Passover or Easter The Plain Truth
Hi, Bob Barney for The Plain Truth today, brought to you by theplaintruth.com, and we’re going to talk about a little bit of different things today, or actually one other different subject today, and that is Passover versus Easter. If you’re a Christian and you plan on practicing Easter or following Easter this year, and not Passover, and we’re not talking about the Jewish Passover of modern times, we’re talking about the Passover of Christ, and you are not going to keep God’s Passover, then you’re not really following what God tells you to do, and it’s that simple, because God commands people that are Christians to also follow the Passover. Now, I will admit that this does not have anything to do with your salvation, because believing in Christ and obeying him is the proof of your salvation, but there is more to it than that.
But before I get into that, I want to play something from Beyond TV, Beyond Today TV show. It’s a seventh-day keeping Christian church, and they have many of the right, just like the Armstrongs in the past, they have many of the right principles. They happen to celebrate Passover on the wrong day, because they follow on the Jewish Passover, which they should not do.
God has a different calendar. We talked about that about a week ago, when the first of the new year started, March 20th. But Jesus kept the Passover, so why don’t people celebrate Easter? I’m going to play a little bit of this from Beyond Today TV, and just listen to what the person has to say, and I’ll get back, and I’ll sum this whole thing up.
My students about God’s festivals, and we come to the Passover, and the Days of Unleavened Bread that kick off the spring, the beginning of the holy day season, from the scriptures for the people of God to be following in their worship of God. I like to point out to my students that when we come to Passover and Days of Unleavened Bread, they are very significant, very important. Passover points us to the sacrifice of Jesus Christ.
The Days of Unleavened point us to the removal of sin from our life through the life of the resurrected Christ within us, and that’s how we overcome sin, and we focus on that. One of the things that I tell students is that the Passover and the Days of Unleavened Bread deal with physical symbols, unleavened bread, leavening that we put out of our homes, and we don’t eat leavened products, and unleavened bread that we take on the Passover to symbolize the broken, perfect, sinless body of Christ, humility. And then we keep seven days of unleavened bread, each day eating unleavened bread to picture the life of God within us, the resurrected Christ through the Spirit in us to give us the ability and the power to overcome sin and to live a life that is to be blameless before Him.
It is a very beautiful period, and it is very solemn, and it is very, very significant for us and really a favorite of mine, as are all the holy days. But when you read in 1 Corinthians chapter 11 and verse 23 about this, how Paul puts it is so very elegant. He says, For I received from the Lord that whichI also delivered to you, that the Lord Jesus, on the same night in which He was betrayed, took bread.
And when He had given thanks, He broke it and said, Take, eat. This is My body, which is broken for you. Do this in remembrance of Me.
That’s why we take the unleavened bread at the Passover to symbolize Christ’s body. In the same manner Paul goes on, He also took the cup after supper, saying, This cup is the new covenant in My blood. This do as often as you drink it in remembrance of Me.
For as often as you eat this bread and drink this cup, you proclaim the Lord’s death till He comes. And this New Testament service and ceremony, we take once a year on the anniversary of Christ’s death. And it opens up then the whole panorama of meaning and importance that the festivals of God then begin to tell us about God’s purpose and about His plan.
And so it’s elegant as Paul describes it. It is a very simple but yet beautiful and meaningful service and period of time for us to think about. And so I urge you to consider what it is that you may do.
And even if you are used to keeping this, how you approach these days, so that you understand the deep spiritual significance that they have to you in your walk with God. And I want to get into this now because we follow the Passover, not Easter. And I’m going to get into why we don’t really follow Easter and why you should never follow Christmas or Easter, or for that matter, Halloween, because they are actually pagan days.
They are not truly ever. You cannot find Easter in the Bible. Christ followed the Passover.
His apostles followed the Passover. And the New Testament Church followed the Passover for over 100 years until false Christianity emerged, a secret mystery Babylon religion that you can seeemerged over the years, which became the Catholic Church. And I know that’s not kosher to say that these days, but that’s really what it is.
The Antichrist Church is the Catholic Church. They absolutely changed all of the New Testament and Jesus Christ-inspired church practices. One was the Sabbath day.
They changed the Sabbath day, because they thought it was too Jewish, into Sunday, the day of the sun, because the truth is the Roman government followed a religion called Mithra. And Mithra is a fake Christianity. It contains a trinity, the idea there’s three gods.
Satan made himself the third god, and that’s really what the Trinity is all about. And then they also worship on the sun day, because they worship the sun. And that’s where we get the word Sunday from.
And the Sabbath day is the day that God created since the creation or the recreation of this earth and placed a man in it. And he blessed the seventh day from the very first chapter of your Bible. So the idea that why we follow a Sunday, I don’t, but why so-called Christians follow Sunday is because the Catholic Church did it.
I don’t understand how any Protestant, for example, who protested against the Catholic Church and came out of them because they were practicing paganism and they were not following the real Bible, why they would ever follow a Sunday while they would ever follow an Easter, for that matter. As a matter of fact, your early Puritans did not follow Christmas. They outlawed Christmas because they understood it was pagan.
Many of the same Puritan movement also understood the Easter was wrong, but what they tried to do was turn Easter back into a resurrection day, which it is not. Easter Sunday has nothing to do with a resurrection day. First of all, Christ was not resurrected on a Sunday.
Christ was resurrected on a Saturday evening, probably towards midnight to two or three o’clock in the morning, because we know when we read the Gospels that when Mary came before the dawn of the new day, and that is when the day begins, dawn, sunrise, that the tomb was already empty. So there’s no way, no wise, that we should ever even consider that Easter is a resurrection day. Easter is found in your Bible.
You go to Ezekiel chapter 8 and you can read about an Easter sunrise worship and what God has to think about it. He despises it, and in fact, he condemns those who follow it. Now, if you have followed it all these years ignorantly, I think you can be forgiven.
But once you understand what Easter is about, it’s about a pagan goddess, and her name was Estarte, and she was married to Tammuz, and Tammuz is Nimrod’s another name, the first grandson of Noah, who was the first real big Antichrist of the world, and that he began the Babylon mystery religion, all under Nimrod. And his wife and mother was Estarte, and he was a Messiah type, an Antichrist type figure. He was killed by a boar, a wild boar, hence ham on Easter Sunday, because now you’re eating the boar that killed Tammuz.
But he was resurrected from the dead, according to tradition, on the third day, does that sound like Christ? And that third day was a Sunday, because it was his day of worship. All paganism, you follow it, you’re not doing God any favor, you’re not doing yourself any favors, and you’re not doing your family any favor. It’s about time you did some research for yourself, don’t believe me, go do some research about what, what’s the name Easter mean? Does it mean opposite of Wester? No, look up what the word Easter mean.
It’s a pagan goddess. It’s a Germanic form of the goddess Estarte that you find in the Bible. It’s that simple.
You’re going to follow a pagan game, a pagan holiday, I’m sorry, and then put God’s name on it, and say God has something to do with it? Well, read the Bible again and see what God has to say about those people who want to celebrate other holidays, pagan holidays, where children were sacrificed and burned to death, and put his name on it. I’ll be right back. Hi, Bob Barney with The Plain Truth Today, brought to you by theplaintruth.com, the place to go to every day to find out what’s going on.
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This Thursday night, the night, and I’m going to get into this in a minute, and people say, I thought the day began in the morning. Why do you start it in the evening? Well, why does Christmas Day begin on Christmas Eve, the 24th and the 25th? Two different days, but it starts in the evening of the day before. So the 14th day is the day in the Hebrew calendar, or God’s calendar.
The 14th day is the day that you remove all the leavening, all the yeast from your home. And it’s mainly yeast. I know the Jews and many Christians today that follow the Passover kind of go overboard what they call leavening, but it’s yeast.
The actual Hebrew word in the Bible is yeast. It’s not bacon soda or bacon powder or anything that can be used as a leavening agent. That is not what is meant here.
It was meant as bread made with haste, and they didn’t put the yeast in it to make it rise. But yeast also symbolizes sin, because it permeates, a little bit of it permeates the whole loaf, a lot of bread dough, and it symbolizes what sin can do in the world. But anyway, on the 14th day, which begins in the morning, you are to make sure that all the yeast is out of your home.
Then you are to pick your, if this, in the old days, but now you just have your lamb already ready to cook or whatever you want to do. But in the old days around twilight, right before the sunset on the 14th day, people would slaughter their lambs and fix them ready to roast them over an open fire. That night was the Passover.
So the Passover begins on the night of the 14th of the first month called Nisan or Ebib. But also itshould be noted that the Feast of Unleavened Bread starts maybe the next day, but the firstcounting of it starts, the seven-day count of it, really starts the evening time of the 14th, when there can be no yeast in your home when you start eating the Passover that night. So the morning of the 14th, you could have some yeast in the house, you’re getting rid of it.
And the night of the 14th after sunset is when there cannot be any yeast, and that’s when theDays of Unleavened and Passover begins. And the next morning, the 15th day of the first monthbegins the actual Feast of Passover, I’m sorry, the Feast of Unleavened Bread. It is also a high day,and for seven days from the evening of the 14th until the evening of the 21st, there should be no yeast found in your homes.
And on the 22nd day is a feast called Firstfruits, not to be confused with Pentecost. Firstfruits is Christ’s own holiday. That is the day that Christ actually became God again.
On the third day, he was resurrected back, in my opinion, and I think you can prove this biblically, to physical life, not to spiritual life. Then he went to the Father, as he told Mary, don’t touch me until I have not yet ascended to my Father. By a week later, we see he had ascended to his Father, and that was the Feast of Firstfruits.
Christ is the first born from the dead. He is the first person to be born again, because born again is not a religious experience. It is the physical action of your mortal body dying, being killed, and then a spiritual body is resurrected in its place, and you become God.
That is our destiny. That’s what Jesus Christ did. He was a man, died, and three days later was resurrected as God again.
And that is what, it’s an important concept. You yourself, if you will follow Christ, and you will believe in him, and you obey him, then you will again be like Christ. You will be a God figure.
You will be the son, literally the son of God the Father, or the daughter of God the Father. And that is the real good news of your New Testament of the Bible. But going forward from there, we follow the Passover to remind us of all of this changing of our body into spirit as Christ did.
Christ died for our sins on Passover, and Passover is the same day every year. It’s 14 days the night of 14 days after the New Year begins, and that is on the equinox, which is usually March 20th, almost always March 20th. And that is the first real holiday season of God’s annual holiday plans, which the entire idea of the holiday seasons of God is to show us through these holidays, through these special days of the year, these high sabbaths, just what the plan of God is for us and this earth.
And that’s why we are supposed to follow the holidays you find in the Bible, and not the ones you find in your church, which doesn’t follow the Bible. So Passover, like I said, will be this Thursdayevening. That’s when you eat it, and then starting Friday is the Feast of Unleavened Bread.
Seven days later, next Thursday night, after a week later on a Thursday night, you can start eating bread again, and the next day is the Feast of Firstfruits, when we celebrate that Christ became God again, and approached God the Father, and became again sitting on the right hand of God in heaven. That’s what that first two holidays of the year symbolizes, and why we should follow them. If we follow God’s holidays, we actually will understand the plan of God better, and we will get these pagan notions out of our system, which we have to do.
And that’s what I’m going to talk about next, because I want to talk about where do you think Easter ever came from? What do you think Easter is all about? If you’re following Easter, I think you should learn some things about what you’re actually doing, and what you’re doing to God. I’m going to play a short audio here about pagan origins of Easter, and you make up your mind with what this person has to say about this holiday that so many people think they want to put Christ into. This is Pastor Randy.
Well, today I want to talk about the origins of Easter. I want to talk about whether or not we find this day within Scripture, or whether we find this day within pagan worship. I want to remove the suspense.
We don’t find this day within Scripture. We find it within pagan worship through antiquity. Matter of fact, it goes back thousands of years, really, but today we’re going to focus on the word Easter,and the origins of Easter itself.
And I want to read three different sources. The first one is from the International Standard Bible Encyclopedia. Very, very reputable source, by the way.
This is not a fringe reference. This is very reputable and recognized by most Bible believers. And here’s what it says about the origins of Easter.
It says, The English word, and again, this is Easter, the word, comes from the Anglo-Saxon Esther, or Esthera, a Teutonic goddess to whom sacrifice was offered in April, so the name was transferred to the Paschal Feast. Now, the word Paschal here refers to the Passover, not to the Easter. So we see here that Easter replaced Passover.
Now, we know historically and scripturally that the only day the apostles and the Messiah observed in the New Testament was the Passover. Never once do we find Easter. We know, I know it’s in the King James.
Believe me, it’s not in the Greek. It’s not in the New Testament scriptures. It’s simply missing from antiquity.
So when did the church adopt the Easter celebration? Well, let’s find out. I’m going to read another source here. This is from the New Unger’s Bible Dictionary, again, a very reputable source.
It says the word Easter is of Saxon origin. It says that Esther, the goddess of spring, and whose honor sacrifices were offered about Passover time each year, by the 8th century, Anglo-Saxons had adopted the name to designate the celebration of Christ’s resurrection. So we see here, so by the 8th century, you’re talking about 700 years after the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ came the celebration we know as of Easter.
But it’s totally of pagan origin, and we’ll get back to that right after this word abouttheplaintruth.com, because Easter is something that I really believe, like Christmas, people whosay they are going to believe in Christ, they’re going to be Christians, they’re going to follow what Christ says to do, and follow his example, like what would Jesus do? Well, he would followPassover. I’ll be right back. Bob Barney again for theplaintruth.com. This is the one place to go to every day to find out what the latest news is, what’s going on in the world, what’s happening in wars and rumors of wars, what’s the latest weather, what’s the latest calamity, what you can expect for you and your family, what your health is all about, does God have anything to do with your health, is God part of the news? And you’re going to find out that God is the greatestnewscaster of all times.
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When this transition occurred, it occurred in the 8th century, hundreds, hundreds of years after Yahshua had come and gone, he was resurrected hundreds of years after this point, did the church adopt Easter in his liturgy? And we see here that it adopted it from the Anglo-Saxons, from pagan worship. Well, I want to read one more reference. This is from the Nelson’s Illustrated Bible Dictionary.
And here’s what it says about Easter. It says, Easter was originally a pagan festival honoring Oster, a Teutonic, Germanic goddess of light and spring at the time of the Laverne Equinox, a day in the spring when the sun crosses the equator and the day and night are of equal length. Sacrifices were offered in her honor.
As early as the 8th century, the name was used to designate the annual Christian celebration of the resurrection of Messiah. So we see here, again, when this transition occurred, it was the 8th century. Again, it’s just amazing to me.
You know, if you look at history, if you look at the Bible, what you come up with, and there’s no denying the pagan origins of Easter. Again, this is not in the Bible. The Messiah and his apostles, they never observed this day.
And even worse yet, according to all these references, and believe me, there’s many, many moreconfirming the origins of Easter. This came from the Anglo-Saxon pagan worship, and we find thatit occurred somewhere around the 8th century. So very… It actually did not evolve from the 8thcentury, as I pointed out earlier.
If you want to go to, and we’ll do that right now, to an Easter celebration, all you have to realize, Easter is 4,000 years old or more, not 2,000 years old, and it certainly didn’t start in the 800s or the 700s. And here’s your proof. When you go to Ezekiel chapter 8, you will see a reference to a festival going on in the Jewish temple at the time.
This is under Ezekiel, and God is talking to him about an abomination that God is going to causepeople to die. And he says, verse 5, he said to me, son of man, look towards the north. And I looked, and sure enough, there was a north of the altar gate, there was an idol.
And he said, son of dust, or son of man, do you see what you are doing? Do you see what great sins the people of Israel here push me from my temple? Israel means America, by the way. But come and I’ll show you greater sins than these. Then he brought me to the temple court, where I could see an opening in the wall.
Now dig into the wall, he said. And I did, and uncovered a door in a hidden room. So I went in, and the walls were covered with pictures of all kinds of unclean animals.
Yeah, yeah, clean and unclean food is still there, still being followed by God. We’re not supposed to eat pork, rattlesnake, or crab, or shellfish. Then he said to me, have you seen, oh son of man, what the elders of Israel are doing in their minds? For they say the Lord doesn’t see us, and he’s gone away.
He brought me to the north gate of the temple, and I saw sitting there women weeping for Tammuz, their god. Just do yourself a favor and look up the word Tammuz, and you will see Easter. Have you seen this, he said, but I’ll show you a greater evil than this.
Then he brought me into the inner court of the temple, and there at the door between the porch and the bronze altar were about 25 men standing with their backs to the temple, facing east, worshiping the sun. What is the sun in the east? It’s called sunrise. And what does every New Testament church do on Easter morning? They have a Easter sunrise service, where everybody gets up early in the morning and go to church, and they face east with their backs to the church, and they worship the sun as it rises in the east, and they say this represents Jesus Christ.
And this is what God, who is Jesus Christ speaking here in the Old Testament, has to say about this practice. Have you seen this, he asked, is it nothing to the people of Judah, now he’s talking about Jews, that they commit these terrible sins, leading the whole nation into idolatry, thumbing their noses at me, and arousing my fury against them? Therefore I will deal with them in my fury. Yes, Jesus Christ is going to be mad when he comes back this next time.
He’s not the fairy tale Jesus Christ that everybody wants to worship and think he’s this effeminate guy that never does any harm, as Pope Leo just said that’s what he was. He didn’t believe in war. Well, I got news for you.
The God of the Old Testament is Jesus Christ, and he told Israel to attack many people, and utterly kill women, children, and every man of different tribes that was surrounding the land that Jesus Christ, the God of the Old Testament, wanted destroyed. But anyway, I will neither pity nor spare, even though they screamed to me for mercy, I will not listen. Do you see a passage where Jesus Christ, who is the God of the Old Testament, says that when you follow these pagan practices, and you know what you’re doing, and then you refuse to change when you are told that you’re doing wrong, then he will not hear your prayers, he will not rescue you in your time of trouble, he will abandon you.
That is what the Bible says. That’s not what I say. I know it’s not what your minister says, and I know all these smiling Christians think that is not Jesus Christ.
It is Jesus Christ. He plainly said in the book of John, John chapter 8, before Abraham was, I am. Jesus Christ is the I am of Exodus chapter 3. Go read the burning bush, and when the God talking to Moses says what his identity, what his name is, I am that I am.
Tell the people that I am has sent you. And when the Jews asked him who he was, he said before Abraham was, I am. And good translations always have that all capitalized, because the translators know exactly what Jesus was saying, and that is why those Jews picked up stones to try to kill him for blasphemy, because they understood exactly what he was saying.
Well, I hope everybody kind of researches this week. You got a few days about the Passover, what you should do in the Passover. We have a lot of information on the plaintruth.com, but this Thursday night after sundown is God’s Passover, and I tell you right now, you will please God if you follow that Passover.
One point that I should mention. You should not follow the Passover if you are not circumcised. I know the churches try to teach you can follow a Passover uncircumcised because circumcision was done away with in the New Testament Church.
No such thing. Circumcision is still in force for anyone who wants to follow the Passover. The Passover is not mandatory, by the way.
Being a Christian, following the holidays and understanding and observatism is mandatory, but what you could do, you can follow the Lord’s Supper, which is wine and unleavened bread on Passover Eve. If you’re not a male that circumcised, you cannot eat lamb, the lamb dinner on Passover. It’s just against God’s law, and it’s a law forever, and I think to God forever means forever, but you can have the wine and the unleavened bread and do the Lord’s Supper, which a lot of people call communion every Sunday in the Catholic Church, which is paganized, but you can do that because God does want you to follow his holidays.
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