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If youve started reading this, then at least your interest has been tweaked, and I will assure you of this, that if you read this study to its completion with an open heart and mind, your faith in Jesus Christ and Gods Word will be increased. This subject, and the facts Ill go over with you, have been studied and taught by many scholars, and can be researched and found out for yourself if you so desire. This subject does not prove the resurrection of Jesus Christ, but assumes it. If you havent settled that fact in your heart, then read my Resurrection letter. First let me say that I know this holiday is dear to the heart of most, if not all, true Christians. As a young child, I grew up a Southern Baptist, and enjoyed the Easter season with all the children. We colored and hunted eggs then ate them. We had chocolate bunnies and some kids even got real bunnies or chicks. I am not about ruining this holiday or taking the fun away from children, Christian or not. One purpose of this letter, is to show you, the reader, the origins of the symbols, how this holiday came into being, when and why the Church adopted this holiday into their belief system, and what exactly should Christians be teaching others about this time of the year, that is if we want to spread TRUTH, which is more important to GOD than anything else. We were told by the Church, that Jesus was crucified on Good Friday, and rose from the dead at sunrise on Sunday morning. Scripture is plain that Jesus was crucified at 3pm, dead and in the tomb by sundown or around 6pm. When the disciples asked Jesus for a sign, He told them that the only sign that He would give them, is the Sign of Jonah. For as Jonah was in the belly of the fish or whale for three days and three nights, so would Jesus be in the heart of the earth for three days and three nights. Now, I was pretty good in math, but even using algebra and geometry, I just cant figure how to get three days and three nights to fit into the time between Good Friday and Easter Sunday morning. I can find two nights, Friday night and Saturday night, and one day, Saturday. Even if you counted Sunday as a day, you still only have two days and two nights, but since he rose at sunrise, so were told, that wont work. Even if you took all day Friday, Friday night, Saturday, Saturday night and Sunday day, you still only have three days and two nights. So, whats the deal Traditional church leaders will say that any part of a day can be considered as a whole day, and other such nonsense, like God needs for us to somehow explain His inability to count. God knows what a day is, Jesus knew what a day was, what a night was, and He was in that tomb for at least 72 hours, 3 days and 3 nights, this cannot be changed if Gods Word is true. The church came up with these kind of excuses to explain the discrepancy, however their error was not in the timing of Jesus death, burial and resurrection, but in their claiming Good Friday and Easter Sunday as the fixed times of said events. The word Easter comes from Ishtar, or Astarte, the Goddess of Spring, and is the Phoenician name for Semiramus. The word itself is only used once in the KJV bible, however it was translated incorrectly. The Greek word that was translated Easter in Acts, is Pascha, and means Passover, it is correctly translated Passover another 28 times in the KJV. Other Bible versions, correctly translate the word. Passover has nothing to do with the already existing Easter Festival. The early church did not keep Easter, there were no sunrise services, this holiday, and indeed even the sunrise worship services that churches practice today, comes directly from the worship of this Queen of Heaven, Semiramus. Good Friday, or Good Freila Day, even our word Friday, originates from Freila, the Goddess of Peace, Joy and Fertility, which is the Scandinavian name for Semiramus, the Queen of Heaven, wife of that Great Hunter Nimrod. (Read my Mystery Babylon letter for information about him) Semiramus was still alive in Abrahams day. The rituals and traditions of the mystery religions of Babylon, have been creeping into the Church since Constantine united his kingdom under one religion, Christianity. This happened early in the 4th century. The pagan temples were used, and many out of work pagan priests changed to Christianity and began bringing in their symbols and rituals into the Christian church ever since. Semiramus, became pregnant after Nimrod died, and to keep her adultery, or at least the controversial pregnancy, quiet; a lie was devised that her new son, Tammuz, was Nimrod incarnate. Semiramus had been miraculously impregnated by a Sun Beam, so the lie goes, and Nimrod then was reincarnated. This is why we call Sunday Sunday, not Sonday. Now this Queen of Heaven was worshipped even more than Nimrod, or even her son. It was then said that an Egg of Wondrous size fell from heaven and landed in the Euphrates River, it was rolled to the shore by fish, was hatched by doves and out came Ishtar, or Semiramus. She is also known by her Egyptian name Isis with her son Osiris or Horus, the Roman Venus with her son Cupid, in Greek you have Aphrodite with her son Eros, the Saxon goddess Eastre, her names were also Astarte, Freila, and the Phoenician Ashtoreth with her son Baal, which became the Baal worship of Daniels day. A further tale was also devised by Semiramus which when her son Tammuz was killed by a Wild Boar, she lamented for 40 days and after that time Tammuz was raised from the dead. Soon, both her miraculous birth, along with her sons miraculous resurrection, were incorporated into the festivals of Good Friday and Easter Sunday. Fish, Eggs, and Bunnies were sacred fertility symbols used by these ancient religions, long before Jesus came. Isis in Egypt, is seen with a Fish on her head, and one is reminded about the Popes Fish Hat, which is very similar. Egyptians even colored eggs during this season. The miraculous birth of Semiramus, as the mother of god, or Nimrod incarnate, became necessary, for her to receive the worship and power she so desired, and eventually the miraculous conception of Mary was taught by the church, which had not beforehand, been considered. This teaching evolved directly from the pagan teachings of the miraculous birth of Semiramus. Now please understand that I am not anti-Catholic, I am just pro-truth. But, Mary worship is not scriptural, it was incorporated into Christianity through the symbols of the Mother and Son worship straight from Babylon. Many of the pagan statues and artwork depicting this Queen of Heaven with her son, were soon believed to be Mary and Jesus, or thats what the church told their parishioners. They would even paint some of the statues because the faces and hands were originally black. Semiramus was black. Jesus never indicates that we should have any Special recognition for his mother. The first centuries of the church have no such exaltation of Mary, nor any Saint, that we should pray to, or through them, to get to God. We can only come to the father through Jesus, period. He is the only Mediator between God and man, which is the true straight and narrow way. Papal worship is wrong. The round wafers with a cross on them are straight from the Babylonian Mystery religions. When Jesus took bread, he broke it. He didnt hand out wafers to his disciples, which were in fact originally symbols of life, the Sun, or the life force coming from the sun to impregnate this Semiramus. Catholics used to have to abstain from meat on Friday, and could only eat fish. This begs one to wonder why did the Catholic church change their position? Maybe it was just a tradition, and it was not scriptural. This connection between fish and Fridays, comes directly from the Pagan Fertility Rituals of Babylon. OK, I can just imagine that half of the traditional Christians reading this, if you havent left already, have fingers stuck in both ears, singing loudly, La, La, La, La, I cant hear you, La, La, La. Or if you are not a Christian and reading this, you are laughing inside, thinking I am blowing away the Resurrection message, and tearing down Christianity itself, but you are far from the truth.Just keep reading. Or maybe youre considering what I am saying and you may say, I can agree with you on this, that Good Friday and Easter Sunday have pagan origins, so what. Why cant we still use these days to commemorate our Lords death and resurrection? Whats the big deal ? Now thats exactly what the overall purpose of this letter is for, that is to explain just exactly what the, Big Deal truly is. .Read on. God always uses what he calls, Set Times in the fulfillment of prophesy. In Genesis, he says that the stars were to be for, Signs, meaning that there were prophetic messages carried within the Stars themselves. Read my Gods Message in the Stars letter for that study. Interestingly, modern planetariums have shown that there was an alignment with Jupiter and Venus with the King Star Regulus in the Leo Constellation. This happened in the fall of 2BC and Leo represents Jesus as the Lion of the Tribe of Judah in Gods Message in the Stars. This alignment was what the Three Wise Men had foreseen, and they then travelled to the city of Bethlehem, foretold in prophesy, and bought gifts to our Lord. They didnt follow some light over their heads until the light stopped over Bethlehem, they were Wise men, and they were able to read the signs in the alignments of the stars and planets, Also realize that they didnt give gifts to each other, but unto the Lord and our current Gift Swapping stems not from this event, but from the Feast of Saturnalia which is a different subject that I will tackle later during the Christmas season. I dont want to take away all your fun in this letter, Ill spread it out over time. God also commanded Israel to keep His Feast Days, or Set Times of God. The term Feast seems to denote what we do, or what Israel did during this time, however the original Hebrew word does not indicate a meal or party, but a Scheduled Set Time of GOD. God used Israels own history to establish these feasts, which commemorate events in Israels history, but God also planned these feasts to have a prophetic future fulfillment. Certain times of the year, exactly on the appropriate feast day, the prophetic fulfillment of that feast day was and will be fulfilled. Paul states, that these Feast Days of Israel, were types and shadows that pointed to the substance or the fulfillment of this feast, which is Jesus Christ. Here then are the Seven yearly feasts of Israel, and their prophetic fulfillment, either already fulfilled or to be fulfilled soon. The SABBATH is also considered a Set Time of God and I will go over that in just a bit. PASSOVER: Given to Israel as a sign of Gods deliverance, they had to sacrifice a lamb, and put the blood on the threshold, posts and lintel of their door, they were to go into their home, eat the roasted lamb, the blood of which was used on their door, then when the Death Angel came and saw the blood, He would Pass Over that household and not kill the firstborn child within. This Feast has its fulfillment on Calvary, Jesus became that Lamb Slain from the foundation of the world. Just as there was no other requirements within the household, other than to apply the blood, we now just have to apply his shed blood to our lives for the remission of our sins, and through that application, salvation is given unto us through Gods Grace or Unmerited Favor. We cant do, say, or earn our way in. Only through the shed blood of Jesus, is the way made available, for those who will enter in. The KJV indicates that the Passover would take place on the Evening of the 14th day. However this is also incorrect, the literal translation would be Between the Evenings, so Jesus could eat the Last Supper, the Passover meal, after dark on the 13th, which begins the 14th day, and be killed as the Passover sacrifice at 3pm the next day and be in the tomb before sundown that evening, which would complete the Passover Feast and Jesus sacrifice fulfilling said feast, and then the 15th day began which starts this next feast. FEAST OF UNLEAVEN BREAD: After that Passover night, God delivered Israel out of the bonds of Egypt, and instituted this feast to commemorate the Passover sacrifice. They kept this feast for seven days during which time they only ate un-leaven bread. Jesus death is the fulfillment of this feast. His time in the tomb, this pure, sin free savior died as the perfect sacrifice. His Un-leaven state was also apparent when the woman tried to touch him, and his reply was Not yet, I have not ascended to the father. He couldnt be touched by anything sinful until that perfect sacrifice is taken to the Throne of God, for a little leaven leaveneth the whole lump. FEAST OF FIRSTFRUITS: This feast was given for Israel to commemorate, when they went into their new land, and their first harvest, they were to offer the Firstfruits of their harvest to the priest, along with an unblemished lamb. Jesus is the Firstfruits of the Resurrection. The first to raise from the dead, and being the Firstfruits, carried Himself as the perfect unblemished lamb unto the Throne of God. Israel was commanded to keep this feast the day after the Saturday Sabbath following the Passover. FEAST OF PENTECOST: This annual feast of Israel, with offerings and sacrifices, was to take place exactly fifty days after the feast of Firstfruits, Jesus hung out for forty days, and left, then ten days later came the fulfillment of this Feast. Pentecost brought 3000 people into the fold of Christianity at one time. The Holy Spirit, Our Comforter and Guide, came in with Power, filled these new believers, and the true Church was born. Christ in us, the Hope of Glory. FEAST OF TRUMPETS: This feast occurs on the First day of the Seventh month, and aligns with our SeptOctober dates. It is called the feast of the Ingathering and the Harvest. Israel blew Two Silver trumpets all day long during this feast. Silver always means redemption. Jesus was not born on December 25th, but in the fall of the year, most likely on this feast of trumpets. Ill get into the details of that another time. This feast has only had a partial fulfillment though, for since there were two horns blown, this Feast has two parts to its fulfillment. Jesus came once to redeem this world of sin, and He will come back to receive his Body, the true Church, and redeem us back unto him. The Rapture will occur on the Feast of Trumpets, one year very soon now. No man knows the day or the hour, yes, but we can know the Times and Seasons and this Set Time will see its fulfillment by taking out the true Faithers in Christ. This is where we are Gathered up to meet the Lord in the Air. The Harvest is ripe and reaped by our Lord. When Jesus comes back at Armageddon, he stands on the ground, but thats not here, He is only seen in the air at this appearing. Seven years have to go by before Jesus returns at Armageddon when He steps on the earth. DAY OF ATONEMENT: This Feast was given unto Israel, for the, Affliction of their Souls. Which they have to go through until they recognize He whom they have pierced. This is fulfilled after the Church is taken away, and coincides with Jacobs time of Trouble or the Seven years of Great Tribulation. Gods attention is taken off of the Church, which is not on earth then, and it is then turned back unto Israel, and the completion of the prophesies regarding them. FEAST OF TABERNACLES: This feast is the most joyous of all feasts to Israel. This Feast was instituted to have Israel understand who it truly is that gives them everything. They moved out into Booths, and were reminded that God brought them out of Egypt and made them live in Booths, and without God, they would still be slaves in Egypt. During this week they brought 203 offerings unto the Lord. Jesus in type, frees us from being slaves under the bondage of the law, because Jesus is the fulfillment of Gods Law, and we are freed from the rule of the Prince of the Power of the Air. This feast will be enforced during the millennium. All nations will be forced to keep this feast for a thousand years, under penalty of plagues for non-compliance.
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