Christians Who Don’t Keep Easter (More Than You Might Think)
It’s shocking to contemporary denominational Christians to hear that many of their fellow Christians don’t keep Easter. While there are no official figures, the estimated numbers of Christians who do not keep Easter range from the low millions throughout North America, to tens of millions worldwide.
Why would so many faithful Christians refuse to keep the Easter holiday? Perhaps the better question is this: Why do so many Christians still keep Easter, when It was never commanded by God in the Old Testament, nor celebrated by Jesus Christ and the disciples (before or after His death and resurrection) in the New Testament?
Indeed, the high holy day commanded by God, and kept by Jesus Christ and the disciples, was the Passover.
Easter was a strictly pagan holiday celebrated in the spring as a sexual rite worshiping Ishtar, the goddess of sexual fertility and proclivity. And this pagan sexual holiday — whose symbols were the rabbit and the egg — got grafted into the church not too long after the apostles and early church fathers passed on, and late-comers decided that the easiest way to “grow the church” would be to incorporate a popular pagan spring holiday and adopt its trappings and ornamentation such as the bunnies, eggs, and yes, even the ham for “Ishtar” dinner.
Above you can watch a short video explaining how the whole, sordid mess got started. If you’ve ever wanted to know why so many Christians simply won’t have anything to do with the Easter holiday, and learn why, how and when they keep the Christian Passover instead, here’s a short video in which two Christian pastors explain it all.
(Note: I’m not endorsing the church that originally published this video. I’m only using the video to demonstrate that many, many Christians worldwide are waking up to the fact — finally! — that celebrating Easter is actually an abomination to God, as it occludes and replaces the high holy day of Christianity ordained by God, and celebrated by Jesus Christ and the disciples, which was the Passover. For additional information on the pagan origins of Easter, see Easter or Passover: Which Should Christians Celebrate? after you’ve had a chance to view the short video above.)
Regards in Christ,
Steve Barwick
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I agree with this video. It explains in detail really well. I do have a different take on the “Easter” in Acts 12:4 though. Someone, has said it was not a mistranslation but Herod and all the non Christians were celebrating “Easter” i.e. Ishtar at that time. That would make sense to me. This would confirm that it is of pagan origin. I believe the Lords authorized KJV is without error or mistranslation. For English speaking people I think we need nothing but the KJV and the Holy Spirit to understand His word. I’m sure the Lord has given other languages their perfect KJV also.
Yes, I’ve seen that teaching before. However, it fails to explain why the Greek word Pascha in that verse, is translated “Easter” when Pascha has one meaning only, i.e., “Passover.” If Herod and the heathen were celebrating Easter, the Scripture would have said the Greek word for Easter, not the Greek word for Passover.
Strong’s Concordance
pascha: the Passover, the Passover supper or lamb
Original Word: πάσχα, τό
Part of Speech: Aramaic Transliterated Word (Indeclinable)
Transliteration: pascha
Phonetic Spelling: (pas’-khah)
Definition: the Passover, the Passover supper or lamb
Usage: the feast of Passover, the Passover lamb.
NAS Exhaustive Concordance
Word Origin
of Aramaic origin, cf. pesach
Definition
the Passover, the Passover supper or lamb
NASB Translation
Passover (29).
easter is pagan. taught out of the harlot catholic system/man-made religion “church” run by
the pope. GOD hates this false church which is full of idolatry, filthy works, pagan traditions,
sunday worship violating the 1st, 2nd, 4th, 7th, Commandments! If you practice this vile religion, you are 100% deceived! Pray to GOD thru His Son, Jesus Christ, lest you receive the mark and receive the wrath of GOD including plagues and burning in the lake of fire!! Come out of her my people!
I totally agree. Once I learned of the pagan origins of Easter AND Christmas, I stopped celebrating them. The excessive gifts and foolishness of both “holidays” are disgusting. I don’t even debate these issues with friends anymore. It’s a waste of time. I wouldn’t be surprised if most of them took the Vax as well.