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Easter is a day that is honered by nearly all of contemporary Christianity and is used to celebrate the resurrection of Jesus Christ.
The holiday often involves a church service at sunrise, a feast which includes an "Easter Ham", decorated eggs and stories about rabbits.
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The first thing we must understand is that professing Christians were not the only ones who celebrated a festival called "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 son named Ham.
Ham had a son named Cush who married a woman named Semiramis.Cush and Semiramis then had a son named him "Nimrod."
After the death of his father, Nimrod married his own mother and became a powerful King.
The Bible tells of 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 before the Lord: wherefore it is said, even as Nimrod the mighty hunter before the Lord. 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 Semiramis, 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.
Semiramis had all of the parts gathered, except for one part that could not be found.
That missing part was his reproductive organ. Semiramis 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 Semiramis also proclaimed that Baal would be present on earth in the form of a flame, whether candle or lamp, when used in worship.
Semiramis was creating a mystery religion, and with the help of Satan, she set herself up as a goddess.
Semiramis 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.
This was to have happened at the time of the first full moon after the spring equinox.
Semiramis became known as "Ishtar" which is pronounced "Easter", and her moon egg became known as "Ishtar's" egg."
Ishtar soon became pregnant and claimed that it was the rays of the sun-god Baal that caused her to conceive.
The son that she brought forth was named Tammuz.
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. Tammuz, 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.
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.
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.
They also ate sacred cakes with the marking of a "T" or cross on the top.
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.
Ishtar also proclaimed that because Tammuz was killed by a pig, that a pig must be eaten on that Sunday.
By now, the readers of this tract should have made the connection that paganism has infiltrated the contemporary "Christian" churches, and further study indicates that this paganism came in by way of the Roman Catholic System.
The truth is that Easter has nothing whatsoever to do with the resurrection of our Lord Jesus Christ.
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These things bring the wrath of God upon children of disobedience, who try to make pagan customs of Baal worship Christian.
You must answer for your activities and for what you teach your children.
Originally posted by Merriman Weir
Well, if you're going to remove everything from Christianity that has either a basis elsewhere or an 'coincidental analogue' with another (pagan) religion, you're not going to have much left.
No chocolate for you this Eostur-monaþ!
Originally posted by heliosprime
Originally posted by Merriman Weir
Well, if you're going to remove everything from Christianity that has either a basis elsewhere or an 'coincidental analogue' with another (pagan) religion, you're not going to have much left.
No chocolate for you this Eostur-monaþ!
Perhasp the "little left" will be the actual worship of God as he tells man thru his commandments.
Originally posted by Tayesin
In Celtic England, what we know as Easter was a festival time when the birds returned for the approaching Summer. Painting of eggs, bird watching, etc, were among some of the activities during this time.
Fairly sure your gonna be in the 144000 on rapture day?
These things bring the wrath of God upon children of disobedience, who try to make pagan customs of Baal worship Christian. You must answer for your activities and for what you teach your children.
Originally posted by jjjtir
reply to post by felonius
Fairly sure your gonna be in the 144000 on rapture day?
Hey, be fair...
Not all Christian denominations believe in this 144000 number mystical significance.
Mainly Jehovah's Witnesses who do.
Originally posted by Tayesin
reply to post by Merriman Weir
Ooops!! It's late at night here and I couldn't think of what the entire Isles were called in Ancient times. Wouldn't want to offend anyone, especially my older relatives from Wales, Scotland and Ireland.
The only time 144,000 people are mentioned is in Revelation, and it speaks of the remnant of the 12 Jewish tribes who will convert and spread the message of Christ in the End times.
Originally posted by felonius
Originally posted by jjjtir
reply to post by felonius
Fairly sure your gonna be in the 144000 on rapture day?
Hey, be fair...
Not all Christian denominations believe in this 144000 number mystical significance.
Mainly Jehovah's Witnesses who do.
Fair enough. Personally, I dont think that JC would put a number on "His" kids allowed to return home.
Originally posted by JaxonRoberts
OK, let's get this straight... The OP is both right, and yet oh so wrong... Yes, Easter has very pagan origins, just not ANY of the ones they listed...
Easter is the Christian Rip-off of Ēostre. But if you are going to call those Christian Holidays that are taken from Pagan roots Satan's Work, then you are also going to lose Christmas, which is blatantly ripped off from the Pagan festival of Yule, and stop dressing up the kiddies on Halloween, which is a blatant (and also disrespectful) rip-off of Samhain, the Pagan day of the dead...