The Truth About Easter Hotep-My-Brother Inc. Bro. Wamwara.

The Truth About Easter

Hotep-My-Brother Inc.Bro. Wamwara

Outline

• History and Origin of the word Easter– How the story of Nimrod became Easter

• Origin of the Easter bunny• Origin of the Easter egg• Is the celebration we know today as Easter

mentioned in the Bible• Council of Nicaea • Forty days of Lent

Outline

• Easter sunrise service• Hot cross buns• The Passover celebration• The Crucifixion story• Conclusion

Hosea 4:6

My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge: because thou hast rejected knowledge, I will also

reject thee, that thou shalt be no priest to me: seeing thou hast forgotten the law of thy God, I will also

forget thy children.

Introduction

• Ma’at-Hotep– Once again it’s that time of year when we go out

and take the kids to see the Easter bunny, paint Easter eggs different colors and hide them in the yard so that the kids can have a hunt for them, we buy new suits for the boys and new dresses for our girls so that they can look their best on Easter morning for a service to celebrate when our so-called lord and savior died and rose for good of mankind.

Introduction

• It is a time when we feel good about ourselves and the pastor lets us know that whatever you have done in life, whatever you have said, or whatever you are planning to do will be forgiven because over 2000 years ago a man named Jesus died on cross for our sins.

• It’s a time when the churches are packed to hear children sing or dance or say an Easter Poem. Its’ a time when the pastor preaches about the crucifixion story.

Introduction

• Have you ever thought how or even why all of this stuff got into the celebration of the death of Jesus Christ.

• Have you ever wondering why we celebrate the death of Jesus Christ.

• Most of us never question what we are told and for that we are destroyed for a lack of knowledge. In this lesson I will expose the history and origin of the questions that most of us want to know but none of us will ask.

History and Origin of the name Easter

• The name “Easter” has its roots in ancient polytheistic religions (paganism). On this, all scholars agree. This name is never used in the original Scriptures, nor is it ever associated biblically with the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ.

• Most reference books say that the name "Easter" derived from the Eastre, the Teutonic goddess of Spring.

History and Origin of the name Easter

• Although this relationship exists, in reality, the origin of the name and the goddess are far more ancient - going all the way back to the Tower of Babel. The origin begins not long after the biblical Flood.

History and Origin of the name Easter(The story of Nimrod)

• After the Flood, Noah had a talented, but evil, great-grandson named Nimrod (Genesis 10:6-10) who rebelled greatly against God. The Bible says that he was "a mighty one“

• Nimrod built and organized major cities. The Bible notes that these included Babel, Asshur, Nineveh and Calah (Genesis 10:10-12).


• When Nimrod eventually died, the Babylonian mystery religion in which he figured prominently continued on. His wife Queen Semiramis saw to that. Once he was dead, she deified him as the Sun-god.

• Later, when this adulterous and idolatrous woman gave birth to an illegitimate son, she claimed that this son, Tammuz by name, was Nimrod reborn. Semiramis claimed that her son was supernaturally conceived, no human father, and that he was the promised seed, the savior, promised by God in Genesis 3:15.


• However, not only was the child worshipped, but the woman, the MOTHER, was also worshipped as much (or more) than the son! Nimrod deified as the god of the sun and father of creation. Semiramis became the goddess of the moon, fertility, etc.

• In the old fables of the Mystery cults, their savior Tammuz, was worshipped with various rites at the Spring season.


• According to the legends, after he was slain he went into the underworld. But through the weeping of his mother he mystically revived in the springing forth of the vegetation - in Spring!

• Each year a spring festival dramatically represented this supposed 'resurrection' from the underworld.


• Basically, almost every vile, profane and idolatrous practice you can think of originated at Babel with Queen Semiramis, the Mother Goddess and Nimrod. As the people scattered from Babel with their different languages, they, of course, used different names for Nimrod (Tammuz) and Semiramis

• Some called the Mother Goddess “ISHTAR” (originally pronounced “Easter”). In other lands, she was called Eostre, Astarte, Ostera, and Eastre.


• The Mother goddess was frequently worshipped as the goddess of fertility and as a sort of Mother Nature and goddess of Spring and sexual love and birth. She was also worshipped as a mediator between god and man. Sexual orgies and temple prostitutes were often used in her worship and in attempting to gain her favor.

Origin of the Easter Bunny

The rabbit is well known as a sexual symbol of fertility. In various parts of the world, religions which developed from Babel also associate the rabbit with periodicity, both human and lunar


• In pagan times, the Easter hare was no ordinary animal, but a sacred companion of the old goddess of spring, Eostre. The Easter bunny has its origin in pre-Christian fertility lore. The Hare and the Rabbit were the most fertile animals known and they served as symbols of the new life during the Spring season.

• Since long before Jesus Christ was born, parents told their children that the magic hare would bring them presents at the spring festival.


• The earliest known reference to our modern Easter Bunny tradition appears to be from 16th century Germany. In the 18th century, German settlers to America brought the tradition with them. The Bunny was known by them as Oschter Haws (or Osterhase) and brought gifts of chocolate, candy and Easter Eggs to good children.

• The arrival of the Oschter Haws was considered childhood's greatest pleasure, next to a visit from Kris Kringle, on Christmas Eve.


• The children believed that if they were good the Oschter Haws would lay a nest of colored eggs.

• The children would build their nest in a secluded place in the home, the barn or the garden. Boys would use their caps and girls their bonnets to make the nests . The use of elaborate Easter baskets would come later as the tradition of the Easter bunny spread through out the country.

Origin Of The Easter Egg

• Eggs and Easter have almost become synonymous. But what is so special in an egg? It is the influence of the traditional spring rites that made Easter so egg-special. And myths coming down to us from an incredibly distant past have shown man's relationship with the egg to be very deep seated one.

• In Europe an egg was hung on New Year trees, on Maypoles, and on St. John's trees in midsummer. Indeed, all meant egg as a symbol of the regenerative forces of nature.

Origin Of The Easter Egg

• Later during the Christian period, it was believed that eggs laid on Good Friday, if kept for a hundred years, would have their yolks turn to diamond. If Good Friday eggs were cooked on Easter they would promote the fertility of the trees and crops and protect against sudden deaths.

• It is speculated that it was introduced in Europe, or, rather Western Europe, during the course of the fifteenth century. This was when missionaries or knights of the Crusades are thought to have brought in the concept of the coloring of eggs westwards.

Is Easter In The Bible

• The answer to this question is yes and no. Lets take a look at Acts 12:4

• Act 12:4 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.

• Now in this passage on the Bible it is speaking of how Herod the king was going to have Peter killed in the same manner that he had James the brother of John killed, and he intended to do this after the Easter celebration was over.

Is Easter In The Bible

• Herod the king was the pro-Roman king of the small Jewish state. In other words he was a gentile. We all know that the gentiles were heathens, or a person who does not acknowledge god.

• Gentiles were pagans and worshipped false gods and idols. Of these was the mother goddess Ishtar/Easter. The Easter that the bible speaks of in this verse is talking about the pagan celebration of the pagan goddess Easter during the spring celebration

Council Of Nicaea

• Formulation for wording concerning the Trinity based on Anthanias

• Changing Verses of Bible• Eliminating certain verses and books

from the Bible• Declaring Arian's Unitarian (belief in the

Unity of God) as heresy• Changing the day of worship from

Saturday to Sunday• Changing the date of Jesus' birthday to

December 25th• Introduction of Easter (pagan worship

called "Feast of Ishtar")• Church of Roman officially became the

Universal Church of the Holy Roman Empire. The word Catholic means universal

The year was 325 A.D. according to the Roman calendar. A council was convened by order of Constantine, the Roman emperor. He had been a leader in the cult known as Sol Invictus (Invincible Sun) and now wanted to unite the Christian sects in the empire under his existing church; the Universal Church of Rome. Many changes to the religion of Christianity were about to take place at that council, including:

Council Of Nicaea

• Among other things they also settled was the date of Easter.a) Easter should be celebrated on the same day by

allb) Jewish custom was not the criterion to be

followed c) That the practice of Rome and Alexandria should

remain in force, namely the Sunday after the first full moon of the vernal equinox

History & Origin Of Lent

It rained 40 days and nights: Gen 7:4, 12. Forty days after sighting the tops of the mountains,

Noah set forth a raven and a dove: Gen 8:6-7. Joseph mourned the death of his father Jacob for a

period of 40 days: Gen 49:33 - Gen 50:3. Moses on Sinai for 40 days: Exo 24:18, 34:28, Deu

9:9-11. Moses pleads for Israel 40 days on Sinai: Deu 9:18-

25, 10:10. Canaan spied on for 40 days: Num 13:25, 14:34. Goliath taunted Israel for 40 days: 1 Sam 17:16. Elijah fasted and journeyed to Horeb for 40 days: 1

Kings 19:8. Ezekiel bore the iniquity of Judah for 40 days: Eze

4:6. Jonah warned Nineveh of judgment in 40 days:

Jonah 3:4. Jesus fasted in the wilderness for 40 days: Matt 4:2,

Mark 1:13, Luke 4:2. Jesus was seen for 40 days after His crucifixion: Acts

1:3.

Search the scriptures diligently, from Old Testament to New, and you will find no mention of Jews or Christians observing an annual period of 40 days of fasting and abstinence preceding the festival of the Passover, yet today most of the Christian world observes a 40 day period called Lent, which precedes the festival of Easter Sunday. A period of 40 days is rather common in scripture, however:


• So, if the Bible does not enjoin the Jew or the Christian to observe the 40 day period called Lent, then what is its origin? Can the answer be found in the Euro-Gentile, Greco- Roman, Catholic Church?

• Lent is the 40-day period, Sundays excluded, prior to Easter, which the church observes as a penitential season. It begins on Ash Wednesday, which can occur any time between February 4 and March 11, depending upon the date of Easter, and it concludes with the Passiontide, the two-week period during which the church's liturgy follows Christ's activity closely through the final stages of his life on earth.


• These two weeks are called Passion Week and Holy Week. Catholics are required to fast and are urged to adopt other penitential modes during the season.

• During Lent, for 40 days, excluding Sundays, fasting is recommended for all Catholics according to the laws of fast. This is reminiscent of the 40 days of their Lord's unbroken fast (Mt. 4:3-4)


• The word Lent comes from a Germanic root meaning Spring but is more often associated with the 40 days from Ash Wednesday to Easter Saturday. It originated in the Babylonian pagan religion, but was folded into Christianity when the Roman Empire adopted Christianity as its official religion.

• Here's how it began


• According to tradition Semeramis, the wife of Nimrod the King of Babylon, claimed she had been supernaturally impregnated by the Sun god and gave birth to Tammuz. One day while hunting, Tamuz was killed by a wild boar. Semeramis mourned for 40 days, at the end of which Tammuz was supposedly brought back from the dead.

• She proclaimed herself Queen of Heaven, founded a celibate priesthood to worship her son and declared its chief priest infallible, and memorialized her mourning in an annual 40 day period of denial.


• If you feel the Lord is leading you into a 40 day period of self-deprivation to draw nearer to Him, more power to you. But if you're just observing a tradition of man's religion it won't serve any purpose except to prove that you can go without something for 40 days.

Easter Sunrise Service• The Easter sunrise service is derived

from the ancient pagan practice of welcoming the sun on the morning of the spring equinox, marking the beginning of spring

• The Spring Equinox is the celebration of the return of the Maiden Goddess, and the young life energy she brings with her. Winter and the dark time have finally been put behind us, and the season of growth has begun. This holiday is truly a celebration of life and nature.

Easter Sunrise Service• The Sun is at its lowest path in the

sky on the Winter Solstice. After that day the Sun follows a higher and higher path through the sky each day until it is in the sky for exactly 12 hours. On the Spring Equinox the Sun rises exactly in the east travels through the sky for 12 hours and sets exactly in the west. On the Equinox this is the motion of the Sun through the sky for everyone on earth. Every place on earth experiences a 12 hours day twice a year on the Spring and Fall Equinox.

Hot Cross Buns

• Hot cross buns are a fruit cake decorated with a white cross across the top of it celebrated with a nursery rhyme. Hot cross buns were sold in the street to the cry of "Hot cross buns!" around the period in English history dating back to the nineteenth century. They are generally sold at Easter and commemorate the religious significance of the Easter Christian festival which celebrates the resurrection following crucifixion on the cross.

Hot Cross Buns

• Hot cross buns at Easter are a metaphor for the resurrection of Christ - flour comes to life and transforms itself to bread. But hot cross buns actually pre-date Christianity.

• They were originally used in pagan ceremonies and rituals and the Christian Church attempted to ban them.

• But they were just too popular so the Church eventually 'Christianised' the buns.

The Passover

• Passover is a holiday celebrated in many Judeo-Christian religions. It was started in Jewish religion to commemorate the exodus from Egypt during Old Testament times. Later on it became celebrated by Christians to commemorate when Jesus Christ sacrificed himself and delivered humanity from eternal sin.

• It is thought that the last meal celebrated by Jesus and his apostles and painted by numerous artists was actually the Passover meal.

The Passover

• Moses and the exodus– Exodus 11:1 God said to Moses, 'There is one more plague that I

will send against Pharaoh and Egypt. After that, he will let you leave this place. When he lets you leave, he will actually drive you out of here.

– Exodus 11:4 Moses said [to Pharaoh] in God's name, 'Around midnight, I will go out in the midst of Egypt.

– Exodus 11:5 Every first-born in Egypt will die, from the first-born of Pharaoh sitting on his throne, to the first-born of the slave girl behind the millstones. Every first-born animal [will also die].

– Exodus 11:6 'There will be a great cry of anguish throughout all Egypt. Never before has there been anything like it, and never again will there be the like.

The Passover

• Exodus 12:3 Speak to the entire community of Israel, saying: On the tenth of this month, every man must take a lamb for each extended family, a lamb for each household.

• Exodus 12:6 Hold it in safekeeping until the fourteenth day of this month. The entire community of Israel shall then slaughter [their sacrifices] in the afternoon.

• Exodus 12:7 They must take the blood and place it on the two doorposts and on the beam above the door of the houses in which they will eat [the sacrifice].

The Passover

• Exodus 12:12 I will pass through Egypt on that night, and I will kill every first-born in Egypt, man and beast. I will perform acts of judgment against all the gods of Egypt. I [alone] am God.

• Exodus 12:13 The blood will be a sign for you on the houses where you are staying. I will see the blood and pass you by (pasach). There will not be any deadly plague among you when I strike Egypt.

• Exodus 12:14 This day must be one that you will remember. You must keep it as a festival to God for all generations. It is a law for all time that you must celebrate it.

The Passover

• Exodus 12:29 It was midnight. God killed every first-born in Egypt, from the first-born of Pharaoh, sitting on his throne, to the first-born of the prisoner in the dungeon, as well as every first-born animal.

The Passover

• Deuteronomy 16:1 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.

• This is the passage of the bible that God gives for his people to safeguard or observe the month and time for the passover. This was to be an annual celebration.

Hebrew/Jewish CalendarOn the Hebrew/Jewish calendar the first month of the year is the month of Abib witch is today call Nisan. Refer to Deuteronomy 16:1. God tells his people to observe this month as the first month of the year and to observe the Passover during this month. Exodus 12:3,6

Verse 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

Verse 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

The Passover

• On today’s modern western/Christian calendar the month Abib is the month of April. The fourteenth day of the first month is the Passover of the Lord. And in the fifteenth day of this month is the feast of unleavened bread

• On the fifteenth of the Hebrew month of Nisan/Abib, God appointed another festival. This feast would last seven days and be called the Feast of Unleavened Bread. On the first night, and again on the seventh, there was to be a time of convocation (meeting) between God and man

The Passover

• The Feast of Unleavened Bread is explained in Exodus 23:15; Deuteronomy 16:16

• Unleavened bread reflected the fact that the Israelites had no time to put leaven in their bread before their hasty departure from Egypt

• In the Bible, leaven symbolizes error or evil. It is the substance that causes fermentation. The Lord said to His disciples “Beware of the leaven (false doctrine) of the Pharisees" (Matthew 16:6; Mark 8:15

The Cruci-Fiction Story

• The Crucifixion is the focal point of the Christian faith. It is the central event of Jesus' earthly mission, and according to the doctrine of substitutionary atonement, the means by which we are saved from hell and given admission into heaven.


• The Cruci-Fiction Story– The Last Supper– The King On a Cross– The resurrection

• The Last Supper• The Last Supper is described in three of the four New

Testament Gospels, Matthew, Mark and Luke.• Luke 22:14-23, Matt 26:26-30, Mark 14:27-31


• The Last Supper was held on the evening of preparation for the Jewish Passover, a very holy time for the Jewish nation in remembrance of when God spared the Jews from the plague of death on every firstborn child in Egypt.


• What we need to understand about the last supper is what was taking place during this time. Refer back to Luke 22:7-13. – Jesus and his disciples were celebrating the feast of

unleavened bread during this supper. Jesus was to become the new passover lamb so they broke bread in representation of his body that was going to be broken for the sins of the world and they also took the cup and drank from it which was representation the blood that he was going to shed for the world


• As the children of Israel had to sacrifice a lamb during the Passover to protect them from the angle of death, Exo. 12:29-30, Jesus was to become the sacrificial lamb for his people.

• When Jesus tells his disciples “do this is remembrance of me”, Luke 22:19, he is speaking of the Feast of the Unleavened Bread. Not the monthly Holy Communion that most Christian observe and celebrate. For further research on this pagan practice look up The Eucharist and how the Roman Church made it up.


• The King on the Cross– I have a question for you? Did Jesus Christ really

die on a cross? This is what we have all been taught but lets take a look at this story.

– Mark 8:34• And when he had called the people unto him with his

disciples also, he said unto them, Whosoever will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me.


• First of all, from reviewing the above pertinent scriptures, it is clear that Jesus wanted His followers to understand that they each had a "cross" to carry that was uniquely each one's own "cross". What did the word "cross" mean in the context that Jesus spoke?

• The word cross in this context is a symbol representing the myriads of trials, tribulations, and frustrations Christians must bear in their fleshly life.


• A common idea seems to be that if Christians bear up and accept the burdens of everyday life, especially unjust persecutions that sometimes arise, one will in the end be justly rewarded by the Lord for a job well done.

• With that being said let take a look at a few more passages.– Luke 23:26 Matt 27:32 Mark 15:21 John 19:17


• All of these passages state that Jesus was bearing his cross, but this was not a phyical tool by which he was put to death Jesus was bearing the myriads of trials, tribulations, and frustrations of his people. Jesus was sinless so he himself couldn't have a cross of his own so what we was carrying was the weight of the sins of the world.

• Though the Bible does not specifically describe the instrument that Jesus died upon, tradition has it that he was put to death on a cross; consisting of a stake and a crossbeam. It is the miss-interpatation of these three scriptures that led to the story of the King on the cross.


• But the question still remains did Jesus die on a cross at a place called Golgotha. Well lets take a look at this.– Matt 27:33 Mark 15:22 Luke 23:33

• These three passages states that Jesus was led to a place called Golgotha to be crucified

– Revelation 11:8• And their dead bodies shall lie in the street of the great city,

which spiritually is called Sodom and Egypt, where also our Lord was crucified– So here’s the question where was he put to death at Golgotha or

Sodom and Egypt

The Cruci-Fiction StoryGolgotha was probably a small hill just outside the walls of ancient Jerusalem. The New Testament provides two other clues to Golgotha's location. According to Hebrews 13:12, it was "outside the city gate", but the passage doesn't say which gate. And Matthew 27:39 indicates that it was near a road which carried a lot of foot traffic.


• Looking at these two maps you can see that the place Golgotha is located no where in Egypt or Sodom so here’s the question where was he put to death at? Next point

• Did Jesus die on the cross. The cross that most of us wear around our necks, place upon our walls in our homes, and put on-top our churches. Matthew, Mark, and Luke all agree the Jesus was crucified. All three use the word crucified but all three say nothing about a cross.

The Cruci-Fiction Story• WHAT IS CRUCIFIXION?

– Crucifixion is the act of nailing, binding or impaling a living victim or sometimes a dead person to a cross, stake or tree whether for executing the body or for exposing the corpse. Crucifixion was commonly practiced from the 6th century BCE until the 4th century CE, when it was finally abolished in 337 CE by Constantine I. It was intended to serve as both a severe punishment and a frightful deterrent to others and was unanimously considered the most horrible form of death.

• The Oxford Companion to the Bible defines "Crucifixion" as:– The act of nailing or binding a person to a cross or tree, whether for executing or for exposing the corpse.

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• Similarly, the Anchor Bible Dictionary defines "Crucifixion" as:– The act of nailing or binding a living victim or sometimes a dead person to a cross or stake (stauros or

skolops) or a tree (xylon).

• The New Catholic Encyclopedia defines "Crucifixion" as:– Crucifixion developed from a method of execution by which the victim was fastened to an upright stake

either by impaling him on it or by tying him to it with thongs... From this form of execution developed crucifixion in the strict sense, whereby the outstretched arms of the victim were tied or nailed to a crossbeam (patibulum), which was then laid in a groove across the top or suspended by means of a notch in the side of an upright stake that was always left in position at the site of execution.

The Cruci-Fiction Story• WHAT IS A CROSS?

– The word cross is the translation of the Greek stauros. The cross (Greek stauros; Latin crux) was originally a single upright stake or post upon which the victim was either tied, nailed or impaled.

– Nelson's Illustrated Bible Dictionary defines the Cross as:• an upright wooden stake or post on which Jesus was executed... the

Greek word for cross referred primarily to a pointed stake used in rows to form the walls of a defensive stockade.[5]

– Vine's Expository Dictionary Of New Testament Words defines the Greek word stauros as:• Stauros denotes, primarily, "an upright pale or stake." On such

malefactors were nailed for execution

The Cruci-Fiction Story• Now that we have the true definition, history, origin, and meaning

of what a Crucifixion is and what a Cross is lets take a look at what the Apostles Paul & Luke say about the death of Jesus.– Acts 5:30

• The God of our fathers raised up Jesus, whom ye slew and hanged on a tree.

– Acts 10:39 • And we are witnesses of all things which he did both in the land of the Jews, and

in Jerusalem; whom they slew and hanged on a tree:

– Acts 13:29 • And when they had fulfilled all that was written of him, they took [him] down

from the tree, and laid [him] in a sepulchre.

– 1 Peter 2:24• Who his own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree, that we, being dead

to sins, should live unto righteousness: by whose stripes ye were healed.


• So according to the Bible Jesus was put to death on a tree. So where did we get the modern day cross from? The cross was not widely used in mainstream Christianity until the time of the Roman emperor Constantine—about 300 years after Christ established His Church.

• According to the book Babylon Mystery Religion, the cross originated among the ancient Babylonians of Chaldea. From there, it spread to ancient China, India, Mexico, and other places, centuries before Christianity was born.

• The pagan cross symbol was Christianized into mainstream Christianity.


• The resurrection– THE STORY

– The story that we have all been told is that Jesus died on the so-called cross and arose three days later from the dead with all power in his hands. I was taught growing up that it was early on Sunday morning that he arose from the grave.

– According to the Bible Jesus died during the ninth hour. The first hour was sunrise so the ninth hour was around 3pm. The bible also says that the sun was darkened, so it is clear that it was night time during his death and burial. The bible also says in Matt 28:1 “that after the Sabbath, which was celebrated on Saturday not Sunday, as the first day of the begun to dawn”


• If you read on further it show how the two women went to the tomb of Jesus and he was not there for he was risen already. To fully understand the time line here lets jump back to Gen 1:5 …so the evening and the morning were the first day– The evening always came before the morning in

the day meaning that the day starts at sunset and ends the next day when the sun goes back down.


• So when the two women went to his tomb at the dawn of the day which would be sunset he had risen already.

• This differs form the story that Jesus died on GOOD Friday and rose again early Sunday morning. So now our next question where did the good Friday Sunday morning come from.


• History of Good FridayAs early as the first century, the Church set aside every Friday as a special day of prayer and fasting. It was not until the fourth century, however, that the Church began observing the Friday before Easter as the day associated with the crucifixion of Christ. First called Holy or Great Friday by the Greek Church, the name "Good Friday" was adopted by the Roman Church around the sixth or seventh century.


• Good Friday OriginsThere are two possible origins for the name Good Friday. The first may have come from the Gallican Church in Gaul (modern-day France and Germany). The name "Gute Freitag" is Germanic in origin and literally means good or holy Friday. The second possibility is a variation on the name God's Friday, where the word good was used to replace the word God, which was often viewed as too holy for commoners to speak.


• Sunday morning resurrection services comes from the European pagan practices of getting up in the morning to worship the Sun God. Roman emperor Constantine changed the day of worship from Saturday to Sunday when the roman church took on the Christian religion.

• BUT ALL OF THIS IS A STOLEN STORY– For time purposes in this lecture I cannot go into the

original story but look up on your own the death, burial, and resurrection of OSIRIS.

Conclusion

• History and Origin of the name Easter– Derived from a European Pagan Goddess

• Origin of the Easter bunny– Due to the sexual perversion by Europeans the rabbit

was known as a sexual symbol of fertility and re-growth. Are children go and sit on this bunny’s lap year in and year out and we don’t even know why

• Origin of the Easter egg– Another form of the European pagan belief system that

brings good luck

Conclusion

• Is Easter mentioned in the Bible– If you believe that it is then you will believe that a man

can survive in the belly of a fish for three days.• Council of Nicaea – The council convened by Constantine, the Roman

emperor that establish the religion of Christianity as we know it today

• Forty days of Lent– Mentioned no where in the bible. Another man made

object of the Roman Church.

Conclusion

• Easter sunrise service– derived from the ancient pagan practice of welcoming

the sun on the morning of the spring equinox• Hot cross buns– originally used in pagan ceremonies and rituals

• The Passover celebration– If there was to be a celebration during the Easter time

of year by Christians this would be the celebration. It is what Jesus said to do in remembrance of me.

Conclusion

• The Crucifixion story– Stolen story based on the death, burial, and

resurrection of OSIRIS the Egyptian god.• If you believe in the crucifixion story of Jesus the Christ

then you will believe me if I told you that there was once a man that fed over 15000 people, 5000 men plus their families, with 2 fish and 5 loaves of bread.

Conclusion

• Hosea 4:6 says – My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge: because

thou hast rejected knowledge• Please take the lesson that I have given to you and

learn from it. Read, research, and refine your idea about this holiday. It is not for us but we as a people put more into it than anyone else. It is time that we give up everything about them, THEIR holidays, THEIR ways of thinking, THEIR religion and THEIR god. If not we will continue to be destroyed. Ase’

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