The Easter story is thousands of years old, even thousands of years before Christ our Savior. Yes! Older than the person for whom it is “SUPPOSE” to be about. “… the Easter story came from the Sumerian legend of Damuzi ( Tammuz ) and his wife Inanna (Ishtar), in an epic myth called “The Decent of Inanna” found inscribe on cuneiform clay tablets dating back to 2100 BC.” http://www.ancient-origins.net/myths- legends/ancient-pagan-origins- easter-001571?nopaging=1. Damuzi (Tammuz) and Inanna (Ishtar) have taken many forms from their inception through the ages. Both originating in Mesopotamia (around, 3100 B.C) but, Inanna, also known by her Babylonian (around. 1,894 B.C) name, Ishtar. In ancient Canaan (approx.2000-1550 B.C) as Adon and Astarte. In Greek (1200…BC) mythology as Adonis and Aphrodite. And in Rome (509…B.C) “Inanna “as Venus. http://www.enduring.org/article/origins-of- easter .The reference above explains the hare (bunny), the Easter egg, and the Hot cross buns.
The abomination of the “hot cross buns” is mentioned in Jeremiah 7:18 “No wonder I am so angry! Watch how the children gather wood and the fathers build sacrificial fires. See how the women knead dough and make cakes to offer to the Queen of Heaven. And they pour out liquid offerings to their other idol gods!” Again, we see God’s displeasure, “At the entrance to the sanctuary, between the entry room and the bronze altar, there were about twenty-five men with their backs to the sanctuary of the LORD. They were facing east, bowing low to the ground, worshiping the sun! 17 “Have you seen this, son of man?” he asked.” Ezekiel 8:16-17. Let us fast forward to 325 AD At the council of Nicea in 325 A.D., not only was the body of Christ compromised, it was replaced with paganism and its signage “the emblem of the sun god, the cross of light” which also became known as a sign of Christianity. Easter, another form of sacrilege, came into existence at the council of Nicea in 325 A.D.”(2003 January 27) NICEA 325 [Online] Available. http// www.thegreatestpuzzel.com/325j1.htm To settle once and for all the brewing controversy between Easter observance and what they referred to as the Jewish Passover, Emperor Constantine summoned the council at Nicea in 325 AD. Adam Clarke’s Commentary records the the unanimous decision of the Council was that Easter was to be kept on Sunday and that “none hereafter should follow the blindness of the Jews.” http://www.enduring.org/article/origins-of- easter
In 1517 AD with the posting of 95 TH Theses (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ninety-five_Theses), Martin Luther sought to right the wrongs of the previous centuries, but he and the other reformers, did not quite finish the task. Five (500) hundred years later, we’re still not fully there yet! This “blindness of the Jews” (our Passover) as it was referred to above, with the stroke of a pen, was one of the most abominable obliterations in history, of the ways of God. Furthermore, ‘the brewing controversy” it was the fight against God’s ways or the Pagan ways. Constantine and the council at Nicea sided with the Pagans! Worship of the “Sun god (hence, Sun-day), and Passover (which was kept by the early believers and the apostles) was changed to Easter. We see the timeline of these atrocities. We have read God’s displeasure with Israel’s abominations in their worship, and His subsequent punishment for these acts. We saw the revolt of 1517, however incomplete. We know it’s wrong because it’s of Pagan origin, so why do we continue to persist? In Leviticus 23:14 God used the words “Permanent “and “must be observed from generation to generation “His Passover. You may say, that was for the Jews, well, what about 1 Cor. 5:7-8 9 (Amp. Blb) & 1 Cor. 11:23-26 (NLT) Hence, we should ALL! Keep the Passover… What is it going to take for us to return to the TRUTH? How long will we live and worship in denial? Are we that afraid? Or is it too costly to change? What is your answer_______________?