4 and 14:1. Hardly less early in date is the custom of marking a cross on objects — already Tertullian speaks of the Christian woman "signing" her bed (cum lectulum tuum signas, "Ad uxor.", ii, 5) before retiring to rest—and we soon hear also of the sign of the cross being traced on the lips (Jerome, "Epitaph. Sha’ulæ") and on the heart (Prudentius, "Cathem.", vi, 129).

Hotcross buns

They also ate sacred cakes with the marking of a "T" or cross on the top.  We know them today as “hotcross buns” we bake and eat on “Ishtar SungodDay” i.e. Easter Sunday.

 

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Easter replaced Passover

 

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Idol of the Fertility Goddess Ishtar and Her Ishtar Bunny

 

In My book The Mystery Religion of Babylon I introduced the origin of Easter. The religion created in Babylon by Nimrod and Semaramis where the people had to pay money to come into the temple to sacrifice their babies at the Winter Solstice (December 21st-25th).  Then kill and eat a pig and sacrifice babies and dip eggs in their blood and make the sign of Tammuz (cross) on those eggs on “Easter Sunrise Services,” at the spring or Vernal Equinox (March 21st-25th).  A practice continued today: 

 

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Every year on March 25th & December 25th, there would be wild drunken parties and orgies where virgins were impregnated by pagan priests. Since there are 9 months to a pregnancy, and there are also 9 months between March 25th and December 25th, the pagan priests of Ba’al (the Lord) would impregnate these virgins on Ishtar/Easter Sun god Day to commemorate the impregnation of Semaramis (Ishtar/Easter) with Tammuz, and then by December 25th when these infants were newly born, they would then offer up these new born babies on the altar to “Moloch” (Nimrod) on December 25th

 

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Easter celebrated by pagan Babylon

 

Then a few months later on Ishtar/Easter “Sun-day” they would offer up more infants to the goddess named “Easter” or “Ishtar” the moon goddess Semaramis.  These rituals were continued in Rome and continued today as fundamental to Christianity for a reason (it is the newly repackaged version of The Mystery Religion of Babylon).  The true sons of YAHUAH keep Passover as Yahusha and YAHUAH both commanded us.

The Sumerian goddess Inanna, or Ishtar, was hung naked on a stake, and was subsequently resurrected and ascended from the underworld. One of the oldest resurrection Myths is Egyptian Horus. Born on 25 December, Horus and his damaged eye became symbols of life and rebirth.  In our “Christian Nation” we take pride “In God We Trust” on our currency.  Yet that “god” is not YAHUAH, the “god” this country was founded on was in fact Horus and the “Eye of Horus” adorns the back of the dollar bill.  Horus is another name for Tammuz the second member of the Babylonian Trinity.  “Jesus”, too, is just another name for Tammuz/Horus.  “Horus” is what the middle initial of Jesus stands for in “Jesus H. Christ”.

Mithras was born on what we now call Christmas day, and his followers celebrated the spring equinox. Even as late as the 4th century AD, The Cult of Sol Invictus, associated with Mithras, was the last great pagan cult the church had to assimilate. Dionysus was a divine child, resurrected by his grandmother. Dionysus also brought his mother, Semele, back to life.  All these were overcome through Syncretism.  They were simply assimilated into one… Jesus H. Christ.

In an ironic twist, the Cybele cult flourished on today’s Vatican Hill. Cybele’s lover Attis, was born of a virgin, died and was reborn annually. This spring festival began as a day of blood on Black Friday, rising to a crescendo after two days, in rejoicing over the resurrection (Good Friday/Easter Sunday). There was violent conflict on Vatican Hill in the early days of Christianity between the Jesus worshippers and worshippers of other pagan gods who quarreled over whose God was the true, and whose was the imitation. What is interesting to note here is that in the ancient world, wherever you had popular resurrected god Myths, Christianity found lots of converts. So, eventually Christianity came to an accommodation with the pagan spring festival. Although we see no celebration of Easter in the New Testament, early church fathers celebrated it, and today many churches are offering “sunrise services” at Easter – an obvious pagan solar celebration. The date of Easter is not fixed, but instead is governed by the phases of the moon – (The pagan roots of Easter, Heather McDougall, guardian.co.uk, 3 April 2010)

Council of Nicaea attempts to standardize Easter

It was the Council of Nicaea, where the Roman Catholic Christian Church emerged full blown pagan (and where Protestant Churches derive all their basic pagan doctrines).  It was at this abominable council the foundation of every Christian’s belief (Nicaean Creed) and many abominations originated.  In that council, the Passover was changed to Easter/Ishtar.  Most notably, the true sacrifice of the Lamb was changed to the most abominable sacrifice of all… the pig.

In 325 A.D., the First Council of Nicaea came to a decision that the Church as a whole should use a unified system, which was the Roman one already in existence, not the Hebrew Scriptures.  We already know that every “bishop” was a pagan priest who worshipped many gods and that their “canons” were nothing more than meaningless rambles, fables, and legends of pagan gods.  We see below, that all these pagan religions ALREADY observed Easter.  To standardize “God’s most holy day” they chose the pagan celebration of Easter over the Commandments of Yahusha and YAHUAH regarding Passover:

The Catholic Epiphanius wrote in the mid-4th Century, "...the emperor...convened a council of 318 bishops...in the city of Nicaea...They passed certain ecclesiastical canons at the council besides, and at the same time decreed in regard to the Passover that there must be one unanimous concord on the celebration of God's holy and supremely excellent day. For it was variously observed by people..." Epiphanius. The Panarion of Epiphanius of Salamis, Books II and III (Sects 47-80), De Fide). Section VI, Verses 1,1 and 1,3. Translated by Frank Williams. EJ Brill, New York, 1994, pp.471-472).

A Sunday date was selected for Sol Invictus, instead of Nisan 14 established by YAHUAH (which can fall on any day of the week).  The pagan Greeks did in fact receive “another Messiah” other than the Jewish Messiah Yahusha as they so plainly state as the “spirit of the anti-Messiah” grew ever stronger.  They received yet “another way” from their “savior” than THE WAY exampled by Yahusha.  They literally changed the proper sacrifice of the Passover Lamb of YAHUAH (Yahusha) for a pagan “most holy day” of the abominable pig sacrifice of Ishtar, they named “Jesus” or “Earthly Pig”.  Truly “they”, the Christian Church, has nothing in common with the Jewish Messiah Yahusha.  Below is a direct quote attributed to the Roman Emperor Constantine AFTER he created Christianity… in a continued effort to blame the execution of Yahusha on “the Jews” when Yahusha was executed by ROMAN DECREE!

Eusebius' Life of Constantine, Book 3 chapter 18 records Constantine the Great as writing: "... it appeared an unworthy thing that in the celebration of this most holy feast we should follow the practice of the Jews, who have impiously defiled their hands with enormous sin, and are, therefore, deservedly afflicted with blindness of soul. ... Let us then have nothing in common with the detestable Jewish crowd; for we have received from our Saviour a different way."

That is exactly right; a “different way” is represented by “Jesus” than is taught by Yahusha in The Bible.  We have received “another Messiah and another way” in Christianity.  The Apostle Sha’ul dealt with this constantly taking the Hebrew Truth to pagan Greeks:

2 Corinthians 11:4
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For if someone comes to you and preaches a Messiah other than the Messiah we preached, or if you receive a different spirit from the Spirit you received, or a different gospel from the one you accepted, you put up with it easily enough.

Yes, it appears Sha’ul is right above, we put up with just about every abomination and then take a firm stand AGAINST the commandments of YAHUAH and example Yahusha set with his life. 

Next we see clear historical evidence that the pagan sun worshipping “Pontifex Maximus” or high priest of the sun god Apollo called together other pagan priests called “Bishops” at the Council of Nicaea.  There they declared the “Jews” part of the greater Israel chosen by YAHUAH to receive his Law, Ordained Times, Calendar, Sabbaths, and Messiah as “adversaries”.  We see the “spirit of the anti-Messiah” or Spirit of the Antichrist began to prosper among men.  Calling the very righteousness of YAHUAH defined in his Law/Feasts/Sabbaths the “evil way”.  They “Rome” turned the tables on humanity and blamed the execution which was at the hands of ROME on the Jews alone (the Jews had no power to execute they were under Roman rule):

Theodoret’s Ecclesiastical History 1.9 records The Epistle of the Emperor Constantine, concerning the matters transacted at the Council, addressed to those Bishops who were not present: “It was, in the first place, declared improper to follow the custom of the Jews in the celebration of this holy festival, because, their hands having been stained with crime, the minds of these wretched men are necessarily blinded. … Let us, then, have nothing in common with the Jews, who are our adversaries. … avoiding all contact with that evil way. … who, after having compassed the death of the Lord, being out of their minds, are guided not by sound reason, but by an unrestrained passion, wherever their innate madness carries them. … a people so utterly depraved. … Therefore, this irregularity must be corrected, in order that we may no more have any thing in common with those parricides and the murderers of our Lord. … no single point in common with the perjury of the Jews.”

The Christian Church admits to this abomination of changing Passover to Easter/Ishtar Sun god day.  Literally rewriting the ordinance of YAHUAH that Passover is an eternal ordinance changing it to Easter.

Rome’s worship of the Babylonian Semaramis/Ishtar and Sun god Baal/Nimrod triumphed over YAHUAH’s Law and the Truth became a heresy and the Lie became LAW.  Instead of the 14th of Nisan as commanded by YAHUAH, the “most holy day” of the Christian Church was set to the first Sun god Day service after the first vernal full moon… the exact same day set by the Babylonian Queen Semaramis called Ishtar Day or Easter in celebration of the death and supposed resurrection of Tammuz now called “Jesus”.  Openly admitting the “reason” was opposition to Judaism which was nothing more than the defined Spirit of the Antichrist defined in Daniel as “changing the ordained times and laws of YAHUAH”.  The Christian Church fulfilled this prophecy in detail.  the Passover of YAHUAH actually became heresy to the false Church of Rome and all Protestant Churches in the name of their god “Jesus”:

Philip Schaff's History of the Christian Church, volume 3, section 79, The Time of the Easter Festival states: "The feast of the resurrection was thenceforth required to be celebrated everywhere on a Sunday, and never on the day of the Jewish passover, but always after the fourteenth of Nisan, on the Sunday after the first vernal full moon. The leading motive for this regulation was opposition to Judaism, which had dishonored the passover by the crucifixion of the Lord. ... At Nicaea, therefore, the Roman and Alexandrian usage with respect to Easter triumphed, and the Judaizing practice of the Quartodecimanians, who always celebrated Passover on the fourteenth of Nisan, became thenceforth a heresy. Yet that practice continued in many parts of the East, and in the time of Epiphanius, about a.d. 400, there were many, Quartodecimanians, who, as he says, were orthodox, indeed, in doctrine, but in ritual were addicted to Jewish fables, and built upon the principle: “Cursed is everyone who does not keep his passover on the fourteenth of Nisan.”

What they referred to above as a “Jewish Fable” is in reality a curse from The Creator:

Deuteronomy 27:26
"Cursed is the man who does not uphold the words of this law by carrying them out."

Notice that above it is ADMITTED that Yahusha was sacrificed on Passover and the very festival pointing to the Messiah’s role, the very one he kept on “the last supper” is now declared a “heresy” … That is why YOU a Christian do not keep Passover.  The Book of Acts and in fact the entire Bible has NO REFERENCE to Easter at all.  Yahusha never celebrated Easter, YAHUAH never commanded Easter worship, not one of the men in the Bible celebrated Easter, the disciples after Yahusha’s death never celebrated Easter.  They all celebrated Passover.

We see below, that there were many who strongly objected to this move, and as a result were excommunicated from the pagan Christian Church.  Notice, that even at that time, it was well known that Yahusha was crucified NOT on "good Friday", but on the TRUE Passover.  Apollinaris, later recognized as a "saint", clearly stated the fact below:

Pope Victor I excommunicates the Quartodecimans

However, one of Anicetus' successors, Victor I, excommunicated the Quartodecimans of Asia (then apparently led by Polycrates of Ephesus) for not adhering to the Easter practices of the majority of Christians. Despite this schism, several Quartodecimans who died prior to the excommunication under Victor I, including Melito of Sardis and Polycarp, are recognized as Saints by both the Roman Catholic and Orthodox Churches even though they kept Passover.

Another recognized Catholic saint, Apollinaris, wrote admitting the Messiah fulfilled Passover ON Passover not Good Friday:

"There are, then, some who through ignorance raise disputes about these things (though their conduct is pardonable: for ignorance is no subject for blame -- it rather needs further instruction...)...The fourteenth day (of Nisan on the Jewish Calendar)

9, the true Passover of the Lord; the great sacrifice, the Son of God instead of the lamb, who was bound, who bound the strong, and who was judged, though Judge of living and dead, and who was delivered into the hands of sinners to be crucified, who was lifted up on the horns of the unicorn, and who was pierced in His holy side, who poured forth from His side the two purifying elements, water and blood, word and spirit, and who was buried on the day of the Passover, the stone being placed upon the tomb" (Apollinaris Claudius, From the Book Concerning Passover, Translated by Alexander Roberts and James Donaldson, Excerpted from Volume I of The Ante-Nicene Fathers).

I will expound on this blasphemous move by the Christian Church to replace the Passover Lamb with the Easter pig later in this book series.  Proving that Easter is the abominable sacrifice that causes the Passover Lamb sacrifice to cease destroying the altar and temple of God.  The elevating of a man above YAHUAH as god, worshipping that created by YAHUAH above YAHUAH as god in your heart.  Better known as “accepting Jesus H. Christ into your heart” and putting your faith in (eating a ham) the Easter Pig of Ishtar.  I will prove that Easter is the Abomination of Desolation.

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