Passover, not Easter

The word "Easter" will not be found in most Bible versions but majority of Christians celebrate Easter Sunday.

People are celebrating a day called Easter Sunday which is not mentioned in scripture but was made by man and then subtly brought in a way to deceive many in believing them celebrating the death and resurrection of the Messiah.

Where from did this Easter Sunday originate?

An encyclopedia or dictionary will supply the answer: Easter had a pre-Christian origin, namely a festival in honor of Eostre (a dawn goddess).

This Eostre or Eastre, was also known to be the spring goddess and goddess of fertility.

This same goddess was also known as Homer, Eos, Ishtar, Astarte, Ashtaroth and classical mythology was an amorous deity and the idea of fertility with its fertility-symbols of eggs and rabbits was to be expected.

The origin of Easter eggs and the Easter bunny was not only goddess of dawn but also goddess of spring with all its fertility symbols and rites.

Astarte (Hebrew - Ashtaroth/Ashtoreth) is also known as the "queen of heaven".

Other spring festivals were celebrated, with the rites of Adonis or of Tammuz.

This "weeping for Tammuz" is exactly what Yahuah (Heavenly Father) included amongst His verdict of "wicked abominations", as we read in Ezekiel 8:9 & 14, And He said to me, “Go in, and see the evil abominations which they are doing there,” and He brought me to the door of the north gate of the House of Yahuah, and I saw women sitting there, weeping for Tammuz.

Easter buns (hot-cross buns) were used in the worship of the Queen of heaven 1500 years before the Christian Era.

The Heavenly Father warns His people against this "abomination", as He called it in Jeremiah 7:10, ‘See, the day! See, it has come! The turn has come, the rod has blossomed, pride has budded and as is described in Jeremiah 7:18, ‘and they shall gird on sackcloth, and be covered with trembling. And shame shall be on every face, and baldness on all their heads.

How did these things ever enter in worship?

The adoption of these pagan emblems of Easter eggs, Easter rabbits and Easter buns, are explained by The Catholic Encyclopedia, "a great many pagan customs celebrating the return of spring, gravitated to Easter ...

The rabbit is a pagan symbol and has always been an emblem of fertility."

This is in direct contrast to the Word of Yahúah (Heavenly Father) in Jeremiah 10:2, "Do not learn the way of the Gentiles," and in Deut. 12:30, "do not inquire after their mighty ones, saying, 'How did these nations serve their mighty ones?

I also will do likewise.'"

Israel was commanded to keep the worship pure and undefiled by destroying everything pertaining to pagan worship, even to destroy the names of the pagan deities (Deut. 12:3), and not even to "mention the names of other mighty ones, nor let it be heard from your mouth," Exodus 23:13.

The whole subject of Easter, its Sun-day - emphasizing date, and its pagan emblems and rites, such as Easter sunrise services, is crowned by the general admission that the word "Easter" is derived from the name of a goddess, the dawn-goddess, the spring-deity, the goddess of fertility.

Let us rather commemorate Yahusha Messiah's Memorial Passover and the subsequent happenings according to the Scriptural calendar, starting on the evening of 14 Abib.

Read Exodus 12:1-12 which explains the true Passover feast and also the 4 books of Matthew, Mark, Luke and John regarding the Messiah’s death on the stake (cross) as He became the Passover Lamb which was at the exact same time as the first Passover described in Exodus 12.

Worship the true Creator - Yah