73..EASTER
Now that Easter has passed, the Easter Bunny has scattered it's eggs, the kids having found there share of colored ones, and all have been satiated with candies, let's examine this holiday.
Like Christmas, Easter Sunday is an amalgamation of pagan origins and "christian" belief.
It occurs, of course close to Passover day, because the traditions and celebrations originate for the "christians" of old..Roman Christians, from Judaism.
So they started with that and then adopted the pagan worship of Astarte, in order to make the "christian" beliefs palatable and familiar to non-christians, thus gaining more converts to their distorted ways.
Let's examine what Astarte represented. It occurred during the Spring, to acknowledge the rebirth of the earth, crops, flowers..everything coming up roses after terriblly harsh winter.
What's not to enjoy and celebrate?
So, they needed a symbol to worship..Astarte, goddess of fertility.
Pagans and "christians" need to see something to worship..thus the statue of Astarte and the crucified Christ, and the "virgin" Mother Mary.
Mary, thus became the subsitute for the pagan Astarte, and again the non-christians are accepting the "christian" belief..more converts to ways directed by Satan, who deliberately masks the truth, by what appears to be God-like ways.
And what happens at Easter Sunday, there's the wafers and the wine, substiting, for the "body" and "blood" of Jesus the Christ, as His resurrection is celebrated with great pomp and ceremony on a SUNDAY, not on Saturday, the SABBATH, the day Jesus experienced the resurrection.
Why Sunday?
The pagans worshipped the Sun, not the Moon..just another way "christianity" was made more acceptable to the pagans..paulnbob